When Margaret Brown was born on 2 April 1783, in Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland, her father, William Brown, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 30. She married Hugh Schefflin in 1814, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1843 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died in 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesMargaret Brown Principal Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881 Christening9 February 1783 Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland FatherJames Brown MotherMargaret
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