Brief Life History of William Sylvester
When William Sylvester Allen was born on 10 January 1822, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Amzi Allen, was 24 and his mother, Mary Sizer, was 24. He married Eliza Ann Curtis on 5 April 1844, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 23 years. He died on 28 October 1885, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63.
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Sources (18)
- Wm S Allen in household of Wm M Allen, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Sylvester Allen, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- William S Allen, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
Spouse and Children
1822–1885 Male
1822–1885 Female
Children (2)
1846–1912 Male
1848–1848 Male
Parents and Siblings
1797–1883 Male
1797–1840 Female
Siblings (14)
1820–1907 Male
1822–1883 Male
1822–1885 Male
1823–1865 Male
1826–1905 Female
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World Events (8)
1825 · The Crimes Act
Age 3
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Age 7
1846
Age 24
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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