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Being a performer, and to stay in line with all of his male siblings, he took the name of "Gus Chevalier".

Extracted from http://www.teletronic.co.uk/herestv.htm.

Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister; Franklin Roosevelt was campaigning for the presidency of the United States; Amy Johnson was making record-breaking flights over half the globe, and Gus Chevalier, a comedian from the Windmill Theatre, was being televised that night.

But it is Gus Chevalier for whom I have a soft spot in my television memories-and those other pioneering artists who shared a fanaticism for television with the handful of BBC staff who were coping with those experimental programmes, below ground level at Broadcasting House. On several nights, I walked round the windy corner of Broadcasting House's prow-like frontage in Portland Place, to watch Eustace Robb put out the 30-line "low definition" television programmes, which were really the first BBC sound and vision broadcasts

Gus, on top of a day's work at the Windmill, would allow himself to be blotched and streaked with the black and white greasepaint, then used to give sharp definition to the features. He had a white streak down the centre of his nose, black lines under his eyes, and white above. Standing in the flickering light, which threw a spot of light up and down the body, he did his lugubrious "Inventions" act, for the doubtful benefit of a score or so of fanatical enthusiasts, scattered about London, using home-made sets, on which they sometimes saw a hazardous picture six inches high by four inches wide. Nobody knew how many viewers there were.
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In the 1910 census her age is listed as 19 with no occupation and in 1920 as age 23.

Grace was an operatic soprano. She left her husband and two boys (5 & 7 yrs old) to go to St. Louis to sing in the reknowned St. Louis Opera. She divorced Pete.
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In 1880 Nora M was 2 years old - born 1878, but in the 1920 census she was 38 years old - born 1882 The 1880 Nora had croup so we may assume that she died and they had another daughter - or they were mistaken in 1920.
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Had listed as Odrey Cornelius, but SSDI shows as Neil O. Neil could have been a nickname or derivative of Cornelius

In the late 1930s, vaudevillian brothers Neil and Carl Fletcher took note of a German fellow in Dallas who sold hot dogs that had been dipped in batter, then baked in molds shaped like ears of corn. Neil adapted the idea and invented the corny dog, the deep-fried, cornmeal-battered wiener-on-a-stick that's now a staple at fairs nationwide. By 1942, Neil and Carl were serving Fletcher's Original Corny Dogs at the State Fair of Texas, USA. Neil died in 1988, but his sons, Skip and Bill, carry on the family tradition at six stands, serving half a million corny dogs each year. (They also sell corny dogs at other special events and venues in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including the Texas, USA Motor Speedway.) Extract from Texas, USA Highways Online October 2003
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The nickname 'Toby' comes from the following:

Volunteer State theater professor Dawn Larsen is one of America’s last real connections to the old Toby Shows, which rose to prominence in the 1930s in the rural South and Midwest. During that time, there were believed to have been as many as 400 traveling Toby Shows, known for their traveling cast, down-home comedy, audience participation, large tents and main character, Toby.

Toby Shows heyday came at a time when there was no television and agrarian life was fighting against the pressures of industrialism, as manufacturing companies were rubbing up against rural farmers. In Toby Shows, the character Toby symbolized the conflict of rural vs. city and all the stereotypes associated with both.

Toby was typically a rural, country guy who was not well educated but had moral integrity and a good sense of humor. In the tent show, Toby and his family were pitted against city slickers who tried to swindle them with their slick talk and education. But in the end, Toby always won.
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Found marriage on LDS site
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Notes for Florence Boyd - Source 'Bun' Cousens - 2004

She was a trained Hospital Nurse and worked at Charing Cross and St. Thomas Hospitals in London before she was married.

Her sisters were Alice, Ethel she had a brother William Henry and he had a son called Willie and he had a son Nelson , She had another Brother Harry Boyd he lived in Winnipeg in 1918 and had three daughters one was named Edie.

In her second marriage she had three more children Marjorie Born in 1907 Ted born 1908, and Clive Noel born 1911.She was on the British 1881 census age 13 and lived in Guildford St Nicholas Surrey UK