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unusual facts about Emma Darwin


Bernard Darwin

Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent are: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield.


Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

In April 1819, Sismondi married a Welshwoman, Jessie Allen (1777–1853), whose sister, Catherine Allen, was the wife of Sir James Mackintosh and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood.

Maer, Staffordshire

The Hall became the home of Josiah Wedgwood II and was frequently visited by his nephew Charles Darwin, who went on to marry Josiah's daughter Emma at St. Peter’s Church, which stands higher on the hillside, close to the Hall.


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