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Harriet Emma Fox (1837–1861)
Harriet Emma Overton (1861–1922)

1837–1922

Daughter of William Darwin Fox. Married Samuel Charlesworth Overton (Crockford’s clerical directory 1865–92), curate of Hackness, Yorkshire, in 1861; separated, 1873. Died in Switzerland. Mother of Frederick Arnold Overton.

Sources

Darwin pedigree

Divorce and matrimonial causes files (The National Archives: Public Record Office J 77/131/2677)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 16 August 2018)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 25 July 2016)

Gentleman’s Magazine (1861), pt 2: 558.

Bibliography

Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]

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