Catharine Ann Thorley (1828/9–1911)

Governess at Down House, 1850–6. Daughter of Elizabeth Mary and John Thorley, a solicitor of Tarporley, Cheshire, and sister of Emily Maria Thorley. Present at Anne Elizabeth Darwin’s death in Malvern in 1851.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/96/33)

England & Wales, christening index, 1530–1980 (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 March 2016)

Freeman 1978