Brief Life History of Andrew
When Andrew Allen was born in 1832, in Ohio, United States, his father, William Allen, was 20 and his mother, Rulana Massie, was 29. He lived in Mason Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States in 1850.
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- Andrew Allen in household of William Allen, "United States Census, 1850"
Parents and Siblings
1812–1863 Male
1803–1900 Female
Siblings (7)
1831– Female
1832– Male
1834–1870 Male
1836–1908 Male
1838–1917 Male
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World Events (8)
1832 · The Black Hawk War
Age 0
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
Age 4
1863
Age 31
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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