Who Do You Think You Are - Samantha Womack 15th Aug - Page 9 - Genealogists' Forum

#81 19-08-12, 19:12

Thank you kosmos66 I don't think anyone could find it.

kiterunner · #82 19-08-12, 19:15

Ooh, well done for finding that! We'd been trying to find out when she came back. I found a possible record but the one you have found is definitely her.

Looks like the rest of the names were badly mangled by ancestry's transcribers, but someone has recently submitted corrections. To be fair, the handwriting is pretty hard to make out and there is that problem where Beatrice's name was written in wrong.

kiterunner · #83 19-08-12, 19:16

This is the first we've heard of Gladys, isn't it?

kiterunner · #84 19-08-12, 19:21

FreeBMD has a Gladys F Finkle death Oct-Dec 1914 Dartford, Kent, age 4.

If that's the same Gladys, WDYTYA seem to have missed something important. Though I suppose we don't know for sure that she is Jessie's daughter as she could be some other relative they brought over with them again?

Olde Crone · #85 19-08-12, 20:17

I'm beginning to think we only saw edited highlights of the research findings, lol - they missed out Beatrice's other daughter, although I suppose the descendants of that daughter may have declined to be involved in the programme.

Also - Jessie's age is a bit fluid isn't it. Did we find a birth record for her?

OC

#86 19-08-12, 20:38

Well of course we only see edited highlights. Its only an hour.

Not sure 'anyone' looked for a birth for Jessie on this thread.

kiterunner · #87 19-08-12, 21:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olde Crone

Also - Jessie's age is a bit fluid isn't it. Did we find a birth record for her?

Maggie's right, we didn't look, but she is 4 on the 1871 census:

1871 census entry

So her birth will be the one registered Oct-Dec 1866 Plymouth.

Olde Crone · #88 19-08-12, 22:03

LOL, she knocked 10 years off her age to marry Mr Cook (who was 57 when he died, to her 81!)

OC

kosmos66 · #89 20-08-12, 10:49

Re the "unseen footage showing Samantha visiting the Barnum Museum to find out about the show that Jessie appeared in on her 1891 trip to America"

What they dont say in this clip is that Barnum's "Nero - The Destruction of Rome" in which Jessie Ryder performed in NY in 1891 was transferred from Olympia, London where it had run for a winter season in 1889-90. The show had a cast over over 2000 with some 200 dancers. It is highly likely that Jessie was part of the London show (age 21/22) and then transferred with it to NY (on the voyage to NY in 1891 she is with a group of about 20 "artists".

You will find an account of the LOndon and NY shows on p.4-6 of
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/9781847185662-sample.pdf

kiterunner · #90 20-08-12, 11:04

That's interesting, Kosmos. I was wondering whether that was what happened.