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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.
Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843) and his first cousin, Sara Coleridge; D. Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood. [10] Their respective siblings Caroline Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), entrepreneur, also married. [11] St George Daly, Irish judge and politician, and his first cousin, Louisa Gore
Susannah Darwin (aunt) Hensleigh Wedgwood (21 January 1803 – 2 June 1891) was a British etymologist , philologist and barrister , author of A Dictionary of English Etymology . He was a cousin of Charles Darwin , whom his sister Emma married in 1839.
They married a cousin. Einstein and Darwin married first cousins. Prince Phillip was Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed, distant, but cousins nonetheless.
Francis Darwin (1848–1925) was the botanist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood). Francis Darwin married Amy Ruck during 1874, who died during 1876 after the birth of their son Bernard Darwin, an author on golf – see below.
Susannah Wedgwood (1765–1817), aunt, married Dr Robert Darwin - Charles Darwin, Emma's husband and first cousin, was their son. John Wedgwood (horticulturalist) (1766–1844), uncle, married Jane Allen. Josiah Wedgwood II (1769–1843), father, married Elizabeth Allen. Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805), uncle.
Emma Darwin with Charles Waring Darwin. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the tenth and last of the children. Emma Darwin was aged 48 at the time of the birth, and the child was mentally subnormal and never learnt to walk or talk. He probably had Down syndrome, which had not then been medically described.
Then, "Jos" and "Sally" were married on 25 January 1764 at Astbury parish church, near Congleton. [28] [29] They had eight children: Susannah Wedgwood (3 January 1765 – 1817), known to the family as "Sukey", married Robert Darwin and became the mother of the English naturalist Charles Darwin. Charles married Emma Wedgwood, his cousin.