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Who Did Charles Darwin Marry?

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Charles Darwin married his first cousin, Emma Wedgewood. Darwin proposed marriage to Emma on November 11, 1838 and they were married on Januray 29, 1839. They were married at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Staffordshire (Maer). The wedding was officiated by Reverend John Allen Wedgewood who was also a cousin.
After the wedding, the couple moved to the Macaw Cottage in Gower Street, London. After a brief residence here, they moved to Down.
Emma was 30 at the time of her wedding. Charles and Emma had ten children together. Three of the children died before adulthood.
Emma is best known for her patience and dedication in helping her husband through his illness which was diagnosed not long after their marriage. She also helped other needy, senile and ill people.
After their daughter Anne's death, Darwin stopped believing in God altogether. He started to call himself agnostic. On the contrary, Emma was a devout Christian. This led to a little conflict in their lives.
Emma died October 7, 1896. She is buried at Downe.
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Indeed Charles Darwin did marry his first cousin Emma, which seems somewhat strange for the man who is accredited with first having realised the importance of genetics in natural selection !
Darwin lived from 1809-1882 and his seminal work 'The Origin of the Speciesby Natural Selection' which outlined how the world had evolved and how natural selection actually meant that the fittest would survive, caused a furore when it was first published in 1859. So scared had he been by the potential response, that he had not published it for 22 years. He outlined how those animals with the best gene pool would survive as they adapted to their environment and became fitter and stronger.

His relationship with Emma, despite limiting the gene pool which was available to his children and consequently not placing them in a position where they would be the most genetically advanced within the world, must have been happy, since it produced 10 children.
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Yes, charles darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgewood in 1839 and together they had 10 children, William, Anne, Mary, Henrietta, George, Elizabeth, Francis , Leonard, Horace, and Charles.
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Anonymous answered
Yes, he did.  The families were closely aligned, and the practice was common at the time.
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Hedgehog, try using the correct title of the book, and maybe you should actually read it, because your description of the information it contains is riddled with errors.
Anonymous Profile
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Yes.He fell in love with her
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Anonymous answered
He did marry his first cousin.
Oh, and by the way he wrote a book called sexual selection, and The Selection in Relation to Sex. If any boys are interested.
Kiss kiss.
Bye the way, what could they possibly have done to have so many kids? LOL!
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He actually raped her then molested her and made her his sex slave and he seduced young chrildren.

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