When Sarah Maebelle Allen was born on 25 January 1877, in McHenry, Illinois, United States, her father, Pulaski Kossulto Allen, was 24 and her mother, Fannie Eleanor Coulman, was 25. She married David E. Greenlees on 20 June 1914, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. She lived in Richmond, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 3 December 1947, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, 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.
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