Marion fossett biography

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Marion Fossett
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Father:
Edward Fossett

Born: 1927-11-17

Paternal Grandfather:
Edward Fossett

Born: 1895?
Paternal Great-grandfather:
Robert Fossett Paternal Great-grandmother:
Mary Francis Paternal Grandmother:
Mona Lowe

Born: ?
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George Lowe Paternal Great-grandmother:
Margaret Bond

Mother:
Herta Pohorsky

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“YOU can shake the sawdust from your feet but you never shake it from your blood.”

So says ringmaster Marion Fossett, the woman who fronts the world’s longest continuously touring circus.

When other circuses stopped performing during the two world wars, Fossett’s adopted the “show must go on” motto.

Sitting in the Big Top, even without the lights and the music, there is something haunting about it.

There are no musicians but the notes are whispered on the breeze coming through the tent flaps.

No performers on this quiet afternoon yet the shadows of shows past and shows to come flit about in the heights of the canvas. Out of the corner of an eye, trapeze swings and a bespangled body soars through the air. The circus has a magic all of its own.

Marion is one of four generations of Fossetts currently on tour with the family circus including her grand-niece, nine-month old baby Freya.

“Ireland recognises circus as a legitimate art form, the first country in Europe to do so,” says Marion. “But unfortunatel

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