Brief Life History of Eliza
When Eliza Allen was born on 31 January 1858, in Missouri, United States, her father, Francis Myers Allen, was 42 and her mother, Charlotte Smith, was 36. She married Jacob Mattocks McConkie on 28 March 1882, in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Newberg, Yamhill, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Pleasanton Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 April 1941, in Pleasanton, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (21)
- Eliza McConkie in household of Jacob M McConkie, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Eliza Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth: 31 January 1858; Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States
- Eliza Allen, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
Spouse and Children
1849–1904 Male
1858–1941 Female
Children (5)
1883–1977 Male
1885–1975 Male
1886–1888 Female
1894–1978 Male
1896–1996 Female
Parents and Siblings
1816–1900 Male
1821–1900 Female
Siblings (9)
1842–1863 Male
1843–1887 Male
1845–1872 Male
1848–1917 Female
1850–1851 Female
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World Events (8)
1859 · Oregon Becomes a State
Age 1
1859
Age 1
1880 · The Great Gale of 1880
Age 22
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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