On 29-30 September, 2019, the profile for Walter Allen of Newbury was updated and merged with a duplicate. Unfortunately this resulted in three sets of data from my 2018 text [Walter Allen, of Newbury] in the overview of the profile. Below is the original data of the profile, which should be used to replace the overview. This is the first part of the present overview. Source 4 is not correct.
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Parents Elnathan Allen and Anne Allen (Tench), married in St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England on Dec 10, 1601.
Walter Allen was born about Dec 1602, baptized 19 Dec 1602 in St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England (Parish Registers of St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, Microfiche; Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich. Book 2, Baptisms 1558-1656; Marriages 1558-1652; Burials 1558-1649; Register Reference No. FL 545/4/2). He died on Jul 8 1681 in Charlestown, MA. (111) (NEHGR, V 111, P. 314) (ACAG p 275, V.6).
The St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, parish registers show increased deaths that suggest outbreaks of Black Plague in Bury St. Edmunds: 1544-1545, 1556-1559, 1579-1580, 1610-1612 (infant of Elnathan Allen), 1615-1616, 1623, 1626-1627, 1637 and 1640 (death of Elnathan Allen) (see Black Death: https://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Black-Death.pdf. "The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636 and ending in with the Great Plague of London in 1665". See also http://urbanrim.org.uk/plague%20list.htm). Important outbreaks of the Black Plague in Bury St. Edmunds, with up to 4-5 deaths/day, were in August 1544-April 1545, November 1557-May 1559, and May-December 1637. It is possible that Walter emigrated to the colonies to escape the relatively common outbreaks, especially the 1637 outbreak.
From the book Walter Allen of Newbury, Mass (Bent):
"Walter Allen was in Newbury, Mass., in 1640 and possibly before (the town was incorporated in 1635), but moved to Watertown about 1652. In 1665 he sold his estate in the latter town and bought sixty acres near the Concord boundary in what was then called Watertown Farms, afterward the town of Weston. In 1669 he purchased 200 acres more in Watertown Farms. About 1673 he moved to Charlestown, where he died July 8, 1681, age 80. He took oath in 1677 that he was 76, so he must have been born about 1601. At his death, he not only owned land in Watertown and Charlestown, but in Sudbury and Haverhill. The latter farm came into his possession in 1673 in payment of a debt due from Thomas Davis.
"Walter Allen's occupation is variously given in the old records as "farmour, " planter, haberdasher, shop-keeper, and once (1673) more specifically as a "Haberdasher of Hatts." The inventory of his estate amounts to 3015 pounds, a goodly sum for those days. When he came to Waterton he had a wife Rebecca, who died ______, and he married in Charlestown, Nov 29, 1678, Abegail Rogers.
Children of Walter and Rebecca, the first four born in England, Joseph in England or MA, the other two in Newbury:
1. Elnathan bapt. May 18, 1628
2. Anna bapt. Sep 24, 1630
3. John
4. Daniel bapt. Mar 30, 1635
5. Joseph
6. Abigail b. Oct 1, 1641
7. Benjamin, b. Apr. 15, 1647
Sources
1. Children 1, 2 and 4, Suffolk County, England, Parish Registers
2. the Will of Walter Allen (1601-1681) of Charlestown, Massachusetts
3. Descendants of Walter Allen of Newbury. The Essex Antiquarian. (1898), 2:199. 'Walter Allen, born about 1601; was living in Newbury in 1640; and removed to Watertown about 1652, thence to Charlestown about 1673. He married, first, Rebecca -----; and, second, Abigail Rogers Nov. 29, 1678, in Charlestown. He died in Charlestown July 8, 1681, aged eighty.'
4. Ancestral File, Ancestral File Number: 9362-TP. The Ancestral File indicates he was the son of Samuel Allen of Branton, Devon, England. However, it appears that his birth place and parents are unknown. He has been stated as coming from Somerset, Essex, and from Hampshire, as well as from Devon.
5. Descendants of Elnathan Allen father of Walter Allen.pdf (https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000082817791925), in Sources.
Links
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Walter_Allen_%2819%29_
• http://www.potterama.net/private/Genealogy/d30.htm
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1. Walter Allen of Newbury, Mass., 1640, and some of his descendants with a few notes on the Allen family in general by Allen H. Bent. Published 1896 by D. Clapp & Son, printers in Boston. Written in English.
