When Mary A. Dunn was born on 12 September 1894, in Caldwell, Louisiana, United States, her father, Rev. Walter Smith Dunn, was 23 and her mother, Josephine Biglane, was 25. She died on 28 August 1896, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Old Union Cemetery, Cotton Plant, Caldwell, Louisiana, United States.
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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