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I'm looking for connections from my family to other Brims.
My great-great-grandfather: Joseph A Brim, lived in the Williamson, Tennessee vicinity, married Jane Osborn and had a son, Robert C. Brim in 1837.
My great-grandfather: Robert C. served as a private in the Mo. Calvary in the Civil War and married Elizabeth Chanler in 1859 in Polk Co., Mo. I don't know if his father, Joseph, came with him to Missouri.
My grandfather, John Allen, was born in 1865 and married Annie L. Bradshaw in 1890. They resided in Walnut Grove, Greene Co., MO until their deaths in the 1940's. They had three sons, Gene, Bert, and Robert Cecil (my father). My grandfather, John Allen, had a large farm implement and general store in Walnut Grove. My Uncle Gene started the Brim-Daniel Funeral Home in Walnut Grove. My Uncle Bert opened the first Buick agency in Springfield. My father, Robert Cecil, practiced dentistry in Republic and then Springfield from 1925 to 1985.
I know I had a cousin (?) Pearl Brim (male) who lived in Washington state and who visited us in the 1950's, so apparently an earlier branch of my family went west. Unfortunately, I had no interest in genealogy at the time.
My father once told me that the founders of our line of Brims were two brothers who emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland. I don't have any further info on this bit of family lore but I did find out there is a family of "Brims" (not "Brim") from the extreme northeast tip of Scotland, (Thurso in Caithness) some of whom dropped the "s" and became "Brim" and who emigrated abroad to Australia, Canada and possibly the U.S.A. I visited Thurso and explored the ruins of the Brim castle (really a starter castle, only about 2000 square feet--this is a very poor area of Scotland). Unfortunately, no Brims ever lived there as the castle was owned by the feudal lords, the St. Clairs, who were given the area by the early Norman rulers. The people who became the Brims took their name from the castle at some point when last names became popular. I fancied that I saw a lot of "Brim" features in the locals in Thurso, but this may have been my imagination. (By the way, "Brim" is a Norse (Viking) word for surf and the Brim Castle took its name, apparently, from its location on a cliff overlooking the breaking surf of the North Sea.)
Although I found the link to Scotland and the Vikings quite satisfying, my later research suggested that most of the Brims in this country had a different origin, in Devonshire, England. The early Brims from there established a beachhead in Virginia and, from there, established outposts in North Carolina, then Tennessee, then Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and other places south and west. Since my family is of Tennessee origin it's starting to look like my roots trace to England too.
I'll be glad to furnish the original sources for the above information if anyone is interested.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who can help me connect to other branches of the Brims.
Regards,
John Brim
Vacaville, CA
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