Nellie Boswell

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Nellie Boswell
Profession circus animal trainer
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Born 1858 in United Kingdom
Country United Kingdom
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Title animal trainer -
Location at Hengler’s Circus in United Kingdom
Biography details

Ellen Clara Boswell , circus animal trainer in United Kingdom

Born 1858 in United Kingdom dead 1938 , of artist James Boswell and artist Rebecca Cooke .


James and Rebecca had three children, two sons and a daughter: James Clements (J.C.) and Harry and Ellen Clara, known as Nellie. They were all expert in horsemanship.Nellie was famous in Hengler’s Circus for nearly two decades. She performed dashing character acts appearing as a Scottish fish wife with a creel of herrings, changing to the ‘Jolly young waterman’ and ‘Highland Laddie’ while on the back of the galloping horse. “You made your changes on horseback”, she explained in a “World’s Fair” interview in 1935. “I reappeared to dance the Highland Fling in the centre of the ring if I got an encore – and I always did.” Nellie married Fred Cattle, known as “comical Cattle”. Their eldest son, William, became adept on unsupported ladders, and as “du Calion” toured all over the world, including the Schlesinger circuit in South Africa.


Siblings

Siblings through the father James Boswell (1826-01-04 -- 1859):

  1. James Boswell Born 1853
  2. Harry Boswell Born ?

Nellie Boswell s ancestral Ahnentafel:
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Nellie Boswell
Born: 1858

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James Boswell

Born: 1826-01-04

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Rebecca Cooke

Born: 1814

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Thomas Cooke

Born: 1782
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References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). animal trainer Ellen Clara Boswell in United Kingdom. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 25 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1767. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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Categories animal trainer | circus | Hengler’s Circus | Boswell family | Born 1858 | Dead 1938 | People from United Kingdom

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