Seeking opinions: lowlander or highlander?

[Singlemalt]

Maybe you’re a German “braun” whose family moved to Scotland, and changed it to brown before moving to Canada!

The thing is, you really have to know the geographic location for the name to provide much info.

Or a Braun who moved directly from Germany to Canada but changed the spelling to better blend in a largely English speaking society. Here is SW Ontario the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo were originally New Hamburg and New Berlin because of the large German settlement in that area. They were changed to the jingoistic British names they carry now during WW1 when all things German were quite unpopular. A lot of people of German descent also anglicized their names at this time as well.

Brown is such a common name it will be difficult to ever know without more information.

[Thehappyhaggis]

Hi my name is brown and I still live in the UK and as far as I know any one with a colour after there name is brown black white grey ect are not our real names but are pseudonym as our names where outlawed .. but why or how or when I can't find out some say that we were MacGregor s. But If our true name was outlawed then surly no other Clan will go by the original name as it would have been outlawed as well.
All I know is like we say in Scotland we are all jock tams bairns which means we are all the same. I personally am proud to be Scottish but am also glad that we live in a world where we have advanced to a new age of knowledge that we are here for a short time and have the power to change old pregudices.