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  • Theatrical family-name changing after births

    Hello Family Tree Forum

    We have a theatrical family that was previously unknown to us!

    Please help find Eliza Priscilla Thrasher born 1869 London after 1891
    her daughter is Violet Alice Louise Jezard, born out of wedlock

    Please help find Violet Alice Louise Jezard born 1890 London after 1901
    Violet is given false parents on her birth certificate and baptism and hidden from the 1891 census - why?
    Violet is born in Finborough Road and Sacillia Lovell registered at that address is not found on any other records - why?
    The Thrasher family change their name when Violet is born, to hide her birth or hiding from debts?

    Horace Thrasher born 1893, later known as Horace Courtenay
    Horace is given false parents on his birth certificate and baptism, why
    Mother Alice Thrasher born 1871 London later known as Grace Courtenay
    Grace married step-father Herbert Solomon in 1901
    Horace and Violet are sent to a girls boarding school in Southend in 1901, why
    Being age 7 and illegitimate his father could remove him from his mother, did the mother move him and give them alternative names to hide them or the father move him to give him a better start in life
    Grace is living in a boarding house in Kensington living on own means in 1901 the family rumour that Horace was the son of an Earl or an illustrious member of the aristocracy, a person of considerable note.
    The Thrasher family change their name when Horace is born, to hide his birth or hiding from debts.

    Please help find Edward Leslie Court born 1905 London after 1926
    Mother Ruby/Ruth Court (maiden names Ruth/Ruby Thrasher/Jezard), father Albert Edward Court Chief Of Staff London Coliseum
    Ruth emigrated to America in 1905/1912 and had a common law marriage with also married Edward Warren Congdon a theatre booking manager, she was herself an actress/dancer and died in San Fransisco in 1968
    Albert died in 1923
    Edward emigrated to Canada in 1926

    Eliza, Alice and Ruth's sister Louisa married Percy Atkins a theatrical business manager at the London Lyceum, The Globe (we have a silver bowl with The Globe Club engraved underneath, the bowl looking like the beautiful domed theatre ceiling) and other London theatres.

    The sisters parents are Robert Thrasher and Priscilla May Pope, who were also probably not married as no marriage certificate can be found - but according to the Charles Booth survey the Thrasher family live in wealthy, respectable areas of London.

    The Thrasher family are known as Torplow/Triplow, Jezard and Courtenay.

    Thank you for your help!


  • #2
    I notice you have a thread identical to this on another forum so have added a link to avoid wasting members' time finding facts that have already been found.

    Similar requests are on other places too.
    Last edited by Jill on the A272; 28-05-19, 22:18.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Jill on the A272 View Post
      I notice you have a thread identical to this on another forum so have added a link to avoid wasting members' time finding facts that have already been found.

      Similar requests are on other places too.
      Thank you

      Violet Alice Louise Jezard born 1890 London, baptised 1896 with Horace
      Birth certificate parents Eliza Thrasher now Eliza Jezard, husband Alfred Jezard
      Baptism parents May Jezard and George Jezard
      Eliza and Alfred are not married - Alfred doesn't exist
      Violet and Alfred do not appear on the 1891 census
      Eliza is living with her family - is Violet upstairs in a room just not noted down for the census
      Eliza's mother is Priscilla May Thrasher (Pope) born 1841 Hartest and Priscilla has a brother called George Pope - could these be the baptism 'parents'
      In the 1881 census a brother Alfred Pope is visiting but looking at all the censuses for Priscilla's Pope family there is no Alfred and checked out baptisms in between each census

      Horace Thrasher born 1893 London, baptised with Violet 1896
      Birth certificate parents Grace Courtenay, now Grace Thrasher, father Robert Thrasher (Grace Courtenay is Alice Thrasher, Robert Thrasher is Alice's father)
      Baptism parents Percy Thresher and Louisa Thresher (this is Percy Frederick Atkins and Louisa Thrasher Alice's sister who marry in 1905)
      When Alice marries as Grace Courtenay in 1901 she calls her deceased father Robert Courtenay - we think Robert Thrasher who dies in 1879 is our Robert who on the death certificate is a fireman, a theatre fireman as the fire brigade have no records of him

      Horace and Violet are living with their grandmother Priscilla May Thrasher but now known as Priscilla Jezard living in 133 Finborough Road
      Priscilla dies in 1900 the widow of John Jezard (is this Robert Thrasher, when her daughter Ruth/Ruby marries as Ruby Jezard she calls her father Robert Jezard) but again no marriage for Priscilla and John and her daughter in law with her at her death was Ellen Jezard (is this Eliza) who again doesn't exist, so perhaps another reason why the children are sent to a boarding school having no-one to care for them when their mothers are working but why Southend and why a girls boarding school for Horace - he hated it there apparently!

      Thanks again for your help!

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      • #4
        Very small point - ALL children "belonged" to their legitimate fathers not to their mothers. Illegitimate children only belonged to their fathers if their name was on the birth certificate. I really can't see many natural fathers taking their child away from the mother without her agreement and I have never heard of a law which said they could.

        I have a theatrical family in my extended tree. They told the most fantastic lies about their lives and origins to cover up an equally incredible truth, lol. However, they told the truth in church at baptism, lied through their teeth to the registrar.

        OC

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