| 1780-10-01 | bapt. St Mary's, Chatham, Kent | parish register |
| 1781-09-18 | bur. St Mary's, Chatham | parish register |
| cal 1782 | b. Chatham, Kent | TNA: HO 107/1611 f156 p31 |
| 1782-09-29 | bapt. Chatham, St Mary | parish register |
| 1804-10-07 | mar. Martha Ann Jerrom (17861858, b. Chatham), at Rochester | censuses; GRO index; "England Births and Christenings, 15381975," database, FamilySearch: accessed 14 January 2016, Martha Jerrom, 25 Dec 1786, citing Chatham, Kent, reference item 6, FHL microfilm 1,469,178 |
| Children: | Eliza (18051809), Diana Ann (18071886), James William (18081875), George Henry (18111873), Eliza (18131813), Henry Richard (18151896), Eleanor Charlotte (18181875), Charles Benjamin (18211883), Richard Sutton (18231876), William Henry (18261903), Martha Ann (18271908), Alfred Richard (18311904) | censuses; GRO index; National Burial Index; Thames & Medway burials; Thames & Medway marriages; bennett family 2014 |
| 1837-07-08 | letter in the Hampshire Advertiser, responding to a letter in the Hampshire Telegraph, which had been signed "James Bennett", in reference to the appointment of a store receiver at Chatham dockyard, in which Bennett had claimed that the most suitable person for appointment would be a shipwright | Hampshire Advertiser; no certainty that this is the same James Bennett; also, the Hampshire Telegraph is not currently online, so the initial letter has not been seen |
| 1841 | shipwright, living with his family in Rhode St, Chatham, Kent | HO 107/487/4 f23 p12 |
| 1845-06-01 | shipwright | parish register entry for daughter's marriage |
| 1851 | shipwright, living with his wife and son at 7 Rhode St, Chatham | HO 107/1611 f156 p31 |
| 1853-04-05 | "CHATHAMApril 5: [ . . . ] The undermentioned shipwrights, &c., have been superannuated:James Bennett, leading man, 34£ per annum; [ . . . ]" | Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 1853-04-06; West Kent Guardian, 1853-04-16 |
| 1859-01-05 | d. Medway RD | GRO index; Find a Grave |
| 1859-01-11 | of Chatham. bur. St Mary Chatham | parish register; Find a Grave |
| 1865 | (late) ship builder | Holy Trinity, Gray's Inn Road, parish register |
| 1785-11-27 | bapt. Chatham, St Mary, Kent | parish register |
| 1807-01-18 | of Frindsbury; m. William Loft (17861849), at Frindsbury pc, Kent, by banns; her father one of the witnesses | Frindsbury parish register; "England Births and Christenings, 15381975", database, FamilySearch: 4 February 2023, William Loft, 1786; GRO index |
| Children: | Edward (18121885), Mary (18141888), Elizabeth (18191846), Eleanor (18221893), and William (18251901), all b. Chatham | Jarvis Petrie DNA 2019; Corrinne Noot Family Tree (which includes a third son, John, who was in fact her grandson) |
| 1841 | living with her labourer husband, their sons, and a 2-year-old Louisa Hamlet, in Brook, Chatham | TNA: HO 107/487/2 f13 p19 |
| 1851 | deaf; living in Brook, Chatham, with her grandson John Loft, two lodgers, and a 5-year-old Amelea Saunders | HO 107/1611 f9 p11 |
| 1856 Q4 | d. North Aylesford RD | GRO index |
| 1856-11-02 | bur. Chatham | "England Deaths and Burials, 15381991", FamilySearch: Wed Nov 22 10:59:44 UTC 2023, Entry for Elizabeth Loft, 2 11 1856 |
| 1788-04-27 | bapt. Chatham, St Mary, Kent | parish register |
| 1827-08-09 | possibly the Charlotte Bennett who was bur. at Gillingham, Kent | "England Deaths and Burials, 15381991," database, FamilySearch: 10 February 2018, Charlotte Bennett, burial 09 Aug 1827, citing Gillingham, Kent, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, FHL microfilm 1,469,345 |
| 1795-07-28 | b. | parish register |
| 1795-08-23 | bapt. Chatham, St Mary, Kent | |
| 1814-01-10 | m. Samuel Simson (17881869), at St Peter and St Paul, Milton by Gravesend, Kent | "England Marriages, 15381973", FamilySearch : Wed Apr 16 07:50:52 UTC 2025, Entry for Samuel Simson and Eleanor Bennett, 10 Jan 1814 |
| 1814-07-18 | "England Marriages, 15381973", FamilySearch: Wed Apr 16 19:58:22 UTC 2025, Entry for Samuel Simson and Eleanor Bennett, 18 Jul 1814; Jarvis Petrie DNA 2019 | |
| Children: | Mary Ann (1817 after 1851), Anne Elizabeth (1820 after 1851), Catherine Bennett (18221851), Barbara (1825 after 1871), and Sarah (1827 after 1851) | censuses; Jarvis Petrie DNA 2019 |
| 1841 | living in Kempthorne St, Gravesend, apparently with three of her daughters | TNA: HO 107/458 f28 p50 |
| no further information yet found |
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