Thanks to AndyT for originally creating this thread, and to Rollo and austinrunner for maintaining it after AndyT.
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The basic format for entries on the main pages is:
Line 1: Player's first name, middle name(s) and maiden name (all in capitals)
Line 2: Player's country of birth (and adopted country, if applicable)
Line 3: Player's date of birth
Line 4: Date on which player died
Line 5: Name of player's husband(s), date on which they were married and any additional information, where known, on a divorce and the date on which the husband died, especially if he predeceased the player in question
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Any additional biographical information is stored after the 26 sections (A to Z) containing the basic biographical information referred to above. Entries up to 11 January 2012 have been copied and pasted from the previous Married Names (Updated) thread.
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Obst was definitely her maiden name. As a girl she was a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel or League of German Girls [Maidens], the girls' section of the Nazi party youth movement, the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend). Erika Obst's name first appears in the early 1940s in ranking lists for tennis players who were part of the Bund Deutscher Mädel.
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GERTRUDE AUGUSTA "GUSSY" MORAN
United States
Born 8 September 1923
Died 16 January 2013
Married (1) Thomas James Corbally, 6 August 1956
Married (2) Edward James Hand, 28 January 1957
Married (3) Francis Milhaus Simpson, 22 July 1962
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EMELINE WILLIAM HOLMES
United States
Born 1893
Died 30 May 1914
Married Gustave Fitzhugh Touchard, 11 October 1911
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Emeline, who played in some lawn tennis tournaments before her marriage, died from complications following closely on the birth of a baby son. She was 21. The baby survived.
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Mme René Fourcade, whomever she was, married before the 1928 French Chmps.
I'm guessing she is either equal to or related to the F Holzschuch who played in 1927. The weird thing is this player also appears AFTER 1928. So she is either
A) NOT this F Holzscuch, but probably related
or, less likely
B) is equal to Mme Rene Fourcade and quickly divorced.
On July 19, 1929, about the tournament in Vittel, Le Figaro writes "Mme Fourcade née Holzscfuch" (but Holzscfuch is certainly a mistake for Holzschuch, a difficult surname). http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k295933w/f8.image
NELLY JEANNE ADAMSON
Belgium/France
Born 7 December 1916
Died 22 February 2010
Married (1) Clarence Aaron Robbins, died 1949
Married (2) Pierre H. Landry, February 1937
Married (3) Maurice (or Marcel) Renault
I'm still doubtful about her 1st marriage. In the 1949 thread Jimbo shared some interesting info:
"About her first marriage, also IMDb writes that (on 1933 not 1934, and calling her one time Adamson and one time Anderson, British (!) player). http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730317/bio
But this marriage is strange: on 16 January 1934 she would have been 17 and Tod Robbins 45....
And I didn't find trace of Tod Robbins as tennis player."
Mrs. Alfred F. Riese (Ruth F. Smith) died July 30, 1972, in Saginaw, Mich. She was born in Romeo, Mich., Nov. 15, 1890, [graduated from OHS in 1910,] and attended the Conservatory and the College (class of 1914) After graduating from Boston University (Sargent School of Physical Education), she taught physical education in Saginaw for eight years and established the interscholastic girls’ basketball program at Saginaw High School.
After her marriage in 1918, her husband taught her to play tennis and she was known as the queen of Michigan tennis in the 1920’s and 1930’s. She won the Michigan State Closed Tournament 12 times, the Michigan State Open Tournament four times and the Saginaw Valley title 18 successive times between 1919 and 1936. She won her last tournament in 1947.
Mrs. Riese was Michigan women’s champion, won the Western open championship twice and was once runnerup in the Canadian championship. She first won the Michigan women’s singles title in 1923 and returned in 1933 to win it for the sixth time.