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following is a transcript of an email received from Harlene
Annett (nee Allchin). -------oOo------- There aren't very many Allchins in our branch of the family and my nephew is the only one left to carry on the Allchin name. We don't know too much about our side of the family but here goes. My
paternal grandfather was Martin Frederick George Allchin who was
born Jan. 4, 1877 at 3 Dunelaw Terrace, Plumstead, East London Surrey
(sic) (Address as written). His father was Henry William Allchin,
a machinist and his mother was Emma Eliza Allchin (nee Johnson).
He had an uncle Sir William Henry Allchin who was a physician to
king Edward VII. He
wrote to England to his late wife's best friend, Ellen Wall, and
asked her if she would like to come to Canada and marry him. So,
she did. I don't think she had a clue what she was in for.
In the early 1930s farming was not good in the west - dust bowl
and depression - so the whole family moved to Windsor, Ontario
in hopes of finding work in the automotive factories there. Martin
eventually abandoned the family and "rode the rails" back to Saskatchewan
and left Ellen to fend for herself with the 5 children - now in
their teens. The girls had to leave school and get jobs housekeeping
to help support the family. Eventually they had to go on the "dole".
My father was able to finish high school and was selected to go the Ford Trade School at the Ford Motor Company. He eventually worked himself up to being assistant foreman of the brake department until his untimely death in a drowning accident. My uncle Fred also worked at Fords for over 30 years. My
uncle Denis joined the RCAF in WWII and was a pilot trainer in England
during the war. My aunt Audrey married Arthur Flatray , an American,
and they had 3 boys Arthur, Denis, and Leonard. I still keep in
touch with Arthur and his dad. My cousin Arthur lives in San Jose,
Calif. and his dad lives in the Seattle, Wash. area. He is about
84 now. My uncle Denis married and had 3 sons - Denis, Richard,
and Robert. Denis
Sr. started a brake and steering business in Windsor which has been
very successful and is now being run by Denis Jr. They have a website
- check it out at www3.sympatico.ca/denis.allchin/allchin.html
 There
is an old picture of my uncle on the web site but it's hard to see
as it's a small picture.
Click picture for larger image Ok, in our family there is my brother and I. I'm Harlene (born 1943). Our mother remarried after our dad died and we have a step brother and 2 step sisters. We all grew up together and consider ourselves brothers and sisters. They kept their surname and we kept ours. Our step dad died in February 1999. I live in Peterborough, Ontario and I have 2 children - Christine, b.1970 and Mark, b.1973. Chris lives here in Peterborough and Mark in Minnesota. My husband was Bob Annett, who was a professor at Trent University here in Peterborough for 30 years until he died in 1998.
The Annett family has a long history which has been traced back
to Italy in the 1200s and then to France, England, and Canada
and everywhere else. That's another story. My husband was a
6th generation Canadian.
So, that's our side of the family. I wish I knew some
of the family tree prior to Martin Allchin. I
don't even know if he had brothers and sisters. I do know
he lived to about age 60 and died in 1940, before my parents were
married. From what I heard, he was a gruf man, liked his
booze, and as my uncle said, he treated his horses better than
his kids. My grandmother Ellen was a smart lady who was
always knitting. She died around 1966 at about age 86.
Of course, we knew better than to question her about her past
so we didn't hear much, other than what my uncle told me. |
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Martin
Allchin emigrated to Canada in 1902. The attraction was free farmland
in the wide open spaces of the new province of Saskatchewan. He
was married to Mary Brand. We think he married her in England.As
far as we can figure, his wife died in childbirth. 
Martin
married Ellen Louise Wall on Dec. 13, 1907 and the marriage certificate
says he was a widower. The wedding took place in Saskatchewan at
the bridegroom's home in a place that I can't decipher from the
certificate. The handwriting looks like Sleifunir - an odd word.
I checked a recent Saskatchewan map and there is nothing even close
to that name. I do know they lived near Wynyard, Sask and that could
have been an old name of Wynyard. 
My
aunt Marjorie was a stock clerk at a dept. store but decided to
go to England to live around 1947. She ended up staying there the
rest of her life in the London area. She worked as a secretary and
was married to a man named Harry Farthing. Unfortunately, he died
after about 4 years of marriage. 
