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   Emma Darwin (born Wedgewood)<br>Maiden name: Wedgewood<br>Birth: May 2 1808<br>Death: Oct 2 1896<br>Burial: Saint Mary The Virgin Church, Downe, England, United Kingdom<br>Relatives:
   Relation Name Birth Death
   Husband (implied) Erasmus Alvery Darwin 1804 1881 <br>More photos:

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   Emma Darwin (geboren Wedgwood)<br>Geslacht: Vrouw<br>Geboorte: 2 mei 1808 - Maer, Staffordshire, England<br>Doop: 22 mei 1808 - Maer, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom<br>Huwelijk: 29 jan 1839 - Maer, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1841 - Maer, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1851 - Downe, Kent, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1861 - Downe, Kent, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1871 - London, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1881 - Downe, Kent, England, United Kingdom<br>Woonplaats: 1891 - Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom<br>Overlijden: 2 okt 1896 - Downe, Kent, England<br>Overlijden: 10 okt 1896 - Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom<br>Begrafenis: St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent<br>Ouders: Josiah Wedgwood II, Elizabeth Margaret Wedgwood (geboren Allen)<br>Echtgenoot: Charles Robert Darwin<br>Kinderen: William Erasmus Darwin, Anne Elizabeth Darwin, Mary Eleanor Darwin, Henrietta Emma Litchfield (geboren Darwin), Sir George Howard Darwin, Elizabeth Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin F.R.S., Leonard Darwin, Sir Horace Darwin, Charles Waring Darwin<br&gt;Broers/zusters: Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood, Mary Anne Wedgwood, Charlotte Langton (geboren Wedgwood), Wedgwood, Henry Allen Wedgwood, Francis Wedgwood, Mary Ann Wedgwood, Hensleigh Wedgwood, Frances Wedgwood<br>  Aanvullende informatie: LifeSketch:Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Emma Wedgwood was born at the family estate of Maer Hall in Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth "Bessie" (née Allen). Her grandfather Josiah Wedgwood had made his fortune in pottery, and like many others who were not part of the aristocracy, they were nonconformist, belonging to the Unitarian church. Charles Darwin was her first cousin; their shared grandparents were Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood, and as the Wedgwood and Darwin families were closely allied, they had been acquainted since childhood. She was close to her sister Fanny, the two being known by the family as the "Doveleys", and was charming and messy, accounting for her nickname, "Little Miss Slip-Slop". She helped her older sister Elizabeth with the Sunday school which was held in Maer Hall laundry, writing simple moral tales to aid instruction and giving 60 village children their only formal training in reading, writing and religion. The Wedgwoods visited Paris for six months in 1818. Though Emma was only 10 at the time, the strangeness and interest of arriving in France remained in her memory. In January 1822 the 13-year-old Emma and her sister Fanny were taken by their mother for a year at Mrs Mayer's school at Greville House, on Paddington Green, London, at what was then the semi-rural village of Paddington. Emma was by then "one of the show performers on the piano", to the extent that on one occasion she was invited along to play for George IV's Mrs Fitzherbert. After this time, Emma was taught by her elder sisters as well as tutors in some subjects. For the rest of her life Emma continued to be a fine pianist, with a tendency to speed up slow movements. She had piano lessons from Moscheles, and allegedly "two or three" from Chopin. In 1825 Josiah took his daughters on a grand tour of Europe, via Paris to near Geneva to visit their Aunt Jessie (Madame de Sismondi, née Allen, wife of the historian Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi) and then on In the following year the Sismondis visited Maer, then took Emma and her sister Fanny back to near Geneva to stay with them for eight months. When her father went to collect them he was accompanied by their cousin, Caroline Darwin, and also took Charles Darwin, Caroline's brother, as far as Paris, where they all met up again before returning home in July 1827. She was keen on outdoor sports and became a "Dragoness" at archery. At Maer on 31 August 1831 she was with her family when they helped Charles Darwin to overturn his father's objections to letting Charles go on an extended voyage on the Beagle. During the voyage Charles' sisters kept him informed of news including the death of Emma's sister Fanny at the age of 26, and the gossip that his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin was "paired off" with Emma to avert "an action in the Papers" over his "carrying on" with Hensleigh Wedgwood's wife, Frances "Fanny" Mackintosh. When Charles returned he was quick to visit Maer, where Emma shared in the interest of his travels. Emma herself had turned down several offers of marriage, and after her mother suffered a seizure and became bedridden Emma had to nurse her, as well as care for her elder sister Elizabeth, who suffered from dwarfism and severe spinal curvature. Emma Wedgwood accepted Charles' marriage proposal on 11 November 1838 at the age of 30, and they were married on 29 January 1839 at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Maer. Their cousin, the Reverend John Allen Wedgwood, officiated the marriage. After a brief period of residence in London, they moved permanently to Down House, located in the rural village of Down, around 16 miles (26 km) from St Paul's Cathedral and about two hours by coach and train to London Bridge. The village was later renamed Downe. Charles and Emma raised their 10 children in a distinctly non-authoritarian manner, and several of them later achieved considerable success in their chosen careers: George, Francis and Horace became Fellows of the Royal Society. Emma Darwin is especially remembered for her patience and fortitude in dealing with her husband's long-term illness. She also nursed her children through frequent illnesses, and endured the deaths of three of them: Anne, Mary, and Charles Waring. By the mid-1850s she was known throughout the parish for helping in the way a parson's wife might be expected to, giving out bread tokens to the hungry and "small pensions for the old, dainties for the ailing, and medical comforts and simple medicine" based on Dr. Robert Darwin's old prescription book. In a letter dated 5 July 1844, Charles Darwin entrusted to Emma the responsibility of publishing his work, in the case of his sudden death. In the event, Darwin lived to publish The Origin in 1859. Emma often played the piano for Charles, and in Charles' 1871 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin spent several pages on the evolution of musical ability by means of sexual selection. Emma's religious beliefs were founded on Unitarianism, which emphasizes inner feeling over the authority of religious texts or doctrine. Her views were not simple and unwavering, and were the result of intensive study and questioning. Darwin was open about his scepticism before they became engaged, and she discussed with him the tension between her fears that differences of belief would separate them, and her desire to be close and openly share ideas. Following their marriage, they shared discussions about Christianity for several years. She valued his openness, and his genuine uncertainty regarding the existence and nature of God, which gradually developed into agnosticism. This may have been a bond between them, without necessarily resolving the tensions between their views. By early 1837 Charles Darwin was already speculating on transmutation of species. Having decided to marry, he visited Emma on 29 July 1838 and told her of his ideas on transmutation. On 11 November 1838, he returned and proposed to Emma. Again he discussed his ideas, and about ten days later she wrote to him: "When I am with you I think all melancholy thoughts keep out of my head but since you are gone some sad ones have forced themselves in, of fear that our opinions on the most important subject should differ widely. My reason tells me that honest & conscientious doubts cannot be a sin, but I feel it would be a painful void between us. I thank you from my heart for your openness with me & I should dread the feeling that you were concealing your opinions from the fear of giving me pain. It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you. Will you do me a favour? yes I am sure you will, it is to read our Saviour's farewell discourse to his disciples which begins at the end of the 13th Chap of John. It is so full of love to them & devotion & every beautiful feeling. It is the part of the New Testament I love best. This is a whim of mine it would give me great pleasure, though I can hardly tell why I don't wish you to give me your opinion about it." Darwin had already wondered about the materialism implied by his ideas. The letter shows Emma's tension between her fears that differences of belief would separate them, and her desire to be close and openly share ideas. Emma cherished a belief in the afterlife, and was concerned that they should "belong to each other" for eternity. The passage in the Gospel of John referred to in Emma's letter says "Love one another" , then describes Jesus saying "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" . Desmond and Moore note that the section continues: "Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned" As disbelief later gradually crept over Darwin, he could "hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine." Following their marriage in January 1839, they shared discussions about Christianity for many years. They socialised with the Unitarian clergymen James Martineau and John James Tayler, and read their works as well as those of other Unitarian and liberal Anglican authors such as Francis William Newman whose Phases of faith described a spiritual journey from Calvinism to theism, all part of widespread and heated debate on the authority of Anglicanism. In Downe Emma attended the Anglican village church, but as a Unitarian had the family turn round in silence when the Trinitarian Nicene Creed was recited. Soon after their marriage, Emma wrote to Charles "while you are acting conscientiously & sincerely wishing, & trying to learn the truth, you cannot be wrong", and although concerned at the threat to faith of the "habit in scientific pursuits of believing nothing till it is proved", her hope that he did not "consider his opinion as formed" proved correct. Methodical conscientious doubt as a state of inquiry rather than disbelief made him open to nature and revelation, and they remained open with each other. Children William Erasmus Darwin (1839–1914) Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841–1851) Mary Eleanor Darwin (1842) Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin (1843–1927) George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) Elizabeth Darwin (1847–1926) Francis Darwin (1848–1925) Leonard Darwin (1850–1943) Horace Darwin (1851–1928) Charles Waring Darwin (1856–1858)

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   Emma Darwin (born Wedgwood)<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: May 2 1808 - Maer, Staffordshire, England<br>Marriage: Jan 29 1839 - Maer, Staffordshire, England<br>Death: Oct 7 1896 - Downe, Kent, England<br>Father: Josiah Wedgwood<br>Mother: Elizabeth Wedgwood (born Allen)<br>Husband: Charles Robert Darwin, FRS<br>Children: Horace DarwinHenrietta Emma S Etty Litchfield (born Darwin)William Erasmus DarwinAnne Annie Elizabeth DarwinMary Eleanor DarwinSir George Howard Darwin, KCBElizabeth DarwinSir Francis Frank DarwinLeonard DarwinCharles Waring Darwin<br>Siblings: Francis WedgwoodHensleigh WedgwoodJosiah WedgwoodHenry Allen WedgwoodCharlotte Langton (born Wedgwood)Sarah Elizabeth WedgwoodMary Ann WedgwoodFrances Fanny Wedgwood<br>Photos:

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   Emma Darwin (born Wedgwood)<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: May 2 1808 - Maer Hall, Staffordshire, England<br>Marriage: Spouse: Charles Robert Darwin - Jan 29 1839 - Maer, Staffordshire<br>Death: Oct 2 1896 - Downe House, Downe, Kent<br>Father: Josiah Wedgwood, of Maer<br>Mother: Elizabeth "Bessie" Wedgwood (born Allen)<br>Husband: Charles Robert Darwin<br>Children: William Erasmus Darwin, Anne Elizabeth Darwin, Mary Eleanor Darwin, Henrietta Emma Darwin, George Howard Darwin, KCB FRS FRSE, Elizabeth Darwin;, Francis Darwin, FRS, Leonard Darwin, Horace Darwin, JP KBE FRS, Charles Waring Darwin<br>Siblings: ;Josiah Iii Wedgwood, Charlotte Wedgwood, Hensleigh Wedgwood, Francis Wedgwood, Henry Allen Wedgwood

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