Birth: 1753 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Father: William Keene (Keens) 1718-1787
Mother: Sarah Collins 1717-a1756
Christening: 24 March 1753 St Andrew, Farnham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 5 November 1779 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Sarah Knight 1757-1844
Death: 21 August 1838 Linstead, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 27 August 1838 East of Chancel No. 27, All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Frances Keen [Baker] 1781-1859
Sarah Keen [Sturt] 1782-1865
Edward Keen 1783-1850
Mary Keen [Parsons] 1785-1866
William Keen 1787-1861
John Keen 1788
Richard Keen 1791-1866
Daniel Keen 1793-1860
Anna Marie Keen [Heward] 1796-1875
Elizabeth Keen 1801-1802
Entry in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Edward Keens baptised on 24 March 1753 at Farnham, St Andrew, father William. "1753 Baptised [...] March [...] 24 Edward Son of William Keens".
Entry in Ancestry London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 for Edward Keen, a bachelor of Farnham St Andrew and Sarah Knight a spinster of All Saints, Headley on 20 October 1779 at Farnham St Andrew sealed in the presence of William Keen.
Entry in Headley Marriages for Edward Keene of Farnham, Surrey and Sarah Knight on 5 November 1779, witnesses Danial Knight and John Hunt.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Edward Keene and Sarah Knight on 5 November 1779 at Headey All Saints, Surrey. "The Year 1779 Page 1 1779 No. 1: Edward Keene of the Parifh of Farnham in the County of Surrey & Sarah Knight of this Parish were Married in this Church by Licence this fifth Day of November in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Seventy & Nine [...] in the Presence of Daniel Knight and John Hunt.
His first daughter was born in Tilford and baptised in Frensham in 1781 and the last nine children were baptised in Headley from 1782 to 1801.
Death of Edward Keen in FreeBMD in July-September 1838 in Farnham (4 3).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Edward Keen buried on 27 August 1838 in Headley, Hampshire.
Entry in Headley Burials for Edward Keen of Linstead on 27 August 1838 aged 85.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Burials, 1813-1987 for Edward Keen on 27 August 1838 aged 85 at Headley All Saints, Surrey. Page 60 Burials in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1838 [...] Edward Keen No. 475 of Linstead on August 27 aged 85 Yrs".
Entry in Headley Monumental Inscrptions East of Chancel No. 27 "In memory of/Edward Keen/who died/August 21 1838/aged 85 years/also/Sarah/his wife/who died/August 6 1844/aged 87 years."
There are eleven entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edward Keen, six of which give his birth in Godalming, Surrey on 10 July 1752, parents Edward Keen and Elizabeth Actland, and six in Farnham Surrey in 1753, parents William Keen and Sarah Collins, several add his marriage to Sarah Knight in Headley (Headless All Saints, Hampshire in one) on 5 November 1779, ten or so children and his death on 21 August 1838 in Headley, Hampshire.
Edward Keen was the father of Frances Keen, wife of Richard Baker, my third great granduncle.
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