Dionise (aka Denise) Allen was born in June 1623 in the village of Wales, in Sheffield Parish, South Yorkshire, England. Her parents were William Allen and his wife Helen (Normer) Allen, both also from Sheffield Parish, South Yorkshire.[1][2]
In about 1637 when she was just 14 years old, Dionise, and presumably her family, emigrated to Rhode Island, a religious-tolerant colony, founded in 1636 by Roger Williams whose views were too liberal for the strict Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It can be presumed that they were "dissenters." Protestants who wanted a simpler style of worship than that of the Anglican church. They may have been influenced by the ideas of George Fox who in 1650 founded the Society of Friends (Quaker) movement in England.
Young Dionise (aka Denise) Allen married William Havens, also a recent immigrant and spiritual seeker, on January 24, 1639, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. William and Dionise Havens had 13 children between 1640-1669 as follows:[3]
John Havens b: 1640, in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island[4]
Mary Havens b: 1644 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Sarah Havens b: 1646 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Thomas Havens b: 1650 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Robert Havens b: 1652 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
George Havens b: MAR 1653 in Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island
Ruth Havens b: 1658 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Dinah Havens b: 1659 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Elizabeth Havens b: 1661 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
William Havens b: 1663 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Martha Havens b: 1665 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Rebecca Havens b: 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Margaret Havens b: 1669 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
Nothing more is known of Dionise (Allen) Haven's life except that she outlived her husband by about 9 years, dying in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in late 1692.
Fundamental Question: By what primary source(s) can it be determined that her maiden surname was Allen?
Dick Motz Research Has wrong birth year and place. Includes Arrival in New England information: Ancestry.com - Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - Author: Gale Research Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Note: Arrival date: 1637 - Arrival place: New England. http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=1607058&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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No original records identify the maiden surname of Dionis, wife of William-1 Havens. From the records of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Rhode Island, William and Dionis were married 24 January 1639. Married in 1639, Dionis was most likely born about 1618.
No original records indicate that the wife of William-1 Havens was identical with the “Dionisia filia Willmi Allen” [Dionisia daughter of William Allen] baptized in at St. Peter's Church, Sheffield Parish, South Yorkshire, England, on 23 June 1623. Dionisia Allen would have most likely married at about age 21 in say 1644, long after William Havens was in Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1639.
The origins of William Havens of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 155).
Allen-12389 and Allen-337 appear to represent the same person because: These are the same people. So you have documented proof for her birthplace, that you can share.
No original records identify the maiden surname of Dionis, wife of William-1 Havens. From the records of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Rhode Island, William and Dionis were married 24 January 1639. Married in 1639, Dionis was most likely born about 1618.
No original records indicate that the wife of William-1 Havens was identical with the “Dionisia filia Willmi Allen” [Dionisia daughter of William Allen] baptized in at St. Peter's Church, Sheffield Parish, South Yorkshire, England, on 23 June 1623. Dionisia Allen would have most likely married at about age 21 in say 1644, long after William Havens was in Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1639.
The origins of William Havens of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 155).