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Katherine RAND

Female 1838 - 1891  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name Katherine RAND 
    Birth Jun 1838  Lambeth RD Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    _UID C01E012290784B8189B503CDC04F1C1D2B79 
    Death 19 Dec 1891  340 West 21st Street, New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Birth in Q2 1838 is not certain, need birth certificate.

      1871 census: at 14 Fitzroy Street, St Pancras, London (all RODGERS) Katherine (wife, married, 30, actress, born London), Elenor (daughter, 5, born Hanley, Staffordshire), Lilian C (daughter, 3, born Birmingham) and Katherine F (daughter, 2, born Birmingham). Also a visitor from Hanley, Maud L BETTERLY single, 29) and a domestic servant, Ellen LOCKETT (31).

      Not found in any other UK census. Katherine went to America some time between 1869 (when she appeared at Drury Lane with Henry Irving in Formosa, or The Railroad to Run by Dion Boucicault) and 1873 (when she appeared in the New York production of Boucicault's Mimi). According to the source of these dates, The Uncompromising Victorian - The Law and the Family in the Plays of Dion Boucicault, online at http://www.edizioniets.com/Priv_File_Libro/3314.pdf,:
      "1873. He [Boucicault] and [his wife] Agnes receive American citizenship. Agnes returns to England alone. He sets up house in New York with Katherine Rodgers."

      September 2021: email from Matthew Daniel Mason, Processing Archivist of Visual Resources, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Katherine died 19 December 1891 at 340 West 21st Street, New York City.
    Person ID I1812  Folkestone, Kent
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2021 

    Family James RODGERS 
    Children 
     1. Eleanor RODGERS,   b. Abt 1866, Hanley, Staffordshire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1918, 41 West 82nd Street, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 52 years)
     2. Lilian Constance RODGERS,   b. Mar 1868, Kings Norton RD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Katherine Florence RODGERS,   b. Mar 1869, Kings Norton RD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2019 

  • Photos
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Composite of a pair of cartes de visites created by photographer G. K. (George Kendall) Warren, 1833-1884, at Boston, Massachusetts, probably 1875-1876.

    Documents
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Newspaper announcement of death in 1891, published in The Evening News (New York, New York) on Monday December 21 1891.
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Katherine Rodgers nee Rand 1838 - 1891
    Newspaper announcement of death in 1891, published in The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) on Tuesday December 22 1891.

  • Sources 
    1. [S36] BMD index, possible birth, Q2 1838 Lambeth 4/269, mother's maiden name BELL. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S316] Matthew Mason, September 2021.