THURSDAY'S THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - THE IRONSIDE LINEAGE

Another one of my Toobworld Theories of Relateeveety: 

Mrs. Chadwick's maiden name was Ironside. And she was aunt to Chief Robert T. Ironside, the consultant to the SFPD. Her twin sister was his other aunt, Victoria Ironside. (She never married.) Their brother was Chief Ironside's father.

They came from a large family and in true Toobworld tradition, the sisters had an identical cousin in Europe, Madame Olga Nemirovitch. (Basically she was the "evil twin".)  She committed suicide in 1965 on board the Adriatic Express.

Aunt Victoria Ironside pointed out to her friends that her nephew's mother was Welsh when he ordered them to leave a potential crime scene.  

If they traced Chief Ironside's maternal family tree back far enough to its Welsh roots, they would find that the progenitor was a former soldier in the Crusades named Cadfael, who became a monk at the monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul near Shrewsbury.  

(Before he took vows, Cadfael unwittingly fathered Olivier de Bretagne, formerly Daoud, by a Syrian widow named Maryam.  It is from that relationship which Ironside's mother's lineage began.)

And of course, Robert T. Ironside has an identical cousin in Los Angeles, a prominent lawyer named Perry Mason.  (Ironside's paternal grandmother was a Mason.)  Mason's life-long love was his secretary Della Street, but although they may have consummated the relationship but they never married.  

The lawyer was not without issue, however.  In 1939, when he was 22 years old and just about to enter law school, Perry Mason had an affair with a woman, perhaps older, perhaps married, by the name of Caruso.  She found herself pregnant with his child, but had no interest in marrying him.  Instead she raised their son on her own, naming him Anthony.  

And like his birth father, Anthony Caruso became a lawyer and practiced in Los Angeles.  He even worked a case on behalf of his father with whom he had become friends with once his mother had told him the truth about his parentage.

'COLUMBO'

"LADY IN WAITING"

'IRONSIDE'

"WHY THE TUESDAY AFTERNOON BRIDGE CLUB MET ON THURSDAY"

'THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.'
"THE ADRIATIC EXPRESS AFFAIR"

'CADFAEL'

"THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE"

'PERRY MASON'

"A PERRY MASON MYSTERY: THE CASE OF THE WICKED WIVES"

(Pictures in descending line: Jesse Royce Landis in 'Columbo', 'Ironside' and later with Raymond Burr, and 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', Sir Derek Jacobi and Robert Cavanah in 'Cadfael', Raymond Burr & Barbara Hale in 'Perry Mason', Paul Sorvino in "A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case Of The Wicked Wives")

The first paragraph of this theory of "relateeveety" was originally written for the 'Columbo TV' page on Facebook.

BCnU!