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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #54 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 21:46 BST (UK) »

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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #55 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 21:47 BST (UK) »
Cate I think both Graham and Alma were strangers to the truth.

Ireland was part of Great Britain so no records of people coming or going.

It was not unknown for people to lie on census returns.

1911 caused a problem for couples who were not married ( at least to each other ) as it asked how long they had been married, what happened was invariably they gave a date 1 year before the first child was born.

I would try and check in Scotland for Graham's death using all the combinations of names you can think of.

Again, thank you! I have found it a bit of a nightmare trying to determine whether people I find are them (not completely telling the truth) or someone else entirely. Some people in my family still use different spellings and different names, so the flexibility with names at least has created lasting confusion (although almost everyone is called Graham or Roy for a couple of generations, which helps!)

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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #56 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 21:49 BST (UK) »
More evidence for Roy's acting career

http://www.leodis.net/playbills/enlarge.asp?ri=2003717_48662966

That is lovely - thank you! As far as I know, the acting continued up to some point in the 20s. My Grandad was born around then and acted as a child, but not as an adult.

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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #57 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 22:00 BST (UK) »
And another appearance for Roy in 1914

http://www.leodis.net/playbills/enlarge.asp?ri=20031022_23237246

No obvious sign of Alma/Helen


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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #58 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 22:28 BST (UK) »
I haven't got time to chase this up at the moment but there is a marriage in 1878 in West Ham for an Alma Dudley. She appears to marry an Alfred Cooper.
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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #59 on: Tuesday 16 September 14 22:35 BST (UK) »
I haven't got time to chase this up at the moment but there is a marriage in 1878 in West Ham for an Alma Dudley. She appears to marry an Alfred Cooper.

I just had a look at it and unfortunately she appears to stay married to him until at least the 1901 census and they have a family. I hadn't managed to find this before though, so maybe there are still records out there!

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Re: Alma Daviss (nee Dudley) born about 1866, i think.
« Reply #60 on: Friday 14 June 24 09:09 BST (UK) »
Cate.
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