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Darwin Correspondence Project

Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Darwin (1783–1807)
Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Galton (1807–1874)

1783–1874

Daughter of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and his second wife, Elizabeth; CD’s father’s half-sister. Married Samuel Tertius Galton in 1807; mother of Francis Galton.

Source

Darwin pedigree.

Bibliography

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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