Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Brown was born on 7 August 1736, in Preston City, Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Brown, was 33 and her mother, Keziah Kinne, was 23. She married Stephen Tucker on 2 March 1758, in Griswold, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Mary Brown, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Mary Brown, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
- Mary Brown, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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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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