Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and

geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882) was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah
Wedgwood. He married Emma Wedgwood, (1808 - 1896) a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II
and Elizabeth Allen. Charles's mother, Susannah, was a sister to Emma's father, Josiah II.
Thus, Charles and Emma were first cousins.
The Darwins had ten children, three of whom died before reaching maturity.
William Erasmus Darwin (1839 - 1914); graduate of Christ's College Cambridge, he was a
banker in Southampton. He married the New Yorker Sara Sedgwick (1839 - 1902), but they
had no children.
Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841 1851) died in Great Malvern aged ten and her death
caused her father much pain.
Mary Eleanor Darwin (1842 1842) died as a baby.
Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin (1843 - 1927); although she married Richard Litchfield in
1871, the couple never had any children. Etty Darwin edited her mother's private papers
(published in 1904) and assisted her father with his work.
George Howard Darwin (18451912)
Elizabeth (Bessy) Darwin (1847 - 1926); never married and had no descendants.
Francis Darwin (18481925)
Leonard Darwin (18501943)
Horace Darwin (18511928)
Charles Waring Darwin (1856 1858) was the tenth child and sixth son of Charles and
Emma Darwin. His early death from scarlet fever kept Charles Darwin from attending the
first publication of Darwin's theory at the joint reading of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace
and himself at the meeting of the Linnean Societyon 1 July 1858. Wallace was not present
either - he was on an expedition.