When Mead Merton Allen was born on 20 November 1880, in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States, his father, Edwin R Allen, was 33 and his mother, Edee Emma Dakin, was 32. He married Annie Mae Avery on 6 December 1905, in Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, United States. He lived in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States in 1920. In 1920, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as rail road conductor in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States. He died in 1934, in Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Lawndale Cemetery, Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, United States.
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1880–1934 Male
1884–1962 Female
1847–1927 Male
1848–1937 Female
1870–1939 Male
1872–1872 Female
1873–1876 Female
1880–1934 Male
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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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