Forum: Actors & Artistes

I am looking for information on the three children of Montague Talbot the son of Captain George Talbot, they were Irish from a wealthy family Montague was a theatre manager in Ireland in his obituary in 'The Belfast News-Letter', it claims he was manager for 23yrs of the Belfast Theatre as well as...

Can anyone provide any information about the theatrical career of Edward Thomas Gardner who died 14/07/1930 at the age of 82 at 164 Ebury Street, Westminster? The death was registered by his widow A Gardner, and the Death Certificate states that he was an 'Old Age Pensioner, formerly an Actor'....

My 7x great Grandfather was a man rather spendidly named Jahaziel Burden he had been born in 1745 in Semley, Wiltshire as one of eighteen children born to James Burden, when Jahaziel was eighteen in Jan 1764 he married his first wife Hannah Dean in Witham Friary Somerset and had four children born...

I am trying to find out more about Maudi Darrell an Edwardian actress. I know she married John Bullough in Mar Qtr of 1909 (24th March) at Paddington Register office, she was a 26 year old spinster and he was the son of a millionaire textile engineer, and a bachelor of 23 years of age. She died on...

A distant reletive of mine was an actor named T P Conniford his real name was Thomas William Peters he had been born on March 2nd 1862 in Paddington, London an only child born to George Jackson Peters and Emma Evans. He is in the 1881 census living with his widowed Mother he and their lodger...

Having watch WDYTYA tonight with Emilia Fox it was interesting to hear the srchivist from the V & A Theatre Collection say that they have a list of every actor and actress that appeared in a London theatre from 1690 something to the twentieth century. I have been to the website to see how to...

I would like to hear from anyone who knows anything about a circus act Atrato & Allen, or does the name Culleen ring any bells. The 1881 census lists Walter Allen aged 15 Equestrian performer, John Rowarth Allen, Eliza Allen, Thomas and Francis, Frederick Allen and John George Allen, also a Lidian...

Hi All, I would like to find out more about the above as my great grandfather Harold Walden performed with them in the 1930' - 1940's. He was a Music Hall Artiste/Comdian. I think he may have met his second wife Emily Jackson nee Shepherd (stage name possibly 'Betty Brennan' who may have been...

In this photo. Is my Grandmother Margaret Collins (nee McCluskey)and her sister.Central. Does anyone have any of these people in their family photographs? If so I would love to be able to put names to them. And love to hear from you. The Troupe used to tour Scotland, and farther afield I...

Found in my collection of 'keep this email because it might come in useful one day'. :smile5: http://www. kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/ (Scroll down about an inch to see the precise link.) Pam

These are not my people; are they yours? I just happened to see them on the 1901 census, RG 13 Piece 4531 Folio 52 Page 42, Central Ward, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. 58 St. Thomas St. Prince of Wailes Circus Henry B Croft and family.... a number of Lodgers, including: Walter ALLEN 36...

I would like to find out more about Ellen Kemp and her romany roots. She was born about 1840 and was my husband's great great grandmother. I don't know her birthplace but she married a Sunderland man and settled down in n.e. England.Her daughter Emma Johnson was born in Coxhoe 1868ish.

James Harold Graham (b.1873 Yorkshire) and his brother Edgar Hamilton Graham (b.1875 Yorkshire), listed as Acrobats in the census. They must have had a stage name. I am trying to find photos or posters . Ive tried different sites and the Victoria & Albert Museum with no success.Looked at a lot of...

One of my ancestors (Mary Ann aka Mauld (?) Ahearn) is said to have been a tight rope walker for John Scott Circus in London. Can anyone shed any light on where I can find information about this? I think she was born about 1862 in Bristol and married in 1886 in Bristol so I'm assuming it was before...

My Great Grandfather, Albert Bonaventura Ludovico, was born in 1837 and married in 1868, on the marriage certificate it shows his occupation as 'Comedian', whether he put this as some sort of joke I don't know. Is there anywhere I could find out if in fact that this occupation as stated is true? In...

Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me. I am trying to find any info on my grandfather Frederick Dewey Gibson b.1905 d.1954 in Liverpool. He was more well known as the actor Eric Cole in Liverpool and so i believe, also in London. He also managed the Empire Theatre in Liverpool for...

A marriage certificate from 1938 has just produced this wonderful (set of?) names to settle into my very English family tree, which is mainly based in and around London. Ruth Morgan married Mohamed Ali otherwise Ba Thein in August 1938. His address then was given as 5, Old Compton Street W.1 ...

I have recently been given a family photograph album which has a picture of a memorial to Mary jane Allen. It is in Darlington West cemetery and has a large horse on the top. She was rmarried to Fred Allen circus proprietor.Ihave an account of her funeral and there were four small children Masters...

I am seeking any information on Franciscus Josephus Aartsen who married Lily Wilson in Rotterdam on 11/12/1913. Lily gave birth to a boy in Edinburgh named Leonardus Josephus Aartsen on 21/10/1918 who was my wifes father. He was later adopted and named Leonard Stuart Harrow. my wife and her brother...

I am having great difficulty tracing anything about my Grandmothers life in Music Hall or the theatre. All I can find is that she was in Margate in 1918 where she married so I suspect she was appearing there at this time. I know not her name if there was a "stage name", only her birth name of Ada...