Anne Rigby (1804–1830)
Anne de Wahl () (1830–1869)
1804–69
Schoolteacher. Daughter of Anne Palgrave and Edward Rigby. Cousin of Maria Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker’s mother. Married in 1830 in Framingham Earl, Norfolk, Charles or Carl George de Wahl (1806–76) of Wattel (now Vatla), Estonia. Divorced him, 1837. Ran girls’ schools in Norwich, 1841, and London, 1851. Lived with her brother, Roger Rigby, in Godalming, Surrey, 1861. Died in Slough, Buckinghamshire. Mother of Eduard George de Wahl MD, whom J. D. Hooker met in St Petersburg in 1869.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/790/8/6/5), 1851 (HO107/1491/862/9), 1861 (RG9/429/103/16)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 August 2022)
Genealogisches Handbuch der livländischen Ritterschaft 1: 228, 231 and 3: 258
L. Huxley 1918, 1: 17 and 2: 86
Norfolk, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1936 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 August 2022)
Palmer and Tucker eds. 1878, p. 96
Sheldon ed. 2009, p. 43 n.
Bibliography
Genealogisches Handbuch der livländischen Ritterschaft. Edited by Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck for the Federation of Livland nobility. Görlitz: C. A. Starke. [1929.]
Huxley, Leonard, ed. 1918. Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI. Based on materials collected and arranged by Lady Hooker. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Palmer, Charles John and Tucker, Stephen, eds. 1878. Palgrave family memorials. Norwich: printed by Miller and Leavins.
Sheldon, Julie, ed. 2009. The letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
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