Allen Blog- Hugh's Story- Part 14- The emigration of Mary and Franklin Allen to Jersey County

The Emigration of Mary and Franklin Allen to Jersey County

We know that both Mary Allen Burns and Franklin Allen were in Jersey County by 1861.



Franklin Allen had married Rachel Reece on January 15, 1859, and their child, Delia Ellen Allen, was born in Jersey County in 1861. The family history notes that Franklin and his family
 lived on the "Birkenmeyer Farm" one mile north of Jerseyville. On the map below, the Birkenmeyer farm is shown on the lower quarter of the map- #27. (Township 8 North, Range 10 West) (a)

The 1870 Census shows that Franklin's first child, Adelia E. Allen, was born in Illinois about 1861. (b) By 1870, Franklin's first wife, Rachel (Adelia's mother,) had died, as had his second wife, Margaret. His third wife was Mary Durney, and in 1870 he and Mary had a child named Margaret.

My Aunt Helen Allen, our first family genealogist wrote me this about Frank in a letter:

"Frank came to U.S. but I have not been able to find anything on any of them in the ship's logs....He, Frank, raised race horses northeast of Jerseyville. However, each wife died young and he remarried a year or two afterwards. The last one, Mary Durney, may have been a sister to Margaret Durney, the wife of my grandfather Hugh. He (Frank) had one daughter by Rachel Reese- who I knew well before she died at 90 or something. Then there  was a daughter of the third marriage, but she died at age 19 or thereabouts."

Mary Allen Byrnes/Burns and her husband Patrick Byrnes/Burns were likely in Jerseyville by 1861. The 1870 census for Jerseyville shows that Franklin Burns, age 11, was born in Illinois (about 1859.)  This census also shows Mary and Patrick Burns living in Township 8 North, Range 11. (c) We can see that their first two children were born in New Jersey- their first child born in abt.1855, and the second in abt.1857- so Mary and Patrick burns came to Jersey County between 1857 and 1859.

Sources
1- Family History Notebook

Illustrations
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b-Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 8 Range 11, Jersey, Illinois; Roll: M593_233; Page: 706A; Image: 629; Family History Library Film: 545732.Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
c- Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 8 Range 11, Jersey, Illinois; Roll: M593_233; Page: 702B; Image: 622; Family History Library Film: 545732