Brief Life History of James Bird
When James Bird Allen was born on 16 August 1850, in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri, United States, his father, Lewis Allen, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Alexander, was 31. He married Hannah Rebecca West on 30 December 1886, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Platte Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Washington, Washington, Utah, United States in 1880. He died after 1887.
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- Allen Bird in household of Andrew Spoul, "United States Census, 1880"
- James Bird Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
- James Bird Allen, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
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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