When John Dunn was born in 1714, in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Ross Dunn Esq., was 17 and his mother, Catherine "Frances" Peron, was 23. He married Lucy Bolling in 1735, in Sussex, Sussex, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 2 daughters. He died from 16 December 1789 to March 1791, in Franklin, 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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesLast year, I set out to bring down the brick wall which concealed the identity of my GGG grandfather, John Dunn, b.1810 SC m. Nancy Hatfield. For 20 years, genealogists couldn't identify John, nor Nan …
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