Dorothy (Nowell) Allanson (abt. 1723 - 1760)

Ancestors

Wife of Cuthbert Allanson — married 30 Apr 1750 in Hutton Buscel, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Biography

Dorothy was born about 1723. She was the daughter of Roger Nowell and Mary Legard. She was baptised on 14 March 1723 at All Saints, North Street, York, Yorkshire, England.^[1]

She died on 23 July 1760, and was buried in the chancel of With, Yorkshire with the inscription: "Here lieth the Body of Dorothy Allanson, the Daughter of Roger Nowel, Esq. of Read, in the County of Lancaster, and Wife of the Revd. Cuthbert Allanson, Rector of this Parish, by whom she was the Mother of seven Children, Mary, Rebekah, Dorothy, Frances, Elizabeth, George, and Jane. She departed this Life the 23'd Day of July, 1760, aged 36 years,—fair, accomplished, virtuous."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Parish register of All Saints, North Street, York, Yorkshire
2. ↑ An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, vol.II, 1823, p.187.

• Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol 4 - North and East Riding (London 1874)
• An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe, Thomas Dunham Whitaker, 4th ed, vol.2, pub. George Routledge and Sons 1876, main Nowell pedigree between pages 40 and 41
• Burke's Landed Gentry 1879 vol.2 p.1178