Brief Life History of Alison
When Alison Brown was born on 11 August 1852, in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Brown, was 47 and her mother, Janet Nicol, was 44. She married Robert Anderson Dunsire on 19 July 1872, in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Alberta, Canada in 1926. She died about July 1930, in Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Spearhill Bethlehem Cemetery, Spearhill, Grahamdale Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada.
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- Alison Brown in household of Robert Brown, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Alison Brown, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Robert Dunsire and Alison Brown 1872 Scotland Marriage Certificate
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1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
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1874 · Patronage abolished in the Church of Scotland.
The Church Patronage Act 1874 was passed by Parliament and amended and altered the laws relating to the Appointment of Ministers to Parishes in Scotland. Paragraphs spelled out definitions to prevent the Act being subverted by processes used by Patrons and clarified that the Church of Scotland would decide on the qualifications required for Ministers.
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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