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MacBre Surname Definition:
MACBRE: One, McBre, a Moray 'proditor,' was hanged in Edinburgh in 1468 (ER., VII, p. 544), and a later M'Bre was keeper of the, cattle of the bishop of Dunkeld in the summer of 1512 (Rent. Dunk., p. 187). Perhaps = Macbrew.
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MACBRE: One, McBre, a Moray 'proditor,' was hanged in Edinburgh in 1468 (ER., VII, p. 544), and a later M'Bre was keeper of the, cattle of the bishop of Dunkeld in the summer of 1512 (Rent. Dunk., p. 187). Perhaps = Macbrew.
— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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