John Allen and David Allen
Little Gringley, Retford, Notinghamshire
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A couple of weeks ago I received an email via the feedback form on my jacklin.info website.
"My name’s John and I’ve just discovered we share the same great-great-grandfather (John Allen, b Little Gringley c1830."
"I see your line develops through Zillah Allen, whereas mine comes from her younger brother David (b 1867), my great grandfather. The tree I saw had no other details of him so I will be happy to fill you in."
This is very exciting news.
As Juanita Lewis indicated at our meeting in 2006, and John has confirmed in a subsequent email there appears to have been, at this time, two John ALLENs living at Little Gringley.
John (christened 15/4/1831) to parents Thomas and Elizabeth.
Not suprisingly this has lead to some confusion. Hopefully, now I know which line to research, I can make some progress with my great great grandfather John ALLEN 1831-.
This news has enabled me to add additional information to my GEDCOM regarding David ALLEN 1867-1902, one of Ziller ALLEN 1858-1949's brothers.
