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Family of David BELASCO (JAMES) and Amelia PORLOCK

Husband: David BELASCO (JAMES) (1835-1893)
Wife: Amelia PORLOCK (1841- )
Marriage 1866 Jun Qtr, St George, Hanover Square
David married under the name Belasco

Husband: David BELASCO (JAMES)

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David BELASCO (JAMES), David James Belasco

Name: David BELASCO (JAMES)
Sex: Male
Father: Abraham BELASCO (1807- )
Mother: Hagar BELASCO (1804- )
Birth 25 Jan 1835
Occupation Theatre Comic actor
Death 3 Oct 1893 (age 58) London

Wife: Amelia PORLOCK

Name: Amelia PORLOCK
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1841 London

Note on Marriage

1861 census living as David JAMES with wife? Amelia at 24 Hanover Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

1871 census married couple living at 51 Charrington Street, St Pancras, London. 1881 at 109 Camden Road, St Pancras, London with wife's name Leah.

Note on Husband: David BELASCO (JAMES)

In 1870 he joined Henry James Montague and Thomas Thorne as the first managers of the newly opened Vaudeville Theatre London where his greatest success was as Perkyn Middlewick in Henry James Byron's Our Boys which opened on 16 January 1875 and ran for over 1300 performances. He left the Vaudeville Theatre in 1881 to work at the Haymarket Theatre, followed by a stint at the Lyceum Theatre. In 1886, he became a member of Charles Wyndham's company at the Criterion Theatre.