When William Brodie was christened on 2 August 1755, in Fordyce, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, George Broadie, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Bruce, was 33. He died in March 1766, in his hometown, at the age of 10.
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Scottish: habitational name from Brodie Castle in Moray. The placename is Brothach ‘muddy place’ in Gaelic rather than bruthach ‘steep place’.
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