Brief Life History of Eunice
Eunice Brownell was born about 1765, in Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She married Thomas Gifford on 19 June 1785, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died after July 1797.
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- Eunice Brownell, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Eunice Brownell, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Eunice Brownell, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) brown hill or corner of land’, from Middle English brun(e), broun(e) + hil ‘hill’ or hale ‘nook, corner’ (Old English brūn + hyll or halh), or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire.
History: Thomas Brownell came from England to Little Compton, RI, c. 1650.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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