[Phoenix]

were trapeze artists.

The act appears to have started as Sillo & Elspa c 1872 as two very cute little boys, dressed identically.

Elspa's father decided he could make more money by taking control of his son and a few years later Lillo and Elspa appear.

Lillo was known as Florence May Lily Stone (or Dillon) and was abducted and married by Samuel Harry Neale before she was sixteen in 1884.

Her father was described as the landlord of the Red Lion Smallbrrok St Birmingham.

In 1881 the act appears to have been travelling round Europe.

Echo and then Venus joined the troupe, which was managed by Paul Dillon.

Can such people be found in censuses or civil registration? The marriage is but I have no idea of the real names of any of them and I can't spot Florence's birth.