Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Allen was born on 13 December 1839, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Isaac Allen Sr., was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Christiana Siddal Wright, was 25. She married William Hopkins Anderson on 26 December 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1859 and lived in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 5 October 1913, in Soda Springs, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary Allen, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Allen, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- 1913 Mary A Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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This picture was taken from an old tin type Grandpa Anderson Grandma Anderson Our Dad William Anderson Aunt Molly Aunt Dorcas Great Grandad Allen It was taken in 1867 in Portage Utah. Dad looks to be …
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