When Ida May Brand was born on 5 April 1875, in Paola, Miami, Kansas, United States, her father, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Brand, was 31 and her mother, Mary Bulless, was 24. She married Andrew Jackson Neal on 27 September 1891, in Marion Township, Newton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Ozark Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Aurora Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 11 April 1958, in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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English, Scottish, North German, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from the ancient Germanic personal name Brando, Old Norse Brandr, a short form of various compound names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand . There is placename evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse.
German: variant of Brandt 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Swedish and Danish: ornamental name or nickname from brand ‘fire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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