Family history for actor Hugh Jackman
We’ve had a look at actor Hugh Jackman’s ancestors’ 1911 census return. The results are from his paternal Bellas and Furniss lines.
The 1911 census return shows Hugh’s paternal grandmother, Glory Margaret Bellas, under one month old and living in a rather busy household - 13 people (nine of whom were adults) living in a nine-roomed house!
Glory was living with her parents (Hugh’s paternal great-grandparents), Nicholas Isidor Bellas and Dora Bellas nee Furniss, and her grandparents (Hugh’s paternal great-great-grandparents), Charles and Margaret Furniss.
The extended family had been born in various places around north England and the midlands; Glory and her mother had both been born in Manchester, Charles Furniss in Derby and Margaret Furniss in Bolton, Lancashire. However, Glory’s father was Greek and had been born in Constantinople. We can see that Nicholas had certainly lived in Constantinople for some of his earlier life as his eldest two children had also been born there. These children are probably from another marriage as Nicholas and Dora had only been married for six years and the ‘number of children born alive to the marriage’ has been listed as two.
In 1911, Charles Furniss (aged 85) recorded himself as being retired on a pension, having worked for the railway. Nicholas Bellas was working as an accountant for a company manufacturing cigarettes.
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