Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
BIRTH
January 28, 1815
PLACE
NAME
Britannia Wellington Peter
DEATH
January 27, 1911
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Thomas Peter
(1769-1834)
MOTHER
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
SISTER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AGED WOMAN’S HOME GEORGETOWN PRESIDENT, CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN SEWING SOCIETY PRESIDENT, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STATE REGENT, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES PRESIDENT, GEORGETOWN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY PRESIDENT, GEORGETOWN BIBLE SOCIETY PRESIDENT, GEORGETOWN ORPHANS ASYLUM DIRECTRESS, LOUISE HOME WASHINGTON DIRECTRESS, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA VICE PRESIDENT, ST. JOHN’S CHURCH GEORGETOWN SEWING SOCIETY PRESIDENT
AWARDS
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815–1911) was born at Tudor Place in Georgetown to Thomas Peter and Martha Custis Peter. She married naval officer Beverley Kennon in 1842 and was widowed when he died in the USS Princeton explosion two years later. Inheriting Tudor Place in 1854, she preserved its house, family objects and memories across the nineteenth century. Her papers and reminiscences connect the Custis and Washington family legacy with later Georgetown history.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon died on Jan 27, 1911. Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon was born at Tudor Place in Georgetown to Thomas Peter and Martha Custis Peter. She married naval officer Beverley Kennon in 1842 and was widowed when he died in the USS Princeton explosion two years later. Inheriting Tudor Place in 1854, she preserved its house, family objects and memories across the nineteenth century. Her papers and reminiscences connect the Custis and Washington family legacy with later Georgetown history. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Oak Hill Cemetery
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