The photographer's daughter

A carte-de-visite portrait of a young girl holding a cat.

A pencilled inscription verso identifies the sitter as ‘Miss Cox,’ which is the same surname as the photographer. The 1861 census shows that the photographer Alfred Wilson Cox did indeed have a daughter — and only one daughter — and that in the early 1860s she would have been exactly the right age to be the girl in this photograph.

Born in Nottingham in 1855, Ellen Louisa Cox married Frank Byron Jevons in 1889. According to the 1911 census, their marriage produced no children. In 1911, Frank was the ‘Principal of a College’ employed by Durham University. Ellen died in Nottingham on 3 March 1934, at the age of 79.

Photographed by brothers Alfred Wilson Cox and Henry William Cox of Nottingham.