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Brownberd Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname, 'the brown bearded man'.

'John Brownberd, son of William, a hostage from Galloway' (Letters from Northern Registers).

Janet Brownebeard was an inmate of St. Thomas' Hospital, York, Feb.

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Brownberd Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from a nickname, 'the brown bearded man'.

'John Brownberd, son of William, a hostage from Galloway' (Letters from Northern Registers).

Janet Brownebeard was an inmate of St. Thomas' Hospital, York, Feb. 6,' 553 (Corpus Christi Guild, Surt. Soc.). The sobriquet was clearly hereditary for a time.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

BROWNBEARD: A byname. "Mihhyn brunberd aput corrukes" was one of the witnesses to the right marches of Stobbo, c. 1190 (REG., p. 89), and a payment was made to John, son of William Brunbert, a Galloway hostage, in 1300 (Bain, II,1179; Hist. Docs., II, p. 426). compare Blackbeard, Redbeard, and Smibert.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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