Brief Life History of Frances Pearl
When Frances Pearl Allen was born on 2 April 1886, in Mount Uniacke Gold District, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Eber Austin Allen, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Elizabeth Leightle, was 19. She married Wallace Alexander Wood on 25 January 1906, in Newport, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911 and Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1943. She died on 16 May 1950, in Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Mount Uniacke, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sources (14)
- Frances P. Allen in household of Eber A. Allen, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Frances Pearl Allen, "Canada, Nova Scotia Delayed Births, 1837-1904"
- Frances Allen, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
Spouse and Children
1880–1935 Male
1886–1950 Female
Children (4)
1906– Female
1908–1980 Male
1910–1979 Female
1911–1983 Male
Parents and Siblings
1861–1934 Male
1867– Female
Siblings (8)
1886–1950 Female
1889–1890 Male
1891–1963 Male
1893– Female
1896– Male
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World Events (3)
1909 · First Canadian Flight
Age 23
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
Age 35
1945 · HMCS Esquimalt Torpedoed
Age 59
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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