Mrs Miles Stringer
(1833-1892)
24 September 1860

Volume 2, page 10, sitting number 1339.

Mrs Miles Stringer appears on the 1861 census living at Effingham in Surrey with her husband, family and servants. She gave ‘London, Regent's Park’ as her place of birth. Born Louisa Howe, she married Miles Stringer on 22 June 1852 at Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland.

Mrs Louisa Stringer died, aged 59, on 15 January 1892 at 41 Shepherd's Bush Road, Kensington. She left effects valued at £64. 

[From an album compiled by Charles Balfour, a British wine merchant importing sherry and port from Portugal. Born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1822, his father was James Balfour. In May 1852 he married Mary Ermelinda, daughter of Robert Woodhouse of Oporto in Portugal. The couple were married at the consulate then afterwards at the British chapel in Oporto. Charles Balfour died on 12 January 1876.]