Frederic William Surman
1850–1933
Butler. Son of William Surman, gardener, and his wife Anne. Born in Horspath, Oxfordshire. Employed by Erasmus Alvey Darwin for about two years until Erasmus’s death in 1881. Butler in Wilton Crescent, Knightsbridge, 1891. Shopkeeper on his marriage to Catherine Elizabeth Penn (1865–1943) at St Stephen’s, Kensington, in 1895; confectioner, 1901; retired, 1911.
Sources
BMD (Birth index, Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/140/47/1), 1891 (RG12/71/46/21), 1901 (RG13/70/50/6), 1911 (RG14/355)
Correspondence vol. 29, letter to Albert Günther, 19 December 1881
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 May 2020)
Freeman 1978
London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1932 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 May 2020)
Oxfordshire, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1915 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 May 2020)
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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