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Question: Did Charles Dickens have descendants!?
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Charles Dickens married Catherine T!. Hogarth in 1836 whereupon she gave birth to the following children:

---Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837-1896)
---Mary Angela Dickens (1838-96)
---Catherine Macready Dickens, known as Kate (1839-1929)
---Walter Landor Dickens (1841-63)
---Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844-86)
---Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912)
---Sidney Smith H!. Dickens (1847-72)
---Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933)
---Dora Annie Dickens (1850-51)
---Edward Bulmar Lytton Dickens (1852-1902)

Somewhere along the line, Dickens discovered that he no longer loved Catherine, separating from her in 1858 and taking as a mistress the actess Ellen Ternan, one of the great scandels of the Victorian Age!. In 1929, Dickens' daughter, Kate, alleged that Dickens and Ternan had a son who died in infancy, but no contemporary evidence of this birth exists!.

The public family member tree that I was able to access on Ancestry!.com noted that Alfred d' Orsay Tennyson Dickens married Jessie Devlin in 1879, and she gave birth to two daughters: Catherine Mary and Violet; both of whom died in Australia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes he does!. I read an article in a UK genealogy magazine about him, written by his great-great-great-grandson (or something like that)!. He mentioned that he'd always known he was a descendent of Dickens, although when he researched Charles' parents, he realised his father was in jail!Www@QuestionHome@Com

yeah i actually i'm friends with one of them! (in all seriousness i am!. she's like his great great great great great niece!. well i'm sure not that many generations!.!.!. maybe she's his cousin!. i can't remember!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm pretty sure he does, even if they aren't direct descendants!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yesWww@QuestionHome@Com