Hannah Allen

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Allen was born on 15 May 1666, in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, George Allen, was 47 and her mother, Hannah Clapp, was 39. She died after 1739, in New Jersey, United States, and was buried in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

George Allen
1619–1693
Hannah Clapp
1626–1687
Caleb Allen
1648–1731
Judah Allen
1650–1689
Ephraim Allen
1652–1691
Elizabeth Allen
1654–1708
Matthew Allen
1657–1701
John Allen
1658–1717
James Allen
1658–
Lydia Allen
1660–1732
Daniel Allen
1663–1718
Hannah Allen
1666–1739
Ebenezer Allen
1668–1716
George Allen III
1672–1714

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  • The Allen Family-Descendents of George Allen of England and Sandwich, Massachusetts [pdf]

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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