Brown Family History
Brown Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the
color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from
Old English brun or Old French brun. This word is
occasionally found in Old English and Old Norse as a personal name or
byname. Brun- was also a Germanic name-forming element. Some
instances of Old English Brun as a personal name may
therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brungar,
Brunwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes
represents a translation of Gaelic Donn. As an American family
name, it has absorbed numerous surnames from other languages with the
same meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brown
Name Distribution of Brown Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brown families
 12,984 - 25,966  4,329 - 12,983 |
 1 - 4,328  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brown families
|
6,740 - 13,478 2,247 - 6,739 |
1 - 2,246 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brown census records
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Brown Family Origin
Brown Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brown Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Brown Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brown census records
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Military Service by Brown
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