Allercott family

Hello I am new here.

I am searching for the Allercott surname in England. Any and all
information is deeply appreciated.

roy.stockdill...

You might like to know that in the 1881 census of Britain there were only
SIXTEEN people with that surname in the entire country, all of them in
the Poor Law Union district of Taunton, Somerset. This suggests to me
that they were almost certainly all one family (*Source: the Surname
Atlas CD, which analyses all the data from the 1881 census and turns it
into sirname distribution maps).

On checking the 1881 CDs, this would seem to be the case, since 13 of
the people with the name were in the village of Combe Florey, which lies
close to the Quantock Hills north-west of Taunton. One family
comprised a 37-year-old baker, Robert Allercott, his wife Sarah A
Allercott, 36, and seven children aged from 10 to one (including possibly
10-year-old twins, Ellen and Edwin). The other family in Combe Florey
were John Allercott, 67, miller and farmer living at Combe Florey flour
mills, his wife Mary, 55, and two daughters aged 20 and 16. I strongly
suspect John Allercott the miller was probably Robert the baker's father -
dad supplied the flour and son made the bread from it!

Then in the nearby village of Lydeard St Lawrence was Elizabeth Miller,
aged 64, also a miller, and her son George, 26. As they were millers,
too, it seems pretty likely they were closely connected to the Allercotts at
Combe Florey (the villages are adjacent to one anothr). The "stray"
Allercott is a one-year-old child, Maud, born at Lydeard St Lawrence and
staying with a family called DOMINY in Taunton.

Roy Stockdill
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