Bob Mallin

[Coomera]

Does anyone with a few miles on the clock remember Bob Mallin? He was a Cowboy aka Country and Western singer from the thirties onwards, singing with Henry Hall and later on the BBC radio show "Riders Of the Range". We have a CD of him which tells us that he was born Robert Hughes in Birmingham in 1914 (will have to wait for the '21 census for more info) and was living in San Diego, California in 1999. He took his mother's maiden name for his stage name - so we believe, and think she may have been my grandmother's sister. We have searched UK and US records under both names but have so far drawn a blank.
Does anyone know more about him?     dee.

[Valda]

Hi


There doesn't seem to be any Hughes birth registrations in the civil registration index between 1911 and 1920 with a mother's maiden name of Mallin in England and Wales.

Have you found his parents' marriage?

There is one Robert birth with a mother's maiden name of Mallin circa 1914 in the Birmingham area but with a different surname.

Births Dec 1913   
Roberts  Robert H  Mallin  Kings N  6d 287


This website seems to indicate Bob Mallin died in 2008

http://www.jabw.demon.co.uk/yearb.htm

The source is this publication

http://www.memorylane.org.uk/our_latest_edition.htm


Regards

Valda

[Coomera]

Valda, thanks for that. The info that we have is only anecdotal and may not be accurate. The name and birth date were given on the sleeve of the CD, put out by the British Archive of Country Music. On the Mallin side of our family there was a Show Biz connection, called "The Fortescue Players" who toured theatres such as the Dudley Hippodrome and Birmingham Theatre. The prinicipals were known as Rich & Galvin and they appeared in at least one film. The anecdotal advice was that Rich and Galvin had two children, a daughter who was a pianist with Sadlers Wells Opera and a son, who called himself Bob Mallin.
Really we know so little about his birth, his parent's marriage or whatever that it is hard to progress. The search continues. dee.

[Coomera]

Valda, The film mentioned in the previous reply was called:"Money Talks" (1932) and Rich & Galvin played characters called "Dough and Wal Nut"    dee.

[Valda]

Hi


Weren't Rich and Galvin two male dancers? They were certainly dancing up until circa 1934 from the early 1920s.


Regards

Valda

[Coomera]

Thanks Valda. You confirm what we suspected, that Rich & Galvin were two males - the info we had came from an elderly relative. Anyway, it is possible that one or other of them could have been Bob Mallin's father. It looks as though we had better investigate Rich & Galvin some more, unless you know anything about them?
My grandmother was a Mallin, in the Midlands, and we have chapter and verse on them going right back but come to a dead end in 1911. thanks,  dee.

[Valda]

Hi


If you have researched the Mallins you presumably know who your grandmother's sister or sisters were and since the surname is reasonably unusual found any potential marriages?


Regards

Valda

[Coomera]

Hi Valda, well, grandma had just one sister (and a brother in the navy who does not seem to have married). The sister was Emma Mallin (no second 1st name) who we have from birth in 1876 at West Bromwich to the 1901 census, when she is in service at Handsworth, Staffs aged 25. She is not in the 1911 census and we can trace no marriage or death at any time. She has an aunt of the same name and birth date, which can be confusing, but we have the aunt's history right through.
Of course, Victorian families were very large and Bob's mother could be a cousin or such, and we have no reliable info as to why Bob took a stage name or who he got it from.  regards  dee.

[Valda]

Hi

This marriage

Marriages Mar 1904   
Brown  George Jesse R    Birmingham  6d 190   
JONES  James     Birmingham  6d 190   
Malin  Emma     Birmingham  6d 190   
Ohlson  Ada Caroline     Birmingham  6d 190


Regards

Valda