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John Nickinson (June 1, 1808, London, England - Feb. 9, 1864, Cincinnati, Ohio)  the son of a Chelsea Pensioner,   enlisted in the British Army at 15 [1823] as a drummer boy was posted to Canada. Made his first dramatic appearance (as an amateur) in Quebec and his success in Garrison theatricals led to a civilian stage career.  He liked acting so much that he bought his discharge from the army "when opportunity offered itself" and came to the United States. History of the American Stage 

Uncle Tom's Cabin playbill Royal Lyceum Theatre, Toronto, Feb. 6, 1857
Octoroon, May 8, 1861, Metropolitan Theatre
Roll of the Drum, Royal Lyceum Theatre 1855

John Nickinson's military and civilian theatrical careers    Nickinson medal

After Mitchell's Olympic Theatre in New York closed abruptly in 1850, John Nickinson formed his own company and with daughter Charlotte toured in Providence RI, Montreal, and Rochester and ended up in Toronto in 1851. In 1852 he and Charlotte took to the road again with a larger company and more varied repertoire.  The company included Charles Peters (who married Eliza Nickinson) and Miss EJ Phillips.  After the Utica Museum [Theatre] Nickinson had been managing failed in 1852 he resettled in Toronto in 1853 as Manager of the Royal Lyceum Theatre and stock company]. EJ Phillips wrote at the end of her life” In the meantime I had received several offers of employment from professional companies and at last accepted one from Messrs Besnard & Nickinson to open the season in Toronto, Ont on Easter Monday 1852 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre."

New York Clipper 1853 Aug 13 Theatrical Squibs  Nickinson will shortly open a theatre , to be called the Metropolitan , at Hamilton , Canada West

John Nickinson was 22 years older than EJ Phillips.  Their relationship obviously dated from about the time EJ Phillips joined his stage company in 1852, for his letter of October 3, 1859 refers to "our seven years of past love".  The date of their marriage is less clear, and since Canadian records were lost in a fire we may never know when or whether they married. .  (John Nickinson, Jr. son of his first marriage, wrote to the New York Clipper after his father's death that his parents had never been divorced.) John Nickinson and EJ Phillips had three children -- Charles Alderman (born. Toronto, Apr. 30, 1858 - died Pittsburgh, Sept. 1859, reportedly of a fall from a high chair. Hattie Christine Harriet Melanie (Dolman) (born Toronto, Aug. 24, 1860 - died Philadelphia Oct. 9, 1946) and Albert Edward (born Cincinnati July 8, 1863 - died Pensacola, Florida June 3, 1948)    

Daughter Eliza Nickinson married Charles Peters in January 1855  in New York where they lived for sometime. . Virginia Nickinson married Owen Marlowe in October 1857 at Niagara Falls and they left Toronto for a tour of the Southern states. Mary Anne Nickinson and Isabella went to New York in 1858. Charlotte Nickinson married journalist and theatre critic Daniel Morrison in April 1858 and after playing Lady Teazle in School for Scandal retired from the stage and the couple moved to Quebec, then New York and finally back to Toronto.
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John Nickinson
  painting     CDV Charles Frederick NY 1863 

Mary Shortt, in a January 1980 letter about her thesis on Toronto theatre notes that "I was unable to explain Nickinson's strange behavior in 1858, when he disappeared for an extended period from the Royal Lyceum.  The loss of Charlotte, who married and left the stage in the spring of '58 was obviously a blow, but I was unaware of the great stress created by E.J.'s pregnancy (in strait- laced  Toronto, where Nickinson had been considered a pillar of respectability!").

John Nickinson often refers to himself as EJ Phillips' husband in his letters.  EJ Phillips occasionally calls herself Nickinson, though she uses Phillips much more often, and in her letters does not directly call him her husband.  The fullest obituary of EJ Phillips (New York Dramatic Mirror, August 20, 1904) makes no reference to John or Albert Nickinson, but lists Hattie and the three grandchildren.  The New York Times obituary mentions only Hattie.

John Nickinson and EJ Phillips had three children -- Charles Alderman (b. Toronto, Apr. 30, 1858 - died Pittsburgh, Sept. 1859), "Hattie " Christine Harriet Melanie (b. Toronto, Aug. 24, 1860 - d. Philadelphia  Oct. 9, 1946) and Albert Edward (b. Cincinnati July 8, 1863 - d. Pensacola, Florida June 3, 1948)      Nickinson Family  

Hard times came to Canada in 1858 and by Feb 19, 1859, the New York Clipper reported "Blue times in Toronto. Both theatres closed. hope Brother Nickinson is not a loser. Cheer up Villikins'! We know you deserve success even if you have not obtained it."  (Nickinson returned to Toronto primarily as a booking agent for a few months in the spring and summer of 1860.) [Shortt]

The 1859-60 Toronto City Directory does not list a Nickinson [except John Nickinson as a member of the Toronto 3rd Rifle Co], but has Miss Elizabeth Phillips, actress at 146 Richmond St West. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-146894&R=DC-146894 

David Beasley's McKee Rankin and the Heyday of the American Theater says that John Nickinson became stage manager at Pike's Opera House March 11, 1863.

When John Nickinson died in 1864 EJ Phillips was leading woman in Pike's Stock Company in Cincinnati, playing in the Shakespearean and "standard drama".  
Mary Shortt notes that she seemed to have no settled home in the 1860s and 1870's as her career led her to many different cities, as documented in issues of the New York Clipper  ). 

Mary Shortt also writes (Sept. 30, 1980) "various references indicate that [John Nickinson] was quite a martinet, which supports the family tradition that he was not very kind to EJ."  Perhaps widowhood had its liberating aspects.  A newspaper clipping I read at the Harvard Theatre Collection substantiated John Nickinson's reputation for a nasty temper in general.

I found at the Harvard Theatre Collection a scrapbook that Augustin Daly made of Ireland’s Records of the New York Stage from 1750-1860 and related materials, where Victor Parton was quoted as saying of John Nickinson 

"The great comedian had some unfortunate and disagreeable peculiarities as a manager.  He was not only absolute and tyrannous but often willfully neglectful of the people employed by him.”   

Victor Parton had been recommended to John Nickinson for an engagement, and JN said to him “Well sir, I will try you for a week, and if at the end of that time, you like me and I like you, the engagement may be continued”.  Parton was hoping for something less uncertain, but “Mr. Nickinson would not recede an inch”  Towards the end of this week of probation I found my name in the “Cast case”  [a glass box found in green rooms with a list of who would play different roles] in several new casts for the ensuing week, and as the casts were made out in Mr. Nickinson’s handwriting, I knew he was solely responsible for them. … I said to Mr. Wm. Griffiths, the stage manager or prompter “I see my name in the cast case for next week,  I don’t  think I shall be here.”

“You’d better speak to Mr. Nickinson about it then.”

“I don’t know that I shall. I am engaged for one week, and am under no obligation to remain.”  “But don’t you want an engagement?”  “Yes, I do want an engagement, but”

On Monday I went to the theatre for my salary, and met Mr. Nickinson in the box office.  

“What does this mean sir?  They tell me you are not going to stay” he roared.

:And I am not” I answered.  “But you must, you are bound to, what was our agreement?”  “Our agreement, Mr. .Nickinson, was this, that I was to play a week, and if, at the end of that time you liked me and I liked you, I was to continue.”

“Well sir,” blustered the old gentleman” I like you very much”. 

“I don’t know about that Mr. Nickinson, but I don’t like you.

John Nickinson's First Marriage and Children
Mary Anne Talbot seems to have married John Nickinson while he was in the British Army in Canada.  They had four daughters and one son, born between 1832 and 1847. Charlotte (1832-1910), Eliza (born 1834), Virginia (1838-1899), Isabella (1847-1906) and son John Jr. (1844-1916) All the children spent time in Toronto and most acted at the Royal Lyceum. We have a deed of separation for Mary Ann and John Nickinson dated March 1855.   

After leaving the army in 1835 John Nickinson acted at the Theatre Royal, Montreal, and the following season 1836-1837 joined a stock company in Albany, New York.  Charlotte Cushman played Romeo at the Albany theatre and after the performance, John Nickinson led her on stage and placed a wreath on her head. 

One newspaper did provide, however, the only extant record of Mrs. John Nickinson in connection with her husband's theatrical activities. Her appearance coincided with Charles  Couldock's scheduled performance on 22 January 1855. Couldock did not meet the commitment and on 25 January 1855 the Evening Patriot noted in its "arrival" column the names of Mrs. Nickinson and Couldock from Buffalo. Presumably, Nickinson cancelled Hamlet, Richelieu, and The Lady of Lyons, plays regularly performed during Couldock's 104 appearances, on 22, 23, and 24 January, and substituted plays from his personal repertoire, while Mrs. Nickinson collected Couldock from Buffalo.  O'Neill Thesis 1973

While the Nickinsons were in New York City they spent winters there and summers on tour in Canada. After Albany (1836-37) the family came to New York at the Franklin and Park Theatres, then to William Mitchell's Olympic from 1841-1850, until it closed abruptly.  Nickinson and daughter Charlotte then toured and eventually much of the family ended up in Toronto during the 1850s.

John Nickinson and his first wife Mary Anne Talbot legally separated in March 1855 because "unhappy differences have arisen and do still subsist".  He agreed to pay her an annuity of seventy-eight pounds yearly, or one pound and ten shillings weekly.  They were already living apart by this time. John Nickinson agreed "that he will not at any time hereafter by any cause or any pretence whatever, sue or prosecute any person or persons for receiving, harbouring or protecting the said Mary Anne." Mary Anne agreed that she would not "molest or disturb the said John Nickinson or his children living with him, by her presence, or her act or deed in any way whatever nor continue to live in the same city, town, or part of the country in which he or they may be living..."

Born in London, Eng., in 1808; at an early age he enlisted in the 24th Regiment, receiving his discharge with the rank of color-sergeant in 1835. He thereupon entered the theatrical profession, his first engagement being at Albany, N.Y. He then went to New York City, where he remained for several years, coming to Canada in 1852. From 1853-8 he managed the Royal Lyceum, King street west, Toronto. Mr. Nickinson possessed histrionic ability of a high character, and displayed wonderful versatility. He died in 1864 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His only son, John, an American Custom House official, died in New York in 1916. His eldest daughter, Charlotte, married Daniel Morrison, and his two granddaughters, Miss Charlotte Morrison and Miss Agnes Morrison, married Mr. E. B. Brown, son of the late Gordon Brown, and the late Mr. Raynald Gamble, of the Dominion Bank, respectively. Photograph, colored. Size 4x5. Head and shoulders. See 1121.1121— NICKINSON, JOHN— In "The Old Guard"— Mr. Nickinson was the pioneer in theatrical management in Toronto, and was the manager of the Royal Lyceum, Toronto, from 1853-8. He was an actor of high reputation. The picture shows him as "Havresack" in the play of "The Old Guard." Mr. Nickinson acted the part in 1848-52 in the Olympic Theatre, New York, and at various times between 1853-8, when manager of the Lyceum, Toronto. Miss Charlotte Nickinson (Mrs. Daniel Morrison), his eldest daughter, an accomplished actress, acted the part of "Melanie" in the piece. Mr. Nickinson's death took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864. "The Old Guard" was produced at the Princess', London, in 1844, and was first performed in America at the Chatham Theatre, 1845. Water color by John Fraser, presented to J. Ross Robertson by Mr. Nickinson's granddaughter, Mrs.-Raynald Gamble, Toronto. Size 11 x 14. Full length, sitting.  http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/toronto-public-libraries/landmarks-of-canada-what-art-has-done-for-canadian-history-a-guide-to-the-j-r-hci/page-32-landmarks-of-canada-what-art-has-done-for-canadian-history-a-guide-to-the-j-r-hci.shtml

Charlotte Nickinson(1832-1910) was born in Quebec.

John Nickinson's greatest role was Havresack in Dion Boucicault's Napoleon's Old Guard.  He and Charlotte (playing Melanie to his Havresack) toured in this for three years. Described in Joseph Norton Ireland's Records of the New York Stage from 1750-1860 (vol. II June 24 1846) Niblo's Garden -- The first time the interesting and exciting drama entitled Napoleon's Old Guard ... It was triumphantly successful and continued being played nightly ... The Vauxhall Garden Saloon was opened on the first of June 1846 with Mr. BA Baker as stage manager and Henry Chapman, Nickinson, Miss [Charlotte] Nickinson [and others] as performers...The youthful and pretty Miss Nickinson made her first appearance as Rose in "Cousin Lambkin" and Clarissa in "Bothered Between 'Em".  She was exceedingly neat and clever in juvenile walking ladies and a year or two later was warmly applauded as the representative of Florence Dombey at Burton's Theatre. After the Olympic closed abruptly in New York in 1850, John Nickinson formed his own company and with daughter Charlotte toured in Providence RI, Montreal, and Rochester. he played short engagements in Toronto in 1851 and 1852. The Utica (New York) Theater he managed failed in 1852.  

John Nickinson as Havresack and Charlotte as Melanie  
https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/8e3505e0-4e7d-0134-1db1-0050569601ca-f#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-5982%2C-1%2C17376%2C6873

Charlotte and Daniel Morrison and family, photo from Mary Shortt  Grand Opera House Toronto

For the next quarter century the Lyceum under the direction of John Nickinson and later his daughter Charlotte paved the way for such great international stars such as Ellen Terry, Henry Irving (the first actor to be knighted), Lily Langtry (mistress of Edward VII) and the divine Sarah Bernhardt (also a friend of Edwards) to look upon Toronto as a prosperous high-point of any tour.  The Royal Lyceum was destroyed by fire in 1874 but its manager the aforementioned Charlotte Nickinson now known as the formidable Mrs. Morrison undeterred moved onto the new Grand Opera House which had just opened.  In 1875 the site of the Royal Lyceum became home to the Royal Opera House but it too succumbed to fire in 1879. The Grand Opera House on Adelaide, once the jewel of Toronto, after suffering neglect and numerous fires was torn down in 1927. Today the only hint of its existence is the laneway that bears its name running off Adelaide Street and once that sign goes, so does its memory. Toronto's World Class Music Halls, Bruce Bell, 2005
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-world-class-music-halls.2515/

Fatal fire in a Theatre New York Times Nov 30 1879 mentions Charlotte Morrison and Mrs. Charles Walcott[Isabella Nickinson] https://www.nytimes.com/1879/11/30/archives/fatal-fire-in-a-theatre-the-toronto-grand-operahouse-destroyed.html
Wikipedia  Grand Opera House Toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Opera_House_(Toronto)


Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto 1894 http://books.google.com/books?id=gVkRAQAAMAAJ&vq=nickinson&dq=robertson's+landmarks+of+toronto&source=gbs_navlinks_s  says that John Nickinson first came to Toronto in  1852, and that Charlotte's godmother was Charlotte Cushman  [not true] .

"Charlotte, then 21, was the company's leading lady, playing Shakespearean roles as Ophelia, Desdemona, and Portia, though possibly Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal was her favorite.  She had been born in Quebec City in 1832 and died in 1910.  She made her debut at Mitchell's Olympic Theatre in New York. She married the editor of the Toronto Leader and forthright theatre critic Daniel Morrison Apr. 22 1858 in Toronto and left the stage for a time.  She had toured extensively with her father, and her loss must have been a blow to him..  The Morrisons moved to Quebec City, London,  New York, and finally back to Toronto.

Daniel Morrison (1830-1876) Before Morrison "honest theatre criticism was virtually unknown in Toronto...the fulsome praise of a press agent, was almost universal in the United States, and performers coming here [Toronto] assumed - usually correctly - that Canadian editors were as venal as their American counterparts. Daniel Morrison, the Scottish-born editor of the Leader, declared war on this system at the beginning of 1854 ... When a doubtless resentful Nickinson ceased to advertise in the Leader, the rival Patriot charged that the Leader's censure of performances was in reprisal for this loss of revenue. ...Morrison showed himself in fact to be a most fair minded critic, and Nickinson eventually resumed his Leader advertisements.  If any bias can be detected in Morrison's reviews, it is in favor of Charlotte Nickinson, whose charm and talents he eloquently praised right up to April, 1858, when he married her and removed her from the stage she had adorned.

She was the first manager of the Grand Opera House, until it was sold to a new owner who replaced her two years later in 1878.  It was fortunate for Charlotte that she was no longer in charge of the theatre when it burned down on the night of Nov. 29-30, 1879. Charlotte remained active in many charitable causes, and to the end was the best known and best loved woman in Ontario.  The benefit performance given for her at the end of her last season as manager of the Grand Theatre was under the patronage of the Prime Ministers, the Governor- General, the Premier of Ontario, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Mayor of Toronto, etc.   Mary Shortt

In January 1873 Toronto entered its golden age of opera when the opulent Grand Opera House opened on the south side of Adelaide just west of Yonge Street.  Quite possibly the greatest theatre Toronto ever knew, this 1,750-seat palace to the arts saw in its day the world’s greatest performers strut and sing across its stage, from actors Maurice Barrymore and Sir Henry Irving (the first actor to be knighted) to the magnificent Italian baritones Giuseppe Del Puente and Antonio Galassi. The Grand was under the direction of one the most powerful and influential women ever to have lived in Toronto: Charlotte Morrison, a former actress and the daughter of John Nickerson, the actor/manager of the Royal Lyceum.  Mrs. Morrison (as she came to be known) was the Ed Mirvish of her time, the guiding force behind not only the Toronto opera scene but also theatre throughout the mid 19th century. As an actress she toured extensively with her father’s company before coming to Toronto where she married theatre critic and editor of the Leader newspaper, Daniel Morrison in 1858, whereupon she retired from acting for the time being.

Daniel Morrison is regarded as the father of modern theatrical criticism in Toronto. Before he arrived on the scene newspapers merely printed what producers told them to say. After all, the producers were paying for ad space. Daniel broke that unwritten rule and began to publish what was good or bad about a particular production. At the time this approach was seen as revolutionary with some producers withdrawing their ads from his newspaper in protest after bad reviews would see a drop in box office receipts. However one actress Daniel found to be quite extraordinary was Charlotte Nickerson and soon this power couple began to rule the roost theatrically speaking in the bohemian avant-garde circles of 19th century Toronto society.

Daniel died in 1870 leaving Charlotte with four children to bring up on her own. She returned to acting and producing at the Royal Lyceum in 1871 and in 1873 was appointed the first manager of the new Grand Opera House on Adelaide Street. She remained so until 1878, all in a time when women not only couldn’t vote but weren’t even officially persons. This was the era of the Actor-Manager where leading actors and actresses doubling as producers, managers and directors would embark on grueling extensive worldwide tours. It was also a time when these performers spoke their lines directly to the audience in what we might consider a bombastic approach to acting. However dated the acting might have been the Grand Opera House was as modern as any theatre on the continent. It was the first theatre in Toronto to use an electric battery-operated spark to ignite the auditorium gas lamps all at once, thus being able to control the lighting from ON to OUT instantly which was impossible before. 
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/archive/index.php/t-2515.html?s=dff5fd73c4a557a85e90c95bbaf333a4

MORRISON, MR. AND MRS. DANIEL Mr. Morrison, one of the most brilliant editorial writers on the Canadian press from about 1853-69, was born in Inverness, Scotland, 1827, the son of the Rev. Mr. Morrison. In the early fifties he emigrated to Canada, engaging in farming for a time, and later editing the Dundas (Ont.) Warder in conjunction with S. T. Jones. In 1854 he assumed the editorship of the Toronto Leader; three years later became editor of the Toronto Daily Colonist, and in 1859 was appointed by the Government as a Provincial Arbitrator in connection with the Public Works Department, resigning the following year to become editor of the Quebec Morning Chronicle. In 1861 he edited the London Prototype, and then joined the staff of the New York Times. Returned to Toronto in 1868 and became editor of the Toronto Daily Telegraph, remaining with that paper until his death in 1870. In 1858 he married Miss Charlotte Nickinson, the celebrated and accomplished actress and daughter of the well-known actor, John Nickinson. Water color from a daguerreotype in possession of their daughter, Mrs. Edward B. Brown, Toronto. Size 5x6. Half length, sitting.  LANDMARKS OF CANADA WHAT ART HAS DONE FOR CANADIAN HISTORY A GUIDE TO THE J. ROSS ROBERTSON HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN THE PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARY TORONTO, CANADA PRESENTED TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY BY J. ROSS ROBERTSON TORONTO, DECEMBER, 1917 http://www.archive.org/stream/landmarksofcanad01torouoft/landmarksofcanad01torouoft_djvu.txt

The manageress of the Grand Opera House, Toronto, was a Mrs. Morrison, who had been a Miss Nickerson, daughter of an old and respected actor. She was in great favour with the very popular Governor-General of that day, Lord Dufferin. She was a most admirable business woman as well as a very capable actress and a kind, considerate friend to many people, including myself. She persuaded me that I had created sufficient interest in Toronto to warrant my trying two weeks "starring" there on my own account in modern plays.  This I did, playing The Romance of a Poor Young Man, Old Soldiers, Partners for Life, etc., with a pleasant result both artistically and financially. After this I was engaged, at Boucicault's suggestion, to play Captain Molyneux in the first Canadian production of his play The Shaughraun. This was the part created in New York by Harry Montague. The play made a huge success in Toronto. .. After Mrs. Rousby 's engagement closed I had a week's tour of some smaller Canadian towns, accompanied by Mrs. Morrison, and then spent a few days in Toronto saying " good-bye " to a lot of as good friends as a man could ever expect to make away from home. JH Barnes, Forty Years on the Stage London: Chapman & Hall 1914 http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyyearsonstag00barnuoft/fortyyearsonstag00barnuoft_djvu.txt  

JH Barnes later worked with EJ Phillips as part of Olga Nethersole's company, and was at the Union and Madison Square Companies.

Grand Opera House, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Opera_House_(Toronto)
Establishing our boundaries: English Canadian Theatre Criticism Anton Wagner University of Toronto Press 2010 http://books.google.com/books?id=hztKHvAl51QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The 1859-60 Toronto City Directory listed Daniel Morrison at 18 Wellington Place. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-146894&R=DC-146894

Charlotte Morrison, Toronto's First Theatre Impresario
in the summer of 1870, Morrison died suddenly and, at age 38, Charlotte found herself playing the role of a widow with four young children. It seems that at this point, she hatched the idea of the opera house. By then, the Toronto theatre her father had leased was old and outdated, and no doubt she needed a job to simply survive. The Toronto Opera Company was formed and raising money through shares, and put $4,000 down on a block of land on the south side of Adelaide just west of Yonge St. A well-known New York theatre architect — likely known to Charlotte — worked with a local firm to erect a fancy building about 90 feet wide and 200 feet long. Those 90 feet stretched west from where Grand Opera Lane is now.

Following the custom of the day, the street frontage was given over to stores, with offices above, to bring in rent. The big box of the theatre sat behind. You would reach the main theatre door after passing through a long tunnel. Alleys on either side of the front reached the loading doors and dressing rooms, and helped empty the building in emergencies. Nearby, a few saloons quickly set up for before- and after-show drinks. The U.S. consul took one upstairs office, as did Mr. Millard, a dentist. It was quite a place — and it wasn’t cheap. The company claimed to have raised about $30,000, but there was still a $35,000 mortgage on the property by opening night in September, 1874. But that didn’t matter: Electricity ignited the gas lights, the seats were comfortable, and the space was lushly decorated. It sat 1,750 people, and could transform into a ballroom — which it was in December of that year for a local yacht club. Toronto finally had a place worth dressing up for.

Mrs. Morrison’s was a family affair. Charlotte brought in her three actress sisters, while her brother managed the bookings. Like her father years before, she ran her own stock company, acting in and directing many of the plays, and touring when possible. She lived not far away on John St., and supervised 275 performances in the opening season. She booked the best of what she felt the world offered. And she brought in real stars. Their names are forgotten now, but the numbers still talk: in one week, a special version of Romeo and Juliette brought in 13,000 paying customers. But while many applauded the quality fare, the business floundered — it may have been the poor economy, or maybe Charlotte’s tastes were too conservative or elitist. By 1876, the building was bought at auction by a local real-estate mogul and supporter of Charlotte, but the slide continued.

By the summer of 1878, she gave her final performance and ended her time as Mrs. Morrison, manager and lessee. It had all lasted a stressful and eventful four years. From then on, the building was the plain old Grand Opera House. It would burn the next year. Charlotte was 46 when her theatre dream ended, not young anymore but not old either. She no doubt aged the next year, when her eldest son died at 19. After that, she moved often, maybe thanks to a lack of money, or due to the old habits of a travelling actress, from Peter St. to St. David St. to Beverly to Spadina to Admiral Rd.

But she was genteel and well-connected, so she got by. She acted in amateur productions, gave readings, taught elocution and helped run historical societies and worthy causes for the poor. Her brother and sisters — mostly American born — returned to New York, so she was the last of John Nickinson’s blood in Canada. Her last years were spent with her daughter’s family on St. Joseph St., where she died in her late 70s, just before the World War I.

She gave Torontonians the best of the larger world, and they knew it. When she walked on to the stage of Mrs. Morrison’s Opera House for the final time, the crowd rose as one and cheered. And it didn’t stop. She couldn’t deliver her lines. They wouldn’t let her. So she just blew kisses. Toronto's First Theatre Impresario 2015 https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/05/17/torontos-first-theatre-impresario.html

Eliza Nickinson Peters (1834-1917), married English comedian Charles Peters (1825-1870) in the fall of 1854.  Peters had been hired by John Nickinson in 1852. Eliza had appeared (briefly) at William Mitchell's Olympic Theatre, and the couple moved back to New York after their marriage. Peters was run over by a Third Ave. car in New York. [Stage]  But according to his New York Clipper obituary (Nov 12, 1870) he died of consumption at his home at the corner of 83rd and Third Ave., but had been incapacitated  by a serious accident on the Third Ave. railroad.  His last professional appearance was as the grave digger in Hamlet.   

Eliza Nickinson Peters, Frederick NY  July 1897 Asbury Park as the Widow McNally?  
                                                                                                                                      Charles Peters from Lester Wallack, Memories of Fifty Years 1889

A 1905 article in Donohoe's magazine interviewed Mrs. Peters and said she had become a Catholic under the instruction of Jesuit Father Damen, while living in Yorkville New York. She went back to acting after the death of her husband and played a new England widow and Irishwoman in the 1870s and played similar roles in Boucicault's Shaughraun, various roles in the Irish village at the St, Louis World's Fair and the part of the Widow McNally in the Sunshine of Paradise Alley was written for her. [We have a letter from her on Sunshine of Paradise Alley stationery.]  this article says her mother Mary Ann Talbot was born in Limerick.   
http://books.google.com/books?id=qgjZAAAAMAAJ&vq=nickinson&dq=eliza+nickinson+peters&source=gbs_navlinks_s

more on Eliza Peters and Tithe Sunshine of  Paradise Alley

Charles Peters  Histrionic Montreal says he was  "The original Binney in Our American Cousin" and had a son Fred and a daughter Maud.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hb-w7l_YGcwC&dq=%22charles+peters%22+binney+original+%22our+american+cousin%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s

According to Mary Shortt, Peters was "a fat man, and made his biggest hit dressed in short skirts as Cupid in a burlesque ballet."

Virginia Nickinson Marlowe (c1838-1899) was born in Albany NY and first appeared on the stage in Utica in Oct 1853 as King Charles in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady.  Made her last appearance on the stage in Who Killed Cock Robin at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, in 1866 [History of the American Stage ] She played Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin and a similar part in Dred.  

She married actor Owen Marlowe in October 1857 at Niagara Falls, and left Toronto, but with a depression underway, were back by May 1858. Marlowe is described by Mary Shortt as "an attractive and charming young man (although as it proved, of weak character) and later achieved popular success in New York and San Francisco.   By July 1858 John Nickinson was "billed only as lease [of the Royal Lyceum, Toronto] with his son-in-law Owen Marlowe, named as manager ... but in September Nickinson again assumed the management. But the economy was too bad [Shortt]

The 1859-60 Toronto City Directory listed Owen Marlowe as the Royal Lyceum manager and lessee, living at 144 Wellington Street. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-146894&R=DC-146894 

Virginia Nickinson Marlowe, Conty, Boston June 1889

1861-1862 Marlowe was with Laura Keene in New York, and in 1863-1867 with Mrs. John Drew's company in Philadelphia. in 1868 he was in San Francisco under the management of John McCullough. In June 1870 five Marlowes were living in New York, according to the census -- Owen, Virginia, Jesse, Ethel and Virginia.  By June 1871 Owen Marlowe was back in San Francisco, and by January 1872 Virginia Marlowe was appearing there in plays with him. However by July 1873 Owen Marlowe was given a farewell benefit with a rosewood cane given by the Bohemian Club and went east by steamer through Panama.  No mention in the newspapers when Virginia returned east. By  Sept 1984 Owen Marlowe was appearing in Brooklyn in London Assurance. In  1874 he visited his family in England for the first time in 20 years, and in  1875 appeared in New York as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Day, in "18 spectacular scenes:...from his London club room through the Suez into the interior of a Hindoo bungalow ...[leading] up to a "startling pyre" and a Grand Funeral Pageant."  [Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle 2010]. In March 1876 he was appearing in Chelsea Massachusetts in Our Boys and died in May at Mass General Hospital of consumption.  He died penniless and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.  Virginia was appearing in Toronto at her sister Charlotte Morrison's Grand Opera House as the boy Paul in The Octoroon.

Owen Marlowe died in May 1876, of heart disease in the wings of the Globe Theatre at Boston (according to his daughter Ethel's obituary (Nov. 17, 1898).  But perhaps he died of consumption, leaving a widow and several children in Toronto. He had first appeared on the stage in New York at Barnum's Museum in 1855 and been at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia.  New York Clipper obituary, June 6, 1876

Theater critic William Winter's Brief Chronicles 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=agYuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=marlowe&f=falsegives consumption as the cause of Marlowe's death in 1876 and "latterly he was unemployed and in poverty as well as sickness".  He played Sir Lucius O'Trigger at the Arch St Theatre, Philadelphia under Mrs. John Drew in 1863.

photo Owen Marlowe, Arch St. Philadelphia http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/19thcenturyactors&CISOPTR=377&CISOBOX=1&REC=1

Their daughter Ethel Marlowe died in 1898, suddenly of heart trouble, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, in the third act of The Christian. Virginia's  New York Clipper obituary (Mar. 18, 1899) reported that she had retired from the stage "at the time of her daughter's sudden death" and had since made her home with the married daughter Jessie Voight, at whose house she died.

Son John Nickinson Jr.  (c1844-Feb 1916) according to a brief New York Times (Feb. 15, 1916) obituary, was "for many years managing clerk at the grocery division of the Appraiser's Stores" and died suddenly at work at 72, leaving a daughter in Toronto.  He seems to have worked with sister Charlotte Morrison at the Grand Opera House in the 1870s, was in Quebec during the Jan 1861 Canadian census, and spent most of his life in New York City.  more on John Nickinson Jr.

Isabella Nickinson Walcott(1847-1906) was born in New York on Oct 7 1847 and played Phoebe in As You Like It at eight, Maria in Twelfth Night at ten, and "a squaw, a page or a peasant as needed."  Her last appearance in Toronto seems to have been on Jan. 11, 1858 at the Royal Lyceum in The Wife, playing Florabella.   more on Isabella Nickinson Walcott

Mary Ann Talbot Nickinson and Isabella are thought to have gone to New York in 1858, the same year Charlotte was married.  There are only brief mentions of any of the older Nickinson children in the letters, though Isabella, John,  Virginia, and Eliza seem to have been in New York in the 1880s and 1890's.  Did any of the half-siblings meet besides Albert and Eliza in 1900?

More on Virginia, Eliza and Isabella's roles in A history of the Thomas Allston Brown's  New York Stage Volume 2 1851-1901 http://books.google.com/books?id=mJEXAAAAYAAJ&dq=nickinson+fanchon&source=gbs_navlinks_s Ireland's Records of the New York Stage 1750-1860  has a number of references to John and Charlotte Nickinson  http://books.google.com/books?id=C6INAAAAQAAJ&vq=nickinson&source=gbs_navlinks_s 

John Nickinson died in Cincinnati, Feb. 9, 1864.  "Spirit letter"      EJ Phillips' career Ben DeBar, Lawrence Barrett and Chestnut St. Theater, Philadelphia  

Bibliography
Beasley, David, McKee Rankin and the Heyday of the American Theater, 2002 http://books.google.com/books?id=lFz0XOblBDIC&dq=storm+beaten+%22union+square%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Benson, Eugene and LW Connolly, editors, Oxford Companion to the Canadian Theatre, Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Burton, Rebecca, “The (Forgotten) Glories of Mrs. Morrison’s Regime”, paper presented at ACTR Association for Canadian Theatre Research, May 24-27, 2000, Univ. of Alberta http://www.catr-acrt.ca/news/24-1/burton.htm
Crehan, John, Life of Laura Keene 1897 http://books.google.com/books?id=4sg_AAAAYAAJ&dq=isabella+Walcot+%22laura+keene%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s  mentions Isabella Walcot
Edwards, Murray D "John Nickinson" Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4625&&PHPSESSID=ychzfqkvzape
Graham, Franklin, Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal stage, with biographical and critical notices of the plays and players of a century , J Lovell 1902 
 http://books.google.com/books?id=svQ_AAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
O'Neill, PB Anthony, A History of Theatrical Activity in Toronto, Canada, from its beginning to  1858, Louisiana State University dissertation, 1973 
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/2488/
Shortt, Mary "The Royal Lyceum: part I 1848-1859", John Nickinson chapter, Master's Thesis on Toronto theatre 1809-1874 c1979
Wagner, Anton, Establishing our Boundaries: English Canadian Theatre Criticism, Univ of Toronto Press, 2010 discusses Daniel Morrison and other theatre critics.
https://books.google.com/books?id=hztKHvAl51QC&dq=daniel+morrison+canada+theatre+history&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Forms of Variety Theater, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vsforms.html Vaudeville/variety, minstrel shows, burlesque, extravaganza, spectacles, musical reviews, musical comedies
Theater playbills and programs, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vsprge.html

Mary Short, theatre historian, highly recommends Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby and its portrayal of Vincent Crummles as the manager of a provincial touring company, "in striking verisimilitude, particularly the episode in which Nicholas joins Crummles' troupe." 

Nicholas Nickleby http://www.literaturepage.com/read/nicholasnickleby-336.html

Last updated Dec. 29, 2019

1848	4.9		to 1860	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Toronto and the Royal Lyceum Theatre
1848	5	17		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Pride of the market		Louisa de Volange   Also Polka Mania as Laura Dorrington
1848	5	18	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Irish Lion by John Baldwin Buckstone				C Kemble Mason
1849	6	8	or July?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Benefit for April 1849 fire victims with Miss Phillips
1849	6	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Tragedy of Douglas  EJP as Lady Randolph				with Charles Kemble Mason 1str professional to appear with
1849	7	6		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Benefit for Miss Phillips and Mrs Lyon				Scapegrace Dead Shot Raising the Wind
1849			to 1859	Toronto		improved water and rail transport leads to growth of Toronto
1849			season summary	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Miss Phillips listed as a new performer in summary of 1849 season
1850	6	5		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	HoneyMoon and The Stranger EJP in with Charles Kemble Mason
1851	4	20		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John & Charlotte Nickinson first appeared in Toronto Easter Monday
1851	6	17		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John and Charlotte under mgt of  TP Besnard				1st night no plays specified
1851				Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Virginia, John Charlotte Nickinson
1852	2	12	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	White horse of the Peppers EJP Magdalene? Or Agatha?
1852	2	24		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Rivals benefit patronage Toronto Fire Brigade Lydia Languish
1852	3	.		Toronto		John Nickinson goes to Toronto after Utica Museum fails, Company opens Easter Monday
1852	4	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Charles Peters hired by John Nickinson
1852	4	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	EJP joins Royal Lyceum stage company
1852	4	12	1 month	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John Nickinson agreed with TP Besnard to bring Utica Co to Toronto
1852	4	12	to May 11?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	London Assurance Charlotte as Lady Gay Spanker EJP as Grace
1852	4		?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	My first salary was $8 per week had to buy stage clothes with it. Paid $2.50 board 9 month engagements
1852	5	19		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Lyceum season ended with benefit for Charlotte Nickinson Old Honesty Farewell Address Miss C Nickinson
1852	.			Toronto		JN's 1859 letter to EJP refers to "our 7 years of past love"
1852			to 1853	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	JN not living in Toronto but just playing short engagements there
1852			or 53	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	MacBeth		EJP Donalbein, Gentlewoman, Malcolm, Witches
1853	3	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Rough Diamond John Nickinson in John Baldwin Buckstone's
1853	4	8	mult months	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Fiddle Faddle and Foozle  by G Simcoe Lee  EJP Miss Fixington
1853	4	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Omnibus or a convenient distance JN EJP as Mrs Damper
1853	4	.	to 185?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	JN sole manager Royal Lyceum == success for 5 years, gave up Quebec theatre
1853	4		spring	Toronto		Demand for Canadian wheat and flour added est $3 million to farmers' incomes
1853	5	31	to Jun 9	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Lemon and Taylor
1853	6	17	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Hamlet EJP Player Queen Marcellus Guildenstern Queen Gertrude
1853	7	8		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Norma John Nickinson produced opera Bellini's Norma
1853	9		mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Romeo and Juliet		Juliet	Nurse
1853	10	5	to 1865 Mar	Toronto		Crimean War eliminated Russian wheat from British market, increasing demand for Canadian breadstuffs
1853	11	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Douglas or the Noble Shepherd by Home				EJP Lady Randolph Anna Eliza Nickinson
1853	12	12	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Richard III	Couldock	EJP Queen, Lady Anne, Duchess of York
1854	1	11	?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Wife The Eliza Nickinson as Count Florio in James Sheridan Knowles
1854	1	17		Toronto		Railway Jubilee line completed Hamilton to Detroit
1854	3	3	mult yrs?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Merchant of Venice		Portia
1854	7	27	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Paul Pry EJP Mrs Subtle WM Davidge Paul Pry Charlotte N Phoebe Virginia N as Eliza
1854	7	27	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Poor Pillicoddy by John Madison Morton EJP as Mrs Pillicoddy			EJP Mrs. Pi Wm Davidge Mr. P Charlotte N Sarah Blunt Va N Mrs O Scuttle
1854	7	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Buzzards The	EJP Miss Lucretia Buzzard Virginia Nickinson as Sally
1854	7	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Petticoat government by Charles Dance				EJP Mrs Carney WM Davidge Hectic Virginia N Annabella D thompson dance
1854	7	29	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Robt Macaire or the two murderers  EJP as Marie JN Robt Macaire Davidge Thompson Va N as Clementine
1854	7	31	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Dominique the deserter EJP Genevieve  Davidge Thompson Va N as Jeannette
1854	8	1	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Secret Service or the cure and the minister EJP Therese Davidge Thompson
1854	8	2	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Betsey Baker	EJP Mrs. Crummy Charlotte Nickinson Betsey Baker Davidge Thompson
1854	8	2	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Two Bonnycastles EJP Patty Charlotte N Mrs Bonny castle Davidge Benj Bonnycastle  Va N Helen
1854	8	3	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Honeymoon EJP Volante JN Lopez Davidge Thompson  Charlotte Juliana Virginia Zamora
1854	9	3	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Pizarro		Elvira Cora
1854		season summary		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Eliza Nickinson Charles Peters
1854			to 1862?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Denman Thompson joined Royal Lyceum company
1855	1	12	to Jan 15	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Peculiar position JN EJP Countess de Novara in Eugene Scribe's
1855	1	12	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Roll of the Drum Virginia  & Isabella in Thomas Edgerton Wilks Roll of the Drum
1855	2	?	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	King Lear		Goneril?
1855	3	16		Toronto		Mary Ann Talbot Nickinson and John  Nickinson legally separate alimony 78 pounds annually
1855	5	1		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Magic Trumpet	benefit of Miss Phillips
1855	7	23	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Paul Pry Poor Pillicoddy Honeymoon  Two Bonnycastles
1855	7	25	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Revolt or the Masked Unmasked by Ware EJP Mathilde CN Fleurette VN Bertha
1855	7	25	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Sweethearts and Wives EJP Mrs Bell Charlotte Eugenia Isabella  as Laura Virginia as Susan Thompson Sanford
1855	7	26		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Secret or a hole in the wall EJP Mrs Dupuis Virginia Angelica
1855	7	27	30-Jul	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Married Unwedded or the Notary & The Duchess EJP Martha Charlotte Julia
1855	7	28		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	To Parents & Guardians EJP Lady Nettles Charlotte Robt Nettles Virginia Mary Swish  Isabella as Virginia
1855	7	31		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	School for Scandal EJP Lady Candour CN Lady Teazle JN Crabtree VN  Lady Sneerwell IN Maria
1855	8	1	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Grandfather Whitehead by Lemon EJP Susan Virginia Lady Drayton
1855	8	1	26-Nov	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Love Chase by Knowles EJP Widow Green VN Lydia IN Phoebe CN Constance
1855	8	10	mult 1857 Jun	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	As you Like It	EJP Celia Davidge as Touchstone Thompson Sylvius Charlotte Rosalind Isabella Phoebe Va Audrey
1855	8	10		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Love & Charity EJP Miss withers VN Susan
1855	10	31	Nov 1-3	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Venice Preserved  Shylock or the merchant of Venice
1855	11	26	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Poor Gentleman by Sarah Isdell EJP Miss Lucretia McTab VN Mary Harrowby CN Emily Worthy JN Sir Robt Bramble
1855	11	26	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Wandering Minstrel by Henry Mayhew EJP Mrs Crinkum VN Betsy IN Herbert Carol
1855	11	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Heir at Law by Geo Colman Younger EJP Lady Dubsky VN Caroline Dorner CN Cecily Homespun
1855	12	4	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Immortal Toodles by RJ Raymond  EJP Mrs. Toodles Isabella as Mary
1855	12	7		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	My Precious Betsy by John M Morton EJP Mrs Bobtail Virginia Mrs Wagtail Isabella Nancy Moddle
1855		season summary		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Isabella Nickinson
1855				Toronto		John Nickinson discharged from Canadian Militia
1856	1	4	1870s?	Toronto	Barrett?	Taming of the Shrew		Katharine, the shrew
1856	3	8		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Lucretia Borgia		Lucretia
1856	3	24		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	My Serious Family EJP Lady Sowerby Creamly CN Mrs Ormsby Delmain VN Mrs. Torrens In Emily Torrens JN Aminadab Sleek
1856	3	25		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Lottery Ticket or 2450 by Sam Beazley Sr  EJP Mrs Corset Virginia Susan
1856	3	26	1857 Aug	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Po Ca Han Tas EP savage We Cha Ven Da with Isabella & Virginia
1856	3	28		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Midas EJP Mysis Virginia Nyssa Isabella Daphne JN Midas
1856	3	31	to Apr 12	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	MacBeth with James W Wallack Sr
1856	4	15	mult months	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Blessed Baby EJP Mary Jane mother of the blessed baby by  J George Moore
1856	4	15	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Hunchback	EJP as Helen Fanny Morant
1856	4	18		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	William Tell The hero of Switzerland		Emma Tell's wife
1856	4	26	to Jun 26	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	House Dog farce		Miss Melpomene
1856	4	26		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Jane Shore		EJP Alicia
1856	4	28	or 1857?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Merry wives of Windsor		Mrs Page?
1856	7	2		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	King John		Eleanor
1856	7	8		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Black eyed Susan EJP Susan Charlotte Dolly Mayflower
1856	7	9		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Tam o-Shanter EJP Maggie
1856	7	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Caught in her own trap EJP Madame Vanderbushell
1856	7	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Robbers The EJP as Amelia
1856	7	16		Toronto		Fire at Theatre Lane and King St EJ Phillips  & 2 other company lodgers loses nearly all their possessions
1856	7	17	3 nights	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Zavistowski troup of ballet dancers and pantomimists
1856	7	23	3 nights	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Much Ado about Nothing with James W Wallack Sr Benedick Charlotte Nickinson Beatrice
1856	9	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Gamester		Mrs Beverly
1856	10	29		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Box and Cox EJP and Mr. Marlowe
1856	10			Toronto		Grand Trunk Railway opened between Montreal and Toronto
1856	11	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Rivals	EJP Mrs Malaprop Mr. Petrie Sir Anthony Absolute
1856	11	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	My Young wife and My Old Umbrella Virginia Nickinson Dinah
1857	1	12	to Jan 16	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Cinderella JN Baron Pompolino EJP Stepsister
1857	2	6		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Irish Assurance or Yankee Modesty EJP Miss Buffer Isabella Nancy
1857	2	6	may-june?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Uncle Tom's Cabin EJP as Cassy Charlotte as Eliza Den Thompson Uncle Tom Eliza Va N Topsy
1857	2	11	to Feb 16	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Hamlet with JW Wallack
1857	5	6	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Bob Nettles EJP Lady Nettles VN Mary Swish IN Virginia JN Monsieur Tourbillion Charlotte Master Rob Nettles
1857	6	6		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Flying Dutchman or Phantom Ship EJP Lucy Isabella Lestelle Vanhelm Marlowe Toby Varnish
1857	6		?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Isabella as Maria in Twelfth night and a squaw a page or a peasant as needed
1857	7	21	to Jul 25	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	School for Scandal Lola Montez 4 night appearance Sheridan's Charlotte Corday & Lola Montez in Bavaria
1857	8	18	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Fair one with the Golden locks by Planche EJP Mollymopsa Isabella Queen Lucidoa Charlotte Graceful
1857	8	28		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Rivals EJP as	Mrs Malaprop Davidge Sir Anthony JN Bob acres Charlotte Lydia Languish Isabella Lucy
1857	8	29		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Twelfth Night	EJP Countess Olivia Charlotte Viola Isabella Maria
1857	9	?	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Othello		Emilia
1857	11	20	to Nov 23	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Coriolanus		Volumnia
1857	11	26	to Nov 28	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Three Guardman with Lester Wallack
1858	1	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Wife The with Isabella Nickinson's last Toronto appearance as Florabella in Knowles'
1858	1	22		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Monsieur Tonson EJP Mme Bellegarde JN Mons Morbllieu  also Temple JN Isoline Charlotte
1858	4	22		Toronto		Charlotte Nickinson married Daniel Morrison
1858	4	28		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	School for Scandal Charlotte Nickinson retired from the stage as Lady Teazle Nan the good for nothing
1858	4	30		Toronto		Charles Alderman Nickinson born
1858	7	1		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Marlowes back in Toronto after tour of southern states  remained for several years
1858	7	1		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Owen Marlowe manager John Nickinson resigned
1858	9	1	to ?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John Nickinson again manager Royal Lyceum
1858	9	10		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Ocean Child Or The Sea		Great Nautical Drama
1858	12	.	2 weeks	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Aladdin holiday spectacle failed to revive theatre's failing fortunes
1859	2	19		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Royal Lyceum closing announced NY Clipper
1859	4	5		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Marlowes reopen Royal Lyceum
1859	7			Toronto	Royal Lyceum	What will he do with it with John Nickinson Mr. Miss Richings
1859	8	6		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Farewell benefit Owen Marlowe
1859	8	29		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Marlowes announce closing of Royal Lyceum having lost $1,000
1859	9	7		Toronto		John Nickinson first anniversary but month of my teetotality
1859	9	16	.	Toronto		JN letter to EJP our sad bereavement Marlowe lost Lyceum going to Troy Morrison to Quebec w/all family but John
1860	3	.	to Aug	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	JN returned to Toronto to take over Royal Lyceum until August when ads no longer appear in Globe
1860	4	30	?	Toronto	Prince of Wales	Royal Lyceum renamed Prince of Wales Theatre
1860	5	7	mult yrs	Toronto	Prince of Wales	Rob Roy EJ Phillips John Nickinson  in Walter Scott's Rob Roy MacGregor
1860	6	?	?	Toronto	Prince of Wales	Uncle Tom's Cabin		EJP Cassy
1860	8	24		Toronto		Christine Harriet Melanie  "Hattie" Nickinson born
1860	9	22		Toronto	Prince of Wales	JN Managing theatre		Toronto not much of a place for theatricals ….company is small and adapted only to light pieces

John Nickinson

1808	6	1		England	London	John Nickinson born
1823				England	London?	John Nickinson enlisted in British Army as drummer boy
1825				Canada		John Nickinson promoted to Sergeant [never an officer]
1830	.			Quebec City	Garrison Amateurs	JN joins 24th Regiment of Infantry Garrison Amateurs when formed
1830				Montreal		JN's regiment returns to Montreal
1831			circa	Canada?		John Nickinson and Mary Ann Talbot married
1833	4	.		Montreal	Garrison Amateurs	Miller and his men JN as Karl in Isaac Pocock's & Caleb in Henry Lee's The Review or Wags of Windsor?
1836	9	7		Montreal	Theatre Royal	Review The John Nickinson as Caleb Quotem benefit before leaving for Albany
1836	11	28	to 1837	Montreal	Acad Music	JN discharged as a captain in Canadian militia, joins stock company Albany NY visiting card Maj Nickinson 2nd Batt Canada VR
1836	11	28		Albany NY	Acad Music	John Nickenson comes first to US				ejp 1893 May 12
1837	4	1		Albany NY	Acad Music	Romeo with Charlotte Cushman John Nickinson placed a wreath on her head
1837	7	19		New York NY	Franklin Theatre	Monsieur Tonson JN first appeared in NY in Monsieur Morbleau in Wm T Moncrieff's
1837	7	24	5-Aug	New York NY	Franklin Theatre	Pickwick Club John Nickinson as Pickwick
1837	10	9		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Geoffrey Dale JN as the miser's man
1838	1	1		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Richard III JN as Catesby I & Lewey Madigan in Erin go bragh or a tale of Munster
1840	9	30		New York NY	Park Theatre	King Lear John Nickinson as Burgundy
1841	5	24		New York NY	Park Theatre	Jack Cade JN as Friar Lacy with Edwin Forrest in Robert T Conrad's Jack Cade or Aylmere
1841	?			New York NY	Park Theatre	Money John Nickinson in Bulwer Lytton's  Money
1841				New York NY		City directory lists JN as comedian living at 42 Hamersley [West Houston St]
1841			summer?	Montreal	Theatre Royal	JN to Montreal as part of theatre company
1842	1	10		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Happy Man JN in first Irish piece at the Olympic				performed 20 times in season
1842	2	10		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Richard III burlesque JN as King Henry in
1842	3	7		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Cinderella JN as Alderman Lollipop in Cinderella or the Foreign Prince & a Large Glass Slipper
1842	5	18		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	White Horse of the Peppers  JN as Croaker in Samuel Lover's					Petty Sins & Pretty Sinners JN  Reuben Snaffler
1843	1	20		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Beauty & the beast JN as Croton Pump in Planche's Beauty & the Beast
1843	6		summer	Montreal	Theatre Royal	JN Leasee & mgr Nickinsons ill fated season as  Morgan Rattler in Tyrone Power's How to Pay the Rent
1843	9			New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Charles WalcottSr and George Holland join Mitchell's Olympic
1843	10	3		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Hamlet Travestie JN Polonius				1843-44 Salary $15/week Momus
1843	11	7		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Don Giovanni in Gotham JN as Mons Kickshaw in Chas Walcot's Don Giovanni in Gotham					3-4 other roles/plays in article
1843				New York NY		City directory lists JN as comedian living at 42 Hamersley [West Houston St]
1844	1	8	16-Feb	New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Old King Cole John Nickinson as Old King Cole
1844	6	.	to Sept	New York NY	Niblo's Garden	John Nickinson in	Parson's Nose La Fille du Regiment
1845	6	1	6-Jun	New York NY	Niblo's Garden	Seven castles of the passions John Nickinson as Mephistopheles
1845	7	13	2 weeks	New York NY	Niblo's Garden	Honeymoon John Nickinson with Mrs. Mowat, EL Davenport
1846	?			New York NY	Niblo's Garden	Napoleon's Old Guard John Nickinson as Havresack in Boucicault's
1847	9			New York NY	Park Theatre	JN leaves Mitchell's Olympic for Park Theatre Chas WalcottSr  leave NY to tour
1848	4	27		New York NY	Burtons Theatre	Love and Murder John Nickinson in John Baldwin Buckstone's
1848	5	11	19-May	New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Lavater the Physiognomist John Nickinson in James Robinson Planche's
1848	7	25		New York NY	Castle Garden	Napoleon's Old Guard		JN and Charlotte
1848	10			New York NY	Olympic Theatre	Who's got Macready or a Race to Boston JN sd zmsvtrsfy
1848	12	18		New York NY	Olympic Theatre	Love's Telegraph JN as Baron Pumpernickel
1848				Providence RI	Providence museum Co	John Nickinson and Charlotte guests of Providence Museum Co
1849			to 1859	Toronto		improved water and rail transport leads to growth of Toronto
1850	3	9		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Olympic closed abruptly
1850	4	26		Troy NY	Museum	John and Charlotte Nickinson
1850	5	15		New York NY	Niblo's Garden	Home John Nickinson as Squre Bullworthy
1850	9	20		New York NY	Italian Opera house	John Nickinson	Italian Opera House Astor Place
1850	?			New York NY	Burton's Theatre	John Nickinson at Burton's Theatre per Records of the NY Stage
1851	6	17		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John and Charlotte under mgt of  TP Besnard				1st night no plays specified
1851	6	18	mult  yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	School for Tigers or the Schilliing Op JN Mr. Fanelo Charlotte Tom Crop Virginia Traces
1851	12	13		Utica NY	Utica Museum	Ladies Battle JN in Ladie's Battle, Don Caesar De Bazan one week
1851	12		to 1852 March	Utica NY	Utica Museum	John Nickinson at Utica Museum for season
1851				Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Virginia, John Charlotte Nickinson
1852	3	8		Utica NY	Utica Museum	John Nickinson presented with silver mug by patrons
1852	3	15	14-Apr	New York NY		John Nickinson and Charlotte return to NY after 6 month sin Utica Museum then to Canada
1852	3	.		Toronto		John Nickinson goes to Toronto after Utica Museum fails, Company opens Easter Monday
1852	4	12	1 month	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John Nickinson agreed with TP Besnard to bring Utica Co to Toronto
1852	4		to 1860?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Charles Walcottmember of Royal Lyceum Co
1852	5	19		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Lyceum season ended with benefit for Charlotte Nickinson Old Honesty Farewell Address Miss C Nickinson
1852	5	?	check date	New York NY	Laura Keenes?	How to pay the rent JN Last appearance in New York until 1862
1852	8	7	Summer	Quebec		JN summer season then to Utica			closes 1853 Jan 1
1852	9	3	to Dec	Utica NY	Utica Museum	John Nickinson to Utica for winter season				lease expired April 1853

Charlotte Nickinson Morrison

1832	2	16		Quebec		Charlotte Nickinson born
1845	9			New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Charlotte Nickinson joins Mitchells Olympic
1846	6	1		New York NY	Vauxhall Garden	Bothered between JN performer Charlotte's NY Debut as Rose in Cousin Lambkin & Clarissa in Bothered Between Em
1846	.		to1848	New York NY	Vauxhall Garden	Captain of the Regiment JN as Martelle in Captain of the Regiment
1848	8	16	9/10	New York NY	Burtons Theatre	Dombey & Sons C Nickinson as Florence Dombey J Nickinson as original Dombey  by John Brougham'
1850	10	1	to 4	New York NY	Burton's Theatre	Poetus Caecinna Charlottes final NY appearance in Isaac Clarke Pray's tragedy Poetus			Clarke Pray’s tragedy Poetus Cæcinna
1851	4	20		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	John & Charlotte Nickinson first appeared in Toronto Easter Monday
1851	.			Providence RI	Prov Museum Co	Home John & Charlotte Nickinson guest star w/ Herons & later CW Couldock Kate Horn
1851	.			Providence Rochester Montreal		JN  tours with Charlotte Providence Montreal Rochester NY
1852	4	17		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Benefit Miss Charlotte Nickinson under patronage of 1st Highland Light Infantry
1855	1	12	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Roll of the Drum Virginia  & Isabella in Thomas Edgerton Wilks Roll of the Drum
1856	7	23	3 nights	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Much Ado about Nothing with James W Wallack Sr Benedick Charlotte Nickinson Beatrice
1858	4	22		Toronto		Charlotte Nickinson married Daniel Morrison
1858	4	28		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	School for Scandal Charlotte Nickinson retired from the stage as Lady Teazle Nan the good for nothing
1861				Toronto	George St	Census  Canada East Morrisons Daniel editor 34  Charlotte 29 Isabella Nickinson 19 C Morrison 2 Robt M 1
1864	1	20		Montreal	Theatre Royal	Money with Charlotte N Morrison as Clara Douglas Bulwer Lytton's then left stage
1870	4	11		Toronto		Daniel Morrison died leaving Charlotte Nickinson Morrison with 4 children
1871			to 1872	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Charlotte Nickinson actor manager Royal Lyceum
1872	5	18		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Charlotte brief season School for Scandal and Lady of Lyon London Assurance Bonnie Fishwife Naval Engagements
1874	9		1876 Oct	Toronto	Grand Opera House	Charlotte Nickinson manages Grand Opera House
1874			1920				Charlotte Morrison 14 articles NY Clipper
1876	10	.	to 1880 Dec	Toronto	Grand Opera House	Grand Opera House sold to Alexander Manning for $45K
1878	10			Toronto	Grand Opera House	Charlotte Morrison replaced by August Pitou as manager
1910	8	1		Toronto		Charlotte Nickinson died

Eliza Nickinson Peters

1825	4	15		England	Birmingham	Charles Peters born
1834				Montreal		Eliza Nickinson born
1850	10	?		New York NY	Niblo's Garden	Charles Peters came to America Fall 1849, first engaged Niblo's
1852	4	12		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Charles Peters hired by John Nickinson
1854	1	11	?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Wife The Eliza Nickinson as Count Florio in James Sheridan Knowles
1854	9		Fall	New York NY		Eliza Nickinson married Charles Peters moves to NY
1854		season summary		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Eliza Nickinson Charles Peters
1857	9	28		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Siam Light Guard with Mrs Chas Peters as Dodo and Chas Peters as Knappkin
1858	10		to 1859 march	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Our American Cousin Charles Peters original Binney by Tom Taylor
1865	12	8		New York NY		Napoleon's Old Guard Benefit for Charles Peters run over by a 3rd Ave car  C  Walcott$4k raised
1865				where?		Maud Peters born to Eliza Nickinson and Charles Peters
1870	11	2		New York NY		Charles Peters died
1878	1	19		New York NY	Park Theatre	Colonel Sellers Mrs. Charles Peters in Mark Twain's Colonel Sellers
1880	1	.		Boston MA	Boston Theatre	Joshua Whitcomb Fred Peters in Denman Thompson's  [program]
1881	8	27		New York NY	Standard Theatre	Messenger from Jarvis Mrs Charles Peters as Nancy Bartlett in A messenger from Jarvis
1882	6	10		Chicago IL	McVickers	Mrs Charles Peters as Madame Denise in William Young's The House of Musprat
1883	10	13		New York NY	14th St Theatre	Eileen Oge Mrs. Charles Peters as Mrs. O'Donnell in Edmund Falconer's Eileen Oge
1885	8	1			Ranks Co	Mrs Charles Peters Eliza Peters have signed as support for Douglass White's Co
1886	1	16		New York NY	Union Square	Leah Margaret mather Fred W Peters in cast
1886	.		1919				Fred W Peters more in Clipper
1887	8	7				Mrs Charles Peters engaged. For the We Us and Them Co
1887	9	3		Boston MA	Howard Athenaeum	Mrs Charles Peters in JC Kenny's We Us & Them Co
1887	10	15		New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Camille Mrs Charles Peters in Camille
1888	12	8		New York NY	Jacobs Thalia Theatre	Hazel Kirke Mrs Charles Peters as Clara a maid Steele MacKaye's in Hazel Kirke
1889	8	17		Rockaway Long Island NY		Mrs Charles Peters and Maud Peters are at Rockaway LI.
1891	9	12		New York NY	Standard Theatre	Struggle for life Mrs Charles Peters
1893	1	14		New York NY	Standard Theatre	Struggle for life Mrs Charles Peters as Molly MacCae  in The Struggle for Life
1893	7	8		New York NY	New Lyceum Theatre	Camille Mrs Charles Peters in Camille
1895	1	2		New York NY		Maud Eliza Peters and Dr. Roberto Drabon married at Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Jan
1896	1	26		New York NY	14th St Theatre	Mrs Charles Peters retired from the Rory of the Hill Co.
1896	5	16		New York NY	14th St Theatre	Sunshine Paradise Alley Mrs Charles Peters as the Widow McNally in Denman Thompson Sunshine of Paradise Alley
1897	12	25		New York NY	Third Ave Theatre	Sunshine of Paradise alley Mrs Charles Peters  Widow McNally
1898	6	25		New York NY	Proctor's theatre	Mrs Charles Peters & Co Sunday concert
1898	7	23	27-Aug	New York NY	Proctor's Pleasure Palace	Mrs Charles Peters made her debut in vaudeville in the Widow Flaherty, written for her
1898			1917				Chas Peters 45 articles including Mrs Charles Maude Peters 6 articles NY Clipper
1900	4	12		New York NY	Geo A Ryer	Sunshine of Paradise alley stationery from Mrs Charles Peters referring to her brother not speaking to her
1900	4	15		Middletown NY	Casino	Sunshine of Paradise alley Mrs Charles Peters  Widow McNally
1904	4		to Dec?	St Louis MO	Worlds Fair	Eliza N Peters in performed in play???Irish Village
1904	11	19		New York NY	Proctor's 5th Ave	Mathilde Edson as Mrs. Wright on  in the Stubbornness of Geraldine
1904	.		1913				Mathilde Deshon 10 articles  NY Clipper
1907	4	22		New York NY	Fifth Avenue	Mathilde Deshon in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
1909	9	6		Sacramento CA	Grand Theatre	come back to Erin Mrs Charles Peters
1912						Eliza Peters appeared on stage after her 79th birthday per Clipper obit
1917	5	30		Morsemere NJ		Eliza Nickinson Peters died survived by Fred W Peters and Mathilde Deshon
1919	2	26		New York NY	Bijou Theatre	One Sleepless Night with Fred W Peters as Rev Henry Townsend "new bedroom play has one good act"
1931				where?		Maud Peters died

Isabella Nickinson Walcot

1844	7	1		Boston MA		Charles Melton WalcottJr born
1847	10	7		New York NY		Isabella Nickinson born
1848	2	24	10 perfs	New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	King of the Peacocks Isabella in		1st NY Performance
1849	9	10		New York NY		Brittania & Hibernia with Eliza John Jr Isabella Nickinson
1855		season summary		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	New performers Isabella Nickinson
1856			1922				Charles Walcott192 articles NY Clipper some Jr?
1857	6		?	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Isabella as Maria in Twelfth night and a squaw a page or a peasant as needed
1858	1	11		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Wife The with Isabella Nickinson's last Toronto appearance as Florabella in Knowles'
1858	2		?	New York NY		Isabella and Mary Ann Nickinson go to New York
1858	6			New York NY	Laura Keenes	Napoleon's Old Guard Isabella Nickinson 1st appeared at Laura Keens as Melanie
1861	1			Toronto		Isabella Nickinson in census at Charlotte and Daniel Morrisons
1862	9	2		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Old Heads and Young Hearts Isabella Nickinson Chas Peters Owen Marlowe
1862	9	6		Troy NY	Adelphi Theatre	JN and Isabella in Troy for a limited time
1862	9	9		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Laura Keenes stock Co Owen Marlowe Isabella Nickinson JH Stoddart Stuart Robson MM Chas Peters
1862	9	26		New York NY	Laura Keenes	School for Scandal Isabella Nickinson Maria Owen Marlowe Carless JH & MRS Stoddart
1862	?	.		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Fair one with the golden locks Isabella Nickinson as Papil in JR Planche's
1862	?		to 1863	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Isabella Nickinson,  Chas Walcottleading man, Charles Peters Mr. and Mrs. Owen Marlowe at Laura Keene's
1863	3	23		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Jessy McLane Isabella Nickinson as Mrs Gimp
1863	4	6		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Bantry Bay .Isabella Nickinson in Bantry Bay or Ireland in 1798 as Penny Durgan with Chas Peters
1863	4	13		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Rivals Peg Woffington Isabella Nickinson as Mabel Vane in Peg Woffington Julia Melville The Rivals
1863	4		16-Jan	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Rivals Isabella Nickinson as Julia
1863	5	4		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Tib or our cat in crinoline Isabella Nickinson burlesque
1863	5	31		New York NY		Isabella Nickinson married Charles M WalcottJr
1863	10	8		New York NY	Mrs J Woods Olympic	Isabella and Charles Walcottat Mrs. J Woods Olympic Theatre
1863	11	25	1862?	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Blondette The Naughty Prince  Isabella Nickinson in as Una
1864	11	16	to Mar 65	New York NY	Old Winter Garden	Hamlet Isabella Walcottplays Ophelia to Edwin Booth's Hamlet by Shakespeare   100 night run
1864	11	25		New York NY	Winter Garden	Julius Caesar Walcots play Cassius & Calphurnia with Edwin, Junius Brutus Jr & John Wilkes Booth
1864	12	8		New York NY	Acad Music	School for Scandal Isabella Walcottas Maria
1867	3			New York NY	Winter Garden	Winter Garden burns so Walcots move to Walnut st Theatre Philadelphia
1867	4	?	to 1879	Philadelphia PA	Walnut St Theatre	Charles  Walcottstage mgr Isabella Walcottstage company member
1867	4	?		Philadelphia PA	Walnut St Theatre	Walcots at Walnut st theatre with C Cushman, Fechter, Chanfrau, EL Davenport, Januschek, Clara Morris
1867	4		?	Philadelphia PA		Nicholas Nickleby Isabella Walcottas Smike C WalcottJr as John Brodie in Boucicault's
1870			1912				Charles WalcottJr 36 articles NY Clipper
1871	6	8		New York NY	Acad Music	Colleen Bawn Owen Marlowe as Kyrle Daly
1871	6	26		New York NY		Pretty piece of business Mr. Mrs Chas Walcottbenefit for Owen Marlowe
1874	10	27		New York NY	Grand Opera House	Flash of Lightning Mrs CM Walcottas Bessie       Augustin Daly?
1879	2	16		Philadelphia PA	Arch St Theatre	Rivals Isabella WalcottLydia to Mrs. Drew's Mrs. Malaprop - first old women's part she played
1879	?			Chicago IL	McVickers	Walcots to McVickers  Chicago Rivals,  then toured in Banker's daughter, Divorcons, Esmerelda, & supported Barrett, Jos Jefferson & Rose Coghlan
1880	6	1		Rhinebeck NY Duchess County		Charles and Isabella Walcot			census
1881	8	15		New York NY	Madison Sq Theatre	Bankers Daughter Isabella Mrs and Mrs CM Walcottin Bronson Howard's Cazauran adapted
1884	?		to 1885	New York NY	Madison Sq Theatre	Charles Walcottmember Madison Square Theatre Co
1885	8	3		New York NY	Madison Sq Theatre	Willow Copse Isabella as Meg Chas Walcottas Dick Hulks in  Boucicault's
1887	11		to 1899	New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Walcots to Daniel Frohman's company  Lyceum Theatre New York The Wife
1889	11	19		New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Charity Ball Mrs WalcottCamilla de Peyster Mrs Whiggen Mrs Van Buren
1892	?			Wash DC	National Theatre	Rivals Rip an Winkle Isabella Walcottin Rip Van Winkle and The Rivals with Joseph Jefferson
1894	12	29		New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Case of the Rebellious Susan Isabella Walcottin Case of the Rebellious Susan by HA Jones
1895	3	.		New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Ideal Husband Isabella Walcottas Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde's Ideal Husband  March Chicago July SF Aug LA
1898	8	.		New York NY	Acad Music	Charles Walcottin Cecil Hicks Seymour Raleigh's Sporting Life
1899	?		to 1901	New York NY	Dalys	Walcots in Daly's company
1900	2	5		New York NY	Dalys	Ambassador Chas WalcottMaj Hugo Lascelles   Mrs Chas Lady Basler
1900	3	20		New York NY	Dalys	Interrupted Honeymoon Mrs Chas WalcottRachel Gordon
1900	11	27		New York NY	Dalys	Maneuvres of Jane Mrs Chas WalcottMrs Beachinoor Chas WalcottJervis Punshon
1901	12	21		New York NY	Dalys	Lady Huntworth's Experiment Mrs Chas WalcottHannah Pillenger by KC Carton
1906	6			New York NY		Isabella Walcottdied
1921	1	1		New York NY		Charles Melton WalcottJr widower of Isabella N Walcottdied

Virginia Nickinson Marlowe

1830	8	1		England	Sussex	Owen Marlowe born
1837				Albany NY		Virginia Nickinson born
1852	5	8	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	All that glitters is not gold JN  Stephen Plum Va Nick Martha Gibbs
1853	10	.		Utica NY	Utica Museum	Faint Heart never won fair lady Virginia Nickinson debut as King Charles in Planche's
1855	9	.	brief	New York NY	Barnum's Museum	Owen Marlowe first on stage as Lamp in Wild Oats
1856	11	28	mult yrs	Toronto	Royal Lyceum	My Young wife and My Old Umbrella Virginia Nickinson Dinah
1856				Toronto Buffalo		Owen Marlowe visited Buffalo and Toronto
1857	10	.		Niagara Falls		Virginia Nickinson married Owen Marlowe
1858	7	1		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Marlowes back in Toronto after tour of southern states  remained for several years
1859	8	6		Toronto	Royal Lyceum	Farewell benefit Owen Marlowe
1861	9	16	to Dec late	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Seven Sons Owen Marlowe Fred Flutter  Mrs Marlowe Sulfurus
1861	12	27		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Dickens Christmas with Peters Marlowe
1862	2	10		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Our American Cousin Owen Marlowe Sir Edw Trenchard Mrs Marlowe Sharpe
1862	5	16		New York NY	Laura Keenes	Sea of Ice Owen Marlowe Geo de Lavel Mrs Marlowe Countess de Theringe  Chas Peters
1863	9		to 1867	Philadelphia PA	Arch St Theatre	Owen Marlowe in Mrs. John Drew's company Sir Lucius O Trigger in Sheridan's The Rivals
1863	10	20		New York NY	Laura Keenes	No rest for the wicked Owen Marlowe Castelle Chas Peters JH Stoddart
1863			1911				Virginia Marlowe Owen Marlowe  including Mrs Owen  150+ articles NY Clipper
1865	8	11		Philadelphia PA	Chestnut St Theatre	Arragh Na Pogue by Boucicault Owen Marlowe
1866	5	,		Philadelphia PA	Arch St Theatre	Virginia's last stage appearance Gatanella in Who killed Cock Robin?
1868	2	25		New York NY	Mitchell's Olympic	Fanchon Maggie Mitchell Owen Marlowe as Didier
1868	8		2 seasons	San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Owen Marlowe John McCullough manager
1869	3	15		New York NY	Wallacks Theatre	School for Scandal Owen Marlowe Sir Benj also J Wallack JH Stoddart EM Holland
1869	5	3		New York NY	Wallacks Theatre	Caste Owen Marlowe Captain Hawtree
1870	1	28	to Apr 6	New York NY	Wallacks Theatre	Lost at Sea Owen Marlowe Lord Alfred Colebrooke bu Boucicault and Byron
1870	6	1		New York NY	census	Owen Marlowe Va Marlowe Jesse 8 Virginia 5 Ethel 2
1870	11	28		New York NY	Sllemania Hall	Owen Marlowe readings just returned from California
1871	1	25		New York NY	14th St Theatre	Lady of Lyon Owen Marlowe Glavia			benefit for George Holland
1871	4	15	?	New York NY	Laura Keenes	Rivals Owen Marlowe Sir Anthony Absolute
1871	6	26		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Owen Marlowe joining company from the East
1871	10	13		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Hunchback Owen Marlowe Mr. Modus
1872	1	27		San Francisco CA	Platts Hall California theatre co	Benefit Ernst & Roussey families comedy with Mrs Owen Marlowe 1st appearance SF Miss Nickinson?
1872	2	19		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Memorial benefit Mrs Sedley Smith with Mr. Mrs Owen Marlowe
1872	5	11		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	As you like it Mrs Owen Marlowe as Celia
1872	5	13		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Masks & Faces Peg Woffington Owen Marlowe Sir Charles Pomander
1872	9	25		San Francisco CA	Bohemian Club	Platt's Hall Diamond Dividends Owen Marlowe & other members Bohemian Club
1872	9			San Francisco CA	California Theatre	New Company John Torrence Owen Marlowe :"heavy swells and light comedy:
1873	7	17		San Francisco CA	California Theatre	Owen Marlowe benefit presented him with a gold Jurgensen watch and rosewood cane from Bohemian Club
1873	7	19		San Francisco CA		Owen Marlowe goes east via Panama by steamer
1873	7	23		San Francisco CA		Owen Marlowe late residence furniture Auction 10 John St
1873	9	4		Brooklyn NY	New Park Theatre	Owen Marlowe in London Assurance
1874	5	4	to May 9	New York NY	Lyceum?	School for Scandal Owen Marlowe Sir Benjamin
1874	12			England		Owen Marlowe visited family in England after 20 years then retired to Sing Sing NY
1875	8	26		New York NY	Acad Music	Around the world in 80 days Owen Marlowe as Phineas Fogg last NY appearance 9/11/75
1876	3	?		Chelsea MA	Acad Music	Our Boys Owen Marlowe Talbot Champneys last stage appearance
1876	3			Toronto	Grand Opera House	Octoroon Virginia Marlowe as the boy Paul in Boucicault's
1876	4	29		Toronto	Grand Opera House	King John Virginia Marlowe as the boy Arthur in Shakespeare's
1876	5	19		Boston MA		Owen Marlowe died  Mass General Hospital leaving widow and children in Toronto
1880	8	9		Chicago IL	McVickers	All the Rage with Mrs Owen Marlowe as Mrs Dr Goodwin
1884	12	29	to Jan 7	New York NY	Haverley's theatre	Jersey man Mrs Owen Marlowe Tabitha Mayberry
1887	1	10	to Jun 4	New York NY	14th St Theatre	Old Homestead Mrs Owen Marlowe Mrs Murdoch Annie Hopkins Denman Thompson Josh Whitcomb
1889	6	.		Boston MA		Virginia Marlowe		photo
1889	10	19		New york NY	Procter's 23rd St Theatre	Greater Metropolis Mrs Owen Marlowe Opio and CW Couldock
1892	?			New York NY	Lyceum Theatre	Va Marlowe Mrs Hodnut Isabella Walcottas Miss Brent in Arthur Wing Pinero's Lady Bountiful
1892				New York NY		Va Marlowe as Mrs Cameron I Walcottas Mrs JR DeRuyter in Elisabeth Marbury's Merry Gotham
1898	11	16		New York NY	Knickerbocker theatre	Ethel Marlowe, daughter of Virginia N Marlowe died suddenly performing in Hall Caine's The Christian
1899	3	7		New York NY		Virginia Nickinson Marlowe died				any surviving children?

John Nickinson Jr.

1843				New York NY		John Nickinson Jr born
1861	1	14		Quebec		John Nickinson Jr in Quebec
1870	4		to Nov	New York NY		John Nickinson Jr theatrical publishing
1870			to 1871	New York NY		JN Jr Mercantile Library Association Board of Directors
1874	4	30	1881?	New York NY		John Nickinson Jr enters Custom Service
1886				New York NY		John Nickinson Jr living at 221 E 21st St clerk
1916	2	14		New York NY		John Nickinson Jr died		worked many years clerk grocery div Appraisers stores dau Toronto

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