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Position:Home>Genealogy> Did Charles Dickens have descendants?Question: Did Charles Dickens have descendants!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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 |