Richard Harrison Allen

Brief Life History of Richard Harrison

When Richard Harrison Allen was born in 1842, in Caroline, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Oliver Allen, was 41 and his mother, Mary Garnette Tinsley, was 32. He lived in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died in 1864, in Caroline, Virginia, United States, at the age of 22.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Oliver Allen
1801–1859
Mary Garnette Tinsley
1810–1887
Elizabeth “Eliza” Jane Allen
1827–1899
James Henry Allen
1838–
Thomas Oliver Allen, Jr.
1850–
Mary Frances Allen
1829–1927
Tinsley Linsey Allen
1831–1909
William P. Allen
1833–1865
Thomas Allen
1839–
Sally Sarah Allen
1840–
Bartlett T Allen
1840–
Richard Harrison Allen
1842–1864
Ellen Harriett Allen
1844–1926
Devereux Frederick Allen
1845–1933
Joshua Allen
1848–

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  • Harrison Allen in household of Thomas Allen, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (4)

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

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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