Charles Dickens had 7 siblings Alfred Lamert, Frances, Harriet, Augustus, Frederick, Letitia, and Alfred Allen Dickens. His parents names were John and Elizabeth Dickens. Growing up they were a poor family, in 1824 his father got arrested for not being able to pay his debt. But once Charles gained fame from being a writer his dad would go behind his back and sneak loans from friends and publishers. Then, later on Dickens married Catherine Hogarth after his first book, The Pickwick Papers . During the 1850´s, Dickens suffered two losses, his father and daughter passed.