Brief Life History of Mary
When Lady Mary Brandon was born on 2 June 1510, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, her father, Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk, was 26 and her mother, Anne Browne, was 22. She married Sir Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Mounteagle on 2 April 1528, in Melling, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1542, in her hometown, at the age of 32.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brōm ‘broom, gorse’ + dūn ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named after the Brant River, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks. This surname was known in Ireland early enough to have a Gaelicized form de Breandún.
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’, a rare Kerry surname from the Latinized form of the name of the local saint, Brendan (Brendanus from Bréanainn).
French: from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brando, of ancient Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
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