Genealogy Chat

Hi Gillian

Moggyrud posted this almost 4 years ago, click on her name and send a private message just incase she is not an active member now.

If the email address is still the same she will be notified

Hi Moggyrud. Your great aunts "husband" was my great grandfather. I can fill in a few details for you. They were not married, well at least not to each other!!!! Please respond and I'll update you.

Just an update on this. l received the obituaries from the kent library....and it was her husband who was managing the Empire Theatre. He was an actor...from a theatrical family...and appeared on stage at 6yrs of age.He died of a heart attack in his office at the Empire....and 2 months later Beatrice had a stroke...also at the theatre...and died in hospital. It also said that she was an original tiller girl. Didn't realise that they started in the late 1800's.Thanks to Linda who told me to apply to the library.

Thanks for updating us. Let us know what the Obit says.

Margaret

Amazing where this hobby can lead you. Fantastic stuff.

Ozi

Just to say to everyone who helped me....l am awaiting the obituary for my ancestor from the archive in Kent. The library that linda suggested forwarded my e-mail. Apparently she was married.....that was a surprise...and he was the manager of the empire theatre...and she managed the bar and food. he was an actor too.They had living accommadation there....and he actually died there......2 months before her.

Will do Ozbird. Will e-mail the library tomorrow.

Let us know if you find out anything about her, Moggy. You've stirred my curiosity.

Ozi

Thank you everyone. Just come on-line so am interested in the library. Didn't think of that. Been onto the site where she was in the shakespeare plays....looks likely that it was her.

Perhaps a possible obituary may help. You could email Chatham library to see if they hold old newspapers.

From google this is the email address

[email protected]

Linda

Madmeg, I had a hunch it might be her but was playing devil's advocate as 1925 is a long way from 1941.

Now that Moggy tells us she was an actress in 1901 seems even more possible.

Ozi

She was born in 1881 in bristol. On the 1901 census she was down as an "actress". Yes...might be worth trying . l really wanted to know why she was living at the theatre.

Ozi, why might it not be her? She only seems to have appeared in a couple of things.

Moggy, when was she born?

It might be worth contacting the two theatres, and even the Stratford theatre. Given that she appeared with Laurence Olivier, she must be on their records somewhere.

there's apicture of the theatre here

http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2348.0

Yes, madmeg, she seems to have been a Shakespearean actor 1925-1929. So may not be her.

Ozi

Thanks for looking. l have never seen a photo of the actress in those plays to compare with the one l have of her...so don't know. l saw her will...and thought it odd that it said she was living at the empire theatre.

According to the ultra-unrealiable Wikepedia, Norman V Norman and Beatrice Wilson were "other main cast members":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_stage,_film_and_television_performances_given_by_Laurence_Olivier

Is this her?

From Olivier's Career in the Theatre website:

1925 Lennox in Macbeth (Shakespeare). Norman V. Norman and Beatrice Wilson's production at the St Christopher Theatre, Letchworth.

No problem, just delete one of them.

sorry everyone for the message going twice...had problems with the site tonight.