Hantsport Families

First Name Last Name
Home Search Login  
Share Print Bookmark

Richard Woodbury Allen

Male 1831 - 1896  (65 years)


Generations:      Standard    |    Compact    |    Vertical    |    Text    |    Register    |    Tables    |    PDF

Less detail
Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Richard Woodbury Allen was born in 1831; died in 1896.

    Family/Spouse: Mary Jane Coalfleet. Mary (daughter of Robert Coalfleet and Anna Davison) was born in 1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Alice Annie Allen  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1863; died in 1928.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Alice Annie Allen Descendancy chart to this point (1.Richard1) was born in 1863; died in 1928.

    Notes:

    Owned by E. Churchill & Sons, PLYMOUTH is perhaps best known for a moving diary of life aboard which was kept by Alice Coalfleet, the wife of her captain George Coalfleet. Alice recorded travel, storms, accidents and the birth of her own child aboard PLYMOUTH. Her saddest memory was the transfer of her husband from PLYMOUTH to the barque HAMBURG where he died soon after from heart disease. Ironically PLYMOUTH would later end its days as an abandoned wreck lying beside HAMBURG, uniting in their demise, the two vessels so closely associated with the life of Alice Coalfleet. In 1905 at the end of her sailing career, PLYMOUTH was sold to the J. B. King Company of New York and was converted into a gypsum barge and used to transport gypsum from the Avon River, Nova Scotia to New York.
    Story
    After many years as a gypsum barge the vessel was abandoned by the company in 1921 and left to decay on the Avon Riverbank beside HAMBURG, WILDWOOD, PLYMOUTH and ONTARIO. Together, these wrecks represent the largest physical remains of ships from the Golden Age of Sail in Nova Scotia.

    Name:
    Author of Diary, 1886-1892 On board the barque "Plymouth"

    Alice married Capt. George M. Coalfleet on 22 Jul 1885 in Hantsport, Hants, Nova Scotia. George (son of Captain Abel Coalfleet and Mary Jane Davison) was born in 1845; died in 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. J. Lawrence Coalfleet  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1886.
    2. 4. Willie Coalfleet  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1888.
    3. 5. George Coalfleet  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1890; died in 1950 in Florida.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  J. Lawrence Coalfleet Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alice2, 1.Richard1) was born in 1886.

  2. 4.  Willie Coalfleet Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alice2, 1.Richard1) was born in 1888.

  3. 5.  George Coalfleet Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alice2, 1.Richard1) was born in 1890; died in 1950 in Florida.

    George married Rhea in 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]