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Margaret Allen (Homes)

Also Known As: "Holmes", "Margaret Holmes", "Margaret Clendennin Holmes *", "Margaret Homes"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Strabane, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
Death: April 26, 1778 (82)
Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Rev. William Homes and Katherine Homes
Wife of Col. John Allen
Mother of Jonathan Allen; Rebecca Wass; William Allen; Elizabeth Allen; Jane Chipman and 10 others
Sister of William Homes, (died young); Katherine Smith; John Homes; Agnes Allen; Jane Allen and 5 others

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About Margaret Allen

SOURCE: Find A Grave
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76420518/margaret-allen]

SOURCE: Appreciation for the following research goes to Janet and Robert Wolfe. Please see their website for updates, source citations, and further details. https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g73.htm

1. "1715/16 On 1 March, John Allen and Margaret Homes were married, in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts. [1] [2] Rev. Homes wrote in his diary "Mr John Allen and my Daughter Margaret Homes were marryed March the 1o 1715/16 I Joyned them in marreage." Together they had thirteen children. She survived him in death by eleven years.

CHILDREN:
1. DAU: Jane Allen, b 28 AUG 1722, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
2. DAU: Katherine Allen, b 26 FEB 1716/17, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
3. DAU: Rebecca Allen, b 26 FEB 1716/17, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
4. SON: William Allen, b 6 MAR 1718/19, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
5. DAU: Elizabeth Allen, b 29 SEP 1720, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
6. DAU: Margaret Allen, b 17 SEP 1724, Dukes Co, MA
7. DAU: Abigail Allen, b 21 JUL 1726, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
8. DAU: Mary Allen, b 3 APR 1728, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
9. SON: John Allen, b 1 APR 1730, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
10. SON: Robert Allen, b 20 JUL 1732, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
11. SON: Jonathan Allen, b 2 SEP 1734, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
12. SON: Eleazer Allen, b 10 JUN 1739, Chilmark, Dukes, MA
13. DAU: Hannah Allen, b 23 JUL 1741, Chilmark, Dukes, MA

2. Handley Chipman wrote (NEHGR, v91, 159-176):
Mr. Homes daughter [Margaret] that father Allen Married was my dear first wifes Mother, And a fine woman She was indeed, Much of a Gentlewoman, very free and Compliant, to both poor and Rich, was a great reader of the Scriptures, often mentioning passages to her Children with advice, was very Liberal to the poor, her poor Neighbors in particular, and I verily believe never turned one away from her house without Something and would often Send abroad to others her bounties. But above all she was a very religious person, Letting Nothing if possible divert her from Secret prayer at her Stated times, both Morning and Evening, besides strictly attending family prayer.

The sources Janet and Robert Wolfe used are as follows:

Birth Sources: Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Note: "Diary of Reverend William Homes" Vol 48 p. 446-453, V. 49 p 413-416, V. 50 p 155-166

Death Sources: Title: History of Martha's Vineyard.
Author: Charles Edward Banks.
Publication: Edgartown, Massachusetts, Dukes County Historical Society, 1966.
Page: Vol. 3, p. 6

Inscription
"In Memory of
Mrs. Margaret Allen
wife of
Col. John Allen
who died April ye 20th 1778
in the 83d. Year of her Age."

Birth date discrepancy

  • Birth: Sep 28 1696 - Ireland
  • Birth: 28 February 1696, Strabane, Parish Donacavey, Co. Tyrone, Ireland

References

  • https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/MQJT-DF4
  • 1. NEHG Register, vol. 48, Oct 1894, p. 448; Diary of Rev. William Homes: My Daughter Margaret was born 28 Feb 1695/6 being friday at 11 before noon And was baptized the 5 of march following in the meeting house of Straban, by the Rev. Mr. Sam: Hallyday.
  • 2. Edward A. Cooper, "American Families From New Plymouth, ~1620 to 1790+"; 1999; http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/allen/allenhp.htm
  • 1. NEHG Register, vol. 48, Oct 1894, p. 448; Diary of Rev. William Homes: Mr. John Allen and my Daughter Margaret Homes were marryed 1 March 1715/16. I Joyned them in marreage.
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Margaret Allen's Timeline

1696
February 28, 1696
Strabane, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
1713
September 12, 1713
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1716
February 26, 1716
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1717
February 26, 1717
Chilmark, Dukes County, MA, British Colonial America
1718
March 6, 1718
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1720
September 29, 1720
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1722
August 28, 1722
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1724
September 17, 1724
Chilmark, Dukes County, Martha's Vinyard, MA
1726
July 21, 1726
Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States