The Black Country: Brettle and Brettell Family History

This website is about the Black Country and the history of the Brettle family which is closely related with the area.

Its contents are structured as:

Introduction

The Black Country

• • • Location of the Black Country

    • Origin of the Black Country Name

    • Black Country History

    • Black Country Culture

The Brettle and Brettell Family

• • • Brettle Name Origin 

    • Originating from a Celtic source as a diminutive of Breton or Briton

    •  Originating from the de Breteuil Norman French

    • Originating from Huguenot settlers in the 16th century

    • Originating from a geographic location, originally Bredhill

Brettle Name Distribution

Searching for Brettles

My Brettle Family History

Contact 

Acknowledgements