John Larkins Kensington

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son and executor of Charles Kensington, London merchant.

  1. Will of Charles Kensington City Chambers PROB 11/1470 proved 06/11/1807.

  2. Charles Kensington married Louisa Delaporte 02/01/1773 at St John Zachary City of London, and the couple's daughters Cecilia Jane and Almira were baptised 11/11/1777 at St Olave Hart Street and 12/01/1791 at St Alfege Kent respectively.

  3. John Larkins Kensington formerly of Mincing Lane was bankrupt in 1834.


Sources

  1. PROB 11/1470. Charles Kensington of City Chambers Bishopsgate Street and of Blackheath. Bequeathes estates in Tobago to John Pooley Kensington and to Charles' oldest son Charles Snell Kensington in trust to be sold. A note on the will says proved at London [with a codicil] 20/10/1815 ..by the oath of John Larkins Kensington the son and one of the executors named in the said codicil to whom admon was granted.

  2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online] (which in the 1791 entry characterises Charles Kensington as 'a Gent.').

  3. London Gazette 19181 12/08/1834 p. 1487

An unsourced family tree on ancestry.com shows life-date sof 1789-1837 and his death on the Lure estate in Tobago.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Name in compensation records
John L. Kensington
Spouse
Margaret Wilson
Occupation
Merchant

Associated Claims (2)

£92 0s 7d
Awardee
£1,250 19s 1d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)

Relationships (3)

First Cousins
Brothers
Son → Father