Miss Louisa King
(1842-1915)
20 April 1861

Volume 3, page 121, sitting number 3176.

[The Silvy daybooks identify this sitter as 'Miss King (of Beaufoy Terrace).' Identified only as ‘Miss King’ on the album page, the adjacent portrait shows ‘Colonel King [of the] 36th Regiment.’]

Colonel King of the 36th Regiment is Edward Richard King (1808-1879), who appears on the 1861 census, a widower living with his unmarried daughter, Louisa Mary Henrietta King, and three servants, at 17 Beaufoy Terrace in St John’s Wood. At the time of the census, Miss King was nineteen years old, so she was born in or about 1842; according to the census, her place of birth was Sandhurst in Berkshire.

On 13 September 1865 at St George's Hanover Square 'Louisa Mary Henrietta, eldest daughter of Colonel King, late 36th Regiment, son of the late Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Henry King, K.C.B.' married 'Robert William Francis Holt, Esq., Royal Marine Light Infantry, only son of Robert Hugh Frede Holt, of Rochdale, and of West Cliff, Dawlish, Esq.' (Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, 28 September 1865). 

In 1891 the couple were living at the base of the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Gillingham in Kent. Also present on the night of the census were their son Robert, a 'Physician & Surgeon,' and daughters Lilian and Amy. Their son was born at Woolwich and their two daughters at Gosport. The household also included a cook and a housemaid. 

In 1911 Robert and Louisa were living with daughter Lilian at 19 South Parade, Southsea. According to the census, they had been married for 45 years and had had four children but two had died. 

Mrs Louisa Holt died, aged 73, on 14 April 1915 at 41 Ashburton Road, Southsea, Portsmouth. Her effects were valued at £11.