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Louisa Holland (1810–1857)
Louisa Croft (1858–1898)

1810–98

Daughter of Swinton Colthurst Holland and his wife, Anna Willets; born in Malta. A second cousin of Charles and Emma Darwin. Married the Rev. Richard Croft (1808–69) at Trinity Church, St Marylebone, Middlesex, in 1857.

Sources

Burke’s peerage 1885 s.v. Croft

Emma Darwin (1904) 1: 185 n. 1

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021)

England & Wales, non-conformist and non-parochial registers, 1567–1936 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021)

London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1936 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021)

Bibliography

Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904.

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