Effie Adelaide Rowlands

1859–16 O

Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was born on 1858/1859 in New South Wales, Australia. She was the second daughter of the English Alexander Henderson (1828–1886) and Maria Nelson. Her sister Caroline Sidney Henderson was born on 9 January 1855. Their parents married on 26 December 1853 in in Hobart, Tasmania, but their marriage wasn't legal, because her father was already married and had not divorced. For that reason, Effie and her sister were illegitimates. Her father formed other families over the years, and she had several half brothers. Her maternal grandfather, Sidney Nelson, was a well-known composer, and her parents worked in his teathre company in Australia. The family moved to England, where in 1871, the Henderson sisters were boarders in Victoria Road, West Derby, Lancashire. Her sister became an actress under the name Carrie Hope, and on 8 January 1877, she married comedian William Henry Hallatt at Parish Church in St. Luke's, Chelsea, and had two children: Maria Effie Hallatt (alias May Hallatt), also an actress, and Alexander Norman Hallatt. On 19 dic 1882 in Epsom, Surrey, Effie married Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands (alias Cecil Raleigh), an actor and playwright. Her father died on 1 February 1886 in Cannes, and her sister died on 19 October 1887 in Marylebone, London. Her husband abandon her, and she begun to write to support himself. She penned countless serials for magazines and newspapers that were reprinted around the world. She signed under her ma

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