Allain family page
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 This page includes information about people with variant names such as Allen and Dallain  Mr Dallain photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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Origin of Surname
The name is derived from the Christian name, later anglicised as Alan and Allen. It is found in the Assize Roll of 1309. Although the name is believed to have reached Jersey from France, it may have come from Brittany rather than Normandy. It has Celtic origins, and is thought to come from the Gaelic "ailin", little rock, a diminutive of "ail", rock. It was introduced into England and later to Ireland by the Breton followers of William the Conqueror after 1066.
The personal name is recorded in its Latinized form of "Alanus" in the Domesday Book of 1086, although the surname is not recorded until the first half of the 13th Century, Alein appearing in Cambridgeshire in 1234.
History in Jersey
Two distinct families have been identified in Jersey. The first can be traced back before the 17th century and used the spelling 'Allain'. The second was the family which arrived in Jersey about 1687 as religious refugees. They came from Ceris La Foret near Bayeux in Normandy and used the spelling Dallain or d'Allain.
Their history was traced by family historian Henry Coutanche in 1985 and links to their family tree and that history will be found below.
Variants
- Allain
- d'Allain
- Dallain
- Allein
- Alleyn
- Alleyne
- Allen
- Allin
- Alen
- Allan
Family records
Jersey family trees
Family histories
Church records
Allain
- Allain baptisms in Jersey
- Allain marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Allain marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Allain burials in Jersey
Allen
- Allen baptisms in Jersey
- Allen marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Allen marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Allen burials in Jersey
Dallain
- Dallain baptisms in Jersey
- Dallain marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Dallain marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Dallain burials in Jersey
Great War service
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family album
M C Allen (middle row, centre) was a member of the league champions BOBA football team in 1946-47
Family businesses
- Henry Allen was a chemist at 4 King Street in the 1860s
- C Allen was landlord of the public house at 75 King Street during the 1880s
- Francis Dallain and his brother Jean ran the tobacconist at 21 Broad Street in the 1840s and '50s
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1857
Family gravestones
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St Mary’s Church cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
St Peter parish cemetery
St Peter parish cemetery
St Peter parish cemetery
St Peter parish cemetery
St Peter parish cemetery
Surville Cemetery
Allen - St Ouen parish cemetery
Allan - Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
St Lawrence
Tips
The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.
We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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