ALLEN family Horrabridge

[annette1234]

Hi    
can anyone help with any information on the Allen family who lived at Dostabrook cottage Horrabridge in early to mid 1900.s many thanks  


                                   Annette

[Dostabrook]

Hi,
I have lived in Dostabrook Cottages since 1990. An elderly chap who lived in one of the other cottages when I first moved in had known Derek Allen, who apparently lived in my cottage and (I think) owned two of them. Derek Allen was a builder and (I was told) did quite a lot of modernisation on the two cottages along the road (there are also two at the back) in the mid 1970s before selling them and moving to somewhere in the South East.
Not a lot of information, but better than nothing!
Steve

[windeatt]

Well, little bits of information can fit another piece into the several thousand piece jigsaw!  My husband's family - also builders - originated in Horrabridge but left c. 1820.  It has always been a mystery why one of the grandson's had the middle name of ALLEN.  Now here at last after many years of family history piecings togeether is a clue - there must have been some marriage/connection with the ALLENs back on Dartmoor!

So many thanks for this!

(researching WINDEATT in all its hundred or so spelling variations)

[Priscilla]

This is going way back but you may still be interested ...

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ny0/