When Elizabeth Sarah Brown was born in June 1840, in Lewes, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Thomas Brown, was 13 and her mother, Sarah, was 35. She married William Wallace Turner on 6 March 1864, in Lewes, Sussex, England. She lived in Lambeth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Deerfield Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died in July 1864, in Antelope Springs, Torrance, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 24.
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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 .
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