Lorrimer's of Kent

[Cockneyrebel]

Family rumour has it that a lady named Ann or Sophia born  to the above family was born in Kent about 1791 and married aged 16 in about 1807 to a much older man, a colonel in the East India Company who apparently had a castle in Kent or elsewhere. He treated her very badly and they had 2 children, he then died before she was 18 so about 1809? I don't know whether the children died but she married again in the 1820s.
Cr

[bearkat]

It's difficult with so little to go on.

There aren't many Lorrimers (or variants) in Kent.

Do you know who she remarried?  Is she on the 1841 or 1851 census?  An 1851 census entry would be very useful as it should give her birth parish.

[Milliepede]

So the two children would be called Lorrimer and born 1807-1809. 

If they survived they should be on census.

[Milliepede]

There is a Sophia Lorrimer born 1791, maybe her father William Lorrimer is the much older man?

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick there and Lorrimer was her maiden name?

[Cockneyrebel]

Ann or Sophia married John Harrison in 1821 (he died 26 Jul 1834) when she was 29-30, so it's believed that she was married before to the older colonel of Kent. At 1841 she was a widow aged 50 with 7 Harrison children living in Old Windsor. In 1851 she was a widow Harrison aged 60 living in Marylebone with 2 of her Harrison children. As Sophia Harrison she died 11 Jan 1862 in Maidstone, Bower Place, Kent aged 71.
Cr

[bearkat]

On the 1861 census (if I've found the correct entry) it looks like her place of birth is Boughton Malherbe.

[bearkat]

A possible marriage

John Harrison and Sophia Carter 22nd Dec 1821, St Martin-In-The-Fields, Westminster. No mention of whether she was a widow.


You would expect a marriage licence if she was so young at her first marriage.

[Eyesee]

CR

See a couple of trees on Ancestry have a daughter of John and Sophia, named Clarissa HARRISON marrying a James CAZALY, whose mother was a Lorimer. James and Clarissa and their daughters came down under.

Are they part of the same CAZALY line you were asking about recently in the London board.

There is a Sophia LORIMER born 1791 in Stepney d/o William and Elizabeth that some trees have as the Sophia who married CARTER and then John HARRISON.

Ann LORIMER who married James CAZALY is said to have the same parents as the Sophia, William LORIMER and Elizabeth HANCOCK.

Ian C

[Cockneyrebel]

Bearkat and Eyesee that is the correct marriage and family from the London board. Where did you find the 1861 Census, I couldn't find it?
Cr