When George Allen was born in 1782, in Baie Verte, Westmorland, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Benjamin Allen, was 48 and his mother, Sarah Eva Magdalena Somers, was 29. He married Charlotte Letitia Thompson in 1806, in Westmorland, New Brunswick, British North America. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 22 July 1837, in Shemogue, Beaubassin East, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Bayfield, Botsford, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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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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