When William Arkley Brown was born on 26 January 1859, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elijah W Brown, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Elvira Welch, was 33. He married Susan Linn Weaver in 1877, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Holley Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Union Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1930. He died on 19 January 1931, in Shirley, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Settlement, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States.
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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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