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Harriet Sarah Jane (Jane) Osborne (1835–1861)
Harriet Sarah Jane (Jane) Sales (1862–1865)

1835–65

Dressmaker and servant. Daughter of John Osborne, wheelwright and parish clerk, and his wife Mary. Apprenticed to Eliza Parslow, dressmaker, in 1851. Employed as a nurse by the Darwins at Down House, 1861. Married Sydney Sales, corn dealer of Down, in London in 1861.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/482/6/10/14), 1851 (HO107/1606/255/20), 1861 (RG9/462/74/10)

Downe baptism register, burial register (kent-opc.org, accessed 1 June 2021)

London Church of England parish registers London Metropolitan Archives: P92/TRI/026 (Ancestry.com, accessed 1 June 2021)

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