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Skriven 2005-03-21 05:02:46 av Stephen Hayes (5:7106/20.0)
Ärende: Joseph LANGLEY-LEVY of Liverpool and Johannesburg
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* Originally from Roy Stockdill (8:8/2003) to All.
* Original dated: Sun Mar 20, 15:31

From: roy@stockdill.com ("Roy Stockdill")

Does anyone have any knowledge of Joseph LANGLEY LEVY, who was born Joseph LEVY
in Liverpool in 1870 (I have not yet discovered when or why the Langley bit got
added) and who went to South Africa in the early 1900s and become editor of the
Johannesburg Sunday Times?

He appears on the 1901 census in Liverpool as a journalist (sub-editor) and was
supposedly editor of a publication called the Liverpool Review and also of the
Daily Express before going to South Africa. His father was John (or Jacob)
Levy, born in London who became a cigar manufacturer in Liverpool (he also is
on the 1901).

Joseph married a Mabel Ada RUSHTON in 1897 and they had two daughters at least
- Miriam Gertrude Levy, born 1898, who became an actress in the name of June
Langley Levy, and Doris Bessie Levy, born 1902, who later married a man called
Moore and became known as Doris Langley-Moore. There are numerous websites
about her, since she was a prominent author and fashion historian and founded
the Museum of Costume in Bath. Miriam married an actor in South Africa but the
marriage split up almost immediately after the birth of a son and she remarried
and returned to England with her young son, who later became an actor and
well-known TV quizmaster here in the 1960s.

Joseph Langley Levy, in whom I am particularly interested, was apparently a
leading light in Johannesburg and a major figure in the city's cultural scene
but I can find next to nothing on him with Google, except a fleeting reference
that gets his birth date wrong by years! There appears to be a Langley Levy
Street in Johannesburg which may well have been named after him. He was the
great-grandfather of a UK actress whose ancestry I am currently researching.

Wonder if anyone in Liverpool has any connections to this family? I am also
hoping Steve Hayes might see this.

Roy Stockdill
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