When Etta May Brand was born on 24 July 1885, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George H. Brand, was 26 and her mother, Flora Abby Parsons, was 22. She married Elmer Rudolph Verrill on 30 April 1902, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. She lived in Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Portland Ward 5, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1920. She died on 31 July 1956, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Methodist Cemetery, Cumberland, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
English, Scottish, North German, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from the ancient Germanic personal name Brando, Old Norse Brandr, a short form of various compound names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand . There is placename evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse.
German: variant of Brandt 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Swedish and Danish: ornamental name or nickname from brand ‘fire’.
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