When Seth Dunn was born on 1 December 1859, in Liberty Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States, his father, Adam Smith Dunn, was 45 and his mother, Mary A Roberts, was 43. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870. He died on 26 June 1878, in Jackson, Michigan, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States.
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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