Brief Life History of John
When John Allen was born on 8 April 1909, his father, John Henry Allen, was 23 and his mother, Rose Anne Hoskinson, was 20. He married Bridget Doyle on 29 July 1933, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died in February 1976, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66, and was buried in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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1911 · Royal Liver Building Completed
On July 19, 1911, the Royal Liver Building opened officially. It was the first major structure in Britain and one of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
1940
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
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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