Mary Jane Stainton
- Actress
Mary Jane Stainton nee Teasdale was born in Stockton on Tees in 1888 and married Harry Stainton at St. James Church, Stockton 30 April 1908. They had two children, Cora born 11 August 1908 and Edna born 2 January 1910, She and the girls traveled to America without Harry. who refused to go with them, and it's known that they were in New York early in 1915 where she made a film called The Melting Pot. for Cort Films. Her husband never joined Mary and 20 years later remarried, possibly bigamously as on his marriage certificate he was listed as a widower and he'd produced a funeral certificate from Mary;s death as verification, She may have divorced him in America, but what of the children? Investigations produced an Alien Registration document dated 1948 and that
she was living in Lincolnwood, Cook, Illinois where she had re married and was now Mary Jane Kort