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Darwin Correspondence Project

Robert Wedgwood

1806–81

Clergyman. Son of John and Louisa Jane Wedgwood. Emma Darwin’s cousin. Married Frances Crewe in 1835. Married Mary Halsey (1826–1906) in 1847. Rector of St Peter’s, Dumbleton, 1850–81.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

BMD (Marriage index)

Darwin pedigree

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

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.

Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]

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