When John Brownlow was born on 17 August 1833, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Brownlow, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Harrott, was 32. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1855.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and Cheshire named Brownlow, all probably from Old English brūn ‘brown’ + Old English hlāw ‘hill, mound’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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