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Darwin Correspondence Project

Mary Ann Westwood (1854–1881)
Mary Ann Parslow (1882–1942)

1854–1942

Children’s nurse. Daughter of Edward Westwood, cheesemonger and later cab proprietor, and Jane Westwood, of Finsbury, Middlesex. Bernard Darwin’s nurse. Married Arthur Parslow in April 1881.

Sources

BMD (Birth index, Marriage index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/855/85/6 s.v. Mary A. Westbrook)

letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11] April 1881 (DAR 219.9: 261)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 26 September 2016)

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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