When David Duncan was born on 18 November 1781, in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, David Duncan, was 24 and his mother, Barbara Marshall, was 22. He had at least 1 daughter with Agnes Allen. He lived in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 7 November 1855, in Tayport, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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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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