Morris & Cowley / The Vesta Brothers / Frank & Harry Birkenhead

[ATGoldsmith]

This means there is another person in this family.  The reason I thought her name was Frances Edith was because there is a 1935 electoral register showing a Frances Edith Birkenhead living with Doris Florence Birkenhead (the sister of Morris & Cowley).

Therefore, I've no idea where she fits in.  I would assume a sister of the brothers but I'm pretty sure I scoured the GRO indexes for other siblings.

[CaroleW]

She married George Birkenhead as Frances Edith - not Frances Elizabeth. 

[ATGoldsmith]

Yeah, sorry, I had to go back and change one of the posts because I had the wrong parents.  I still cannot find a birth with the mother's maiden name Woodhall though - all Frances Edith or Edith Frances births have different mother's maiden names.

But it does look like that 1940 correction - 1945 death is correct now, thanks.

[CaroleW]

Death was 1945 - not 1940

[ATGoldsmith]

Death was 1945 - not 1940

Whoops 

I managed to solve the birth record mystery though.  Frances Hannah Woodhall married Joseph Smith - but she was a widow and her birth name was Moore so that is the correct birth register after all.

But this isn't really the avenue I was hoping to explore in this family, still.  I was hoping for some more information about the brothers' work and acting careers.  Thanks for your help though CaroleW.

[CaroleW]

Your opening post included several other questions apart from their acting career

As you already know - Peggy Birkenhead’s birth was registered in the September qtr 1921.  There is a death in 1995 Surrey for a Peggy Birkenhead born September 1920 which may be her. 

No marriage of a male Birkenhead to a Peggy