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BENNETT
Thomas Bennett, "customs officer" Anna [??Agnes] Maria Evans (?c.1750-1808), novelist, of 5 Nassau Street, Soho mistress of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye
~Thomas Pye Bennett (-1808), lieutenant, RN 1781-9400 1787 Mary Pye, dau, of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye
~ Harriet (1765-1865), actress, mistress of ke of Hamilton 1784 James Esten-(1757-1803), lieutenant, RN, of Half-Moon Street; 1812 Major John Scott-Waring (1747-1819), agent of Warren Hastings Maria Hughes
Harrjet Wildman Hunter Esten (1788-1881) Thomas Darby-Coventry
Anna Maria (-1803sp) Lowrma 1000 St Anne's Soho 1792 John Smith Braine, chief-clerk of the Navy Pay-office, of Craven-hill cottage .
Caroline Sophia Pye (-1857) UIPIl'IIU 00 1809 Captain Donald Macleod, RN, CB (-a.1852) \\
Katherine Augusta Westernra Macleod (1823-1902) 00 1852 Octavius Douglas-Hamilton, cousin of the Duke of Hamilton
Mrs. Darby- Coventry's Ancestors. These notes would, I feel sure, be considered incomplete without some notice of her predecessors. Her grandfather's name was Bennett, a descendant of an old Glamorganshire family, the Bennetts of Lalestone, Bridgend ; whilst her grand- mother, whose maiden name was Evans, was an Evans of Eaglesbush, Neath, an equally old Welsh stock.
Their properties lay near to each other ; it would thus seem an union of the two families was in the ordinary course of events. Of Mr. Bennett I have not been able to learn anything further ; but of Mrs. Bennett I have collected much that will, I feel sure, greatly interest her descendants ; and in this connexion I may mention the Bennetts had four children, one son and three daughters ; these were
Thomas Pye Bennett, R.N. ;
Harriet Bennett, who married first Mr. James Esten of Half-Moon Street, London, and afterwards Major Scott- Waring ;
Anna Maria Bennett, who married Mr. J. S. Braine, of the Navy Pay Office ; and
Caroline Sophia Pye Bennett, married to Captain Macleod, R.N.
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