Walter Allen

Abt 1601 - 1681  (~ 80 years)

• Name	Walter Allen
  Birth	Abt 1601  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Jul 1681	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I13809	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Ward,   b. Bef 1610   d. 7 Aug 1678, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age > 68 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1631  [2]
  Children	+ 1. John Allen,   b. Abt 1631   d. 1 Dec 1711, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Family ID	F8638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in New England in 1638; first at Newbury; Charlestown by 1651; Watertown by 1663; Charlestown again in 1673. He was a haberdasher and a planter. From at least 1650 to 1655, he was involved in trade with Barbados, and in 1654 he traveled there. Walter Allen (d. 1681) = Rebecca Ward (d. 1678) Joseph Allen = Anne Brazier Nathaniel Allen = Lydia Brewer Mary Allen = Elisha Jones Mary Jones = Asa Dunbar Cynthia Dunbar = John Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walter Allen (d. 1681) = Rebecca Ward (d. 1678) Joseph Allen = Anne Brazier Nathaniel Allen = Lydia Brewer Mary Allen = Elisha Jones Ephraim Jones1 = Charlotte Coursolles Sophia Jones = John Stuart, Jr.2 Mary Stuart (d. 1846) = Sir Allen Napier McNab3 (1798-1862) Sophia Mary McNab = William Couts Keppel4 (1832-1894) George Keppel (1865-1947) = Alice Frederica Edmonstone5 (1868-1947) Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962) Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-2006) Camilla Rosemary Shand, now H.R.H. Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1 Loyalist soldier; Upper Canadian judge, politician, and businessman. 2 Sheriff of the Johnstown District, Ontario. 3 1st Baronet of Dundurn Castle. Joint Premier of Canada, 1854-56. 4 7th Earl of Albemarle. Superintendent of Indian Affairs (Canada), 1854-56. Member of Parliament (UK), 1857, 1860-65, 1868-74. Treasurer of the Household for Queen Victoria, 1859-66. Privy Councillor. Under-Secretary of State for War 1878-80, 1885-86. Sixth in direct line of descent from Charles II. 5 Longtime mistress of Edward VII.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1804] Walter Allen of Newbury, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants by Allen H. Bent. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1896. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S1808] Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Nathaniel Ward of Hartford, Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary (Ward) Cutting of Newbury, Massachusetts, Rebecca (Ward) Allen of Newbury, and Their Nephew William Markham of Hadley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:13, January/April 2008. [S6143] Matthew Hovious, "The Ancestry of Edward Warde of Little Wratting, Suffolk, and the Putative Lukyn Origin of His Wife Judith." The Genealogist 28:137, 2014., place only.