When Francis Louis Dunn was born on 27 August 1873, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Dunn, was 37 and his mother, Mary Jane Frank, was 26. He married Adelaide P Hardaway on 14 June 1904, in Nottoway Court House, Nottoway, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nottoway, Virginia, United States in 1944 and Blendon District, Nottoway, Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 2 March 1964, in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Blendon Cemetery, Nottoway Court House, Nottoway, Virginia, 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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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