Surname Saturday: Brading

My great grandmother was Margaret Amy BRADING (1885-1975) and it is through her that I have my Isle of Wight connection traced back to far until the 1480s:

Surname Origins:

The surname most likely derives from the town of the same name on the Isle of Wight: Brading. The entry for this in the Oxford Names Companion states:

Brerdinges 683, Berardinz 1086 

"(settlement of) the dwellers on the hill-side"

Old English brerd + -ingas

Variations:

Brayding - Bradinge - Braydinge

My Ancestors: