Brief Life History of Leonora Cec
When Leonora Cec Brown was born on 4 August 1893, in Oregon, United States, her father, Samuel Louis Brown, was 25 and her mother, Minna Rose Waltersdorf, was 21. She married Roy Robert Knox on 22 June 1922. She lived in Hills, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 434 Riverdale, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 4 April 1976, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- C Lenora Knox in household of R Roy Knox, "United States Census, 1940"
- Leonora Cec Knox, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
- Mrs Lenora Knox in entry for Samuel L Brown, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1898 · Oregon Historical Society
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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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