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Darwin Correspondence Project

Mark Ansell

1851–94

Servant. Born in Cudham, Kent, son of Robert and Phoebe Ansell. Groom at Down House, 1871. Married Esther Parslow, who had also been employed at Down House, and was the daughter of Joseph Parslow’s younger brother, John, in London in 1878. Probably employed as a coachman in Norwood, Surrey, 1881; in Highbury, Middlesex, in 1891.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office (HO107/1606/284/7), 1871 (RG10/875/35/3), 1881 (RG11/822/13/19), 1891 (RG12/174/136/34)

London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1931 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 November 2017)

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