Durwand and Beatrice (nee Hennessey) Allen (parents of Ruth Bellamy) [Note: Durward is sometimes referred to as Durwood]

Inventory list
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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
14-016/003(10) Durward Allen and Beatrice Hennessey marriage certificate, 5 September 1911; also, two cards of congratulations received on 25th wedding anniversary File 1911, 1936
14-016/003(17) Auction sale poster for sale of the Allen family farm machinery and household furnishings, Colbourne, Ontario, n.d. (sale by Claude Allen, son of Durward and Beatrice Allen) File
14-016/003(12) Beatrice Allen: scrapbook of sympathy cards and loose newspaper clippings relating to Beatrice’s death, October 1954; also photocopy of will, 1948 File 1948, 1952
14-016/003(15) Durward Allen: workbook indicating jobs he performed for people in the Colborne area, 1954-1957; finance accounts booklet, 1921-1924; File 1921-1924, 1954-1957
14-016/003(11) Beatrice Allen: Greeting cards and letters addressed primarily to Mrs. Durward Allen, Castleton, Ontario, 1950s (includes two Peterborough Normal School Christmas cards, 1927 & n.d.); also Methodist Church membership cards, 1901-1903; United Church of Canada membership certificates, 1948-1953; letter from Castleton Women’s Missionary Society re lifetime membership, 1953; Hilton Methodist Church Sock Social card & sock, 1903 File 1901-1953
14-016/003(13) Beatrice Allen: miscellaneous newspaper clippings and handwritten poems, lyrics, etc. (thought to have belonged to Beatrice) File
14-016/003(14) Beatrice Allen: 4 photographs of antiques which had belonged to Beatrice; also photograph showing a large group of women and girls plus two men (a formal pose in front of a building), ca. 1900. The people are identified and include such names as “Mrs. D. Allen”, Carr, Morgan, Hennessey, Rightman, Davidson, and others File
14-016/003(16) Durward Allen: sympathy cards and newspaper clippings relating to the death of Durward Allen, January 1968 File 1968