Actor & Playright - Help needed

[wifeywebb]

hello,

Ok, my grandmother left her young family around 1934/5 for several years and no-one really knows where she went.
The story is that she went to Blackheath, Kent as a housekeeper to Johnston Forbes-Robertson who was a famous actor & playwright of the time. His death in 1937 seems to fit the time my grandmother returned home. The only slight evidence to support this is a silk program from one of J F-R shows that my GM had framed and until recently was still held within the family.
We know J F-R was born in Scotland, died in St Margarets Bay, Kent and was cremated at Golders Green, London.

So, I am trying to find an address in Blackheath so I can look at the electoral rolls.

Any help, information or other suggestions would be very gratefully received.

TIA
Paula

[ShaunJ]

He lived at 22 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury per the voters lists 1902-1935, telephone books 1920-1937, and the 1937 Probate Calendar.

[wifeywebb]

Thank you so much. How would I find if there was any other adults registered at that address? X

[Mabel Bagshawe]

The London electoral registers are on Ancestry. Looking at 1935, there are two Forbes-Robertson women also at the address. the codes suggest one is his wife. There are also another four individuals, all with different surnames - residents rather than occupiers. They could be live in staff registered at the address, relatives or

[wifeywebb]

Ah, thank you. Unfortunately my ancestry membership doesn't allow me to view the details. If you don't mind looking would you be able to tell me the surnames of the others at the address?

[Mabel Bagshawe]

presume you only need the females

1935: Biller, Balderson, Pearce

1937: Biller, Chapman, Pearce

[wifeywebb]

Thank you so much. Alas she evades us again!! X

[ShaunJ]

What name are you looking for?

[wifeywebb]

My GM was Gladys Daisy Nash, but could've gone by her 1st married name of Hatt or her bigamous name of Chittleburgh.

I'm thinking that J F-R may have had a property in Kent as that's where he died.