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d. William Dent, was born 1792 in Lancaster, the 4th son of the previously mentioned Myles Dent and Rachel Waters. He was baptised 16th September at St Mary’s Church (The Priory), Lancaster. He married Mary Dwyer on the 23rd September 1811 at Lancaster.
By the time of the 1841 census, William and Mary were living in Church Street, Preston, with William’s occupation listed as a ‘Stay Maker’. In 1851 they were living at 45 Lune Street, Preston, and by 1861 had moved to 13 Stanley Place, Preston. William died in 1863 in Ashton on Ribble.
Their family had grown, as follows, with their first, another
…..(A) William Dent, born in June 1812 in Lancaster, prior to the move to Preston. In 1835 at St John’s Church, Preston, he married Mary Ann BARTON. Mary was born in 1815 in Walton le Dale, daughter of Sarah Barton. By 1841, William and Mary Ann were living in Everton Gardens, Preston, (site of the present day bus terminus.) with William’s occupation given, like his father, as ‘Stay Maker’. (Think corsets!)
Shortly after that, William had taken on the licence of the New Bridge Inn on the banks of the River Ribble, later known as the Bowling Green Inn. William held the licence for several years and appears to have been a very popular ‘mine host’, later branching out into horticulture, holding flower shows, some grown from his own garden alongside the Inn. William died in 1853, upon which Mary Ann continued with the Inn until about 1860. She lived on with her son Miles (below) until her death in 1888 in Preston.
William and Mary Ann had children:-
(i) Mary Waters Dent, born 1835 in Preston.
(ii) Miles Dent, born 1837 in Preston.
(iii) Annabelle Dent, born 1839 in Preston. She died there in 1847.
(iv) Charles Dwyer Dent was born in 1843 in Preston. He died in 1893 in Burnley.
(v) Emily Jane Dent, born in 1845 in Preston, but died there in 1847.
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…..(B) Ann Dent, born Apr 1816 in Preston. In Jan 1840, she married in Preston, Michael Lennon, originally from Rathvilly, Co Carlow, Ireland. The 1841 census shows the couple in Storth Road, Preston, with Michael listed as a ‘Soda Water man’. They had a son Edward Lennon, born in 1840 in Preston.
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…..(C) Rachel Dent, born 1820 in Preston. She was baptised 23 Jul 1820 at St Wilfred’s Church. Rachel died in 1824 at Preston.
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…..(D) Mary Dent, born Dec 1826 in Preston, and baptised 17 December 1826 at St Winifred’s Church. Mary died 21 Sep 1862 at Preston.
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…..(E) Henry Fayle Dent, born 1828 in Preston. He was baptised 1 Jun 1828 at St Winfred’s Church. He appears in the 1841 census in Church Street, Preston. In about 1837, it appears he met Catherine Mooney of Winckley Street, Preston, and they lived briefly in Fir Street, Manchester. . In 1857, he emigrated to Melbourne, Australia. It is unclear if he took Catherine with him. By 1859 he is living in Mandurang, near Bendigo in Victoria, possibly following the gold rush to the area. Also about this time Henry also appears to have married a Maria Smith. About 1862, Henry moved on to Otago in New Zealand, and in 1885 was living in Dunstan, Otago, New Zealand, before returning to England. On a further voyage south back towards New Zealand, it is believed Henry committed suicide, and was buried at sea on 24 June 1885.
Henry had children –
…..(1) Eliza Fayle Mooney, born Mar 1856 in Manchester. the 1861 census, Eliza is listed at 12 Stanley Place, Preston, as grand daughter to Mary Dent, and in 1871 is listed at 34 Church Street, Preston, with aunt Rachel Bradley (Dent).
…..(2) Mary Dwyer Dent, born 8 Feb 1861 in Grassy Flat, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. She married William Sybley Stephenson in 1881 in Bendigo. Mary died in 1942 In Perth, Western Australia. William pre-deceased her in 1937 in Perth.
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…..(F) Rachel Dent, born in 1830 in Preston, and like her siblings, baptised at St Wilfred’s church there on 30th October 1830. She appears in the 1841 census at the family’s Church Street home. In 1851 she is listed at 45 Lune Street, Preston, with the family occupation of ‘stay maker’. In July 1858 she married Edward Bradley of Hurst Green. Edward, born in 1832, had been living at 10 Chaddock Street, Preston, and had served as an apprentice to James Cowell, chemist & druggist. By the time of the 1861 census, Edward is in business on his own account as chemist, at 34 Church Street. Rachel died 24th April 1871 at Preston. They had a child;
…..(a) Robert Dent Bradley, born 1860 in Preston. He appears in the 1861 census at 34 Church Street, Preston.
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Preston Dent’s, Some info courtesy of Greg Taylor, Broome, WA, Australia.
