[78-L] Mildred Bailey, child of 1900

[David Lennick]

And Gary Giddins had 1903 as well.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=na0QBX86VHIC&pg=PA257&lpg=PA257&dq=%22mildred+bailey%22+%22born%22&source=bl&ots=4IavxP9eak&sig=NlG_NsVO7uNLPArt8qr_JmiYmsE&hl=en&ei=UHyfSczlKqTUMKX-iMUL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

Great that you've found the 1900 evidence, which should have been researched 
much earlier..wonder why 1907 wasn't discredited and where 1903 came from? But 
as has been pointed out, we didn't even know Bing's birthdate for a long time.

David Lennick wrote:
> Here's another who thought she was born in 1903.
> http://relativeesoterica.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-tears-no-fuss-happy-birthday-bails.html
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
>> At least one person seems to have thought she was born in 1903, according to 
>> this review of a Living Era set (in which Jonathan Woolf asserts the commonly 
>> accepted 1907 date).
>> http://www.musicweb-international.com/jazz/2007/Bailey_CDAJS2020.htm
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Harold Aherne wrote:
>>> In that case I'll go ahead and post my findings. Here's the Rinker 
>>> household as enumerated in Whitman county, WA on 22 April 1910:
>>>  
>>> Charles D. (age 34)
>>> Josephine (31)
>>> Mildred E. (10)
>>> Miles L. (5)
>>> Alton M. (3)
>>> Vinson (1 year, 3 mos.)
>>>  
>>> Mildred is also present in the 1900 census; her month of birth is listed as
>>> February 1900 (although her name is incorrectly given as Millard). Her parents
>>> had been married for a year at that point. Al(ton) is listed in the 1920 census
>>> (taken in January of that year) as a 13 year old; Mildred was no longer living
>>> with them, but a step-daughter Norene (9) had been added, and a brother
>>> Charles (8).
>>>  
>>> So it appears that Mildred Bailey is actually seven years older than most
>>> later sources indicate. There's no surprise in the fact that she'd drop some
>>> years; I just don't remember seeing this information given elsewhere. Likewise,
>>> 1907 is always given for Al's birth year, but if 20 December is the correct day
>>> then 1906 would seem to be the correct year, per these census data.
>>>  
>>> Anyway, I thought it was rather interesting and just wanted to share. I'm not
>>> a professional genealogist, and more research would be needed to publish
>>> these findings in a book or a journal (school records, e.g.). But it does give some
>>> insight into the Rinkers' background, which has rarely been discussed as far as I know.
>>>  
>>> -Harold
>>>  
>>>
>>> --- On Fri, 2/20/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Background info on Mildred Bailey and Al Rinker?
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 4:03 PM
>>>
>>> Definitely Alton. He's credited that way as composer on Whiteman's
>>> "Peter Peter 
>>> Pumpkin Eater".
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>>