William Jermyne Allen

Brief Life History of William Jermyne

When William Jermyne Allen was born in 1855, in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Mark Allen, was 24 and his mother, Anna Maria Jermyne, was 21. He was buried in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Mark Allen
1831–1902
Anna Maria Jermyne
1834–1870
William Jermyne Allen
1855–1855
Annie Jane Allen
1857–1860
Thomas Lot Allen
1859–1860
John Allen
1862–1864
George Mends Allen
1863–1864
Henry Jermyne Allen
1865–1866

Sources (4)

  • William Jermyn Allen, "Wales Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907"
  • William Jermyne Allen, "Wales, Pembrokeshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912"
  • William Jermyne Allen Wales Birth record

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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