Släkthistoria för Brear
Brear Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English (atte) bre(i)r ‘(at the) prickly or thorny plant’ for someone who lived by such plants such as brier (the dog rose) or bramble. Compare Briers.from the word in (i) perhaps alluding to a sharp-tongued person. This seems to be implied by the Middle English surname Le Brer but this could be short for atte brer ‘at the briar’ with scribal substitution of French le for English the. reduced form of Brearey. Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames cites Jonathon and Sarah Breary or Breare 1691–1704 in Parish Registers (Silsden Kildwick WR Yorks) and Miles Brearah or Brear 1757–62 in Parish Registers (Rothwell WR Yorks).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
