Hawkins Minnie Florence, dancer

[pjmburns]

Wonder if she trained here and was "spotted" or if she signed up then got trained.

 

[Pedrocut]

You could be on to something there. From the Stage, 1911 there is a wanted advert for 12 Lady dancers, 15-22, terms for long engagement. Brewster’s Parisian.

If born in 1890 Minnie would be 21 at the time.

 

[Astoness]

You could be on to something there. From the Stage, 1911 there is a wanted advert for 12 Lady dancers, 15-22, terms for long engagement. Brewster’s Parisian.

If born in 1890 Minnie would be 21 at the time.

yes that would be it as i said i cant find her on the 1911 or the 1921 census..i have her parents on the 1911 and 1921 but minnie is not with them

lyn

 

[Martin PW]

as i cant find minnie on either the 1911 or the 1921 census in birmingham it looks like between these years she was dancing abroad..however she was in birmingham in 1923 which is when her son adrian was born..

lyn

Minnie did return from Spain for the birth of my father, however she had retired from dancing by that time Harold (her husband) and Minnie were living in Barcelona where Harold was Company Secretary for the Remington Typewriter Company. Minnie returned to Barcelona with my dad and they lived there for several years until the Spanish Civil War meant they had to leave, returning to Birmingham.

 

[Martin PW]

Apparently John E. Brewster moved his base of operations to Paris at some point.