Josephine Catherine Bonella Dare later Tremlett (née Scarlett)

Annuitant on Jamaican 'slave-property', daughter of Philip Anglin Scarlett (q.v.) and marrying as her first husband Samuel Dare (q.v.) and her second Rev. Francis Tremlett.

1. Josephine Catherine Bonella Scarlett was born 27/09/1806. She appears to have been baptized twice; privately on 18/06/1807 and again on 05/06.1808, both in St. James. She married Samuel Dare 30/05/1826 in St. James.

2. Josephine Bonella Dare married Rev. Francis William Tremlett of Cambridge Terrace in February 1849 at St Johns Paddington. Tremlett died 11/06/1913 at St Peter's Parsonage Belsize Park. He is identified by Amanda Foreman as the unofficial chaplain of the confederate Navy in Britain and the co-founder with Matthew Maury of the Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America.

3. Josephine Bonella Tremlett was admitted to the Brooke H[ospital] 04/01/1865, and appears to have died there 12/01/1876.

4. The death of Josephine Bonell [sic] Tremlett aged 66 was recorded at Hackney Q1 1876.

We are grateful to Benjamin King for his assistance in compiling this entry.

1. B0055 St. James Parish Register I & II, 1770-1825 (Baptisms to 1841), I, pp. 168, 173. B0016 Jamaica Parish Register Marriage I & II, 1826-1839, I, p. 251 #9.

2. Ancestry.com, London, England Marriages and Banns 1754-1921 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1913; Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire (Penguin edition 2011) pp. 589, 625, 673.

3. The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Lunacy Patients Admission Registers; Class: MH 94; Piece Description: Piece 04: 1859-1875. Source Information Ancestry.com. UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

4. Josephine Bonell Tremlett in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915.