Share Bookmark

Family: Lt.-Gen. Charles Horneck / Sarah Keppel (F278940)

m. 31 May 1773

Family Information    |    Notes    |    All

  • Lt.-Gen. Charles Horneck Male
    Lt.-Gen. Charles Horneck

    Birth    Middlesex, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  8 Apr 1804  Bath, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Marriage  31 May 1773  St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Divorced  1776   
    Other Spouse  Frances Gould | F285409 
    Marriage  1791  Bath, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Kane William Horneck | F278418 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Hannah Mangles | F278418 Group Sheet 

    Sarah Keppel Female
    Sarah Keppel

    Birth  1752-1753  Middlesex, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death     
    Burial     
    Other Spouse  John Scawen | F284554 
    Marriage     
    Father  Earl George Keppel | F283793 Group Sheet 
    Mother   

  • Notes  Married:
    • No Issue
    • She was 20 years old and "under age" (English Law) when she married. Her father was dead before his daughter's wedding.



      In March the following year Sarah returned briefly to the home of her mother the Dowager and then eloped with Johm Scawen with whom she had entered "an adulterous conversation" and the couple went to France and Naples.

      A petition for Divorce was presented to Parliament in 1776 by Charles Horneck her husband.

      The bill was given Royal Consent later that year.

      The Divorce was one of only 318 that were obtained by Act of Parliament ( the only way to get in Divorce in the late 18th century).

      One of the Trustees of the Divorce Settlement was Augustus Keppel (Admiral?) who was involved in a Court Martial a few years later. He could be Sarah Keppel's uncle


Home Page |  What's New |  Most Wanted |  Surnames |  Photos |  Histories |  Documents |  Cemeteries |  Places |  Dates |  Reports |  Sources