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. She was a close friend of the poet Bernard Barton, and is frequently mentioned in Charles Lamb's letters to him. She was the author of a number of books for children, certainly School-Room Lyrics (1846), and most probably of Poetic Gleanings (1827), Mornings in the Library (1828), with a prefatory poem by Barton, and Mary Gray (1831), works which were previously ascribed to Anne Knight the social campaigner. Anne Knight the author died at her home in Woodbridge on 11 December 1860, and was buried in the Quaker burial-ground there. Edward H. Milligan Sources Annual Monitor (1864) · G. Malmgreen, 'Anne Knight and the radical subculture', Quaker History, 71 (1982), 100– 13 · J. Smith, ed., A descriptive catalogue of Friends' books, 2 (1867), 70– 71 · Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 2 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen 'Dictionary of Quaker biography', RS Friends, Lond. [card index] · O. Banks, The biographical dictionary of British feminists, 2 vols. (1985– 90) · C. Midgley, Women against slavery: the British campaigns, 1780– 1870 (1992) Archives Boston PL, letters to American abolitionists · RS Friends, Lond., memorandum book Likenesses photograph, c.1855, RS Friends, Lond. [see illus.] Wealth at death under £450: probate, 22 Jan 1863, CGPLA Eng. & Wales · under £200— Anne Knight, née Waspe: probate, 21 Dec 1860, CGPLA Eng. & Wales © Oxford University Press 2004– 14 All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press Edward H. Milligan, 'Knight, Anne (1786– 1862)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47054 Noted events in her life were: • She worked as a Slavery Abolitionist and Campaigner for Women's Rights. • She was a Quaker in Witham MM. • She had a residence in Paris, France. • She had a residence in 1860 in Waldersbach, Strasbourg, France. 6-Job Allen Knight1,3,6 was born in 1788 and died in 1819 at age 31. 6-Paul Knight1,3,6 was born in 1789 and died in 1856 at age 67. 6-Maria Knight1,3,4,8,9 was born in 1791 and died on 13 Mar 1870 in The Retreat, Heslington Road, York at age 79. Noted events in her life were: • She had a residence in Chelmsford, Essex. Maria married John Candler,1,3,4,8,9 son of William Candler4,9 and Elizabeth Wagstaffe,4,9 in 1814. John was born on 10 Apr 1787 in Great Bardfield, Essex and died on 4 Jul 1869 in Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex at age 82. They had no children. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Draper in Chelmsford, Essex. • He worked as a Superintendent 1842 To 1846 in The Retreat, Heslington Road, York. • He worked as a Quaker Minister. 6-Sophia Knight1,3,6,10 was born in 1796 and died on 5 Apr 1871 in Chelmsford, Essex at age 75. 5-Ann Allen1,3 was born on 28 Jan 1755 in London and died in 1809 at age 54. Ann married John Miller1,3 in 1777. John was born in 1743 in Ware, Hertfordshire, died on 8 Aug 1808 in Bedford, Bedfordshire at age 65, and was buried on 14 Aug 1808 in Ware, Hertfordshire. They had two children: Esther and William. 6-Esther Miller1,3 was born on 6 Feb 1778 in Hertford, Hertfordshire and died in 1855 at age 77. Esther married Robert Jermyn1,3 in 1813. Robert was born in 1779 in Baldock, Hertfordshire and died in 1844 at age 65. They had two children: Robert Miller and Emily. 7-Robert Miller Jermyn1,3 was born on 8 Jul 1814 in Baldock, Hertfordshire and died in 1867 at age 53. General Notes: WHEREAS the Commissioner acting In the prosecution of a Fiat in Bankruptcy awarded and issued forth against Robert Miller Jermyn, of Booking, in the county of Essex, Chymist and Druggist, lately carrying on business and trading at Stevenage, in the county of Hertford, as a Common Brewer, hath certified to the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, that the said Robert Miller Jermyn hath in all things conformed himself according to the directions of the Acts of Parliament made and now in force concerning bankrupts ; this is to give notice, that, by virtue of an Act, passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for the amendment of the laws in bankruptcy," the Certificate of the said Robert Miller Jermyn will be. allowed and confirmed Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 3 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen by the said Court of Review in Bankruptcy unless cause be shewn to the contrary, on or before the 2d day of March 1847. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Chemist and Druggist before 1847 in Bocking, Essex. • He worked as a Brewer in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Robert married Emma Avis. Robert next married Susan Ward, daughter of Richard Robinson Ward. 7-Emily Jermyn1,3 was born on 22 May 1816 in Baldock, Hertfordshire. 6-William Miller1,3,11,12 was born on 3 Apr 1783 in Ware, Hertfordshire and died on 2 Mar 1861 in Birmingham, Warwickshire at age 77. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Brewery employee with Truman Hanbury Buxton in Ipswich, Suffolk. • He worked as a Secretary to the Birmingham General Hospital in Birmingham, Warwickshire. • He was a Quaker. William married Frances Bowyer Vaux,1,3,11,13 daughter of Dr. Jeremiah Vaux and Susanna Bowyer, in 1816. Frances was born on 24 Apr 1785 in Birmingham, Warwickshire and died in 1854 at age 69. They had seven children: William Allen, John, Fanny Brickwood, Anna Susanna, Elizabeth Owen, Lucy Mary, and Francis Bowyer. Noted events in their marriage were: • They were Quakers. Noted events in her life were: • She worked as a Childrens' author. • She worked as a Schoolmistress in Birmingham, Warwickshire. • She was a Quaker. 7-Prof. William Allen Miller3,11 was born on 17 Dec 1817 in St. Margaret's, Ipswich, Suffolk, died on 30 Sep 1870 in Brook Villa, Green Lane, West Derby, Liverpool at age 52, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery, London. Noted events in his life were: • He was awarded with MB MD FRS. • He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School. • He was educated at Ackworth School. • He worked as an apprentice surgeon to his uncle, Bowyer Vaux in Birmingham, Warwickshire. • He was educated at King's College, London. • He worked as a Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London. • He worked as a non-resident assayer to the Royal Mint and the Bank of England in London. • He worked as an Astronomer. William married Eliza Forrest, daughter of Edward Forrest, in 1842. Eliza was born in 1813, died in 1869 at age 56, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery, London. They had one son: Frederic Daniell. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 4 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen 8-Dr. Frederic Daniell Miller was born in 1852 and was christened on 16 Apr 1852 in Brixton, London. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Physician in Basingstoke, Hampshire. • He was awarded with LSA. Frederic married Emma Laura. They had four children: Frederic William, Mary Winifred, Ida Aline, and Cyril Ashley. 9-Frederic William Miller was born in 1877 and was christened on 10 Jul 1877 in Basingstoke, Hampshire. 9-Mary Winifred Miller was born in 1879 and was christened on 20 Nov 1879 in Basingstoke, Hampshire. 9-Ida Aline Miller was born in 1884 and was christened on 21 Feb 1884 in Basingstoke, Hampshire. 9-Cyril Ashley Miller was born in 1889 and was christened on 24 Aug 1889 in Basingstoke, Hampshire. 7-John Miller1 was born on 22 May 1819 in St. Margaret's, Ipswich, Suffolk and died in 1894 at age 75. John married Mary Ann Cubitt.1 Mary died in 1898. They had one son: Herbert. 8-Herbert Miller1 was born on 9 Dec 1858 and was christened on 12 Jan 1859 in St. Thomas', Birmingham. 7-Fanny Brickwood Miller1,13 was born on 24 Sep 1820 in St. Margaret's, Ipswich, Suffolk and died on 21 Jul 1893 in 255 Stratford Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham at age 72. Fanny married Alexander Forrest1,13 in 1844 in Kings Norton, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Alexander was born in 1815 in Birmingham, Warwickshire and died in 1899 in Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire at age 84. They had four children: Alice, Edward Francis, Ernest William, and Susan Fanny. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as an Accountant. 8-Alice Forrest13 was born in 1848 in Birmingham, Warwickshire and died on 22 Mar 1930 in 24 Southcote Road, Bournemouth, Dorset at age 82. Noted events in her life were: • She worked as a Diocesan teacher in the Pacific Islands in 1883-1910 in Melanesia. • She had a residence in 1919-1935 in Bournemouth, Dorset. Alice married Rev. Richard Blundell Comins13 in 1882. Richard was born on 15 Nov 1848 in Tiverton, Devon, died on 11 Mar 1919 in Woodside Nursing Home, Auckland, New Zealand at age 70, and was buried on 13 Mar 1919 in Mount Eden cemetery, Puewa, Auckland, New Zealand. 8-Rev. Edward Francis Forrest13 was born in 1853 in Birmingham, Warwickshire and was christened on 25 May 1853. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Curate of St. George's in Sheffield, Yorkshire. • He worked as a Vicar of Pemberton and Canon of Liverpool in 1887-1922. 8-Ernest William Forrest13 was born in 1855 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, was christened on 13 Apr 1855, and died in 1929 at age 74. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Chatered Accountant in Birmingham, Warwickshire. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 5 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen 8-Susan Fanny Forrest13 was born in 1861 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, was christened on 9 Aug 1861, and died in 1935 in Bournemouth, Dorset at age 74. 7-Anna Susanna Miller1 was born in 1822 and died in 1902 at age 80. 7-Elizabeth Owen Miller1 was born in 1823 and died in 1840 at age 17. 7-Lucy Mary Miller1 was born in 1825. Lucy married Robert Forrest. 7-Francis Bowyer Miller1,11 was born on 18 Dec 1828 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, died on 17 Sep 1887 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at age 58, and was buried in Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Victoria, Australia. General Notes: Francis Bowyer Miller (1828-1887), assayer, was born on 18 December 1828 at Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, youngest son of William Miller, brewer, and his wife Frances Bowyer, née Vaux, a writer of children's books. Both parents were Quakers, and the Miller and Vaux families were active in agitation against the slave trade. Francis was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, and King's College, London. In 1849 he joined a British Admiralty expedition to the Bight of Benin, Africa, to see if lagoons there could be used by British gunboats in the suppression of the slave trade. Returning to England about 1850, he worked with a mining company in Cornwall for twelve months then became an assistant to his brother William, professor of chemistry at King's College and non-resident assayer to the Royal Mint and the Bank of England. In November 1853 Francis Miller and W. S. Jevons were appointed to the newly established Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, partly on William Miller's recommendation. Offered a retainer of £100 per annum, they were expected to establish their own assay offices and to undertake work for private banks and individuals as well as for the mint on piece rates. By the time the mint opened in May 1855, however, he and Jevons had become full-time public servants with no need to take private work. On 11 January 1854 in the Parish Church of St Clement Danes, Westminster, Miller had married Alicia, only daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald O'Connell, R.N. Two months later the Millers sailed with their servant for Sydney in the Granite City. They were to have four children. On arrival in Sydney, Miller set up an assay office in Bligh Street. In November 1859 he became a member of the Philosophical (later Royal) Society of New South Wales, before which, in July 1860, he read a paper on the detection of spurious gold, concerned in particular with a species of fake gold 'nuggets' that had deceived many Sydney storekeepers. Rachel Henning, to whom he showed a sample 'nugget' at Bathurst in July 1861, found him to be 'rather a clever, agreeable man'. Miller's crowning scientific achievement was his development of a process of refining and toughening gold by means of chlorine gas. He patented this process in London in June 1867 and registered it as an invention before the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in November. Twelve months later his paper describing the process was read before the Chemical Society, London, and by December 1869, when Miller read another paper on the subject before the Royal Society of New South Wales, his method had been successfully put into operation at the Sydney Mint and by the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland, New Zealand. In 1870 Miller was transferred to the new Melbourne branch of the Royal Mint, and was paid £2000 for the sole Victorian rights to the gold-refining process. He sold the 'remarkably handsome Gothic villa and grounds' that he had built on the waterfront at Double Bay and relocated his family to the Melbourne suburb of Kew. By then Miller's method had been introduced into mints in England, the United States of America and Norway and he had travelled to England and the U.S.A. to advise on the process. Superintendent of the bullion office at the Melbourne Mint from 1877, in 1884 he was briefly acting deputy master. Chronic Bright's disease forced him to take sick leave from June 1887 and he died in his home at Kew on 17 September 1887, survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter. He was buried with Anglican rites in Boroondara cemetery. At the time of his death he was a member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, a fellow of the Chemical Society of London and of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and a corresponding member of the Royal Society of New South Wales. In 2005 the Miller process was still used worldwide to treat molten gold. Select Bibliography W. S. Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (Lond, 1875) H. M. Humphreys (compiler), Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series (Melb, 1882) H. E. Forrest, A History of the Forrest Family of Birmingham & Shrewsbury, With Their Connection with the Miller, Vaux and Jefferys Families (Wellington, UK, 1923) D. Adams (ed), The Letters of Rachel Henning (Melb, 1969) New South Wales Parliament, Legislative Assembly, Letters of Registration of Inventions Under 16 Victoria, no 26, no 163, 7 Nov 1867 M. Martin, 'Mr Miller of the Mint', Insites, no 35, Winter 2003, p 4 Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 1860, p 4 Argus (Melbourne), 24 Sept 1887, p 9. Citation details Megan Martin, 'Miller, Francis Bowyer (1828– 1887)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/miller-francis- Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 6 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen bowyer-13099/text23699, accessed 26 October 2013. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography Noted events in his life were: • He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School in Birmingham, Warwickshire. • He was educated at King's College in London. • He worked as a Metal assayer in Bligh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. • He worked as a Metal assayer in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. • He worked as a Superintendent of the Bullion Office, the Royal Mint in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Francis married Alicia O'Connell, daughter of Lt. Maurice Fitzgerald O'Connell R.N.11 and Gorham. They had four children: Alice Lucy, William Francis, Annie Susan, and Maurice Edward. 8-Alice Lucy Miller was born in 1860 in Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia. 8-Dr. William Francis Miller was born on 13 Aug 1861 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, died on 15 Apr 1938 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia at age 76, and was buried on 18 Apr 1938 in Kew Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. General Notes: The oldest medical practitioner in Maryborough, Dr. William Francis Miller, died at his home late on Friday night, after a long illness. He was aged 76 years. Dr. Miller retired from active practice about 10 years ago. He was born in Sydney in 1861, his father being Mr. F. Bowyer Miller, of the Royal Mint staff. Dr. Miller graduated at Melbourne University in 1882. After post-graduate work in England he went to Maryborough in 1885, buying the practice of the late Dr. Campbell. In 1891 he married a daughter of the late Mr. David Evans, of North Merrowie Station, Hillston (N.S.W.). Mrs. Miller died in 1905. Dr. Miller has left a family of two daughters and two sons. Mrs. Crowe, Miss Lorna Miller, Dr. Frank Miller (of Adelaide), and Dr. Harold Miller (of Maryborough). The funeral will be at Kew Cemetery to-day. Noted events in his life were: • He had a residence in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. William married Mary Cecil Evans, daughter of David Evans, on 24 Nov 1891 in New South Wales, Australia. Mary was born in 1863 in North Merrowie Station, Hillston, New South Wales, Australia and died in 1905 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia at age 42. They had four children: Eleanor Mary Alicia, Francis "Frank" Julian Bowyer, Harold David Bowyer, and Lorna Cecil Annette. 9-Eleanor Mary Alicia Miller was born on 30 Jan 1893 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia and died in 1969 at age 76. Eleanor married John George Crowe. 9-Dr. Francis "Frank" Julian Bowyer Miller was born in 1895 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Physician in Adelaide, South Australia. 9-Dr. Harold David Bowyer Miller was born on 1 Nov 1897 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia and died on 31 Aug 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at age 50. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Physician in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. 9-Lorna Cecil Annette Miller was born on 23 Mar 1902 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia and died on 7 Apr 1963 at age 61. 8-Annie Susan Miller was born on 13 Oct 1862 in Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia and died on 9 Sep 1920 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia (at her brother's home) at age 57. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 7 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen 8-Maurice Edward Miller was born in 1864 in Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia, died on 17 Jan 1921 in Kew, Victoria, Australia at age 57, and was buried in Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Solicitor. Maurice married Eleanor Evans, daughter of David Evans, in 1899 in Hilston, New South Wales, Australia. Eleanor was born in 1864. They had three children: (No Given Name), (No Given Name), and (No Given Name). 9-Miller 9-Miller 9-Miller 5-John Allen1,3,6 was born on 14 Dec 1757 in Wapping, London, died on 20 Mar 1808 at age 50, and was buried in FBG Ratcliff. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Brewer in London. John married Elizabeth Marsh,1,3 daughter of Thomas Marsh1,3,4 and Hannah Patteson,3,4 on 20 Jun 1782 in FMH Ratcliffe. Elizabeth was born on 17 Jun 1754 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, died in 1826 at age 72, and was buried in FBG Ratcliff. They had seven children: Hannah, Ann, George, Eliza, Charles, Lewis, and Ann. 6-Hannah Allen1,3,14 was born in 1783, died on 12 Apr 1867 in 9 Albion Terrace, Stoke Newington, London at age 84, and was buried in FBG Stoke Newington. Noted events in her life were: • She was educated at The Young sister's Milverton School in Milverton, Somerset. • She worked as a Quaker Minister. 6-Ann Allen3,6 was born in 1785, died in 1789 in (died of Smallpox) at age 4, and was buried in FBG Ratcliff. 6-George Allen3,6 was born in 1787, died in 1789 in (died of Smallpox) at age 2, and was buried in FBG Ratcliff. General Notes: He was buried of the same day as his sister Ann. 6-Eliza Allen3,15,16 was born in 1790, died on 31 Oct 1845 in 9 Albion Terrace, Stoke Newington, London at age 55, and was buried in FBG Stoke Newington. The cause of her death was Stroke. Noted events in her life were: • She was educated at Alton in Alton, Hampshire. 6-Charles Allen3,17,18,19 was born on 17 Feb 1792, died on 11 Apr 1839 in Samer, Boulogne, France at age 47, and was buried on 21 Apr 1839 in FBG Ratcliff. Noted events in his life were: • He worked as an apprentice Tanner to William Batt in Maidenhead, Berkshire. • He worked as a Tanner in Maidenhead, Berkshire. • He worked as a Tanner in 1817 in Coggeshall, Essex. Charles married Elizabeth Harris,3,6,18,19 daughter of Samuel Harris3,6 and Elizabeth Belch,3 on 24 Jul 1816. Elizabeth was born on 1 Sep 1788 in Ratcliffe, Stepney, London, died on 29 Jun 1862 in Stoke Newington, London at age 73, and was buried in FBG Stoke Newington. The cause of her death was Aneurism of the Aorta. They had 11 children: Charlotte, John, Samuel, Sarah Angell, Charles Harris, Joseph, Frederic, Emma Elizabeth, Arthur John, William, and Lewis Philip. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 8 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Allen Noted events in their marriage were: • They had a residence in 1835-1838 in Gumley House, Isleworth, London. 7-Charlotte Allen6,7,20,21,22 was born on 24 Jul 1817 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, died on 12 Mar 1891 in Nice, France at age 73, and was buried in FBG Friars, Rosemary Street, Bristol. Charlotte married William Sturge,7,19,20,22,23 son of Jacob Player Sturge7,14,20,24,25,26 and Sarah Stephens,7,14,20,24,26 in 1846 in FMH Stoke Newington. William was born on 21 Aug 1820 in Catherine Place, Bristol, Gloucestershire and died on 26 Mar 1905 in Chilliswood, Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire at age 84. They had 11 children: Emily, Margaret, Elizabeth, William Allen, Mary Charlotte, John Player, Charles Allen, Gulielma Maria, Helen Maria, Clement Young, and Caroline. Noted events in their marriage were: • They were Quakers. General Notes: Sturge, William (1820– 1905), surveyor and land agent, was born on 21 August 1820 in Bristol, the eldest of four sons and four daughters of Jacob Player Sturge (1793– 1857), of Y. and J. P. Sturge, surveyors and land agents of Bristol, and his wife, Sarah (1789– 1867), daughter of William and Ann Stephens of Bridport. His father was a cousin of Joseph Sturge (1793– 1859), philanthropist. William Sturge, of a Quaker family, attended schools at Sidcot near Winscombe, Somerset, and at Fishponds, Bristol. He married Charlotte Allen (1817– 1891) of Stoke Newington in June 1846; they had eleven children. A son, William, was responsible for the Sturge flint collection presented to the British Museum; his daughter, Emily Sturge, became a campaigner for women's education and suffrage. On leaving school in 1836 Sturge entered the family firm of Y. and J. P. Sturge of Bristol, which was run by his uncle, Young Sturge, who had opened the Bristol office, and his father, Jacob Player Sturge. The business had been started in 1760 by John Player of Stoke Gifford, who was joined by his nephew Jacob Player Sturge, father of Young and Jacob Player. William Sturge became a partner in 1842, and head of the firm at his father's death in 1857. The practice was named J. P. Sturge & Sons after Young's death in 1844. Sturge's brothers Walter and Robert, the latter a member of the Institution of Surveyors, became junior partners. During Sturge's association with the practice, until 1905, it was situated in Bristol at 1 Broad Street and 34 and 33 Corn Street respectively. It merged with King & Co. of London in 1992 to become King Sturge & Co. of London and Bristol, with other UK and European offices. Sturge was involved in surveying and mapping land in connection with the Enclosure and Tithe Commutation Acts, with railways, and with Bristol residential developments. He was appointed surveyor to the Bristol Water Works Company in 1846 and was arbitrator or witness in many compensation cases concerning land purchase for railways in the west of England and south Wales; one particular case concerned the local board of health and the Great Western Railway Company in 1870. In 1847– 8 he was responsible for purchasing land for the Bristol and Exeter, and the Wilts., Somerset, and Weymouth railways. He followed his uncle and father respectively as land steward to the corporation of Bristol in 1857, a post he held until 1905. He was appointed to survey the city of Bristol for assessment of the borough rate in 1860 and 1870, and he advised the Somerset county rate committee on the county rate in 1865 and undertook this for Glamorgan in 1875. Under the Extraordinary Tithe Act of 1888 Sturge was appointed assistant commissioner. He trained land agents and surveyors, and he and his brother Robert founded the Bristol branch of the Surveyors' Institution. A founder member of the Institution of Surveyors (later the Surveyors' Institution, followed by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Sturge was a member of the council in 1868, and served as president from 1878– 80. He presented ten papers at the institution between 1868 and 1899. These were published subsequently in the Transactions, and included his presidential addresses (1878– 9), 'The education of the surveyor' (1868), 'Tithes and tithe commutation' (1871), 'The Rating Act' (1874), and 'The burdens on real property and land' (1894). He continued to write on the subject of rating in Professional Notes (1904), when he was over eighty years old. He was also author of several personal memoirs, as well as A Report on the Farming of Somersetshire, an entry for a Royal Society of Agriculture competition in 1851. Sturge died from heart failure at his home, Chilliswood, Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol, on 26 March 1905. His obituary in the Transactions of the Surveyors' Institution (1905) described his calm judgement and keen practical insight, as well as his scrupulous honesty, 'almost painfully keen to do justice to all parties'. He was serious but with a 'quiet restrained humour', and gentle, but with a 'flame of wrath ready to burn fiercely should occasion demand it'. His publications showed concern about the agricultural depression, the conditions of farm labourers, and the future of agriculture and of his own profession. His main interests were business, religion, and family; he was a member of the Religious Society of Friends throughout his life. Jenny West Sources Transactions of the Surveyors' Institution, 37 (1904– 5), 585– 92 · E. Sturge, Reminiscences of my life: and some account of the children of William and Charlotte Sturge and of the Sturge family of Bristol (privately printed, Bristol, 1928) · M. C. Sturge, Some little Quakers in their nursery, 2nd edn (1929) · A. Bradley, J. P. Sturge & Sons: 225 anniversary (privately printed, Bristol, [1985]) · 'Bi- centenary of J. P. Sturge & Sons', Bristol Chamber of Commerce Monthly Journal, 35 (1961), 53– 77 · J. P. Sturge & Sons, The ports of the Bristol channel (1893), 195 · The Times (28 March 1905) Archives Bristol RO | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, council minutes of the Institution of Surveyors Likenesses drawing; copy, King Sturge & Co., Bristol Wealth at death £155,256 6s.: probate, 1 May 1905, CGPLA Eng. & Wales © Oxford University Press 2004– 14 All rights reserved: see legal notice Oxford University Press Jenny West, 'Sturge, William (1820– 1905)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50170 Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Surveyor & Land Agent of Bristol in 1836. • He worked as a Partner in Y & J P Sturge in 1842. Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 4 Feb 2021 9 Produced by Legacy