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Occupation Interests / Re: Circus Artistes and families.
« on: Wednesday 07 March 12 23:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi-----I'm hoping you can help me do some research on my grandfather. His name was Morris (Max) Ferdinand Weigel. My mother told me that he was a dog handler for Sylvesters Circus. My guess is the circus was German in origin and I can't find anything on it on US web sites.
My mother told me he traveled around the world 2 or 3 times and that they played at the Pan American Exhibition in San Francisco. I found him on the ships manifest for the Pennsylvania 18 July 1914 listed as a dog handler going from Cuxhaven to New York. Here is the link if you would like to look at it
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=HamburgPL_full&h=2962600&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7488
There was a possibility that is was a Vaudeville act instead of a circus but my Mother said he complained about how the horses got sick on the ships and made everyone else sick. I'm guessing horses would no be in a Vaudeville act but I could be wrong.
Anyway, I'm new to this site and not sure of the protocol but if you can provide any information or steer me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Chris Austin
Bethpage NY USA
My mother told me he traveled around the world 2 or 3 times and that they played at the Pan American Exhibition in San Francisco. I found him on the ships manifest for the Pennsylvania 18 July 1914 listed as a dog handler going from Cuxhaven to New York. Here is the link if you would like to look at it
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=HamburgPL_full&h=2962600&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7488
There was a possibility that is was a Vaudeville act instead of a circus but my Mother said he complained about how the horses got sick on the ships and made everyone else sick. I'm guessing horses would no be in a Vaudeville act but I could be wrong.
Anyway, I'm new to this site and not sure of the protocol but if you can provide any information or steer me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Chris Austin
Bethpage NY USA