Allen / DEAN engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 14 March 2024: Mr E.T.S. Allen and Miss L.R. Dean - The engagement is announced between Thomas, son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Allen, of Langham, Norfolk, and Laura, daughter of Mr James Dean, of Mere, Lincolnshire, and Mrs David Barrie, of Binley, Hampshire.

Laura Rose b 1990 reg Q4 Westminster d of James Fitzroy DEAN b 1954 (s of Susan Mary SOMERSET 1923-96 gd of 3^rd Baron RAGLAN 1857-1921, gt gd of 7^th Earl of BESSBOROUGH 1821-1906, etc etc) and his former w (her 1^st h) Charlotte Janet Rose (Mrs David Barrie) b 1963 reg Q3 Glos d of Timothy H UNWIN b 1934 reg Q2 Glos of Coberley, Glos by his 1959 m reg Q2 Glos to Primrose PRIDAY b 1936 reg Q3 Glos.

The prospective bride’s bro Alastair William b 24 Nov 1988 is married and has issue: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/WwDuMngl7lY/m/fzI0ZFQuAgAJ

[S R Eglesfield]

The prospective bridegroom would appear to be (Edward) Thomas Stafford ALLEN (born II 1989), the son of Patrick John Stafford ALLEN, BEM (born II 1954) and his wife (married 1984), Edwina Carolyn Rose DEAKIN (born 1956).

 

Patrick Allen is the youngest son of Graham Archibald Stafford ALLEN (21 VII 1922 - 28 VI 1981) and his wife (married 1948), Blanche Marion RIPPINGALL (1923 - ?), daughter of Neale Florance Reginald RIPPINGALL (7 XI 1883 - 23 X 1954) and his wife (married 31 III 1921), Dorothy Elliot Robina FEILDEN (5 V 1899 - 17 III 1947), of that landed gentry family, of Witton Park, near Blackburn, Lancashire.

 

Mrs Edwina Allen, née Deakin, is the daughter of Edward DEAKIN (died 9 II 1969) and his wife (marriage registered Q1 1952 - Westminster), Angela Durell SPARROW (born 2 X 1928), who was married secondly, on 7 July 1965, to Granville John Florance Thomas RIPPINGALL  (c.1926 - 23 XII 2009), the brother of Blanche Marion RIPPINGALL. Miss Deakin, as she then was, thereby became the stepdaughter of her future husband's uncle. Another point of interest is that the Rippingall siblings were great-great-grandchildren of Charles Allen YOUNG (1787 -1855), the founder in 1831 of Young and Co's Brewery of Wandsworth, Surrey.

[S R Eglesfield]

As a postscript, I have just spotted that the prospective bride and groom are sixth cousins once removed, through a common descent from the 5th Duke of Beaufort: she being a 5 x greats-granddaughter, and he being a 6 x greats-grandson, of the Duke.