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Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen

Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen was born in London in 1763. She was the only daughter of John Henry Schoen and Dorothy Finch. She had five older and one younger brothers. Three of her brothers survived. George Letheuillier Schoen was a Doctor of Law at Oxford, and Henry and William "went on to occupy important positions".
Dorothy's parents died in 1788 when she was 13 and at boarding school. She then lived with her grandmother Mary Finch and her great Aunt Anne Letheuillier.
Mary Finch died shortly before her marriage to Rev. John Davies in 1796, soon after he finished his studies. It seems [from other ancestors] that a wife was a useful acquisition at this stage of a clerical career.
Family information received suggested that although she had been brought up strictly in the established church, she had incurred the displeasure of her family by becoming a non-conformist and had further increased the rift by marrying a Methodist minister. I wonder if this may have occurred in her parents' generation as later information has suggested that the Schoens came from a background of dissent, while the Finches were aristocratic.
Dorothy and John Davies had four daughters and two sons. Their eldest daughter who was not married, lived with them. Ebenezer, the youngest, emigrated with his young family, to Victoria in 1849.
Dorothy died at Warfield in 1846 aged 81. They had moved from Reading to Bracknell Congregational Church in Berkshire in 1844.

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