Allan Family History
- Allan Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern English: variant spelling of Allen. This is the more common spelling of the name in Scotland and northern England; in Scotland it is often found as an English form of the Gaelic name McAllen (see McAllan).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,760,419 Historical Documents with Allan on Ancestry
- 461,426 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 528,815 Census and Voter Lists
- 46,965 Military Records
- 104,499 Immigration Records
- 618,714 Member Trees
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Number of Allan families
 459 - 916  154 - 458 |
 1 - 153  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Allan families
|
1,925 - 3,848 642 - 1,924 |
1 - 641 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Allan census records
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- Scotland (583)
- England (340)
- Ireland (249)
- Great Britain (72)
- Scotland;Great Britain (14)
- Canada (13)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Allan census records
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