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Title: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Worser on Sunday 06 September 09 02:11 BST (UK)

I am looking for information on Fuller's Vaudeville Co. and in particular Jack Knowles who was a 'coon singer' in Wellington in 1910,1911,  His full name was Jacob Austin Campbell KNOWLES a Canadian.

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Lucy2 on Sunday 06 September 09 03:00 BST (UK)

NZ Marriage

Jacob Austin Campbell KNOWLES 
Beatrice Ellen Watson MORRIS 
Year - 1910

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Lucy2 on Sunday 06 September 09 03:05 BST (UK)

 :)

Numerous "hits" for "Jack KNOWLES" and "Fullers" on our PapersPast website.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

Lu

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: rpoole on Sunday 06 September 09 11:33 BST (UK)

Here is a site with a lister on it who may be of mutual benefit to you. Just search for knowles and you will find the 2007 post.

Aussie Bob

http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?gb=5754&action=view

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Lucy2 on Sunday 06 September 09 23:11 BST (UK)

 :D   Well yes Aussie Bob, I'd also found that link earlier.    But it does seem to be rather more concerned with the OWENS surname ??

Worser :   

You'll see in one of the PapersPast articles, that Beatrice (the former wife of Jacob A.C. KNOWLES), took up with a "Robert Blayney OWENS".    There doesn't appear to have been a formal marriage between these two (no listing found on the NZ Marriage index - no Divorce record found for KNOWLES).
There is a NZ death index listing for "1958 - Beatrice Ellen OWENS - 66 years" who seems most likely to be the same person as Beatrice Ellen Watson MORRIS born (NZ) in 1892.

Lu

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Worser on Monday 07 September 09 05:34 BST (UK)

Thank You Aussie Bob and Lucy2.
 I have found a number of references to Jack Knowles in Papers Past site.
I can now match up  the information I suspected regarding Robert Blayney OWENS  and Beatrice Knowles.
Was this company a local based company or did they tour in the 1900's?

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: Lucy2 on Monday 07 September 09 06:43 BST (UK)

Quote from: Worser on Monday 07 September 09 05:34 BST (UK)

Was this company a local based company or did they tour in the 1900's?

The company was actually founded in New Zealand by Englishman,  John FULLER  (1850 - 1923).    As well as touring here they also later moved into Australia.

A Google search will give you lots of information about Fullers.    :)

The "Dictionary of New Zealand Biography" (online) entry for John FULLER is a good place to start. 

http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp
  

Lu
     

Title: Re: Fuller's Vaudville Company
Post by: EDO on Monday 07 September 09 08:05 BST (UK)

http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/Search/Search.asp?Letter=F&Subject=Fuller-Brennan+Vaudeville+Circuit+-+Posters

http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080611b.htm

I hope that these and the bio. of
Sir BENJAMIN JOHN FULLER
 should assist you .

EDO