When William Lounsbury was born on 3 September 1818, in Lewis Mountain, Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Lounsbury, Jr., was 39 and his mother, Grace Elizabeth Gray, was 35. He married Mary Eleanor Ellen Hopper on 22 April 1841, in New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1860 and Osage Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died in January 1903, in Prescott, Linn, Kansas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Prescott, Linn, Kansas, United States.
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English: probably an altered form of Lownsbrough, a habitational name from Londesborough in the East Yorkshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Lothinn + Old English burh ‘stronghold’.
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