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Darwin Correspondence Project

Emma Wale

1844–1910

Children’s nurse. Daughter of Thomas Wale, cordwainer, and Ann, of Berkswell, Warwickshire. A servant at Harrow School until at least 1901. Of the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge, at her death; Henry Montagu Butler was master of the college.

Sources

BMD (Birth index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2063/246/1), 1871 (RG10/1324/47/10), 1881 (RG11/1357/36/19), 1901 (RG13/1207/59/31)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 January 2018)

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