The Browns Are Here!

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Welcome to the rabble from Illinois. Nice to see that your family is all getting interested with you. It's always good to have an interest that you can all enjoy together. Sounds like the kilt addiction is just beginning at your place too.

[oregonscot]

Welcome to the rabble from Oregon. I'm a Brown on my mothers side, yet we from the Clan Lamont. So donn is brown in gaelic? That's my first name, and spelled that way as well. So if I was to take my mothers maiden name would that make me Brown Brown? Too early and too confusing for this one

Welcome never the less,
Donn(brown)

[Cawdorian]

From the Highlands of North Atlanta!

My Grandmother was a Brown, family oral tradition is they came to the US from Scotland.

I'm anxious to see a picture of a kilt in the Brown Tartan, I think it is a beautiful tartan.

[SteveB]

My patrilineal line is Brown. To America from England in 1637. From Ireland before that and from Scotland yet before as a sept of Clan Lamont. My Spouse is is a MacLucas, which is also a sept of Clan Lamont. My mother's side of the family is very diverse as well. I have traced back the McNeillys to MacNeil of Barra, and some of the intermarriages to both Lamont and Campbell (Ouch). Add in a little bit of MacLaren, Macdougall, Graham, Thompson, Miller, etc. The genealogical research is the fun part. Now I need/want a kilt in each of these tartans......the jonesing is already getting scary.
Steve Brown

[Cawdorian]

some of the intermarriages to both Lamont and Campbell (Ouch).

This is an interesting thread, it appears that many of our Lamont ancestors married Campbells. One of my Lamont ancestors (a Patrick) also married a Campbell in Scotland. I believe those Campbell girls must have lived just across the glen or the burn from the Lamonts. The Lamonts were the ferriers in the area around Argyll and Cowal, maybe they met the Campbell ladies on the ferry boat.

On my father's side of the family, I have the Lamonts and two different strains of Campbells, the Blackburn's and Blair's from Scotland. The Brown strain appears on my mother's side along with the McGregors, Bruce of Airth, Bruce of Stenhouse, Dunbar's, more Campbells and the Woods. There are more families and clans on both sides, I just can't remember all of them. I think I'm going to make a list just for fun.