TREMAINE, Annie [BEAUMONT, Ada; AMADI, Madame] [CRILMAN or CREELMAN, Anne] (b Woolwich Cadet Barracks, London, 27 January 1848; d 1 Elgin Court, Paddington, London, 12 December 1934)

This chapter presents a biography of mid- to late-19th-century Victorian vocalist Annie Tremaine. Annie Crilman had a career of unblemished success as a theatrical vocalist and actress. She began her career in her teens, and the author first spot her as 'Miss Tremayne' or 'Miss Tremaine', aged sixteen, singing at Weston's Music Hall. Her husband was a commercial traveller named James Percy Fitzgerald, and the following year, at their home at 35 Bishopsgate Street, Annie would bear him twin daughters: Annie Caroline and Florence Ellen. Annie appeared on the Gaiety Theatre's opening night as a boy, Albert, in the burlesque Robert the Devil, and over the next five years she was a prominent member of the Gaiety troupe, playing not only roles in operatic and opéra-bouffe or burlesque pieces but also leading roles in comedy opposite Toole or Stoyle. In 1880 she sang with Frederick Archer's opera company, and in Armit's season at Her Majesty's.