i also have an Isaac Allen - born in Pembrokeshire in the late 1700's he
maried in Coity (Bridgend) in 1817 (Mary Lewis) he was a glover and skinner
but also had a pub in Bridgend. Only an off chance of a connection but an
unusual name.
Denise
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From: "Robertson" <opalreef(a)telus.net>
To: <WLS-SWANSEA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: [Swansea] Allen
Allen - Roberts - Scotland - Connecticut, USA - Wales - India -
Canada
Researching the Allen family: James and Robert who migrated from Scotland
(possibly Selkirk) to Hartford, Connecticut, USA about 1635 more or less.
One brother stayed in Conn., while the other returned and settled on a farm
near Swansea. (Which one, we know not!) The farm remained in the Allen
family for about 200 years, passing by marriage to the Roberts name.
1800's, a Charles Allen lived his early and later life in Cardiff, the
middle part in Bristol. He had two marriages. We have no names of his
wives but know that his children by his first marriage were Isaac and Mary;
those by his second John, and two daughters. John went to Australia, had
two daughters, and died there. Isaac Allen was born in 1831 (we don't know
if in Wales or England), and at 14 apprenticed to the brass finishing trade
in Bristol where he stayed for 7 years. He went to the US in 1853, then to
India as a missionary for the British Baptist Missionary Society probably
about 1863 as a teacher. !
Of his children, one was Alice, who settled here in Whaletown,
British
Columbia, Canada. And we're still here - 6 generations later! We
wonder if
anyone knows of those Allens in Swansea, and how they connected with the
Roberts. Cheers. Sue