Are you planning on making some of this information available to others? I know you sent me a small spreadsheet a while back, but it would be nice to see some of the other information you have. On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 d.brimson@virgin.net wrote: > Hi all, > Some email's have been kindly sent on to me, so in answer to some. > My name is David Brimson I am 36 & have been researching the Brimson/ Brinson surname > for 10 years in England & Wales. In the last few years I have also started Brenson. > These surnames In England & Wales are very rare & if I hadn't started doing a "One Name > Study" I would have never have met anyone with these surnames. > http://www.leicester.co.uk/guild/ > I am also a member of the Somerset & Dorset Family History Sociey, Devon FHS & > Oxfordshire FHS. These all have web pages. > There are about 60 Brinson entries in Britain on the Phone but in the USA there are > thousands. On the other hand there are hardly any Brimson's in the USA. > I am trying to get a web page on the internet at the moment. It won't give vast amount's > of information just an outline on what I am doing. > The book by Robert W Brinson, Here There & Yonder is quite informative on the Brinson's > in the USA. However the details on the early family in Essex is misleading. He say's for > instance there were 10 Brinson families in Essex between 1790 ?- about 1890 or so. In > fact there were none & ten Brinson families would be nearly all the Brinson's here in > total !. The Brinson's for the past 3 or 4 hundred years have lived in the county of > Dorset & Hampshire & on looking through the IGI you will find this. They have been > farmers, net braider's, stone mason's & agricultural labourers. I have made no direct > connection with any Brinson/Brimson family history & the Essex origin's yet, only by > name origin, Brinson, Breanson, de Brianzon, de Brinzon, de Brianzoun, Brenson. Brunson > maybe a variation as the Norman name was so hard to spell it became anglicized to just > about any variation above. Most of the Brimson's lived in the counties of Wiltshire & > Somerset in the last few hundred years, which border Dorset. My own branch of the > Brimson's came from Tiverton in Devon which also borders Dorset & Somerset so we are a > West Country lot. There are 2 town's in the USA called Brimson & a Brinson town. The > Brimson town's are in MO & MI & were named after 2 railroad vice president's, William > George Brimson & Walter Henry Brimson. They were brothers & had emigrated to the USA in > the 1860's with their parent's & other brother & sister's. They all came from Tiverton & > most of this family are buried in Chicago. The town of Brinson was as I have read > established by a Simon Brinson (Georgia). I read this from a Chris Brinson of Baytown > Texas. He has taken some pictures of the town, though I haven't looked yet :-0 > Most of the info I have is of England though I do have a small tree of some Brinson's in > the USA. I researched this whilst attending Kathy Brinson (now Musgrage, hi Kathy :-) > wedding in New Bern, NC in June. We met on the internet through email & she was a good > looking Brinson too ;-) > I have all the Brinson's birth's, deaths & marriages from St Catherines House (now > moved) in London. This is the principal repository for all these records in England & > Wales from 1837 to date. I also have will's on every Brinson from 1866 to date (I know > the rich one's :-) I also collect just about anything else on the name of Brinson as > it's so rare here. Scandal, yes scandal I have some of that too & bancrupcies & > illegitimacy :-0 .There is not much that escapes my attention ;-) > I run PAF & Family Tree Maker all the latest version's. If you contact me can you please > send a photo of yourself. A small one will do so I know what you all look like. I > collect these to show any Brimson's/ Brinson's which is usefull I have found.If you > can't not to worry. Well I will finish now. Any question's ??? > Best wishes to all. David Brimson, Oxford (City of dreaming spires, Mathew Arnold), > England. (I had 13 email's today, blimey it's a record :-0 how many tomorrow !!?? >