Shep's Place Family Tree

Two years later James married Lucy Carey Brunsden. It was the second marriage for both. James and Lucy had three daughters: Mary, Margaret and Alice.

James spent 21 years in India where he was in charge of the Benevolent Institution which educated 50 boys at first and many more later. They were boys of all religions and races who "poured in from every corner." He was also a deacon at the Circular Road Chapel and president of the Ladies' Society for Female Education.

James died on the 17th of February 1839. He is buried in the Scotch and Dissenters' Burial Ground next to his first wife Mary.

Lucy Penny spent the next thirty years in India with her daughters and their families. After Edwin Dakin's death in 1869, her daughter Margaret Dakin took Lucy back to England where they settled in Bedford. Lucy died there in February 1876.