Brief Life History of Charles William
When Charles William Allen was born on 18 October 1832, in Greenwood, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Elihu Marcellus Allen, was 41 and his mother, Lola Ann Clawson, was 26. He had at least 1 son with Charlotte Mulhall. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847. He died in Orwell, Oswego, New York, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Charles William Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charles William Allen
- Charles Wm. Allen in entry for Frank William Allen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Charles W. Allen in entry for Murray Baynham Allen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Charles William is listed in the Pioneers of 1847 arriving in the 1st 10 3rd 100 1st 50. Charles William and his wife had one son Murray B., who was blind and helped the blind to become self-supportin …
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