Mary Ann Meek
1817–75
Schoolteacher. Daughter of Thomas William Smith Meek and his wife Ann of Betley, Staffordshire. Sister of Jane, wife of George Dulin, one of CD’s copyists. Lived on the Wirral in Cheshire. School inspector with her mother, sister Margaret Grantham and brother-in-law Wilkinson Grantham in Birkenhead, 1851; schoolteacher with her now widowed sister, also a schoolteacher, and niece Ellen Evelyn Dulin in Higher Bebington, 1861; schoolteacher with her sister and aunt in Tranmere, 1871.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
CD’s Address book (Down House MS)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2175/307/38), 1861 (RG9/2637/107/26), 1871 (RG10/3752/22/38)
letter from Emma Darwin to Henrietta Emma Darwin, 21 February [1870] (DAR 219.9: 74)
Liverpool Mercury, 2 August 1875, p. 3
Staffordshire, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1900 (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 September 2022)
Bibliography
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.
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