Lorne Family History & Genealogy

John Lorne of Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania was born on March 12, 1874, and died at age 92 years old in April 1966.

Anna Lorne of White Plains, Westchester County, NY was born on March 16, 1881, and died at age 94 years old in April 1975.

Marion Lorne MacDougal or MacDougall (August 12, 1883 – May 9, 1968), known professionally as Marion Lorne, was an American actress of stage, film, and television. After a career in theater in New York and London, Lorne made her first film in 1951, and for the remainder of her life played small roles in films and television. Her recurring role as Aunt Clara in the comedy series Bewitched, between 1964 and her death in 1968, brought her widespread recognition, and she was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Lorne was born in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, a small mining town halfway between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. She was the daughter of William Lorne MacDougall MD, and his wife, Jane Louise (née Oliver), known as "Jennie". She was born in 1883 including the date inscribed on her urn (which appears to be erroneous), The 1900 United States Census (enumerated in June 1900) gives her age as 16 and, along with the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), lists her year of birth as 1883. Her parents were Scottish and English immigrants. She had a younger brother, Lorne Taylor MacDougall (October 20, 1893 – September 5, 1943). She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Career Lorne debuted on Broadway in 1905; she also acted in London theaters, enjoying a flourishing stage career on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In London she had her own theater, the Whitehall, where she had top billing in plays written by Walter C. Hackett, her husband. None of her productions at the Whitehall had runs shorter than 125 nights. After appearing in a couple of Vitaphone shorts, including Success (1931) starring Jack Haley, she made her feature film debut in her late 60s in Strangers on a Train (1951), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. From 1952-55, she was seen as perpetually confused junior high school English teacher Mrs. Gurney on Mister Peepers. From 1957 to 1958, she co-starred with Joan Caulfield in the NBC sitcom Sally in the role of an elderly widow who happens to be the co-owner of a department store. It was cancelled after one 26-episode season. Although afraid of live television, declaring, "I'm a coward when it comes to a live [television] show", she was persuaded to appear a few times to promote the film The Girl Rush with Rosalind Russell in the mid-1950s. Between 1958 and 1964, she made regular appearances on The Garry Moore Show (1958–1962). Her last role, as Aunt Clara in Bewitched, brought Lorne her widest fame as a lovable witch who is losing her powers due to old age (and whose spells usually end in disaster). Aunt Clara usually visited by coming down the chimney; her hobby was collecting doorknobs, and she often brought her collection with her on visits. Lorne had an extensive collection of doorknobs in real life, some of which she used as props in the series. Death She appeared in 27 episodes of Bewitched and was not replaced after she died of a heart attack in her Manhattan apartment on May 9, 1968, aged 84, prior to the start of production of the show's fifth season. She is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Greenburgh, New York. Posthumous The producers of Bewitched decided that Lorne's character as Aunt Clara could not be replaced by another actress. (Aunt Clara was never mentioned in any subsequent Bewitched episode.) Comedic actress Alice Ghostley was recruited to fill the gap as "Esmeralda", a different type of older witch with wobbly magic whose spells often went astray. Coincidentally, Lorne and Ghostley had appeared side-by-side as partygoers in the iconic comedy-drama film The Graduate, made the year before Lorne's death. She received a posthumous Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Bewitched. The award was accepted by Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery. Personal life In 1911, she married playwright Walter C. Hackett. They were married until his death in 1944. The couple had no children.

Frederick Lorne of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan was born on December 24, 1883, and died at age 91 years old in November 1975.

Sennie Lorne of Valley View, Cooke County, Texas was born on July 29, 1885, and died at age 91 years old in August 1976.

Jeannie Lorne of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan was born on March 5, 1887, and died at age 94 years old in September 1981.

Melville Lorne of Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan was born on February 14, 1891, and died at age 78 years old in July 1969.

John Lorne of Missouri was born on November 3, 1892, and died at age 69 years old in September 1962.

Lionel Lorne of Central America & West Indies was born on September 29, 1896, and died at age 79 years old in October 1975.

Carl Lorne of Chester, Orange County, New York was born on January 11, 1898, and died at age 75 years old in January 1973.

Emma Lorne of Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri was born on December 6, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in November 1986.

Maybelle Lorne of San Francisco, San Francisco County, California was born on May 2, 1900, and died at age 78 years old in September 1978.