Gertrude Ayton, actress of some renown?

[moldovajosh]

I'm new to this, but I'm of the Christina/Ayton Jacob line, here in the US.  I'll provide any information I can.  I have a lot of research on Christina's family, as well as the William Jacob family too.

Josh

[mshrmh]

Josh - welcome to RootsChat.

You may want to exchange information with RedMystic off the public messageboard part of the site - if so you can do it via the personal message system (PMs), but you need to have a couple more posts to your name before you can access this. Brief comments on this thread will count 

[MonicaL]

Hi Josh

Big welcome to RC from me too  RM will be over the moon having worked so hard at trying to figure out this line and the connections 

Monica

[RedMystic]

Good morning Josh!

Welcome to RootsChat & thank you very much for getting in touch. 

It's wonderful to hear from you & tremendous to know that you've researched Christina's family. Do you know much about Gertrude?

As mshrmh indicated, you need to post 2 more times (3 x in total) on the RootsChat board before you & I can use personal mesaging. (That's when you click on the little green scroll under an avatar's photo on the left of the page & it enables you to connect out of the public eye.)

It's OK to post info on Gertrude here as well if you're comfortable with that. I'm excited to learn about her however you're comfortable sharing!

You have made my day.  I'll be on pins & needles until I hear from you again. 

[moldovajosh]

Okay, I'll post a few times.

[moldovajosh]

I do not know about Gertrude--this is the first I have heard about her.  I go to the University of Georgia, so we have access to the entire Ancestry website.  If there's information about people that you want, I will gladly help.  I've been researching the family tree for quite some time.  The Jacob line has been elusive.  If anyone knows the link between this line of Jacobs (plural of "Jacob," not "Jacobs") to Naomi Jacob (English author), please let me know.  I know there is a connection.  Naomi Jacob and my great-grandmother Doris Jacob, were very good friends.  I'm thinking they must have been second or third cousins.  I don't know where the Jacob line comes from, but I have extensive research from Christina's family in Scotland.

[RedMystic]

It is with sincere apologies that I make this request.

Today, I accidentally deleted all of my personal messages.  Some of them included info regarding Gertrude that I hadn't transferred to my permanent files. If you sent something to me and still have the message in you outbox, could you PLEASE resend it?

Your assistance would be most appreciated & again, I apologize for the inconvenience.

[MonicaL]

  What a pain for you...no way back from there unfortunately. Once you have deleted, they are a 100% gone unfortunately.

I have sent you copies of PMs. Other emails you should have (keep your fingers still around the keyboard  )

Monica 

[howard47]

Hi

Gertrude Ayton was my grandmother. She was indeed an actress and was married to the Edinburgh dentist who started the Blood Transfusion Service in Scotland around 1930. His name, however, was John Robert Copland – always known as ‘Jack’. Gertrude left Jack sometime around 1920 to follow a career on the stage – she later married Harry Hanson and latterly they lived in Blackpool.  I have many pictures of her. She was a true theatrical person and great fun to be with.

Best wishes
HC