Edith Courtney/D'Oyley Carte Co

[jadis]

I am looking for info on my Great Grandmother EDITH COURTNEY.  She was an Opera Singer and I know she performed in Utopia Limited for the D'Oyley Carte co touring New York and Boston in 1894.  If anyone knows where I may find any more info I would be grateful.

Many thanks

[suttontrust]

Found this on the internet, but I suspect you already know it 

Edith Courtney (1894)
Edith Courtney appeared as Melene in Utopia Limited with D'Oyly Carte's American Utopia Company in New York and Boston, March-June 1894. It was her only engagement with the D'Oyly Carte organization.  She later appeared as Nora in George Dance and Ivan Caryll's musical comedy The Gay Parisienne at London's Duke of York's Theatre in 1896-97.

[jadis]

Thanks,  but thats the only info that I know.  I'm trying to find out more but having no luck but i'll have to keep trying

[jorose]

The Times shows her at the Palace, off and on, from 1896 (briefly, before she shows up as at the Duke of York) right up to 1905, after which she disappears from the Advertising listings.  Presumably they mean this place:

http://www.thisistheatre.com/londontheatre/palacetheatre.html

It doesn't say what was going on there, just that there were nightly shows and a Saturday Matinee (musical variety show, perhaps?)

Esme Beringer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075206/ - was at the same venue in 1903.

In 1901 the headliner act is a George Grossmith, possibly the son of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grossmith

Incidentally, was a Kathleen Courtney any relation? She also turns up in the theatre advertisments...

[jadis]

The Times shows her at the Palace, off and on, from 1896 (briefly, before she shows up as at the Duke of York) right up to 1905, after which she disappears from the Advertising listings.  Presumably they mean this place:

http://www.thisistheatre.com/londontheatre/palacetheatre.html

It doesn't say what was going on there, just that there were nightly shows and a Saturday Matinee (musical variety show, perhaps?)

Esme Beringer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075206/ - was at the same venue in 1903.

In 1901 the headliner act is a George Grossmith, possibly the son of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grossmith

Incidentally, was a Kathleen Courtney any relation? She also turns up in the theatre advertisments...

Please can you tell me where you got the info regarding the Times?  I havn't come across Kathleen yet so I assume not she is no relation.

Thanks

[jorose]

I have access to the database through Cambridgeshire Libraries.  If you are in England, and have a library card, it's worth checking if your county library provides access (with my library card I have access to this and other databases from home, although The Times is the one I use primarily).

Alternatively, I think somewhere on Rootschat there's instructions for another way of getting to it, for free I believe although it involves becoming a member of one of the libraries or something of that sort?

[jadis]

OK Thanks :)I've just tried my local library and no luck :'(I'll have to find another way

[Brianas]

Jadis, My wife's grandmother is an Edith COURTNEY born 28 Nov 1882 (as Edith Courtney TOWNSEND as out of wedlock), who married William Aloysius WHITE on 3 Sep 1911 and died on 24 Jun 1967. For quite good but not conclusive circumstantial reasons I thought that she appeared in London theatres as a singer. Using the Cambridgeshire access to The Times,  I thought that these included the Alhambra, Duke of York, Palace (Theatre of Varieties) and Tivoli. She also had a sister Constance COURTNEY whom I believe had a few minor theatre appearances. I thought I knew all Edith's descendants, so there seems to be a problem for one or both of us. Any thoughts?

[salem]

Jadis, My wife's grandmother is an Edith COURTNEY born 28 Nov 1882 (as Edith Courtney TOWNSEND as out of wedlock), who married William Aloysius WHITE on 3 Sep 1911 and died on 24 Jun 1967. For quite good but not conclusive circumstantial reasons I thought that she appeared in London theatres as a singer. Using the Cambridgeshire access to The Times,  I thought that these included the Alhambra, Duke of York, Palace (Theatre of Varieties) and Tivoli. She also had a sister Constance COURTNEY whom I believe had a few minor theatre appearances. I thought I knew all Edith's descendants, so there seems to be a problem for one or both of us. Any thoughts?

Hi Brianas,  I was previously Jadis but due to previous computer problems i am now logged in as Salem.

I don't believe that we are talking about the same person as none of the info that you have given ties up with mine although there are similarities.  Very interesting though.  Do you have pics?