Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Allen was born about 1810, in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Allen, was 27 and her mother, Mary, was 24. She married William Morley on 20 November 1828, in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 21 October 1845, at the age of 36, and was buried in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Rebeka Morley in household of Wm Morley, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Rebecca Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Rebecca Allen, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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