Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Allen was born in 1794, in Anson, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Allen, was 45 and her mother, Rachel Abigail Stout, was 34. She married Jesse W Caudle about 1809, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States in 1860. She died in 1871, in Lanesboro Township, Anson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Deep Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Peachland, Anson, North Carolina, United States.
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- Abigal Caudle in household of Jesse W Fifer, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Abigail Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Abigail
- Abigail Allen Caudle, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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