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Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope, the son of stonemason William Henry Hope and Avis Townes Hope. The family emigrated from England to Cleveland, Ohio in 1908, when Leslie, the fifth of seven children, was not yet five years old.
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May 29, 2003 · His livelihood crushed by a union lockout at United Stone and Steel, a British mason named William Henry Hope moves his family to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek a better life. The fifth of his...
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William Henry Hope died on Sunday, November 22, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 67. Visitation was at his residence, 3323 Yorkshire Rd., Cleveland Heights, where services were held Monday morning, November 23, at 10:30 a. m. Burial followed at Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
May 25, 2018 · Bob Hope’s father, William Henry Hope, a stone mason, had emigrated to the United States in 1907 to join his brothers Frank, a plumber, and Fred, a steamfitter, who were living in Cleveland, Ohio. He sent for his family the following year and they lived in Fred Hope’s plumbing shop at East 105th St. in the Cleveland neighborhood called Doan ...
During his Cleveland childhood, Hope held a wide variety of jobs, including selling newspapers for the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, serving as delivery boy for Heisey's Bakery and Standard Drugstore, working as a taffy puller at Humphrey's store, selling shoes at Taylor's Department Store (see WILLIAM TAYLOR SON & CO.) and flowers at LUNA PARK, and w...
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The birth was registered in 1870, March qtr. ref. 1d 376WILLIAM HENRY HOPEwas born at Lambeth, London, England in 1869. (Lambeth is the neighboring borough to Southwark where two of his siblings were later registered.) William was baptized on 8 Oct 1871 at Christ Church, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom (his mother's home town) - on the ...
Parent: James Alfred English Hope (1843-1943) William Henry Hope Child (Bob Hope): Leslie Townes Hope (1903-2003)
"England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2XWS-HY9: accessed 06 Jun 2014), William Henry Hope, 1870. (accessed 7 June 2014)"England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-1920", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2DB3-KYK: accessed 07 Jun 2014), William Henry Hope, 1891.Ancestry.com. U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995[database on-line]. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Index Cards to Naturalization Petitions for...- Male
- February 25, 1869
- Avis (Towns) Hope
- November 20, 1936
His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason, while his Welsh mother, Avis Townes Hope, an aspiring concert singer. In 1907, Leslie’s father brought the family to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920, by virtue of his father’s naturalization, ‘Bob’ — the name by which the world would later know him — and his brothers became United States citizens.
