Feb-28-20
 | | MissScarlett: The <ISDN> of May 25th 1889, p.341: <MR. LUCIEN SERRAILLIER (a young English gentleman of French parentage) has won the chief prize at the City Club's tournament of 130 members.> His name appears sporadically in the chess columns through the 1890s, mainly in connection with the City of London CC, but he also played for Battersea and Surrey teams. The last chess sighting is a victorious consultation game vs. Pillsbury in London in 1902, which is presumably explained by the appearance of a <Lucien Serraillier> in St. Louis in 1903, as member of a British delegation to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (aka St. Louis World's Fair). I found the record of the passing of a <L.S.> in 1919, but the dates don't fit (although another familial connection is possible): <Serraillier was born in London on 24 September 1912. He was the eldest of the four children of Lucien Serraillier (1886–1919) and Mary Kirkland Rodger (1883–1940). His father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_S... |
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Feb-29-20
 | | Tabanus: Perhaps born *March* 1866, died 1919:
1866: Lucien Serraillier b. Apr-May-June 1866, reg. district Pancras (London) (civil reg. birth index) 1901: Henry Serraillier, 58, b. in France; Lucien, Son, 34, Civil Engineer, b. in St. Pancras, living in Streatham London (census) 1903: Lucien Serraillier, 37 years & 2 months, arriving in Ellis Island NY 2 May 1903 on board Umbria (passenger list) 1911: Lucien Serraillier, 44, born in Camden Town London, married less than 1 year, manager of reinforced engineering concrete company; Mary Serraillier, wife, 28, + 1 visitor + 1 servant, living in Cricklewood London (census) 1919: <Serraillier Lucien of 7 Wildwood-road Golders Green Middlesex died 12 March 1919 Probate London 24 May to Mary Kirkland Serraillier widow and Robert William Vawdry enginer. Effects L 15619 2s. 10d.> (probate calendar) |
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Feb-29-20
| | MissScarlett: Good stuff.
<living in Streatham London (census)> Can you make out an address? |
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Feb-29-20
| | Tabanus: Blurred, but I think it also says "St Mary the virgin Balham" and "2. Hearnville Rd." |
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Feb-29-20
| | MissScarlett: I know it well. He lived close to where the <Nightingale Lane Chess Club> used to be. I should start up <London Chess Tours>; could make a bomb taking Chinese <Ding Liren> fans around the haunts of the Victorian and Edwardian chess scene. |
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Feb-29-20
| | Tabanus: "Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damn saucy, you lucky thing." |
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Feb-29-20
| | MissScarlett: <And this,> I confidently intone, <is where Pillsbury caught the clap that killed him!> Yes, we're in Peckham High Street. |
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Feb-29-20
 | | keypusher: < MissScarlett: <And this,> I confidently intone, <is where Pillsbury caught the clap that killed him!> Yes, we're in Peckham High Street.> It wasn’t the clap that killed him. |
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Feb-29-20
| | MissScarlett: It was a slow-hand clap. Pillsbury loved his public, well, too much. |
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Jul-13-22
| | MissScarlett: <1901: Henry Serraillier, 58, b. in France; Lucien, Son, 34, Civil Engineer, b. in St. Pancras, living in Streatham London (census)> That's <Jenny>, his mother, a widow. The address is not #2, but #4 Hearnville Rd. The 1881 census has his father as <Auguste>, 2 years older than his wife, his occupation being manager of an electric firm. Jenny is a governess. The address is 32 Gloucester Road, Kensington. <1903: Lucien Serraillier, 37 years & 2 months, arriving in Ellis Island NY 2 May 1903 on board Umbria (passenger list)> Feb 6 1906, arriving Southampton from New York, listed as foreign subject (France), Minnetonka passenger list. He drew Lasker at his simul display before the Battersea CC on May 2nd 1908 (<BCM>, May 1908, p.254). |
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