Maud Rhoda Didcott was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Hugh Jay Didcott and Rose Fox. Her father was a theatrical agent, and her mother was a dancer who had a novelty act involving singing while skipping rope.Henry George Hibbert, Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life (Dodd, Mead & Company 1916): 110, 145.John Hollingshead, Gaiety Chronicles (A. Constable & Company 1898): 345-347. Her father was Jewish, but Maudi Didcott was educated at the Sion House Convent at Bayswater."Actress's Sad Fate" The Northwestern Advocate and Emu Bay Times (January 7, 1911): 2.via Trove Her sister Violet Raye was also an actress.Richard Anthony Baker, British Music Hall: An Illustrated History (Pen & Sword 2014): 215. "A Chat with Miss Violet Raye" The Sketch (October 31, 1894): 45.
