The following information comes from my grandfather's (Claud Leonard Broun) writings:
"My great-great-grandmother, known as 'Granny Broun', was something of an Edinburgh character; she lived to be a hundred, dying in 1828; and as a girl of seventeen she took part in the welcome to Prince Charles Edward, and I think danced at the ball at Holyrood in September 1745. My maternal grand-father well remembered being introduced as a small boy to the awesome old lady, and her remark, 'Aye, laddie, ye've a braw sappy hand'."
And from an earlier set of writings:
"My great-great-grandfather married a lady who at the age of 17 took part in the welcome extended to Prince Charles Edward in 1745. She lived to the age of 100, dying in 1828. My grandfather Wyld remembered being introduced as a small boy to this old lady, whom he knew as 'Grannie Broun'."
Nothing is known about her husband except that he was either called James or George, and is supposed to have been descended from the Brouns of Colstoun.
My name is Alasdair Broun and I was born and brought up in Scotland, son of a clergyman and a freelance journalist. I took up genealogy as a hobby when I was 17 and I went on to write a PhD thesis in philosophical psychology ... more >
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