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They decided that Archie should return to Canada, then, once he had established himself, she would follow. "Adventuresome as always, and deeply in love with her husband, Ivy accepted the plan of beginning a life together in the northern
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dogs. (Belaney was raised by his two aunts and grandmother, his father and mother having been deemed unfit for parenthood by the family.) Florence and Ivy began visiting the
Belaney family during school holidays at their home, Highbury Villa on St. James' Road. "Archie liked Ivy and tried to impress
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At his aunts' suggestion, he contacted Ivy, whom he had not seen since 1906, when he had left for Canada. In 1938, she recalled their time together: “In 1916 he returned to London. He had all the glamour of a wounded soldier then. Lines of pain had given character to his dark, handsome face. I went
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Archie, a future master of the stage himself, must have listened avidly to Ivy’s stories of travelling across Europe. In Russia she once saw a line of men chained to each other on their way to
Siberia. Of all the European cities she visited, Ivy loved Vienna, and most of all Budapest. Her stories
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The marriage certificate gives the following particulars:— " Bridegroom — Archibald
Stansfield Belaney, full age, bachelor, soldier, of Hollington. Father—George Belaney. deceased, architect. " Bride—Florence Ivy Mary Holmes, full age, spinster, of Hollington Father—Robert John Holmes, deceased,
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Trained as a ballet dancer in London, Ivy joined an
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Ivy enjoyed Archie’s company. Always he was so polite, and had excellent manners. He wore his hair short. In her presence he never drank or swore. In many ways the man had become but a larger projection of the boy, with the same intense love of nature and North
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her. Thinking she would be interested, he showed her how he fed frogs to his snakes." She recalled playing at being
Indians with Archie: "I was his squaw 'Dancing Moonbeam', he was 'Big Chief Thunderbinder'".
292:, by the Rev John Backhouse Holmes M.A. Her mother was a witness. Belaney stated that he was a bachelor, although he was still married to his first wife, Angele Egwuna, whom he had married in 1910 in Canada.
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Bulgaria, and Turkey. After a run of three months in
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on 11 April 1891, the daughter of John Robert Holmes, a doctor, and Florence Amelia Jane Abraham (1864-1941).
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