Music Hall and Variety Artistes Burial Places

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Samuel Adams - Music Hall Proprietor - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S.E.27 - Grave 25,215 - Square 95 - No trace of headstone remains

Ben Albert - Singer & Comedian - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 35,050 - Square 104 - Monument is a small scroll which is partly buried.

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Wilkie Baird - Comic singer who took part in the first Royal Variety Performance - Eastern Section of Highgate Cemetery - b 1874 d 1944

Freddie (Frederick Charles) Bamberger, Music Hall pianist - The Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Sydney, Australia - Location Add-Anglican FM dd Grave 69 - buried 28 August 1975 - Age 72.

Bessie Bellwood (Music hall Artiste), her most famous song is What Cheer Ria. - St. Patricks Cemetery, Leytonstone. Monument exists - b 1857 d 1896

Willie Benn, 'Eccentric Pianist often Billed as 'The Mad Pianist' or 'The Rollicking Rubenstein'. Included on Walter Lambert's famous painting "Popularity" of 1903 - Lambeth Cemetery b ? d 1919

Charles Bertam ( James Bassett ) - Known as the King's Conjuror - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 31,826 - Square 82 - Headstone with a rugged cross on top still exists.

Walford Bodie (Dr.) Conjurer, ventriloquist and faith healer - Doune Churchyard, MacDuff in Banffshire - His assistants Mystic Marie d 1906 and La Belle Electra d 1919 are buried close to him - d 1939

Joe Boganny - acrobat and music hall artiste. Real name Joseph Toledano. Born in Liverpool. - East Ham Jewish Cemetery b 1874 d 29 July 1943 - See this site for more information.

William John Maurice Bottle, otherwise known as 'Datas, the Memory Man', star of the music halls from 1901 with his amazing memory feats. He was born William John Maurice in Newnham, Kent and married in 1897 in Lewisham, he later changed his real name to Bottle and is a distant relative of Ted Bottle. Datas died in 1957 in Croydon and was buried in Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington, Surrey, Plot number XD466, together with his wife. The grave has no headstone, but the inscriptions are to be found on the kerbstones. - b 1875 d 1956

Blondin - Tightrope Walker - Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Rd. N. W. 10 - Plot 13,198 - Square 140, Row 1 - b

1824 d 1897

Albert Alex Bowlly (Albert Allick "Al" Bowlly) - Singer, guitarist, songwriter, composer and band leader - Buried in a mass grave at the Westminster Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell - b 1898 d 17th April, 1941 from a bomb in Jermyn Street, London.

Brierly Jack - Ford cemetary, Liverpool - Member of "THE THREE MACS," well known for their version of "MULDOON'S TENEMENT." Jack was also a boxer (glove fighter,) as were his five brothers, and performed successfully on the stage and in the ring during the 1880s and 1890s. - b 1870 d 1897

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Herbert Campbell - Singer & Comedian - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16

Kate Carney - Putney Vale Cemetery D5 No 47 - b 1869 d 1950 - buried with her husband and son.

Harry Champion - Cockney Music Hall singer, hits included 'Any Old Iron, Boiled Beef and Carrots, I'm Henry The Eighth I am and many more - East Finchley Cemetery N3 - b 1866 d 1942

Albert Chevalier - Singer & Coster Comedian - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16 - Buried in same Plot as George Leybourne! ( New Road J8 )

G.H. Chirgwin (1854-1922) - Music-hall artist, (The White-Eyed Kaffir) - Buried with four of his children who died in infancy at Barnes Common Cemetery, London SW - Details recorded c.1966 as follows ? Double grave No.6, Row B, Section 3. Cross on plinth, with surround. - Memorial inscriptions ? East side: - In loving memory of our dear John Lundy Chirgwin born August 3rd 1897, died March 5th, 1898 also In loving memory of Thomas Chirgwin born September 3rd died September 5th, 1898 also of George Chirgwin father of the above born December 14, 1854 died November 14, 1922 South side: - In ever loving memory of Josie Caroline our “Jo” born May 12th, 1902, died April 22nd, 1903 also our darling Georgina, born February 22nd 1909, died February 25th, 1909. - [For a time Chirgwin had lived at No . 6 Castelnau, Barnes ? only five minutes walk from this cemetery] This cemetery, for long unused, has become very neglected, vandalised and overgrown. However there have been recent attempts to bring it back into order. [contact: Friends of Barnes Common].

Paul Cinquevalli - Juggler - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 32,152 - Square 82 - Monument on family plot still exists. b 1859 d 1918.

John William Clack Snr - Stage name Carlo - (Father of John William Clack Jr - Stage Name Olrac - See below) - Streatham Cemetery - d December 1927. Also buried at Streatham Cemetery are John William Clack Snr's wife Georgina Clack (Carlo), their son's Isaac Thomas Henry Clack (Harry Carlo) and Alexander Clack (Alec Carlo), also their grandson Bobby Clack and his wife Lilian clack (Bobby Olrac and Lilian). - They all started out as Carlo's, when John William Clack Snr Retired, the brothers formed the Olrac's, Jack, Alec and Harry, as time went on they went their separate ways. Harry and wife Frances May Clack (La Belle Maie), both buried at Streatham Cemetery, had an act and then Alec and wife Nelli who was a tight rope walker. Jack married into the Famous Zaro Trope Family and was Married to Pauline Comerford (Zaro). Jack's Son in law was the son of Willi Pantzer. Alec was friends with Charlie Chaplin. The Olrac's appeared in the Royal Command Performance at the Palace Theatre in 1912.

John William Clack Jr, not to be confused with John William Clack Snr who is buried at Streatham Cemetery. - Stage Name Olrac - Twickenham Cemetery - d 5th September 1939.

Harry Clifton - Music Hall vocalist - Kensal Green Cemetery - d 1872.

Charles Coburn - Singer of The Man who broke the Bank At Monte Carlo and Two Lovely Black Eyes - Old Brompton Cemetery - Real name Colin Whitton McCallum - b 1852 d 1945 - buried with his wife and daughter.

Albert Collcott - Music Hall Scene Painter - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, Sth. London. S. E. 15 - His unmarked grave is in Square 65.

Lottie Collins - Singer - St Pancras Cemetery - b 1866 d 3rd May 1910 - her real name wass Charlotte Louise Tate - then married to Music Hall lyricist J. Tate who is buried not far from Marie Lloyd in Hampstead.

Sam Collins - Singer - Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Rd. N. W. 10 - Tombstone engraved ' Farewell, Good natured, Honest hearted Sam, Until we meet before the great i am ' His Irish hat and Shillelagh are carved on the Tombstone. b 1826 d 1865

Arthur Conquest - Acrobat & Animal Impersonator - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 32,491 - Square 108 - Scroll type Monument still exists. b 1875 d 1945

Tom Costello - Singer & Comedian - Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Rd. S. W. 16 - b 1863 d 1943

Sam Cowell - Singer & Comedian - Blanford, Dorset - Tombstone engraved ' Here lies all that is mortal of Sam Cowell. Born April 15th. 1819 - Died March 11th. 1864 '

Dan Crawley - (Real name Daniel Crowley) Singer / Dancer / Comedian - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16. (His wife, Lilian Bishop, is also buried next to him) - b 1872 d 1912

J. P. Crocker - Christy Minstral who performed at St. James Hall, Piccadilly. - Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Rd. S. W. 5 - b 1834 d 1869

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Walter Pfeffer Dando (1852-1944) - Mechanical Engineer, Stage Machinist, Stage Manager, Regisseur, Theatrical Mechanician & Architect, Theatrical Engineer & Inventor, India-rubber Merchant, India Rubber Spring & Chest Expander Manufacturer, Photographer, Film-maker, Variety Artists’ Agent, Piano Salesman, Bulldog Breeder & Exhibitor, Author, Lecturer , Musician And “compulsive Patentee” - And his first wife ?

Mlle. Aenea, (1859-1928) (née Letitia Barry, Mrs. Walter P. Dando), dancer, flying ballerina, “La Mouche D’Or” - Together with their daughter ? Letitia Mary Anne Emma “Queenie” Dando (1879-1921) pianist. Were all buried in the Dando Family Grave at Hendon Cemetery & Crematorium, London Borough of Barnet (formerly Hendon Park Cemetery) in Plot No. 25985 (in square C7 on map). The grave is enclosed by a kerb with a celtic cross, bearing a bronze plaque depicting three dancing angels, at its head. Three stones forming the plinth bear the following memorial inscriptions ? “IN MEMORIAM / QUEENIE / A DELIGHTFUL MUSICIAN / DAUGHTER OF W.P. DANDO / AT REST JAN.1.1921” “ALSO HER BELOVED MOTHER / LETITIA DANDO / “ÆNEA” / JOINED HER IN HEAVEN / JANUARY 16.1928. AGED .66” [“ÆNEA” was, in fact, 68 when she died] “ALSO / WALTER P. DANDO / DIED NOV. 13TH 1944. AGED 92. / R. I. P.” -

Walter Dando’s second wife, Daisy (Letitia) Paver (c.1888-1962), dancer, was cremated at Golders Green where there is no memorial.

David Devant - Conjuror - Highgate Cemetery West, Swains Lane, N. 6. b 1868 d 1941

Hugh J. Didcott (d. 1909) - One time music-hall artist, influential music-hall & variety artists’ agent. Buried: Willesden Jewish Cemetery in plot AX Row 1 No.28 - A simple headstone bears the inscription ? “SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / H.J. MORICE / (HUGH JAY DIDCOTT) / DIED / NOVR 26T 1909. / GOD REST HIS SOUL.” Parts of this inscription are repeated in Hebrew.

Phyllis Dixey - "The Girl the Lord Chamberlain Banned" Singer and Entertainer, famous for her own Strip Shows at the Whitehall Theatre, 'The Whitehall Follies.' - Died at her home in Burgh Heath Road, Epsom on the 2nd June ,1964. - Buried in Epsom and Ewell Cemetery, Grave No. V27, in the Catholic Section, restored in late 2005 by the British Music Hall Society. - b 1914 d 1964

Josh Dixon - Real name James Drysdale Dickson - Comedian, Dancer, singer of 'The lighthouse keeper" and "The cabby" and later Stage Door Keeper and Call Boy at the Victoria Palace Theatre during the Crazy Gang period - Streatham park cemetery Private grave No. 2435 sq 8 variety artistes plot - b 1874 d 1956

T. E. Dunville - Singer & Comedian - Buried Nr. Bridport, Dorset. - Grave marked with a white cross with the words ' Jesus Wept ' Sadly, he Committed Suicide.

Augustus Durandeau - Music Hall Songwriter - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Pecham, Sth. London. S. E. 15 - b 1848 d 1893

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Fred Earle - Comic, son of Joseph Tabrar, next to his grave is Billy Williams - d 1915

Tom Edwards - Ventriloquist - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 35,152 - Square 89 - Family monument still exists. b 1879 d 1933

Gus Elen - Singer & Comedian - Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Rd. S. W. 16. - b 1863 d 1940

G. H. Elliott - Singer - St. Margarets, Rottingdean, Nr. Brighton. b 1882 d 1962

Joe Elvin - Cockney Comedian - Burried next to his good friend, the Music Hall star Eugene Stratton (See below) in Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington Surrey - b 1862 d 1935)

Norman Evans - Comedian - Carelton Cemetery, Blackpool. - Headstone is in the form of a Garden Wall.

Will Evans - (William Edward Evans) - Music Hall and Pantomime performer, son of the pantomime clowns Fred Evans and Amy Rosaling - Lambeth Cemetery, Grave 437 D1 Cons - b 1875 d 1931.

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Bud Flanagan - Singer & Comedian - Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, N. 11. Plot : Lawn.

Florrie Forde (the, Australian Marie Lloyd) - Streatham Park Cemetery London. b 1876 d 1940

George Formby Snr. - Singer & Comedian - Warrington Cemetery, Warrington, Cheshire.

George Formby Jnr. - Singer & Comedian - Warrington Cemetery, Warrington, Cheshire.

Tom Foy - Comedian - Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Rd. London. S. W. 5. - b 1866 d 1917

Will Fyffe - Comedian - Western Necropolis, Glasgow.

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Harry Gardner - Real Name Edward Gardner - 'The famous Lyceum clown' - b 1869 - d 1917 - St Pancras Cemetery.

Gertie Gitana - Singer - Wigston Cemetery, Leicester. - b 1887 d 1957.

John Green (Paddy Green) - Proprietor of Evans Music Hall from 1856 - b 1805 d 1874

- Buried at St Mary R.C Church, Mortlake. Grave F 16.

Joe Griffiths - Part of The Griffiths Brothers and also a co-founder of the water rats- Highgate Cemetery - d 1901.

Sidney Grant (Real name Samuel Fraser) - Variety Entertainer - b 1872 - d 1928 - Mont à L'Abbé New Cemetery, Jersey, sepulchre in the name of Albert E. J. Parker No 57 letter X, 2nd South Grave.

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Tommy Handley - Comedian - Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, N. 11.

Peter Haslip - Music Hall Proprietor - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 8,271 - Square 108 - The family Memorial no longer exists. b 1815 d 1896.

Will Hay - Comedian - Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Rd. S. W. 16. - b 1888 d 1949

Arthur Haynes - Comedian - Hammersmith New Cemetery, Clifford Ave. S. W. 14. - b 1914 d 1966

Richard Hearne ( Mr. Pastry ) - Comedian - St. Mary's, Platt, Nr. Borough Green, Kent.

Dick Henderson - Comedian - St. Mary's R. C. Cemetery, Harrow Rd. N. W. 10. - b 1891 d 1958.

Charles Hengler - Circus Owner - Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, London - b 1820 d 1887.

Leslie Henson - Singer/ Revue Artist - Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, N. 11.

Jenny Hill - Singer - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, Sth. London. S. E. 15. - Headstone still exists. Known as ' The Vital Spark ' - b 1850 d 1896

Stanley Holloway - Comedian, Singer and Comedy actor - ST. Mary's the virgin Church, East Preston, West Sussex, with his wife who was buried with him in 1997 - b 1890 d 1982

George Honey - Comedian - Highgate Cemetery East, Swains Lane, N. 6. - d 1880 ( May 28th. )

A. B. Houghton - Upside Down trick Pianist - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 22,638 - Square 122 - No Headstone now remains. b 1866 d 1925

Julia Frederica Howell - Singer ? - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 16,807 - Square 97 - No monument exists. - b 1843 d 1881

Julio H. Hughes - Scene Painter & Actor - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, Sth. London. S. E. 15. - Buried in Square 27 - A ruined cross marks his grave. d 1872.

G. W. Hunt - Songwriter, wrote many of Arthur Lloyd's songs - Born and died in the same years too - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16. - Plot is C6 in Little Elm Walk - b 1839 d 1904

Alec Hurley - Singer (Tenor) and Comedian, second husband of Marie Lloyd - Tower Hamlets Cemetery - b 1871 d 1913

James Baker Husk - Musical-hall chairman of the Cider Cellar, Dr Johnson's Tavern, The Oxford and Royal Music Halls - Highgate cemetery grave no 23301 - Members of the Alhambra theatre cast attended the funeral 23rd May 1879 - b 1811 d 1879

Leslie ' Hutch ' Hutchinson - Singer - Highgate Cemetery East, Swaines Lane, N. 6. - Plot : Near entrance, Immediately on Right. d 1969.

Alexander Muir Hyslop - Piano accompanist to the silent movies in music halls - Lodgehill Cemetery, Harborne, in an unmarked grave - b 1886 d 1963

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Lucy Johnson - Singer ? - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 30,671 - Square 88 - No monument exists. - b 1869 d 1903

Jack Judge - Singer and originator of the World War One song; "It's along way to Tipperary" - Rood End Cemetery, Oldbury, West Bromwich, Midlands. Buried in the Catholic Section.

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Marie Kendall - Music Hall comedienne, principal boy and singer, whose most famous song was 'Just Like The Ivy (I'll cling to you) Marie appeared in the first Royal Variety Performance in 1912.- b 1873 d 1964

Fred Kitchen - Singer & Comedian - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 32,791 - Square 68/80. - Family Monument still exists. - b 1872 d 1951.

Bertha King - Real Name: Bertha (nee Sandeman) Bierman - One of the Ardoz trio, trapeze and music hall artists touring the UK and Europe in the early 1900s - Died at Brinsworth House, Staines Rd, Twickenham, the VAF Home - b 1884 d 1979

Katty King, Arthur Lloyd's wife - Actress and Music Hall Performer - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington - (Buried with her daughter Maude Emily Olivia Lloyd d 1880, and her son Harry Lloyd's wife Margaret Leigh Lloyd d - 1904) - b 1851 d 1891.

Hetty King - Male impersonator, her hits include Piccadilly, and All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor. - Golders Green Crematorium - b 1883 d 1972.

T. C. King, father of Katty King - Actor and Drury Lane Tragedian - Churchyard of Claines near Worcester - b - 1818 d 1893

Charlie Kunz - American bandleader and popular piano soloist - Streatham Park Cemetery.

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Lafayette ( The Great ) - Illusionist - Piershill Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Walter Laburnham (George Walter Davis) - Cockney comedian and singer. Buried in Abney Park Cemetery, not far from his old friend George Leybourne who greatly influenced his career. Epitaph reads "A true friend to all who knew him" - b 1847 d Good Friday 1902.

Arthur Lennard - Best known as the singer of "Skylark, skylark" - St. Nicholas Churchyard, Shoreham. - d 1955

Fannie Leslie - Actress - St Pancras Cemetery - b 1856 - 1935

Lew Lake - Comedian - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16.

Lupino Lane - (Born Henry William George Lupino) - Music Hall, Theatre, and Film Actor / Comedian, famous for playing Bill Snibson in 'Me and My Girl' - Streatham Park Cemetery - b 1892 d 1959

Frederick Laroche (Born Frederick Morris) - Comic Singer who performed with his wife Madame Laroche (Real name Agnes Morris) serio comic vocalist, both also toured with Arthur Lloyd for two years - Norwood Cemetery - d 1881

Lily Lassah - Variety Artiste and Pantomime Principal Boy from the 1890s to the 1930/40s, later appeared on TV with Wilfrid Pickles (around the 1950s) - Streatham Cemetery - d 1973.

Harry Lauder - Singer & Comedian - Bent Cemetery, Hamilton.

Fred Law - Singer & Music Hall Proprietor - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 24,823 - Square 44 - No Tombstone exists. - b 1845 d 1902.

Tom Learmore - Singer & Comedian - Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Rd. S. W. 16. - b 1866 d 1939.

Frederick Ledger - Second Editor of the ERA Newspaper - d 1874 - Norwood Cemetery, and his son Edward Ledger d 1874.

Bert Lee - Songwriter - Ormes Head, Llandudno.

Will Lennon - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 27,528 - Square 50 - Memorial still exists. His wife is also buried with him and they both perfomed on the Music Halls. - b 1854 d 1898 ( Wife b 1851 d 1897 )

Dan Leno ( George Galvin ) - Comedian - Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Rd. S. W. 17. - b 1860 d 1904.

Fred Leslie - Leading comedian in some Gaiety productions - Charlton Cemetery, Cemetery Lane, London. SE7

Letine ( George Gorin ) - Leader of a Troupe of Acrobatic Cyclists - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, S. E. 15. - His Grave is in Square 42, but the Pedestal has been removed. He was Murdered outside the Canterbury Music Hall on 2nd. June 1889

George Leybourne - Singer - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16. - Buried in same plot as Albert Chevalier. George Leybourne had died penniless (15th September 1884) and it was not until 5th December 1891 that a headstone was erected to mark his grave in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, paid for by Dan Leno and the Grand Order of Water Rats. He was joined in his grave by not only his grandson Frederick, but also Frederick's father - none other than the great Albert Chevalier, and Frederick's mother - Leybourne's daughter Florence. But he was not actually joined by his wife. The epitaph is 'God's finder touched him and he slept'. - Text from an article by Peter Honri called Leybourne! Lion Comique of the Halls - Theatephile September 1984 edition - Courtesy John Grice.

Millie Lindon (1877-1940), serio [cousin of Rudge sisters See R] née Milicent Warris m. 1. T.E. Dunville, 2. Sir Edward Hulton, 3. Major-Gen. John Thompson, 4. Baron Otto Sklenar von Schaniel - Putney Vale Cemetery, in Hulton Family Grave in Block B [Plot No. not known] - Memorial inscription ? “TO THE MEMORY OF/ MILLICENT / WIDOW OF / SIR EDWARD HULTON / AT REST MARCH 11, 1940 / “PEACE AT LAST” with the second of her four husbands, Sir Edward Hulton, Bart. (1869-1925) and her daughter, Frances Mary “Betty” Stevens (née Hulton) (1909-1932) [mother of Sir Jocelyn Stevens].

Arthur Lloyd - Newington Cemetery, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. b 1839 d 1904

Horatio Lloyd - South Necropolis, Glasgow. b 1807 d 1899

Marie Lloyd - Singer - Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Rd. N. W. 6 - b 1870 d 1922

Marie Lloyd jnr - Daughter of Marie Lloyd (See above) - Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Rd. N. W. 6 - b 1888 d 1967. She is buried with her mother and her grandparents.

Cecilia Loftus - Scottish actress, singer, and music hall performer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - Valhalla Cemetery, Westchester, NY - b 1876 d 1943

Jimmy Logan - Comedian - Dallnotter Cemetery, Clydebank, Glasgow. - Ashes buried with Brother.

Tommy Lorne - Comedian - Auld Isle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch.

Jack Lotto - Head of the Lotto trick cycling family. A co-founder of GOWR and the third member of 'Old Joe's (Elvin) Treble' Buried next to Joe and Eugene Stratton at Bandon Hill Cemetery. B 1857 D 1944

Arthur Lucan ( Old Mother Riley ) - Comedian - Eastern Cemetery, Hull. - b 1885 d 1954.

Victoria Lytton - Dancer, actress, comedienne - Streatham Park Cemetery b 1870 d 1943

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G. H. Macdermott - Singer - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E . 27 - Grave 24,074 - Square 98 - Family Memorial still exist. b 1845 d 1901.

Frank Matcham - Architect - Highgate Cemetery East, Swains Lane, N. 6.

Ernie Mayne - (Percy Ernest Barratt) - Music Hall Artist - Section A, Grave 1D, New West Border, Mill Lane Cemetery, Shoreham, Sussex Aged 62 - Wife buried with him 1950 - At Christmas 1936 he came out of retirement to make his last appearance in a Worthing pantomime, "Robinson Crusoe" at the Connaught Theatre. - b 1871 d 1937.

Ambrose Maynard - Comic Vocalist - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, S. E. 15. - His Grave is in Square 56 and is marked by a Headstone.

Tom McNaughton - Formed The Brothers McNaughton with his brother Fred. Tom married Alice Lloyd (Marie Lloyd's sister) in 1894 - Hampstead Cemetery - d 1923

Lex McLean - Comedian - His ashes are above the Proscenium Arch of the Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow

Max Miller - Comedian - Downs Crematory, Brighton.

Victoria Monks - Music Hall singer, famed for her song "Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey" and billed as John Bull's Girl - St.Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery nr Harlesden - b 1884 d 1927

Ernest Potter Morgan - Actor manager / Manager of the Manchester Hippodrome c.1905 - b 1864 - d 1927. And Ada Ella Morgan (nee Hollingsworth) - Acted under her maiden name and as Ada Morgan - b 1864 - d 1938 - Both burried at Hammersmith Cemetery, Mortlake.

Lily Morris - commedienne, known for her songs 'Why Am I Always The bridesmaid and Don't Have Any More Missus More", amongst many others. - Southgate Cemetery Plot D 1472 - (married name: McDougall) b 1884 d 1952.

Edward Moss - Theatre Circuit owner and Theatrical Entrepreneur - Large family vault in Portobello Cemetery, Edinburgh - d 1912

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Jolly JOHN NASH (1830-1901) singer and friend of Arthur Lloyd, performing with him on countless occasions including the first ever performance before Royalty by command. Known also as The Laughing Blacksmith - Fulham Cemetery - b 1830 d 1901.

Nellie Navette - Dancer - Streatham Park Cemetery, Rowan Rd. S. W. 16. - b 1865 d 1936.

Jimmy Nervo - (Real name James Henry Holloway) Acrobat, Comedian - St. Marylebone Cemetery, East End Rd. N. 3. - b 1897 d 1975.

John Reilly Newcombe - Ford Park cemetery, Plymouth. His wife, Louisa, and other Newcombes are also buried there - b 1803 d 1887. One of Newcombe's daughters was the wife of Henry Reed, who for several years was the conductor of the orchestra at the Plymouth Theatre Royal. Members of the Reed family are also buried in Ford Park cemetery.

Harry Nicholls - A mainstay of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane pantomimes between 1880 and 1890, under the direction of Augustus Harris ("Druriolanus") many of which he wrote or co-wrote himself - Chiswick Old Cemetery - b 1852 d 1926.

Novello Ivor - David Ivor Davies - (Novello was his mother's maiden name) - Composer, author and actor-manager, he composed and starred in "Glamorous Night" 1935, "Careless Rapture" 1936, "Crest of the Wave" 1937, "The Dancing Years" 1939, "Perchance to Dream" 1945, "King's Rhapsody" 1949. Other musicals included "Arc de Triomphe" 1943 and "Gay's the Word" 1951. - Born in Cardiff 1893 - Died in his flat above the Novello Theatre, London 5 March 1951. - Ashes interred under a great lilac tree at Golders Green Crematorium, London ("We'll Gather Lilacs") - b 1893 d 1951.

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OMI - the tattooed man, buried Chalvington Church Yard, Sussex.

Olrac - See Clack.

Archibald O'Neill - Archie O'Neill, the one-legged dancer - Yew Tree Cemetery, Liverpool, Lancashire, Section 2E, Plot 348 (public grave - no marker) - b 1893 d 1959.

 

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Edmund James Payne - Music Hall Actor, Singer, Comedian and Dramatist - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, No: 123207, Section J08, a couple of plots along from George Leybourne and Frederick Chevalier - b 1864 d 1914.

George Adney Payne - Proprietor of the Britannia Theatre Hoxton. Acquired the Canterbury in 1877. Began his career at the Greenwich Parthenon and subsequently influenced most of the important London Music Halls. Died in a motor accident at Tunbridge Wells in 1907 -

b 1846 d 1907 - St Pancras Cemetery.

Arthur Pearl - comic singer and song writer. - Streatham Park Cemetery - b 1866 d 1945

Charles John Phipps - Theatre Architect - Highgate Cemetery - b 1835 d 1897

Sam Poluski ( Samuel Govett ) - Comedian - Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Rd. S. W. 17. - b 1866 d 1922.

Will Poluski - Comedian - Golders green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, N. W. 11.

J. J. Poole - Music Hall Proprietor - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16.

Nelly Power - Singer - Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High St. N. 16.

Harry Prescott - Seven Royal Hindustans - Streatham Park Cemetery - b ? d 1935

Arthur Prince - Ventriloquist - Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Rd. N. W. 6. - He was Buried with his Dummy ' Jim ' . - b 1881 d 1948.

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Pat Raferty - Singer of patriotic Irish songs - Hills Cemetery, Horsham,West Sussex - d 1952

Frank Randle (Real name, Arthur Hughes but took the name Arthur McEvoy when his mother married Richard McEvoy) ( Comedian ), Carlton Cemetery, Blackpool. Headstone reads ' I got nothing that I asked for, But everything I hoped for, Despite myself my prayers were answered, I was among all men richly blessed'. - b 1901 - d July 7th 1957.

Harry Randall - Leading Music Hall Comedian and Pantomime dame - Hampstead Cemetery, not far from Tom McNaughton (See above) - b 1860 d 1932.

Ella Retford - Irish born Music Hall singer and actress, hits included Under the Honeymoon Tree and Hello There Little Tommy Atkins - East Sheen Cemetery, Richmond - d 1962.

Arthur Roberts - Comedian & Actor - Paddington Cemetery, Willesdon Lane, N. W. 2. - The site of the Grave has not yet been found. - b 1852 d 1933.

William Hedley Roberts - Worked with Kate Williams as Atlas & Vulcana - Streatham Park Cemetery - b 1864 d 1946.

George Robey (Sir) - Knighted shortly before he died and known as the Prime Minister of Mirth. Went onto become a classical actor - Cremated at Downs Crematorium, Brighton - No permanent memorial - d 1954

James Rogers - Comedian - Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Rd. S. W. 5. - b 1823 d 1863.

William Gribbon Ross - Music Hall Performer, Singer, famous for his song 'I am Sam Hall', a ballad about a chimney sweep condemned to death, which he sang for nearly ten years - Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Rd - b 1819 d 1881.

William Ellsworth Robinson AKA “Chung Ling Soo” - Magician - who famously died on stage at the Wood Green Empire performing “Defying the Boxers” or catching the bullet trick - East Sheen Cemetery, Richmond, Surrey - b 1861 d 1918.

The Rudge Sisters:

Letitia Elizabeth Rudge (Letty Lind) (1861-1923)- Skirt dancer, soubrette & Gaiety Girl - Windsor Cemetery (also known as Spital Cemetery) - Plot No. BN 242 - Headstone (constantly overgrown by ivy) - Memorial inscription ? “IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / LETTY LIND / WHO PASSED AWAY ON / AUGUST 27TH 1923”

Sarah Frances Louise Rudge, Mrs. H.E.C. Sim - (Millie Hylton) (1870-1920) - Male impersonator, principal boy, serio, comic actress - Putney Vale Cemetery, Block B Plot No. 182 - Headstone ? large cross bearing an angel - Memorial inscriptions on plinth stones ? - “IN LOVING MEMORY OF / MY DARLING MOTHER / SARAH FRANCES LOUISA [sic] SIM / MILLIE / WHO PASSED AWAY SEPT. 1ST 1920” [The death certificate gives her date of death as 31st August] This memorial inscription was obviously written by her daughter Millie Sim, b. 1895, actress] - As far as can be discerned two lower stones bear a memorial to her husband, Harry Clulow Sim, who had predeceased her in 1901, and had been buried at ? “CHRIST CHURCH. SANDOWN, I.O.W.”

Elizabeth Gertrude Rudge “Cissie”, Mrs. George Grossmith Jnr. (Adelaide Astor) (1873-1951) - Variety artist, musical comedy actress - Kensal Green Cemetery, in Grossmith Family Grave, Grave No. 40380/161/RS with her husband, *George Grossmith Jnr. (1874-1935), actor & producer, her father & mother-in-law, *George Grossmith (1847-1912) actor & Savoyard, and *(Emmeline) Rosa Grossmith (1849-1905) also her daughter, Rosa Mary George (née Grossmith), (1907-88) and son-in-law, Edward Harry George (1904-57) there are memorial inscriptions only for those marked with an asterisk (*).

Lydia Agnes Rudge / Mrs Maurice Wingfield (div.) ( Lydia Flopp) (1877-1963), Variety artist, musical comedy actress - Died Northwood Hills, Middx., 26 August, 1963 - Buried Harrow (precise location unknown).

Fanny Rudge / Mrs. Samuel P. Mackay (Fanny Dango) (1878-1972), musical comedy actress - Brighton General Cemetery, Caulfield South , Melbourne, Vic., Australia, in Mackay Family Grave, with her husband, Samuel Peter Mackay ( -1923) her son, Peter Angus Mackay (1911-1951) ? involved in film production c.1935 and her step-daughter, Elsie [Gertrude] Mackay (1894-1963), actress / Mrs. Max Montesole.

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Eugene Sandow - Strongman - Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Rd. S. W. 15.

Mark Sheridan - Singer & Comedian - Cathcart Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Ella Sheilds - Male impersonator, famous for singing Burlington Bertie from Bow, Adeline, and If You Knew Susie. - Golders Green Crematorium - b 1879 d 1952.

Sammy Shields ( Alexander Young ) - Comic Vocalist - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27 - Grave 38,272 - Square 94 - His Grey Granite cross Tombstone still exists. b 1872 d 1933.

Charles Dundas Slater - Music Hall Proprietor - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 23,252 - Square 47 - Charles committed suicide in the back of a cab. There is no trace of a monument. b 1852 d 1912.

Edward Askew Sothern - Comedian - Famed for his portrayal of Lord Dundreary in Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin at the Haymarket Theatre which ran for nearly five hundred performances - Municipal Cemetery by Southampton Common - b 1826 d 1881.

James Hurst Stead - Born in Hull, Yorkshire - Music Hall Performer - St Pancras Cemetery - b 1828? – d 1886.

Joseph Stoddart ( Colonel Stodare ) - Magician - Highgate Cemetery West, Swains Lane, N. 6. - b 1822 d 1866.

Eugeen Stratton - Music Hall Star - buried next to friend Joe Elvin (See above) - Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington, Surrey - b 1861 d 1918

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Harry Tate - Comedian - St. Mary's, Northolt -b 1872 - d 1940 - I am told that Harry Tate is in the parish registers of St Mary's Northolt. He was buried on the 18th of February 1940. He had been living at 42 Court Farm Rd, Northolt but died at springfield hospital SW17 - Info courtesy Dawn Trafford.

J. W. TATE - Composer or many songs including his famous "A broken doll" Married Lottie Collins (See above) and Clarice Mayne in his lifetime - Hampstead Cemetery, has an impressive memorial stone. d 1922

Alfred Herbert Taylor (Stage Name: Dan Rolyat) - British actor / comedian early 1900s - Streatham Park Cemetery - d 1927

Jack Thomas - Welsh Comedian, performing from about 1910 until his death in 1921 - b 1888 d 1921 - Buried 10 May 1921, Manchester General Cemetery, Section: Non conformist, Grave Number: 142A.

Lydia Thompson / Eliza Hodges Thompson - 'The original blonde bombshell' More about her here. Kensal Green Cemetery - b 1838 d 1904

Little Tich - Comedian - East Finchley Cemetery, Finchley, ( Formerly St. Marylebone ), East End Rd. N. 3.

Vesta Tilley Music Hall performer and male impersonator - Putney Vale cemetery with her husband Walter De Frece - Vesta Tilley married Lord Frece and so became Lady de Frece. - b 1864 d 1952

Marie Tyler ( Marian Louise Wheeler ) - Male Impersonator - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, S. E. 15. - Buried in Square 138 - Although a Headstone exists, it is very difficult to find. - b 1875 d 1905.

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The Great Vance - Singer - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, S. E. 15. - Nothing now marks his resting place as the Council destroyed his Headstone. His grave is on the Left hand side of the Scouts Path facing the open space behind the Chapel. b 1838 d 1888

Vesta Victoria - Music Hall performer - Cremated at Golders Green and Lilac tree planted in her memory, which has since died. - b 1873 d 1951

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Charles Wallace - Negro Comedian - West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High St. S. E. 27. - Grave 25,329 - Square 30. - No monument exists. b 1849 d 1874.

Harry Weldon - Music Hall Comedian, married comedienne Hilda Clyder - Hampstead Cemetery - b 1881 d 1930.

Edward Weston - Music Hall Proprietor - Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Nr. Peckham, S. E. 15. - Plot 51 - A Headstone does exist. - b 1822 d 1874.

C. W. Wright - Cornet Player, Empire Theatre, Bradford - War Grave at the Bowling Cemetery, Bradford - Memorial Stone 29032 Drummer, Duke of Wellington's REGT - b 1880 d 1919.

Billy Williams (Richard Isaac Banks) - Singer, Billed as The Man in the Velvet Suit - Section A, Row 15, Grave 5, Mill Lane Cemetery, Shoreham, Sussex, Father Richard Shaw, died 1914, buried next to him, and grave also next to Fred Earle - b 1878 d 1915.

Kate Williams (Miriam Kate Roberts) - Irish strong Woman who worked with Hedley Roberts as (Atlas & Vulcana) - Streatham Park Cemetery - b 1874 d 1946. A Facebook page on Vulcana can be found here.

James Woodward (Captain) - Worked with seals and sealions on stage and has a magnificent bronze memorial in Ramsgate Cemetery - d 1933

Joseph Woodward - Sea Lion Act - Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, N. W. 11. - b 1872 d 1945.

Tom Wootwell - Comic Singer - Buried with his wife in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth - d 1941

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The Streatham Park Cemetery Variety Artistes Memorial

Erected in Loving Remembrance of the Following Artistes of the Variety Profession

Above - The Streatham Park Variety Artistes Memorial in April 2013 - Courtesy Adrian Barry. The Memorial was erected by the Variety Artistes Benevolent Fund in 1924. The names are of those buried in that particular cemetery. Restoration of the Memorial was begun in 2009 by the charitable organisation 'The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America' who also plan to transform the former VABF chapel into a permanent exhibition.

Name	Died	Age	Notes
John COLLINSON	March 1926	72
Joseph G. SMITH	July 1926	63
Edward H. DRIVER	July 1926	74
James MELROSE	October 1926	69
John DWYER	October 1926	69
John C. LESTER	February 1927	63
Ernest BARNES	February 1927	57
Alfred C [?M]AYOR	April 1927	5_	Could find no Alfred MAYOR death in the GRO indexes, but Alfred C MAY died Marylebone District, June quarter 1927 aged 52.
John W. CLACK	December 1927	80	Stage name Carlo, father of J OLRAC who is buried in Twickenham Cemetery.
William F. STANLEY	March 1928	64
Alfred WRAGGE	April 1928	44
Charles W. HOLCROFT	April 1928	69
Hetty TOWERS	April 1928	76
Emily TABRAR	July 1928	71
William BANKS	December 1928	50
Emily R. HANNAFORD	January 1929	64
Fergus O'CONNOR	January 1929	53
Elizabeth COLLINSON	January 1929	74
Theodore E. WILLMAN	August 1942	72
Sarah J. CABBETT	May 1938	72
John JONES	June 1938	52
John CASH	July 1938	50
Eliza HOLLAND	August 1938	68
Thomas J. SHELTON	November 1938	58
John JUDGE	December 1922	43
Annie BAYLIS	June 1924	52
Louis FITZPATRICK	June 1924	71
Arthur I. DOYLE	August 1924	38
Harry GLYNN	February 1925	67
Hubert C. BEERS	September 1925	37
Harry HALSIE	April 1926	38
Patrick LANGFORD	June 1926	39
William WALKER	October 1932	49?
John BARLOW	January 1933	46
Harry KATO	January 1933	74
Thomas MACKNEY	January 1933	66?
John FAULKENER	May 1933	39
William N. CHILDS	October 1933	34
Elizabeth BUTLIN	January 1934	58
Isabella SKINDSLEY	March 1934	83
Charles C. HARVEY	March 1934	73
Hyam LONG	April 1934	73
Carr LYNN	April 1934	49
John HENRY	May 1934	54
DICK McKAY	May 1934	75
Elizabeth GAINS	August 1934	74	GRO indexes have Elizabeth GAINES dying in Battersea District Sept. quarter 1934
Arthur ALBERT	November 1930	58
Alexander THOMAS	March 1931	77
Michael HENNESSY	November 1931	58
Henry A. HOLLERAND	December 1931	58
Harry PAULO	June 1932	84
Daniel ELMER	October 1932	48
Charles E. CLARKE	March 1934	78
William R. PERCIVAL	August 1922	45
Louise STANHOPE	April 1923	63
Annie L. RUMBALL	September 1923	29
Samuel AUSTIN	October 1923	50
William PERKINS	December 1923	52
Charles H. BROWN	December 1923	46
Emma E. CARLE	December 1921	76
George L. SEDGEWICK	January 1922	55
James GUEST	January 1922	79
Edgar PLEON	July 1922	35
Vernon COWPER	July 1922	50
John McBRIDE	January 1923	62
Harry TACCETTE	May 1936	62
Richard DAVIES	June 1936	64
Madeline ALASKA	July 1936	60
Nellie NAVETTE	August 1936	71
Fred EARLE	16 November 1936	62
Frank WEIR	12 December 1936	70
J. CROCKETT	27 May 1937	77	James CROCKETT aged 77 death registered Lambeth District June quarter 1937
M. TWIGG	21 September 1937	72	Margaret H. TWIGG aged 72 death registered in Battersea District September quarter 1937
Minnie DURHAM	25 May 1938	72
Bert BRAY	12 June 1938	52
Lizzie COLLINS	12 August 1938	68
T. DIACOFF	10 November 1938	68
H. KARDOC	3 Jan 1939	63	Harry G KARDOC aged 62 death registered in Southwark District March quarter 1939
James HUNTER	February 1924	43
Louin [Sic] A. KELVIN	February 1924	38
Fred BRANDON	March 1924	49
Thomas F. DORSETT	March 1924	33
Jesse N. HEAD	March 1924	55	Jesse W. HEAD aged 55 death registered in Wandsworth District MArch quarter 1923
James HORN	March 1924	53
George W. CLAYTON	March 1924	74
William G. SPREADBURY	June 1924	51
Ella CILFILLAN	October 1924	50
Emily PANLO	November 1924	77
Esther TROWBRIDGE	November 1924	86
Kate P. CROSTON	July 1939	61
George W. SMITH	November 1939	68
Mary E. POPE	January 1940	74
Ernest G. READE	February 1940	63
Clara ARNOLD	March 1940	61
_EN SHAW	17 January 1937	77	Benjamin SHAW, 77, death registered Edmonton District March quarter 1937
Annie HUGHES	10 April 1937	81
J.E. PIERCE	7 November 1937	64	Joseph E. PIERCE, 64, death registered WESTMINSTER District December quarter 1937
Frederick C. VOSE	March 1942	69
Lilian A. GORMAN	January 1939	54
Marie WOELLHAF	January 1939	73
Arthur SPENCER	April 1939	62
Joseph COLLINS	April 1940	62
Mary D. DILLON	January 1944	70
William T. GREEN	December 1924	34
Ethel M. HEAD	March 1925	49
Leonard KILROY	April 1925	31
Christopher J. HORN	June 1925	50
Coway CLARK	September 1925	62
Tamamatto CHIYOKICHI	September 1925	68
Mason DIXON	October 1925	43
Ellen WRIGHT	February 1926	69
William R. GLENNEY	February 1929	70
Albert S. HUGHES	March 1929	74
Gertrude LEE	March 1929	50
Caroline HARRINGTON	August 1929	76
Katherine BOWLER	November 1930	75
William SKINGSLEY	February 1931	79
Beatrice COLLINS	February 1931	48
Madge BELMONT	March 1931	40
Frederick O. MENOTTI	March 1942	80
Dennis HARVEY	December 1941	62
John VAUS	January 1945	76
Leslie FAIRFAX	December 1941	70
[L or E?] SHAW	16 April 1940	49	Edith E. SHAW aged 49 death registered Westminster June quarter 1940.
Richard F. HENRY	April 1940	76
Julia H. HAWKINS	May 1940	81
Robert P. CLACK	September 1940	30
Charles F. HUGHES	September 1940	65
Elizabeth FORTUNE	November 1940	74
Charles H. HARTLEY	November 1940	84
Milud IBRAHIM	April 1943	63
Walter JENKINS	July 1943	64
Charles E. CLARK	July 1943	76
Victoria M. CUNNINGHAM	August 1943	75
Doris SELKIRK	August 1943	21	Doris Selkirk 31 [sic] death registered Chelmsford September quarter 1942
David J. JACKSON	October 1943	82
Tom COSTELLO	November 1943	80
Walter HAND	February 1941	67
Emma WITHEY	August 1944	58
William GARLAND	November 1938	62
James M. SOLOMAN	July 1940	60
Walter KING	September 1944	73
Bruce H. GREEN	December 1944	64
Fred AUSTIN	July 1935	63
John HIGGINS	July 1935	62	'Champion Jumper of the World' More Info Here. Died in Charing Cross Rd in 1935, aged 62. Buried in Streatham Park cemetery.
W.E.M. PHILLIPS	November 1935	66	William E.M. PHILLIPS, 66, death registered Camberwell, December quarter 1935
George R. DAWKINS	November 1935	72
Charles BIGNELL	December 1935	69
Richard VOSS	December 1935	63
Joseph FORD	January 1931	80
Georgina S. THOMSON	May 1942	68	Cremated
Frank PINK	November 1934	74
William KIRKWOOD	November 1934	39
James McCOURT	May 1935	38
James? E? STICHBURY?	May 1931?	45
Nellie RICHARDS	March 1932	64
John ENYER	April 1932	65
Nina ELTHAM	08 June [20]03	91	Nina Vera Eltham,  born   19 Mar 1912, death registered Bromley district June 2003
Edward HURLEY	January 1927	58
Emile DESCHEEMAECKER	April 1928	57
Theresa KENNEDY	June 1928	54
John WALSH	Jan 1929	59
MAZANO	August 1929	76
Clifford RYLAND	August 1930?	49
F. KERR	21 March 1937	67
E L. HOPKINS	31 March 1937	50	Edward L. Hopkins, 50, death registered Lambeth June quarter 1937
Georgina CLACK	March 1932	84
Clive WATTS	September 1932	67
A SPENCER	9 April 1935?	62?
M. GERALDINE	11 July 1939	61
G. COLLINS	28 March 1940	62
Julie KENT	April 1931	52
Charles DILLON	July 1934	Aged 63
A. FILLIS	30 March 1940	82
George J. WEBB	June 1944	69
Abigail E. WILLMAN	October 1944	72
George J. WEBB	June 1944	69
Henry BENDON	July 1931	67
Joseph TABRAR	August 1931	74
Robert L. DICKSON	November 1931	59
Samuel FRYER	December 1931	52
Charles GRANT__Y	December 1931	19	GRANTWAY?
Ernest A. WESTBY	January 1931	51
Sarah WITHEY	February 1932	81
G.W. FORD	2 January 1939	44?	George W.I. FORD, 44, death registered Camberwell district March quarter 1939
Marie AUSTIN	14? January 1939	72
Theo YELSON	22 Jan 1939	34
Jenny COOPER	24 February 1939	58
I. McCARTHY	6 March 1939	60?	Ian McCarthy, 60, death registered Surrey N.E. March quarter 1939
Lily LONG	14 Jan 1939	34
Johnny DANVERS	1 April 1939	??
Tom LEAMORE	6 September 1939	73
Tom CONNOR	5 October 1939	45
T. MORRIS	18 November 1939	68
Mrs. KELLINO	9 January 1940	74
C. POWELL	31 January 1940	61
I. WILLIAMS	8 ??? 1940	68
Alfred W. PETERSON	May 1929	72
George BELMONT	June 1929	55
Frank SYLVO	November 1929	68
Henry J. WATTS	March 1930	65
Henry MONTAGUE	April 1930	79
Clifford RYLAND	August 1930	73?
Julian BARNARD	December 1930	49

This list of names on the The Streatham Park Cemetery Variety Artistes Memorial was very kindly compiled and sent in for inclusion on the site in 2009 by Dai Bevan.

Above - A close up view of the Streatham Park Cemetery Variety Artistes Memorial photographed in 2009 - Courtesy Dai Bevan.

The Twickenham Cemetery Variety Artistes Memorial

Erected in Loving Remembrance of the following Artistes of the variety profession

Above - The Twickenham Cemetery Variety Artistes Memorial photographed in 2009 - Courtesy Dai Bevan

Surname	Forename(s)	Stage Name	Died	Age	Notes
AGUSTIN	Annie		23 March 1984	102	Cremated
ALLEN	Margaret Hannah		9 March 1934	71
ALLIN	Dora		16 February 1987	84	Cremated
ARMSTRONG	William		2 May 1940	82
ASHLEY	Harry		28 October 1948	85
BAKER	Hylda		1 May 1986	81	Cremated
BALE	George		28 May 1949	82
BALE	Rex		6 March 1983	75	Cremated
BARNES	Elizabeth Amelia		16 August 1940	69
BARNETT	Samuel Harry		27 September 1958	84
BARRY	Leonard		5 October 1980	83	Cremated
BATTY	Elizabeth Lavinia		25 October 1976	91	Cremated
BEAUMONT	Polly		9 March 1937	78
BEER	Daisy		19 June 1988	82	Cremated
BERNHART	Thelma Beulah		12 April 1969	76	Buried Westminster Cemetery
BERTRAM	Frank		18 April 1936	90
BIERMAN	Bertha		9 October 1970	94	Cremated
BOISSET	Albert		10 June 1943	75
BONNING	Eliza	Selina Seaforth	27 February 1928	76
BRANDON	Harry		29 October 1935	81
BROWN	Gladys Bertha		26 May 1967	81
BROWN	William	Wally Walford	10 April 1931	70	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
BROWNE	James Henry		31 December 1943	71
BURGESS	Joe		10 December 1933	82
BUXTON	C.		13 October 1938	69
CAIRNS	Joshua		24 November 1945	65
CALLAGHAN	Harry	Harry Calden	18 May 1932	75	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
CAMERON	Maud Annie		9 November 1976	90	Cremated.
CANOVER	Thomas		3 October 1955	86
CAREY	Emily		11 December 1948	90
CARLOSS	Bessie Violet		7 March 1982	84	Cremated
CHARD	Frederick Wm.		23 November 1934	75
CHATER	Pauline		28 October 1984	92	Cremated.
CLAPHAM	May		4 October 1984	95	Cremated.
CLARKE	Louisa		12 April 1949	84
CLARKE	Mildred		9 December 1983	87	Cremated
CLENSY	Cyril John		16 August 1962	84
COLLARD	Arthur A.	Arthur Mayo	29 August 1933	82
COLLINS	Fred		25 November 1985	94	Cremated
COLLINS	Marie		11 December 1950	80
CONY	William Henry		27 April 1936	73
CORLESS	Edith		14 November 1950	67
CORNISH	William		14 July 1953	78
COWLEY	Frank		11 August 1985	87	Cremated
CRAIG	George		21 March 1929	72
CUTTER	Maudie		28 February 1985	95	Cremated
DAVIS	Saxon	Rose Marion Davis	16 December 1978	90	Cremated
De BLOCK	Jules		18 January 1937	82
De CONE	M.		30 October 1936	73
DEACON	Minna		11 August 1986	98	Cremated
DELEHANTY	Peter		29 November 1943	73
DENBIGH	Mary		26 October 1981	85	Cremated
De'OLIVEIRA	Manoel		16 Feb 1969	79	Cremated
DEVEREUX	Laura		27 September 1949	90
DeVOY	James H.W.	James LeFre	7 August 1932	75	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
DIX	Beatrix		6 June 1985	95	Cremated
DRYDEN	Leo		21 April 1939	74
ELLIOTT	Rose		16 December 1950	74
ELLISTON	Harry		3 July 1950	84
FARRAR	Jabez Sonny		17 October 1979	71	Cremated
FARRELL	Edward	Edward Macdermott	14 January 1922	75	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
FARRELL	Johanna Lavina	Vinney Bishop	10 October 1927	67	Mother of early 1900s boxer Willie Farrell.
FORD	Walter		18 April 1962	??
FOSSETT	Elizabeth		16 April 1978	68	Cremated
FOX	Roy		20 March 1982	81	Cremated
FRANTZ	Lucia		12 April 1949	84
FROST	Rosalind		20 August 1967	72
GILLAM	Jack		16 May 1973	-	Cremated
GRAY	L.		13 April 1939	70
GREY	Harry		6 April 1936	61
GRICE	Robert		21 June 1936	76
GRIFFITHS	Cora		25 January 1985	94	Cremated
GULLIMORE	Sarah Alma		5 June 1958	76
HALL	Kathleen (Kitty)		16 June 1988	94	Cremated
HALLS	Alexander William		6 April 1984	80	M.B.E. Cremated
HANCHARD	James William	Major Miles	1 December 1926	79
HARRIS	Sarah		9 February 1944	84
HARRIS	W.D.		14 July 1938	71
HARTLEY	Gladys		11 February 1984	88	Cremated
HAYES	Charles William		16 October 1976	82	Cremated
HEARNE	George		9 August 1928	46
HEFFRON	John		18 November 1934	77
HEGARTY	James		24 January 1938	78
HIBBITT	William Styles	Will Styles	19 April 1928	64
HICKEY	Agnes		16 December 1954	97
HINTON	Beryl		25 November 1985	96	Cremated
HOLTON	Charles Albert		29 May 1943	72
HOPKINSON	Frank		11 June 1943	74
HUGHES	Charles		28 October 1959	76
HUGHES	William John		3 March 1978	87	Cremated
HURLEY	George		17 December 1943	65
JACKSON	Jane Davidson		31 October 1960	84	Cremated
JAMES	Eleanor		10 March 1954	80
KENNEDY	H.		11 November 1938	67
KILT	William		4 November 1941	72
KIMBER	Vera Nancy Ada		13 December 1977	74	Cremated
KING	J.		22 March 1939	55
LANGAN	Charles		30 June 1937	70
LANGAN	Frank	Frank Lang	25 April 1930	60
LANGAN	Patrick		22 March 1928	86
LAROLA	Fred		19 April 1947	81
LAW	John		2 April 1941	72
LAWSON	Alexander		10 July 1945	62
LEATHERDALE	Richard John Lewis		14 March 1981	80	Buried Lambeth Cemetery
LEE	Bernard		6 August 1981	91	Cremated
LEE	Sidney		26 April 1953	81
LEEMING	Albert		17 August 1968	85	Cremated
LEITH	Ethel Maud		27 August 1967	89	Cremated
LEVENSTON	Florence Ann		13 January 1977	81	Cremated
LEWIS	Sarah Clunn		11 December 1945	65
LLOYD	James		21 January 1933	88
LORD	Ethel Emma		31 December 1966	78
LUDLOW	Sarah		30 September 1984	88	Cremated
MANNING	William		19 January 1927	66
MARBA	James		28 May 1941	74
MARSDEN	Bert		4 October 1948	7_
MAURA	Frank		8 June 1946	84
MAWER	Marie Louise		11 November 1967	73	Cremated
MAXAM	Henry Edward		19 February 1945	77
MAYOUE	Alice		31 October 1954	88
McCOLE	Andrew	John Hina	6 April 1929	76
McNICHOLL	William Joseph		8 January 1982	84	Cremated
MELVILLE	Rosalind Elizabeth		24 February 1929	93
MILTON	Gladys		5 May 1982	92	Cremated
MOORE	Florence		22 February 1944	74
MORGAN	Evan John	John Courtney	25 May 1929	70
MOSLEY	Marion		7 June 1983	81	Cremated.
MOSS	W.E.		13 January 1946	90
MURRAY	Bert		1 March 1976	83	Cremated
MURRAY	Ellen Louisa Renee		25 May 1977	90	Cremated
NEWMAN	Edgar		11 August 1960	65
NORTON	May		24 August 1977	88	Cremated
O'DONNELL	Alice Kate		27 June 1960	97
OLRAC	J		5 September 1939	69	OLRAC was the stage name of John William Clack, not to be confused with the John William Clack burried at Streatham Cemetery who was his father.
OSCROFT	Edward		11 October 1977	94	Cremated
PABLO	Edward		28 May 1936	80
PARENTI	Edith May	Freda Brandon	6 February 1961	90
PARKER	Louisa Charles	BLEWETT	14 September 1962	54
PARKMAN	Henry Edward	Hal Collier	21 May 1931	86	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
PASSMORE	Thomas		24 February 1932	64	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
PAVETT	George	George Barber	5 May 1930	78
PAYNE	Vera		29 December 1983	87	Cremated
PETERSON	Laura		27 September 1949	90
POOLE	H.		13 November 1938	60
POOLE	Ivy Cecilia		15 April 1981	91	Cremated
POOLE	Mildred H.		12 October 1977	86	Cremated
POWER	Antonia		7 November 1929	72
RAYMOND	Bob E.		19 June 1985	81	Cremated
READ	Arthur		15 November 1959
REED	Leslie		5 January 1937	77
REES	Phillip		10 January 1969	85	Cremated
REEVE	Gladys May		18 March 1988	93	Cremated
RICHARDS	Harry		25 August 1978	61	Cremated
ROACH	Thomas	Sid Urma	15th December 1927	80
ROBINSON	Maud		29 December 1975	87	Cremated
ROBINSON	May		9 April 1988	95	Cremated
ROSE	Harry		17 January 1944	84
ROYSTON	Harry		7 March 1941	78
SCHWARZ	Madeleine Marjorie		11 January 1977	90?	Cremated
SCOTT	Emily		18 November 1939	88
SCOTT	Tom		2 May 1929	79
SEDDON	Joseph		12 April 1933	68
SHARPE	Charles		28 November 1950	72
SIMPSON	John Roy		9 May 1969	89
SINCLAIR	Fred		15 May 1947	82
SMITH	Ellen Ann		14 January 1988	92	Cremated
SMITH	Samuel	Charles Clifford	10 March 1929	81
SPIERS	James George	James Newland	20 March 1931	91	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
SPINK	Alfred George		5 March 1947	77
SPURWAY	Mary	Nellie Leamar	5 July 1938	81
SQUIRES	Molly		15 June 1985	89	Cremated
STELLING	Harry		15 June 1944	74
STEPHENS	Charles Hector		15 February 1941	69
TARR	Lilian		23 July 1986	84	Cremated
TAYLOR	Isabel Rose		21 March 1929	82
TEALE	Getrude Victoria		6 February 1979	91
THOMPSON	Constance		6 November 1977	85	Cremated
THOMPSON	Jessie Grave		6 December 1961	78
TILBURY	Walter Robert		29 March 1942	78
TRIM	Kate		4 May 1959	82
TYSON	Joseph		13 March 1930	82
WALKER	Harry		20 April 1937	78
WALTON	Matthew		31 July 1929	83
WARRINER	Ernest		4 March 1960	82
WATSON	D.		12 January 1947	93?
WATTS	Frances May		22 March 1980	85	Cremated
WEATHERHEAD	Joseph		8 June 1932	81	Name, without dates, also on kerbstone.
WELLER	Arthur Charles		16 June 1969	75	Cremated
WELLESLEY	Harold		21 December 1964	83
WEST	Alfred		15 September 1935	71
WHALL	Alfred		1 March 1970	96	Cremated
WHELAN	Gordon Albert		13 March 1985	76	Cremated
WHITE	George		21 August 1955	82
WHITTAKER	ADA		11 December 1965	83
WILDE	Gordon		16 December 1936	67
WORTH	John Joseph	Alfred Lindsay	29 January 1933	83
WRIGHT	Winifred Sabine		30 April 1984	83	Cremated
ZANETTO	George		28 May 1949	82
ZENON	Faustyn		15 August 1953	88

 

Links and References

The information on this page is from the following sources:-

Some Nunhead references - From a book published by the ' Friends of Nunhead Cemetery '
Some West Norwood references - From a booklet by the ' Friends of Norwood Cemetery '
Some artiste's burial information - courtesy Adrian Barry, Director of The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
Streatham Park and Twickenham Cemetery Memorials by Dai Bevan.
Other references, and inspiration for this page - Gareth Price.

Also see the Music Hall and Variety Artistes Commemorative Plaques Page

Abney Park Cemetry Trust

If you are in the Stoke Newington area I can highly recommend the Guided Walks at Abney Park Cemetery. The tour I went on in August 2013 took in the final resting places of Fred Albert, Walter Labernum, Herbert Campbell, Nelly Power, Edmund Payne, Albert Chevalier, and George Leybourne amongst others. There are thought to be around 40 famous theatrical names buried there in all. We were shown round some of the beautifully restored monuments and grave stones at this former private cemetery by Neil Morkunas, whose lively and personable talk on the artistes we encountered was a wonderfully evocative step back into the music hall period.

Right - Details for the 2015 Music Hall guided walks at Abney Park Cemetery.

Guided Tours of the cemetery are by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in association with the Abney Park Trust.

Useful Links

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Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery

Newington Cemetery Edinburgh

Like so many other private cemeteries in Edinburgh, Newington was allowed to fall into disrepair until the city council was forced to step in and place a compulsory purchase order on it. In places the vegetation is so thick that it is impossible to walk and in the few areas that have been cleared it appears that some headstones have also been tidied away.

Friends of Nunhead Cemetery

Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery

Victorian London Cemeteries

Warrington Cemetery

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