Caroline Tasker (1838–1867)
Caroline Miles (1868–1896)
1838–96
Servant. Daughter of William and Mary Tasker of East Grinstead and later Hartfield, Sussex: William was groom and gardener to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (Emma Darwin’s aunt) at The Ridge, Hartfield, 1861. Servant in East Grinstead, 1851. Cook to Charles and Charlotte Langton (Emma Darwin’s brother-in-law and sister) at The Grove, Hartfield, 1861. Married Samuel Miles as his second wife in 1867. Cook to S. E. Wedgwood in Down, Kent, 1871. At Tower House, Down, 1881. In Hampton, Middlesex, 1891; buried there.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/115/6/31/1), 1851 (HO107/1641/301/21), 1861 (RG9/578/81/15, RG9/578/81/16), 1871 (RG10/875/35/4), 1881 (RG11/855/89/13), 1891 (RG12/616/67/9)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 October 2019)
England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 May 2021)
London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1932 (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 October 2019)
gravestonephotos.com, accessed 4 October 2019
