About John Kent
"First black policeman in UK lived in Carlisle", News & Star, October 19th, 2006
"Slave trade legacy", BBC, November 2nd, 2006
"The white Cumbrian farmer with a slave ancestor", BBC, February 23rd, 2007
"Carlisle man was UK's first black policeman", ITV News, November 4th, 2016
"Sir Lenny Henry's study of Carlisle's police pioneer", News & Star, February 27th, 2017
Inside Out North West, BBC, March 6th, 2017
Possible christening (same names, different date), mother is listed as "Eleanor Wilson." This John Kent had a number of brothers and sisters.
Census:
- 1841, with family
- 1851, with family cousin Isabella Booth
- 1861, with family, cousin Isabella and daughter
- 1881, with grand-daughter Jane Booth (year of birth estimated to 1801)
Brother's christening? His burial. Perhaps another brother of the same name born the following year, mother is listed as "Honor Wilson" (he is the one from the 1851 and 1861 census)
The same dates for the first individual are given for a Thomas Kent, but the mother is "Mary Pickering".
A possible sister Sarah, if his obituary is to be believed and his father married a Mary Pickering. It is a Sarah that the above mentioned farmer descends from but this is a burial record. Another Sarah Kent was baptised in 1808 in Hesket, the mother was a "Mary Maughan". She seems to have married a Thomas Lamb and appears with him in the 1871 census and is, presumably, the Sarah Lamb in the 1841 census with a couple of Kents.
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John Kent's Timeline
| 1807 |
1807
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Low Hesket, Carlisle, Cumberland, England UK
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| 1886 |
July 19, 1886
Age 79
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Henry Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, England UK
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Grave 150, Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
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