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Hannah Malpas (1830–1852)
Hannah Weaver (1852–1893)

1830/1–93

Servant. Born in Betley, Staffordshire, daughter of Thomas Malpas, agricultural labourer, and his wife Dinah. Employed by Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood in 1851. Took Henrietta Emma Darwin from Malvern to London by coach. Married Charles Weaver (1828/9–75), shoemaker, at Betley in 1852.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/986/10/10/14), 1851 (HO107/1493/368/20), 1861 (RG9/1920/81/23)

Correspondence vol. 5, letter to Emma Darwin, [19 April 1851]

Staffordshire, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1900 (Ancestry.com, accessed 25 August 2022)

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–.

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