When John Dunn was born in 1741, in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Dunn, was 27 and his mother, Lucy Bolling, was 16. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Ida Prudence Freeman. He died on 28 October 1783, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 42.
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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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