When Willie Curtis Duncan was born on 26 April 1894, in Tylertown, Walthall, Mississippi, United States, his father, Charles Felder Duncan, was 26 and his mother, Amelia Lusettie Holmes, was 22. He married Bessie Lee Russell in 1915, in Walthall, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Bogalusa, Washington, Louisiana, United States in 1930 and Ward Four, Washington, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 15 September 1948, in Washington, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in McGehee Cemetery, Bogalusa, Washington, Louisiana, United States.
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Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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