Brownlee Family History
Brownlee Name Meaning
Scottish and English: habitational name from Brownlee in
Lanarkshire or Brownley in Warwickshire, both named with Old English
brun ‘brown’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brownlee
Name Distribution of Brownlee Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brownlee families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brownlee families
|
224 - 445 75 - 223 |
1 - 74 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brownlee Family Origin
Brownlee Emigration Information (US)
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Brownlee Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brownlee census records
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