Hi Lisa (and everyone) --
We are potentially tracing the same family tree! Ernest is also my great-grandfather! Though in my family an Alland adopted my father -- so we're not related by blood (though in the case of Ernest Alland, many of his relations are not blood relations anyway...)
Are you related to Maria Classon Alland (Campbell)? She is the only child of Ernest Alland (by blood) that I know of.
Do you live in Scotland? I have a bit of info on Ernest's family in Scotland... His two other children (named Alland) were not actually his children either by blood or by fathering. It seems Ernst/Ernest/Earnest disappeared from Scotland sometime around 1903 (according to his wife; I think there are no official records past his 1901 marriage), but his wife kept his name.
Lenaa -- I would love to have the info about Abel Persson if you still have it?
Ian -- jamcat -- the link to Ernst's birth that you posted doesn't seem to work. Any chance you can repost?
I'd love any info anyone has on Abel Persson or Marie Rosendahl Alland Classon (she remarried after Abel (Persson) Alland passed away, it seems?). Her name is listed as "Marie Classon previously Alland, M.S. Rosendahl" on Ernest's marriage certificate and his name is listed as Abel Alland.
Also, if *anyone* knows what happend to Ernest Alland? He seems to have left Scotland, and then gone to Sweden and left there too (in 1904).
many thanks all,
San