The most recent Allin with whom we are concerned is Ellen Allin ( ), wife of Thomas Guy of Aughton ( ).

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1 ALLIN of AUGHTON and RADCLIFFE The most recent Allin with whom we are concerned is Ellen Allin ( ), wife of Thomas Guy of Aughton ( ). The earliest Allin traced with certainty in the direct line is Ellen s grandfather Francis Allen of Radcliffe (c ), whose father was perhaps Thomas Allen (fl /9). Origins The surname Allen is thought to derive from Alain, the Christian name of a Breton saint: it has been popular in England since Norman times. 1 This branch of the Allen family seems to have originated at Radcliffe, Lancashire where the name had proliferated greatly by the eighteenth century. Thomas Allen and Jane Tyrer In 1688 the churchwardens of Aughton won an order for the removal from Aughton to Radcliffe of Thomas Allan and his wife. Thomas had been a servant in Aughton and had lately married. He was probably the Thomas Allins who married Jane Tyrer after banns at Aughton on 8 February 1687/8. Nothing is known of the origins of Jane, who seems not to have been baptised at Aughton. 2 The removal order was unsuccessful and was repeated later that year. In 1690 there was an order for Allen to comply or go to the House of Correction. 3 Finally in 1695 the churchwardens of Radcliffe provided the parish of Aughton with a settlement certificate in respect of Thomas Allen: the effect of such a certificate was to permit residence in Aughton, but to accept liablility for his return to Radcliffe should he become dependent on poor relief. 4 Margaret, daughter of Thomas Alleins, labourer was baptised at Aughton on 6 January 1698/9. 5 There are five entries in the Radcliffe parish register relating to the baptism of children named Thomas Allen: these were in 1663 (son of Edward); 1665 (son of John); 1666 (son of James); and 1667 (sons of Richard and George). Jane, wife of Thomas Allen at end of Cockey Moor was buried at Radcliffe on 24 February 1709/10. 6 Thomas, son of Thomas Allen was baptised at Radcliffe on 30 April Francis and Margaret Allen Although six other couples occur in the Radcliffe parish registers from as possible parents of Francis Allen, 8 he was most likely a son of Thomas and Jane Allen: there is however no record of the baptism or marriage of Francis (or indeed of Thomas), either at Radcliffe or at Aughton, with which both became closely associated. Francis Allen and Margaret seem to have married by at least 1742 and to have had a first child Mary. They were of Ormskirk when their younger children John ( ) and Ann were baptised there on 3 April 1743 and 2 March 1745/6. 9 [It was perhaps a brother or elder son of Francis who was the Richard Allen marrying Mary Pendlebury at Radcliffe on 27 February 1759: the children of Richard Allen, collier were William (1759); Richard (1760); Thomas (1762/3); John (1764/5); Robert (1767); 10 Frank (1769); Silance (1773); and Mary (1775). Mary, wife of Richard Allen, collier was buried at Radcliffe on 14 May 1775]. [On 21 November 1746 the wardens and overseers of Radcliffe (acting presumably under the Settlement Act of of 1697) issued a certificate permitting the residence at Aughton of Francis Allen and Margaret his wife and Mary, John and Ann their children (accepting liability for them to be returned to Radcliffe if at any time they appeared likely to become dependent on Aughton parish relief). 11 1

2 In 1751 the Aughton parish surveyors paid 9s to Francis Allen for 6 loads of stones [for highway repairs] and in s 6d for two loads. In 1759 the churchwardens paid him 4s for lodging a woman in child-bed. 12 John Allen and Elizabeth Range Francis and Margaret Allen s son John Allen married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and Ann Range of Thornton by banns at Aughton on 30 September 1764: John signed and the witnesses were John Winstanley and John McCausland (the clerk). 13 John s later success was to establish the Allin family in Aughton. John and Elizabeth Allen s first child Ann was baptised at Aughton on 14 November 1764, two months after their marriage: another Ann was baptised on 15 May Other children of John Allen were baptised there: 25 August 1765 (twins Elizabeth and Margaret); 4 August 1771 (Nancy); [c John]; 4 September 1774 (Sally); 2 November 1777 (James); 6 June 1779 (Henry); 12 November 1780 (Thomas); 26 January 1783 (Ellen, born at Lydiate according to the 1841 and 1851 census). 14 Death of Francis Allen and removal of his widow Margaret to Radcliffe Francis Allen, Radcliffe was buried at Ormskirk on 10 June The Aughton overseers accounts for the year beginning April 1781 show 1s paid to Mary [sic] Allen and her daughters Mary and Anne by Francis Allen : all of them were poor. 15 Not having acquired settlement in Aughton it was ordered on 26 May that they were to be removed to Radcliffe, their last place of settlement. 16 The Aughton constable s accounts show 1s paid to removing Mary [sic] Allen. 17 Radcliffe was to be described in 1795 as a place whose houses for the most part are of an inferior sort and the inhabitants are chiefly weavers, crofters, or employed in the coal works which abound Those who live by farming are very few. 18 John Allin as an Aughton freeholder Francis and Margaret Allen s son John begins to appear in the Aughton land tax returns in 1783, paying 2 3s 9d for land owned by T. Plumbe. 19 By 1787 he had begun to take a prominent part in parish affairs, serving as churchwarden for the two years beginning April 1787, being responsible in 1789 for the provision of an oaken chest costing 2 5s. He was one of those certifying the constable s accounts in 1787 and again in 1789 and John Allin served as constable in (his accounts showing journeys to court at West Derby, Wigan and Croston) and again for the three years beginning 1794: the amount distributed by him in these years was 30, 75 and In 1792 (as John Allen, senior, yeoman ) he was listed amongst the Aughton freeholders and again in 1795, when he was In 1794 he was one of the signatories of the land tax assessment and from 1795 he was occupying Plumbe s land at 2 6s 0d; and Coupland s at 9s 4d; and was also owner of further land at 7s 4d. A 1797 survey of the Molyneux estates shows John Allen as lessee of Sefton s farm. 22 By 1798 he held a messuage and four acres under Plumbe as assignee of the lessee at 6s 11¾d, in addition to his other messuage and 43 acres under Plumbe: by now he also held and occupied part of Coupland s (2s 3¾d), as well as being joint occupier of his own 7s 3d-rated land. 23 As John Allen, senior he was again shown as a freeholder in 1798 and 1799, and in 1803 (as John Allin, 63 ) was shown as one of those qualified to serve as a juror at quarter sessions and assizes. 24 John Allin served as constable again in and was also paid 3s that year for jury service at the general sessions in Ormskirk. In 1811 he submitted a bill for assessing the government taxes, delivering notices, [meeting] Mr Hill the surveyor and the appeal day. In 1813 John Allin and another spent 8s 6d on account of the parish. 25 2

3 He was churchwarden of Aughton in , (serving for these two terms together with John Ashcroft) and John Allin was a regular signatory to the churchwardens and constable s accounts throughout this period. His term as churchwarden in was a year of costly work on the parish church and a payment was made that year to Mr Thomas Allin, for his journey and estimate concerning the bells. The heavy expenditure of 73 was incurred in repairing the bells and hoisting the frames and bells into the steeple. In 1824 there was a back payment for work on the clock when he was warden. 27 In 1817 John Allen was one of the purchasers of land at Aughton Moss. 28 In 1820 and 1822 John continued to appear in the land tax returns as occupier of 43 acres under Plumbe (which were to pass to John s son Thomas Allen) and as owner of the 9s 6d-rated land (later to pass to his son-in-law Thomas Guy). 29 The older children of John and Elizabeth Allen Of John and Elizabeth Allen s many children, their daughter Ann (born 1764) was perhaps buried at Ormskirk on 1 May 1825 (81); Margaret (born 1765) married William Prescott on 22 November 1783 and was still at Gawhill Lane, Aughton at 89 in 1851; 30 Nancy (born 1771) married James Brighouse on 7 July and Elizabeth probably married Thomas Freeman, husbandman at Aughton on 8 December John, an Aughton yeoman (born c. 1771) had an illegitimate child by Elizabeth Brighouse in 1795, 33 but (as John Allen, yeoman was licenced to marry Elizabeth on 7 October 1797: the bondsman was Peter Gregory, an Ormskirk innkeeper and both parties were over The wedding (of John Allen, junior, husbandman and Elizabeth took place at Aughton on 11 October: John signed, while Elizabeth marked and the witnesses were Richard Brighouse and Peter Barton. In 1795 Richard Dicconson was apprenticed to John Allen, husbandman of Aughton; but by 1800 when Thomas Dicconson was apprenticed to him, 35 John was living at Euxton. John was an agricultural labourer (with his wife Betty) at Stand House, Aughton in Sally (born 1774) had an illegitimate daughter Nancy, baptised on 1 March James ( ) married Jane Aspinwall on 26 March 1799 (with Thomas Guy as a witness) and was an agricultural labourer at Clieves Hills Lane, Aughton in 1841: 37 he was buried at Aughton on 24 April 1842 (64) and a gravestone survives. Henry ( ) married Betty (died 1804) and then Dinah Wright (c ) by licence at Aughton on 8 August 1824: 38 he died in 1835 and was buried at Aughton on 12 March (55). Dinah was a widow and farmer at Clieves Hills Lane in 1841 and 1851: 39 Henry and Dinah s gravestone survives in Aughton churchyard. Thomas (born 1780) had a bastardy order against him in and married Ellen, who was buried at Aughton on 7 February 1812, aged 24. The 1832 land tax returns include Henry Allen ; Thos Allen ; and Allen. Marriage of Ellen Allin and Thomas Guy John and Elizabeth Allen s youngest daughter Ellen was born at Lydiate and baptised at Aughton on 26 January 1783, daughter of John Allin, husbandman, Aughton. Ellen had an illegitimate son John (born 9 January, baptised 22 February 1801). On 12 August 1802 Ellen married Thomas Guy by licence at Aughton. Consent of Ellen s father was signified by Thomas Allin, husbandman of Aughton (her brother). 41 Deaths of John and Betty Allin John Allin s wife Betty Allin died in 1820 aged 87, and was buried at Aughton on 1 March. John Allin made his will on 19 May 1826, leaving a total of 1000 in legacies to his sons James, John, Henry and Thomas and five daughters Peggy Prescot, Betty and Sally Allin, Nancy Brighouse and Ellen Guy: Ellen received the largest bequest ( 260). The executors were to be Peter Barton (the Aughton schoolmaster) and John s son-in-law Thomas Guy. 42 John died on 14 March 1827 aged 84 and was buried at Aughton that day. John s will was proved on 10 September 1827: his estate was sworn under A stone marking The burial place of John [and] Elizabeth Allin survived in Aughton churchyard until a recent reordering. 44 3

4 T.M. Steel (revised 12 May 2011) Copy Documents in author s collection (Land Tax, 1740)* L.R.O., QDL/W. Derby/Aughton/1795 (Land Tax)* do/1810* do/1822* do/1831* M. cert: 1764 (Jn Allen & Elizabeth Rang)* Settlement Papers, 1746 (PR 3019/6/2)*, 1781 (QSP 2133/28)* M. allegn, 1797 (Allen & Brighouse)* Wills, Eliz. Allen (Radcliffe, 1717); Jn Allin (Aughton, 1827)* Various views of Aughton Church 4

5 1 C.W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames (London, 1901), p. 389; P.H. Reaney, A Dictionary of British Surnames (London, 1976), p.6 2 Jane, dau. of Jn Tyrer was bap. Huyton 28 Oct. 1668; Edwd Tyrer & mother occur in an Aughton [hereafter Aughton] assessment Lancs Record Office [hereafter L.R.O.], QSP 649/28; 658/40; 682/16 4 L.R.O., PR 3019/1/2 ( Thos Allen s certificate from Radcliffe, 1695 in A true account of all articles found [in 1731] in the parish chest at Aughton ) 5 For christenings, marriages & burials [hereafter cmbs] Aughton to 1764: F. Taylor (ed.), The Parish Registers of Aughton, , Lancs Parish Register Soc. [hereafter L.P.R.S.], 81 (1942); for those after 1764: L.R.O., PR For cmbs Radcliffe: J.Clayton (ed.), The Registers of the Parish Church of Radcliffe, , L.P.R.S., 60, 61 (1922, 1923); L.R.O., PR 2075 ( ) 7 Of Allen wills from Radcliffe: Richd Allens, joiner & labourer made his 26 Nov. 1670, mentioning his w. Eliz; s. Jas; Richd, Jas & Peter Allens; ss & daus of Jas Allens, yeoman of Radcliffe; sister Eliz.; Dorothy Allens: will proved 27 Dec Geo. Allens, husbandman made his 22 Dec. 1649, mentioning his w. Ann; 4 living children; brother-in-law Richd Barlow. For S. Lancs wills, invs & admons (Chester consistory) to 1858: L.R.O., WCW/[name]/[place]/[year] 8 Thos & Sarah, 1701; Nathaniel & Jane, 1703; Wm & Elin, 1717; Thos & Eliz., 1720; Jas & Ann, 1722; Jas & Sarah, For cmbs Ormskirk to 1770: T.M. Steel (ed.), The Registers of the Parish of Ormskirk, , L.P.R.S., 170 (2009); for : L.R.O., PR 2886/7 10 One Rbt Allen, publican (at Stanley Arms, 1841: T.N.A., HO 107/511/2/3/33/8 [Census returns 1841 are cited with 6 elements: class [HO 107]/piece/book/enumeration district/f./p.]) of Aughton d. 12 Jun. 1850: will to wid. Alice (who d. Dec. 1870) 11 L.R.O., PR 3019/6/2* (Aughton parish records) 12 L.R.O., PR 56 & 57 (Aughton accs) 13 Parish register has Rang : bishop s transcript has Range 14 The family do not appear in 1783 Lydiate land tax returns (L.R.O., QDL/1783/WD/?. [all land tax returns except 1798 are: L.R.O., QDL/year/hundred/township number]. Henry Allin, yeoman of Aughton d. 10 Mar. 1835: his will was proved Sept. 15 L.R.O., PR 58 (Aughton accs) 16 L.R.O., QSP/2133/28* 17 L.R.O., PR 58. Other Allens in Aughton at this time included Rbt & Betty Allen, whose dau. Sally was bap. 6 Sept. 1772; & Richd & Mary Allen (s. Jn bap. 1771) 18 J. Aikin, A Description of the Country from miles round Manchester (London, 1798), p L.R.O., QDL/[year]/WD/8; for 1798, see n L.R.O., PR 59 (Aughton accs) 21 L.R.O., QDF/2/25, 2/43 22 L.R.O., DDM/14/13 23 The National Archives [hereafter T.N.A.], IR 23/40 (ff. 554r 555v, land tax 1798, Lancs., Ormskirk division, Aughton parish) 24 L.R.O., QDF/2/63, 69 (freeholders lists); PR 59 (loose sheet in back of churchwardens accs) 25 L.R.O., PR G.C. Newstead, Gleanings Towards the Annals of Aughton (Liverpool, 1893), pp L.R.O.,PR Liv. R.O., PLU/36 29 L.R.O., QDL/WD/1820 & 1822:* one Wm Allen occurs T.N.A., HO 107/2196/171/16; Wm & Mgt were probably bur. Aughton 29 Jan (87) & 2 Jul (96) 31 Probably Jas & Nancy Brighouse of Fullwood, bur. Aughton 30 Apr (58) & 3 Mar (60) 32 Probably Thos Freeman (57), bur. Aughton 25 Feb L.R.O., QSP/2361/49 34 For m. lic. allegations & bonds: Cheshire Record Office [hereafter C.R.O.], EDC/8/[name]/[year]; EDC/8/1797* 35 L.R.O., PR 3019/6/3 (Aughton parish records, apprenticeship bonds) 36 T.N.A., HO 107/511/2/1/10/13 37 T.N.A., HO 107/511/2/2/21/10 38 Thos Guy was a wit. 39 T.N.A., HO 107/511/2/2/21/10; HO 107/2196/169/12 40 L.R.O., PR 3019/6/4 (filiation orders) 41 C.R.O., EDC/8/1802* 42 Wits: Jn Johnson, Wm Hodge & Nathan Roberts. L.R.O., WCW/Jn Allin/Aughton/1827* 43 For legacy duty paid: T.N.A., IR 26/1116/ The inscription continued: Betty the wife of John Allin departed this life Feb y 27 th 1820 aged 87 years. John Allin departed this life March 14 th 1827 in the 85 th year of his age (photo*)