The daughter of the playwright James Kenney and his wife Louisa, formerly Holcroft; she married the physician Samuel John Jeaffreson (d. 1870) and was the mother of the music critic Rosa Newmarch.

REFERENCES TO Sophie Jeaffreson [née Kenney]:

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, 13 November 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Louisa Kenney, [December? 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)