Alice/Alys Winifred May Partridge , seemingly HLO's only legal wife - 1872-1933
Daughter of a Vicar
1872 . Alice Winifred May Partridge was baptised 5/5/1872 to Charles & Emma Partridge Mitcham Surrey- Ancestry. Birth registered Croyden Mar 1872 Charles Partridge likely married Emma Honora Grogan Chelsea Mar1870
Childhood in Birmingham
1881C. Alice W M Partridge, 9, was living 8 Varna Road, Edgbaston, Kings Norton
Charles | Partridge | Head | Married | Male | 45 | 1836 | Curate At St Davids | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Emma | Partridge | Wife | Married | Female | 45 | 1836 | - | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Alice N M | Partridge | Daughter | Single | Female | 9 | 1872 | Scholar | Surrey, England | |
Earnest E | Partridge | Son | Single | Male | 5 | 1876 | Scholar | West Indies |
1891C. Parents in Moulton, Spalding Lincs - just them and a servant. Charles, 55, a clerk in Holy Orders
1891C.Alice W Partridge, 19, b. Mitcham, a Governess in a private ladies school, is living with an uncle, in Richmond Road, Solihull ~ 5 k SE of Birmingham
Ann | Wicks | Head | Widow | Female | 59 | 1832 | Electro Plate Manufacturer | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Charles H | Wicks | Son | Single | Male | 30 | 1861 | Electro Plate Manager | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Annie B | Wicks | Daughter | Single | Female | 21 | 1870 | Clerk Electro Plate Trade | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Harry A | Wicks | Son | Single | Male | 19 | 1872 | ? Worker Electro Plate Trade | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Arthur H | Wicks | Son | - | Male | 13 | 1878 | Scholar | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | |
Alice W | Parbridge | Niece | Single | Female | 19 | 1872 | Governess Private Ladies School | Mitcham, Surrey, England | |
Lilian | Hand | Servant | Single | Female | 16 | 1875 | General Servant | Cheshire, England |
1901C. Cannot find her as xxx Partridge, born ~1872. Could she already be calling herself Ormrod/Esmonde- her stage name ??? Have searched exhaustively without a surname under Alice & Winifred/Freda with variations - both in Ancestry & FMP
Parents still in Moulton, Lincs, Charles Partridge, 65, Clergyman C Of E . Charles Partridge, 71,dies Spalding Sep 1907- Spalding includes Moulton .
Her father,Reverend Charles Partridge, dies 2/9/1907, clerk, of Moulton, leaving effects of £452 , administration to Emma, his widow - Ancestry probate .
Her mother is likely living Aston, aged 77, 2 living children, b. Warwicks, in 1911C : she dies 14/3/1916, aged 82, effects £265, administration to Ernest Erskine Partridge, private 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion
Alice could receive an annuity from either her father's or mother's Wills
1903. Alys Winifred May Partridge, 26, married Henry Lewis Ormrod, 31, actor, in Cardiff Register Office on 18/6/1903 .
Both living 37 Tudor Road, Cardiff . Fathers are Henry Hopwood Ormrod, Engineers Draughtsman, and Charles Partridge, Vicar of Moulton St James. Have not heard of either of the witnesses
1909. Leslie Arthur W Ormrod is born Pancras Jun 1909. A son of Alice Winifred Ormrod - sent for b.c.10/9/2015- this on his page. No baptism on Ancestry
1910. Gerald Henry Ormrod is baptised 14/12/1910 in Leigh St Mary, Lancs to Henry Lewis, actor, and Alice Winifred May Ormrod of 42, Wilkinson Street, Leigh . Gerald dies the same month- no burial on Ancestry . Leigh ~ 20k W of Manchester
Son Leslie likely lived with her in Pancras until 1929, althouh he was almost certainly attended a boarding school in East Ashford, Kent, when he went to Canada, via Jamaica,
1911C. Winifred Osmond, 34, married, actress, employer, is living in 3 rooms at 27 Bridge Street Wednesbury Staffordshire with son Leslie 2. She has been married 8 years, has had 2 children, of whom 1 has died . Nurse maid is actually an Ethel Brown- mistranscription ! I would think she had already separated from her husband, but report of her 1933 suicide suggests ~ 1915 as maybe the year of separation . So, as an employer, is she producing?? Wednesbury only~ 12k NW of Birmingham
Winifred | Osmond | Wife | Married | Female | Actress | 34 | 1877 | Mitcham Surrey | |
Leslie | Osmond | Son | - | Male | - | 2 | 1909 | London | |
Ethel | Osmond | Servant | Single | Female | Nurse Maid Domestic | 21 | 1890 | Pastwood Notts |
Her brother, Ernest Edward Partridge 1871 could appear as a servant in Bispham !!- small world- but probably not, her brother was Ernest Erskine Partridge 1876 !!
1921C. Alice Winifred May Partridge, 49, married, separated, was living alone at 10 Upper Westbourne Terrace, Paddington on 19/6/1921. Her son, Leslie, appears in the census in East Ashford, Kent : almost certainly at a boarding school
1933. Alice Osmond committed suicide in a flat in Westbourne Grove, London, 25/3/1933 .
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The last article suggests that she had been living apart from her husband for 18+ years, that is at least from 1915.. Also gives a stage name- a charming & talented actress- of Freda Esmonde and connects her to the play "East Lynne". She had an annuity for about £106- this could have come from her parents who died 1907 and 1916. Her brother Ernest E Partridge might die Birmingham, aged 81, in 1958- in which case no probate
I can find no reference to Freda Esmonde in FMP Newspapers . But Mrs Fred Osmond's Repertory/London Company did produce East Lynne, in 1921, Grantham & Chesterfield, - FMP newspapers - I searched aain in July 2021, - no success. Thought Fred Osmond could be the name HLO used 1902-1910( when he was bankrupt) but Glenville and Osmond already existed in 1900!
1933. Alice W M Ormrode, 61, died Kensington Mar 1933 . One day I might buy this d.c.!