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Darwin Correspondence Project

John Matthews Eaton

1798–1867

Tailor. Author of works on pigeon breeding.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1499/28/11)

J. M. Eaton 1852

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 October 2015)

London, England, baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812

Bibliography

Eaton, John Matthews. 1852. A treatise on the art of breeding and managing tame, domesticated, and fancy pigeons, carefully compiled from the best authors, with observations, containing all that is necessary to be known of tame, domisticated, and fancy pigeons. London: the author.

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