Dickens family

The Dickens Family (and friends) in 1864 - (l-r) Charles Dickens, Jr., Kate Dickens, Charles Dickens, Miss Hogarth, Mary Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Georgina Hogarth

Dickens family are the descendants of John Dickens, the father of the English novelist Charles Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office and had eight children from his marriage to Elizabeth Barrow. Their second child was Charles Dickens, whose descendants include the novelist Monica Dickens, the writer Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and the actors Harry Lloyd and Brian Forster.

John Dickens was according to his son Charles "a jovial opportunist with no money sense" and was the inspiration for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield.

The family members include:

John Dickens (1785–1851)

married Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863); 8 children

Frances (Fanny) Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English novelist of the Victorian era

married Catherine Hogarth (1815–1879); 10 children

1. Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896), editor and writer, married Elizabeth Matilda Moule Evans; 8 children, including

Mary Angela Dickens (1862– 1948), journalist and novelist and writer of Children's Stories from Dickens^[1]
Sydney Margaret Dickens, married Thomas Whinney

Humphrey Whinney

Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney, Church of England bishop

2. Mary "Mamie" Dickens (1838–1896)

3. Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929), artist, married (i) Charles Allston Collins (1828–1872), (ii) Charles Edward Perugini (1839–1918); 1 child by (ii), died in infancy.

4. Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863), officer in the British Indian Army

5. Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844–1886), member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

6. Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912), emigrated to Australia; lecturer on his father's life; 2 daughters

7. Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872) a Royal Navy officer

8. Henry Fielding Dickens (1849–1933), King's Counsel and barrister; married Marie Roche (1852–1940); 7 children

Enid Henrietta Dickens (1877–1950) married Ernest Bouchier Hawksley (1876–1931)

Aileen Dickens Bouchier Hawksley (1907–1961) married (i) Downing (ii) Alan Napier-Clavering^[2]

Jennifer Downing (1932–1993) actress, married Peter Forster (1920–1982)

Brian Forster, actor, great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens^[3]

Cyril Dickens Bouchier Hawksley (1909–1976)

Henry Dickens Bouchier Hawksley

Lucinda Anne Dickens Hawksley, author, great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens

Henry Charles Dickens (1878–1966)

Monica Enid Dickens (1915–1992), British writer, great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens

Gerald Charles Dickens (1879–1962), Admiral in the Royal Navy

Peter Gerald Charles Dickens (1917–1987), Captain in the Royal Navy

Mark Dickens, Royal Navy officer^[4]
Marion Evelyn Dickens

Harry Lloyd, actor, great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens

David Charles Dickens (1925–2005), editor of medical books, great grandson of Charles Dickens

Gerald Charles Dickens, actor, great-great grandson of Charles Dickens

Cameron Thomas Charles Dickens

Philip Charles Dickens (1887–1964)

Cedric Charles Dickens (1916–2006), great-grandson of Charles Dickens and steward of his literary legacy

Cedric Charles Dickens (1889–1916), died in World War I

9. Dora Annie Dickens (1850–1851)

10. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852–1902), emigrated to Australia

Alfred Allen Dickens (1813–1813)
Letitia Dickens (1816–1893), married Henry Austin, architect and artist
Harriet Dickens (1819–1824)
Frederick Dickens (1820–1868)
Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822–1860), railway engineer

Five children

Augustus Dickens (1827–1866) moved to Chicago in the United States with Bertha Phillips (1829–1868)^[5]^[6]

Bertram, Adrian and Amy Bertha Dickens

Frederick Dickens was the inspiration for Fred, the dissolute brother of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop.

Dickens family

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