Isabella Stuart Laidlaw (1819–1844)
Isabella Stuart Swan (1844–1874)
1819/20–74
Sister of Eliza Mary Brodie Innes. Second daughter of John Laidlaw of Dominica, West Indies, and his wife Mary Stuart. Married Robert Dalgleish Swan (1812/13–64), of Hythe, Kent, a coffee planter, in Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), in 1844. Of Blessington Road, Lee, Kent, in 1866 and 1871.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1633/570/9), 1871 (RG10/765/71/17)
Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. B. Innes to Emma Darwin, 23 January [1864]
Correspondence vol. 19, letter from J. B. Innes, 5 June 1871
Observer, 25 March 1844, p. 4
Post Office directory of the six home counties 1866
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
