When James Allen was born on 6 March 1846, in Cold Ash, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Allen, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Willis, was 34. He lived in Plymouth, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880 and Snowville, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 12 October 1924, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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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