Brownsell Family History
Brownsell Name Meaning
from any of several places named from Middle English personal name Brun Broun + the gentival inflection -es- + hil(le) hul(le) ‘hill’ such as Brownshill in Blechingley (Surrey). Some examples may belong under (2) or (3). from a lost or as yet unidentified place named from Brun Broun + -es- + wel(le) ‘stream water source’. sometimes perhaps from a side form of Burnsall (WR Yorks); compare
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016