Charles Pine Bennett (1852 - 1901)

Born 6 Sep 1852 in Port Natal, South Africa

Ancestors

Husband of Lillias Duncan (Marshall) Bennett — married 22 Sep 1880 in Ballarat

Died 20 Jan 1901 at age 48 in Cape Town, South Africa

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Charles Pine Bennett was born on 6 September 1852 at Port Natal, South Africa, and named after the Governor-general. Pine came to Ballarat as a child where he was educated and was a very good rower, wining many trophies. He was a draper in Ballarat when he married Lillias Duncan Marshall on 22 September 1880 at the Presbyterian Church. The witnesses to the marriage were W.H. Eyres and Jane Wilson. They had six children, two of whom died in infancy: Lillias 30 October 1881 -22 January 1882 and Eliza Talbot 14 June 1888 -died same day. Charles died on 2 Jan 1901 at Cape Town, South Africa. [The Ballarat Star, 4 March 1901] In 1908 Lillias D Bennett was a dressmaker of 613 Dana Street, and in 1912 lived there with Rebecca Goulding Bennett and Ida Bennett and ran a boarding house. In 1915 Lillias was living in Holmes Street Ballarat. Lillias died in Preston in 1934 aged 72.

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