An English toponymic surname, ‘broad wood’ — a settler name, well established for generations around Wicklow and Dublin.
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English Origin · From Old English brad and sceaga, ‘broad wood’
Bradshaw is an English toponymic surname, from Old English brad (‘broad’) and sceaga (‘wood’ or ‘thicket’) — originally naming a family from a place called Bradshaw, of which several exist across northern England. It arrived in Ireland with English settlement rather than through any Gaelic sept, and like Sheppard and Webster elsewhere in this library, it kept its English form rather than picking up an Irish one.
A name that describes a stretch of woodland in Lancashire, still carried by families who've called Wicklow home for generations.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
