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Old 05-07-15, 19:03
Lorraine Karen Lorraine Karen is offline
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Hi and thank you for your welcome!

Our ancestor Ruth Jezard was also not truthful about her age - she was actually born in 1879 Westminster, London but says she is older when she travelled in 1897 - but when she emigrated to America in 1905/1912 (inconsistencies on the US censuses) she became much younger - actresses!

These posts are about Ruth and her theatrical family - my husband's grandfather Horace Courtenay (Ruth's nephew) was illegitimate and rumoured to be the son of an Earl - we had no idea that the family were theatrical and we had no idea that Horace's mother Alice Thrasher had three sisters (Ruth, Louisa and Eliza).

However, Horace's son later remembered as a young five-year old boy meeting an Uncle Percy who was married to Ruth's sister Louisa (Percy Frederick Atkins detailed in these posts) who was in his 80's by then - and also remembered the family talking of a Cousin Leslie who was Horace's cousin (Edward Leslie Court son of Ruth Jezard detailed in these posts).

https://www.british-genealogy.com/th...447#post612447

http://www.forum.familyhistory.uk.co...ad.php?t=23000

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index...;topicseen#new

Last edited by Lorraine Karen; 06-07-15 at 18:54.
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