Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Brown was born on 5 April 1805, in Augusta, Augusta, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Sylvanus Brown Jr., was 28 and his mother, Sarah Spaulding, was 22. He married Lucy Conner on 27 January 1829, in Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 4 September 1872, in Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Walnut Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States.
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- Charles Brown, "United States Census, 1870"
- Charles Lowell Brown, "BillionGraves Index"
- Charles Brown in entry for Thomas Leak and Sallie Deemen, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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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