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Hello Denise,
I believe that your George Dennis was born in 1817 in Molash,near Faversham, and was a brother of Thomas Dennis who married Jane Alexander and Caroline Kerslake.
This would agree with a record of George Dennis of Milton District who died in 1907, age 89,
On the FreeBMD a website.

Thomas Dennis was born 1806 in Molash. In the IGI records his surname is spelled DENNESS, and. George's surname is spelled DENNES.

In some of the U.S. Records in Ohio, Daniel Dennis is sometimes recorded as Daniel George Dennis, George Daniel Dennis, George D. Dennis.

Thomas Dennis and siblings' parents were Thomas Dennis and Elizabeth Coppin who were married in Pluckley in 1802. Their oldest child was Harriet who married James Smitherman in Upchurch.
I have found the Dennis line difficult to trace, possibly because the spelling may have changed with such variations as : Dennes, Denniss, Denne, Denness.
In 1966 we move from Rainham to British Columbia where we still live.

Amelia Jane Swan's parents were Henry Swan(b. 1809,Rainham, d. 1858,Hackney,London) and Jane Wells(b. 1820, Gillingham, d. 1893, London).
I believe that jane was Henry's second wife, and were married 1839 in Gillingham.

The info that I have on the children of Henry Swan and Jane Wells is :

Henry John Swan,  b.1839, Gillingham.
Edward Samuel Swan, b. 1841, Gillingham.
Amelia Jane Swan, b. 1843, Haggerston,London (near Bethnal Green), d. 1928,Rainham.
Jane Elizabeth Swan, b. 1846, Gillingham.
Edward J. Swan, b.1850, Islington,London.








 

My great great grandfather Thomas Dennis married my great great grandmother Jane Ann Alexander,29 May 1830 in Upchurch,Kent.
 Thomas was born abt 1806 in Molash,Kent, son of Thomas Dennis and Elizabeth Coppin.

Jane died in 1843, a few weeks after giving birth to their daughter Sarah.

Thomas Dennis married Caroline Kerslake later in 1843(Caroline was born abt 1821 in Taunton, Somerset ): they had three children, born in 1844, 1846 and 1847.
Their daughter Emma Jane Ashdown Dennis was baptised 14 April 1844 in Upchurch.
Emma Dennis married Henry John Swan in 1863. They lived initially in Rainham,Kent and later moved to Herne,Kent (also known as Herne Street).
Henry John Swan was a brother of my great grandmother Amelia Jane Dennis (nee. Swan).

In the 1840 Directory for Newington and Rainham there is a Caroline Kerslake listed as "Linen Draper, Rainham".

The story gets more complicated.