Mary Ann Kent

Abt 1834 - 1909  (75 years)

• Name	Mary Ann Kent
  Birth	Abt 1834	Bognor, Sussex
  Baptism	19 Apr 1835	South Bersted, Sussex
  Gender	Female
  Census	1871	74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London
  Census	1881	74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London
  Census	1891	74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London
  Death	1909	4 Grove Terrace, Kentish Town, London
  Person ID	I1173	Ash Family Database
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	Henry George Booker,   b. Abt 1835, Paddington, London d. 14 Nov 1881, 74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	15 Aug 1858	St Pancras Church, St Pancras, London
  	Witnesses at the signing of the marriage register were G.Booker and Charlotte Kent.
  Children	1. Alice Maude Booker,   b. 15 Oct 1868, Kentish Town, London d. 20 Oct 1898, 2 Pevensey Bay Villas, Pevensey Road (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1834 - Bognor, Sussex Baptism - 19 Apr 1835 - South Bersted, Sussex Census - 1871 - 74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London Census - 1881 - 74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London Census - 1891 - 74 Chalk Farm Road, Kentish Town, London Death - 1909 - 4 Grove Terrace, Kentish Town, London  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  There is a baptism record for a Mary Ann Kent with parents Edward and Sarah in South Bersted, Bognor Regis, Sussex on 19 Apr 1935. Edward gave his occupation as labourer. There is a Mary Ann Kent on the 1841 Census who appears in Wadhurst, Kent. She is 7 years old. The other people in the household are Ann Beal (35) and Elizabeth Mott (15), both servants. The girl’s parents are not visible anywhere. Mary appears in the 1851 Census as a domestic servant aged 17 working for the extensive Passy family of South Bersted, Sussex whose head was Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Passy. The Passys employed 7 servants and a governess for their 6 children. In March 1859, a Mary Ann Kent was admitted to the Wapping Workhouse in Tower Hamlets together with a Susannah Kent. Susannah’s record refers to a husband. Both were categorised as ‘able bodied women’. In Kelly’s Directory for 1890, a Mrs Mary Ann Booker is running a lodging house at 3 Alexandra Terrace, Bognor, Sussex . On the night of the 1891 Census, Mary was a widow aged 58 living at 4 Grove Terrace, St Pancras, London with 3 of her children Arthur (29), Herbert (17) and Alice (22). There is a boarder, Walter Beales, and a servant, Annie James. But of much more interest is the visitor. Young Vernon L Wood (23), a mercantile clerk, would marry Alice the following year. None of these facts fits together particularly well!