Evans, Christiana Pearson (1788-1836)

Christiana Evans was George Eliot's mother. The daughter of a farmer, Isaac Pearson, Christiana married Robert Evans in 1813. Christiana gave birth to three children: Christiana 'Chrissey' (1814); Isaac (1816); and Mary Ann (George Eliot) (1819); along with two twin boys (William and Thomas in 1821) who did not survive their birth. Christiana died in 1836.

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