tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post3140008084661748057..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Surname Saturday - ALLEN (England > Massachusetts)Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-59571719621693756152012-08-28T08:41:11.424-07:002012-08-28T08:41:11.424-07:00Hi Randy. It looks like we are cousins! I am als...Hi Randy. It looks like we are cousins! I am also a descendant of Joseph and Sarah Holloway Allen. It has been one of my projects for quite a while to prove once and for all that our George Allen is not the same George who married Katherine Slarks/Starks. That George was indeed the son of Richard Allen, moneyer of Tower of London.<br /><br />Thanks to the The Records of London's Livery Companies Online => http://www.londonroll.org/ I was able to find some tidbits that help confirm that fact.<br /><br />George Allen, Clothmaker of St. Michael, Queenhithe, London was a new apprentice in 1613 to Joseph Usher. This gives him a birth date of abt 1598. He was admitted a freeman in 1620. He was a master apprentice to a William Johnson in 1658.<br /><br />His brother Henry was apprenticed in the 1610. When you put Henry's will (which I have transcribed => http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/2011/08/amanuensis-monday-will-of-henry-allen.html )together with the Livery information you can see it more clearly.<br /><br />George was mentioned in brother Henry's will in 1640. By this time our George was already in Mass.<br /><br />I plan to do a post about it soon.Leslie Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453532813141228929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-50196183142320639812012-01-21T23:00:46.822-08:002012-01-21T23:00:46.822-08:00Randy, hate to say it, but you use one of my pet p...Randy, hate to say it, but you use one of my pet peeves, the listing of a site in Massachusetts in the 1600s as "United States"... but I love all your posts and the fun challenges... It's too late to do the random name search tonight, but I'm going to try it later this week! what cool sites you find!!!Sue Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-39435664745860148042012-01-21T17:18:15.948-08:002012-01-21T17:18:15.948-08:00Cousin Randy:
Probably the most authoritative sou...Cousin Randy:<br /><br />Probably the most authoritative source is the sketch on George Allen in the second series of Great Migration books: Robert Charles Anderson, et. al, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, vol I, pp. 27-35. They say the George's origin is "unknown". See his comments at the end re. the Guilford account.<br /><br />Also see Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr., "Notes on George Allen of Weymouth and Sandwich", NEHGR vol 155 (April 2001), pp 212-214.<br />This also discusses the two Ralph Allens.<br /><br />Mr. Bowen mentions at the end a typescript by Bertha W. Clark, "A Sandwich-Dartmouth-North Kingstown Allen Line (1955). She has extensive citing of references. This is available from the LDS as film #547019.<br /><br />Also, Anderson, et al, mention the older (1941) article by Charles Carroll Gardner in GMNJ vol XVI. (This has been reprinted in Genealogies of New Jersey Families.<br /><br />The first two items I mentioned are cited in Martin E. Hollick's book:<br />New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2005; NEHGS, Boston, 2006. This book really ought to be on your bookshelf.Howard Swainnoreply@blogger.com