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Origin of the name FREICHFRAS.
Etymology of the
name FREICHFRAS.
Meaning of the baby name FREICHFRAS.
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FREICHFRAS. Sometimes
written Freich-Fras. Another spelling of Welsh Vreichfras
(q.v.), meaning "strong-arm." Briefbras
is a Norman corruption. Also see French Brise-bras.
(An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of
the Noted Names of Fiction, Wheeler, 1898).
John Jones
of Neuadd, living in the time of the Commonwealth, was a violent
partisan of Cromwell. He m. a dau of Hugh Powel, Esp., of
Cantref. The Joneses of Neuadd traced their pedigree to Bleddyn ap
Maynarch, the Lord of Garthmadryn, and thence to "Prince Cradoc"
(Caradog Freichfras) through Philip Jones (the first to bear this
surname), who m. an Awbrey;... (Annals and Antiquities of the
Counties and County Families of Wales, Nicholas, 1872)
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