HI! Glad to see your message. Most of the folks in this thread are researching another line of Branns. There may be a connection somewhere but I've never found it. I'm in touch with someone who is researching all the Branns in Maine and as far as I know he hasn't found it either.

Anyway, our line (yours and mine) is the same. Mine is Richard and Eunice, John Brann and Hannah Stearns, Merrill Brann and Anne Augusta Page, William Brann and Anne Louise Sewall, Fred Brann.

I can follow your line down to Ethel. I don't have her. I have Lawrence married to a Gertrude Noyes. They had ten children but none of them are Ethel. Can you tell me where I went wrong?

While the name is sometimes spelled Braun in the census (and that is a German name) I don't think that's how it was spelled originally. Early records show it more often as Brawn or Bran. It's Bran on Richard's tombstone but he has a son, I believe, in another cemetery just down the road and their tombstones are all Brawn.

Anyway, I'd love to share information. Please email me at ofhmhe@aol.com