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Darwin Correspondence Project

Maria Sophia Heathcote

1818–82

Cousin of Charles Lyell. Daughter of Ann (née Lyell) and Gilbert Heathcote. Lived independently in Southampton, Hampshire, from the late 1850s until her death.

Sources

Letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [after 7 October 1861] (DAR 210.6: 76)

National probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 31 January 2014)

England & Wales christening records, 1530–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 31 January 2014)

Post Office directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire 1859, 1875, 1880

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