When Edward Ephraim Brain was born on 7 April 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Edward Brain, was 34 and his mother, Mary Bailey, was 38. He married Sarah Marian Romney. He lived in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 19 April 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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English: apparently a nickname from Middle English brain ‘brain, mind’, probably short for brainwod ‘mad in the mind, furious’. Compare Brainard .
Irish (Down) and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Bhreitheamhan, Scottish Gaelic Mac a' Bhreitheamhan ‘son of the judge’, from breitheamh ‘judge’. Compare Braham 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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