When Allen Henson was born about 1748, in Virginia, United States, his father, Phillip Henson, was 17 and his mother, Elizabeth Knott, was 19. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Esther Green. He registered for military service in 1794. He died in 1826, in Jackson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79.
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English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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