Descendants of Benjamin Shenton

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Descendants of Benjamin Shenton



This tree is reproduced much as submitted to us, but we have reservations about generations 1 and 2 as they were shown. Benjamin Shenton at generation 1 is shown in several online trees (probably copied from each other) as born in Jersey in 1771, 1772 or 1773, or in England in 1777. But that would have made him up to 25 years older than his wife and in his mid-60s when the last of their children was born. That is not impossible, but there is no record of his birth in Jersey records and we cannot understand why he would have moved to Ireland, had four children, and then moved back to Jersey and had four more. We think it is more likely that Benjamin was born in Ireland, married Mary Bone there in about 1815, had four children and then emigrated to Jersey before the first of their children to be born in Jersey was baptised in St Brelade in 1827.

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  • 1 Benjamin Shenton ( -1862) [1] m Mary Bone (1797-1876)
    • 2 Benjamin Shenton (1816-1894) [2] m (1846, St B) Jane May (1825- ) daughter of James
      • 3 Jane Maria Shenton (1849-1930) (St B)
      • 3 Louisa Martha Shenton (1850- ) (St B)
      • 3 Isabella Mary Shenton (1851-1855) (St B)
      • 3 Mary Ann Shenton (1853- ) (St B)
      • 3 Clara Sophia Shenton (1855- ) (St B)
      • 3 Benjamin James Shenton (1859-1936) [3] m (1886, London) Rose Osborn (1858-1944)
        • 4 Gertrude Shenton (1898-1946) (Eng)
        • 4 Norman James Shenton (1900-1908) (Eng)
    • 2 James Shenton (1819-1908) (Ire) [4] m (1854, St B) Harriet Wallace (1829-1917), daughter of William
      • 3 Amelia Caroline Shenton (1860-1868)
      • 3 James Alfred Shenton (1864-1901) m (1891, London) Edith Frances Steer (1863- )
      • 3 Albert Wallace Shenton (1867-1908) m (1885, London) Alice McDonald (1868- )
        • 4 Alice Harriet Shenton (1886-1975)
        • 4 Albert William Shenton (1889- )
        • 4 Lydia Ellen Shenton (1891- )
        • 4 Kathleen Violet Shenton (1893- )
        • 4 Joseph Oliver Shenton (1896-1976)
        • 4 Lilian May Shenton (1898- )
        • 4 John Alfred Shenton (1901- )
        • 4 James Shenton (1904- )
        • 4 Constance Lily Shenton (1906-2005)
    • 2 Maria Shenton (1821- ) (Ire) m (1850, St B) George Gordon, son of James
    • 2 Henry George Shenton (1825-1912) (Ire) [5] m (1850, St B) Rachel Amy (1825-1897) daughter of Philip
      • 3 Rachel Maria Shenton (1851- ) (St B) m (1870, St H) Joshua Henry Watts, [6] son of George [7]
      • 3 Henry John Shenton (1852- ) (St B)
      • 3 Benjamin James Shenton (1854-1897) (St B) m (1879, Dartford) Lydia Mary Godden (1853- )
        • 4 Ethel Sarah Shenton (1881- ) (Eng)
        • 4 Alice Harriet Shenton (1885- ) (Eng)
        • 4 Gertrude Lydia Shenton (1885- ) (Eng)
        • 4 Clara Mabel Shenton (1887- ) (Eng)
        • 4 Winifred Amelia Shenton (1890- ) (Eng)
        • 4 Henry John Shenton (1892- ) (Eng)
    • 2 Mary Agnes Shenton (1827-1883) (St B) m (1849, St B) Joseph Royl (1826- ) [8] son of Joseph [9]
    • 2 Martha Shenton (1831-1918) (St B) m Robert Hubble
    • 2 Joseph Shenton (1834-1877) (St B) [10] m Ann Mary Le Masurier, daughter of Francis (1787- )
      • 3 Lydia Ann Shenton (1864-1893) (St B) m (1885, St H) Francis Pinel son of Philip John
      • 3 Alice Mary Shenton (1865-1924) (St B) m (1895, St P) Leonore Corbet (1864- ) [11] son of Charles
      • 3 Anna Clara Shenton (1868-1957) (St B) m (1910, St B) Charles Francis Menard (1876-1944), son of Charles Francis
      • 3 Ellen Laura Shenton (1868- ) (St B)
      • 3 Francis Joseph Shenton (1869-1921) (St B) [12] m 1 (1897, St B) Mary Elizabeth Corbin (1854- ) daughter of Thomas [13]; 2 (1911, St B) Jessie Maud Vernon Le Sueur (1885-1976), daughter of Clement Joseph
        • 4 Lilian Jessie ('Poppy') Shenton (1912- ) [14]
        • 4 Doris Ruby Shenton (1913-1914)
      • 3 Benjamin Henry Shenton (1871- ) [15] m (1897, St B) Beatrice Mary Clarke (1872-1969) (Hitchin, Herts) daughter of Eliza Ann
        • 4 Benjamin Henry Shenton (1898-1989) (St B) m 2 (1950) Edna Mary Graham; 1, Kathleen Mary Troy (1891-1948)
          • 5 Ben Edward Shenton (1923-1942)
          • 5 Constance Mary Shenton (1925-1943)
          • 5 Richard (`Dick`) Joseph Shenton (1926-2013) [16] m Jill Mason
          • 5 Barbara Queenie Shenton (1928-2008)
          • 5 Kathleen Kelly Shenton (1929- )
          • 5 Sheila Teresa Shenton (1932-2013) m (1954) Peter Ninion Britton [17]
          • 5 Robert Shenton
        • 4 Emily Beatrice Shenton (1901- ) (St B)
        • 4 Joseph Hugh Shenton (1907- ) (St B)
        • 4 Minnie Lilian Shenton (1909- ) (St B)
      • 3 Selena Rachel Shenton (1873- ) (St B) m (1893, St B) Charles William Le Ray (1866-1896), son of Philip John
    • 2 Lydia Shenton (1836- ) (St B)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Shoemaker
  2. ↑ To Southampton by 1859
  3. ↑ Probably baptised in England
  4. ↑ Shipwright
  5. ↑ Carpenter
  6. ↑ House decorator
  7. ↑ House decorator
  8. ↑ Carpenter
  9. ↑ Coachman
  10. ↑ Carpenter
  11. ↑ Labourer
  12. ↑ Farmer
  13. ↑ Butcher
  14. ↑ Fisherwoman and boat owner. Living at Maison Alexandre, St Aubin in 1941. She later lived on Bulwark Hill
  15. ↑ Labourer
  16. ↑ Senator in the States of Jersey. He served for some years in the Royal Air Force, stationed in the Middle East and Italy. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1954, returned in 1960, and was elected Senator in 1969, serving until 2005
  17. ↑ See wedding photograph
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