Elizabeth Brown

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Brown was born on 17 January 1733, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Browne, was 31 and her mother, Parnell Bostwick, was 30. She died on 4 December 1764, in her hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Browne
1701–1790
Parnell Bostwick
1702–1750
Daniel Brown
1728–1738
Joseph Brown Jr
1730–1757
Anna Brown
1732–1738
Elizabeth Brown
1733–1764
Isaac Brown
1735–1738
Daniel Brown
1739–1791
Anna Brown
1741–1827
Mary Brown
1744–1804

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  • Elizabeth Brown Burroughs, "Find A Grave Index"

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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