The Allison Family in Durham and London

This page lists those members of the Allison family whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.

Those members of the Allison family that we know most about lived in London, but the family came originally from County Durham, living in the area between Sunderland and Durham city. We have traced our line back to a Robert Allison who was described as a native of Middle Herrington in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring. We believe that his parents were Robert Allison and Jane Usher, who were married in 1728 in Houghton-le-Spring. The surname was also spelt Allinson in some Durham records.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records.

1. Children of Robert Allison and Mary Legg

2. Children of John Allison and Elizabeth Wanless (see table 1 above)

3a. Children of Robert Allison and Ann Ellis (see table 1 above)

3b. Children of Robert Allison and Elizabeth Morley (see table 1 above)

4. Children of Robert Allison and Ann Jordan (see table 2 above)

5. Children of Robert Allison and Susannah Cole (see table 3a above)

6. Children of Robert Allison and Margaret Carter (see table 4 above)

7. Children of Thomas Allison and Isabella Nixon (see table 4 above)

8. Children of Robert Allison and Frances Whalen (see table 5 above)

9. Children of Thomas Allison and Mary Childs (see table 5 above)

10. Children of Richard Allison and Sarah Liddon (see table 3b above)

11. Children of George Henry Allison and Sarah Ann Spink (see table 5 above)

12. Children of Alexander Allison and Eleanor Lambert (see table 5 above)

13. Children of Thomas J Allison and Frances A Brewer (see table 7 above)

14. Child of Robert Frederick Allison and Alice Beckton (see table 8 above)

15. Children of Richard Henry Allison and Annie Margaret Legris (see table 10 above)

16. Children of Thomas W Allison and Maggie E Dent (see table 9 above)

17. Children of William Robert Allison and Alice M Westley (see table 11 above)

18. Child of William Thomas Allison and Lavinia Howe (see table 8 above)

19. Child of Alfred Allison and Edith Annie Blackburn (see table 8 above)

20. Children of William Arthur Allison and Olive Hough (see table 10 above)