Red Hill Plantation Manor House, Loudoun County, Virginia Stone portion dates from 1780s. Brick portion dates from c. 1810. See the William Allen History

Tandy & Joanna Allen, photo taken 1911. See Allen Werts Luers Families page

Background

This site combines the genealogical research of Carrie E. Allen (1856-1951), Philip Allen (1918-2015), Douglas Allen (1948-) and other members of our extended Allen family.

Carrie Allen (known as "Aunt Nell" to the family) published A Record of the Family of Isaac Van Nuys in 1916 (available for download in pdf format (14.6 mb) here: Van Nuys Geneaology). An addenda titled Van Nice Family Record was issued in 1956 based on her subsequent work and that of others after her death. These books included what was then known of our Allen family. The Werts Family Record, published in 1974 covered the family of Philip's mother and was compiled by his sister, Elizabeth Allen. In later years, Phil extended the research done by Carrie and Elizabeth to include many of the other families whom the Allens and Wertses had married into during their time in America, including the Smiths, Quicks, Stouts, Cortelyous and many others. His work was published in the Allen Family History (1990, working with Neva L. Callison) and the Werts Family History (1994). Early in the 20th century, W. H. Meyer published the genealogy of the Luers family, The Luers Family in America by W. H. Meyer (available for download in pdf format (27.9 mb) here: Luers Family in America). The results of all these efforts is now compliled on this site in the Allen/Luers/Werts Genealogy, shown in the navigation panel at left.

Reconstructing William Allen (1711-1799), the detailed history/biography/genealogy of our first Allen ancestor in America, was revised in 2017, with 50 pages of corrections and additional information. It is available from Lulu.com and Amazon.com. Click to download the Table of Contents and Forward.

Availble on this site:

Allen/Luers/Werts Genealogy, which includes 14000 people (9950 families) in or related to our family. This includes an extensive collection of interrelated families from the communities where our colonial ancestors lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

17th Century Families in New Netherland, which explores the families who came from the Netherlands and other places to the Dutch colony of New Netherland/New Amsterdam in the 17th century.

18th Century Families in NJ and VA, which explores the inter-family relationships of those who intermarried with the Allens during William Allen's lifetime.

(Note that these three genealogies are actually contained in the same database. Their separate listings here are simply to facilitate convenient entry points into those portions of the overall dataset - and to provide a little introductory material to help get you started in your explorations.

Biographical Sketch on William Allen, our first Allen ancestor in America. William came to New Jersey from Northern Ireland in 1729 at age 18. See the ten pages of this sketch listed in the navigation panel at left.

William Allen - Paper Trail, a downloadable PDF file listing the 50+ documents discovered so far that document William Allen's life (with a bit commentary to put each one in context).

William Allen - Timeline, a downloadable PDF file listing of all the events in William Allen's life that we're aware of, based on genealogical records, family tradition, general history, and, of course, the documents in the "Paper Trail."

Contact

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