'The [Norwich] city records list a John Allen, russet weaver, aged 33, with a wife Margaret, aged 24, living in St. Mary Coslany in 1570 [citing John F. Pound, ed., The Norwich Census of the Poor, 1570, Norfolk Rec. Soc., 40(1971):70]. John was buried in that parish on 15 August 1579, leaving Margaret with five young children; two were buried there shortly after their father.'
