Henry and Georgiana Loydall
My great grand father Henry Loydall was an actor who played everything from comedy to shakespear,it very much seems that to be "an actor" in those far away days you had to be able to turn your hand to every aspect of this your chosen trade,in fact you name it and one of the Loydalls probably did it."the Era" of that period has lots of little snippets about them Henry Loydall career as an actor I believe started with John Edwards Travelling Theatre,he then went on to join "Old wild’s" at Bury, and it was on "Old Wild’s" stage and in the character of Claude Melnotte that he achieved his first histrionic triumph.He played the lead roles in shakespear from Hamlet.to his first appearence on August 13th 1864 in london at the Effingham Theatre as Macbeth.He also toured the provences with Herr Maus’s circus
and with Tomas Lawrences portable theatre
.It was while he was engaged at the Theatre Royal, Bolton that he first met an actress called Georgiana Stansbury,and the following is an extract from a book called "Old Wild’s"
" he left us during our first season at Bury, and went to perform at the Theatre Royal, Bolton where he first met with Miss Stansbury, who along with her parents ,was then fulfilling an engagement there. She was only seventeen years of age,but quite old enough, it appeared to reciprocate Mr Loydall’s affection. At length quite unknown to her parents, the nuptials were arranged between them and Mr Loydall left the Bolton Theatre and rejoined us on the commencementof our second season at bury, two or three days after which Miss Stansbury also came over to Bury,where she remained until her marriage. As soon as she was missing from Bolton,her parents, knowing that Mr Loydall had accepted an engagement with us,and probably suspecting her attachment to him also, wrote to me to know if she had joined our company. I replied in the negative,but ignorant of what was in the wind, I added my belief that their daughter was somewhere in Bury,for I think some of our company had seen her. But to end this little romance . Whatever further steps Miss Stansburys parents took with a view of securing her return to them and to her duties at Bolton they proved altogether unavailing, for not long after their letter to me Mr Loydall and Miss Stansbury took each other "for better for worse".
Immediately after they were married Georgiana made her debut at the Theatre Royal,Bury.She also appears to have been very good at comedy.Born on the 25th-November-1838,in London. Her father George Frederick Stansbury was an accomplished musican and vocalist and her grandmother Mary Harvey apparently danced at Covent Garden.
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