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Charles James Graham Bennett and his wife Georgiana Bracebridge |
Charles was James Bennett's eldest son. As a Lawyer in London, he provided George with employment from 1830 to 1835 |
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Robert Miller Bennett |
Robert was James Bennett's second son by his second wife. He was a cabinet maker and the author's forebear |
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Mrs Owen and family |
Ellen Owen (nee Bennett) with her husband Arthur Whaley Owen, a captain in the merchant service, and their children Anna and John |
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Julia Bennett (age 82 when this picture was taken) |
'poor' Julia was sent home to England in disgrace and spent the rest of her life at an Alms house in Handsworth in Birmingham |
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General Sir Patrick Ross |
Governor of St Helena 1848 - 1850
He married Eliza Solomon (nee Bennett) in 1848 |
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Harry and Ellen Mercer (nee Bennett) |
Ellen was George's eldest daughter. She was always known as 'Meadows'. She lost two children and her husband in her early life. Her only surviving daughter Edie married Henry Herbert |
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Lt Gen John Henry Lefroy |
George's school mate and lifetime friend |
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Joseph Hooker FRS |
George met Joseph when he visited St Helena with the James Clark Ross expedition to Antartica in 1840 and corresponded with his for the remainder of his life |
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Col. Charles Hodson |
Napoleon called him 'Hercules' He was an excellent soldier and James' CO on St Helena. James purchased Maldivia from him in 1826 |
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Saul Solomon |
The merchant 'king' of St Helena. A man of strange habits who would 'rook' you one minute and be most generous the next. James' daugher Eliza married his son Henry. |
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Lt Col. Charles St John outside his home in Havant |
Charles was a decendant of GBB through his daughter Laura. |
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The author's grandmother Annie (Dolly) Hands (nee Bennett) |
Annie Hands was the great grand-daughter of James Bennett |
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Viola Bennet |
Viola was the greatdrand-daughter of Charles James Graham Bennett. She had a remarkable resemblence to Annie Hands.
Berkley Mawer was a decendant of both Charles Bennett and his uncle Thomas Bennett |
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The origin of the Arlington Tankerville story? |
A note from Chipping Ongar parish priest confirming that James Bennett was christened with a single 't' in his name. It ignores his father's apprenticeship papers that are spelt with two 't's. |
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