The Bent and Liddon Families

This page lists those members of the related Bent and Liddon families whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research. At present we know very little about the early history of either family, but we hope that by publishing this summary here we can make contact and exchange data with people who can tell us more or who can point us in the right direction to continue our own research.

Our ancestors from the Bent family lived in the West Midlands, on what was then the border between Staffordshire and Worcestershire. We have traced our line back to George Bent and Ann Lee, who were married in 1760 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire. We know very little else about them, although we have found records relating to their descendants in Kingswinford and other parishes in that area. The family surname was sometimes spelt Bint or Bintt. Two children named George Bent were baptised in Manchester in 1731, but we have found nothing so far to connect them to our family.

Their daughter Sarah Bent married John Liddon in 1814 in Melcombe Regis, now part of Weymouth in Dorset. We know nothing for certain about John Liddon other than that he was a shoemaker. We have found several baptisms of a John Liddon (or Lyddon) at about the right time, and the death in Taunton of one of the right age and occupation, but nothing so far to connect any of these people to our family. By the 1841 census Sarah and her son Thomas Liddon were living in London, where the next generation of the Liddon family was born.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records.

1. Children of George Bent and Ann Lee

2. Children of George Bent and Amy Hughes (see table 1 above)

3. Children of John Liddon and Sarah Bent (see table 1 above)

4. Children of George Bent and Mary Peters (see table 2 above)

5. Children of Thomas Liddon and Charlotte Jeffreys (see table 3 above)

6. Children of George Bent and Caroline Ledington (see table 4 above)

7. Children of Thomas James Bent and Jemima Price (see table 4 above)

8. Children of Thomas John Liddon and Elizabeth Emma Taylor (see table 5 above)

9. Children of Henry Liddon and Ellen Gray (see table 5 above)

10a. Children of Benjamin Bent and Eliza Ledington (see table 4 above)

10b. Children of Benjamin Bent and Annie Cook (see table 4 above)

11. Children of John Bent and Sarah Ann Pritchard(s) (see table 4 above)