When Isaac Dunn was born in 1754, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Bartholomew Dunn Sr, was 26 and his mother, Ruth Bonner, was 23. He married Mary Ann Sheffield in 1776. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 25 April 1836, in Anson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States.
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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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