Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Allen was born in 1826, in Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Allen, was 32 and her mother, Mary Jordan, was 31. She married John Weatherley on 13 September 1850, in Whitstable, Kent, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1871, in Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Jemima Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Spouse and Children
1828–1869 Male
1826–1871 Female
Parents and Siblings
1795–1860 Male
1795–1843 Female
Siblings (3)
1816–1894 Female
1826–1871 Female
1833– Female
World Events (4)
1830
Age 4
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
Age 7
1843
Age 17
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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