Sarah KENNETT (1903- )

1 Sarah Emily KENNETT (1903- ) [13786]. Born 1903.

2 George KENNETT (1875- ) [13784]. Born 1875, Ontario, Canada.

4 Arthur Harry KENNETT (1850- ) [9467]. Born 1850, London (Ealing). Marr Emily BARNES 10 Apr 1873, London (Marylebone).

In 1861 he was with his brothers George and Charles in the Medway Workhouse in Gillingham. This workhouse had just been modernised and partly rebuilt. George, his father was presumably unable to cope with his large family after his wife died, but it seems strange to put some children in the workhouse and the oldest son in boarding school.

In 1871 he was boarding at 8 Carlton Terrace, Willesden.

Arthur and Emily went to live in the Canada fairly soon after their wedding. The couple had settled in St. David’s Ward, Toronto, York, Ontario on the 1881 Canadian census.

He became a naturised american in 1888, he continued to work as a bookbinder all his life.

The 1920 census of the U.S.A. has Arthur and Emily living in Buffalo City, New York state. Their son George and his wife Rose and two children were also living in the house.

8 George KENNETT (1825-1885) [9456]. Born 1825, Faversham, Kent. Christened 27 Feb 1825. Marr Caroline Emily PARKER 10 Mar 1845, Gillingham, Kent. Marr Elizabeth SADDLER 3 Jan 1865, London (St.Pancras). Marr Sarah Ann POTTS 1872, Bridge, Canterbury, Kent. Died 7 Dec 1885, Strood, Kent. Cause: Heart disease and paralysis of the lungs.

In 1871 he lived at Railway Station House, Adisham, Kent.

In 1848 George was the Superintendent.

In 1851 he and Caroline were living in Old Brentford, Ealing with two children and his two orphaned nieces, Annie and Emily Hilton.

Caroline and George moved to Co. Down and then to Passage West, County Cork, a town just outside Cork sometime after the summer of 1851, but were back in England living at 7 Edwin Place, Park Road, Peckham in 1858.

George was “lately a Traffic Manager on a Railway”.

At that time of his second marraige, he was a railway clerk living at 35 Weedington Road, Pancras.

In 1866 George was a Station Master in Queenborough, Sheppey.

The family moved to Adisham in 1867.

He left a Will leaving everything to Sarah Ann. His estate was worth £90.

Sarah, his widow remarried, and in 1891 and had become Mrs. Ashley. Her husband was a naval pensioner nearly twenty years older than herself. Their address was 27 Crofs Street, Strood. Her step-grandson, George aged 7 was a visitor in the house, there was also a boarder.

16 Gilbert William KENNETT (1791-1854) [8705]. Born 1791, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Christened 15 Apr 1792, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Marr Ann JUDGE 30 Aug 1814, Faversham, Kent. Marr Sarah WOOD 30 Aug 1842, Gillingham, Kent. Died 15 Jun 1854, Gillingham, Kent. Cause: General Debility.

Gilbert was a Post Boy, working from The Ship Inn, Faversham from the birth of his son John in 1815 till somewhere between 1825 and 1828, when he became an ostler.

Gilbert and Ann ran the White Horse Pub in West Street, Faversham from 1832-34 according to Piggotts National and Commercial Directory but they could have been in residence there for longer than that.

Gilbert became the landlord of the Golden Lion Pub in the High Street at Gillingham, Kent in 1838 till his retirement sometime after 1851.

On the 1851 census Gilbert William was a licensed victualler aged 59, his wife Sarah was 57 years old. They were living at 54 High St. Gillingham, with them was Dinah Wood, Gilbert’s step daughter.

32 Thomas KENNETT (1769-1839) [8722]. Born 1769, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Bap 6 Aug 1769, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Marr Sarah PACKMAN 29 Jan 1792, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Died 6 Apr 1839, Dunkirk, Boughton under Blean, Kent.

64 John KENNETT (1735?-1819) [8709]. Born 1735 (app), Wichling, Kent. Marr Mary PROPER (PROPERS) 14 Oct 1758, Wichling, Kent. Died 1819, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Buried 28 Feb 1819, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent.

It is possible that John received between 2 shillings and 6 pence and 5 shillings from the parish for some years between 1780 and 1794.

128 Francis KENNETT (1693?- ) [8720]. Born 1693 (app), Wichling, Kent. Marr Elizabeth TURNER 25 Mar 1718, Wichling, Kent.

129 Elizabeth TURNER (1697?- ) [8721]. Born 1697 (app), Wichling, Kent.

65 Mary PROPER (PROPERS) (1734- ) [8710]. Born 1734, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Bap 24 Feb 1734, Sheldwich, Kent.

33 Sarah PACKMAN (1769-1825) [8725]. Born Jun 1769, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Christened 4 Jun 1769, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Died 1825, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent. Buried 17 Jul 1825, Boughton under Blean, Faversham, Kent.

17 Ann JUDGE (1794-1840) [8706]. Born 1794, Ospringe, Maidstone, Kent. Christened 11 May 1794, Maidstone, Kent. Died 27 Aug 1840, Brompton, Kent. Cause: Erysipelas.

9 Caroline Emily PARKER (1825- ) [9458]. Born 1825, London (Brompton). Died "13th July 1859". Cause: As a result of falling down stairs after being taken ill suddenly.

5 Emily BARNES ( - ) [13783].

3 Rose UNKNOWN ( - ) [13785]. Born New York, U.S.A.