Edgar Poe was probably his name at birth though there is no surviving birth certificate. After his natural parents died, he was taken in by foster parents John and Frances Allan. They had Poe baptized as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Poe was probably his name at birth though there is no surviving birth certificate. After his natural parents died, he was taken in by foster parents John and Frances Allan. They had Poe baptized as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Poe. He was given the name Edgar Allan Poe by his foster family, John and Frances Allan, although they never formally adopted him.
Edgar Allan Poe's foster mother's name was Frances Allan. She, along with her husband John Allan, took in Poe after his birth parents passed away when he was a young child.
Edgar Allan Poe's birth parents were David Poe, Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. David Poe, Jr abandoned the family probably sometime in 1810, and Elizabeth Poe died in 1811 from an unknown lung ailment while David Poe, Jr died at around the same time, cause unknown.
Poe's birth name was Edgar Poe. After Poe's parents died in late 1811 leaving him an orphan just before his third birthday, his foster parents John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia, had Poe baptized as Edgar Allan Poe, thereby giving Poe their last name as his middle name. Poe was never formally adopted by the Allans, and the name Allan was never his legal name, middle or otherwise. Since this was only a baptismal name, Poe did not have to use it, but he did so to honor his foster parents.
Poe was given the last name Allan by his foster parents, John and Frances Allan. However, his birth name was Edgar Poe, and he later adopted Poe as his middle name as well as his literary pseudonym.
There were rumors that Edgar Allan Poe's birth father was not his legal father, and that his biological father was actually a different individual. However, there is no concrete evidence to support these claims.
There is no specific record of Edgar Allan Poe's exact birth weight, as this information was not commonly documented during his time in the early 19th century. However, the average birth weight for babies during that period was around 7 to 8 pounds.
Poe's mother is believed to have been born in 1787 in England. There are no birth records for her to fix a definite date or year.
She was probably 21 years old, but she may have been a bit older.
The birth order is: William Henry Leonard Poe (January 30, 1807) Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809) Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (probably late 1810) Poe had an older brother, William Henry Leonard Poe and a younger sister Rosalie Mackenzie Poe.