Ernest Samuel Allen
1904–1978 (Age 73)
Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
The Life of Ernest Samuel
When Ernest Samuel Allen was born on 30 March 1904, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, his father, John Woolsey Allen, was 32 and his mother, Anne Armstrong, was 29. He died in 1978, at the age of 74.
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Family Time Line
John Woolsey Allen
1872–1923
Anne Armstrong
1874–1948
William John Allen
1900–
George Allen
1901–1930
Ernest Samuel Allen
1904–1978
Robert Wolsey Allen
1905–1965
Cecil Norman Allen
1912–1986
Daisy Geurtrude Allen
1916–1988
Parents & Siblings
- John Woolsey Allen
1872–1923Male
1874–1948Female
siblings
(6)
- William John Allen
1900–Male
- George Allen
1901–1930Male
1904–1978Male
1905–1965Male
1912–1986Male
+1 More Child
World Events (7)
1919
Age 15
Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
1920
Age 16
In the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Ireland was partitioned, with the unionist-dominated north east becoming Northern Ireland.
1926
Age 22
De Valera founds the new Fianna Fail party.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: 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. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding its origin; the most plausible is that it originally meant ‘little rock’. Compare Gaelic ailín, diminutive of 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. St. Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another St. Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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