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Darwin Correspondence Project

Louisa A’hmuty Desborough (1838–1868)
Louisa A’hmuty Nash (1868–1922)

1838–1922

Author. Daughter of Henry and Mary Desborough. Married Wallis Nash in 1868; they lived in Down during part of the 1870s, and later emigrated to the US. Painted a portrait of CD in indian ink. Author of Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (1897).

Sources

BMD (Marriage index)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 February 2015)

Freeman 1978

Oregon death index 1921–1930 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 February 2015)

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.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

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