Brief Life History of George
When George Brown was born on 16 May 1793, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Brown, was 70 and his mother, Elizabeth Brown, was 49. He married Barbara Weddle on 8 August 1820, in Longhoughton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Lamesley, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 6 May 1862, in Wrekenton, Durham, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68, and was buried in Durham, England, United Kingdom.
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- George Brown, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- George Brown, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- George Brown, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
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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