hello. I researched the Allerts in the UK about 10 years ago by looking up records in St Catherine's House. All the UK lot started off in Liverpool and Ormskirk in Lancashire and appeared there around the 1780s as I recall. I can't remember whether Samuel and Annie came up on my lists but if they were born in England they must have done. I'll have to ask my mother to dig the lists out. They will be stored there because I live in Hong Kong.

You might also be interested to know that by a chance meeting, we got to know the Australian branch of the family. This inspired me to research the English family, while they traced all the Allerts in Australia and discovered that they all spring from a Jacob Allert who left Gdansk around the same time that the English Allerts appeared.

He was a Lutheran who founded the first school in the Barossa valley. The ruins of the school stand on a hill not far from the origin of the creek that gives its name to Jacob's Creek wine. Nice one.

The family legends in Australia state that 3 brothers left Gdansk at the same time, due to religious persecution. Jacob went to Australia, one went to the UK and one went to France (I think, I'll have to check with them).

So, we may be related to them and we may be related to you, although there are plenty of other Allerts in what is now Southern Germany, so your ancestors may have come to England later - but I doubt it, there are so few in the English records.

What do you think? Regards, Kate