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Darwin Correspondence Project

Eliza Richards (1810–1845)
Eliza Parslow (1845–1881)

b. c. 1812 d. 1881

Dressmaker. Daughter of John Richards, surveyor. Personal maid to Emma Darwin before she married CD’s servant Joseph Parslow in 1845. Lived at 18 Home Cottage, Down, Kent. Ran a dressmaking school.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/462/71/4)

Certificate of Marriage, 20 May 1845, St George Hanover Square, London, General Register Office, England

Freeman 1978 s.v. Parslow, Joseph

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.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

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