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Travelling People / Elizabeth Hardman 1866 - 1939
« on: Wednesday 03 April 13 19:01 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find information about Elizabeth Hardman 1866 - 1939 who married George Smith show ground manager with Pat Collins fairground.  She is my great grandmother but cannot find a birth certificate or who her parents were apart from her father was a William Hardman stone mason.  She is said to have had a Spanish mother.

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Travelling People / James Norman 1841 -1914
« on: Sunday 24 February 13 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
James Norman was my great grandfather and on the censuses I have found he states he was born in Swansea in 1841.  I have not found any birth records for him.  At the end of his life he was a travelling showman and over the years had been involved with a company called Sequah and had travelling freak shows.  He was greatly involved with the Showman's Guild and they erected a large monument to him in CHadderton cemetery and there are several obituaries in the Worlds Fair of 1914 to him and the details of a large funeral.  His children did not continue as travelling showpeople.  I am not convinced that he began life as a showman but I think he had brothers and sisters and that his nieces and nephews were showmen and women.  If anyone can give me any details of his family I would be very grateful as all his children are now dead and as often is the case I have no-one to ask about him.  I have plenty of information about his second wife with whome he had the children James Norman, Patrick Norman (died 1921 in Oldham and was engaged to a Granelli) Leonora Norman, Matilda Norman and Florence norman.

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