| Birth | Ruth Gertrude Waud was born 1879 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX NZ Birth 1879 Waud, Ruth Gertrude #836 (MarQ, Dunedin.) |
| INFO | MEMBER OF COMEDY COMPANY. Otago Witness. 12 Nov 1896, p.39. Northern Footlight Flashes. Auckland. Nov 2: "Mr T.E. Good's Comedy and Burlesque Company, including Lilly Smith, T.E. Good, Ruth Waud, Jim Lyell... and others, appeared at Onehunga on Saturday, October 31, to a fair house." (OtagoWitPP.) |
| INFO | MEMBER OF BURLESQUE COMPANY. Otago Witness, 24 Dec 1896, p.39. Northern Footlight Flashes. Auckland, Dec 7. "The New Zealand Juvenile Variety and Burlesque Company are preparing an attractive programme for their third appearance at Onehunga. The company includes . .. Ruth Waud . . .." (OtagoWirPP.) |
| INFO | THEATER REVIEW. Otago Witness, 4 Jan 1905, p.60. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES. report of shows at Christchurch: "The Williams Dramatic company opened here on Thursday. . . The company's season has been successful here . . . The principals are . . . Chas. Waud. . . and Ruth Waud." (OtagoWitPP.) |
| INFO | THEATRICAL REVIEW. Taranaki Herald [New Plymouth, NZ], 23 Jan 1906, p.7. WHITEHOUSE COMPANY. "There was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening, when the Whitehouse Bioscope Company gave the opening performance of a two-night's session. . .. Miss Ruth Waud played an overture effectively. . . and Mr Charles Waud, who has a good baritone voice, was recalled for his excellent opening number. Later the same gentleman sang several comic songs, to the evident enjoyment of the audience, who honoured him with double encores." (TarankHerPP.) |
| Marriage | She married Bertie Edward Mountifield, son of William Steggles Mountifield and Emily Chapman, 1906 in New Zealand. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX NZ Marriage 1906 #1564 Bertie Edward Mountifield. (NZCivRegInd LDS6341154 1906.) |
| Death | Ruth Gertrude Waud died 20 September 1941 in London, England. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX Death. 1941 SepQ Mountifield, Ruth G. 62 Islington 1b,220. (GBCivRegInd LDS6103502.) |
| INFO | DEATH NOTICE in the New Zealand Herald. 4 Oct 1941, Mountifield - On 20 Sep 1941 at London, Ruth, wife of Herbert Mountifield, and elder dtr of the late Charles and Hettie Maud [sic] and sister of Edith and Charles Porteous, and aunt of Ona and Charles of Sackville St, Grey Lynn. (NZHerDeaNot LDS1438931.) |
Ruth Gertrude Waud