Thorne Family Genealogy

Kent Family

Mary Ann (Marianne) Kent

Birth:1788 Marriage:1809 Death:1857

Mother was Anne (surname unknown). Father was Thomas Kent. Born 1788, in Pershore Worcester, England.

Occupation before marriage is seamstress. After marriage a sculptor. Portraits/silhouettes of Shelley and Byron, by Marianne, are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Married, 3rd July 1809 to James Henry Leigh Hunt. Children were...

Thornton (1810-1873)
John Horatio (1812-1846)
Mary Florimel (1813-1849)
Swinborne Percy (1816-1827)
James Henry Sylvan (1819-         )
Vincent Novello (1823-1852)
Julia Trelawney (1826-         )
Jacyntha Shelley (1828-1914)
Arabella (1829-1830)

The 1851 census for Marianne and her family.

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Some known addresses...
1803 - 2 Little Litchfield St, Great Portland St, Marylebone London
1806 - Little Litchfield St, Cavendish Square London
1815 to 1816 - Maida Vale, Edgware Road
1816  -  Hampstead Heath
1822  -  Pisa
1823 to 09/1825 - Florence
1825 - Highgate Hill, London
1828 to 1832 - Epsom, Old Brompton, St John's Wood, & finally New Road, Marylebone
1833 to 1840 - 4 Cheyne Row, London
1840 to 1851 - 33 Edwardes Square, Kensington

Thomas Kent

Birth:???? Marriage:???? Death: Father of above Mary Ann

Occupation Linen draper. A court milliner (Royal Court in Brighton, England).

Married to Ann (surname unknown). Thomas and Ann's children:

Mary Anne Kent (b.1788)
Elizabeth Kent (b.1790)
Thomas Joseph Kent (b.1795)
Ann Kent (b.1796)

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