Brief Life History of George
When George Allen was born in December 1883, in Magoffin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Simon Allen, was 43 and his mother, Lorena Joseph, was 26. He married Nancy Patrick on 6 November 1902, in Magoffin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 3 May 1903, in Magoffin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Allen Cemetery, Adamsville, Morgan, Kentucky, United States.
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- George Allen in household of Silas Allen, "United States Census, 1900"
- George Allen, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- George Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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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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