(1) Alexander Chadwick, born about 1558 in Rochdale, Lancaster co., England, died 20 April 1624 in Rochedale; married 20 November 1599 in Rochdale, Joan. Parents of:

        (2) John Chadwick, born about 1601 in England, died 1681 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; married Joan. Parents of:

Children (all born in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut):

1. Silas, born 31 January 1743/1744, died 25 February 1833; married Esther.
2. Allen, mentioned below
3. Dan, born 21 October 1753; married 28 May 1775, Hannah Huntley.
4. Elizabeth, born 10 September 1757, died 27 September 1776.

Children (all born in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut):

1. James, born 4 September 1767; married Anna Kent.
2. William, born 9 February 1769; married Mehitable Smith.
3. Allen, born 1 March 1771; married Mary Rogers.
4. Martha, born 30 January 1773, died 7 Februaru 1773.
5. Martha, born 8 July 1774.
6. Nathaniel, born 2 April 1776.
7. Gurdon, born 26 Match 1778, died January 1801.
8. Amy, born 5 April 1780.
9. Betty, born 8 February 1782.
10. Isaac, mentioned below

        (7) Isaac Chadwick, born 24 May 1784 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut; married Abigail, according to their son Allen's marriage 1877 certificate. Presumably they removed to the Hudson region of New York. Parents of:

        (8)  Allen Chadwick of Odessa, Ernesttown Township, Addington County, Ontario, Canada, was born in Hudson, New York. The year of his birth is extrememly difficult to pin down due to a variety of conflicting sources pointing to a date sometime between 1811 and 1824:
         His tombstone indicates that he died in January 1904 at age 98 (setting birth around 1811/1812), but his death notice in the January 15th edition of the "Napanee Beaver" claims he died at age 90 (setting birth year in 1823/1824). The latter age is also recorded in the Cataraqui Cemetery Death Register. Prior to his death, he reported his age in the 1851 census as 39 (setting birth in 1811/1812) and in the 1861 census as 47 (setting birth in 1813/1814). In 1877 he declared on his marriage license that he was 40 years old (though that transcript is difficult to read) and in the 1881 census of Ernesttown he says he is 60 years old (setting birth in 1821).
        Allen's first recorded wife is Amanda Allen. She died 2 February 1876 "in her 56th year" according to her tombstone in Wilton, setting her birth around 1820; however, there are conflicts surrounding her birth year as well: in the 1851 census she reported her age as 35 (setting birth in 1815/1816) and in the 1861 census she reported her age as 43 (setting birth in 1817/1818).
        Amanda was probably closely related to Timothy Allen, who is also buried in Wilton Cemetery. Timothy's record indicates he was born in Hudson, New York (the very same place as Allen Chadwick), and died at Odessa, Ontario, on 26 December 1874, age 79 yrs, 2 mos, setting his birth around October 1795. Timothy's wife Lydia Lewis's record indicates she was born in Catskill, New York (which is in the Hudson region), and died at Odessa on 2 February 1875, age 73 years, setting her birth around 1801/1802 if her tombstone record is accurate. Although Amanda is not a direct descendant of this couple, it is noteworthy that Amanda's daughter Caroline named her second daughter Lydia. In addition, one of the witnesses at Amanda's daughter's marriage in 1872 was "Louis" Allen (a.k.a Lewis), who was a son of Timothy and Lydia.
        Amanda was almost surely related to early Ernesttown pioneers Elisha Lewis & Margaret Jane Allen, the parents of Lydia Lewis. Elisha had his family roots in Catskill, New York, and Margaret Jane had hers in Hudson, New York. Allen/Lewis Families expert Eric Bowler of Ontario theorizes that the Allen and Lewis families came to Ernesttown as part of a large family movement:

        "According to Russ Waller in his book "Like Rabbits In Erneston", one early settler was Esther Allen b. ca. 1810 who was the second wife of Barnard Van Alstine (1806-1893). Waller did not specify which children were Esther's, but he listed the Van Alstine family as: Mary Jane 1830; Secord 1834; Charles 1837; Alexander 1839; Amanda 1842; Wallis 1844; William 1846; Caroline 1848; Rhoda 1849; Barnard 1850; Martha 1855; James Miles 1859. They lived in Camden Township, moving there about 1840....The reason that I mention this is that in the 1851 Census of Ernestown there was a S. Vanalstine (Secord?) age 16 and an A Vanalstine (Alexander?) age 10 living in Wilton with the family of John Kennedy. John Kennedy was enumerated as living next door in Wilton to Hiram Lewis, son of Elisha Lewis and Margarate Jane Allen. The lot that he lived on (lot 40 Concession 6) was owned by Hiram Lewis.

[Note: Esther Allen was daughter of William Allen and Clara Lewis]

        From a transcription of the 1851 census, I found a Jonathan Allen (spelled Alen by the enumerator), born in Massachusetts ca. 1790, and his wife "Hanah" b. ca. 1805. They were enumerated as living close by (next door?) to Allen Chadwick, in district 3, Ernestown and nearby was Timothy Allen and his wife Lydia (Lewis).

        A William Allen, born New York State ca. 1811, farmed in Ernestown in 1851, probably around the 7th concession, north of Wiilton. His wife "Syrena" was born Canada ca 1816. They had 7 children. Also living with them is Clarissa Allen, born New York State ca. 1782, possibly William's mother or aunt. This family interest me mostly because a lot in Odessa was purchased by Cyrena Allen in 1854. She sold it in 1870.

        Other Odessa land transactions include sale of a town lot (part lot 32, concession 4) by Hiram Allen in 1868 to Amanda Chadwick. She and Allen [Chadwick] sold it back to Hiram Allen in 1873 and a few weeks later bought part of lot 33, concession 4 from a Josiah James. This lot was passed on by the 1904 will of Margaret Chadwick to her daughter, Marietta Wood of Farnham, Quebec."

        The earliest recorded child of Allen and Amanda is Caroline Chadwick, who throughout the censuses of the later 1800's reported that her parents were both born in New York. However, there are even discrepancies regarding her birth. In the 1851 census of Ernesttown, she and her husband both reported their ages to be 26, which would place their births around 1824/1825 -- much too early for Amanda to have been Caroline's mother even by the furthest stretch -- however, in all subsequent census enumerations of Caroline's house in the U.S., she reports her birth as occuring around 1829.
        The difficulty assessing the true ages of Allen Chadwick, Amanda Allen, and their daughter Caroline would tend to call their relation into question were it not for naming patterns in Caroline's family, and Caroline's death certificate (on file with the Town of Adams Town Clerk, Jefferson Co., New York), in which she names her parents as "Allen Chadwick" and "Abigail Allen," both of New York (Abigail was Caroline's grandmother's name and a relative probably had her in mind when reporting to the coroner). If the majority of Caroline's records are taken as evidence that her birth happened in 1829, then accepting the earliest birth years calcuated from amongst the records for Allen and Amanda would mean they became parents at the young ages of 17 or 18 and 13 or 14 respectively -- in other words Caroline was a teenage pregnancy for her parents, which was as common in that day as in the present
        In 1872, Allen and Amanda were named in the marriage record of Eliza Jane Chadwick as her parents. In 1879, they were again named as the parents of William M. Chadwick.
        Amanda died in February 1876 and was buried in Wilton Cemetery, Ernesttown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario.
        The following spring, on 12 April 1877, at Odessa, Allen married widow Margaret (Green) Lowry, age 40, of Odessa, born in Ireland, a daughter of William and Maria Green. Allen reported his residence in that year to be Odessa, his birthplace to have been "NY" and his parents to have been Isaac Chadwick and Abigail. In the 1881 census of Ernesttown, he is shown living with Margaret Lowry and her four Lowry children: Adalaid, Niki, Minerva, and Charles, ages 21, 19, 18, and 15 respectively.
        On 8 January 1904, Allen Chadwick died, and a few weeks later on February 22nd, Margaret followed him. Owing to the frozen ground at that time of year, they were laid in the vault at Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston (the register there says they were buried "Elsewhere") and finally interred when the ground thawed in Wilton Cemetery, in Ernesttown. The register at Catarqui says Allen's age at death was 90 and his birthplace was Hudson, NY; however, his tombstone says he was 98. The same burial register says Margaet was born in Ireland and died at age 66.

Children:

1. Caroline, born about 1829; married John Kennedy, and removed to Town of Hernderson, Jefferson Co., New York.
2. William M. born about 1837 to 1842 according to census and marriage records; married 3 December 1879 at Kingston, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Alice Ashley, daughter of John & Catherine Ashley. Witnesses to the marriage were their siblings, Allen Chadwick, Jr. and Eliza Ashley of Kingston. At the time of their marriage, WiIlliam was 37 years od and working as a marble dealer. The couple resided in Kingston.
3. Harvey, born about 1840 to 1843 according to various census records.
4. Orange, born about 1844, died 30 October 1866, age 22 years, according to his tombstone in Wilton Cemetery, Ernesttown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario, Canada.
5. Charles W., born about 1846, died 26 March 1861, age 15 years, according to his tombstone in Wilton Cemetery, Ernesttown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario, Canada.
6. Eliza Jane, born about 1849 to 1850; married on 20 February 1872 at Odessa, Wilton, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario, William Henry Asselstine, a carpenter of Kingston City, Oswego Co., New York, son of Lewis Asselstine and Nancy Smith. Witnesses to the ceremony were "Louis" (a.k.a. Lewis) & Maggie Allen (probably a son or grandson of Timothy Allen and Lydia Lewis)
7. Allen, Jr., bron about 1852; married Alice Ashley, probably a daughter of John & Catherine Ashley.
8. Alverton N., born about 1854 to 1855, died 24 May 1878 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, age 23, according to his tombstone in Wilton Cemetery, Ernesttown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario, Canada.
9. Malissa, born about 1857 according to census records.
10. Anietta/Annetta, born about 1860, died 4 August 1861, age 15 months, according to his tombstone in Wilton Cemetery, Ernesttown, Lennox & Addington Co., Ontario, Canada.