Brief Life History of William
When William Allen was born on 18 February 1805, in Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States, his father, Thomas George Allen, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Jones, was 22. He married Esther E. Libby on 22 November 1835, in Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 6 August 1894, in Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Northfield Falls, Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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- William Allen, "United States Census, 1870"
- William Allen, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Wm Allen in entry for James Smith and Nancy Allen, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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