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23.4.17

George Finch 1692

George Finch was the second son of George Finch and Constance Hornby. He was born in 1692 and baptised at St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London. The family acquired Valentines in Essex when George was 10 years old but his father died in 1710 after a long and painful illness.
George married in 1721 but his wife died in 1725. They had two daughters but one died in infancy.
In 1726 George married Mary Garret at Stifford Church. They had three daughters and two sons, but neither son survived so George's estate went back to the male line [his younger brothers?] leaving Mary with limited income after he died.

Mary Garret

Mary Garret was the second wife of George Finch. They married at Stifford Church in Essex in 1726, his first wife having died the previous year leaving two young daughters.
Her father Dan Garret was godfather of his granddaughter Ann Finch born in 1728.
Mary "became a widow at same time as her sister [Anne] Mrs Letheuillier, then they lived together and kept their Chariot and Pair, very snug and comfortable - 2 servants and coachman and footmen."
source - letter from Anne Davies Bracknell 1864
Her granddaughter Dorothy Schoen lived with them after her parents died in 1788.
Mary died in the 1790s.

Dorothy Finch

Dorothy Finch was born at Covent Garden in London in 1729. Her father was George Finch 1692-1740. He married his second wife, Mary Garret in 1726 at Stifford in Essex.
Dorothy married John Henry Schoen at Mortlake, just south of the Thames in Surrey, in 1752.
They had seven sons and one daughter Dorothy, although only three of the sons survived.
Dorothy and her husband both died in 1788 when her daughter was only 13.