Brief Life History of Nehemiah
When Nehemiah Allen was born on 6 November 1669, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nehemiah Allen, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Woodford, was 20. He married Ruth Burt on 16 December 1710, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1667. He died on 20 July 1738, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 68.
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- Nehemiah Allyn, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Nehemiah Allen, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Nehemiah Allyn in entry for Mary Allyn, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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.
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