Owen Robert Colverd

[majm]

There is a Mrs Marjorie WALLACE embarking Calcutta for London Plymouth ... occupation nil, aged 27, intended address in Barry.  Last permanent residence INDIA, intended permanent WALES, arriving 28 June 1932.

There is also in Feb 1932 on the Dunbar Castle a Marjorie WALLACE aged 29, a married woman with TWO children aged 2 (a boy and a girl, I won't name them - could still be living) arriving London.  Their last place of permanent residence was Nyasaland (it later became part of Rhodesia).  They left from Beira (Mozambique).  They intended England as their next permanent residence and were for Boscombe, Hants.  (its now in Dorset !)

Very Speculative,  Wallace was a popular surname then and still is.

JM

[PAFC]

I know. I found this too - tantalizing because of the anomalies. But the timing is about right. Still looking. I've emailed the Imperial School of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) in London to see if they'll look in their records for 1930-1933, as that is when she was a member according to the 1934 Sydney newspapers. And of course what name she was using!

[majm]

familysearch may have some records for Rhodesia  - perhaps search for the possible births of the possible twins and possible info about their parents...

https://www.familysearch.org/search/

JM

[majm]

Marjorie's mum re-married in India in 1930

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJZ-S38

Adeline Leigh GEORGE, aged 40, married Cuthvert Awan FISHER aged 48, on 16 December 1930, Calcutta. 

I leave it to others to sort out who Samuel Roger MUCKLESTON was, but it seems he was listed as Adeline's father...

JM

[majm]

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGV5-QZ3

Not to be confused with the following marriage

Adeline LEIGH, aged 30, married Cuthbert Aloan FISHER aged 36, in Bombay, 14 June 1919.

Adeline's father's name there as LEIGH !

JM 

[majm]

Samuel Roger MUCKLESTON died in 1939 in NSW

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17572589  15 March 1939
- of Waverley 

JM

[majm]

It was too much of a tease, I had to follow up a tad …

NSW Electoral Roll 1902 (not the 1903-4 Roll on Ancestry)
WENTWORTH, polling Bondi.   The 1902 roll is the first NSW roll to include females.

Emma MUCKLESTON, 30 Kenilworth St, domestic duties
Samuel John MUCKLESTON, 30 Kenilworth St, warrant officer
Charles SIMMONDS, 36 Kenilworth St, compositor
Eleanor Mary SIMMONDS 36 Kenilworth St, domestic duties

Sands Sydney Directory 1900 (so closing date for entries was October 1899)
WAVERLEY suburban
Kenilworth Street, North Side
(at number) 36 SIMMONDS Chas., compositor

Sands Sydney Alpha 1905
SIMMONDS, C, 36 Kenilworth St, Waverley
MUCKLESTON S.R. 30 Kenilworth St Waverley

Perhaps Majorie Emma was Emma from her Grandmother Muckleston.
I have included these several SIMMONDS listings just in case …

PS, the NSW 'Census' (scant info on those 'census' documents) for B subdistrict in Waverley ... has S R Muckleston at 30 Kenilworth St , 2 males and 2 females (no other info) and Chas Simmonds at 36 Kenilworth St 2 males, 3 females.

45 males and 51 females counted on that one page, none were recorded as Chinese or Aborgines

JM

[sparrett]

Just summing up to get a timeline here.

In June  1934 Marjorie returned to Sydney as Mrs WALLACE from Bombay where she had been making a film.

She planned to stay a couple of months before returning.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229213279

But was still here late 1934
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246684542
 
In Oct 1936, she returned from Rhodesia per Ceramic as Mrs M E WALLACE (her own initials I think) and expressed her intentions of imparting her special skills to students back there in Africa.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230015651


So the window for the "marriage" to WALLACE seems to be from  January/February 1934 (this would be the end of the 7 months marriage to Edwin SIMMONDS which you say lasted 7 months)  to June 1934 (when she was back in Australia as WALLACE.)

The "marriage" may have been in England or India

Allowing that the 1934 voyage from Bombay per Ceramic to Sydney would have taken some weeks, the window is further reduced.

Marjorie seems absent from news items for some years after the early 1930's and reappears in the early 1940's producing pantomimes around Sydney and using the surname WALLACE until her marriage to COLVERD.

Sue

[majm]

And in 1935 and 1936 she was listed on the Electoral Roll in Waverley NSW as Marjorie Emma GEORGE, in Goldie St !  Home Duties

JM