Matilda Rigby (1815–1847)
Matilda Smith (1847–1890)
1815–90
Indexer. Worked for John Murray. Daughter of Anne Palgrave and Edward Rigby. Cousin of Maria Turner, Joseph Dalton Hooker’s mother. Married James Smith (1808–71), an East India merchant, in 1847. Mother of Matilda Smith (1854–1926), the botanical artist. Indexed Cross and self fertilisation, Forms of flowers, and Movement in plants.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG/9/2686/95/37)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 April 2019)
England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 April 2019)
letters from Matilda Smith to John Murray, 27 October 1876, 16 June 1877 (National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive (family papers)) and John Murray copies ledger (National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive & Publishers’ Collections, MS.42733)
Scotland, select marriages, 1561–1910 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 April 2019)
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