Brair is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 5 characters long in length.
Lastname Brair is the variant form of Briar. See Bryer - The same as Brewer, in the local sense - 1. Bruyere, French, a heath. This was a frequent name in Norman times. The principal English family were settled in Devonshire at the time of the Domes. survey, and founded Tor Abbey. In after times they impressed their name upon Teign Brewer and Buckland Brewer in that county, as also upon Temple Brewer, county of Lincoln. Among those of the name in France, Thibaut de la Bruyere, the crusader, stands conspicuous. The orthography is much varied, the principal forms in the Hundred Rolls being Brewer, Brewere, de Bruario, de la Bruere, Brywer, de Brueris.
2. The occupation. In the Hundred Rolls it occurs in the Latin and Norman-French forms of Braciator and Le Bracer. The business of brewing was formerly carried on by women, and hence the Anglo-Saxon feminine termination stre, in Brewster. In the Hundred Rolls we find the name of one Clarissa la Braceresse. In the XV. century, the name as well as the occupation was often written Berebrewer.
Fuller, speaking of William Brewer, a man famous in our carly annals, says: "His mother, unable to maintain him, cast him in brevers, (whence he was so named) or in a bed of brakes in the New Forest. King Henry II., riding to rouse a stay, found this child, and caused him to be mursed and well brought up." He afterwards created him baron of Oleomb.
The variant form of Bryer. The same as Brewer, in the local sense - 1. Bruyere, French, a heath. This was a frequent name in Norman times. The principal English family were settled in Devonshire at the time of the Domes. survey, and founded Tor Abbey. In after times they impressed their name upon Teign Brewer and Buckland Brewer in that county, as also upon Temple Brewer, county of Lincoln. Among those of the name in France, Thibaut de la Bruyere, the crusader, stands conspicuous. The orthography is much varied, the principal forms in the Hundred Rolls being Brewer, Brewere, de Bruario, de la Bruere, Brywer, de Brueris.
2. The occupation. In the Hundred Rolls it occurs in the Latin and Norman-French forms of Braciator and Le Bracer. The business of brewing was formerly carried on by women, and hence the Anglo-Saxon feminine termination stre, in Brewster. In the Hundred Rolls we find the name of one Clarissa la Braceresse. In the XV. century, the name as well as the occupation was often written Berebrewer.
Fuller, speaking of William Brewer, a man famous in our carly annals, says: "His mother, unable to maintain him, cast him in brevers, (whence he was so named) or in a bed of brakes in the New Forest. King Henry II., riding to rouse a stay, found this child, and caused him to be mursed and well brought up." He afterwards created him baron of Oleomb.