Our Clan

We are of the original Brun family stock. It is not ever known how our forebear came to the Philippines and made horse's saddles and other leather ware as well as brewed beverages, smoked meats and other preserves. Our elders also tell of good knowledge and hand for blacksmithing, but we are out of that as for now even when we know that craft is buried somewhere in our genes.

If there are any Bruns or Browns, Braun, and Bruins, or even with Bruno surnames out there, feel free to shoot an arrow with a message into this site of ours.

The target is this lion.of.the.woodlands@gmail.com, our birdbox that we have kept for years but have only announced at this time.

Our original stock comes from the south of Germany, Alemain or Deutschland as it were, and we were the independent minded brothers of the common Germanic people. We are called Bavarians or Bayerns.

Since a number of marriages happened in the past had bred the spread of our name, and while our forebears have fiercely defended our independent spiritedness, the Spaniards who came after us killed many of our kind. As much as we suffered deaths from the prison inmate-turned-guards-soldiers, our clan claimed many a life from their side. More, so much more than the numbers by which we were decimated. A good number of our people hid from the Spaniards for long periods - coming out only bearing names native to the Philippine country and staying with those names until this day, only to be hunted again this time by the Americans who had again faulted us for our free-mindedness. Those Americans that came in the recent past even had German names, but Germans and Bavarians do not exactly see eye to eye all of the time. So we killed Americans too, while they took many more than a few of our kind.

What is of interest is that while we, the original Brun stock have become Filipinos with Filipino names, have married into the local tribes, our relations by marriage or acquaintance (but shamelessly changed into our surname of Brun being wanted by the authorities for cattle rustling or any other crimes), have retained the beloved name of Brun. That is of no consequence to us, since the blood of Brun is what defines our clan and our own stock, even if we have mixed marriages with a large number of races - native Filipino, Fujianese Chinese, Spanish and several others. Some have even married Mindanao Muslims with Arabic stock.

So now, whether we are of the clans of Molabola, Pareja, Botictic, some being Algas and many others, we are definitely as Brun as our original forebears are. Some of our parents, although married only to the originals, curious as to what we are, have studied at the Goethe Institut to learn about Germany and Bavaria, as well as the Deutsche language.

There will be time to interact later, so for now, we end the brief introduction here. We repeat our call to our relatives from Germany, France, England, even the Cajun in the US, to shoot their arrows to our birdbox so we will learn of how you fare and we may tell of what we are and who we are now.

Auf wiedersehen, abschied für jetzt. Farewell for now meine sehr lieben Freunde - my well-loved friends in this void talking space.