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Surname origin8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was common practice to Latinize names in official records. Surnames rarely appeared in their modern form in ancient chronicles. 184).The practice of using family names spread through the Eastern Roman Empire and gradually into Western Europe, although it was not until the modern era that family names came to be explicitly inherited as they are today. Donald Broune was rector of Lochow, 1539 (Poltalloch Writs, p. (2) From b Mac a'bhriuthainn, from britheamhain, the former Gaelic genitive of britheamh, 'brehon, breive, judge.' Pat: M' aBriuin is one of the witnesses in the unique Gaelic charter of 1408 (Bk. J Gregorson Campbell, are called Brunaich, evidently a word not of native origin, and likely an adaptation of English Brown (Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition, v. 19n) and the Browns of Tiree at the present day, says the late Rev. Lowlands) within the past century, and have no claim to be considered descendants of the Britheamh Ileach (the Islay Judge)" (Book of Islay, p. Many of the name Brown in Islay, says the late Hector Maclean, "came to the island from the low country (i. Members of a younger branch of Broun of Colstoun settled in Elsinore, Denmark, and became prominent merchants there. Several individuals of this name from Scotland entered the French military service about the middle of the fifteenth century, and their names are recorded in the muster-rolls as Brom, Bron, Brun, and le Brun (Forbes-Leith, Scots men at arms in France). Broun of Hartrie near Biggar is said to have been settled there from about the end of the fourteenth century, and Broun of Colstounclaim descent from and bear the arms of the ancient royal house of France three fieur-de-lys. Patrick Broun was burgess of Edinburgh, 1405, and John Brown, clerk and notary public there, 1426 (Egidii, p. 331), and Ricardus Bron de Otterston attested the marches of Kyrknes and Louchor, 1395 (RPSA., p. William "dictus Brune del Borumore" (the Boroughmuir of Edinburgh) granted to John de Raynton a charter of the lands of Kirclambirston c. ![]() II, 423) is probably the person who was sheriff of Aberdeen, 1331-1332 (ER., I. Joannes Broun who had a grant of the thanage of Formerteine (Fermartyn) from Robert I (RMS. Several of this name in the shires of Berwick, Edinburgh, Lanark, and Linlithgow rendered homage, 1296 (Bain, II). 313) is probably William Brun, witness in Dundee, 1281 (HP., II, p. William Brun, who witnessed a charter of Donald, earl of Mar, of the lands of Dorlaw or Dronlaw c. ![]() 5), and another Richard Brun was an assizer in Elgin, of which place he was an inhabitant in 1261. Richard Broun, witness in Irvine, 1260 (Irvine, 1, p. Robert Brune witnessed a gift of land to the Hospital of Soltre c. Several individuals of this name are recorded in the thirteenth century, but what connection, if any, existed between them is not known. Cuthbert of Durham in the reign of William the Lion (Raine, 163). Ricardus Brun witnessed a charter by Ebrardus de Penkathleht (Pencaitland near Edinburgh) to the church of S. 421), Patric Brun witnessed resignation of land of Weremundebi (Warmanbie in Annandale) and Anant between 1194-1214 (Annandale, I, p. Gilchrist, son of Bruun witnessed a charter by R. Gamel, son of Brun came into possession of Bothel (now Boode) in the time of Henry I (1100-1135). A family of this name were the possessors of several estates in Cumberland shortly after the Norman Conquest. into old French and is the source of the French surname Le Brun. ![]() The adjective was also borrowed from OHG. The name is from an old adjective meaning 'brown dark red,' Old English and OHG. (1) Brun is a common personal name in Old English charters, e.g. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhaĪ very common name in Scotland, of more than one origin. ![]()
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