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