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Hi,

John Brough here.

 

My late father, Leslie Harris Brough, had a great interest in the family tree. He had the opportunity to talk with many older members of the family and glean information about the family - people now dead for over 70 years.

 

Dad wrote up a lot of his research and, after his death, my brother, Kelvin, did more research into the family tree. I intend to put up here the fruits of their research. Some of the versions I have seen on line seem to be a bit muddled. I will also try to get photos of family members for all to see.

 

I will put up two versions of this material:

1. The first will be downloadable. This will consist of three parts:

a. A Generations program that you can download (freeware). It is quite old but is working fine on Windows 7 for me.

b. A file of the Brough family since it emigrated to N.Z. I will not do all the side tangents in depth who married in. Those interested can add more details to their lines after downloading.

 

2. An online version. This will include all the Brough family as far as I have information. Obviously I will only be able to trace the family fully down to my family. If you have details you want added then email me from this page. Some branches of the family get a bit distant from me so, as I have to chop it somewhere, I will note where I have more infrmation than is on line. Families that are interested can get it from me.

 

Red letters indicate a button that will take you to the page of the person named. Red links like this at the top of the page saying, "Return to..." will take you back one generation. The occasional BLUE BUTTON will take you back up a family that married into the Brough line.

 

The regression in time unfortunately stops with the father of those who emigrated to N.Z. (John Brough of Dublin, Ireland) five generations ago. Kelvin went to Ireland several years ago and found that the county church that held the records had been destroyed by fire. (This was before centralisation in the U.K.) So all else before then remains in the realm of speculation. Some far distant relatives have discoverd some information which I have lifted from the LDS Website: http://www.broughfamly.org  However even this information is in the same generations we are working in.

 

Kelvin returned from the U.K. with the feeling that maybe the family was French in origin - aristocrats that fled France at the time of the Revolution. In that case the original spelling was either Breau or Breaux and this was Anglicised as the family moved over England to Ireland.

 

Leslie, at one stage, had a conversation with an English professor who insisted that "Brough" with both pronounciations (Brough as in "rough" and Brough as in "though") was a very old English name. This being the case, if Kelvin is right about the French connection, the English Broughs would not be directly related to us - if at all.

 

Clicking on the links on the right will get you started for your particular family branch.

 

If you are a Brough descendant and have a website you think may be of interest to the wider family then I will be happy to put up a link. Email me with a short paragraph of what it is about and your web address.

 

Photos are welcome. Make sure they are in .jpg/.jpeg format and clearly identify who the people are. The more historical, the greater the interest to the wider family. I will find a way of getting them up on this site for all to see.