Talk:Peggy Allenby

Birth name

Does anyone have a reference to support saying that Allenby's birth name was Eleanor Byrne Fox? As I have searched on Newspapers.com, I have found no articles about Fox that mentioned the name Allenby, and vice-versa. This article about Allenby says, "Her real name is Edith ..." Eddie Blick (talk) 16:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

I've been researching Eleanor, who was a first cousin of my grandfather. I don't know of any article that says outright that she is the same person as Peggy Allenby, but it is clear from details of her life that Peggy talked about (as in the article you cite) that she is in fact Eleanor. Eleanor appeared in a few shows under her real name (My Lady's Glove, 1916-7; Maytime, 1917; Crops and Croppers, 1918), then as Edythe or Edith Allenby starting in 1919, then settled on Peggy Allenby starting when she went to the Hazele Burgess company in Nashville in 1921. She claimed to be related to Field Marshal Allenby. The full name Eleanor Byrne Fox is confirmed in her grandfather's will, which is available on Ancestry.com and is discussed in the New York papers of the time because of varied litigation over it. Her grandmother Fox' maiden name was Byrne. Eleanor was raised by her Fox grandparents and inherited about half their estate after 1914, which made her independently wealthy the rest of her life. You can read about her grandfather on Wikipedia under John Fox (congressman). You can see many clippings about Eleanor/Edith/Peggy on my Newspapers.com profile: https://www.newspapers.com/profile/markfdyer Mark Dyer Laguatan (talk) 22:02, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

On closer examination, there is an article that makes the direct connection between Eleanor Fox and Peggy Allenby: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101634013/peggy-allenby-and-robert-armstrong/ (New York Daily News, 18 April 1925, page 71): "Mrs. Armstrong, known to the stage as Peggy Allenby...is the grand-daughter of John Fox, millionaire iron contractor." Mark Dyer. Laguatan (talk) 21:35, 23 June 2022 (UTC)