RootsChat.Com
Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: geowin on Sunday 15 December 13 08:43 GMT (UK)
-
Known as James Bernard (1874 - 1946), well-known reciter and teacher of elocution in Manchester. Taught actor, Robert Donat. Any information or family history, please. Geowin
-
Do you know where he was born ??
could this be his sister ?
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6V6-LF2
-
Hi
Baptism
Cathedral and parish church of Manchester
28 Sept 1874
James Rudolph Bernard Von Schmoocke, born 11 Aug 1874
Parents Frederick Bernard & Sarah Louise, fathers occ surgeon
Kevin
-
1881, in Russell Sq, Bloomsbury, London
James Lowe 52 - gentleman, b Walsall
Mary Lowe 40 - wife, b Hulme End, Staffs
Barnet Aaronson 25 - visitor b Newcastle upon Tyne
Eliza Aaronson 24 - wife of visitor, b Hulme End, Staffs
James Rodulph Van Schmooche 6 - nephew [of visitor???] b Manchester
Amelia Aaronson - 5 months, daughter of visitor
Anne Welsh 38 - servant
RG11, 320, 64, 9
-
Annie, the possible sister, is with her uncle Reginald Rudd (b Appleby Westmoreland) and his wife Anne (b Waslow, Derbyshire) on both 1881, in Leeds, and 1891 in Burnley
-
There also a Nellie Edith von Schmoocke b Islington 1882, who marries Dormer Andrews in Pancras district in 1901
-
Took me a time to track, but Reginald Rudd's wife was Anne Lowe (married in Glasgow in 1861) so is presumably connected to James and Mary Lowe, with whom James von S is found on 1881 (in earlier censuses Barnett Aaronson is also James & Mary 's nephew)
-
I have doen quite a bit of research on this family through my husbands line (Aaronson). I looked initially at James Lowe (his uncle) who seems to have changed profession every census!
Let me know if there is something specific I can help you with?
-
1st marriage Sarah Louisa Lowe
2nd marriage 21/7/1882 St Martin Kentish Town
Frederick William Theodore Schmoocke Von Bernard 47 widower Artist 221 Hampstead Road father Herman Rudolph Von Bernard Major Prussian Army
to
Phoebe Alice Whiteley
Jennifer
-
James marries Alexandra Oxley in 1915.
Jennifer
-
I have put an entry for "James Bernard, Elocutionist" on Wikipedia. I still can find no records of his whereabouts between his uncle's death and his living in Sale, Cheshire. Where did he spend his early years; where did he learn elocution and reciting skills?
-
I have put an entry for "James Bernard, Elocutionist" on Wikipedia. I still can find no records of his whereabouts between his uncle's death and his living in Sale, Cheshire. Where did he spend his early years; where did he learn elocution and reciting skills?
here's what I have for him -
Born 11 Aug 1874
112 Bloomsbury, Chorlton upon Medlock
Baptism 28 Sep 1874
Manchester, St Mary, St Denys and St George, Lancashire, England
Residence 1881 -
St George Bloomsbury, London, England
Residence 1891 - 580 Wandsworth Road, Clapham, London, England
Occupation 1891 Pawnbrokers Assistant
Residence 1911- 14 Abington Rd, Brooklands, Sale, Manchester, Cheshire, England
Occupation 1911 - Professional reciter
Marriage to Alexandra Oxley 27 Apr 1915
Platt Chapel, Rusholme, Manchester
Residence 1925 Rusholme, Manchester, Lancashire
I'm not sure where he was in 1901??
-
Just realised that I misread your message about Wiki - I thought you said you couldn't see him but now I realise you have added him! Fantastic to see a picture of the man himself.