Daniel Bruyn - brick wall

[Wayne Cook]

ok thanks.

Daniel Bruyn and his wife Sarah Nicholls were married in England and were Catholic. Their daughter's obit in NSW Australia says that when they lived in France for about 4 years, that they were with her people a long established French family (they lived at Graville, Le Havre, Seine France when in France).

We say the spelling of the surname is supposed to be Bruin or Bruen but it was continued on here as Bruyn.

Daniel was born in Roscommon

[aghadowey]

Not all French families were Catholic- Huguenots, for example.

Link to new topic on EUROPE board-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=788906.msg6444948

[myluck!]

There are still "de Bruen" families in Roscommon
I grew up with some. 

It was associated with a Cromwellian family LINK

Also Mac Braoin being the Irish for BREEN with connections in Roscommon and the Midlands was anglicized to variations of Bruen.

[Wayne Cook]

Thanks

[hallmark]

You can see Sources from that link...

National Library of Ireland: Abstracts of Bruen wills relating to Dublin Oakpark, Carlow and Boyle, 1694-1795. GO Ms. 139, 168-9.

for example!