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Frederick F. Geach

1834/5–90

Mining engineer. Worked for the Portuguese government in Timor, where he met Alfred Russel Wallace in 1861, and was working in Malacca (Melaka) in 1867. Later a mineral and consulting engineer in Guildford, Surrey.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/812/45/34)

Correspondence vol. 15, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 March [1867]

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 August 2015)

Marchant ed. 1916

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Marchant, James, ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace. Letters and reminiscences. 2 vols. London: Cassell and Company.

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