Records of Scott Penrose on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Scott Penrose in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Scott Penrose and the Penrose Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Penrose Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Penrose family tree.

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Penrose Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called Scott Penrose

Scott Penrose

Scott Penrose (born 1969 in Essex) is an English magician and magic consultant and is the son of magician John Penrose.

Penrose is a former President of The Magic Circle having been proposed for the post by Paul Daniels. He is Honorary Vice President of The British Magic Society, the UK's oldest Magic Club. He was awarded the title The Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year in 2000.

He mainly works as a magic consultant and illusion designer. He taught Woody Allen magic for his movie Scoop and advised on the Houdini movie Death Defying Acts (starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce). He also built illusions for and appeared in the movie Magicians and tutored Sir Michael Caine and the young Bill Milner for the movie Is Anybody There?. Other credits include designing, creating and building magic and illusions for UK TV shows such as QI, Jonathan Creek and Hustle. In the 2015 Christmas Special of QI, Penrose surprised Stephen Fry with membership of The Magic Circle. He had earlier appeared on QI in 2010 to perform the trick of pulling the head off a dove.

For live theatre he has created illusion based special effects for the West End and UK Tour of Spamalot, Ghost Stories, The Ladykillers, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical, Bend It Like Beckham the Musical, Mrs Henderson Presents and the stage adaptation of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. In 2007 he created and advised on magic effects, illusions and quick change costume techniques for the Cirque du Soleil touring production "Koozå".

He has been described as "The epitome of the professional magician. Think top hat and tails. Think silks, doves and disappearing candles and you will know exactly who I am talking about."

As a former Executive Curator of The Magic Circle Museum, Penrose is also a magic historian and is known for his historical recreations and restoration of classics such as the Robert-Houdin Orange Tree, Maskelyne's Psycho Automaton and Devant's Educated Goldfish. His literary contributions include illustrating and co-authoring the book Alan Shaxon - The Sophisticated Sorcerer.

UK singer Paloma Faith used to be Penrose's assistant in his illusion act before she rose to fame as a performer in her own right. Penrose later appeared in the video of Faith's song "Smoke and Mirrors".

Penrose is associated with Andrew Lloyd Webber and made the magical effects for his musical Love Never Dies and the 2019 film adaptation of his musical Cats.

Source: Scott Penrose, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Penrose

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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