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Isabella Elinor Darling (1832–1857)
Isabella Elinor Aylmer (1857–1908)

1832–1908

Author. Daughter of George Darling, farmer, and his wife Helen, of Chatton, Northumberland. Married Fenton John Aylmer (1835–62) at Oving, Sussex, in 1857.

Sources

Aylmer 1931, p. 235

Belfast Newsletter, 30 May 1862, p. 3

CDEL supplement, s.v. Aylmer, Mrs Fenton

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/1996/16/1), 1901 (RG13/63/86/6)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2019)

England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2019)

Correspondence vol. 15, letter from I. E. Aylmer, 5 December 1867

Wales, select births and baptisms, 1541–1907 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 September 2019)

Bibliography

Aylmer, Fenton John. 1931. The Aylmers of Ireland. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke.

CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.

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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