Family
In 1784, Mahomed emigrated to Cork, Ireland, with the Baker family. There he studied to improve his English language skills at a local school, where he fell in love with Jane Daly, a 'pretty Irish girl of respectable parentage'. The Daly family was opposed to their relationship, and the couple thus eloped to another town to get married in 1786. At that time it was illegal for Protestants to marry non-Protestants, so Mahomed converted from Islam to Anglicanism in order to marry Jane Daly. They later moved to Brighton, England, at the turn of the 19th century.
Sake Dean Mahomed and his wife Jane Daly had five children: Rosanna, Henry, Horatio, Frederick, and Arthur. They also had a daughter named Amelia in 1808. His son, Frederick, was a proprietor of Turkish baths at Brighton, and also ran a boxing and fencing academy near Brighton. His most famous grandson, Frederick Henry Horatio Akbar Mahomed (c. 1849–1884), became an internationally known physician, who worked at Guy's Hospital in London and made important contributions to the study of high blood pressure), Another of Sake Dean Mahomed's grandsons, Rev. James Kerriman Mahomed, was appointed as the vicar of Hove, Sussex in late 19th century.
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