Family of John Trevor Victor ROBERTS and Myrtle ORCHARD

Husband:	John Trevor Victor ROBERTS (1900-1982)
Wife:	Myrtle ORCHARD (1902-1987)
Marriage	28 Apr 1934	Shrewsbury, Shropshire 1

Additional Information

Marriage

Register Office, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Husband: John Trevor Victor ROBERTS

	John Trevor Victor ROBERTS		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS

	John Trevor Victor ROBERTS, Trevor Roberts 2		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS, Trevor Roberts 4		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS, Trevor Roberts 5		John Trevor Victor ROBERTS, 1920?, age 20, 4 Victoria Street, Shrewsbury

	John Trevor Victor ROBERTS, 1933?, age 33

Name:	John Trevor Victor ROBERTS
Sex:	Male
Father:	Robert Morgan ROBERTS (1855-1943)
Mother:	Ann JONES (1858-1934)
Birth	21 Oct 1900	Glyndwr Place, 6, New Street, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Salop 2
Census (1)	31 Mar 1901 (age 5 mns)	Shrewsbury, Shropshire 3
Occupation (1)		Admin.
Census (2)	2 Apr 1911 (age 10)	Shrewsbury, Shropshire 4
Occupation (2)	2 Apr 1911 (age 10)	School; Shrewsbury, Shropshire 4
Death	10 Dec 1982 (age 82)	Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Burial		Shrewsbury, Shropshire 5

Additional Information

Census (1)	6 New Street, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Census (2)	4 Victoria Street, Castlefields, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Death	Hospital at Cross Houses, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Burial	New Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Wife: Myrtle ORCHARD

	Myrtle ORCHARD, Myrtle young portrait 2		Myrtle ORCHARD		Myrtle ORCHARD		Myrtle ORCHARD

	Myrtle ORCHARD, 1932?, age 30		Myrtle ORCHARD, 1907, age 5		Myrtle ORCHARD, 1933?, age 31		Myrtle ORCHARD, Myrtle age 14ish

	Myrtle ORCHARD, Myrtle 6 jan 1911		Myrtle ORCHARD, 1929, age 27, Myrtle 1929

Name:	Myrtle ORCHARD
Sex:	Female
Nickname:	Mike
Father:	Frederick William ORCHARD (1868-1925)
Mother:	May HENDRICK (1876-1958)
Birth	23 Mar 1902	Ellesmere, Shropshire 6
Emigration	13 Oct 1927 (age 25)	from Liverpool, Lancs. to New York, N.Y., USA 7
Death	24 Jul 1987 (age 85)	Shifnal, Shropshire
Burial	31 Jul 1987	Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Additional Information

Emigration	Kingston House, St Alkmund's Square, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Death	Cottage Hospital, Shifnal, Shropshire
Burial	New Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Note on Husband: John Trevor Victor ROBERTS (1) - shared note

Known as Trevor.

Born at 1.00, and baptised by the Rev. Robert Morris.

Played the piano, and liked to draw.

Wilding's Directory for Shewsbury has Trevor at 9 Victoria Street from 1940.

Trevor and Myrtle had no children, although she had two from her previous marriage.

Note on Husband: John Trevor Victor ROBERTS (2)

At marriage was clerk at Sentinel Wagon Works⁵

Note on Husband: John Trevor Victor ROBERTS (3)

Honeymoon in Blackpool.

First home after he married Myrtle was 20 Benyon Street in 1934.⁵

Note on Wife: Myrtle ORCHARD (1) - shared note

Had two children from her first marriage.

Took Chris to a big hotel in London where he met his father Reg - Chris's aunt Nell took him to the zoo while Myrtle and Reg sorted their divorce. I.E. circa 1931 / 2.

This was the only time he ever met Reg until he was grown up.

Note on Wife: Myrtle ORCHARD (2)

Myrtle born Brownlow Rd Ellesmere.

From there back to Cork

Back to Shrewsbury circa 1915 - living at Charnwood Copthorne Rd.

Married Reg - lived in a village outside Shrewsbury where he was a signalman.

After Maureen born they moved to New York - Reg became private secretary to Mrs Reginald de Koven - on Park Avenue.

She Mrs de K kept the house as a shrine to he husband.

The family lived in - no place for a child so Maureen was sent to live with a Nelly Davis in New Jersey which upset Myrtle.

Myrtle had to act as a maid which she didn't care for a bit.

In 1928 was pregnant with Chris - so she decided to return to her own mother in UK.

Ostensibly, Reg was supposed to get another job or arrange living accomodation - but this didn't happen.

So Myrtle sailed back in 1928 - she didn't like New York, or her father in law who was a butler but probably mixed up in bootlegging.

When she returned she lived at the family home - Kingston House in St Alkmund Square.

They moved from there about 1931 to 26 Victoria Street.

When she married Trevor in 1934 - they went to 20 Benyon Street, whilst Maureen and Chris remained at 26 Victoria Street.

In 1937 Chris Maureen joined their parents in 12 First Terrace.

Freddie Steele was killed by a bus on the Comet Bridge Ditherington, (1938ish) and that prompted Myrtle to move away as it was dangerous there.

By 1939 they had moved to 9 Victoria Street. Owned by Mr Cock the baker.

Rented (12/6 a week)- couldn't buy due of housing shortage during war.

House deteriorated - couldn't get repairs done - Cock went bankrupt so house went up for sale by which time they were sitting tenants.

Chris bought number 9 for his parents in late 50s early 60s.

Trevor had to go to hospital .

Neighbours looked in to check on the couple.

Chris found both collapsed one day - both made to go to hospital.

Trevor died in hospital, and Myrtle unable to look after herself had to remain in hospital.⁵

Note on Wife: Myrtle ORCHARD (3)

Anna de Koven

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Anna Farwell de Koven (November 19, 1862 - January 12, 1953) was an American novelist, historian and socialite. The wife of famed composer Reginald de Koven and the daughter of senator Charles B. Farwell, she published her works as Mrs. Reginald de Koven. A well-known society hostess, she and her husband gave many musical receptions while living in their home in Irving Place in New York. An amateur athlete, she wrote in Good Housekeeping that "no sport is too reckless, too daring, or too strenuous for the more experienced among athletic American women."[1] Her novels included 1895's a Sawdust Doll, published by Stone and Kimball as part of "the Peacock Library." Her non-fictional works included a two-volume biography of John Paul Jones, published in 1913, and a study of spiritualism entitled a Cloud of Witnesses published in 1920.

 

Reginald de Koven

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Reginald de Koven in 1904Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859 – January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.

 

 

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De Koven was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and moved to Europe in 1870, where he received the majority of his education. He graduated from St John's College of Oxford University in England in 1879. He undertook various musical studies at Stuttgart with Speidel and with Lebert and Pruckner. He studied composition at Frankfurt with Dr. Hauff, and after staying there for six months moved on to Florence, Italy, where he studied singing with Vanuccini. Study in operatic composition followed, first with Richard Genée, in Vienna, and then with Léo Delibes, in Paris.

 

De Koven returned to the U.S. in 1882 to live in Chicago, Illinois, and later lived in New York. He was able to find scope for his wide musical knowledge as a critic with Chicago's Evening Post, Harper's Weekly and New York World. Many of his songs became popular, especially "Oh Promise Me", with words by Clement Scott, which was one of the biggest song successes of its time and remains a wedding standard.

 

Between 1887 and 1913, de Koven composed 20 light operas, in addition to hundreds of songs, orchestral works, sonatas and ballets. While Victor Herbert's operettas were heavily influencedy by those of continental operetta composers, De Koven's works were patterned after Gilbert and Sullivan.[1] His greatest success was Robin Hood, which premiered in Chicago in 1890 but was performed all across the country.[2] It played in New York at the Standard Theatre and in London, in 1891, and at New York's Garden Theatre in 1892. His other operettas included The Fencing Master (1892, Casino Theatre, New York); The Algerian (1893, Garden Theatre, New York); Rob Roy, first produced in Detroit, Michigan, 1894;[3] The Mandarin, produced in Cleveland, Ohio in 1896; The Highwayman (1897, Herald Square Theatre, New York)[4] and Maid Marian (1901 Garden Theatre, New York). Harry B. Smith wrote the libretti for many of his comic operas.

 

From 1902 to 1904, de Koven conducted the Washington, D.C. symphony. His wife, Anna de Koven, was a well-known socialite, novelist and amateur historian who published her works under the name "Mrs. Reginald de Koven." The music press doubted that de Koven could compose serious operas. His opera The Canterbury Pilgrims (with a libretto by poet and dramatist Percy MacKaye) premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1917.[5] He composed a second opera, Rip Van Winkle (also with a libretto by MacKaye) prior to his death but was unable to see it performed in 1920 in Chicago.

 

One obituary read: he proved that "the American stage was not dependent upon foreign composers."

 

The Reginald and Anna DeKoven House, at 1025 Park Avenue, was built by John Russell Pope in 1912 for light-opera composer Reginald DeKoven and his wife, the writer Anna de Koven. The brick and limestone mansion is designed in Jacobean Revival style.

 

The Reginald and Anna DeKoven House was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1986.

Sources

1	GRO Indexes. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Jun 1934 Trevor V,. Roberts Myrtle Ellis or Orchard Atcham 6a 1647
	Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

	Source: GRO Indexes, Frederich Charles Jaques Martha Kearns Marr 1907

2	"Family bible inscribed "To Robert Roberts the gift of Miss [?] 1867"".
	Glyn Roberts.

3	"Census 1901 (Robert Morgan Roberts) Shrewsbury, Shropshire RG13/2540/140/34". Assessment: Primary evidence.

	Source: Census 1901 (Robert Morgan Roberts) Shrewsbury, Shropshire RG13/2540/140/34, Robert Morgan Roberts 01

4	"Census 1911 (Robert Morgan Roberts) Shrewsbury, Shropshire RG14/14PN16071".

5	"Chris Ellis".

6

"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Births Jun 1902 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orchard Myrtle Ellesmere 6a 726

Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

7

"FindMyPast". Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: passenger transcript details Name: Mrs Myrtle ELLIS Date of departure: 13 October 1927 Port of departure: Liverpool Passenger destination port: New York, USA Passenger destination: New York, USA Date of Birth: 1902 (calculated from age) Age: 25 Marital status: Married Sex: Female Occupation: Housewife Passenger recorded on: Page 16 of 24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: - Mr John ELLIS Page 16 of 24 View transcript Miss Maureen ELLIS Page 16 of 24 View transcript -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship: Official Number: Master's name: Steamship Line: Where bound: Square feet: Registered tonnage: Passengers on voyage: ADRIATIC 124061 V W Hickson White Star New York, USA 15873 24562 343