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Thanks again Terianne,

Your insights are fantastic!  Thank you so much for the replies.

I am now 95% convinced the Brownfield, Brounfield and Broomfield families from Berwickshire are the same family.  DNA tests would be nice to get me to 100%.

I have been doing searches that combine the multiple spellings of the Broomfield/Brownfield name with places where they lived in Berwickshire.  I find what is clearly the same person in more than one document, but with their surname spelled differently.  I can see why whoever created the 1928 index to the sasines decided to group these families together in the Berwickshire Index.

Thanks again for your help.

I see in the Brownfield family history where the name was spelled Brownfield, Broomfield, Brounfield, Brumfield and other variations, and at times with the i and e switched in field.  I wonder if my line of the Brownfield family and the line of the Broomfield family in Berwickshire are related.

My line of the Brownfield family were Scotch Presbyterians that migrated to Ulster and then to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s.  I believe I have tracked them back to Berwickshire in the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s.  But the Brownfield name appears to stop in Scotland altogether in the early 1700s.   I see one case in America where one of my ancestors was referred to as Broomfield, and he is one of the family members that migrated to Pennsylvania.  I wonder if the family in America started using Brownfield as a standard, and the family in Scotland started using Broomfield as the standard.

I have taken two Y DNA tests with results documented on ancestry.com and myFTDNA.com.  The results definitely place my family in Scotland.  I was surprised to find we also have several exact matches in Norway.  Is there a descendant of the Broomfield family from Berwickshire that has, or is willing to, add your DNA results to ancestry.com or myFTDNA.com?  This would allow us to see if the two families are related.