Father of novelist, Charles Dickens. The son of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824), John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth in Hampshire. On 13 June 1809 at St Mary le Strand, London, he married Elizabeth Barrow. They had eight children:
Children of John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow:
Frances (Fanny) Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848) Charles John Huffam Dickens (famous novelist) Letitia Dickens (1816–1893) Harriet Dickens (1819–1824) Frederick "Fred" Dickens (1820-1868) Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822-1860) Augustus Newnham Dickens (1827-1866)
John Dickens is buried with his wife Elizabeth in Highgate Cemetery.
