Margaret Meek (1821–1843)
Margaret Grantham (1843–1887)
1821–87
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. In 1843, married at Hanley, Staffordshire, Wilkinson Grantham, attorney (b. 1810/11, emigrated to Australia 1852, presumably d. by 1861). Lived on the Wirral, Cheshire. With her mother and sister Mary Ann Meek in Birkenhead, 1851; schoolteacher with her sister and niece Ellen Evelyn Dulin in Higher Bebington, 1861; schoolteacher with her sister and aunt Mary Harding in Tranmere, 1871; with her niece Evelyn Dulin, music teacher, her aunt and two Harding cousins in Tranmere, 1881.
Sources
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), 1881 (RG11/3586/111/2)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 September 2022)
letter from Emma Darwin to Henrietta Emma Darwin, 21 February [1870] (DAR 219.9: 74)
Staffordshire, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1900 (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 September 2022)
Staffordshire, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1900 (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 September 2022)
Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 1852, p. 3
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