Maud Branscombe; Ethel Branscombe

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Maud Branscombe; Ethel Branscombe

by Fradelle & Marshall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1873-1877
3 5/8 in. x 2 3/8 in. (91 mm x 59 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197077

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Paola Vozza

21 September 2015, 14:10

Jeanie Gertrude Branscombe (Exeter, September 1852) on the left. The name of Ethel is not correct. She was marries with Lewis Polak from 14 February 1876 to November the 1st 1884, when the husband signed a petiotion for divorce, accusing Gertrude of adultery.
She then acted with her sister Maude in her second provincial tour in 1885, with the fictional name of Gertrude Menzies and Gertrude Norfor. Jeanie Gertrude died on September 28th, 1888. She was 36 years old.