![]() ![]() Although Elizabeth spent several years without seeing her father and his new family, her older brother John often visited her in Knutsford. Her father married Catherine Thomson in 1814 and they had a son, William (born 1815), and a daughter, Catherine (born 1816). While she was growing up Elizabeth's future was uncertain, as she had no personal wealth and no firm home, though she was a permanent guest at her aunt and grandparents' house. After she died 13 months after giving birth to her youngest daughter, she left a bewildered husband who saw no alternative for Elizabeth but to be sent to live with her mother's sister, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire. ![]() His wife, Elizabeth Holland, came from a family from the English Midlands that was connected with other prominent Unitarian families, including the Wedgwoods, the Turners and the Darwins. ![]() That position did not materialise, however, and instead Stevenson was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. Her father, William Stevenson, was a Scottish Unitarian minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds and moved to London in 1806 with the intention of going to India after he was appointed private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. ![]() She was the youngest of eight children only she and her brother John survived infancy. Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on September 29, 1810 at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. ![]()
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