Rosina Vokes

Rosina Vokes (18 October 1854 – 27 January 1894) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer and a member of the Vokes Family troupe of entertainers before having a successful career in her own right in North America from 1885 to 1893.

Theodocia Rosina Vokes was born in Clapham, London, in 1854. She was a member of the well-known Vokes Family made up of three sisters, a brother and "foster brother" (actually the actor Walter Fawdon (1844–1904) who changed his name to Fawdon Vokes and outlived the rest of his "family") popular in the pantomime theatres of 1870s London and in the United States. Their father, Frederick Strafford Thwaites Vokes (1816–1890), was a theatrical costumier and wigmaker who owned a shop at 19 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Their mother Sarah Jane Biddulph née Godden (1818–1897) was the daughter of Welsh-born strolling player Will Wood and his actress wife.