Brief Life History of Iona Sarah
When Iona Sarah Brown was born on 30 May 1914, in Montour, Gem, Idaho, United States, her father, Clarence James Brown, was 24 and her mother, Maggie Denny, was 25. She married Merrill Berdean Vandiver on 24 December 1940. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Post Falls, Kootenai, Idaho, United States for about 11 years. She died on 14 July 1995, in Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Post Falls, Kootenai, Idaho, United States.
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- Iona J Vandives, "United States 1950 Census"
- Iona Sarah Vandiver, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mrs Iona Vandiver in entry for Mr Clarence Brown, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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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