WILLIAM PERCY ALLEN - MY BIGGEST BRICKWALL!

[cath151]

hi
Revisiting via new replies to posts 
Its so difficult as Allen is quite a common name and I have no faith that any of the following belongs to your family, but here goes
There is an Allen family living at 22 GaRton Street, Leicester in 1891/01/11 head of household Sarah Allen, widow , children Ada and Robert. She is a grocer (possiblyconnected to coster mongering?)
Also a service record for a William Allen b1888 who married a Fanny Holmes in Dec 1911 in Basford.
Complete red herrings possibly.

Cathy

[HistoryFan]

Thanks Cath151.

We think from family legend that William may have adopted the surname Allen when he was 17/18 and joined the Militia in Leicester.  So it's more of a brickwall than first believed.

I have traced him from 1897 onwards from the time he joined the Militia, then the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment. 

He married in Guernsey in 1904 and his 3 eldest children were born there.  He died 1/2/1916 in Southampton and his youngest child was born posthumously in March 1916 in Southampton.

Thanks for checking though.

This may need to go into the COMPLETED section as it's too much of a mystery to unravel now that his birth surname is in question.