When Alice Dunning was born on 28 December 1809, in Harpswell, Cumberland, Maine, United States, her father, Benjamin Dunning Jr, was 43 and her mother, Agnes Pennell, was 40.
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Dunning in Lower Strathearn (Perthshire), recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.
English: variant of Downing .
Irish: variant of Dineen .
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