When Priscilla Dunn was born on 28 February 1726, in Charleston, South Carolina, British Colonial America, her father, John Ross Dunn Esq., was 29 and her mother, Catherine "Frances" Peron, was 34. She married Thomas Polk Jr on 17 June 1748. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 16 October 1789, in Colleton, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Colleton, South Carolina, United States.
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Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
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