Browner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

• Origins Available:
• England
• Ireland

The ancient Norman culture that was established in England after the Conquest of 1066 produced the name of Browner. It was given to a person who has brown hair or brown eyes, or dresses habitually in brown. The name springs from similar roots in Old English, Old English, Old Norse, Old French, Old German. It is also possible that a given instance of the name is derived from a short form of an Old English personal name such as Brunwine or Brungar.

Early Origins of the Browner family

The surname Browner was first found in Cumberland, where the Browner family held a family seat and claim descent from Le Brun in Normandy, who was granted many estates there soon after the Conquest. However, many of the family remained in Normandy where Gilbert and William le Brun were listed in 1185(Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae.) ^[1] Some of the family were found at early times at Tacolneston in Norfolk where they held estates. "The Hall, a fine brick mansion, is a good specimen of the domestic style prevalent in the 17th century; it is said to have been built in 1670, by the Browne family, who then held the estate." ^[2] And another branch was found in the parish of Thrigby, again in Norfolk. "The principal part [of Thrigby] belongs to Thomas Browne, Esq., who resides at the Hall, a neat mansion of white brick." ^[2]

Important Dates for the Browner family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Browner research. Another 99 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1443, 1506, 1610, 1669, 1605, 1682, 1610, 1682, 1605, 1682, 1641, 1660, 1634, 1684, 1660, 1661, 1616, 1685, 1661, 1626, 1690, 1659, 1688, 1598, 1668, 1642, 1702, 1685, 1735, 1721 and are included under the topic Early Browner History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Browner Spelling Variations

Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Brown, Broun, Brun and others.

Early Notables of the Browner family (pre 1700)

Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Sir Anthony Browne (1443-1506), during the reign of King Henry VII, he was Standard Bearer of England, Governor of Queenborough Castle, and Constable of Calais; Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet (ca. 1610-1669), English Major-General in the English Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War and later Lord Mayor of London; Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), an English author; Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu (1610-1682); Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet of Deptford (ca. 1605-1682), an English ambassador to the court of France at Paris from 1641 to 1660; Sir Richard Browne, 2nd Baronet (ca.1634-1684), English...
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Migration of the Browner family to Ireland

Some of the Browner family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Browner migration to the United States

Because of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Browner name or one of its variants:

Browner Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

• Joan Browner, aged 13, who landed in New England in 1635 ^[3]
• Marie Browner, aged 10, who arrived in New England in 1635 ^[3]

Browner Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Wolf Henrick Browner, who landed in Perltsylvania in 1731 ^[3]
• Conarah Browner, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1743 ^[3]
• Hanas Browner, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743 ^[3]
• Hance Conragh Browner, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1743 ^[3]
• Hendk Browner, aged 25, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743 ^[3]
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Browner migration to Canada

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Browner Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

• Thomas Browner, who landed in Nova Scotia in 1829

Contemporary Notables of the name Browner (post 1700)

Historic Events for the Browner family

Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie)

• Daniel Solomon Browner (1965-1988), (1965), Israeli Passenger from Parod, Israel, who flew aboard the Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit, known as the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 and died ^[4]

Citations

1. ^ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)
2. ^ Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
3. ^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
4. ^ Pan Am Flight 103's victims: A list of those killed 25 years ago | syracuse.com. (Retrieved 2014, April 9) . Retrieved from http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/12/pan_am_flight_103s_victims_a_list_of_those_killed_25_years_ago.html