Edward Knight's Family
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Elizabeth Louisa Rice continued.
'... only enjoyed it.'
After their mother's death the two unmarried daughters made their home in a little house close to Dane Court, and for years South Court was a centre of happiness to their brothers and sisters and to their many nephews and nieces, whose joy it was to stay with Aunt Lou and Aunt Cam.'
– Her niece, Miss Marcia Rice.
She died on January 18th 1916, at the age of 92 and was buried at Tilmanstone. (Epitaph page 231)
Elizabeth Louisa Rice
Portrait of Elizabeth Louisa Rice.
Marianne Sophia Rice. [3]
Born February 20th 1825.
Baptized at Tilmanstone, March 5th 1825.
'She was almost a twin sister to Elizabeth Louisa and, until her marriage, they did everything together, and after it corresponded almost daily.
Marianne did not marry until she was thirty years old – she then became the wife, on February 1st 1855, of the Rev. Sir John Robert Laurie Emilius Bayley, B.D., Vicar of St. John's, Paddington from 1867 to 1888 – a hardworking clergymen of Evangelical views who exercised a strong influence upon many members of the Rice family. Later in life, on succeeding to the estate of Maxwelton in Dumfriesshire, he took the name of Laurie in lieu of Bailey – by Royal Licence dated February 26th 1877.
Louisa and Marianne, 'Aunt Lou' and 'Aunt May' to their nephews and nieces, were very different in character, Aunt May was naturally more of a woman of the world, rather ...
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