HI Everyone Please can anyone tell me how one can find out if an ancestor had a stage name? Also when looking for them in a census have the majority of you found them listed under their proper name or sometimes under their stage name? I am having difficulty find Charles James Nugent on any census. He had died by the time of the 1881 census. Research so far via BMD's and Trade directories gives the impression that he was in London c1840's - 1850's possibly as a clerk or secretary for Her Majesty's Theatre. Later searching via BMD's and the Court section of the London Post Office Directory c1870's suggest he was now a Theatre manager/Theatre Box Keeper. However there is a gap during the 1860's were he dissappears. There is one clue from a BMD of that period that he may have been a Comedian. Did all actors from Victorian times take Stage Names? look forward to hearing from you many regards MOIRA