Catherine Charlotte Delgairns Wentworth was the daughter of medical doctor Charles Augustus Wentworth and his second wife Elizabeth (Eliza) Dalgairns. At some time before 1887 she presented a fine collection of butterflies from Knysna to Roland Trimen* at the South African Museum, Cape Town. Trimen acknowledged her donation in the Preface of his book South African butterflies... (1887-1889). On 7 April 1863 Miss Wentworth married Dr Joseph James Muskett, who spent most of his medical career from 1859 to 1893 at Knysna.

List of sources:

Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette, 16 September 1862, Government Notice No. 284, 1862, List of medical practitioners in the Cape Colony... (J.J. Muskett).

FamilySearch: Catherine Charlotte Delgairns Wentworth. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GHDW-5VV/catherine-charlotte-delgairns-wentworth-1831-1903

Heese, J.A. South African genealogies. Pretoria and Stellenbosch, 1986-2007.

Medical and pharmacy register for the Cape of Good Hope, 1893 (Dr J.J. Muskett).

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). . Documents relating to Muskett, Catherine Charlotte Dalgairns / Muskett, Catherine Charlotte Walgains / Muskett, Joseph James / Muskett, J.J. /Wentworth, Catherine Charlotte / Wentworth, Charles Augustus.

Trimen, R. South African butterflies: A monograph of the extra-tropical species (Preface to Vol. 1). London: Trübner, 1887.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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