CELIA BERTHA OFFEN was born circa 1878 in Biddenden,
Kent (source : 1901 census).
She was baptised in 1878 in Brookland, Kent (source : Collette Kendall). There is a birth listed for a CELIA BERTHA OFFEN
in June quarter 1864 (source : Ancestry England and Wales, Civil Registration Index, county Kent, volume 2a, page 579).
On the 1881 census, 3-year-old Celia is at Biddenden, Kent (source : Pete Bradshaw).
On the 1891 census, aged 13, she shows up with her little brother Ernest at their grandparents' home Monks in Smarden, Kent.
Her mother had just died a few months before and her father's new wife was expecting a baby,
so this was probably an arrangement to give them some space to settle in.
She married her "cousin" JACK OFFEN in 1900
(source : Collette Kendall). This marriage is registered in December quarter 1900
(source : Ancestry England and Wales, Civil Registration Index, county Kent, volume 2a, page 1565).
JACK OFFEN was born circa 1870 in Lenham, Kent (source : 1901 census).
He was baptised in 1870 in Smarden, Kent (source : Collette Kendall). On the 1871 census, Jack, aged 1
, was with his family in Lenham Village, Kent. On the 1881 census, he is an 11-year-old scholar with his grandparents
at Smarden, Kent (source : Pete Bradshaw). On the 1891 census, he is a 21-year-old butcher's assistant,
at home in Marden, Kent (source : Pete Bradshaw).
On the 1901 census, Jack (31, master butcher, employer, working at home), Celia (23),
an as-yet-unnamed 11-day-old baby (ADELINE) and Jack's
15-year-old sister ALICE OFFEN (born Marden, Kent) are all in High Street, Marden, Kent.
Jack died in 1933 (source : Collette Kendall).
The Children of CELIA BERTHA OFFEN and JACK OFFEN:
ADELINE DORCAS MARY OFFEN was born in 1901 in Marden, Kent
(source : Collette Kendall and 1901 census). On the 1901 census,
she was 11 days old and as-yet- unnamed, living in Marden, Kent, with her parents. There is a birth registered for
Adeline Dorcas M Offen in June quarter 1901 (source : Ancestry England and Wales, Civil Registration Index , county Kent,
volume 2a, page 804a).