Ian, this was really a great tip. Have now been able to trace her death registration in Q3 1969 Ealing, Middlesex, England. It mentions her exact date of birth as 9 Apr 1888. What is also super is that it mentions her name as Dulcie Augusta E Saunders. This means that my assumption that the baptism record in St. Cyprian's Kimberley South Africa was correct (her 3rd christian name being Eugenia). That must mean that she had a brother named Cecil Bertie Wallis Turner. Still hoping that I can turn up something for him and also her father Joseph Turner who was possibly an actor (for some reason I have a feeling this may not be true - just a hunch) and definitely deceased by 5 Jan 1919 when Dulcie married Henry Saunders in Kensington. The Rosina Bradshaw as one of her witnesses at the wedding was her sister-in-law via her half brother (Rosina for some reason used her maiden name although she was already married a year earlier to Duclie's half brother with surname Brooks). Our anc! estors certainly keep us on our toes! Once again, many thanks, Rebecca On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Ian Thirlwell wrote: > I should have mentioned this was on ancestry.co.uk & the marriage was in > London. > Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Thirlwell > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:17 PM > To: south-africa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Look-up: St. Cyprian's Kimberley Baptism Records > > I haven't found a baptism record for either child, but there is a marriage > for Dulcie, to Henry Saunders, 5th January 1919, at St Helen's Church, North > Kensington, father Joseph Turner, actor. The image of the original register > entry is available on Ancestry. > Ian > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 24 Sep 2011, at 5:44 PM, Rebecca Williams wrote: > Ian, this was really a great tip. Have now been able to trace her > death registration in Q3 1969 Ealing, Middlesex, England. It > mentions her exact date of birth as 9 Apr 1888. What is also super > is that it mentions her name as Dulcie Augusta E Saunders. This > means that my assumption that the baptism record in St. Cyprian's > Kimberley South Africa was correct (her 3rd christian name being > Eugenia). That must mean that she had a brother named Cecil Bertie > Wallis Turner. Still hoping that I can turn up something for him > and also her father Joseph Turner who was possibly an actor (for > some reason I have a feeling this may not be true - just a hunch) > and definitely deceased by 5 Jan 1919 when Dulcie married Henry > Saunders in Kensington. The Rosina Bradshaw as one of her witnesses > at the wedding was her sister-in-law via her half brother (Rosina > for some reason used her maiden name although she was already > married a year earlier to Duclie's half brother with surname > Brooks). Our ancestors certainly keep us on our toes! My daughter, who wrote her thesis on the late 19th Century Vaudeville Theatre in the US, and later developed it into a book for a more commercial market, remarked to me once that genealogy is a lost cause among theatrical folk because of their peripatetic life-style and sometimes casual marital habits, arising from the divergence of husbands and wives when different career opportunities arose. (And also because of the number of sham marriages entered into to conceal homosexuality, which further limited offspring or rendered their parentage dubious.) That you have managed to get as far as you have can be regarded as fortunate!