Forebears and heirs: a sketch

David Sharp

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In a collection of Darwin material lies a privately printed document from 1888 on Charles Darwin's ancestors, a painstaking inquiry drawing heavily on records of legal documents such as wills and property transfers. Confidence in information on the Darwin forebears arrives in the 17th century with a succession of William Darwins, one of whom married the daughter of a lawyer called Erasmus Earle, whose forename was to have several ...

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