Charity Brown

Brief Life History of Charity

When Charity Brown was born in 1814, in Ohio, United States, her father, Preserve Brown, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Moudy, was 12. She married James J. Reily on 6 February 1834, in Butler, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Richland Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States for about 10 years.

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Family Time Line

James J. Reily
1810–1848
Charity Brown
1814–
Marriage: 6 February 1834
Peter William Riley
1834–1913
Wilson Bailey Riley
1840–1920
Sarah Ann Riley
1845–1938
John A Riley
1847–1913
James J. Riley
1849–1930

Sources (6)

  • Charity Riley, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Charity Brown, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Charity Riley, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1816

Indiana is the 19th state.

1826

Historical Boundaries 1826: Fountain, Indiana, United States

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

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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