Georgine Louise Bennett

About Georgine Louise Bennett

• Occupation: none, as far as is known
• Lived: 1795–1881
• Employer: none, as far as is known
• In which maritime sector did she work? As far as is known, she was not active in the maritime sector.

What else can be said about her life?

From 1821 until his death in 1852, she was married to Gerhard Möritz Roentgen (1795–1852), a ship designer, lieutenant commander, adjutant to the director and commander of the Navy in the Main Department of the Meuse, and in 1823 founder and director of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (together with J.A. van Vollenhoven) (later the Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord). Georgine and Gerhard met in England, where she was born and he worked for some time. The couple had no children. Thanks to his involvement with the NSM, she had financial security after his death, in the form of 96 shares at 500 guilders each in the NSM. In 1850, the couple lived at Schiedamsedijk 687 in Rotterdam. In the final years of his life, Roentgen became “insane” and was admitted to a so-called insane asylum, where he died. After his death, Georgine Bennett returned to England, where she is said to have died in 1881.

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