THEATRE-UK-L-request@rootsweb.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line! Have a good holiday! Josephine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Yardley" <joyceyardley@shaw.ca> To: <THEATRE-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:57 PM Subject: RE: [THEATRE-UK] LASCELLES girls > > > Could someone please give me the correct method of unsubbing from this > group? I'm going on an extended holiday and will re-subscribe when I get > back! Thanks! > > Joyce > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ruth [mailto:ruthcroft@lascelles99.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: August 4, 2003 9:04 AM > To: theatre-uk-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: [THEATRE-UK] LASCELLES girls > > > Hello, > > This is my first message to the list. > I've been reading the archive, and you sound a lovely lot of people. > > I have been researching my family history for several years with some > success, apart from my theatrical relatives who - darn! - didn't keep > cuttings books or anything that would be useful to an inquisitive creature > like me. > My Grandfather's first family of girls all trod the boards in one way or > another, and most of their offspring followed suit. > (I'm merely a show off who followed our side into teaching!) > > I'd be very grateful if some kind soul could find any references to the > LASCELLES surname from the early 1900's onwards. > My Grandfather apparently used to sing with his daughter as 'Mr. Lascelles > and his little girl at the piano'. His oldest daughter Leonie was a child > prodigy on the piano, and even studied in Germany in the years before WWI. > > His next 2 daughters Felice and Vera, acted, sang and danced from the 1910's > until the 1940's. Felice was in ENSA during the war. > Felice was married to another actor called George NEIL. Any sightings of > him gratefully accepted! > > That's quite a list for a first message. I'll now go away, cross my > fingers, and wait hopefully... > > Regards, > Ruth in Brum. > > > >