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Charles Dickens' father was John Dickens, born 1786, died 1851. He was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office in Portsmouth. He married Elizabeth (née Barrow, 1789-1863). John Dickens went to debt prison, but when his mother died, she left him some money and he used that to get released.

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