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Australia / Jennie/Jenny Watt Tanner and Daughter
« on: Friday 28 March 25 12:50 GMT (UK)  »
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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The Common Room / Re: Harry William Stanley Slinger
« on: Monday 17 March 25 14:06 GMT (UK)  »
Just to add both daughters, Myrna and Joyce are deceased.
Harry Slinger had become Rex Drummond and they too had become  Drummonds when they married - became Weedon and England. Both appear to have sons still living, born in the sixties.

Regards
M23to53
































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The Common Room / Edward John Pilcher - why no GRO records ?
« on: Wednesday 14 August 24 15:35 BST (UK)  »
According to the Probate Index, this person died 6/7/1941 in London and that is that. Cannot see a GRO record of this death - or any other record apart from electoral rolls, including 1939 Register. He died Bayswater and there is a John Edward Pilcher who dies Paddington  Sept quarter 1941 aged 79. Could this be him though he is Edward on electoral rolls ?

Regards
John


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Other Countries / Re: Urania Burnett
« on: Friday 12 April 24 13:50 BST (UK)  »
Source of the full name, unseen by me, was 'Wright's Chronological Bibliography of English Language Fiction in the Library of Congress through 1950 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974)'. Author is listed in the unknown nationalities section, nothing else known except her book, under a pseudonym, was published 1901 -
"Penelope Dalrymple
        rn: Urania Burnett Sunderland. "That Wager of Dot's." Abbey
(NYC), 1901"

Must admit I am asssuming she was West Indian as the apparent only appearance of a possible maiden name is in records relating to the area.

Regards
John

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Other Countries / Urania Burnett
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 13:40 BST (UK)  »
Born Barbados 1864, her birth record is the only one I can find. As the only visible possibility I can find, I need to know if she became the Urania Burnett Sunderland living c1901 of no known location I can find. No trace on Ancestry/Family Search etc.
Any way to trace her further ?

Thanks
John

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The Common Room / Alan Herbert Rowland
« on: Friday 22 December 23 17:16 GMT (UK)  »
This is a rather vague query as I can only find one instance of the name and no idea if he is my man.
I can find no BMD records for him, and have no idea if this chap is English.
The only record found is an entry on the 1929 London electoral where he is living at 2 Princeton Mansions, Red Lion Street, Camden with an Elsie Maud Rowland - no definite other records for her and no probable marriage found. And nothing apparent on passenger lists.

Any help to identify him would be appreciated.
Thanks
John

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The Common Room / Re: Nena Lilian Prinsep
« on: Wednesday 11 October 23 13:16 BST (UK)  »
I have now seen Grace's will in which she says she is married to George Roe/Rowe, not Prinsep. And we have found another infantile death of a child of Grace Phebe Roe, by a R. G. Evans !
Everything is uncertain as no birth record found for Arthur or Ernest, though seems they exist for others if that Nina Lilian and Henry were their siblings.
Seems Grace, the mother, was free and loose with her male friends.

Regards
John

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The Common Room / Re: Nena Lilian Prinsep
« on: Thursday 31 August 23 18:12 BST (UK)  »
The 1887 marriage is that of Arthur's father, Henry Thoby Prinsep, not the supposed brother. We have now seen his mother's will which intimates that she was never married to Henry Thoby Prinsep, his father, but only to Charles Benjamin Roe whom she had married in 1855. A family tree says he was 1827-1900, but a search has produced no records to prove this - and not helping is his father's surname was Rowe according to a wedding record.
What a tangled web this family weaved.

John

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The Common Room / Nena Lilian Prinsep
« on: Tuesday 29 August 23 11:47 BST (UK)  »
A group of us have been researching Arthur Haversleigh Thoby Prinsep, 1862-1938, a character who used various names during his time in New Zealand and Australia for boxing, writing, avoiding the law because of bigamy, acting etc. His life would make a good film.
But though finding info about him, his siblings remain unknown. Nena Prinsep was born in Calcutta in 1868 and baptised that year (though her brothers born earlier were not baptised until 1875 in England), the sum of records found for her. She may be the Lilian Prinsep, a young painter visiting Guernsey in 1884 according to the island's paper 'The Star' (16/2/1884) but no evidence found. Her brother Ernest Charles is actually better recorded, later living and dying in England, though a birth date  of 1867 can not be proven. And there seems no evidence that Henry Prinsep, supposedly born 1865, actually existed - not helped by the birth in 1863 in Lucknow of a Henry Stewart Prinsep to different Prinsep parents.
Nena's birth is in the Findmypast India births, but none of her brothers, including Arthur, are.

Is it possible to find what happened to Nena, or the births of her brothers.

I have tried to keep this short otherwise I could go on for pages! I do have some notes on Arthur if you are interested.

Regards
John


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