Mrs Stewart of Ashcraig
26 June 1861

Volume 4, page 135, sitting number 4611.

The Silvy daybooks identify this sitter as 'Mrs Stewart of Ashcraig.' She was further identified by her signature on a piece of paper pasted onto the album page beneath the portrait. The adjacent carte was a portrait of her husband, David J. Stewart.

This is possibly the Annie Stewart who appears on the 1861 census, living at 5 Kildare Terrace, Paddington. Aged 37 at the time of the census, she was born in or about 1824 in Scotland. Her husband, David Stewart, was born at Kingston in Surrey and described himself as a ‘Fundholder.'

[From an album compiled by Margaret Tootal, wife of Edward Tootal of Weaste near Manchester, formerly a cotton manufacturer, and second daughter of James Kennedy of Ancoats near Manchester, also a cotton manufacturer.]