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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: m23to53 on Friday 28 March 25 12:50 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone help me with any info about this late 19th century Australian actress and her daughter Katherine. I know the daughter died in England in 1962 - death record suggesting she was born c1881 - having married William Rolf Bennett in 1912. That is basically the sum of what I can find in positive facts about the two women, although it is possible Jennie ( if her name was not a professional one for the stage) was born c1858.
I can find newspaper articles mentioning her acting, but nothing biographical.
(Interestingly Katherine was a writer as Katherine Harrington, and that name appears on her marriage record)
Thanks
John
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Death --look for her with other family in 1939--dob 15.12.1852
BENNETT, KATE ELIZABETH aged 98
GRO Reference: 1949 M Quarter in BRAINTREE Volume 04A Page 412
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Birth---
Births Sep 1915
BENNETT Beata mmn Elliot St. Ouseburn 9a 138
Marriage
Marriages Sep 1942
Aitken David J E Bennett Braintree 4a 2599
Bennett Beat[ae] Aitken Braintree 4a 2599
Death
Beata Aitken
6 Aug 1915
Nov 2003
Chelmsford
Essex
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Births Mar 1917
Bennett Rosemary mmn Elliot Gt.Ouseburn 9a 120
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Look for Rosemary Bennett in 1921, St Ives, Cornwall, with her grandparents.
Beata is in St Ives in 1921.
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Kate Sarah ELLIOT b. 9 April 1880 Adelaide, South Australia.
Father: Arthur Charles Rowell Elphinstone ELLIOT
Mother: Jeanie Watt TANNER
Book/Page: 240/160
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search
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Lots of info on NLA:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202346686?searchTerm=%22Watt%20Tanner%22
OK now here we go,
Mrs Feltham (wife of Mr T Feltham), was apparently a sister of Mrs R Maddison, of Wandiligong, and a aunt of Miss Jennie Watt Tanner (Jennie's mother being also a sister of Mrs Feltham).
He was Thomas Edward, wife of Margaret:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192212441?searchTerm=Feltham
Now we can track this family here: https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/-
Thomas Edward Feltham married Margaret Jessie Clarke in 1858
(she died 1920, listed as daughter of Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt)
Mrs R Maddison was probably then Agnes Watt Clarke, also married 1858 to Robert Maddison
(she died 1892, listed as daughter of Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt)
Which would make a possiblity for Jessie's parents to be Abram Tanner married Mary Ann Clark in 1857. There is a Mary Ann Tanner died 1892 whose parents are also listed as Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt.
(The Clark family seem to have been Scottish; Janet died there in 1861: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3T-HYL7?lang=en and Agnes at least can be found baptised there also: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY2P-Q52?lang=en )
I'm struggling to find any births to Abram (sometimes seems to use Abraham) and Mary, though.
Jenny/Jeannie died in 1913:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210015862?searchTerm=%22Watt%20Tanner%22
(death appears to be indexed as "Jennie W Tanner")
Now here's something interesting: Jennie and Katherine in 1901 where Jennie's birth is given as "At Sea"
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS7G-HLD?lang=en
and in 1911 again:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWL7-NJK?lang=en