Actor Charles Manley acting at Ford's?

[BettyO]

I've been researching Surratt boarder Nora Fitzpatrick's family connections for an article I'm working on. Her oldest son, James Whelan, married a Nellie Manley. A couple of people on Ancestry.com claim that the actor Charles was Nellie's father, but I haven't seen any verification of this. It would be wonderfully eerie, though, if all of these claims were true and a Surratt boarder's son married an Our American Cousin actor's daughter.

Quote:That's grand! Keep up the research -

I don't think that many folk have done much research on the Surratt Boarders - it should be very interesting! I know Mr. Hall years ago was intrigued with the "little Dean girl" and did some research on her. I do have an obituary of her - I'll have to dig it out.