When Willard T Brown was born on 3 January 1924, in Springfield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Walter Brown Sr., was 30 and his mother, Grace Elozia Brown, was 37. He lived in Springfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 5 years and Springfield, Springfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 29 May 1992, in Troy, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Grover Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Springfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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 .
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