When Joseph Dunn Sr was born about 1730, in Charleston, South Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, John Ross Dunn Esq., was 34 and his mother, Catherine "Frances" Peron, was 40. He married Ruth Woodward in 1760, in Cumberland, North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Moore, North Carolina, United States in 1790. He died in 1790, at the age of 61.
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Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
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