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Grace Allen (1843–1877)
Grace Grier (1877–1823)

1843–1923

Daughter of John Allen, vicar of Prees, Shropshire, and archdeacon of Shropshire, and his wife, Harriet. Married Richard McGregor Grier (1834/5–94), vicar of Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 1877. Great-granddaughter of the brother of John Bartlett Allen (Emma Darwin’s grandfather) of Cresselly, Wales.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

BMD (Birth index, Marriage index, Death index)

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestrylibraryedition.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2019)

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

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