William Frederick Clayton STOREY^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

1861 - 1917  (56 years)

• Name	William Frederick Clayton STOREY  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	20 Jun 1861	St Johns Wood, London, England, UK   [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	4 Sep 1861	St Mark, St Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England, UK   [2, 10]
  Census	1871	Morden Hall, Morden, Surrey, England, UK   [11]
  Residence	1871	Morden, Surrey, England   [6]
  Married	Apr 1882	Sunderland, Durham, England, UK   [9]
  Census	1891	2 Lind Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, UK   [12]
  Census	1901	5 Old Quebec St, Marylebone, London, England, UK   [13]
  Residence	1901	St Marylebone, London, England   [7]
  Census	1911	74 King's Road St Pancras N W, London, England, UK   [14]
  Occupation	Actor, dancer, comedian, scene painter
  Residence	02 Apr 1911	St Pancras, London, England   [4]
  	Age in 1911: 49; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
  Death	4 Dec 1917	Blockley, Worcestershire, England, UK   [3, 5]
  _MILT	1914-1920  [1]
  Probate	18 Mar 1920	Worcestershire   [15]
  Residence	England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland   [1]
  _WLNK	https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/S/StoreyFred.htm
  Person ID	I18313088852	NunnSuffolk
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	William Fitch STOREY,   b. 1 May 1832, St James, Westminster, London, England, UK d. 18 Jun 1887, Wandsworth, London, England, UK (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Edith Da COSTA,   b. Abt 1839, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies d. 1 Aug 1921, 1a Lower Park Rd, Hastings, Sussex, England, UK (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1860	London, England, UK   [9, 16]
  Family ID	F3290	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lilian Margaret Thorley HOLMES,   b. Apr 1870, Holloway, London, England, UK d. Apr 1931, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	1890  [4]
  Children	1. Sylvia Lilian STOREY,   b. 4 Oct 1889, London, England, UK d. 20 Jul 1947, Paddington, London, England (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F1613	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Flora Bessie Constance CLITHEROW,   b. 11 Nov 1867, 47 Granby St, Leicestershire, England, UK
  Family ID	F1614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Known as Fred. Baptised William Frederick Clayton but seems to have reversed first two Christian names. Probate entry records that he left his estate to Lilian Margaret Thorley Holmes, spinster, which suggest the pair were never married even though they were together from about 1890 and recorded on the census they were husband and wife. <hr> Image from one of Frederick Storey's performances<hr>

  
  

• Sources

  [S_1238945397] Ancestry.com, British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S_1468638703] Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Board of Guardian Records, 1834-1906 and Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1906. London Metropolitan Archives, London.Images produced by permission of the City ). Birth date: abt 1861 Birth place: St Marylebone St Mark, England Baptism date: 4 Sep 1861 Baptism place: St Marylebone St Mark, England [S_1470123295] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.Original data - Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. Londo). Death date: 4 Dec 1917 Death place: Worcestershire, England [S_1394561834] Ancestry.com, 1911 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. ), Class: RG14; Piece: 722. [S_1476660774] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro). Birth date: abt 1861 Birth place: Death date: Dec 1917 Death place: Shipston On Stour, Warwickshire, England [S_1475746296] Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National A), Class: RG10; Piece: 854; Folio: 89; Page: 11; GSU roll: 827761. Birth date: abt 1861 Birth place: London, Middlesex, England Residence date: 1871 Residence place: Morden, Surrey, England [S_1476661296] Ancestry.com, 1901 England Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archi), Class: RG13; Piece: 110; Folio: 20; Page: 31. Birth date: abt 1861 Birth place: St Johns Wood Residence date: 1901 Residence place: St Marylebone, London, England [S_1476123928] FreeBMD, England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Contro). Birth date: Jul 1861 Birth place: London, Middlesex, United Kingdom [S156033320] FreeBMD, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). . Name: William Frederick Clayton Storey Record Type: Baptism Estimated Birth Date: abt 1861 Baptism Date: 4 Sep 1861 Father's name: William Fitch Storey Mother's name: Edith Storey Parish or Poor Law Union: St Marylebone St Mark Borough: Westminster Source Citation: London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mark, Saint JohnS Wood, Register of baptisms, P89/MRK2, Item 002 Transcript: No 589 1861 Sept 4th, William Frederick Clayton, son of William Fitch and Edith Storey of 29 Clifton Rd, wine merchant, born *10 June 1861 *Birth certificate gives it as 20 June 1861 <hr> . 1871 census for Morden Hall, Morden Surrey RG number: RG10 Piece: 854 Folio: 89 Page: 11 Student at school: STOREY, Frederick W C Pupil M 10 1861 Middlesex <hr> . 1891 census for 2, Lind Street, Ryde Isle of Wight, Hampshire RG number: RG12 Piece: 891 Folio: 84 Page: 8 In house headed of William WILTSHIRE JR, am Head Married M 33 1858 Tailor Frederick W C STOREY, Visitor Married M 29 1862 Actor & Scenic Artist Lilian M I STOREY, Visitor Married F 21 1870 Actress Holloway Middlesex <hr> . 1901 census for 5, Old Quebec Street, St Marylebone London RG number: RG13 Piece: 110 Folio: 20 Page: 31 Elizabeth BUSBY, Head Widow F 51 1850 Owner Of House London Lillian STOREY, Daughter Married F 28 1873 Independent Upper Holloway Beatrice WHEATMAN, Daughter Married F 25 1876 Actress Blackburn Lancashire Frederick STOREY, Son-In-Law Married M 40 1861 Actor St Johns Wood Gus WHEATMAN, Son-In-Law Married M 47 1854 Actor Sheffield Yorkshire Minnie CARPENTER, Servant Single F 24 1877 Domestic Servant Paddington Green <hr> . 1911 census for 74 King's Road St Pancras N W, London: RG number: RG14 Piece: 722 Reference: RG14PN722 RG78PN25 RD9 SD3 ED12 SN173 Frederick STOREY, head married for 21 years, aged 49, actor, born 1862 Parish N K London Lilian STOREY, Wife aged 41 (one child, living), actress, born 1870 Holloway London A. Maitland STAPLEY, boarder, single 38 1873 Actor Stamford Hill London Harritt WOODWARD, servant, single F 29 1882 General Servant Domestic St Pancras London <hr> An English exchange thus speaks of Mr. Fred Storey, the eccentric dancer of the first Gaiety Company which visited Australia:—He is one of the most energetic men that ever breathed. Fortunately he has the constitution of a barbed wire fence, or he could never get through the work he sets him- self in the various stage departments. A nephew of G. A. Storey, R.A., the only lessons he had in painting were those he taught himself when visiting his uncle's studio in St. John's Wood : his only scene models, as a youth, the ferns and trees of Hampstead Heath. And today there is scarcely a theatre he appears in whose play-bill does not bear the words, "Scenery by Fred Storey." After his extraordinary pantomimic success at the Alhambra an Rip Van Winkle in the ballet of that name, Mr. Storey played the character in a dramatic version (Jefferson's) of the legend, and for this production, which was most favourably reviewed by the critics, he painted every inch of the elaborate scenery. It speaks well for the artistic quality of that scenery that much of it—including the " Katskill Mountains"—was purchased by Mr. Beerbolum Tree when he himself produced " Rip Van Winkle" at Her Majesty's Theatre. THE STAGE. (1902, August 9). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), p. 332 Supplement: unknown. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21626894 <hr> The haphazard way, says the London correspondent of the S.A . Register in which a certain class of light-hearted, easy-going theatrical people conduct their matrimonial arrangements has always struck me as highly diverting. A case in point which may have some interest for your readers cropped up in the Divorce Court on Tues day. All who saw the Gaiety Company in Australia will remember Fred Storey, the elastic-limbed eccentric dancer and comedian. Well, about 18 months ago Fred's wife bolted with an actor celled 'Walter Granville,' and went to the States. On route from Australia with the Gaiety girls Fred came across his wife and her betrayer in Chicago. They were appropriately enough playing a moving domestic drama called'' The Bitter Wrong." Perhaps you think Storey promptly slit Granville's weasel and wallowed in his gore. Not at all. They had several gargles together," and were "as chummy as you please." Storey thanked 'Watty Granville for "taking such a hag as his wife off his hands." To which Granville pleasantly replied that "women were a matter of taste." For his part be found Mrs. Storey very jolly. He was really fond of her indeed, and didn't intend to leave her presently, as many a "Johnny might do." (1890, January 1). The Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), p. 3. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66931964 <hr> Leading the Huns a Dance. The. following paragraph from the Sydney "Bulletin" refers to a brother of Mr. H. R. Storey, Cairns bailiff: "Australian playgoers with good memories will recall the elongated, cadaverous Fred Storey, whose elastic legs twirled through the burlesques of the first London Gaiety Co. Though most of the other principals, including Fred Leslie, Nellie Farran and Charles Danby are dead, Storey is still very much alive, and is, at the age of 57*, now in khaki-a sergeant in the Devonshires. When he joined up he knocked a trifle of 20 years off his age, and the authorities, remembering their old Gaiety nights, winked the other eye, reckoning that if anyone is capable of leading the Huns a dance, he is." Leading the Huns a Dance. (1917, May 12). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August 17, 2011, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40246005 *Question on age <hr> . England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941 Name: William Fredrick Clayton Storey Probate Date: 18 Mar 1920 Death Date: 4 Dec 1917 Death Place: Worcestershire, England Registry: Worcester Source Information: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Transcript: STOREY William Fredrick Clayton of Sleepy Hollow Blockley Worcestershire actor manager died 4 December 1917 Probate Worcester 18 March to Lilian Margaret Thorley Holmes spinster*. Effects 667 pounds 12 shillings 9 pence This suggests they never married even though they were together from about 1890 and claimed to be married. <hr> . There is a 1991 entry by a LDS member in the IGI of a marriage between William FITCH STOREY and Edith Da COSTA on 04 SEP 1860 in London, England <hr>