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Darwin Correspondence Project

James Waller

1808–81

Hairdresser and canary fancier. Of 49 Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury, London. Considered one of the three chief breeders of the London fancy canary at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/409/35/20), 1881 (RG11/1371/75/41)

Correspondence vol. 16, letter from J. J. Weir, 3 June 1868

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 December 2019)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 December 2019)

Post Office London directory 1868

R. L. Wallace [1899], p. 250.

Bibliography

Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.

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