Allain

Allain family page

This page includes information about people with variant names such as Allen and Dallain

Mr Dallain photographed by Ernest Baudoux

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Allain family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Allain, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

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and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

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New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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The Rev Mr Allain photographed by Ernest Baudoux

Origin of Surname

The name is derived from the forename, 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 family name 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.

Variants

• Allain
• d'Allain
• Dallain
• Allein
• Alleyn
• Alleyne
• Allen
• Allin
• Alen
• Allan

Family records

Jersey family trees

• Descendants of Pierre Dallain

Family histories

• The Dallain family of Jersey

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

• Allen/Allain family members who served in the Great War

Occupation records

• Allain Occupation identity cards

World War 2 casualties

• Vernon Ferguson Le Feuvre Allen

Family wills

• Allain family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Allain/Allen burial records 1820-1978

Family album

The 1924 wedding photograph of Arthur Dallain and Dorothy May de La Haye. This was farmer Arthur's second marriage. He was later a long-serving Constable of St Mary from 1949 to 1965

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

Family gravestones

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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