Helen Barry

Helen Barry, born Elizabeth Short , was an English actress. She began her acting career at ageafter her first marriage dissolved.

Barry was born as Elizabeth Short in Lee, now a suburb of London but then a village in the county of Kent she was the daughter of Charles Henry Short and his wife Mary. Elizabeth married Joseph Brandon, a Belgian, onMay 1855 when she was fifteen years old. The ceremony took place at the Parish Church of Saint Luke, Charlton, Kent. Her daughter, Esther E. Brandon, was born in Greenwich, Kent in the second quarter of 1855, around the time of the marriage. OnJune 1870, the marriage was dissolved at Westminster, upon the petition of Joseph Brandon. Esther had been put out as an apprentice by 1871. The divorce was finalized onFebruary 1876.

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