When Archelaus Luce Brown was born on 3 April 1816, in Asylum, Asylum Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Aaron Brown, was 24 and his mother, Ann M Weed, was 19. He married Martha Button on 5 May 1834, in Elkland Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 20 January 1889, in Fox Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Brown Cemetery, Shunk, Fox Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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