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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Henshaw Newberry

1862–1935

Assistant nurseryman. Boarding with the Veitch family of nurserymen in Exeter, 1881. In Ghent, Belgium, 1883. In partnership in an embroidery business in London until 1891. Unemployed in London, 1891. Emigrated to Canada; time keeper in a sugar refinery in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1901. Died in Canada.

Sources

Cahill ed. 2004, p. 43

Census returns of Canada 1901 (Library and Archives Canada: Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia p. 2)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/2029/13/18), 1881 (RG11/2153/42/40), 1891 (RG12/519/134/60)

letter from W. H. Newberry to Francis Darwin, 10 June 1882 (DAR 198: 153)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 April 2021)

London Gazette, 10 February 1891, p. 769

Bibliography

Cahill, Barry, ed. 2004. Frank Manning Covert: fifty years in the practice of law. Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press.

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