How many Brimberry lines are there?
My family has been in Georgia since around 1800.I have been told two different stories as to our geneology.One is that about the Swedish line and the other is about a Peter Bromburre who came from around Alsace-Lorraine in 1777 to fight in the revolutionary war and settled in Penn. after independence.
I understand that a son of his, or a grandson of his hit the road and ended up in what is now Walker County Georgia.By the 1840s there were Brimberrys in what is now Mitchell County Ga.At the time of the War Between the States there were 2 brothers from Camilla Ga. who joined the Confederate Army, they were B. F. Brimberry and Marion Brimberry (my grandfather's grandfather).They both road with the Cav. under the command of Gen. Forrest and they both survived the war.
They came back to Camilla after the war and lived out their live, however B. F. moved to nearby Albany Ga. around the turn of the century and lived there until his death in the 1920s.
The cemetary in Camilla has a large number of Brimberrys in it (they have been there from the 1840s through now). There are a number of articles from the '20s about the Peter B. line mentioned earlier done by both the Georgia Chapters of the DAR and the Daughters of the Confederacy.That is the line my Grandfathersaid we were from.
There is also a large number of black Brimberrys from the Camilla area who are descended from a John Brimberry, a former slave of B. F. who took his surname after the war.
If anyone can shed light about the 2 lines I would be very thankful.