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From: "Trevor Harvey" <>
Subject: Re: [Redruth] ALLAN surname in the Redruth area...
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:03:48 -0000
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Dear David,

there are about 30 ALLANs listed in the current Cornwall Telephone
directory, but only one in Redruth. (ALLEN is more common)

The initial is C. J. at 5 Treruffe Terrace Redruth. The Telephone number is
01209-212896.

Good luck

Trevor (ex Lanner near Redruth)

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Allan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: [Redruth] ALLAN surname in the Redruth area...


> After recently obtaining a new e-mail address, I thought I'd re-post a
> query I made some time back. This really is a long shot, I know, but I'm
> trying to find out whether there are any folk with the ALLAN surname in
> this corner of Cornwall who had connections with London and/or Brighton in
> Sussex.
>
> After having had a great deal of success researching my mother's side of
> the family, I'm trying to make some headway with my father's side, but do
> not have the advantage of relations to ask for guidance.
>
> I'm trying to discover who the uncle of my father might have (my great
> uncle) who was living in the Redruth area of Cornwall in the late 1930s.
>
> Some years ago, after my father died, I was talking to one of his brothers
> (my uncle) after the funeral. He mentioned that my father's father had
> died of a brain tumour when my father was only 13 years old. This was
> before the days of the Welfare State and the death of the 'breadwinner'
> had a major impact on the family, which effectively was split up. One of
> my father's brothers was sent off to live with an aunt and uncle in
> Redruth. The brother concerned was my uncle Laurence ALLAN, who I only
> ever recall meeting once. He died in 1987. I don't know how long he stayed
> in the Redruth area, but he did eventually return to Sussex.
>
> I hoping that this Redruth couple may have had children of their own and
> that maybe some descendant may have decided to do some family history
> research. It is a very slim chance, I know, but some of what I have
> mentioned may ring a distant bell with someone.
>
> I can also add that the father of the Redruth uncle was probably Thomas
> Patrick ALLAN, born 1862 and married Phoebe Sophia Hetzer. They married in
> 1890 in Chiswick, London. Two possible contenders for the Redruth uncle
> are George ALLAN, born 1890 and William ALLAN, born 1895, both in
> Chiswick, London.
>
> I know this really is the longest of shots, but I am forever the eternal
> optimist. I don't really have any ALLAN relations who can help fill in the
> details, other than what my father's brother told me after the funeral. I
> wasn't really into family history at that time, and now that I am, the
> people I could have asked have all died!
>
> Any help or pointers will be warmly welcomed... David ALLAN.
>
> (Sunderland, Tyne & Wear)
>
>
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