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Anna Willets (1768–1805)
Anna Holland (1805–1845)

1768/9–1845

Daughter of the Rev. William Willets and Catherine Wedgwood, sister of Josiah Wedgwood I. Married Swinton Colthurst Holland (1777–1827) at Knutsford, Cheshire, in 1805.

Sources

Emma Darwin (1904) 1: 185 n.1

England, Cheshire parish registers, 1538–2000 (Familysearch.org, accessed 14 June 2021)

Global, Find a Grave Index for burials at sea and other select burial locations, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 August 2022)

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England burials, 1813–1988 (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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