Harriet Booth Allen 1871

[Merry]

George Allen, b 1823 Lichfield Staffs, married Harriet Booth in 1847 in Wolverhampton district. (Harriet b abt 1826 Wednesbury, Staffs)


In 1851 they are in Hull, Yorks with a dau Mary.

In 1861 Harriet says she is married but George isn't with her. She has a second daughter, Harriet b Hull, who was registered as Harriet Booth Allen in 1853.

Harriet Booth Allen married Charles Conyers Massy Baker in Bayswater in 1880. On the marriage cert her father is George Allen (occ esquire!).

Can anyone see Harriet (and/or her parent(s)) in 1871?

[Merry]

I've found George in Ockley, Surrey in 1861 (when both Harriet's are in Hull) and agan in 1881 when he is a widower.

[Merry]

George and Harriet sr:


Deaths Dec 1867
Allen Harriet 42 Dorking 2a 73


Deaths Mar 1889
Allen George 65 Dorking 2a 98

[Merry]

George's probate says he was of Oakdale Ockley, but was formerly of 23 Colville Road, Kensington.

[kiterunner]

The 1873 Return of Owners of Land has George Allen owning 130 acres of land and gives his address as Ockley:
Return of Owners of Land

[kiterunner]

And the 1868 poll book has his abode as Garratt's Farm, Ockley (same address he is at on the 1881 census):

1868 Poll Book

[Merry]

Thanks Kate.

Until I found George in Ockley I had assumed he had died between 1861 and 1871. I suppose it's less important to find the 1871 census now.

Perhaps George and his daughter were out of the country in 1871?

[kiterunner]

I can't find Garratt's Farm on the 1871 census.

[Phoenix]

I used to have a client near Ockley. Of all the god-forsaken, out of the way places, Ockley takes the biscuit.

I assume it is in the Weald. The roads are long and rambling and took forever to get there.

And George CHOSE to live there?!!!

[Merry]

Perhaps it's missing (answering Kate!)?

The Colville Rd address is where Harriet lived:

27 July 1881 - London Standard

23. Colville-road. Bayswater, the wife of Charles Conyers Massy Baker, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son