When Eliza Jane Brown was born on 18 January 1839, in Meigs, Orange Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, Barzilla Miles Brown, was 24 and her mother, Martha Ann Price, was 21. She married James Ezra Camp on 8 December 1859, in Meigs, Morgan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rutland Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Hannan District, Mason, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 8 April 1912, at the age of 73.
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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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