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Professor Popeji
« on: Wednesday 11 April 07 13:38 BST (UK) »
 My mother, I am told was a contortionist with a Professor Peter Popeji (spelling unknown) when she was about 16-18, 1937, so the story goes.  I am also told that a Professor Peter Popeji taught her.  Does anyone have any information? 
Originally my mother reckoned it was with Boswell circus, but researching I have found that Boswell circus was in South Africa, so somewhere along the line she has become muddled. Or did Boswell Circus also run here in the UK?  She lived in SA for some years, only returning to the UK in the last few years. Regards Pauline
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Re: Boswell Circus
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 11 April 07 13:48 BST (UK) »
A few hits on Google - including:-

http://www.juggling.org/jw/86/2/letters.html
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Boswells Circus
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 21 September 08 09:01 BST (UK) »
Hello Pauline,

Boswell's were performers and I have records from 1826. They were related by marriage to Thomas Taplin Cooke's family and ran a circus in the UK until 1910 and then came to South Africa. Boswell Brothers Circus ran until 1963. My sister and her husband Brian Boswell now run 'Brian Boswell's Circus' here in South Africa. Did The 'Professor' work for Boswells in England before 1910 or maybe afterwards, here in South Africa? Have you gone any further with this?
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Re: Professor Popeji
« Reply #3 on: Monday 22 September 08 08:46 BST (UK) »
Hi, I am completely baffled by it, my mother in law wont talk about her parents, and lied quiet a bit, although one thing that comes up is that she was a contortionist at Boswell Circus which I believe was here in England but she lived in South Africa from 1940's, coming back to england just recently.  So Professor could have been at either, unless of course this is another figment of her imagination.  Do you have anything on a Professor and his wife, who was either in the UK or SA?  I am hopeing you are going to say yes..... but who knows?  Regards Pauline
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