Kate (Katharine) Faraday Boyd (1879 – 1961) was 15 when she started her diaries. She is my Great Great Aunt.
Alys Faraday Embleton (née Boyd) (1884 – 1967). Kate’s little sister.
Edward – Edward Boyd (1876 – 1946) Kate’s older brother. Edward was educated at Clifton College and Sidney College, Cambridge (1895 – 1898) – Exhibitioner Natural Science Tripos 1st Class.
Lucy Reid Faraday (Mother) (1851 – 1900) – Kate’s mother.
Philip Boyd (1846 – 1888) – Kate’s father. A partner in Morant, Boyd & Morant, cabinet-makers producing exceptional exhibition-quality furniture in London. Philip died aged 42 from tuberculosis.
Wade – (Caroline Hanna Wade 1856 – ?) Always known as “Wadey” – Much loved and devoted family nanny who stayed with the family all her life.
Other Family
Doz – Dorothy “Dolly” Barnard (1878 – 1949), younger daughter of Fred and Alys (Lucy’s sister) Barnard – 1st cousin of Kate.
Poz – Marion (“known as Polly”) Barnard (1874 – 1946), Dorothy’s older sister, daughter of Fred and Alys (Lucy’s sister) Barnard – 1st cousin of Kate.
Alice Faraday Barnard (née Faraday) (1847 – 1924), Poz and Doz’s mother, Kate’s aunt (sister to her mother, Lucy Boyd) married to Fred Barnard.
Geoff Barnard (1872 – 1891) – Deceased brother of Poz and Doz. An artist. Died aged 19.
Conis – little terrier dog belonging to Geoff originally and then, after his death, to Kate.
Alice (Aunt Alice) married Frederick Barnard (an illustrator for Charles Dickens). They had three children – Geoff, Marion (Poz) and Dorothy (Doz) and a dog called Conis. In 1891 Geoff died from congenital heart disease, aged 22. His father was distraught, moved out of the house and died 5 years later in a bedsit in Wimbledon. He was burned in his bed whilst under the influence of opium.
Poz and Doz were frequently painted by John Singer Sargent. They are most famously known as the two girls in the picture “Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose”.
The Diaries of my Great-Great-Aunt Kate 