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David DENNE #45125

1798 - 3 DEC 1861

Personal Information

  • BIRTH: 1798
  • DEATH: 3 DEC 1861

Notes

"The Gentleman's Magazine; January-June 1862; Obituary.
Suddenly at Lydd, aged 63, David Denne, esq., of Lydd, Deputy-Lieut. and Justice of the Peace for the County of Kent. He was the eldest son of the late David Denne, esq., of Lydd, by Katherine, dau. of Robert Cobbe, esq., and was born in 1798. He was educated at Eton, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1819, and proceded M.A. in 1822. He was for many years a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieut. for Kent, and formerly held a commission as Capt. in the Cinque Ports and East Kent Yeomanry. He married in 1826, Louisa Anne, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Cobb, Rector of Ightham, Kent, by whom he has left issue. He is succeeded in the family estates by his son and successor, Mr. Thomas Planta Denne, who was born in 1829, and was formerly Lieut. in the 10th Foot. The family of Denne, or Dene, is traditionally said to have been established in Kent before the Conquest, by a Norman, Robert de Dene, who held large estates in that county and in Sussex, and was Steward to King Edward the Confessor."

Parents

Family 1 :

Wife: Louisa Anne COBB

  • MARRIAGE: 1826
Note: They were first cousins; both being grandchildren of Robert Cobb and Amey Godfrey.
 
 

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 _David DENNE ________|
| (1754 - 1819) m 1798|
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|--David DENNE 
|  (1798 - 1861)
|                                            _Thomas COBB ________+
|                                           | (1703 - 1798)       
|                      _Robert COBB ________|
|                     | (1743 - 1807) m 1766|
|                     |                     |_Hester SKINNER _____
|                     |                       (1707 - 1800)       
|_Katherine COBB _____|
  (1767 - 1859) m 1798|
                      |                      _____________________
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                      |_Amey GODFREY _______|
                        (1742 - 1822) m 1766|
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