Wedding & Leading Lady

The wedding photo is of my cousin Frederick G B C Whiter marrying Annie Allen in 1900 in Islington.
Freddie was an electrical engineer by trade he was born in Bethnal Green in 1876.
The young married couple emigrated to Canada in around 1904 with their daughter Irene.

Freddie and Annie went on to have another two children also girls, their names were Dorothy and Florence they were born in Canada.
Annie, Freddie’s wife died young at the age of 29 in 1910. I know that Florence the youngest daughter would have only been three when her mother died she was adopted, maybe her father couldn’t cope after losing his wife. Florence was now called Florence Williams (her adoptive name) she later married a man named Edward Waller in Toronto, Canada 1934; they had three children together. She went on to be a huge success and was the leading lady in the ‘Best Years’ theatre production in New York. I have attached a newspaper clipping of her. Her stage name was Billie, she passed away in 1980.

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