Mary Dennis was the oldest daughter of Henry Dennis and Margaret King, christened at St James Church in East Malling on 11 Oct, 1635.
Her family may have owned a house in St Giles Cripplegate, London, where Mary married John Hales in the parish church on 1 May 1665.
Mary is only known to have given birth to one child, Jacob Hales. She brought him back to Kent at the age of one, to escape from the last great plague that ravaged London.
Though we hear no more of Mary, her son Jacob found a wife in the parish where she was born.
The Dennis family had moved on to the village of Yalding by that time, and Jacob followed them. All nine of his children were christened at St Peter and St Paul, Yalding. The oldest girl was named Elizabeth, in honour of her mother (and maternal grandmother). The second oldest received the name Mary, after her paternal grandmother Mary Dennis.