Mary Elizabeth Ruck (1842–1864)
Mary Elizabeth Atkin (1864–1880)
Mary Elizabeth Steuart (1880–1920)

Daughter of Lawrence and Mary Anne Ruck and elder sister of Amy Richenda Darwin. Married Robert Travers Atkin, of county Cork, Ireland, in 1864. Emigrated to Australia, where her husband was a journalist; he died in Brisbane in 1872. Returned to Wales with her three surviving sons and married Thomas Ruddiman Steuart (1807/8–95), formerly a lieutenant-colonel in the Indian Army infantry, in 1880.

Sources

Aust. dict. biog. s.v. Atkin, Robert Travers

BMD (Birth index, Marriage index, Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2495/183/18), 1871 (RG10/5603/54/17), 1891 (RG12/4670/78/19)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1861–1941 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 November 2013)