BROCKMAN

BROCKMAN. The Kent family occur as Brokeman, in the XIV. cent. It may be sjTionjTnous with Brookman and Brook er ; Init hroch is 0. Eng. both for a draught horse and a badger, and the primitive Brockman may have been either a horseman, as Kennett suggests, or a hunter of badgers. See Eng. Surn. i. 176.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.