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Miss Lily Flexmore/The Flexmore Sisters
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Jill | Report | 1 May 2012 14:39 |
Does anyone know anything about a music hall contortionist/dancer called Lily Flexmore? I believe she started performing with her sister in the late 1880's. She worked all around the country and spent a short time in New York. |
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wisechild | Report | 1 May 2012 14:43 |
Do you know what her real surname was.? |
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rootgatherer | Report | 1 May 2012 14:44 |
http://www.elta-project.org/browse.html?type=person&id=3158 |
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Jill | Report | 1 May 2012 15:17 |
Hi there all |
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wisechild | Report | 1 May 2012 15:29 |
Presumably you know your great uncles name & approximate date of birth. |
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rootgatherer | Report | 1 May 2012 16:26 |
What was your Great Uncles name please? |
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Jill | Report | 1 May 2012 16:52 |
Hi there |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 1 May 2012 17:11 |
if she started performing in the 1880,s the she would have been considerably older than Albert born 1898 |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 1 May 2012 17:16 |
Miss Lily Flexmore was announced on the programme as a high kicker and dancer. She succeeded by dind of some force in getting a portion of her left leg over her left shoulder, and her violent excertions said more for her energy than her grace. That she is by no means lacking in the latter qualification she proved in the few steps of her dance. In one of her selections she sang of poor Mary, who, since her advent on the stage, is sometimes liable to forget to come home at all, and at others is given to waking up at six in the morning with ''The Dandy Coloured Coon.'' ''I'm going to wink my eye and kick my tootsies high'' are phrases that Miss Flexmore aptly illustrates, though her vigorous emphasis is more to be commended than her pronunciation. . . .' |
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Rambling | Report | 1 May 2012 17:23 |
??? |
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Rambling | Report | 1 May 2012 17:27 |
probable child of that marriage in case the name means anything to you |
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JustDinosaurJill | Report | 1 May 2012 17:33 |
Whilst she may have taken Flexmore as her stage name, are you aware that the surname does actually exist. I found the name on FreeBMD and search records on GR. J |
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MaureeninNY | Report | 1 May 2012 17:35 |
There's a couple (George/30 and Lily/28) Flexmore sailing to NY in 1907. He's described as a theatr* artist. NOK is given as Mrs Dunn 41? Chester Rd Walthamstow. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 1 May 2012 17:36 |
??? |
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Dea | Report | 1 May 2012 17:49 |
Hundreds of women were having children way into their 40's at that time Shirley, and actually many still do. |
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Jill | Report | 1 May 2012 17:53 |
Thanks all, |
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Rambling | Report | 1 May 2012 17:54 |
http://www.britanniavarieties.co.uk/artists1880-85.htm |
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Rambling | Report | 1 May 2012 17:59 |
I wonder if he is a relative? |
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Louise | Report | 21 Sep 2018 18:06 |
My Grandad's great Aunts. Lydia and Florence Prodger. I have some photos and an article I can post but do not know a lot as still researching. There was another sister too, I need to remember her name. He inherited the house and effects when they had all passed. |
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Louise | Report | 21 Sep 2018 19:05 |
Just been looking online and there is also a Lily Flexmore so may not be a connection with us? But strange and interesting |