Ladies and gentlemen!

Please give your applause to these short biographies of the Samwell performers and their relatives!

More details can be found in the book Once a Famous Circus. See the contacts page for how to purchase a copy.

Adeline Gertrude Samwell 1855 – 1944

Amy Samwells 1851 – aft1907

Charlotte Samwells (nee Partridge) 1819 – 1907

Henry Cornwall c1811 – 1869

Henry Walker c1817 – 1865

John Henry Walker 1851 – 1883

John Samwells 1820 – 1883

Leon Samwells 1844 – 1893

Martin Julian 1869 – 1919

Mary Ann Cornwall (nee Samwell) c1819 – 1862

Mary Ann Frances Samwells (nee Bowen) 1869 – 1920

Mary Ann Samwell (nee Fowler) 1832 – 1867

Mary Ann Samwell (nee Jones) c1792 – c1840

Mary Jane Kirby (nee Samwell) 1853 – 1947

Nancy Harriot Walker (nee Samwell) 1821 – 1898

Roland Samwells 1857 – 1908

Rose Fitzsimmons (nee Julian) c1866 – 1903

Stephen Samwell c1771 – 1816

Stephen Samwell c1817 – 1859

The Lee Family

Theo Julian 1871 – 1943

Thomas Luckie Samwells 1869 – 1944

Thomas Lucky Samwells 1833 – 1906

William Samwell c1790 – 1834

William Samwell 1827 – c1873

William Thomas Walker Samwell 1858 – aft1881