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Record #17060
Name :
: Edward ALLEN (1887 - 1948)
  aka : John Edward Allen


Father
:
Mother
:
BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 1887

Marriage (1)
: 7 Jun 1907   Spouse/Notes : Hattie Miller SWEET, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: 20 Mar 1948   Notes : Pneumonia
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Nova Scotia, Payzant Memorial Hospital, St. Croix
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 17 Jun 1899
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Siberian

Placement Family
: McKenzie
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Middlemore
Notes[POSSIBLE PARENTS] James Allen and Mary Jane Parsons, married 1878, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.

In 1899, Edward Allen, 14, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a group of 98 Middlemore children from Birmingham, England.

Original placement family was McDonald.

On June 7, 1907, at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, a marriage was registered between Edward Allen, 21, farmer, born in Birmingham, England, to James and Mary Allen; and Hattie M. Sweet, 17, born in Newport, Nova Scotia, Canada, to George B. and Esther B. Sweet. Hattie was the adopted daughter of the Sweets.

At least 11 children were born of this marriage: James Edward Allen, born February 28, 1909, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died February 5, 1988, in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; Ralph Allen, born May 18, 1911, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died January 16, 1973, in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; Francis Allen, born May 28, 1914, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died September 28, 1944, in Italy; Karl Raymond Allen, born May 28, 1914, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died January 1, 1957, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada; Gordon Edmund Allen, born January 11, 1916, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 2004 at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada; Wilfred Allen, born May 21, 1919, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 1993; Clarence Allen, born October 19, 1923, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died November 11, 1927, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada; Hazel Louie Selena Allen, born September 13, 1924, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died July 18, 2010; Mirabel Ruth Veronica Allen, born May 18, 1927, at St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, died January 7, 1962, at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada; Mary Della Allen, born March 28, 1928; and Eric Angus Allen, born March 25, 1931, died April 28, 2004, St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Edward Allen, 60, farmer, born in England on May 26, 1887, to James Allen and Mary Jane Burke, died on March 20, 1948, at Payzant Memorial Hospital, St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada, of pneumonia. The informant was his son, Gordon E. Allen, St. Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada. Edward Allen was buried at St. Croix Cemetery on March 25, 1948.

Hattie Miller Sweet Allen died on September 17, 1972, at Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Added Oct 2016 by hlmoiller : 13 children were born to Edward Allen and Hattie Miller Sweet. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-10-05 20:19:16 / From original database

Additional Contributions from : hlomiller , mollipops1

Last Updated : 2016-08-18 22:10:38 /

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17060 ALLEN, Edward1887ENG,     Jun 1899 : Siberian CAN Middlemore hlomiller