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Helen MacDowall (1794–1824)
Helen François de Chaumont (1824–1875)

1794–1875

Scottish. Natural daughter of Margaret (Peggy) Kennedy of Killochan, Dailly, Ayrshire, and Andrew McDouall of Logan MP. Married Louis François de Chaumont in Paris in 1824. Mother of Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of Scotland 1861 (The National Archives of Scotland: St George 5/11/12)

Correspondence vol. 19, letter from F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin, 11 March 1871

Foreign registers and returns (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG33/63)

Namier and Brooke 1985 s.v. McDouall, Andrew.

Bibliography

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.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Namier, Lewis and Brooke, John. 1985. The Commons 1754–1790. 3 vols. Part of The history of Parliament. London: Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust.

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