Hi,
I'm looking for help finding the origins of John Allen who, as a widower upwards of 37 married Anne Waller (1713 - 1800) at St Katherine by the Tower on 17 April 1735.
They lived in Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields and had two children, John Allen (1742 - 1752) and Mary Allen (?-?).
He died in 1760; his will was proved on 30 September and he was buried in Bunhill Fields on 2 October.
His widow remarried, to Jonathan Wathen, at St Botolph, Bishopsgate on 8 June 1761.
The daughter, Mary Allen, then a minor married Joshua Phipps on 18 Sept 1764 and was mother of five including my ancestor Mary Phipps who married a Mr Marlham and then a Thomas Blunt and the more famous Jonathan Wathen Waller 1st Baronet. (See Wikipedia; Burke has a mistake in his parentage; there is a huge file Genealogies of Buckinghamshire Families, available on Familysearch, which has an extensive pedigree of the Wallers including almost all the people mentioned in this post.)
These families were all close to the Presbyterian movement; Anne Waller's brother James married into the same family, Gwynne, as John Wesley. They also had money, so their presence in the East End was probably to run a church or mission.
I have completely failed to find anything about John Allen's professional life, first wife, birth or ancestry (or his second wife's death, or his daughter Mary's birth or death) and would be very grateful for any help.
There are good topics on the Phipps and Blunt Families
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=734230.new;topicseen#newhttp://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=636191.63Many thanks,
Alan
