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Emily Marianne Ashworth, Lady Avonmore, Viscountess Avonmore (1825–1848)
Emily Marianne Forbes, Lady Avonmore, Viscountess Avonmore (1848–1858)
Emily Marianne Yelverton, Lady Avonmore, Viscountess Avonmore (1858–1909)

1825–1909

Youngest daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Ashworth and his wife Mary Anne; baptised as Emily Mary Anne Ashworth at South Stonham, Hampshire. Married the natural historian Edward Forbes (1815–54) at Boldre, Hampshire, in 1848. Married William Charles Yelverton, fourth Viscount Avonmore from 1870, at Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, in 1858.

Sources

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 7 September 2022)

Complete peerage

Hampshire Independent, 2 September 1848, p. 5

ODNB s.v. Ashworth, Charles and Forbes, Edward and Yelverton, William Charles

Bibliography

Complete peerage: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. By George Edward Cokayne. Revised edition. Edited by Vicary Gibbs, et al. 13 vols. in 14. London: St Catherine Press. 1910–59.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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