{"id":321,"date":"2020-05-13T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2020-05-25T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:18:45","slug":"allen-notlen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/?page_id=321","title":{"rendered":"ALLEN & NOTLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The parents of my great-grandfather, William ALLEN<\/a>, were William Henry ALLEN and Eliza NOTLEN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Henry ALLEN was born 9 February 1866 in Dunedin, Otago, NZ, to Robert ALLEN & Alice WILLIAMS. He had two siblings: Margaret (1861-1941) & Janet Alice (1863-1951). Initially, he practiced his father’s trade as a bootmaker, but went on to work as a carrier, starting his own transport business, incorporating as W H Allen Ltd<\/a> in 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 17 July 1894, he married Eliza NOTLEN at her home in Kensington, Dunedin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliza NOTLEN was born 24 January 1869 in Dunedin, Otago, NZ, to James NOTLEN & Eliza HUGHES. She had seven siblings: John James (1857-1859), Thomas James (1860-1860), Esther Margaret (1861-1930), Rosetta Anne (1864-1887), Clara Matilda (1865-1952), Hugh (1867-1911) and Walter (1871-1883).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Henry & Eliza had two sons born in Dunedin, William and Oswald, and a daughter, Eva Alice, before the family moved to Wellington about 1905. A third son, Raymond, was born several years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William died 1st December 1945 in Wellington Hospital, after suffering from pneumonia for three weeks. He had a weakened heart that could not withstand the stress. Eliza died 17 April 1958 in Karori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Henry ALLEN & wife Eliza (nee NOTLEN), and sons William & Oswald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Children’s Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

William ALLEN<\/a><\/strong>
Born 31 Jan 1895, Dunedin, OTG, NZ
Married 26 Dec 1921, Wellington, NZ to Jessie May SMART
Died 23 Jun 1977, Takapuna, AKD, NZ<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oswald ALLEN<\/strong>
Born 8 Mar 1896, Dunedin, OTG, NZ
Married 1917, NZ to Ethel Maude Walker LOWE
Divorced 1954, Wellington, NZ from E. M. W. LOWE
Married ~1955, Wellington, NZ to Aileen Gordon REED
Died 26 Jul 1980, Havelock North, HBY, NZ<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Alice ALLEN<\/strong>
Born 8 Apr 1904, Dunedin, OTG, NZ
Died 31 Aug 1927, Karori, WTN, NZ<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raymond ALLEN<\/strong>
Born 27 Oct 1908, Christchurch, CBY, NZ
Married 1939, Wellington, NZ to Fanny GLAZER
Died 2 Aug 1979, Wellington, NZ<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parents of my great-grandfather, William ALLEN, were William Henry ALLEN and Eliza NOTLEN. William Henry ALLEN was born 9 February 1866 in Dunedin, Otago, NZ, to Robert ALLEN & Alice WILLIAMS. He had two siblings: Margaret (1861-1941) & Janet Alice (1863-1951). Initially, he practiced his father’s trade as a bootmaker, but went on to … Continue reading “ALLEN & NOTLEN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":264,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/403"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}