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BRINDLE Family History

This interesting surname is of English locational origin from a place thus called in Lancashire, recorded as "Burnhull" in the 1206 Pipe Rolls. The placename derives from the Old English pre 7th Century "burna" a brook or stream plus "hyll" a hill; hence "hill by a stream". Locational names were originally given as a means of identification to those who left their village or place of origin to settle elsewhere. The surname is first recorded in the mid 16th Century, (see below). In the modern idiom the surname has many variant spellings including Brindill, Brindhull, Brindell, Brindel, etc..