 Described as ‘a person of good character and circumstances’, she operated from a tavern, at the Golden Head, in Three Kings Court in Fleet Street.She may have been the widow of a French chef and tavern keeper but by 1757 she had a new husband, Edward Bennet, son of a Sheffield knife-grinder.The contract with the navy was alluded to in advertising material long after it had lapsed, Benjamin Piper, successor in the business announced he was ‘Successor to Messieurs Bennet and Dubois, The original Portable Soup-Makers to His majesty’s Royal Navy’ and one Vigor, successor to Piper, used the same rubric on his flyers.