Adelaide Eachus

Other Events:

• Baptism: 5 Jun 1878, St Mary, Lamberth, Surrey,

Notes:

Adelaide along with her Brother Richard Thomas and her sister Emily, was born into the famous Frantz Family and toured the world as "Dress Suited Acrobats". Later she and her husband George A Philcox (both described as Acrobats), had a double act in the Music Hall, called "Donald & Doone".
Donald & Doone performed at:
1906 Nouveau Cirque, Ghent, Belgium 13th December 1906.
1906 Charleroi, 14th December for 3 days, then Ghent untill the 27th December 1906
1907 Madrid
1909 Kowno, Russia, as the Delson Trio
1910 Victoria Theatre, Breslau, Germany, untill 31st October.
year unknown; 11th January "went big at our opening in Empire, Camberwell (Frank Postlewaite made it for me). next week we open at Paragon, more money, Everybody delighted and so am I and Frank. Have fixed standard after that. so you see we are not so bad"

Census Listings;
1901, 127 Fontiman Road, Lamberth, Kensington sister, (s). age 22 Music hall Artist. (01/11)
Residence;
1908 2 Rue Fontain, Paris, France.
1922 39 Richmond Terraec, Clapham Road, London.

(Archive collection A2-10)

Baptism:
(Copy of Entry; London Collection MR 3/7)

Died:
Adelaide developed an Incurable Illness, and commited suicide by putting her head in a gas oven. This is confirmed on her death certificate " Death by Coal gas poisoning. Self administerd suicide. Unsound mind"

Death Certificate CD1-37

Adelaide married George Alfred Philcox on 2 Sep 1908 in The British Consulate, Paris, France.. George (son of George Thomas Philcox and Mary Powell) was born in 1875 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 22 Aug 1942 in Dulwich Hospital, Camberwell, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]