When Charles Frederic Brownell was born on 19 March 1831, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Doctor Richmond Brownell, was 41 and his mother, Harriet Baylies Church, was 27. He died on 3 May 1863, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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.
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