Brief Life History of Barbara
When Barbara Brown was born on 5 May 1884, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Theodore Parker Brown, was 23 and her mother, Alice Jennie Daniels, was 21. She married John Evarts Rice on 21 September 1910, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 26 January 1957, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Barbara Rice, "United States 1950 Census"
- Barbara Brown, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Barbara Brown, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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