Henry Lewis Osmond 1872 - 1936 - Character or Cad ?
I am researching the tumultuous life of this man, born Henry Lewis ORMROD and lived the life of a theatre producer in England using the name Henry Lewis OSMOND. He lived 1872 to 1936 and did most of his theatrical work after 1890 across England and Ireland. His children switch between Ormrod and Osmond, but seemed as a whole to have settled on Osmond
He lived with, I believe 5 different women, consecutively, not concurrently, and produced in consequence a number of children, mainly daughters, who in turn have interesting histories. I have tracked most of them down, but my lack of skills in Canadian research has made it difficult to track down what appears to be his only son LESLIE ARTHUR ORMROD/OSMOND born London, England 1909
I have more on him and his mother here
http://www.chrisgrant.eu/genealogy/owen-osmond/partridge/alys-win-may.htmlHe left for Canada in 1929 working as a waiter on a shiphttp://www.chrisgrant.eu/genealogy/owen-osmond/ormrod-osmond/leslie.html1929. Leslie Osmond arrives Montreal as a Steward on the Ascania in June
1929. Leslie Arthur Osmond, full age, waiter, marries Ann MORRISON on 4/12/1929 Montreal . Her father is T Morrison , Benmore, Portree, Isle of Skye
1936. Annie Osmond, 34, his wife, and baby LESLIE (9 months), travel on 9/11/1936 from Greenock to Montreal . They have been to see her parents in Scotland
That is where I loose the family.
I got the church marriage record in 1929, off Ancestry, but it is very basic and just says A married B but gives no other details
I have no idea how to track down LESLIE's birth in 1936 in Canada (It is not in UK, so I assume it is Canada as they were living there)
I would assume the OSMOND/ORMROD parents produced other children in Canada, but I have no idea how to find their birth records
Apart from the marriage in Montreal
, I have no idea where they lived or died in Canada
At least the surname OSMOND is easy to research, if you know where to start!