Hi: I am Belle Myers and my Brinsons are from the north of the USA. I live in Arizona about 6 hours from the Grand Canyon. We had rain today thank goodness. We get excited when it rains here. I am in the desert. Are average rainfall is about 7 inches and we are short this year about a inch and 1/2. Take care. Belle David Brimson wrote: > Me again, David in Oxford, > I have been working in France from Monday to Tuesday. What a rough crossing on the ferry :-( > In reply to the info Dan sent. This info is also in Here There & Yonder a Brinson Genealogy by Robert W > Brinson, 1982 > > In the Essex Pipe Rolls of 1308, Perceval de Braunesoun is shown owning a manor at the parish of Colchester. In > 1410 William de Brinnsone built a wooden castle at Dunmow, Essex, later destroyed by fire. > (I found nothing in the record office in Colchester Essex about him & a local historian said nobody in their > right mind would build a castle made of wood, they are all stone. They are for protection from assault from > invader's. The Pipe Roll's are still in Latin & to my knowlege have not been transcribed to English. They are > kept in the Public Record's Office, London.) > > By 1500 the Brinsons owned 600 acres of land in Essex: Thomas Branson, 60 > acres; Henry Brynson, 100 acres; Arthur Brinsonn, 140 acres; Sir John > Brynson 220 acres; and Edward Branson, 80 acres. > ( No record of a Brinson landowner in Essex exist's after 1364 & no Brinson's are listed in the Victoria > History of the County of Essex, which is in 8 volumes & is located in most library's here. There is also no > mention of the Brinson's as landowner's in the Rev Philip Morant's History of Essex.) > > The first coat of arms was granted to Philip Brinson, landowner of Audley > Hall, Essex, in 1600. This is the oldest Brinson Coat of Arms and is used by > modern Brinsons to establish their cultural identity and to preserve > tradition. (There is neither a copy of the arms nor a blazon decribing it in > their book!) > [I was shown a bogus coat years ago Gules a fesse or between 6 martlet's argent. & told this was the Brimson > arm's. I did research & found it was registered to the name of Brim, which is Scottish. There is nothing in > Burke's General Armory under Brinson/Brimson] > (Audley Hall is in Staffordshire in the North of England & no Brinson's owned this. If a coat of arms was > granted to the early family it's passed down from generation to generation, father to son. It doesn't have to > be re-granted if proof of descent is shown. I have a letter from the governing body, the College of Arm's in > London if anyone would like it shown. There are no arm's registered to any Brinson in modern times eg from the > 1500's. I'm not surprised it wasn't in the book. I guess this was used to sell the book. Look for history > book's on Essex as I did in our library in Oxford & the Bodleian Library which is part of the University of > Oxford.) > This is just a general comment on the history of Essex which I have done some research on. Books on Essex are > more easily to obtain here than in the USA. Though you may find books in a larger library. > I'm off now but will send some more IGI's at the weekend. > Cheers. David Brimson, Oxford, England. > New subscribers may like to visit my web page, if they havn't done it yet. > http://freespace.virgin.net/d.brimson/d.brimson/ > > ==== BRINSON Mailing List ==== > Invite your online BRINSON cousins to use the handy subscription form at > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5248/ ==== BRINSON Mailing List ==== Subscribe to the BRINSON list. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5248/brinsonlist.html