James Brown

Brief Life History of James

James Brown was born on 24 April 1801, in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Thomas Brown and Jean Duncan. He married Mary Dustan on 4 August 1825. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 13 May 1869, in his hometown, at the age of 68, and was buried in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

James Brown
1801–1869
Mary Dustan
1805–1881
Marriage: 4 August 1825
Margaret Brown
1826–
Thomas Brown
1829–
Jane Brown
1831–
James Brown
1833–
Mary Brown
1836–
Ann Brown
1837–
Mary Brown
1840–
George Ferguson Brown
1842–
Peter Brown
1845–

Sources (12)

  • James Brown, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • James Brown, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • James Brown, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1820 · """The """"Radical War""""."""

The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.

Name Meaning

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 .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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