Brewer Coat of Arms / Brewer Family Crest

Brewer Family Crest / Brewer Coat of Arms

Where did the English brewer family come from? What is the English coat of arms/family crest? When did the brewer family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the history of the family name?A multitude of spelling variations characterize Norman surnames. Many variations occurred because Old and Middle English lacked any definite spelling rules. The introduction of Norman French to England also had a pronounced effect, as did the court languages of Latin and French. Therefore, one person was often referred to by several different spellings in a single lifetime. The various spellings include Brewer, Bruer, Bruyere, Brewyer, Breuer, Brower and others.
First found in Devonshire where they were seated from early times after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Many English families left England, to avoid the chaos of their homeland and migrated to the many British colonies abroad. Although the conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and some travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute, once in the colonies, many of the families prospered and made valuable contributions to the cultures of what would become the United States and Canada. Research into the origins of individual families in North America has revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name brewer or a variant listed above: Daniel Brewer who settled in the Barbados in 1680; John Brewer and his wife Marie, who came to Boston Mass. in 1632; Obadiah Brewer, who was on record in New England in 1647.
Suggested Readings for the name brewer
The Chauncey Marble Brewer Family of Marshall, Michigan by James DeWolfe.
The Genealogy of Daniel P. Brewer by Buel Amos Langdon.
Some noteworthy people of the name brewer
Leo Brewer (b. 1919), American professor of chemistry
Margaret Ann Brewer (b. 1930), American, first female general in the US Marine Corps (1978-)
George Keefer Brewer (1914-1959), better known by his stage name George Reeves, an American actor, best known for his role as Superman
Teresa Brewer (1931-2007), American pop singer from the 1950s
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810-1897), English author, lexicographer, and scholar
John Sherren Brewer (1809-1879), English scholar
Frank Brewer, British diplomat, as well as Eric A. Brewer, professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley
Eric A Brewer, professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley.