When William James Everett Allen was born on 17 October 1881, in Oil Center, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Newton Allen, was 44 and his mother, Mary Catherine Jasper, was 33. He married Rosetta Adams Morris on 25 December 1900, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 28 March 1967, in Uvalde, Uvalde, Texas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Sabinal, Uvalde, Texas, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Historical Boundaries 1891: Pulaski, Kentucky, 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.
Possible Related NamesWilliam Robert Allen moved around after he left Pulaski Kentucky where he worked in a coal mine. He moved from state to state where he took any job he could find (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio). H …
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