Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Allen was born on 18 July 1810, in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Allen, was 43 and her mother, Alice Ramsbottom, was 37. She married William Lord on 5 August 1832, in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Middleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 16 September 1864, in Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Wyoming, United States.
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- Mary Lord in household of William Lord, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Mary Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Allen, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1825 · Museum of Lancashire
The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
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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Written by Florence Burns Searle (From Graves Along the Trail) Mary Allen is a pioneer whose story has not been told. This account of her life is chronicled from meager family and church records, as …
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