Bredleau Name Study
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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Bredleau and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
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I'm hopeful that others w/Bredleau or Bredlau ancestors or relatives will join in to assist w/this project, as I'll be doing more intently in about a year or so (or whenever our time crunches are alleviated :)
For now I'll put the "Bredlau to Bredleau" story in the memory box b/c this comment box doesn't allow for enough letters.
My great-grandfather came to America from Germany with the name of Otto Bredlau. I know there are still a number of Bredlaus living in Wisconsin and surrounding areas. My father (K.A. Bredleau) met some of them one year (in California, by chance, in a restaurant!)
His father would have objected vehemently to changing their last name from a German spelling to a French spelling, so he never even considered it until his father's death. Because of that change, he had 2 sons, 3 grandsons and 3 great-grandsons with the last name of Bredleau. I'm not sure how many great-greats there may be by now, but hopefully some of them will find us even if we can't find them. And in addition to the boys, my Dad had 3 daughters whose maiden names were Bredleau and my Uncle Wayne had 2 daughters born Bredleaus. My cousin, Tamera, has kept her maiden name.
I do know that my father, Kay Albert Bredleau, met a number of Bredlau distant relatives when he made a trip to Wisconsin sometime in the 1980s. For that reason, I started a Bredlau name study in addition to this one, in case anyone is looking specifically for that spelling. I copied this story/memory there as well.