Talk:Mary Eliza Kennard

Reinelt 62 (talk) 22:07, 8 November 2015 (UTC)== Parents of Mary Eliza Kennard ==

The article states that Mary Eliza Kennard's father was Charles Wilson Faber, not Samuel Laing. In fact there is no doubt at all that Samuel Laing and Mary Dickson Laing were her parents. She appears as a one-year old in his Brighton family in the 1851 census, her marriage in 1870, with details provided on Ancestry, was in Brighton, her parental home, in the presence of both fathers, Samuel Laing and Robert Kennard, and she talks about her father and his writing in a well-known Lady's Pictorial interview re-published in a book of 1893 ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38596/38596-h/38596-h.htm#Page_172). I corrected the Wiki article, but this correction has been removed. I understand that this is because I did not follow the correct procedures, but it is a pity to present obviously incorrect information in Wiki and to repeat the error even though it has been corrected.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Canonjoy (talk • contribs) 21:06, 13 October 2014 (UTC)


 * If you have the sources you need to present them. For example, provide the date and explain the content of the Lady's Pictorial interview. Paul B (talk) 17:03, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree with the first contributor to this page. Amongst their eleven children Charles Wilson Faber and Mary Beckett-Denison had three born in March 1849, July 1850, and December 1851, Augusta Fanny, Arthur Di Dibon, and George Denison respectively. The Index to the General Register Office Birth records show that these were all single births, and there is no record of a Mary Eliza Faber being born as a twin to any of them. The first two are present in Charles and Mary's family in the 1851 Census, the first and third in the 1861 Census. Again there is no Mary Eliza Faber present in either of these censuses. The Index to the General Register Office Marriage records show a Mary Eliza Laing marrying in the Brighton Registration District in the quarter ending June 1870. On the same page in the same volume in the same Registration District there is a record of an Edward Kennard marrying. All the evidence suggests therefore that Mary Eliza Kennard cannot have been a daughter of Charles Wilson Faber and Mary Beckett-Denison. There is however a connection between the two families insofar as a later son of Charles Wilson Faber and Mary Beckett-Denison, Walter Vavasour Faber, married Theresa Uzielli Laing, who was a daughter of Samuel Laing. Reinelt 62 (talk) 22:07, 8 November 2015 (UTC)