When Mary Elizabeth Allen was born on 18 May 1827, in Millersburg, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Adair Allen, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Walton Baker, was 23. She married George William Tompkins on 16 September 1847, in Lewis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lewis, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Reddish Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 8 March 1884, in Williamstown, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Monticello, Lewis, Missouri, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Lewis, Missouri, United States of America
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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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