Jennie/Jenny Watt Tanner and Daughter

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Can anyone help me with any info about this late 19th century Australian actress and her daughter Katherine. I know the daughter died in England in 1962 - death record suggesting she was born c1881 - having married William Rolf Bennett in 1912. That is basically the sum of what I can find in positive facts about the two women, although it is possible Jennie ( if  her name was not a professional one for the stage) was born c1858.
I can find newspaper articles mentioning her acting, but nothing biographical.
(Interestingly Katherine was a writer as Katherine Harrington, and that name appears on her marriage record)

Thanks
John

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Death --look for her with other family in 1939--dob 15.12.1852

BENNETT, KATE  ELIZABETH     aged 98 
GRO Reference: 1949  M Quarter in BRAINTREE  Volume 04A  Page 412

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Birth---
Births Sep 1915   
BENNETT    Beata    mmn Elliot    St. Ouseburn    9a   138


Marriage 

Marriages Sep 1942   
Aitken    David J E    Bennett    Braintree    4a   2599    
Bennett    Beat[ae]    Aitken    Braintree    4a   2599
Death

Beata Aitken
6 Aug 1915
Nov 2003
Chelmsford
Essex

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added
Births Mar 1917 
Bennett    Rosemary    mmn Elliot    Gt.Ouseburn    9a   120

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Look for Rosemary Bennett in 1921, St Ives, Cornwall, with her grandparents.

Beata is in St Ives in 1921.

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Kate Sarah ELLIOT  b. 9 April 1880 Adelaide, South Australia.

Father: Arthur Charles Rowell Elphinstone ELLIOT
Mother: Jeanie Watt TANNER
Book/Page: 240/160

https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search

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Lots of info on NLA:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/

[jorose]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202346686?searchTerm=%22Watt%20Tanner%22
OK now here we go,
Mrs Feltham (wife of Mr T Feltham), was apparently a sister of Mrs R Maddison, of Wandiligong, and a aunt of Miss Jennie Watt Tanner (Jennie's mother being also a sister of Mrs Feltham).

He was Thomas Edward, wife of Margaret:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192212441?searchTerm=Feltham

Now we can track this family here: https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/-
Thomas Edward Feltham married Margaret Jessie Clarke in 1858
(she died 1920, listed as daughter of Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt)
Mrs R Maddison was probably then Agnes Watt Clarke, also married 1858 to Robert Maddison
(she died  1892, listed as daughter of Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt)

Which would make a possiblity for Jessie's parents to be Abram Tanner married Mary Ann Clark in 1857.  There is a Mary Ann Tanner died 1892 whose parents are also listed as Charles Clark and Janet Greenfield Watt.

(The Clark family seem to have been Scottish; Janet died there in 1861: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3T-HYL7?lang=en  and Agnes at least can be found baptised there also: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY2P-Q52?lang=en )

I'm struggling to find any births to Abram (sometimes seems to use Abraham) and Mary, though.



Jenny/Jeannie died in 1913:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210015862?searchTerm=%22Watt%20Tanner%22

(death appears to be indexed as "Jennie W Tanner")


Now here's something interesting: Jennie and Katherine in 1901 where Jennie's birth is given as "At Sea"
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS7G-HLD?lang=en
and in 1911 again:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWL7-NJK?lang=en