Mary Desborough
1814–94
Daughter of Major-general Lawrence Desborough and his wife Catherine; born in Rochester, Kent, baptised in Chiswick, Middlesex. Married her cousin Henry Desborough in 1834; widowed, 1862. Mother of thirteen children, including Edward Brandram Desborough, and Louisa A’hmuty Desborough, who married Wallis Nash of the Rookery, Down, Kent. Associated with Down School Board during the 1870s, when she lived at Laurel Grove, Down.
Sources
Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Down School Board, [after 29 November 1873]
England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 October 2022)
London Church of England parish registers DL/DRO/BT/007/002 (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 October 2022)
Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874
www.manfamily.org/PDFs/Desborough Genealogy.pdf (accessed 25 March 2013).
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
