When Mary Allen was born on 18 April 1838, in Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Jude Allen, was 26 and her mother, Mary Ann Nicholas, was 18. She married John Cook Dewey on 23 April 1854, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860 and Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1870. In 1895, her occupation is listed as nurse and midwife in Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States. She died on 23 August 1911, in Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Deweyville Cemetery, Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesLIFE SKETCH OF MARY ALLEN DEWEY Mary Allen Dewey, daughter of Jude Allen and Mary Ann Nichols and wife of John C. Dewey, was born at Parama, Caugha County, Ohio, April 18, 1838. At the age of five ye …
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