Did Charles Dickens have descendants?

Question

Did Charles Dickens have descendants?

Answer 1

Charles Dickens married Catherine T. Hogarth in 1836 whereupon she gave birth to the following children:

---Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837-1896)

---Mary Angela Dickens (1838-96)

---Catherine Macready Dickens, known as Kate (1839-1929)

---Walter Landor Dickens (1841-63)

---Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844-86)

---Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912)

---Sidney Smith H. Dickens (1847-72)

---Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933)

---Dora Annie Dickens (1850-51)

---Edward Bulmar Lytton Dickens (1852-1902)

Somewhere along the line, Dickens discovered that he no longer loved Catherine, separating from her in 1858 and taking as a mistress the actess Ellen Ternan, one of the great scandels of the Victorian Age.  In 1929, Dickens' daughter, Kate, alleged that Dickens and Ternan had a son who died in infancy, but no contemporary evidence of this birth exists.

The public family member tree that I was able to access on Ancestry.com noted that Alfred d' Orsay Tennyson Dickens married Jessie Devlin in 1879, and she gave birth to two daughters:  Catherine Mary and Violet; both of whom died in Australia.

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure he does, even if they aren't direct descendants.

Answer 4

Yes he does. I read an article in a UK genealogy magazine about him, written by his great-great-great-grandson (or something like that). He mentioned that he'd always known he was a descendent of Dickens, although when he researched Charles' parents, he realised his father was in jail!

Answer 5

yeah i actually i'm friends with one of them! (in all seriousness i am. she's like his great great great great great niece. well i'm sure not that many generations... maybe she's his cousin. i can't remember.)