Open Call – Family History Researchers (CLOSED)

We have a few fascinating leads from newspapers and archives that we’re keen to learn more about in time for our exhibition in March. If you have experience of and access to online genealogical sites and would be able to spare a few hours, we would be very grateful if you could track down any additional information on some of the accounts we’ve uncovered. These include:

• A Chinese acrobat in Edwardian Britain charged with deserting his Willesden-based Welsh wife, who he said had become ‘too stout’ to perform one of his stage acts.
• A Black man from Kilburn who, at the end of the nineteenth-century, was reported as wanting custody of the children he had had with his white wife.
• A white waitress who met her wealthy Indian Muslim husband at the 1924 Wembley exhibition and moved to Bhopal with him after their three month engagement.
• A Black doctor sued in Willesden Court in the pre-WW1 era for getting his wife’s servant pregnant