Hello Ken: My BROWNs came from England, Yorkshire, I'm told by elder relatives; but, no paper trail. These BROWNs came to the states of Vermont & Maine sometime before the Revolutionary War, the American War of Independence. They would not fight for General Washington, instead went to New Brunswick/Nova Scotia. As I child born in Canada, I was told that we children should be proud to be Halifax Nova Scotia BROWNS because we were loyal to King George. When my Nova Scotia-born ggreat-grandfather Henry Brown married, he married Lucy SALES, who was born 1828 in New York State. They named their first son, born in Ontario, Canada, GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN! My brother volunteered his DNA for the BROWN DNA study, and his haplogroup is R1a. Many of my BROWNs returned to the states, particularly Michigan. Barbara Dearborn, Michigan -----Original Message----- >From: Ken & Alice Brown <jumbobrown@optusnet.com.au> >Sent: Apr 19, 2009 5:46 AM >To: brown@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BROWN] AMERICAN BROWN'S FROM SCOTLAND > >Hi American Browns > >I joined this Brown forum many years ago now and have read entries with interest over the years on how Brown's have faired in America. > >It is a bit disappointing though, for me at any rate, who is not an American Brown, on how few postings there are on where the American Brown families originated. In other words the U.K. which in most cases I would imagine would cover where the majority of American Browns came from. Do you American Brown's use a different forum than this one for those enquiries? > >Is there a lack of recorded information for the general run of American Brown's on where their first ancestor who landed on American shores came from? The country in the U.K., the Shire, the town, village or farm? > >In my own case, I live in Australia, my father was a Scot and on the paper trail for my Brown's in Ayrshire, Scotland I am back to 1510, courtesy of great Scottish record keeping. > > As far as DNA is concerned I have very close Y-DNA matches with two American Brown's but they have no idea of where their ancestors came from as they only go back to the 1800's on the paper trail. > >I have an extensive database of my Brown's from the parishes of Sorn and Galston in East Ayrshire Scotland that may be of interest for American Brown's who hailed from this area of Scotland. But I would enjoy seeing some postings from American Brown's searching their deeper roots in the U.K.. Surely there are some Scottish Brown's over there? Come on let's hear from you! > >Cheers > >Ken Brown >OZ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________ "Second star to the right . . . straight on 'til morning." -- J.M. Barrie