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Alan: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Derived, according to Julius Scaliger, from the Sclavonic Aland, a wolf-dog, a hound, and Chaucer uses Aland in the same sense. Bailey derives it as the same from the British. Camden thinks it a corruption of AElianus which signifies sun-bright. From the same we have Allen, Allin, Alleyne. In the Gaelic, Aluinn signifies exceedingly fair, handsome, elegant, lovely; Irish, Alun, fair, beautiful.
Alan Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : ALANNE | ALANE | ALAN
Alan: Place of Origin :  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Suffolk (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Essex (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Shropshire (United Kingdom)
Alan: Online Family Trees
ALAN Knockin (England, United Kingdom) 1328 - 1328
ALAN Upholland (Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) 1364 - 1364
ALAN Arundel, Sussex (England, United Kingdom) 1286 - 1286
ALAN Wemme (Shropshire, England, United Kingdom) 1310 - 1310
ALAN Salisbury (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1391 - 1391
ALAN Paisley Abbey, Renfreshire (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1108 - 1108
ALAN Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire (Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1115 - 1115
ALAN Wemme (Shropshire, England, United Kingdom) 1302 - 1580
ALAN Abergavenny, Monmouth (Gwent, Wales, United Kingdom) 1380 - 1380
ALAN Arundel (Essex, England, United Kingdom) 1285 - 1285

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Alan: GeneaNet Members
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Alan: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Alan is related to the following famous family trees :
        BLAIR Tony born BLAIR Anthony Charles Lynton (1953 - )
        MONROE James (1758 - 1831)
Alan: Books that contain this surname
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ALANA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... dau. and eventually heir of Henry Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel (aee Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage), by whom he had ...		 ALANA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... of King Edward IV., when Thomas Fitz-Alan was summoned to parliament (in his father's, the Earl Arundel's barony) as Baron ...
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