For researchers of all variants of the Allsopp family name.
This site is designed as a resource to assist researchers of all variants of the Allsopp surname, their family origins and international connections both past and present. At present information over 8500 people with a variant of the Allsopp surname ares included in the database and with your assistance I hope to make this site the primary reference for researching the Allsop/p surname. Although the initial focus of this site was on Allsopp lines in Australia a vast amount of information has now been included encompassing many English lines as well. Subsequently, with taking on the Allsopp one-name study through the Guild of One Name Studies the site now is globally focused. Where known, vital details for deceased persons have been included to assist researchers manage the complexities and vagaries associated with researching the Allsopp surname, whilst only the name is listed for those still living. Should any incorrect information be found on this site or if you would like to make the information more complete please reach out to me through the contact page.
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us." How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today.
It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
Lillian is the daughter of Robert P. and Velma. She has a brother, Samuel, who is 10 years younger than Lillian.
Malcolm Board, the youngest son of Henry and Mary Malcom, was born in 1875 in Indiana.
Emily and Frederick were married in 1890 in North Carolina. They have five children.
Maria and Felicie Bourgeois were born in Louisiana in Orleans parish. They are the daughters of Abraham and Marie Bourgeois.
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We've been researching this family name for over 30 years. I found lots of information at the State Archives, but once the internet exploded with genealogy, many more doors have been opened for me to research.
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