Last name: BRESLIN
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BRESLIN : This last name is indexed 11,970 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRESLIN : Irish (Donegal and Fermanagh): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breisleáin ‘descendant of Breisleán’ a diminutive of the personal name Breasal (see Brazil). This is the name of a widespread ecclesiastical family in the north-west of Ireland formerly chieftains in Donegal.
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