French family from Dartford, Kent, Eng.
Does anyone know of the French's of Dartford in Kent? The information I have is that Ellen Stevens, born 1866, married a Henry French and they had two children, Elsie, born about 1891, and Henry Charles, born 24th February, 1893. I think that Henry had a bad reputation and Ellen left him and her two children, to live with a man named Dean nr. Worthing in Sussex, in 1898. Elsie went to live with her mothers sister, Julia Summers, andyoung Henry went first to his maternal grandmother and when she couldn't afford to keep him he was sent to Barnados on 18th May,1898 and seven years later was sent on the farm scheme to Ontario, Canada, Elsie later went to Windsor, Ontario and married a James Garner(no, not that one). I know what happened to young Henry (he was my father-in-law) and I know when his mother died,June 1911, buried in Tarring Cemetery, His father died of drink in June 1899 and is buried in a paupers grave in Woolwich, but I don't know about theancestors of the older Henry so any info will be gratefully received.