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Darwin Correspondence Project

Mary Ann Pugh

1824/5–95

Governess to the Darwin children, 1857–9. Previously governess to the children of John and Ann Hawkshaw. Admitted to Kensington House lunacy asylum, 1863; moved to the Priory, Roehampton, a private asylum, 1872.

Sources

Bark ed. 2014, p. xxxv

British Medical Journal, 10 September 1892, p. 616

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (Public Record Office HO107/1480/151/14)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 1 October 2015)

H. E. Litchfield’s autobiography (DAR 246: 36–7)

Lunacy patients admission registers (The National Archives: MH 94/4)

Bibliography

Bark, Debbie, ed. 2014. The collected works of Ann Hawkshaw. London: Anthem Press.

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