Brief Life History of Obran J.
When Obran J. Allen was born on 11 October 1874, in Madrid, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, Jonathan E Allen, was 39 and his mother, Caroline A Barrett, was 26. He died on 31 December 1878, in his hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in Madrid, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Obran J. Allen - Government record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Obran J. Allen
- Obran J Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1835–1905 Male
1848–1933 Female
Siblings (4)
1871–1950 Female
1874–1878 Male
1882–1890 Male
1888–1970 Female
World Events (4)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 1
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
Age 1
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 2
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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