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Darwin Correspondence Project

Alice Miles (1874–1897)
Alice Mann (1898–1943)

1874–1943

Daughter of Samuel Miles and his wife Caroline (née Tasker), butler and cook to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s aunt, until her death in 1880. Dressmaker in Hampton, Middlesex, 1891. Married Sydney Thomas Mann (1867–1946), corn merchant and contractor, later civil servant, in Richmond, Surrey, in 1897. Living in retirement in Brighton, Sussex, 1939.

Sources

1939 England and Wales register (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG101/2439E)

BMD (Birth index, Marriage index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/855/89/13), 1891 (RG12/616/67/9), 1901 (RG13/685/6/4), 1911 (RG14/26/7/2292)

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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