Trapeze performer in Circus

[christanel]

The Evening Telegraph Dundee, Tuesday September 27, 1949 Frank Foster's memories of circus life in which he talks about the tent blowing down in a storm in 1921 at Wallsend and mentions Tom Ethardo.

Christina

[christanel]

TOM HICKS attested 11/12/1915 he states he was a flying gymnast of 27 Cambridge Street Wellingboro. No surprise he did anti aircraft training!

wife Edith ROUSE married Parish Church Yarmouth

Children:
Olga Gwendoline 19/04/1911 Bedford
Richard 01/08/1912 Hardingstone?
Mary Mildred 22/04/1914 Hardingstone?

This is a damaged record but worth looking at on FMP

Brilliant geneius, that looks more like it.

Who is the child born prior to the 1911 census they say they had and still living in 1911?

Christina

[geneius]

Titbits

Sam PUGH died in the workhouse.

He can be found 1881 census at RG11 1026 18 30 b 1865 Wakefield

I can find a 'writer' Frank FOSTER who writes in the London papers about the Circus acts


Should have read the other posts first ...snap Christanel!

[geneius]

Found this interesting entry

1891 Census RG 12 2536 86 5 Leicester

Thomas F Hale 25 b London
Thomas Ether Hale 36 b Warwickshire
Thomas Ether Hale 13 b Cardiff
Eugenia Ether Hale 11 b Cardiff
Samuel Pugh 26 Wakefield
Soo Ranah 23 London
Louis Ranah 20 London

All described as Gymnasts

[christanel]

Hi geneius

Looking at the original image the first bloke is Thomas F Hale. He isn't a gymnast but I can't read what it says.
Then it is
Thomas Etherdo snr (no .. for doh under Hale) 36
Thomas Etherdo jnr 13
Eugenia Etherdo 11
then the others as the transcription says.

RG12 piece 2536 folio 86 page 5

[christanel]

Children:

Olga Gwendoline 19/04/1911 Bedford
Richard 01/08/1912 Hardingstone?
Mary Mildred 22/04/1914 Hardingstone?

This is a damaged record but worth looking at on FMP

Olga's birth reg on FreeBMD

Births June 1/4 1911
ROUSE Olga G registration district Bedford vol 3b page 295

Christina

[christanel]

ancestry has 2 service records. One for the RGA regiment no 124955 and the second one reg number 124938.

I only took a quick look but on the second one it seems Tom is more specific about the surname registrations of his children.

I am still searching for them all prior to 1891 census.

Christina

[geneius]

#15 Well it was late at night & I do have an opticians appointment at the end of the month!!!!

I would have preferred to stay up and burn the midnight oil on this BUT...knew you needed something to while the day away with

Jx

[geneius]

1881
RG11 3093 94 14

18 Queen Street Leamington
Tom ETHERDO 25 Artiste ? Warwick
Kate ETHERDO 24 Dress maker Dewsbury
Tom ETHERDO 3 Cardiff
Eugenie ETHERDO 1 Cardiff

[jennifer 150]

Thank you Christanel for taking the time to look into my query. You have given me a lot of useful information. Wow how do you find out all this stuff? I was given "half" a book about the George sanger circus---do not know what happened to the other half. It was written by Frank Foster who you mentioned. I still can't find a wedding for Tom and Edith although you say it refers to his wife Edith Rouse married parish church Yarmouth. I have found Olga and she married in 1939 a Ronald Bowman but she died in Bromley 1940
Northampton seems to be the main area as the other 4 children were born there. On my father Richard birth certificateb 1912 it says mothers name Souter and fathers name Hicks which was crossed out with 2 lines going through it! Can you help me with the emigration to America with tom's mum and 2 sisters, must have been around the time the father died in 1883 and was she a Hicks or a Pugh. Thanks again regards jenny