Brief Life History of Marcia
When Marcia Allen was born on 6 November 1804, in Judea, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Gideon Allen, was 30 and her mother, Rachel Hand, was 27. She married Albern Allen on 25 December 1826, in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 25 December 1866, in Kanarraville, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Kanarraville, Iron, Utah, United States.
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- Marsha Allen in household of Alburn Allen, "United States Census, 1860"
- Maria Allen, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Maria (Marcia) Allen Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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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