Mrs Howard J. Kennard
(1831-1864)
30 May 1861

Volume 3, page 334, sitting number 4019.

Born on 4 June 1831 at 29 Finsbury Square in London, Ellen Bousfield was the daughter of Robert Richardby Bousfield of Hounsditch,  a 'slop seller' or wholesale clothier. 

On 4 March 1853 at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham she married iron founder and iron merchant Howard John Kennard, whose father was the Member of Parliament for Newport on the Isle of Wight from 1857 to 1868. According to his obituary in the Dundee Evening Telegraph (14 August 1896), Howard John Kennard 'had a long association with the iron trade, in which he held a prominent position, and he was senior partner of the Falkirk Iron Company, a Justice of the Peace for Sterlingshire, a Commissioner for the Lieutenancy of the City of London, Chairman of the Blaenavon Iron Company [...], and President of the Royal Metal Trades Pension Society, which was practically founded by his father.'

The Kennards and their four children appear on the 1861 census living at 54 Cleveland Square, Paddington. Also present on the night of the census were seven servants, including a butler.

Mrs Kennard died in Paris in December 1864. She was buried in Norwood Cemetery, South London, on 5 January 1865. 

Her husband remarried in 1872. When he died in 1896 he left an estate valued at £115, 674.