Bessy Holland (1795–1839)
Bessy Howorth (1839–1886)
Daughter of Peter Holland, doctor, of Knutsford, Cheshire, and his wife Mary Willets. Sister of Henry Holland. Second cousin of CD and Emma Darwin, and cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell. Married Franklin Howorth, Presbyterian minister, in 1839.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/3862/12/19)
Cheshire, England, select bishop’s transcripts, 1576–1933 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 November 2016)
DNB s.v. Holland, Sir Henry (1788–1873)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 November 2016)