Ann (Anne) ALLUM

  General Notes:

Document: After several references to Mary Allum--daughter of William Allum--by Dr. Charles Wheeler in his 1808 will, this partial page from Wheeler's will addresses the dispensation of a specific sum of money that includes Ann(e) Allum as beneficiary.
From DeeAnna Allum Granston

To see transcribed contents of Dr. Wheeler's will, go to the Index of Names in this online file and click on "Wheeler, Charles."


Ann(e) was named in the will of her father, William Allum, in the year 1831; her name was spelled "Ann." Much earlier, as explained above, she was named in the will of Dr. Charles Wheeler, who bequeathed Anne fifty pounds.


Finding an additional reference to Ann(e)--a marriage, for example--is among the Allum genealogy's "most wanted" ...


Lacking a marriage record--or death or cemetery records that can tie members of an extended family together--look for names of persons who signed documents for known ancestral folk.

One of the executors of William Allum 1st's will was Isaac Lewis. This was known already in 1956, but not until 2001 was it learned through a reference in an obscure book submitted by a patron for a Family Tree Maker CD that Isaac Lewis was the husband of William Allum's daughter Mary.

Today we can use powerful online search engines to determine females whose given name was "Ann" or "Anne" in, for example, the 1850 census when women's and children's names were first included. Speculating that Ann(e) remained in southwestern Pennsylvania in a county of Washington or Greene (or Fayette)--and that she lived through 1850--the women named "Ann" or "Anne" born, say 1802* or before (years of birth can be "off" by a year or so), can quickly be determined. With time and attention, some of the women's maiden names will be found in local histories or others' genealogies, and those females can be eliminated as our potential Ann(e). In the process, we might learn that an Ann(e) appearing in another's genealogy is lacking a maiden name and can zero in on her for further research.

Or, just as quickly and unexpectedly as our Mary appeared before us, we could find Ann(e) in similar fashion: On an FTM CD (or similar compilation) submitted by someone to whom "Mary Allum" was just another name but, to us, was a "Eureka!" moment about someone whose fate had remained unknown to us for 45 years.

Related families were often involved in land transactions, too.

In an 1855 deed pertaining to the estate of John Allum, 1784-1836, we find the names of John and Anne Bell. A Katherine (or Catherine) "Kate" Bell, and her Bell children, were in the household of Eve "Ellem" (Allum) in the 1850 census. (As of this date, the maiden name of Anne Bell referred to in this paragraph has not been researched.)

In addition, in that time period a daughter often married the son of a neighbor or the neighbor himself.

Because my focus has been on preparing this online file, I have not acted on my own research suggestions above!

We can also be open to investigating Quaker records. Ann(e)'s sister Mary married a Quaker, and Ann(e) might have done the same.



*Bear in mind that Ann(e)'s year of birth as 1799 is speculation. She could have been born earlier.