Descendants of William Allen Charles E. G. Pease Pennyghael Isle of Mull Descendants of William Allen 1-William Allen1 was born in (Elsewhere than Thorpe Salvin), died in Sep 1672, and was buried on 26 Sep 1672 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. William married Alice Barlow1 on 18 Nov 1658 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Alice died in Dec 1716 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire and was buried on 18 Dec 1716 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. They had six children: John, Mary, William, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Edward. 2-John Allen1 was born on 25 Sep 1659 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 6 Feb 1660, and died about 1759 about age 100. 2-Mary Allen1 was born in 1661 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 6 Feb 1662, died in Nov 1663 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire at age 2, and was buried on 23 Nov 1663 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. 2-William Allen1 was born in 1664 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 24 Mar 1664 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, died in Mar 1665 at age 1, and was buried on 14 Mar 1665 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. 2-Elizabeth Allen1 was born in 1666 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire and was christened on 26 Apr 1666 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Elizabeth married Thomas Wildsmith. They had three children: Elizabeth, Thomas, and Elizabeth. 3-Elizabeth Wildsmith was born on 2 May 1690 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire and died on 10 May 1690 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. General Notes: P01732-1 3-Thomas Wildsmith was born on 16 Nov 1697 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire and died on 17 Jul 1704 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire at age 6. 3-Elizabeth Wildsmith1,2 was born on 3 Jan 1704 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire and died on 29 Apr 1744 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire at age 40. General Notes: She was of a Catholic family. Elizabeth married John Allen,1,2 son of Thomas Allen1 and Elizabeth,1 on 4 Feb 1724 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. John was born on 20 Sep 1696 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 18 Oct 1696 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, and died on 23 Nov 1779 at age 83. They had six children: Thomas, John, William, Job, Susanna, and Elizabeth. General Notes: Of Thorpe Salvin, Worksop Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Mason in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. • He worked as a Farmer in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. • He was possibly Roman Catholic. 4-Thomas Allen1,2 was born in 1725 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened in 1725 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, and was buried on 28 Mar 1727. General Notes: "Buryed in Woolen, March 28, and an affidavit given ye same day according to Act of Parliament, 1727". 4-John Allen1,2 was born in 1727 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 10 Dec 1727 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, died in Dec 1784 at age 57, and was buried on 31 Dec 1784 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire. 4-William Allen1,2,3 was born on 15 Feb 1730 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, was christened on 22 Feb 1730 in Thorpe Salvin, Rotherham, Yorkshire, died on 15 Oct 1808 in Ware, Hertfordshire at age 78, and was buried in Oct 1808 in FBG Ware. General Notes: Of Ratcliffe, East London. He became a Quaker at the convincement of his future wife, Ann Birkhead. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Brewer in Westminster, London. • He was a Quaker by Convincement before 1752. • He had a residence in 1752 in Betts Street, Ratcliff Highway, London. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 1 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen • He worked as a Quaker minister Ratcliff MM. • Miscellaneous: His second wife Ann Kendall, was sister of clockmaker Larcum Kendall. William married Ann Birkhead,1,2,3 daughter of William Birkhead and Ann, on 12 Oct 1752 in FMH The Savoy, Strand, London. Ann was born in 1722 and died in 1759 at age 37. They had three children: Priscilla, Ann, and John. 5-Priscilla Allen1,3,4,5 was born in 1753 and died in 1829 at age 76. The cause of her death was Dropsy. Priscilla married William Knight,1,3,4,5 son of William Knight1,4 and Lettice Stanley, in 1782. William was born on 4 Nov 1756 in Stone Hall, Barking, Essex and died on 17 Feb 1814 in Chelmsford, Essex at age 57. They had eight children: Priscilla, Septima, William, Ann, Job Allen, Paul, Maria, and Sophia. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Grocer in Chelmsford, Essex. 6-Priscilla Knight3,6 was born on 1 Apr 1783 in Chelmsford, Essex and died in 1820 at age 37. 6-Septima Knight1,6 was born in 1784 and died in 1796 at age 12. 6-William Knight3 was born on 3 Aug 1785 in Chelmsford, Essex and died on 16 Sep 1838 in Stoke Newington, London at age 53. 6-Ann Knight3,4,5,7 was born on 2 Nov 1786 in Chelmsford, Essex and died on 4 Nov 1862 in Waldersbach, Strasbourg, France at age 76. General Notes: Features in the painting of The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon -------------------------------------------------------------- Knight, Anne (1786– 1862), slavery abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights, was born on 2 November 1786 at Chelmsford, Essex, the third of the eight children of William Knight (1756– 1814), wholesale grocer, and his wife, Priscilla, née Allen (1753– 1829). Her mother was first cousin to the philanthropist William Allen, while she herself was first cousin to the chemist William Allen Miller. Her younger sister Maria (1791– 1870) married in 1814 the abolitionist John Candler (1787– 1869) and with him travelled to the West Indies and United States in the anti-slavery cause; they were for some years (1842– 6) superintendents of The Retreat, York, the Quaker mental hospital founded by William Tuke. In 1824, having by then a good knowledge of French and German, Anne Knight travelled on the continent with a group of fellow Quakers, combining sightseeing with religious and philanthropic concerns. From her base in the Chelmsford Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society she was deeply involved with the anti-slavery movement, travelling frequently to London and working with Thomas Clarkson, Joseph Sturge, Richard and Hannah Webb, and Elizabeth Pease (later Nichol). During the 1830s she returned several times to France in the same cause, in 1834 undertaking a speaking tour. The 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London gave her the opportunity to meet such American abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Lucretia Mott. The movement for women's suffrage in Britain has been dated from the exclusion of women from the floor of this conference, for it drew women's attention to their marginal status within the movement, and highlighted the limitations placed on their capacity to act in the public sphere. In July 1848 the first women's rights convention in the United States was held at Seneca Falls, New York. The previous year an anonymous leaflet was issued in Britain claiming that 'Never will the nations of the earth be well governed, until both sexes, as well as all parties, are fully represented and have an influence, a voice, and a hand in the enactment and administration of the laws'. It has been persuasively argued that the author was Anne Knight. Certainly from the 1840s she had been writing frequent letters (she was a voluminous correspondent) to American abolitionists, including Angelina Grimké, and she was capable of sharp rejoinders to Chartists who suggested that the class struggle took precedence over that for women's rights. Although Knight was in many ways typical of nonconformist women abolitionists, her views were more radical than many: a sympathizer with Chartism, she was interested in the British and French utopian socialist movements, maintained links with the White Quakers in Ireland, and in the 1840s supported the radical Garrisonian wing of the American abolition movement. Her support for women's rights led her in 1851 to be involved in forming the first organization for women's suffrage in Britain, the Sheffield Female Reform Association. In 1847 or 1848 Anne Knight left Chelmsford for Paris and, after living there enthusiastically (despite her Quaker upbringing) through the year of revolutions, she was at the international peace conference in Paris in 1849. Lucretia Mott described her in the 1840s as 'a singular looking woman— very pleasant and polite' (F. B. Tolles, ed., Slavery and 'the Woman Question', 1952, 29). In the late 1850s Anne Knight moved to Waldersbach, a village in the Vosges, south-west of Strasbourg. This had been the home of the pastor Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740– 1820), whose philanthropic work she revered. Here she lived for the last few years of her life, lodging with Oberlin's grandson, and died there after a short illness on 4 November 1862. Researches into Anne Knight's life have been hindered by persistent confusion of her with another Anne Knight [née Waspe] (1792– 1860), children's writer. This Anne Knight was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, on 28 October 1792, the eldest of the eight children of Jonathan Waspe (1756?– 1818), a leather-cutter, and his wife, Phebe, née Gibbs (1761– 1851). She married in 1818 her first cousin and fellow Quaker James Knight (1794– 1820) of Southwark. After her husband's early death, she returned to Woodbridge, where by 1826 she was keeping a school.