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Darwin Correspondence Project

Christopher Osborne

1812–60

Bricklayer. Lived in Down, Kent. Founder member of the Down Friendly Society, 1850.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1606/249/9)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 July 2015)

Correspondence vol. 8, letter to John Innes, 28 December [1860]

The National Archives (FS 1/232 626620)

Post Office directory of the six home counties 1845

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–.

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.

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