When Nancy Brown was born in 1788, in Dutchess, New York, United States, her father, Ezekiel Brown, was 25 and her mother, Mary Hancock, was 20. She married Captain John Mintz on 2 February 1802. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Herrick Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 1 August 1877, at the age of 89, and was buried in Good Shepherd Cemetery, Silkworth, Lehman Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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