Miss Charlotte Kennard, Miss Ethel May Kennard
and Master Charlie Kennard
23 March and 27 March 1866

Volume 13, page 93, sitting number 16,909 and Volume 13, page 98, sitting number 16,929.

The woman and baby are identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Miss Kennard and Miss M. Kennard.' A pencilled inscription in a period hand on the reverse of the mount reads 'Charlotte Kennard / and Ethel May / my godmother / 1867.'

Charlotte Anne Kennard was the second daughter of the Robert William Kennard, an ironmaster, financier, entrepreneur and Member of Parliament (1857-1868) for Newport on the Isle of Wight. They lived at l37 Porchester Terrace, which would have been the house across the road from Silvy's studio. On 31 March 1869 she married Lewis Cubitt (late 26th Cameronians), only son of Lewis Cubitt, Esq., of Brighton. The ceremony took place at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate (Reading Mercury, 10 April 1869). She died on 24 October 1926.

Ethel May Kennard was born on 26 May 1864. She was baptised at Christ Church Paddington on 12 July 1864. Her parents were Howard John Kennard, son of Robert William Kennard and also an iron master, and Ellen Kennard (née Bronsfield) of 54 Cleveland Square, Paddington. Charlotte Anne Kennard was her aunt. Ethel May Kennard died unmarried, aged 48, in 1913. 

The boy is identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Master Howard Kennard' but a pencilled inscription on the reverse of the mount reads 'Charlie Kennard / 1867.’ His full name was Howard Charles Kennard and he was born on 13 March 1862 at 54 Cleveland Square in Bayswater. He was therefore Ethel May Kennard's older brother and Charlotte Anne Kennard's nephew. 

From Cleveland Square it would have been a two-minute walk to Silvy's studio in Porchester Terrace.