Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Allen was born on 21 December 1882, in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Leonard Allen Jr, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Ann Upton, was 22. She married Joe Hopkinson on 9 June 1906, in Heywood, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Royton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 13 December 1967, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84.
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- Martha Hopkinson in household of Joe Hopkinson, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Martha Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Martha Allen, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1901 · East Lancashire Royal Engineers
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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