When Katherine Brent was born about 1630, her father, Edward Brent, was 25 and her mother, Rebecca Hall, was 12. She married John Dynel after 1662, in Virginia, British Colonial America.
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English: habitational name from East Brent in Somerset or South Brent in Devon, both named from Old English brente ‘steep place’, referring to the steep hills on which they stand. Compare Brents .
History: Giles Brent came from Gloucestershire, England, to MD in 1638.
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