When William Kent was born about November 1802, in St Dennis, Cornwall, England, his father, William Kent, was 11799 and his mother, Grace Varcoe, was 24. He married Mary Best on 9 November 1823, in St Dennis, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in St Stephen, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in April 1851, in Veryan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 48.
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English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland, where English bearers of this name settled in Meath, in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
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