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  • ==John Samwell or Samwells (c.1820-1883), Equestrian== ...ng in various circuses, many with famous names: Hughes, [[The Cooke Family|Cooke]], Macarte, [[The Ginnett family|Ginnett]], [[Hengler Circus|Hengler]], Pab
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  • ...etersburg, Russia; that same year, one of his pupils, British equestrian [[John Bill Ricketts]] (1769-1802), opened the first circus in the United States, In 1836, the British equestrian [[Thomas Cooke]] visited the United States and brought back to England the American travel
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  • ...It is during this time that he met and married [[The Cooke Family|Victoria Cooke]], who belonged to the old (and prolific) Scottish circus dynasty. Together ...the actress Tove Boëtius (1919-1976), and had then two children, Eva and John Ernst (b.1948); the latter married Germaine Dedessus Le Moutier, of the [[D
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