Brief Life History of Mary Emma
When Mary Emma Allen was born on 15 November 1849, in Raunds, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Louis Bashaw Baskas Allen, was 27 and her mother, Angelique Margaret Lepage, was 33. She married William Gritton on 4 January 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 11 August 1932, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Martha Jane Allen en la familia de Thomas Allen, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Martha Jane Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Emma Allen Gritton, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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