Brief Life History of Nancy Jane
When Nancy Jane Allen was born on 2 November 1845, in Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Evins Allen, was 38 and her mother, Nancy McDaniels Allen, was 36. She married Ruel Mills Rogers on 14 September 1874, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Platte Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 15 October 1874, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Nancy Allen, "United States Census, 1850"
- Nancy J Allen, "BillionGraves Index"
- Nancy Jane Allen, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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