Charles Dunn was born on 24 November 1750, in Anson, North Carolina, British Colonial America as the son of John Ross Dunn Esq. and Mary Read. He lived in Rowan, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 September 1839, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88.
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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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