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Darwin Correspondence Project

Harriet Alicia Joan Kent (1824–1862)
Harriet Alicia Joan Raynal (1862–1898)

1824–98

Hyacinth Hooker’s aunt: a younger sister of her mother, Catharine Hyacinth Symonds (née Kent). Married Henri Emile Raynal (1829–1908), a merchant from Paris born in Hamburg, at Coln St Aldwyns, Gloucestershire, in 1862. With her husband in exile in London in 1871.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/96/25/5)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 January 2020)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 January 2020)

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1938 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 January 2020)

Paris & vicinity, France electoral rolls, 1891 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 January 2020)

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