Louise Leclercq
(1837-1898)

Louise Leclercq was the actress daughter of Charles Leclercq. Her mother and all of her siblings were also theatrical professionals, in particular her sisters Carlotta and Rose, and her brothers Charles and Arthur.

She died on 16 July 1898 at Cambridge Lodge, East Sheen, Surrey. An announcement of her death appeared in the Globe on 21 July 1898. 'Miss Louise Leclercq, whose death has just been announced, was a great favourite at the Haymarket Theatre in the late fifties and early sixties. She was excellent and attractive in burlesque and pantomime - notably as Prosepine in Talfourd's "Pluto and Prosepine," as Chrysothemis in the same writer's "Electra," as Undine, and as Little Miss Muffet. She had been in retirement for many years. She was sister to Miss Carlotta and Miss Rose Leclercq.'

According to a slightly longer obituary in The Era (23 July 1898), 'Miss Leclercq played many other parts, of course, chiefly in revivals, and she was considered very vivacious and charming. Soon after this last-named pantomime [Little Miss Muffet, 1862] she retired from the stage on her marriage with the late Pandia Petrocochino, and has lived in peaceful home life and retirement from the bustle of stage life ever since.'

Louise Matilda Petrocochino, widow of the Greek stockbroker Pandia Alexander Petrocochino, left an estate valued at £4299.