Ira Absolom Allsop (1789-1816)

From: "Judd and Kathryn Allsop family : pedigrees, individual histories, and patriarchal blessings"

Ira Absolom Allsop was born February 28, 1789 in Nottingham, England. He was christened that same day. He was the son of John Allsop and Elizabeth Lloyd.

When he was twenty-seven years old, he married Mary Cressey who was also born in Nottingham, England. They had twelve children- six girls and six boys. Four of their children died as children, three girls and one son. Their eighth child, a son, whom they named Ira after his father, died when he was a year and a half old. Three years later when another son was born to them, they also named him Ira.

It is very likely, not certain though, that our ancestor John was their only child to hear and accept the gospel during his lifetime. He was baptized in 1847. John also had two sisters, Tamar and Mary Ann, who have baptism dates that possibly could have been within their own lifetimes. But because their death dates are unknown, it was hard to verify.

Family tradition states that when John and his second wife, Susannah Robbins, joined the Church, his parents, Ira Absolom Allsop and Mary Cressey disowned him.

On February 27th of 1906, Ira Absolom was baptized by proxy. The next day, February 28th, he received his endowments by proxy. He was sealed to his wife, Mary Ann Cressey, on April 25, 1941. All of their twelve children have been sealed to them.

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From a note in my PAF file (Bryan Kingsford 1959-)

Taken from Family records of John Allsop of Grace Id.

1851 Census of Nottingham

Bp's trans. of all parishes of nottingham

Logan temple records

Family tradition preserves that Ira A. Allsop was an English officer in the Napoleonic wars and was also one of the fifteen survivors of the 1,500 soldiers that embarked on an English transport for the coast of France.