- Emma Darwin's aunt. Sources: Emma Darwin (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,5
- British-born naturalist , artist and writer in South Africa. Married Frederick William Barber, a chemist, in 1845. Studied birds, moths, reptiles, and plants, and corresponded with a number of leading scientists, providing them with specimens and drawings. Sources: Desmond, Ray 1994 DSAB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Suffragist , botanist and astronomer . Leading member of the women's suffrage movement. Published Botany for novices (1864); awarded a Horticultural Society Gold Medal, 1865. Founder and president of the Manchester Ladies' Literary Society, 1867. Secretary to the Manchester Women's Suffrage Committee from 1867, and later to the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage. Member of the Manchester School Board, 1870. Editor of and regular contributor to the Women's Suffrage Journal from 1870. Secretary to the London Central Committee for Women's Suffrage from 1880. Sources: Blackburn, Helen 1902 Desmond, Ray 1994 DNB Macmillan dictionary of women's biography (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Resident of Mauritius. Second wife of Charles Tilstone Beke. Sources: CDEL (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 6
- Author . Wife of Charles Bell. Published Letters of Sir Charles Bell in 1870. Sources: Modern English biography (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10
- American writer and social reformer . Sources: DAB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Joanna Maria Bonham-Carter, a family friend of the Darwins. The family lived at Keston, Kent, from 1853. Sources: Bonham-Carter, Victor 1960 Burke's landed gentry 1965 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 12
- Daughter of Joanna Maria Bonham-Carter, a family friend of the Darwins. The family lived at Keston, Kent, from 1853. Married Albert Venn Dicey (DNB) in 1872. Sources: Bonham-Carter, Victor 1960 Burke's landed gentry 1965 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10,12
- Mathematician and teacher . The wife of George Boole. Sources: CDEL (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of the botanist Lucy Hardcastle of Derby, and wife of Francis Boott. Sources: Census returns 1861 PRO RG9/173: 123) Desmond, Ray 1994 s.v. Hardcastle, Lucy DNB s.v. Boott, Francis Index for deaths 1837–1996: 16421 Jnl Proc. Linn. Soc 8 1865: xxiii–xxvii (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Secretary and author . A secretary to Charles Lyell and a writer on natural history. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Wife of John Bullar, Joseph Bullar's elder brother.
- Patient at Moor Park and Ilkley Wells hydropathic establishments. Visited the Darwins at Down. Probably sister of Richard Butler, vicar of Trim, Ireland, 1819–62 (Modern English biography). Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1879 Correspondence Vol. 7, letters to Mary Butler, 20 February [1859] and 11 September [1859], and letter to John Murray, 14 November [1859] (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 7,10,11
- Photographer who lived on the Isle of Wight. Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Social reformer and writer . Founded Anti-Vivisection Society in 1875. Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Shrewsbury friend of the Darwin family. See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- Writer . Wife of George Cupples. Sources: Modern English biography (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Née Ruck, first wife of Francis Darwin. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Remote cousin of CD. Wife of Francis Rhodes Darwin. Cousin of William Darwin Fox. Sources: Darwin pedigree Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,9
- CD's sister. Married Josiah Wedgwood in 1837. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- CD's sister. Resided at The Mount, Shrewsbury, until she married Charles Langton in 1863. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
- CD's daughter. Sources: Darwin pedigree Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12
- Youngest daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II. Married CD, her cousin, in 1839. Sources: Emma Darwin 1904 and 1915 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- CD's daughter. Married Richard Buckley Litchfield (Alum. Cantab..) in 1871. Assisted CD with some of his work. Edited Emma Darwin (1904) and (1915). Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1952 Correspondence Vol. 11 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- CD's sister. Lived at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the family home, until her death. Sources: Darwin pedigree Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- CD's daughter-in-law. Married William Erasmus Darwin in 1877. Friend of Chauncey Wright. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Francis Sacheverel Darwin. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 7
- Wife of Sir William Thomas Denison (1804–71) [DNB] military engineer and colonial administrator in Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and Madras. Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1868 s.v. Hornby, Sir Phipps (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Sister of Henry Bonham-Carter. Married A. V. Dicey in 1872.
- Traveller and writer . Married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie in 1875. Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Botanist and wife of Arnold Dodel-Port.
- Robert Chambers' daughter.
- Family friend A friend of CD and Emma. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Wife of John Gwenogvryn Evans, Welsh scholar.
- Novelist who wrote under the name of George Eliot. Common-law wife of George Henry Lewes.Sources: DNB s.v. Cross, Mary Ann (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Family friend A life-long friend of Henrietta Emma Darwin. An aunt of E. M. Forster. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Edward Frankland.
- Sister of Francis Galton. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 5
- Daughter of Erasmus and Elizabeth Collier Darwin. Married Samuel Tertius Galton in 1807. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2
- The second daughter of Elizabeth C. Gaskell and friend of the Darwin family.
- Daughter of Charles Greely Loring, Boston lawyer and politician, and Anna Pierce Brace. Married Asa Gray in 1848. Edited the Letters of Asa Gray (1893). Sources: Barnhart, J. H. 1965 Dupree, A. H. 1959: 177–84 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11, 12
- Daughter of Karl Friedrich von Gärtner. See also Correspondence, volume(s): 8
- Family friend Close friend and neighbour of CD before Beagle voyage. Sister of Fanny Owen Biddulph. Married firstly Edward Hosier Williams in 1831 (d. 1844) and secondly T. C. Haliburton in 1856.
- American divine and author . Sources: DAB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Francis Wedgwood. Married John Clarke Hawkshaw in 1865. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Author on religious subjects . A close friend of George Eliot. Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of George Leonard Jenyns and sister of Leonard Jenyns. Married John Stevens Henslow in 1823. Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1879 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,4,6,7
- Poet . Married John Maurice Herbert in 1840. See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,6
- American editor and journalist . Sources: DAB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- See also Correspondence, volume(s): 6
- Daughter of John Stevens Henslow. Married Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1851. Sources: Allan, Mea 1967 DNB s.v. Hooker, Joseph Dalton (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- J. D. Hooker's second wife, married in 1876.
- Eldest daughter of Dawson Turner. Married William Jackson Hooker in 1815; acted as her husband's secretary. Mother of Joseph Dalton Hooker. Sources: Allan, Mea 1967 s.v. "Turner pedigree" Desmond, Ray 1994 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Married Leonard Horner in 1806. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,4,5,10
- Author and translator . Daughter of Leonard Horner. Author, with Susan Horner, of Walks in Florence and its environs (1873) and translator, with Leonora Pertz, of German works. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 NUC (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11
- American author of works on women . Sources: WWWA (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Sister of William Darwin Fox. Married Reverend John Hughes in 1852. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Born Henrietta Anne Heathorn. Emigrated to Australia in 1843. Met Thomas Henry Huxley in Sydney, Australia, in 1847, and married him in 1855. Sources: Desmond, Adrian 1994–7 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- Teacher Governess to the children of Emily Jesse, Alfred Tennyson's sister. Studied for the French State Certificate in teaching at the Convent College in Arras, France, 1862–4. Possibly CD's secretary in 1871. First headmistress of the Port Elizabeth Collegiate School for girls, in South Africa, 1874–86.Sources: Dr Paul Newbury, personal information; letter from Emma Darwin to V. L. Isitt, [before 17 September 1871] (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Henry H. Johnson, physician.
- Daughter of Henry Allen Wedgwood, Emma Darwin's brother. Married William John Kempson in 1864. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Author from Effingham, Illinois. Sources: NUC (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Novelist and poet . Born Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle, but adopted Mackenzie, the maiden name of her mother. Sources: Modern English biography (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Russian mathematician . Wife of V. O. Kovalevsky. Sources: DSB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Emma Darwin's sister. Married Charles Langton in 1832. Resided at Maer, Staffordshire, 1840–6, and resdied at Hartfield Grove, Hartfield, Sussex, 1847–62. Sources: Emma Darwin 1915 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
- CD's sister. Married Charles Langton in 1863. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Possibly the owner of the house in which the Darwins stayed at Caerdon, Barmouth, North Wales. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Peter Hordern, clergyman, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire. Married John Lubbock in 1856. Sources: Burke's peerage 1970 Census returns 1861 PRO RG9/462: 75 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12
- Married John William Lubbock in 1833. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,4,6,7,9,10
- John Lubbock's older sister. Married Robert Birkbeck in 1857. Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1898 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 6
- German governess . Governess to the Darwin family, 1860–3. Translated German works for CD. Married Reginald Saint Pattrick, vicar of Sellinge, Kent (Alum. Oxon.) 1874. Sources: Darwin, C. R. Classed account books s13416 from R. S. Pattrick, 19 October 1881 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 8,9,10,12
- Daughter of Leonard Horner. Married Henry Lyell, brother of Charles Lyell, in 1848. Collected plants in India. Edited Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell (1881), andedited memoirs of Charles James Fox Bunbury and Leonard Horner. Sources: Desmond, Ray 1994 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11
- Eldest child of Leonard Horner. Married Charles Lyell in 1832. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- Novelist . Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,11
- Author . Born in Liverpool; lived in Shrewsbury, 1818–29; lived in Thorpe, near Norwich, 1829–42; thereafterlived in London 1842. Contributed fiction and social articles to numerous periodicals under the pen-name "Silverpen". Her novels include Struggles for fame (1845), Mainstone's housekeeper (1860), and Lady Herbert's gentlewoman (1862). Published a number of works about the Wedgwoods including a two-volume life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6), and The Wedgwood handbook (1875). Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11
- Second wife of Jules Michelet.
- United Statesentomologist.. Philadelphia, PA. Published studies of the hessian fly and the seventeen-year locust.Sources: BDWS (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 5
- Daughter of Horatio Walpole, third earl of Orford; married Reginald Henry Nevill in 1847. Developed a notable garden at Dangstein, near Petersfield, Hampshire, where she cultivated orchids, pitcher plants, and other tropical plants; employed thirty-four gardeners. Sources: Desmond, Ray 1994 WWW (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10,12
- Wife of Charles Eliot Norton and sister of Sara Sedgwick Darwin.
- Second daughter of William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse. Married Robert Myddelton Biddulph in 1832. A close friend and neighbour of CD before the Beagle voyage. See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- Daughter of Marianne Parker. CD's niece. Married Edward Mostyn Owen, 1866. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Eldest daughter of William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse. Married first Edward Hosier Williams (d. 1844) in 1831 and secondly Thomas Chandler Haliburton in 1856. A close friend and neighbour of CD before the Beagle voyage. Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1952 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- CD's oldest sister. Married Henry Parker in 1824. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,4,5,6,7,10,11
- Poet . Sources: DNB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of William Henry Smyth. Married Baden Powell, becoming his second wife, in 1846. Sources: DNB s.v. Powell, Baden (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11
- French author and economist . Studied natural science and philosophy in Switzerland. In Lausanne in 1859, founded a course on logic aimed at women. Translated Origin into French in 1862. Sources: Dictionnaire universel des contemporains 1893 Harvey, Joy 1997 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11
- Née Matthews; married Lawrence Ruck in 1859. Lived at Pantlludw, near Machynlleth, Wales. Mother of Amy Richenda Ruck, who married Francis Darwin in 1874.Sources: BMD (Death index, Marriage index) Darwin pedigree ODNB s.v. Ruck, Amy Roberta (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Scientific translator . Married Edward Sabine (1788–1883) in 1826. Assisted her husband in his literary work. Sources: Modern English biography (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 3,4,8,12
- Married Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi in 1819. Emma Darwin's aunt. Sources: Emma Darwin (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,7,8
- Writer on science . Sources: DNB DSB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- Married Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon, in 1834. Sources: Complete peerage (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 4
- Widow of the 2d Marquis of Salisbury (James B. W. Gascoyne Cecil), she married the Earl of Derby in 1870. Sources: Burke's peerage (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Wife of M. H. N. Story-Maskelyne.
- Wife of Samuel Stutchbury. See also Correspondence, volume(s): 7
- American reformer . Secretary, American Social Science Association. Sources: DAB (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Mother of C. A. Thorley. Friend of the Tollet family. Resided at 36 Bernard Street, Russell Square, London. Sources: Darwin, C. R. Address book (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 5
- Daughter of George Tollet. A close friend of the Wedgwoods and Darwins. Edited the manuscript of Origin. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,4,7,8,10
- New Jersey naturalist . Sources: WWWA (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Daughter of Josiah Wedgwood and CD's sister Caroline. Married Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams, 1869. Mother of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- CD's sister. Married Josiah Wedgwood III, her cousin, in 1837. Sources: Darwin pedigree (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
- Daughter of Jessie and Harry Wedgwood. Sources: Emma Darwin (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 6
- Daughter of Bessy and Josiah Wedgwood II. Married Charles Langton in 1832. Sources: Burke's peerage 1980 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1
- Second child of James Mackintosh and Catherine Allen. Married Hensleigh Wedgwood in 1832. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 O'Leary, Patrick 1989 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,5,11,12
- Novelistbiographerhistorianliterary critic Daughter of Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood. Sources: Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh 1980 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,6,9,10,12
- Daughter of Hensleigh and Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood. Second wife of Godfrey Wedgwood. Sources: Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 7,9,11,12
- Daughter of Caroline Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood III. CD's niece. Sources: Darwin pedigree Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,4,6,10,11,12
- Fourth child of Caroline Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood III. CD's niece. Married Matthew James Harrison in 1874. Sources: Darwin pedigree Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh 1980 Darwin pedigree Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 3,6,10,11,12
- Daughter of Caroline Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood. CD's niece. Married Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams in 1869. Mother of Ralph Vaughan Williams (DNB). Sources: Emma Darwin 1915 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,6,10,11,12
- CD and Emma Darwin's aunt. Resided at Camp Hill, Maer Heath, Staffordshire, 1827–47, then moved to Petleys, Down 1847. Sources: Emma Darwin (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6
- Emma Darwin's sister. Resided at Maer Hall, Staffordshire, until 1847, then at The Ridge, Hartfield, Sussex, until 1862. Moved to London before settling in Down in 1868. Sources: Emma Darwin 1915 Freeman, R. B. 1978 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12
- Oldest sister of Francis Galton. Married Edward Wheler in 1845. Sources: Pearson, Karl 1914–30 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)
- Landowner , antiquary and artist . Of Newlands, Hampshire. Silk producer and author of A manual for rearing silkworms in England (1848). Sources: Colp, Ralph 1972 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 4
- Oldest daughter of William Mostyn Owen. Married first Edward Hosier Williams in 1831 and secondly Thomas Chandler Haliburton in 1856. A close friend and neighbour of CD before the Beagle voyage. Sources: Burke's landed gentry 1952 (See the bibliography for full references to sources)See also Correspondence, volume(s): 2,4
- German author of historical and moral stories for young girls. Sources: NUC (See the bibliography for full references to sources)