When James Henry Allen was born on 25 October 1775, in Yadkin, North Carolina, United States, his father, Corporal John Peter Allen, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth L. Lindsey, was 23. He married Mary Woodruff on 24 December 1808, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1810 and Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1820. He died on 6 January 1826, in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
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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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