Year: 1898
Type: book
Abstract: The earliest records of the family show the Darwins to have been substantial yeomen residing on the northern bor¬ ders of Lincolnshire, close to Yorkshire.The name is now very unusual in England, but I believe that it is not unknown in the neighbourhood of Sheffield and in Lancashire.Down to the year 1600 we find the name spelt in a variety of ways -Derwent, Darwen, Darwynne, &c.It is possible, therefore, that the family migrated at some unknown date from York¬ shire, Cumberland, or Derbyshire, where Derwent occurs as the name of a river.The first ancestor of whom we know was one William Darwin, who lived, about the year 1500, at Marton, near Gainsborough.His great grandson, Richard Darwyn, in¬ herited land at Marton and elsewhere, and in his will, dated 1584, " bequeathed the sum of 3s.4d.towards the settyngeup of the Queene's Majestie's armes over the quearie (choir) doore in the parishe chtirche of Marton."* The son of this Richard, named William Darwin, and * We owe a knowledge of these earlier members of the family to re¬ searches amongst the wills at Lincoln, made by the well-known genealo¬ gist, Colonel Chester.family.*A portrait of this William Darwin at Elston shows him as a good-looking young man in a full-bottomed wig.This third William had two sons,
Authors: Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4298085282