Polly Brown

Brief Life History of Polly

When Polly Brown was born about 1851, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, her father, William P. Brown, was 51 and her mother, Mary Lee Bourland, was 45. She married Ebenezer Hibbs about 1871, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters.

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer Hibbs
1846–
Polly Brown
1851–
Marriage: about 1871
Blanche Hibbs
1873–
Clara Hibbs
1875–
Jennie Hibbs
1877–
William Hibbs
1879–
James Hibbs
1881–
Johnson Hibbs
1883–

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  • The Bourlands in America

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World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

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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