Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Brown was born on 11 August 1858, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, her father, John Brown, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Ann McGOVERIN, was 33. She married William Linnell on 21 June 1882, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1915, at the age of 57.
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- Mary Brown, "Australia, Marriages, 1810-1980"
- Sarah Ann Brown, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Mary Elizabeth Linnell in entry for William Linnell, "Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-2001"
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World Events (8)
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
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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