Hi Can someone please let me know if there is a search facility for actors circa 1860 Michael

You could try looking at the Theatre UK webpage http://freepages.theatre.rootsweb.com/~jassie/. or the linked Theatre UK mailing list > Subscribing. Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn't understand them, try these manual instructions: to join THEATRE-UK-L, send mail toTHEATRE-UK-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join THEATRE-UK-D, do the same thing with THEATRE-UK-D-request@rootsweb.com. > • Subscribe to THEATRE-UK-L > • Subscribe to THEATRE-UK-D (digest) Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 17:15, Michael wrote: > Hi > > Can someone please let me know if there is a search facility for actors > circa 1860 > > Michael

Michael, I don't think there is any single complete answer to this, speaking as someone who has recently written a book on a biographical subject who is thought in his early days to have been an actor. I have found sources of information quite diverse. Could you perhaps say more about the nature of your search? One of the most useful lists I know is the index to Boase's work, "Modern English Biography" (1897), since it includes, additionally, actors' stage names, which are sometimes not the same as their real names. Best wishes, John Townsend, Author of "Notes on the Life of Howard Staunton" http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk/index_files/Page324.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" <micalar@btinternet.com> To: <london@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:15 PM Subject: [LON] Actor Search > Hi > > Can someone please let me know if there is a search facility for actors > circa 1860 > > Michael