Brief Life History of Clarendon
When Clarendon Allen was born on 6 February 1804, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Maj. Moses Allen Jr., was 35 and his mother, Esther Chapin, was 33. He died on 19 April 1837, in his hometown, at the age of 33, and was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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Sources (7)
- Clarendon Allen, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Clarendon Allen, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Clarendon Allen, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
Parents and Siblings
1768–1833 Male
1771–1857 Female
Siblings (8)
1790–1816 Male
1792–1880 Female
1796–1859 Female
1798–1853 Female
1800–1856 Male
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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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