« Reply #4 on: Monday 24 August 09 16:17 BST (UK) »
Don'mean to butt in, I also have Browns in my family tree; both on my grandfathers side and my husbands family maternal side.
My husbands family settled in Portsmouth apparently but origins were Edinburgh. They had a livery coach and four business.
My Grandads family never really moved away from Leith area of Edinburgh. I was trying to sort out where Inver? was in relation to Leith. My memory keeps failing me. We as a family live in Dorset and my maiden name was Laidlaw before we married. It was my grandfathers mother Marjory who was a Brown.
Her actual name (and I feel sorry for her) was...Marjory Charles Ferguson Macdonald Brown and she may as well have had Hutchison thrown in which was her mothers maiden name.
I would also be curious to find a connection between the two branches of Browns' relations.
Don't suppose there is a tie up with your Browns.
Marcie
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