Brief Life History of Michel Abraham
Michel Abraham Allen was born on 25 September 1848, in Montgomery, Texas, United States as the son of Miguel Escalona and Maria Ocotlan. He married Roimata Kauvai Parare on 5 August 1885, in Papeete, Windward Islands, French Polynesia. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died in 1929, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Michel Abraham Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth: about 1832; Tahiti, French Polynesia
- Abraham Allen, "French Polynesia, Civil Registration, 1780-1999"
- Legacy NFS Source: Michel Abraham Allen - Memory of Someone: birth: 1832; Mitiaro, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands
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1850 · Compromise of 1850
The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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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