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Leonora Horner (1818–1854)
Leonora Pertz (1854–1908)

1818–1908

Daughter of Leonard Horner. Translator, with Joanna Baillie Horner, of German works. Married the German historian Georg Heinrich Jacob Pertz in Berlin in 1854. Died in Cambridge.

Sources

ADB s.v. Pertz, Georg Heinrich

BMD (Marriage index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1901 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG13/77/197/57)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 August 2016)

Freeman 1978

Germany, Lutheran baptism, marriages, and burials, 1564–1938 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 August 2016)

NUC

ODNB s.v. Pertz, Dora

Bibliography

ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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