Nancy
fl. 1810s–1840s
Servant. CD’s childhood nurse who was kept on as a servant of the Darwin family at The Mount, Shrewsbury. Possibly Ann Evans, the mother of Robert Waring Darwin’s butler, Edward Evans, who was aged 81 in the 1851 census and living with her daughter, Jane Thonger.
Source
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1992/632/20)letter


