| Husband: | Jarvis Dent (c. 1755-1821) | |
| Wife: | Sarah Ogle ( - ) | |
| Children: | Jarvis Dent (1779-1857) | |
| Marriage | 20 Sep 1773 | Scawby, Lincolnshire |
| Name: | Jarvis Dent | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1755 | Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire |
| Death | 1821 (age 65-66) | Scawby, Lincolnshire |
| Name: | Sarah Ogle | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Name: | Jarvis Dent | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Jane Jarvis (c. 1794- ) | |
| Birth | 1779 | Scawby, Lincolnshire |
| Baptism | 27 Dec 1779 (age 0) | Scawby, Lincolnshire (Gervase Dent) |
| Census | 1851 (age 71-72) | Builder, Wrawby St, Brigg, Lincs |
| Death fact | 1857 (age 77-78) | 1857 Dec Qtr, Glanford Brigg, 7a/374 |
| Death | 1857 (age 77-78) | Brigg, Lincolnshire |
In 1784, Jarvis Dent, with Benjamin Beeley, Joseph Barnard and John Kettlewell, registered a house in his occupation for a Dissenters' meeting. Morning worship, baptisms, marriages and funerals were in Scawby Old Church: other services were in the house.
Benjamin Beeley moved on, but these Methodist meetings soon included the Ogles, the Streets, the Marshes, the Reeders and others. They were a close group, with Jarvis Dent in charge of the Society. He had married Sarah Ogle in 1775: their daughter Ann married John Marsh. Hannah Marsh married Joseph Barnard: Sarah Ann Marsh married Matthew Phillipson. John Kettlewell married Elizabeth Dent: Ann Kettlewell married Richard Reeder from Cleatham.
Jarvis Dent had moved to Scawby from Hibaldstow when he married. Eight of his family survived: ten died in infancy. Such was the way of things. Jarvis died in Scawby in 1821, aged 66: Sarah died in 1838, aged 66, just four years after the Wesleyan Chapel opened.
From Scawby Church - Early Days (with acknowledgements)