When Adelaide Brown was born in 1830, in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, her father, Ira Brown, was 38 and her mother, Eleanor Maude Purdy, was 31. She married James Monroe Gould on 29 November 1849, in Newcastle, Durham, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Cramahe, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Northumberland and Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 11 June 1887, in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 57, and was buried in Salem, Cramahe, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada.
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 .
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