Lorrimer's of Kent

[jonwarrn]

Kent newspapers, January 1862
On the 11th inst., at Bower-place, Maidstone, Sophia, relict of the late John Harrison, Esq. of Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, aged 71 years.

Her place of birth has been transcribed as Boughton under Blean but says Boughton Malherbe.

Her occupation is widow of a retired farmer. This is a correction to a long word which I think says Gentlewoman.

Is it a bid odd that the 1861 cesus entry was changed to widow of a retired farmer when husband John was an artist?

Is it also odd that Sophia has the same birthplace as the widowed Sarah Harrisson, 58, of the previous household in Bower Place?
In the 1851 census entry for Sarah at Hope Farm in Lenham it says Husband was Farmer. Proprietor Houses & Land
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGL2-2BJ

Her husband seems to have been Edmund Harrisson who was buried at Boughton Malherbe, 24 Feb 1849, age 60.
Most likely Sarah was Edmund's second wife.

Quite a few Harrisson/Harrison entries in the Boughton Malherbe registers, including Johns. A John Harrisson married Anne Usmar there, 6 March 1816. I don't have access to this.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD2-GQXP

[bearkat]

I'm not sure what to make of it all.

John Harrisson & Anne Usmar married by licence.

Witnesses were George Harrisson & Susan Harrisson

[Cockneyrebel]

ShaunJ 2 of the children on the 1841 Census were from John Harrison's previous marriage, Clarissa  and Amelia (who isn't recorded there) were both Sophia's children with John, born 1822 and 1821. Maybe the 2 grandchildren (can't find them) shown at 1861 were from the two brothers Thomas and Frederic of 1841? The 1861 census shows Sophia with her daughter Emily too. I don't think that Sarah is Sophia. It may well be that Sophia returned to her county of birth before she died.
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[ShaunJ]

Maybe the 2 grandchildren (can't find them) shown at 1861 were from the two brothers Thomas and Frederic of 1841?

The two granddaughters were aged 23 and 24 in 1861 so born 1836-8.

[Cockneyrebel]

Maybe Sophia and Sarah were sisters or sisters in law? Seems strange they were both born in Boughton Malherbe?
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[Cockneyrebel]

Another idea, little is known about John Harrison's birth  or his father's who was also John, maybe Edmund was a brother?
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[bearkat]

Ann Lorrimer married James Cazaly 31 December 1808 at St Paul's, Covent Garden.

I can see 2 possible children to the marriage
James baptised I January 1808 at Saint Leonards, Shoreditch (Born 27 August) of Queen St
Elizabeth Sophia Ann 13 July 1820 at Saint Leonards, Shoreditch. James was described as a Gentleman.

Just to add the is a Cazaly family history here
https://www.shade.id.au/Cazaly/CAZALY%20history%20summary%20v2.pdf

[Cockneyrebel]

It appears that Edmund Harrisson married Elizabeth Boorman in 1819 then Sarah Boorman in 1826, there was a Sophia Boorman born 1788?
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[Cockneyrebel]

bearkat, James was the only child born 1809 but his father died in 1810 so Elizabeth wasn't his.
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