Brief Life History of Grace Olive
When Grace Olive Allen was born on 1 February 1900, in Fine, Fine, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, her father, Alvah A. Allen, was 36 and her mother, Bertha Gordan, was 34. She married Arda James Thurstin on 1 September 1920, in St. Lawrence, New York, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Russell, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1950. She died on 7 May 1983, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in South Russell Cemetery, South Russell, Russell, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (11)
- Grace A Thurston, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grace Olive Allen, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Grace NULL Allen Thurston, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1899–1964 Male
1900–1983 Female
Parents and Siblings
1863–1939 Male
1865–1938 Female
Siblings (2)
1896–1955 Male
1900–1983 Female
World Events (8)
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
Age 1
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Age 17
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 23
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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