From Edwards to Milne-Edwards

From Edwards to Milne-Edwards …
EDWARDS Family
A long lineage of Edwards's, going back to at least 15'th Century, originally from Westbury, Wiltshire, England. Some of them went to Jamaica, in the West Indies,
where they were successful, as well as wealthy, Sugar Cane farmers. A few of them returned to Europe in the 1780's and 1790's, as for example:
Bryan EDWARDS *
William EDWARDS
Élisabeth VAUX
(1743–1800). Cousin to
William EDWARDS., whose
only surviving son Zachary
Hume EDWARDS, died 1812.
(1746–1823). Had loads of Children!
Some sources claim 25 other 29!
Two of them were William Frederick
EDWARDS and Henri Milne EDWARDS.
French, second wife of William
Edwards and mother of (among
others?) Henri Milne EDWARDS, who
was her second child.
.
William Frederick EDWARDS
Henri Milne EDWARDS
Laure TREZEL
(1777–1842), botanist, ethnologist.
Son of William EDWARDS and his first
wife; Jeanne Thomas. Older, halfbrother to Henri Milne EDWARDS.
Born in (the, at that time, French town) Bruges (today's
Brügge, in Belgium) 23 October 1800. To separate himself from all other Edward´s he later sometimes used
the name "Milne-Edwards". Died in Paris 29 July 1885.
(1801–1842). French, wife of Henri
Milne EDWARDS whom she married in
1923. they had four surviving (out of 9)
Children, the fourth being Alphonse …
* Not to be confused with:
Sir Bryan EDWARDS
(1796–1876), Chief Justice of
Jamaica. Knighted 1855.
Of the same Family.
Julie … (1831-1857), Married to Ernest Charles Jean Baptiste Dumas (1827-1890)
Cécile … (1832-1917), Married 1862 to her late sisters husband E. C. J. B. Dumas (above)
Louise … (1834-1910), Married to Daniel Pavet de Courteille (1827-1870)
Alphonse MILNE-EDWARDS
Aglaé DESNOYERS
Born in Paris, 13 October 1835. In his youth he was
(only) known as Alphonse EDWARDS . Later changed
his name (by adding the second first name of his
celebrated Father to the Family Name) as : Alphonse
MILNE-EDWARDS. Died in Paris, 21 April 1900.
(1839–1887). French, wife of
Alphonse MILNE-EDWARDS,
whom she married in 1862.
No Children of their own.
References:
 Cundall. F. 1915. IX Trelawny (pp. 306–318). Historic Jamaica : with fifty-two illustrations . The Institute of Jamaica by the West India Committee, London.
 Laurent, G. 2000. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) et le transformisme. Travaux du Comité Français d'Histoire de la Géologie. 3e série, XIV, (10): 107-118.
Moigno, F. 1861. – M. Alphonse Edwards (s.73). Académie des Sciences; Séance du lundi 15 juillet1861. Cosmos: revue encyclopédique hebdomadaire des progrès des sciences et de leurs
application aux Arts et l'Industrie 19: 69-80.
 Monod T. 1987. Edwards ou Milne-Edwards? Cahiers des Naturalistes, Bulletin des Naturalistes Parisiens, 43:19.
 Oliver, V E. 1894. Edwards family. Pedigree of Edwards of Jamaica (pp.235–236). The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first
settlement in 1635 to the present time. Vol I. Mitchell and Hughes, London.
 http://correspondancefamiliale.ehess.fr/index.php?5190 «Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1835-1900), son père Henri et leurs proches», correspondancefamiliale, Compléments
historiographiques, Biographies, M,mis à jour le : 19/09/2013