tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post4653046724522665903..comments2024-03-24T16:37:56.651-07:00Comments on Kurt of Gerolstein: "A Piratical Maid of All Work"GEROLSTEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08446253124724430879noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post-89865016996902351322021-11-05T14:13:30.055-07:002021-11-05T14:13:30.055-07:00Hello Ted. Yes indeed I know Mrs Bellchambers. And...Hello Ted. Yes indeed I know Mrs Bellchambers. And definitely Miss Bellchambers. In fact I have written a biog article on the latter. If you care to write to me at ganzl@xtra.co.nz, I will send it to you. <br />Juliet Bellchambers was born in London in 1809, the youngest daughter of Benjamin Bellchambers (d 1840), wine merchant of Southampton Row, Bloomsbury Square, and later of 101 St John’s Street, West Smithfield, and his wife, Jane (née Shepherd). That would make him the Mr Bellchambers of Pennington and Bellchambers, whose partner was murdered by highwaymen ‘while travelling in his gig from Birmingham and Coventry’ in 1817. The firm subsequently became Bellchambers and Wilders, and then William Wilders & Co.<br /><br />Mrs was her sister in law<br /><br />was her sister-in-law, the wife – Charlotte -- of her eldest brother Edmund Nathaniel Bellchambers (b 17 September 1792; d St Johns Street, January 1851). Edmund was a printer, a publisher and a prolific author on historical, theatrical and musical subjects. <br /><br />Try my book VICTORIAN VOCALISTS!!!!!<br /><br />GEROLSTEINhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08446253124724430879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post-27347656728461247682021-11-04T03:43:56.957-07:002021-11-04T03:43:56.957-07:00Sorry forgot to mention! Madame Juanita Garcia se...Sorry forgot to mention! Madame Juanita Garcia seems to have been daughter of Charlotte Bellchambers. She was named Jeannette Emma Wood Bellchambers and married Henry Howell Nicholls 15 June 1861 in Pimlico. (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/178892402/person/182329570958/facts) Her father was named as Edmund Bellchamber, Gentleman, on the wedding certificate. Henry Howell Nicholls was an electrical engineer specialising in telegraph systems. At the birth of their child, Winifred Etheldred Essington Nicholls, Henry Howell Nicholls referred to himself as "Essington-Nicholls". Sadly the child died within a few months. Years past and in June 1876 a Henry Nicholls, telegraph engineer, was arrested for attempted suicide in 23 Moreton Terrace Pimlico. He claimed to have been working for the government in India and suffered sunstroke. (Morning Post - Thursday 08 June 1876) In August of the same year Madame Juanita Garcia, late of several theatres, fluent in four languages, is offering her services as an accompanist and music teacher. Her address is given as 23 Moreton Terrace Pimlico. (The Era - Sunday 27 August 1876) How the full story ends has yet to be followed through. EdRobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145782867964211559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935297705846111801.post-55125667006676495722021-11-03T13:32:42.050-07:002021-11-03T13:32:42.050-07:00Hello, it seems you have a great deal of knowledge...Hello, it seems you have a great deal of knowledge about the actresses, singers of the Victorian period in the UK, but have you ever come across opera singer Mrs Bellchambers? She is more of the Regency and Georgian period. It seems she may have been Miss Singleton until 1815 when she married a Mr Bellchambers. Unfortunately there is also another singer of the period called Miss Bellchambers who may be related.<br /><br />I think that Miss Singleton may have married Edmund Nathanial Bellchambers who was a publisher, editor and author who wrote about the theatre of the period. He seems to have been involved with a newspaper venture in Gloucester that went wrong, and he may have spent a period in jail for insolvency/bankruptcy. If I am right, Mrs Bellchambers may have been Charlotte Singleton, born about 1795 in Warrington, Lancashire. <br /><br />As you know finding accurate information about this period is difficult to validate, but I wonder if you came across the name of Bellchambers?<br /><br />Ted Robbens, West Sussex UK<br /><br />The newspaper reviews I can find indicate she sang at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane plus the Dublin Theatre and took part in the Hanover Square Concerts.EdRobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145782867964211559noreply@blogger.com