Brief Life History of Joshua Wood
When Joshua Wood Brown was born on 14 February 1832, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Brown, was 54 and his mother, Mary Ann Wood, was 40. He married Sarah Robbins Bailey on 2 April 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 6 December 1903, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Wellsville Cemetery, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- 1860 Joshua Brown, "United States Census"
- 1832 Joshua Brown, "England Births and Christenings"
- 1845-1854 Joshua Brown, "United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1843
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Ann Fielding Parkinson BIRTH 8 May 1809 England DEATH 11 Jun 1843 (aged 34) England BURIAL Wellsville Cemetery Wellsville, Cache County, Utah, USA Show Map MEMORIAL ID 9056771 ·
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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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