Dent
This is a frequently encountered surname in Stowupland’s archives but as yet we know of few family connections.
Thomas Dent was buried in a Paupers Grave at Onehouse, date 15/01/1826 at the age of 64. (from research by Ray Taylor)
Thomas Dent married Susan Wileden on 17th April 1815. He was a coal porter and they lived on what was to become Station road. They had 9 children:
Thomas (23.2.1816 – 30.6.1829)
Joseph (b 2.10.1837)
Issac (28.10. 1822 – 11.8.1899)
Thomas (7.5.1836 – 3.8.1904) – father of Thomas William Ralf (b 1858)
Elisa (30.8.1829 – 8.6.1855)
Susan (7.7.1827 – 17.4.1828)
Thomas died on the 9th June, 1865, 5 weeks after his wife had died.
William Dent, Kelly’s 1869 a carpenter
James Dent was born in 1870, he was a builder, butcher, poultryman and sweep
The P.O. Directory names Thomas Dent as a grocer, hop & ale & porter merchant in Stowmarket.
William Dent, (Kellys) 1896 carpenter
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In 1890 C.M.Dent had had to be removed from the register of pupil teachers of Stowupland Elementary school due to poor health
Miss Dent was a teacher at Stowupland Elementary school between 1899 – 1902 (1899 Article 68, 1902 article 50)
Arthur Dent was married to Edith (Edie) Robinson sometime around the 1900s, but according to her cousin Leslie Brame ‘he was a complete failure as a husband…supposed to be running a business of some kind, but that proved a fantasy and he feigned illness and bludged on Edie and what she could earn by taking in washing. It was not long before the two separatedand Arthur disappeared, and even his family didnot know where he was. Edith remained Mrs Dent, and stayed with her mother-in-law on The Green, who had now married Eldred Wilding.’
Twentieth century, Dents newsagents on the corner of Devon Road, Stowupland
