Miss Agatha Leisler
(1835-1905)
28 June 1862

Volume 8, page 135, sitting number 10,162.

[The Silvy daybooks identify the sitter as 'Miss Leisler.' A piece of paper pasted onto the album page beneath the portrait has been signed 'Agatha Leisler' by the sitter.]

Born on 19 May 1839, Agatha Fredericke Leisler appears on the 1861 census, the 21-year-old daughter of John and Lydia Leisler, living at Victoria Park, Rusholme in Lancashire. Her father was a 'Cotton Merchant (Shipping)' while her brother-in-law described himself as a 'Cotton Manufacturer / employing 950 men and women.'

Miss Leister never married. She appears on the 1901 census living at Westfield Lodge, Poole Road, Parkstone in Dorset, with her unmarried sister Helena and her widowed sister Fanny A. Simpson. Also present on the night of the census were four servants, all female. 

Agatha Leisler died, aged 65, in Bournemouth on 11 January 1905, leaving an estate valued at £11,949.

[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.]