Brief Life History of John
When John Allen was born about 1800, in Bath, Somerset, England, his father, William Allen, was 34 and his mother, Martha, was 30. He married Mary Ann Swift on 5 May 1823, in Freshford, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1824 and Creech St Michael, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1861. In 1851, at the age of 52, his occupation is listed as blacksmith 1851 census in United Kingdom. He died on 3 October 1879, in Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 80.
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- John Allear, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- John Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- John Allen, "England and Wales, Death Registration Index, 1837-1920"
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World Events (6)
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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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