Are you kin to the Brantley’s in….?
All the time people ask me if I’m related to a Brantley they know, chances are that all the Brantley families are connected to Edward Brantley Sr. for England, but ever since the three groups of Brantley in Johnson County were competitive moonshiners we only claim kin to a few.
Checkout 23andme for great info about your traits and geographical connection. Ancestry DNA will connect you to their research community. Check out Kennth’s work at the brantleyassociation.com for more homework and links to the DNA his association uses to link to Edward’s line.
Family and Person date can be found at MacFamilyTree site by clickig hehttp://www.macfamilytree.com/john@brantley.net/Brantley_GA/re.
Ancestry Tree: here
Brantley
(Meaning and History of the Brantley Name) family tree
Americanized spelling of Swiss German Brändle and Brändli (also Brändly), topographic names for someone who lived near a place where there had been a forest fire or in an area of town that had been burned down. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
ChatGPT-4 Reports:
The Brantley surname is of English origin and is thought to have been derived from a geographical locality. The name likely comes from the Old English words “brom” (broom plant) and “leah” (woodland clearing), suggesting that the family originally lived near a woodland clearing with an abundance of broom plants.
The earliest known records of the Brantley family can be traced back to medieval England, particularly in the counties of Hertfordshire, Essex, and Yorkshire. The Brantley family may have had strong connections to these regions.
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