Brun Family History
Brun Name Meaning
French: descriptive nickname, le Brun ‘the brown one’,
from Old French brun, referring to the color of the hair,
complexion, or clothing (see Brown). This name is also Catalan
and Swiss (in the French as well as the German speaking parts).North German and Scandinavian: nickname Germanic bruna
‘brown’, referring to the color of the hair, complexion, or clothing
or from a Germanic personal name, Bruno, with the same
meaning. See also Braun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brun
Name Distribution of Brun Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brun families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brun families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brun census records
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Brun Family Origin
Brun Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brun Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brun census records
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Military Service by Brun
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