When Ellen Mary Brown was born on 27 July 1895, in Victoria, Australia, her father, Charles Hutchinson Brown, was 22 and her mother, Clara Alice Richards, was 25. She married Clyde Neil ( Clicker) Hill on 23 March 1921, in Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 31 March 1962, in Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 66, and was buried in Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia.
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First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
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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