CHARLES DICKENS'S CHILDREN
Zomer 2005 no. 53
by A. J. Pionton
The Dutch Dickensian Volume XXV
Name/Dates
Charles Culliford Boz (1837 - 96) (after uncle)
Mary 1838-96 (after Mary Hogarth)
Nickname/Family
"Charley" m 1862 'Flaster Floby"
8 children
4 grandchildren
"Mamie" "Mild Glo'ster" not married
Kate Macready (1839-1929) (after mother)
'Katey" "Lucifer Box" m Charles Collins 1860 (d 1873)
m Carlo Perugini (1874) 1 baby (dl876)
Walter Landor (1841-63) (after name-sake) d. In India "Young Skull" not married
(heart attack)
Francis Jeffrey (1844-86) (after Lord Francis Jeffrey) d. "Frank" "Chickenstalker" (cleverest son?) not married
Canada (heart attack)
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson (1845-1912) (after Count
D'Orsay Tennyson)
"Skittles" m. "Belle of Melbourne" (1873) 2 children (no
grandchildren) 2nd m. (1888)
Sydney Smith Haldimond (1847-72) (after Rev. S.S.
And friend near Lausanne) d. Heart attack
'Ocean Spectre" not married
Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933) (after author of "Harry" m Marie Roche (1876) 7 children 21
"Tom Jones") grandchildren
Dora Annie (1850-51)
Edward Bulwer Lytton (1852-1902) (after Lord Lytton, "Plorn" married no children
great friend of author)
4 sons and poss. Dora Annie, had heart problems 6 sons, had money troubles
