Brunskill is a surname of English origin. It is of an

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origin.

Geographical frequency in Britain

At the time of the British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 the relative frequency of the surname Brunskill was highest in Westmorland (101.3 times the British average), followed by Cumberland, County Durham,

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and

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. In all other British counties, its relative frequency was below national average.

People

* Daniel Brunskill - American football player * George Brunskill (1799-1866), early pioneer in South Australia, who owned much of the land now part of the suburb of Marryatville, South Australia * John Brunskill - Irish cricketer *

Muriel Brunskill Muriel Lucy Brunskill (18 December 1899 – 18 February 1980) was an English contralto of the mid-twentieth century. Her career included concert, operatic and recital performance from the early 1920s until the 1950s. She worked with many of th ...

- British contralto * Norman Brunskill - English footballer *

Ronald Brunskill Ronald William Brunskill OBE (3 January 1929 – 9 October 2015) was an English academic who was Reader in Architecture at the University of Manchester. He was an authority on the history of architecture and particularly on British vernacular arch ...

- English academic authority on

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Geographical frequency in Britain

People

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