I have a few early English lawn tennis players, some of whose first name and family name I know, but that's all I know about them. If anyone could help me finding some basic biographical information for them, that would be great.
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One is the male player C.H.A. Ross, who took part in some tournaments mainly in the mid-1880s. I've no idea where he's from, although he was definitely English.
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Another is a William C. Taylor, who might well have been from London. He first took part in a tennis tournament around 1883. He played at Wimbledon quite a lot. But there are lots of William C. Taylors in the English censuses and it's impossible to link his name with the word tennis.
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Margaret Bracewell had some success at tennis tournaments in the mid-1880s. I've no idea where she was from, although she was English. Had a sister, G. Bracewell (first name not known).
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Like Margaret Bracewell, Edith Davies had some success at a few of the early tournaments, in the 1880s. But there are lots of Edith Davises in the censuses and I couldn't find a link to tennis for any Edith Davis.
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Mildred Coles took part in a lot of tournaments at the beginning of the twentieth century and married a Mr Davis, I think, circa 1914, but I couldn't find anything else out about her. She had a tennis-playing sister known only as J. Coles.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mark