Ancestry of
Lily James

TV and Movie Actress

Helen Virginia Horton

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• • Grandmother of Lily James — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Walter Clark "Bud" Horton 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Katherine Stewart   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Nov 1923 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Sep 2007 
  • Death Location:
  • Topanga, Los Angeles, California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • (James) Hamish Thomson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Sep 1949 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Crown Court Church, London, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  James Stewart Thomson (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Katherine "Kate" Thomson

  Bruce Horton Thomson

  • Notes: 

  • American TV and movie actress

    Helen Horton was an American actress although much of her career was spent in the United Kingdom. She is probably best remembered for her character roles on the Benny Hill show and as the voice of "Mother," the ship's computer in the movie Alien.

• Sources for Helen Virginia Horton

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 03 MAR 1962, p. 10, Death notice for father Walter C Horton.
  • ² Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935, Birth record for Helen Horton.
  • ³ England and Wales Births 1837-2006, Birth record for son Bruce H Thomson.
  • ⁴ England and Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Marriage record for James Thomson and Helen V Horton.
  • ⁵ England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976, Marriage record for Hamish Thomson and Helen Virginia Horton.
  • ⁶ England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976, Birth record for unnamed son of Hamish and Helen (Horton) Thomson.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1940, Chicago, E.D. 103-457, Sheet 61A, Image 25 fo 38.
  • ⁸ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1930, Chicago, E.D. 16-224, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 60.
  • ⁹ New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967, Pan American Airways, Record for Helen V Thomson.
  • ¹⁰ Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960, Ivernia, 13 DEC 1957, Southampton to New York.
  • ¹¹ TCPalm (part of the USA Today Network), 05 DEC 2006, Obituary for son Bruce Horton Thomson, (accessed 08/13/2020).
  • ¹² The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), 07 OCT 2007, p. 147, Obituary for Helen Virginia Horton Thomson.
  • ¹³ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Helen Virginia Thomson.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Helen Horton", (accessed 08/11/2020).

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