Seeking opinions: lowlander or highlander?

[Singlemalt]

Maybe you’re a German “braun” whose family moved to Scotland, and changed it to brown before moving to Canada!

The thing is, you really have to know the geographic location for the name to provide much info.

Or a Braun who moved directly from Germany to Canada but changed the spelling to better blend in a largely English speaking society. Here is SW Ontario the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo were originally New Hamburg and New Berlin because of the large German settlement in that area. They were changed to the jingoistic British names they carry now during WW1 when all things German were quite unpopular. A lot of people of German descent also anglicized their names at this time as well.

Brown is such a common name it will be difficult to ever know without more information.