Brief Life History of Janet
When Janet Allane was born on 13 June 1620, in Tranent, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, her father, James Allane, was 26 and her mother, Jeannit Blyth, was 26. She married William McNab about 1635, in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
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- Jennett Alane, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Jonet Allane in entry for Jonet Macknab, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Jonet Allane in entry for Margaret Macknab, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1707
The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707. By inheritance in 1603, James VI of Scotland became king of England and Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Allen . This is the more common form of the name in Scotland and northern England. See also McAllen .
History: An early bearer of this surname in North America was William Allan, a British soldier who took his family to the newly founded city of Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1749. His son John (1746–1805) was a Revolutionary soldier who eventually (1783) founded the settlement of Allan's Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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