CDV (low res scan) by Charles Knight : Young Lady with Long Locks

Unidentified Young Lady on the Isle of Wight photographed by Charles Knight. Notice how long her hair really is. Easy to miss.

The following info courtesy of Gordon Childs and his website www.childsweb.talktalk.net/index.htm

Charles Knight was born in 1853 at Ryde, the son of Henry Knight from Worthing, Sussex, and his wife Harriet (nee King) from Dorset. His parents had apparently moved to the Island in the late 1840's, since their first child born on the Island was Mary Jane in 1851. Births of older siblings indicate the family's move was via Hertford and London; viz Harriet in Worthing c1845, Emily in Hertford c1846 and Henry in London c1848. At least four more children were born on the Island after Charles.
At the time of the 1861 census, the family was living at 8/9 The Arcade, off Union Street, Ryde, where his parents had a shop; his father being an importer of Italian statues. Charles was then recorded as being a 7-year old scholar. Also living with the family in 1861 was Henry senior's unmarried older sister Eliza from Worthing and a house servant Elizabeth Phillips from Sandown.

Charles must have started his photographic career at an early age, because the 1871 census records him as being a 17 year old photographic artist pupil. He was still living then with his parents and siblings at 8/9 The Arcade. There were several eminent photographers in the area to whom Charles could have been apprenticed.

Charles married Constance Fry in 1879 and they had their first child, Lily, in 1880. Constance was born in 1860 at Ryde, a daughter of Robert & Mary (nee Williams). In the 1881 census Charles is recorded as being a 27 year old photographer, living at 26 Union Street, Ryde along with his wife and 9 month old baby Lily - both born in Ryde. Also living with the family in 1881 was Mary A Fry, Constance's unmarried elder sister who was recorded as a photographer's assistant.

By the time of the 1891 census, the family had moved to 108 High Street, Newport, where 37 year old Charles had set up a photographic studio. The family had also increased in size by then with three more children - Daisy (9), Charles (4) and Marguerite (3) - accompanying his wife Constance (30) and first daughter Lily (10). Sadly, the family had suffered the loss of a fifth child, Lawrence, who died at the age of 7 months in 1889. The fact that Daisy had been born in Ryde and the latter children in Newport, indicates that the family moved from Ryde to Newport c1881-86. Also living with the family in 1891 was Martha Browning, an 18 year old general servant from Newport.

By the time of the 1901 census, the family had moved to the mainland, where Charles had set up a photographic studio in Aldershot, Hants.

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Some of his recorded studios:
6 Royal Arcade, Ryde (c1875 - c1880)
26 Union Street, Ryde (c1881)
108 High Street, Newport (c1882 - c1898)

flic.kr/p/TY2Rb3 Backstamp:
PATRONIZED BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
CHARLES KNIGHT
Photographer to the
CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS OF GERMANY
GALLERY & STUDIO
6 Royal Victoria Arcade
RYDE. I. W.
ENLARGEMENTS IN OIL, WATER COLOR
OR CRAYON CAN BE MADE FROM THIS
NEGATIVE NO. WHICH IS
CAREFULLY PRESERVED.
Oborne, London & paris

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I did some small, cosmetic clean-up retouches in photoshop.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Ryde (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1880

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