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Maria Burnley Hume (1817–1843)
Maria Burnley Gubbins (1843–1862)
Maria Burnley Bathoe (1862–1885)

1817–85

Daughter of Joseph Hume MP (ODNB) and his wife Maria Burnley; baptised in St Marylebone, Middlesex. Married Charles Gubbins of the Bengal Civil Service in 1843. Lived in India in the 1840s. Charles Gubbins changed his surname to Bathoe in 1862. Lived at 6 Bryanston Square, London, in 1871.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/166/86/46)

Correspondence vol. 19, letter from M. B. Bathoe, 25 March [1871]

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 March 2015)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 March 2015)

England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 March 2015)

Gentleman’s Magazine February 1867: 259

Morning Herald, 3 December 1862, p. 1

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

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