Dau. of Jonathan Farr, of Moorfields, citizen and draper of London, by Mary his wife. She married, first, about 22 Mch. 1755 (Mar. Lie. Bp. Lond.), Rev. John Abbot, D.D., Rector of All Saints. Colchester, Essex, who died 29 Apl. 1760, by whom she had two sons, viz., John-Farr Abbot (see his wife's burial 28 Mch. 1794). and Charles Abbot, created Baron Colchester (see his burial 14 May 1829). She married, secondly, at St. Margaret's. Westminster, 14 Oct. 1766, Jeremiah Bentham, of Westminster, Esq. (father, by his first wife, of the celebrated Jeremy Bentham), who died in 1792, and was buried in the Abbey Church at Bath, by whom she appears to have had no issue. In his will he declared that they had lived together with as much conjugal felicity as he could conceive it possible for any one to be blessed with. Her will, dated 11 Nov. 1803, was proved 9 Oct. 1809, by her said son Charles, to whom she bequeathed all her estate.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Dau. of Jonathan Farr, of Moorfields, citizen and draper of London, by Mary his wife. She married, first, about 22 Mch. 1755 (Mar. Lie. Bp. Lond.), Rev. John Abbot, D.D., Rector of All Saints. Colchester, Essex, who died 29 Apl. 1760, by whom she had two sons, viz., John-Farr Abbot (see his wife's burial 28 Mch. 1794). and Charles Abbot, created Baron Colchester (see his burial 14 May 1829). She married, secondly, at St. Margaret's. Westminster, 14 Oct. 1766, Jeremiah Bentham, of Westminster, Esq. (father, by his first wife, of the celebrated Jeremy Bentham), who died in 1792, and was buried in the Abbey Church at Bath, by whom she appears to have had no issue. In his will he declared that they had lived together with as much conjugal felicity as he could conceive it possible for any one to be blessed with. Her will, dated 11 Nov. 1803, was proved 9 Oct. 1809, by her said son Charles, to whom she bequeathed all her estate.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
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