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Another marriage:

Bertha Eugenie Amanda Gardiner
in the Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958
Name: Bertha Eugenie Amanda Gardiner
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec, 1901
Registration district: Dublin South, Ireland
Volume: 2
Page Number: 613
FHL Film Number: 101259
Records on Page:
Name
Howard George Allcock <<<<<<<<<
Margaret Josephine Myers
John Hugh Moses Montgomery
Bertha Eugenie Amanda Gardiner <<<<<<<<<<
Elizabeth Radford
Bertha E A Fletcher <<<<<<<<<<<
Wilfred Joseph H Rickatson
Alfred Meeson


Bertha E A Allcock
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Bertha E A Allcock
Death Age: 70
Birth Date: abt 1861
Registration Date: Dec 1931
Registration district: Scarborough
Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding
Volume: 9d
Page: 460


Probate:

Allcock, Bertha Eugenie Amanda of 9 Springfield Place, Scarborough (wife of George Howard Allcock) died 19 December 1931. Probate 12 January to Ella Coyne, widow. Effects £55.

I'm not sure Bertha was ever actually married to George Leslie - maybe for religious reasons? She was RC, he was C of E.

I don't see a marriage record, anyway.

1901 census -
Bertha's birthplace is given as America - and also her son Harry is said to be born in America.

Son Harry is with his father Henry G in 1891 - but no sign of Gustavus:


Harry Coyne
in the 1891 England Census
Name: Harry Coyne
Gender: Male
Age: 4
Relationship: Lodger
Birth Year: 1887
Birth Place: USA
Civil Parish: Whitehaven
Residence Place: Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
Sub registration district: Whitehaven
ED, Institution or Vessel: 6
Neighbors:
Piece: 4313
Folio: 105
Household Members:
Name Age
William Mc Gowan 68
Elizabeth Mc Gowan 48
James Mc Gowan 23
Frederick Mc Gowan 12
Joseph Mc Gowan 10
Henry G Coyne 47 - Artist (Sculp [tor?] ), Ireland, married
Harry Coyne 4
William Mc Gowan 18


EDIT:
I see now that RG has already posted travel and marriage records for Harry.

Apologies if the 1939 register for widow Ella and son has already been posted. Note the address, 9 Springfield Place, was bertha's address on the probate record Argyllgran posted:

9 Springfield Place , Scarborough M.B., Yorkshire (North Riding), England

Ella Coyne ? Dec 1878 Female Unpaid Housewife Widowed 126 1
Terence G Coyne ? Oct 1914 Male Hairdresser Divorced 126 2

Bertha may have said she was born in America, but I still feel the birth I posted previously for her is the right one...

Name: Bertha Eugena Amanda Fletcher
Registration Year: 1857
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Bolton
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 263

Terence's marriage, that ended in divorce by the 1939 register?

Marriages Mar 1937
Coyne Terence G G Deighton Scarbro' 9d 757
Deighton Joan F Coyne Scarbro' 9d 757

A possible son and daughter of the marriage on FreeBMD. Won't post here as they may still be living.

I'm not questioning that the Bolton birth is the correct one.
Maybe the 1901 enumerator assumed she was born in America because Harry was. Or maybe she wanted to sound more exotic!



Looking into Henry Andrew Gardiner Coyne, the librettist 1839-1900.
probably Bertha's husband, although a good bit older than her:

Leonora Leigh : ballad and chorus, sung by Gardiner Coyne
Author: Henry Tucker
Publisher: Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., ©1858.
Edition/Format: Downloadable musical score : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
https://tinyurl.com/y9dgaqhx



Henry Andrew Gardiner
in the 1871 England Census
Name: Henry Andrew Gardiner
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland
Civil Parish: Preston
Ecclesiastical parish: Christchurch
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: Preston
Sub-registration district: Preston
ED, institution, or vessel: 21
Household schedule number: 89
Piece: 4205
Folio: 75
Page Number: 21
Household Members:
Name Age
Isabella Yates 33
Elizabeth Yates 20
George Wareing 71
Henry Andrew Gardiner 37 - actor
Phoebe Gardner 34 - born USA

Presumably he couldn't marry Bertha before Gustavus's birth because he was still married to Phoebe.


His death, after (or maybe before) which Bertha moved in with George Leslie:

Henry Andrews Gardiner

in the Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
Name: Henry Andrews Gardiner
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1839
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1900
Death Age: 61
Registration district: Dublin North
Volume: 2
Page: 406
FHL Film Number: 101601

Henry G. Coyne
in the 1881 England Census
Name: Henry G. Coyne
Age: 39
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
Relationship to Head: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland
Civil Parish: Leicester St Margaret
County/Island: Leicestershire
Country: England
Street address: 19 Chancery St
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Actor
Registration district: Leicester
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors:
Piece: 3156
Folio: 6
Page Number: 6
Household Members:
Name Age
William Clarke 55
Milicent Clarke 50
Mary Elizth. Clarke 30
Geo. William Clarke 26
Sam. Henry Clarke 20
Fred. William Stenning 19
Henry G. Coyne 39 - actor

Well done on finding previous wife Phoebe. The 1884 review of the Gardiner Coynes at Tenby referred to Miss Bertha Fletcher as also being Mrs Gardiner Coyne. Is there a death for Phoebe before the 1881 marriage to Bertha?

I can't see a death for Phoebe , nor can I see her in later censuses; with any surname.
Maybe she went back to America - though I can't see any record of that either.
Maybe she travelled under her maiden surname, which we don't know.

(EDIT: but see next post )

Henry's still calling himself married in 1881.

"Miss Bertha Fletcher" - maybe Bertha continued to use that as her stage name.

I can't see Bertha in 1881 - and still no sign of Gustavus anywhere, which is odd.

???
Deaths Jun 1881 (>99%)
COYNE Phoebe 45 Liverpool 8b 97



Phoebe Coyne
in the 1881 England Census
Name: Phoebe Coyne
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relationship to Head: Visitor
Gender: Female
Where born: United States <<<<<<<<<<<<<
Civil Parish: Liverpool
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: 51 Renshaw St
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: No Occupation
Registration district: Liverpool
Sub registration district: Mount Pleasant
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Neighbors:
Piece: 3624
Folio: 92
Page Number: 13
Household Members:
Name Age
William Chas. Barker 42
Emma A. Barker 39
Harry V. Barker 7
William L. Barker 4
Alfred C. Barker 2
Clara Cutts 15
William H. Coates 20
Thomas Coates 18
Phoebe Coyne 50
William Cope 27
Catherine J. Cope 27

????

Henry A G Coyne
in the New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940
Name: Henry A G Coyne
Record Type: Oath
Oath Date: 13 Mar 1860
Oath Place: New York, New York, New York, USA


Henry A G Coyne
in the U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project)
Name: Henry A G Coyne
Birth Place: England
Court District: New York
Date of Action: 13 Mar 1860

Nationality: English (so maybe not).
Address: 46 Dallius Street.
No occupation given, nor date of arrival in USA
Witness: Benjamin Keyser, 6 Grand St, NY City.

Yes, various theatrical reviews in newspapers on FMP show that Bertha continued to perform under the name Miss Bertha Fletcher after her marriage.

Kind of Phoebe to die so opportunely and allow Gustavus's parents to marry...

They didn't waste any time after her death!

Poor Phoebe - it looks as if she and Henry were already separated by 1881 - maybe his affair with Bertha had been going on for a while.

I do wish we could find Gustavus.
I wonder if he was perhaps adopted/fostered and brought up under a different name, then reverted to his birth name later - at least by 1896. But there's not even any sign of him in 1901 or 1911.

Gardener Coyne played in Leeds in 1861 and 1865..he was also over in the IOM late 70s and early 80s Bertha Fletcher started appearing on the IOM Billing..(New Gaitey Theatre) 1881 and 1883.

Think he may have been in NY 1858 when he wrote this….

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/sheet-music-cover-image-of-the-song-the-firemans-child-news-photo/727096879

The address 1901 Irish Census was the home of Henry G according to his Death Cert..(10 April 1900)..He died of Heart failure aged 61yrs. and his wife Bertha Eugenia was present.

I love the words of the first line of that song, Eringobragh!
I can just imagine an OTT music hall entertainer giving it his/her histrionic all!

I expect the song "Leonora Leigh" mentioned earlier was along the same lines. Same writer and publisher.

Re Henry Tucker's many works:
https://www.pdmusic.org/tucker.html

Click on Gardiner Coyne's name in that list for the full words to The Fireman's Child!

???

Marriages Jun 1861 (>99%)
Gardner Henry Andrew Wirral 8a 599
SNIDER Phoebe Wirral 8a 599

He was a really distinguished "Entertainer" but I cannot find anything relative to his death 1900..I imagined it would be in one of the " Variety" Newspapers but nothing...Thought that would give an idea of who was at the Funeral...Gustavus is really driving me mad...!!!

Further Googling re Gardiner:

Gardiner Coyne , "celebrated Irish comedian and vocalist", was at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1864.
In 1873 he was at the Southminster Theatre of Varieties, Edinburgh.
In 1895, "Gardiner Coyne's Combination" was at the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Glasgow.

Phoebe must have acted, too. This 1868 report mentions "Mrs Gardiner Coyne":

"On Thursday. 2nd April, the performance will commence with the celebrated drama, in three acts, entitled The Pearl of Killarney [with] Wandering Davy [played by] Mr Gardiner Coyne in which he will sing "The Sprig of Shillelagh", and the celebrated song (written expressly for him) named "The dear little Shamrock"...To conclude on Thursday evening with the laughable Irish farce of 'Larry's Blunders', Larry Hoolaghan, with songs [by] Mr. Gardiner Coyne...Friday, 3rd April - Grand fashionable night! for the benefit of Mr Gardiner Coyne who will appear in three characters, with sings and dances; and on which occasion Mrs. Gardiner Coyne will appear for this night only as "Norah Herbert". The performances will commence with the delightful domestic drama, entitled 'The Irishman's Home or, The Stolen Sheep!"...after which, the serio-comic drama, entitled The Irish Engagement...To conclude on Friday evening with the laughable Irish farce of 'Born To Good Luck' Paudeen O'Rafferty (with songs) - Mr. Gardiner Coyne..." . . . . and so on.