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the youngest of seven children
Emma was not one of seven children. Cambridge’s Darwin Correspondence Project calls her the youngest child and places her eighth in birth order, while genealogical listings of Josiah Wedgwood II’s family enumerate nine children in total.
Full reasoning
This understates the size of Emma Wedgwood's family.
The Darwin Correspondence Project (run from Cambridge) describes Emma as "the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen". A separate genealogical listing for Josiah Wedgwood and Elizabeth Allen enumerates nine children in total, including Mary Anne Wedgwood (1796–1798), who died in infancy.
So the exact total varies depending on whether a child who died very young is included in the ordinal phrasing, but neither source supports "seven children". At minimum, Emma was not the youngest of seven.
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- Emma Darwin | Darwin Correspondence Project
Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen.
- Person Page | The Peerage
Children of Josiah Wedgwood and Elizabeth Allen: Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood; Mary Anne Wedgwood; Charlotte Wedgwood; Henry Allen Wedgwood; Francis Wedgwood; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Wedgwood; Emma Wedgwood.