Family overview
The story of Darwin–Wedgwood Family Family Tree
An editorial guide to the people, places, and turning points recorded in this lineage.
The intertwined Darwin and Wedgwood families across four generations, from potter Josiah Wedgwood I and physician Erasmus Darwin through their famous grandson Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution transformed science. Charles married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, and their children continued the family's intellectual legacy.
The family's recorded origins begin with Mary Howard. From there, the chart follows marriages, descendants, and the major branches that shaped the wider family. The most connected members are highlighted below, while the timeline puts life events into chronological context.
Use this page as both a visual map and a research index. Open the interactive tree to trace a branch, follow person links for focused biographies, compare two relatives in the relationship explorer, and review locations to understand how the family moved over time. As new records are added, this overview and its analytics update with the tree.
