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Harry Lee

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Birth*

Harry Lee was born say 1770 in Dublin, IrelandG. In 1806 he said he had been a pugilist for 20 years. so potential year of birth is estimated from that fact. He had fought earlier in life in Ireland and was said to be a Dublin man.1

Henry "Harry" Lee was a pugilist around the beginning of the 19th century in Ireland and England. He only had one real prize ring fight, and that was in 1806 against the great Daniel Mendoza. Both were Jewish. He held his own, which impressed everyone, but ultimately was no match for Mendoza. Harry also owned the Antigallican Tavern in Shire Lane, Temple Bar, London. He is of the correct age and location to be the father of Phoebe Lee who married the pugilist Barney Aaron, but there is no actual evidence for it yet.

Children of Harry Lee

Unknown Lee David Lee b. c 1799, d. Sep 1849 George Alexander Lee b. 1802, d. 8 Oct 1851

David Lee

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Father

Harry Lee b. s 1770

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Birth*	David Lee was born circa 1799.1
Death*	He died of cholera in September 1849.2,3
Burial*	He was buried on 19 September 1849 in Lambeth, Surrey, EnglandG. He was living at 194 Waterlooo Road in St. Mary-Lambeth when he died.4
	Was a music seller in London with his composer brother, Alexander Lee, and Harriet Waylett under the name Lee & Lee from at least November 1827 - April 1831. Located at 86 Regent Street, London Composer of Second Fantasia, The Trinket (Rondo), The Windsor Park Quadrilles, 1st and 2nd Sets, Lord Lyndoch's March to the Battle of Barossa,7th edition Select Airs From Frieschutz, March of the Grand Seignior, Swiss Maid, Minstrel's Ditty "A set of Turkish Melodies are about to be published by Alexander Lee and Lee. The music is by David Lee and is very highly spoken of. The poetry is by Maurice Dowling, Esq.", Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 11 Jan 1829 1833 - The Red and The Blue, Ho! For Merry England, The Poet's Bride, Write To Me, Love, My Own One, Oh! Must We Part To Night?, poetry written by Miss Pardoe 1835 - I'll Wander by Thy Fairy Bower, composed for Miss Turpin of the Theatre Royal, Bristol "A new characteristic divertissement for the piano, called the "Coronation", composed by David Lee (brother to Alexander), has just made its appearance, the merits of which are highly spoken of in the musical circles" July 1838 song "The Queen of Merry England", "The Two Warriors", "We Cannot Part To-Night", Ballad in D Major set to the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1839 "three new airs by David Lee", The Odd Fellow, 30 October 1841 , page 4, "The Thames" and "The United Service", lyrics by Richard Greville Pigot 1841 Composer of "The British Farmer's Song", lyrics by J. E. Carpenter, "O Swiftly Fly My Little Bark" "The Gascon Vesper Bell" 1845.

George Alexander Lee

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Father

Harry Lee b. s 1770

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Birth*	George Alexander Lee was born in 1802, probably in London, EnglandG.1
Marriage*	He married Harriet Cooke, daughter of John Cooke and Charlotte (?), on 23 October 1845 in the parish church in St. Martin-in-the-Field, London, EnglandG. Alexander was a professor of music living in St. Martin-in-the-Field at the time, while Harriet was a widow and auctioneer living in St. Mary Lambeth.2,3
Death*	George Alexander Lee died on 8 October 1851 in Kennington, Lambeth, London, EnglandG.1,4
Burial*	He was buried in the West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium in West Norwood, Lambeth, London, EnglandG.4
	LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802–1851), musical composer, born in 1802, was the son of a pugilist, Harry Lee, who kept the Anti-Gallican Tavern in Shire Lane, Temple Bar, London. While a boy he was in Lord Barrymore's service as ‘tiger,’ and is recorded to have been the first to bear that title. His decided bent for music, together with the possession of a pleasant voice, procured him some instruction in singing, and in 1825 he was engaged as tenor at the Dublin Theatre. The following year he returned to London and appeared at the Haymarket, to which theatre he was appointed musical conductor in 1827. Shortly before this he had started a music shop in the Quadrant, Regent Street. In 1829 he joined with Melrose the singer and John Kemble Chapman in taking the Tottenham Street Theatre for the purpose of producing English operas, seceding from the management a year later in consequence of heavy penalties incurred by the lessees through certain infringements of the rights of the ‘patent theatres.’ He then became co-lessee of Drury Lane with Captain Polhill, but retired after a single season. In 1831 he directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, in 1832 was appointed composer and musical director to the Strand Theatre, and in 1845 obtained a similar post at the Olympic. He was married to Mrs. Waylett, a popular soprano singer, who had been separated from her first husband in 1822. Her death, on 26 April 1851, caused Lee a shock from which he never rallied. He died on 8 Oct. of the same year. He wrote the music to the following dramatic pieces: ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful’ and ‘The Invincibles,’ 1828; ‘The Nymph of the Grotto’ and ‘The Witness,’ 1829; ‘The Devil's Brother’ (mainly taken from Auber's ‘Fra Diavolo’) and ‘The Legion of Honour,’ 1831; ‘Waverley’ (in collaboration with G. Stansbury), 1832; ‘Auld Robin Gray,’ composed about 1838, first performed in 1858; ‘Love in a Cottage;’ ‘Good Husbands make Good Wives,’ ‘Sold for a Song,’ and ‘The Fairy Lake.’ He composed a number of songs and ballads, of which the most popular were ‘Away, away to the Mountain's Brow,’ ‘Come where the Aspens quiver,’ and ‘The Macgregors' Gathering;’ and published two sets of eight songs, ‘Beauties of Byron’ and ‘Loves of the Butterflies,’ the words of the latter being by Thomas Haynes Bayly, of whose verses Lee unfortunately made frequent choice for musical setting. He was also the author of ‘A Complete Course of Instructions for Singing,’ of which an edition was published in London in 1872. [Grove's Dict. of Music, ii. 111, iv. 698; Brown's Biog. Dict. of Music, p. 381; Brit. Mus. Catalogues.]1

Harriet Cooke

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Father	John Cooke b. 1765
Mother	Charlotte (?) b. 1765, d. May 1847

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Birth*	Harriet Cooke was born on 31 January 1798 in Bath, Somerset, EnglandG.1
Marriage*	She married first John Providence Waylett on 17 July 1819 in Coventry, Warwickshire, EnglandG. They were separated in Sep 1821.1
Marriage*	Harriet Cooke married George Alexander Lee, son of Harry Lee, on 23 October 1845 in the parish church in St. Martin-in-the-Field, London, EnglandG. Alexander was a professor of music living in St. Martin-in-the-Field at the time, while Harriet was a widow and auctioneer living in St. Mary Lambeth.2,3
Death*	Harriet Cooke died on 29 April 1851.4
	WAYLETT, Mrs. HARRIET (1798–1851), actress, the daughter of a Bath tradesman named Cooke, was born in Bath on 7 Feb. 1798. She came of a theatrical family, her uncle being a member of the Drury Lane company, while Mrs. West [q. v.] was her cousin. After receiving some instruction in music from one of the Loders of Bath [see Loder, John David], she appeared on the Bath stage on 16 March 1816 as Elvina in W. R. Hewetson's ‘Blind Boy.’ In the following season she appeared as Leonora in the ‘Padlock’ and Madge in ‘Love in a Village,’ and played in Bristol and, it is said, Brighton. Soon after this time she accompanied to London a Captain Dobyn, against whom her father brought an action for loss of service, which was tried at Taunton and compromised. She then acted at Coventry, where she met and married in 1819 Waylett, an actor in the company. In 1820 she was at the Adelphi, where she was the original Amy Robsart in Planché's adaptation of ‘Kenilworth,’ and the first Sue to her husband's Primefit in Moncrieff's ‘Tom and Jerry.’ She played as Mrs. Waylett late Miss Cooke of Bath. In 1823 she was acting in Birmingham under Alfred Bunn [q. v.], playing in ‘Sally’ Booth's part of Rose Briarly in ‘Husbands and Wives.’ Her singing of ‘Rest thee, Babe,’ in ‘Guy Mannering’ established her in favour. Cicely in the ‘Heir-at-Law’ and Thérèse in the piece so-named followed. She played five parts in ‘Chops and Changes, or the Servant of All Work,’ and was seen as Jenny Gammon in ‘Wild Oats,’ Ellen in ‘Intrigue,’ Aladdin, Lucy in the ‘Rivals,’ Cherry in ‘Cherry and Fair Star,’ Patch in the ‘Busy Body,’ Tattle in ‘All in the Wrong,’ Susanna in the ‘Marriage of Figaro,’ Priscilla Tomboy in the ‘Romp,’ Diana Vernon, Mary in the ‘Innkeeper's Daughter,’ Chambermaid in the ‘Clandestine Marriage,’ Jessica, Marianne in the ‘Dramatist,’ Clari in ‘Clari, or the Maid of Milan,’ in which she sang ‘Home, sweet Home,’ Lucetta in the ‘Suspicious Husband,’ Clementina All-spice in the ‘Way to get Married,’ Bizarre in the ‘Inconstant,’ Zelinda in the ‘Slave,’ and in many other characters. It was accordingly with a fair amount of experience, with a large repertory, and with a reputation as a chambermaid and a singer, that Mrs. Waylett accompanied her manager to Drury Lane, whereat she appeared as Madge in ‘Love in a Village’ on 4 Dec. 1824. The sustained and excessive eulogies which had been bestowed on her in the ‘Theatrical Looker-On,’ a Birmingham paper, the ownership of which the Birmingham public insisted on ascribing to Bunn, had given rise to a crop of scandals and to threats on his part of prosecutions for libel. On 14 Jan. 1825 Mrs. Waylett was Mrs. Page in the ‘Merry Wives of Windsor.’ Her appearances must, however, have been few, perhaps on account of the rivalry and jealousy of Mrs. Bunn, and she is no further traced at Drury Lane. On 12 May she made, as Zephyrina in the ‘Lady and the Devil,’ her first appearance at the Haymarket, where she played, among other parts, Catalina in the ‘Castle of Andalusia,’ Lady Emily in ‘Match-making,’ Daphne in ‘Midas,’ was the first Sophia Fielding in Ebsworth's ‘Rival Valets’ on 14 July, and the first Harry Stanley in ‘Paul Pry’ on 13 Sept. In 1826 she was Lady Racket in ‘Three Weeks after Marriage,’ Ellen in ‘Intrigue,’ Phœbe in the ‘Review,’ Charlotte (Mrs. Abington's part) in the ‘Hypocrite,’ Louisa in the ‘Duenna,’ and Rosa in ‘John of Paris.’ For her benefit on 9 Oct. 1827 she enacted Virginia in ‘Paul and Virginia.’ On 16 June 1828 she was the original Mary in ‘Daughters to Marry,’ and on the 28th the original Bridget in ‘Milliners.’ She was also Clari for the first time in London. In November 1828 she played at the Hawkins Street Theatre, Dublin, Phœbe in ‘Paul Pry.’ She was also seen as Maria in ‘Of Age To-morrow,’ Letitia Hardy in the ‘Belle's Stratagem,’ Maria Darlington in ‘A Roland for an Oliver,’ Don Giovanni in ‘Giovanni in London.’ She stood in highest favour as a singer and actress both in Dublin and Cork. Among her favourite songs were ‘Buy a Broom,’ which she sang in ‘Bavarian costume,’ ‘Kate Kearney,’ ‘Cherry Ripe,’ ‘The Light Guitar,’ ‘Nora Creina,’ ‘Away, away to the Mountain's Brow,’ and ‘Love was once a little boy.’ After her return from Dublin she played at the Haymarket, Drury Lane, Queen's Theatre (afterwards the Prince of Wales's), the Olympic, Covent Garden, and other houses. In 1832 she was acting at the Strand, of which house in 1834 she was ‘sole manager.’ Here she played original parts in the ‘Loves of the Angels,’ the ‘Cork Leg,’ the ‘Four Sisters,’ ‘Wooing a Widow,’ and in various burlesques. Admission to the house was obtained by paying four shillings an ounce at a neighbouring shop for sweetmeats, or purchasing tickets for the Victoria Theatre, which admitted also to the Strand, whereat the performances were nominally gratis. There were few London houses at which she was not seen, and she was a favourite in the country. In October 1835 she received in Dublin 800l. and half a clear benefit for twenty-one nights' performances. In 1838 she was engaged at the Haymarket. In 1840 Waylett, from whom she had long been separated, who seems to have been a thoroughly objectionable, unworthy, and unpopular personage, and who, as Fitzwaylett, had married another woman, died, and she shortly afterwards married George Alexander Lee [q. v.], a musician, composer of many of her favourite songs, who survived her a few months, dying on 8 Oct. 1851; he was at one time page to the notorious Lord Barrymore (see Notes and Queries, 5th ser. xi. 276), at another lessee of Drury Lane, and in the end pianoforte-player to ‘Baron’ Nicholson's exhibition in Bow Street of poses plastiques. In May 1843 Mrs. Waylett, as she was still called, was at the Lyceum, where she was the President in the ‘Ladies' Club,’ and played in the farce of ‘Matrimony.’ Her appearances became, through ill-health, infrequent, and in 1849 she was spoken of as retired. She died on 29 April 1851, after a long and painful illness. Mrs. Waylett was one of the best soubrettes of her day, was almost as popular in ballad and song as Madame Vestris, was symmetrically proportioned, and was always acceptable in burlesque and extravaganza, and in masculine characters generally. Her life was associated with many scandals. Bunn demanded an apology for what was said concerning her and him in Oxberry's ‘Dramatic Biography’ in 1827. This was proffered by the publisher, but Oxberry refused to carry it out, and, after some talk of a duel, the matter dropped. Mrs. Waylett was taxed with ostentatiously overdressing the chambermaid parts in which she was seen. A portrait of Mrs. Waylett as Elizabeth in some piece unnamed accompanies a memoir in the ‘Dramatic Magazine’ (ii. 97, 1 May 1830); a second, as Davie Gelletley (Gellatley), is prefixed to the ‘Public and Private life of Mrs. Waylett,’ forming No. 1 of a series to be called ‘Amatory Biography;’ a third, as Miss Dorville, is in Oxberry's ‘Dramatic Biography.’ [Most particulars of the early life of Mrs. Waylett are taken from the memoir in Oxberry's Dramatic Biography, new ser. 1827, i. 55. This life and a vindication by Bunn were reprinted in the Private and Public Life of Mrs. Waylett, n.d., a sixpenny tract of extreme rarity. Oxberry's memoir is copied into the Georgian Era, the Dramatic Magazine, and other theatrical publications. See also Genest's Account of the English Stage; Dramatic Observer, Dublin; Theatrical Looker-On, Birmingham; History of the Theatre Royal, Dublin; Dramatic and Musical Review; Era Almanack; and New Monthly Magazine.].4

John Providence Waylett

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Marriage*

John Providence Waylett married first Harriet Cooke, daughter of John Cooke and Charlotte (?), on 17 July 1819 in Coventry, Warwickshire, EnglandG. They were separated in Sep 1821.1

John Cooke

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Marriage*	John Cooke married Charlotte (?).
Birth*	John Cooke was born in 1765.

Child of John Cooke and Charlotte (?)

Harriet Cooke b. 31 Jan 1798, d. 29 Apr 1851

Charlotte (?)

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Marriage*	Charlotte (?) married John Cooke.
Birth*	Charlotte (?) was born in 1765.
Death*	She died in May 1847.

Child of Charlotte (?) and John Cooke

Harriet Cooke b. 31 Jan 1798, d. 29 Apr 1851

Unknown Lee

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Father

Harry Lee b. s 1770

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(?) Mitchell

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LinAe Nemeth

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Children of LinAe Nemeth and David Raymond Nichols

Elly Nichols Owen Nichols Micah Nichols

Elly Nichols

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Father	David Raymond Nichols
Mother	LinAe Nemeth

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Owen Nichols

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Father	David Raymond Nichols
Mother	LinAe Nemeth

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Micah Nichols

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Father	David Raymond Nichols
Mother	LinAe Nemeth

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Ruth Ann Milsap

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Birth*	Ruth Ann Milsap was born in 1941.
Death*	She died in 2020.

Child of Ruth Ann Milsap and Earl Dailey

Trina Dailey

Earl Dailey

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Child of Earl Dailey and Ruth Ann Milsap

Trina Dailey

Stephanie Ross

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Father	James Ross
Mother	Linda Palma

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Children of Stephanie Ross and Joel William Nichols

Jesimiel Nichols Analiese Nichols

James Ross

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Child of James Ross and Linda Palma

Stephanie Ross+

Linda Palma

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Child of Linda Palma and James Ross

Stephanie Ross+

Jesimiel Nichols

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Father	Joel William Nichols
Mother	Stephanie Ross

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Analiese Nichols

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Father	Joel William Nichols
Mother	Stephanie Ross

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Nicole (?)

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Alex G. Pujado

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Child of Alex G. Pujado and Gladys V. Troncoso

Glenn Teddy Pujado

Gladys V. Troncoso

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Child of Gladys V. Troncoso and Alex G. Pujado

Glenn Teddy Pujado

Thomas J. Jucius

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Jasmine Mozaffarian

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Father	Dariush A. Mozaffarian
Mother	Rebecca Stayner Reynolds

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Sophia Mozaffarian

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Father	Dariush A. Mozaffarian
Mother	Rebecca Stayner Reynolds

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Alexander Mozaffarian

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Father	Dariush A. Mozaffarian
Mother	Rebecca Stayner Reynolds

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Clara Antoinette Mesagno

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Father	Venturo Mesagno
Mother	Louise Miller

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Birth*	Clara Antoinette Mesagno was born on 9 July 1927 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New YorkG.1
Marriage*	She married Charles Angus Montgomery, son of Harry James Montgomery and Tenna Campbell, on 25 December 1981 in Citrus County, FloridaG.2
Death*	Clara Antoinette Mesagno died on 27 September 2000 in FloridaG. She was a resident of Hernando, Florida at the time.3
	Her obituary appeared in the 30 September 2000 Tampa Bay Times and read as follows: MONTGOMERY, CLARA LEONARD, 73, of Hernando, died Wednesday (Sept. 27, 2000). Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she came here 17 years ago from Concord, N.H. She was Catholic and member of the DAV Auxiliary 96, Lake Panasoffkee. Survivors include two sons, James V. Leonard, Loudon, N.H., and Richard H. Leonard Sr., Ocala; four daughters, Karen F. McMican, Orlando, Louise T. Tolworthy, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Cindy L. Cobb, Valdosta, Ga., and Donna J. Babin, Hernando; two sisters, Jennie Buckley, Hernando, and Frances Montello, Adamstown, Md; 17 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Hooper Funeral Homes & Crematory, Inverness.3

Venturo Mesagno

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Marriage*

Venturo Mesagno married Louise Miller.

Child of Venturo Mesagno and Louise Miller

Clara Antoinette Mesagno b. 9 Jul 1927, d. 27 Sep 2000

Louise Miller

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Marriage*

Louise Miller married Venturo Mesagno.

Child of Louise Miller and Venturo Mesagno

Clara Antoinette Mesagno b. 9 Jul 1927, d. 27 Sep 2000