Q.Elizabeth Allen (Chancellor)
ALLEN Family History
The name Allen has passed through many changes in spelling, but the present well-known form has been in general use since the 13th Century. The name has been found in a very early period, even before the Christian era, spelled Ala, from the Aryan word "al" meaning mountainous. Later this name is found in Britain, then it was transferred to Brittany, where it flourished for many centuries and finally brought back to Britain by Allen l, a general in the Army of William the Conqueror, who after the Battle of Hastings was created Earl of Richmond. One of the frist members of the family to use the name as it is now spelled was Henry Allen, Lord of Buckenhall, Staffordshire, England in 1272.
The ALLEN Family Line
John Allen b. 1769 married Sarah Woodson (parents not yet identified)
Woodson Allen b. 1792 married Polly Ward (parents not yet identified)
Young Asbury Allen b. 8 Mar 1816 married Elizabeth Chancellor (daughter of William and Mary (?) Chancellor)
Q. Elizabeth Allen b. 29 Jan 1848 married William Floyd Chancellor
Z.L. Chancellor married Mary Ella Ryder
Margaret Ryder Chancellor b. 25 July 1924 married Lewis G. Bowdoin (son of Gip and May Bell (Johnson) Bowdoin)
Margaret Ellen Bowdoin married Robert Floyd Lewin (son of Floyd Allen and Helen (O'Neill) Lewin) (see Lewin ancestry)
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