| ![Show Contents]() Allee History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Etymology of AlleeWhat does the name Allee mean? This surname is derived from a geographical locality as in 'of the Alley,' i.e. from residence in a narrow passage from the Middle English aley and alley. 1 2 3 Early Origins of the Allee familyThe surname Allee was first found in the Domesday Book of 1086 where Alli was listed in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Staffordshire. 4 The next entry for the family was found in Norfolk, where early records there show Johannes filius Alli in the Curia Regis Rolls of 1205. In Cumberland, Hugo, son of Ally was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of 1332 and Alice Ally was listed in the Subsidy Rolls for Worcestershire in 1275. Richard Ally was a Freeman of York in 1352. 5 Simon de Ally, Lancashire was listed in the Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I. 6 The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 recorded Walter Alleye, Oxfordshire and John Alley, Cambridgeshire. 1 Early History of the Allee familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Allee research. Another 206 words (15 lines of text) covering the years 1041, 1046, 1092, 1153, 1166, 1451, 1455, 1487, 1510, 1539, 1543, 1570, 1600, 1623, 1706, 1726 and 1810 are included under the topic Early Allee History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Allee Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Allee family name include Alye, Allye, Allie, Alley, Aley, Allee, Aleigh and many more. Early Notables of the Allee familyWilliam Alley (1510?-1570), English divine, Bishop of Exeter, a native of Chipping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. "Early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he became divinity reader at St. Paul's, London, and admirably performed the duties...
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Allee Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Allee RankingIn the United States, the name Allee is the 14,427th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 7
| Allee migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Allee surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Allee Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- Elizabeth Allee, who arrived in Maryland in 1671 8
- Mr. Allee, who landed in Virginia in 1698 8
Allee Settlers in United States in the 18th Century- Jean Allee, who landed in New York in 1725 8
Allee Settlers in United States in the 20th Century- Mary Allee, aged 30, who settled in America, in 1910
- Desire Allee, aged 30, who settled in America from France, in 1914
- Roger Allee, aged 19, who immigrated to the United States, in 1917
- Madeline Allee, aged 47, who landed in America from Winchester, England, in 1919
- Felix Allee, aged 23, who landed in America, in 1920
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| Contemporary Notables of the name Allee (post 1700) | + |
- Warder Clyde Allee (1885-1955), American zoologist and ecologist who discovered the Allee effect
- William S. Allee (1852-1916), American politician, Member of the Missouri Senate
- Marjorie Hill Allee (1890-1945), née Hill, American author, wife of Warder Clyde Allee
- Verna Allee (b. 1949), American business consultant and writer
- Alfred Young Allee (1905-1987), American Texas Ranger, grandson of Alfred Allee
- James Frank Allee (1857-1938), American merchant and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware, United States Senator from Delaware (1903-1907), Member of the Delaware Senate (1899-1903)
- Alfred Y. Allee (1855-1938), American lawman in Texas, known for his reputation for his casual violence and for shooting prisoners after they had surrendered; he was stabbed to death in a barroom brawl in Laredo, Texas, grandfather of Alfred Young Allee
- David S. Allee (b. 1969), American photographer
- Steve Allee, American jazz musician and composer
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- Testa de Nevill or "Liber Feodorum" or "Book of Fees," thought to have been written by Ralph de Nevill, for King John (1199–1216)
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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