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Darwin Correspondence Project

Johanna Wilhelmina Augusta (Augusta) Hübener (1831–1865)
Johanna Wilhelmina Augusta (Augusta) Dickson (1865–1913)

1831/2–1913

German-born lady’s maid. Née Hübener. Married Robert William Dickson, steward, in London in 1865. Employed at Coombe Wood House, Kingston, Surrey, 1871. Emma Darwin’s lady’s maid from 1880. Living with her daughter-in-law, Anne Dickson, in Hackney, 1891; in Leyton, Essex, 1911.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/858/72/32), 1881 (RG11/855/83/1), 1891 (RG12/185/48/34), 1911 (RG14/9652/29)

Emma Darwin’s account book (Down House MS)

Westminster Church of England parish registers (City of Westminster Archives Centre STC/PR/1/5)

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.

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