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Introductory note:

The primary focus of the biographical register is musical personnel first active before the end of 1860, with a secondary focus on members of their circles - families, pupils, colleagues, and other important contacts - first active after 1860.

Beyond that, there has been no systematic attempt to deal with musical personnel first active after 1860, and the coverage is selective.

Major upgrades of the contents of this page were completed in April 2020 and November 2023, and newly added documentation (including genealogical data) and Trove tagging now brings the page content up to the end of 1860 close to completion.

Only such biographical information as can be confirmed from standard national databases or original documentation presented is entered at the head of each person entry in this page. Where no certain evidence of a person's birth year has yet been identified, the assumption is that we do not and cannot yet know with sufficient certainty to propose one. Years of birth or death, and sometimes also names and spellings of names, thus sourced and presented here, will often differ more or less substantially from those given (but often merely hazarded) in standard Australian and international bibliographic and biographical records.

The texts given in gold aim for the most part to be diplomatic transcriptions, wherever practical retaining unaltered the original orthography, and spellings and mis-spellings, of the printed or manuscript sources. Occasionally, however, some spellings are silently corrected (for instance, of unusual music titles and composers, to assist identification), and some orthography, punctuation and paragraphing, and very occasionally also syntax, editorially altered or standardised in the interests of consistency, clarity, and readability.

DACHOW, Herr ("Herr DACHOW") = Charles Hermann DECHOW

Musician, pianist, music teacher and conductor, Marsh Juvenile Troupe (1860-62)

DACHSEL, William (Wilhelm DACHSEL; William DACHSEL; Wm. DACHSEL)

Musician, musical instrumental seller

Born Wunschwitz, Sachsen (Germany), c. 1834
Arrived Brisbane, QLD, 5 September 1863 (assisted immigrant per Beausite, from Hamburg, 23 May, aged "29")

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DACHSEL-William (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Werzeichniss der Personnen, welce mit dem Hamburg, Schiffe Beausite [23 Mai 1863] . . . nach Moreton Bay in Australien; Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 373-7 I, VIII A 1. Band 17, page 327

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/5502861:1068 (PAYWALL)

Wilhelm Dachsel / [native place] Wunschwitz, Sachsen / Musikus / 29

Assisted immigration index, 1863; Queensland State Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/553941:70805 (PAYWALL)

Wilhelm Dachsel / [arrival] 5 September 1863 / [per] Beausite / [aged] 29

[Advertisement], The Courier [Brisbane, QLD] (30 October 1863), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3166571

Notice to Musicians. ALL kinds of BRASS and STRING INSTRUMENTS.
For Sale, at the lowest possible prices, at WM. DACHSEL, care of F. Cramer, Adelaide-street, North Brisbane.

ASSOCIATIONS: Ferdinand Cramer (musician)

D'ALBERT, Charles (Charles Louis Napoleon D'ALBERT; Charles D'ALBERT)

British musician, composer, dancing master, band conductor (never visited Australia)

Born Nienstedten, near Hamburg (Germany), 25 February 1809; son of François Benoit d'ALBERT and Chretienne Sophie Henriette SCHULTZ
Married Annie ROWELL, Paris, 28 May 1863
Died London, England, 26 May 1886

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Charles+d'Albert+1809-1886 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1489158 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_d'Albert_(musician) (Wikipedia)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#D'ALBERT-Charles (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Charles D'Albert never visited the Australian colonies. However, as one of the most prolific British composers of popular dance music from the 1840s onwards, many of his works were performed here, and published in both authorised and pirated editions.

In July 1853, the Sydney publishing partnership of William Woolcott and Jacob Clarke advertised the forthcoming release of what were almost certainly pirated local editions of two of his substantial waltz sets, Faust, and Fairest of the fair, the latter engraved by Francis Ellard. In April the following year, 1854, the same publishers also included the opening number of each of these sets in a locally themed compilation The ladies of Sydney waltzes. This originally appeared in their first Australian presentation album, which also included another pirated local edition, of D'Albert's The express galop.

However, Woolcott and Clarke's next D'Albert title, The regatta valse, was a fully authorised joint production, planned and executed in mid 1854, and over which the composer evidently contrived to retain as full control as possible. The work, in celebration of the forthcoming Sydney Regatta on Anniversary day (26 January) 1855, was "composed expressly for the colony", and first issued by Woolcott and Clarke in their second colonial collection, The Australian presentation album for 1855, issued at New Year 1855. The original cover illustration was drawn by William Woolcott's brother, Charles Henry Woolcott ("C. H. W. DEL'T), and lithographically printed in colours in England by John Brandard (1812-1863). D'Albert also appears to have arranged for the music itself to be engraved and printed in England, and when Woolcott and Clarke also sold copies separately, it was at the relatively high price of 5 shillings.

Almost a quarter of a century later, in 1879, for the Sydney International Exhibition, D'Albert arranged for two celebratory works to be engraved, printed, and published in London, "dedicated to the Ladies of New South Wales", with coloured covers leaving space for a publisher's name to be added later. This State Library of New South Wales copy of the Sydney Exhibition valse (cover title; on the music "Sydney Exhibition waltz") was duly "published" and sold in Sydney by Moss and Co.. This copy of The Sydney Exhibition quadrille was likewise "published" and sold in Sydney by Robert Elvy, while this other copy bears the imprint of Chappell of London.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (3 March 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4790326 

TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Dancing and Deportment. PROTESTANT HALL.
MR. MAY (late Assistant to Monsieur D'Albert, the celebrated composer of dancing music and teacher of Dancing, London), has the honor of announcing to the ladies and gentlemen of Melbourne and its vicinity that he intends opening Classes for the above accomplishment, in the Protestant Hall, on Monday, the 7th March instant . . .
Mr. M. will introduce for the first time in Melbourne, the most recent, new, and much admired Dance, La Gorlitza; also, the much admired Scotch style of Dancing, as practised and danced in that country before Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral . . .
A few violin pupils wanted.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mr. May (dancing master, violinist)

[Advertisement], Freeman's Journal [Sydney, NSW] (30 July 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114834235 

JULLIEN'S CHEF D'OEUVRE, rendered so effectively by Winterbottom's celebrated Band, with unbounded applause.
2nd Edition of THE PRIMA DONNA WALTZ, Price 4s.; post free, 4s. 3d. Embellished with an ornate lithographic title-page, printed in gold and colours by Mr. C. H. Fairland, the eminent lithographer, lately from England.
The undersigned would respectfully submit that the superior engraving of the music, the printing and ornamentation of the title-page, offer a satisfactory index of the progress of the fine and useful arts in this great country.
Also will be published, by 12 o'clock noon, the brilliant
IBRAHIM PACHA QUADRILLES, 3s.; post free, 3s. 3d. Unquestionably the best quadrilles ever written, and for dancing to unrivalled! . . .
In active preparation, The Star of the Night Waltzes, and The Fairest of the Fair Waltzes, both admired compositions, to be produced in the same style as The Prima Donna . . .
WOOLCOTT AND CLARKE, 553, George-street, Next Bank of Australasia.

ASSOCIATIONS: Woolcott and Clarke (musicsellers, music publishers); John Winterbottom (conductor); Charles Henry Fairland (lithographer)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 April 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30940004

JUST PUBLISHED.
PRICE ONE GUINEA.
THE AUSTRALIAN PRESENTATION ALBUM.
CONTENTS:
Shells of Ocean (Illustrated) - J. W. Cherry.
Australian Bird Waltz - F. Ellard.
City of Sydney Polka. (Illustrated) - C. Packer.
Ernani Quadrilles - Jullien.
Ladies of Sydney Waltzes - Selected from the Shower of Diamonds, Wild Flowers, Fairest of the Fair, and Faust Waltzes.
Express Galop - D'Albert.
WOOLCOTT and CLARKE, next Bank of Australasia.

"THE AUSTRALIAN PRESENTATION ALBUM", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 April 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12958504

Under this title Messrs. Woolcott and Clarke, of George street, have just published a selection of favorite songs, polkas, &c., in the style of the celebrated Jullien's Annual. The album is most creditably got up, and the printing does great honour to the colony. In the art of printing music very considerable progress has been made in Sydney, and the Album before us will bear favorable comparison with many similar works at home. The ornamental work of the title-pages is good . . .

"ELEGANT GIFT BOOK", Empire (4 April 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60150802 

. . . Besides this there are waltzes, quadrilles, and galop, from the works of D'Albert, Jullien, and the Sydney notabilities in the musical world, Mr. Packer and Mr. F. Ellard. Altogether this forms an acceptable proof that Sydney is progressing in the Arts, and we can recommend it to our bachelor readers as an excellent present to their lady friends, for such an investment might be expected to produce agreeable returns in the performance of the excellent music it contains.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 January 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12964011

THE AUSTRALIAN PRESENTATION ALBUM for 1855 is in the Press, and will be published in the course of the week.
It contains . . . WALTZ - The Regatta - D'Albert. Illustrated with a view of Sydney Harbour during the Anniversary Regatta, and a portrait of the Silver Cup, valued at 200 guineas, to be run for by all yachts this year . . .

"THE AUSTRALIAN PRESENTATION ALBUM", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (20 January 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59759702 

Amongst the several elegant publications of the New Year, the work before us takes a prominent place, as a gift-book, and is got up in a style worthy of its publishers, Messrs. Woolcott and Clarke. Its contents, consisting of new and original music, are tastefully illustrated by well known masters. The "Regatta Waltzes" were specially composed for this publication by Mr. Charles D'Albert, the leading dance music composer in Europe . . . The Illustrations to the "Regatta Waltzes" are by Brandard, from original sketches sent from hence . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (13 March 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12966638

NEW AND CHOICE MUSIC. - Just published . . .
WALTZ - The Regatta. Price 5s, exquisitely illustrated (in colours) by the wide world known artist, Brandard, giving a faithful portrait of the silver cup, now being contested for by "all yachts," also, "The Heads of Port Jackson" by moonlight, "An Australian Bush Scene," and "Sydney Cove during the Anniversary Regatta."
These waltzes were composed expressly for the publishers by CHARLES D'ALBERT.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 March 1856), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28639317

PASSENGERS FOR ENGLAND!! COLONIAL PUBLICATIONS . . .
The Regatta Waltz, composed expressly for the colony, by D'Albert;
appropriately illustrated by coloured views of Sydney Harbour during Regatta Day - from Dawes Battery -
of Port Jackson Heads by Moonlight, and a Bush Scene, depicting Christmas in Australia, price 4s. 6d . . .
WOOLCOTT AND CLARKE . . .

"NEWS OF THE DAY", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 June 1879), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13437398 

EUROPEAN composers, it seems, have had their attention drawn to the forthcoming International Exhibition, as Charles D' Albert has sent out by the last mail sets of quadrilles and waltzes, which both bear the title of "Sydney Exhibition." The five quadrilles are designated, and the composition of the music supposed to typify, New South Wales, Victoria, England, Switzerland, and Germany. In the music one or two fragments of National airs are introduced, and taken as a whole the selection is pretty and sparkling. The same remark applies to the waltzes, which belong very much to the same school of composition, each piece being supposed to represent a nationality. The music is very simple and the melodies taking. Messrs. Moss and Co. are the agents, and it is through them that we have received the copies. The typography is in the best style of art.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 July 1879), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28392620

SYDNEY EXHIBITION QUADRILLES, by CHAS. D'ALBERT; 2s, post free. L. MOSS, 5, Hunter-street.

SYDNEY EXHIBITION WALTZES, by CHARLES D'ALBERT; 2s, post free. L. MOSS, 5, Hunter-street.

"A Leading European Pianist. EUGENE D'ALBERT", Evening News (7 February 1890), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108804670 

. . . His father, Charles Louis Napoleon D'Albert, was born near Altona, Hamburg, on February 25, 1809. He was the son of an officer in the French Army, who died in 1816 or soon after the battle of Waterloo, and the conclusion of the war between France and Britain and Prussia. Madame D' Albert, being thus left a widow, emigrated to Britain. She was an excellent musician; and Charles Louis's first education in Mozart and Beethoven was due to her. He afterward received lessons on the pianoforte from Kalkbrenner, and in composition from Dr. Wesley. He learned dancing at the King's Theatre, in London, and the Conservatoire, in Paris; and on his return to England, became ballet master in the King's Theatre and Covent Garden Theatre, London. He subsequently settled in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and married in 1863; but he died in London on May 26, 1886. His son Eugene was born in Glasgow (Scotland) on April 10, 1864 . . .

Colonial themed musical works:

2 waltzes in The ladies of Sydney waltzes (1854)

Faust (valse diabolique) and Fairest of the fair (valse a deux temps; Valses bohemiennes), in The ladies of Sydney waltzes (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32024483/version/24184441

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6bmMmqNb/kzGERxvRJNvEx (Faust - DIGITISED)

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6bmMmqNb/leeEJwDP3pb4O (Fairest - DIGITISED)

Also in The Australian presentation album for 1854

Complete editions from which the above were extracted:

The Faust waltzes composed by Charles D'Albert [Faust, valse diabolique] (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [? 1853/54])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5566309

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-168658991 (DIGITISED)

The fairest of the fair waltzes composed by Charles D'Albert [Valse a deux temps; Valses bohemiennes] (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [? 1853/54])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22092736

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/151632 (DIGITISED)

The regatta waltzes (1855)

The regatta waltzes [The regatta, valse composée par Charles D'Albert] (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, 1855); in The Australian presentation album for 1855

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/228537318

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165966906/view?partId=nla.obj-165967131#page/n2/mode/1up (DIGITISED)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-169347465 (DIGITISED)

Sydney Exhibition waltz (1879)

Sydney Exhibition valse, dedicated to the ladies of New South Wales, by Charles D'Albert [Sydney Exhibition waltz] (Sydney: Moss & Co., [1879])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32620904

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrW66qE2b (DIGITISED)

The Sydney Exhibition quadrille (1879)

The Sydney Exhibition quadrille, quadrille of all nations, dedicated to the ladies of New South Wales, by Charles D'Albert (London: Chappell & Co., [1879])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191323762 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166658278 (DIGITISED)

The Sydney Exhibition quadrille, quadrille of all nations, dedicated to the ladies of New South Wales, by Charles D'Albert (Sydney: Elvy & Co., [1879])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191323762

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-181644266 (DIGITISED)

Bibliography and resources:

Charles D'Albert at What's the score at the Bodleian?: digitizing music scores at the Bodleian Library (website)

http://whatsthescoreatthebodleian.wordpress.com/tag/dalbert

DALE, Robert Baldwin (Robert Baldwin DALE; Mr. R. B. DALE; Mr. DALE)

Actor, comedian, vocalist

Born England, c. 1832
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 2 January 1855 (per Prins Hendrik, from London, 6 September 1854)
Active South Island, NZ, 1863-66
Died Sydney, NSW, 12 August 1866, aged "34"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Robert+Baldwin+Dale+d1866 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DALE-Robert-Baldwin (shareable link to this entry)

DALE, Elinor (Elinor FIELDING; "Miss Ellen FIELDING"; "Mrs. Robert Baldwin DALE"; "Mrs. R. B. DALE"; "Mrs. DALE"; Mrs. Charles Francis SEARLE)

Actor, vocalist

Born Edgeworthstown, Ireland, by ? c. 1840
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 2 January 1855 (per Prins Hendrik, from London, 6 September 1854)
Married Charles Francis SEARLE, Ballarat, VIC, 23 July 1863
Departed for NZ, 1869
Died Melbourne, VIC, 27 April 1880, aged "38" [sic]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Elinor+Fielding+Dale+Searle+d1880 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DALE-Elinor (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

It seems unlikely that the Dales were legally married, as Elinor was perhaps as young as 15 or 16 on arrival in the colony in the New Year of 1855. The birth of Catherine, daughter of Robert Baldwin Dale and Ellen Fielding was registered in Victoria in 1856.

Elinor reverted to appearing as "Miss Fielding" shortly before her (legal) marriage, as Elinor Fielding, to the actor Charles Francis Searle, in Ballarat, in 1863.

Robert Dale had been appearing on stage in New Zealand for several years before his death in Sydney in August 1866. According to an earlier press report, he had returned to Australia to recruit new talent for his company in Canterbury, NZ.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Hereford Times [England] (13 August 1853), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000396/18530813/073/0004 (PAYWALL)

THEATRE ROYAL, HEREFORD . . . On Wednesday the performances will be for the Benefit Mr. R. B. Dale . . .

[Advertisement], Hereford Times (25 March 1854), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000396/18540325/092/0005 (PAYWALL)

THEATRE ROYAL, HEREFORD . . . Manager - Mr. R. B. DALE . . .

"THE THEATRE" Hereford Times (25 March 1854), 8

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000396/18540325/040/0008 (PAYWALL)

The opening of this place of amusement which was announced for Monday evening last, was postponed until Wednesday, in consequence of the illness of Mr. R. B. Dale, the new manager. On that evening the performances commenced with the "Cricket on the Hearth" dramatised from Dickens's Christmas book of that title. The parts were all very well represented, the new company being apparently very judiciously selected. Mr. Dale made his appearance in the "Wandering Minstrel," and was cordially received as an old favourite. Although still suffering from severe indisposition, he was, as usual, very amusing; and in his delivery of "the popular and pathetic legend of Villikins and his Dinah," was loudly applauded. Miss Douglas was encored in her pleasing and graceful dance. The performances - which, under the unfavourable circumstances, were well attended - concluded with "Faint heart never won Fair Lady," in which the acting of Mr. and Mrs. Vezin was very good. We hope the new management will succeed well. The theatre has been rendered very clean, neat, and comfortable.

ASSOCIATIONS: Hermann Vezin (actor)

MUSIC: Villikins and his Dinah (song)

"THEATRE ROYAL", Hereford Journal (29 March 1854), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000398/18540329/006/0003 (PAYWALL)

This favoured temple of muses re-opened on Wednesday last under the direction of Mr. R. B. Dale, who, it is but justice to say, has brought together apparently one of the most respectable, and undoubtedly the most talented company of theatricals, taken as body, we have seen in Hereford for years. The first piece produced on that occasion was Dickens's popularly dramatised story of the "Cricket on the Hearth," In which Mr. and Mrs. Vezin, who, in theatrical parlance do the "leading business," appeared as John and Mary Perrybingle with credit to themselves; while Miss Ellen Fielding, played the blind girl Bertha with true noivete [sic], though it occasionally lacked that "earnest devotion," which is a striking feature in the "ideal" of the author. But the lady is young - very young; and there were collateral circumstances which no doubt tended to subsidize the sentiment of the part. The other characters were respectably played by Mr. Williams (as Caleb), Messrs, Smith, Douglass, Pearce, Miss Douglass, Mrs. Garthwaite and an amateur. In the farce of "The Wandering Minstrel," which followed, the appearance of Mr. Dale as Jem Bags (in which character he sang the popular and pathetic legend of "Villikins and his Dinah,") was signalled by loud applause throughout the house; the audience being evidently pleased in seeing him fast recovering from his recent severe indisposition. Miss Douglass, who appeared as a danseuse, also met with a good reception and was encored. The concluding piece was "Faint heart never won fair lady," and the characters were well sustained. Thursday night was produced the comic drama of "The Maid with the Milking-pail;" Milly by Miss Fielding, who, favoured by nature with a fine figure and fascinating contour, made charming milk-maid - such as poets and romancists love in their enthusiasm to pourtray as their beau ideal of beauty. This production was followed by the farce of "Did you ever send your Wife to Gloucester," and the performances concluded with the comedy of "The Eton Boy," Mr. Vezin playing Popham, Mr. Smith Dabster, Mrs. Vezin Fanny, Miss Fielding Sally, and Mr. Williams Curry, with spirit and excellent style. On Friday the "bill of fare" included "Hearts are Trumps and "The Omnibus." Between the pieces Miss Douglass appeared "on the light fantastic toe," and Miss Fielding, in the absence of an expected "professional, honoured the audience with a very pretty song "Charming May;" but the fact of the accompaniment being started two full tones lower than the proper pitch, and played as if it had been the "dead march" in Saul, or rather the dirge in Cymbeline, instead of con moto, was enough, goodness knows, to have embarrassed, and "soured" the temper even of "Mrs. Honey" herself. However, the lady struggled through the song, but not with that credit to herself which her endeavour to please merited, or that she would have gained with any other than the miserable orchestral accompaniment she received. A "new tone" is absolutely necessary here to ensure success. The High Sheriff gave his patronage on Saturday night, the pieces played being "Exchange no Robbery;" "The Captain's not amiss (a Miss)," and "Bink's the Bagman," amid roars of laughter; and, on Monday night, the admired play of "Ingomar the Barbarian, or the Greek Slave!" Ingomar, Mr. Vezin; Parthenia, Mrs. Vezin, a character which she played with consummate skill; the performances concluded with Robert Macaire, in which Mr. Dale (as Jacques) was excessively "funny," and drew down a large meed of applause. The house has undergone many improvements at the hands of the lessee (Mr. Peters), and wears a very comfortable aspect. An advertisement in another column announces the pieces to be played during the week. We wish the new manager every success, and if "to merit is to win," we need not fear the result.

MUSIC: Oh, charming May (Rodwell)

"THEATRE ROYAL", Hereford Journal (14 June 1854), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000398/18540614/010/0003 (PAYWALL)

The theatrical season at this place of amusement, under the management of Mr. R. B. Dale, terminated on Monday night, when that gentleman took his farewell benefit. The house was well filled in every part on the occasion, forming a strong contrast to the "beggarly array of empty boxes" which have too often, to the serious loss of the management, presented themselves. The pieces played were - The School for Scandal, the Lottery Ticket, and the fourth act of Paul Pry. In the first piece the character of "Lady Teazle" was played Miss Ellen Fielding, and that of "Sir Peter" by Mr. Dale, who dressed the character admirably and played it to the high satisfaction of the audience, by whom he was loudly applauded. The other characters were well sustained, and the performance of this, as also the other pieces, in which Mr. Dale and Miss Fielding represented the leading personages, passed off well.

Melbourne, VIC (from 3 January 1855):

List of passengers who have arrived at the port of Melbourne, 2 January 1855, from London on board the Prins Hendrik; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3AF80E70-F96C-11E9-AE98-C724C30A4245?image=248 (DIGITISED)

M[r]. Baldwin Dale / British // Mrs. B. Dale / British

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (4 January 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802661 

January 3. - Prince Henrique, ship, 696 tons, J. Goodkoop, from London 6th September. Passengers - cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Dale, Messrs. Batford, Macroie, Griffiths. Westgarth, Ross and Co., agents.

"DIGGINGS INTELLIGENCE, MARYBOROUGH . . . May 26th . . . AMUSEMENTS", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (29 May 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154891107 

. . . The Eagle Hotel with its Ethiopian Serenaders is extensively patronised. The performances are very creditable, and the civility and attention of its proprietor merit success. A new theatre has also been put up, but owing to some mistake about the license, it has been closed for a short time. The old one has been again opened, under the management of Mrs. Dale, a universal favorite here, and, supported as she is, by an efficient company, I have no doubt of her success. Professor Samson's performances on the horizontal bar and swinging rings draw down thunders of applause, and the strength and activity displayed by him in his various feats is really astonishing. This week we have been favored with a visit from Mons. Coulon and Madame Carandini, accompanied by a Mons. Paling, whose performances on the violin elicited universal applause . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Maria Carandini (soprano vocalist); Emile Coulon (bass vocalist); William Henry Paling (violin, piano)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (20 July 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202634290 

THEATRE ROYAL, AT THE HALL OF CASTLEMAINE.
RIGNOLD'S Celebrated Dramatic Company will make their first appearance in the above building on
Saturday July 21st, 1855.
The Company consists of the following ladies and gentlemen -
Mrs. Dale; Mrs. Rignold; Mrs. Mitchell
Mr. E. W. Shearcroft; Mr. C. H. Rignold
Mr. R. B. Dale; Mr. C. Howard
Mr. W. W. Gibson; Mr. N. J. Dias
Mr. J. Welch; Mr. W. Murray
Mr. G. Bell; Mr. T. Martin
A splendid Brass Band of nine performers
Pianist, Mrs. Mitchell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Henry Rignold (actor, vocalist) and "Mrs. Rignold" (actor); Edwin Shearcroft (actor, vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 September 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4818392 

COPPINS OLYMPIC. - Mr. G. V. BROOKE As Macbeth.
- First Appearance of Mr. and Mrs. HANCOCK, Mrs. DALE, Mrs. DALTON, and Mr. LYALL . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); Edward and Mary Ellen Hancock (vocalists); Mrs. D'Alton (vocalist); Charles Lyall (vocalist); Coppin's Olympic (Melbourne venue)

? [Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer [VIC] (4 December 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91864428 

THEATRE ROYAL, GEELONG.
MR. CLARANCE HOLT takes great pleasure in informing his friend and the patrons of the drama, that he has taken the management of the Theatre, which will open for the Summer Season
on MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, with a New and Talented Company . . .
THE COMPANY Will comprise the following talented Artistes . . .
Edward Dale [sic], from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool (his first appearance in Geelong) . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Clarance and Marie Holt (actors, manager); Theatre Royal (Geelong)

"THE MONTEZUMA", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (29 June 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66042913 

This theatre was re-opened last Monday evening under the management of Mr. J. P. Hydes . . . The evening's amusement was wound up with the musical farce of the Waterman, in which Mr. Walsh and Mrs. Dale distinguished themselves by their rendering of the various favorite songs which constitute the principal feature of the piece. The house was well attended, and the visitors appeared to be perfectly satisfied with their theatrical treat.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Proctor Hydes (manager); Charles Walsh (vocalist, actor); Montezuma Theatre (Ballarat venue)

PIECE: The waterman (Dibdin)

"NEW THEATRE AT THE SHAMROCK", Bendigo Advertiser [VIC] (14 June 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87981085 

We understand that Mr. Heffernan intends converting the Concert Hall into a theatre, which will be opened in about a month. Negotiations are pending for the engagement of Miss Kate Ward, Mrs. R. B. Dale and Madame Strebinger, and Messrs. J. H. Vinson and R. B. Dale. The stage management will be conducted by Mr. Woolf.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Heffernan (proprietor); Kate Warde (actor, vocalist); Therese Ferdinand Strebinger (dancer); James Hetters Vinson (actor); Shamrock Concert Hall (Bendigo venue)

"HAYMARKET THEATRE", Bendigo Advertiser (19 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87986410 

"The Pride of the Market" was repeated at the theatre last night. The extravaganza of the "Invisible Prince" was also performed for the second time by the present company, and more successfully than on the previous and first night of its representation, the performers being better up in their several parts, and the scenery and machinery connected with the piece being more efficiently managed than ou its first production. It is a witty and smartly written extravaganza, the punning, jesting, and rhyming of the dialogue of that tripping description that, as it were, carries it smoothly along from beginning to end. The parodies on popular airs which are introduced are cleverly written, and in some cases having a local adaptation, were well received and deservedly applauded. Miss Kate Warde enacted and sang the part of Don Leander in a very spirited and captivating manner. It is a character well suited to the piquancy of her style of acting. She was in excellent voice in the various songs which she sang, and in the duet with Mrs. Dale, "I know a Bank," they were loudly applauded . . .

MUSIC: I know a bank (Horn)

"VICTORIA THEATRE", The South Australian Advertiser [Adelaide, SA] (27 December 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1200589 

It would be difficult to conceive a more successful entertainment than that which was afforded on Monday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Dale. The performances comprised "Republicans Wife; or, Paris in 1793," a piece familiarly known as "Delicate Ground;" "A Morning Call;" and "The Belle and Clapper, or, Ringing the Changes;" the last piece having been written expressly for Mr. and Mrs. Holt, and performed by them for upwards of 200 nights in England. Mrs. Dale gave two capital songs, and the audience, both numerous and respectable, were by no means backward in expressing their thorough approval of the entertainment . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Victoria Theatre (Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (26 May 1862), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197095188 

THEATRE ROYAL, CASTLEMAINE.
A COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT . . . to MR. & MRS. FRED. YOUNGE . . . on WEDNESDAY, MAY 28th . . .
Mrs. FREDERICK YOUNGE will sing Lover's beautiful Irish Ballad of "MOTHER, HE'S GOIN' AWAY!"
Comic Song - "The Bashful Man" - Mr. Fred. Younge . . .
Affecting Ballad - "Old Dog Tray" - Mr. R. B. Dale . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick and Emma Younge (actors, vocalists)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser (9 July 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149828264

THE Geelong Co-Operative Recreative Society, and MUSICAL UNION.
Patron - The Honorable Charles Gavan Duffy, M.L.A.
Musical Director - Mr. William Stoneham.
Pianist - Monsieur Linden, (who is engaged for this occasion.)
WEEKLY RE-UNION OF THE PEOPLE, MECHANICS' HALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH, 1862.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT AND DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT, In which
MRS. R. B. DALE, The Favorite Comedienne and Songstress, (who has kindly given her services) will take a prominent part . . .
W. STITT JENKINS, Corresponding Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Gavan Duffy (politician); William Stitt Jenkins (secretary); William Stoneham (musical director); Ferdinand Linden (piano)

[Advertisement], Otago Daily Times [Dunedin, NZ] (24 February 1863), 4

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18630224.2.14.2 

PRINCESS' THEATRE. Benefit of Mr. R. B. Dale, "The Heir at Law," and "The Illustrious Stranger."

"MARRIAGE", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (24 July 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72515962 

On Thursday, the 23rd of July, at the office of the Deputy Registrar, Mr. Charles F. Searle, Comedian, to Miss Ellen Fielding, both of Ballarat.

"CANTERBURY [NZ]", Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (28 April 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199060962 

The Princess's Theatre continues open, though the business is none too good. On the evening of the 9th "Macbeth" was played for the benefit of Mr. J. S. Willis, scenic artist, Miss Aitken playing Lady Macbeth. We are informed that Messrs. Willis and R. B. Dale have completed arrangements for leasing the Princess's Theatre. Mr. Dale will shortly visit Melbourne for the purpose of engaging a company, and it is expected that the theatre will be opened under the new management on the 1st of June. The Heines have been giving concerts at the Town Hall.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph and Ada Heine (violin and piano)

"FUNERAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (17 August 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13135388 

The Friends of Mr. R. B. DALE, comedian, late of the Melbourne and New Zealand Theatres, are informed that his funeral will take place from his late residence, No. 26, O'Connell-street, at 8 o'clock on FRIDAY MORNING, August 17th. FORSSBERG, Undertaker.

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser (25 August 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150433734 

BENEFIT OF R. FAWCETT. TEMPERANCE HALL, TO-NIGHT,
Mrs. R. B. Dale, Miss Mosely, Messrs. H. Keeble, Robertson, Glenister, Roche, G. Fawcett, and Mr. Robert Fawcett, who will give his friends in Geelong, a few hints touching their present prosperity and future prospects as "Billy Barlow" . . .

[News], The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (28 April 1880), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244690864 

Death has been very busy of late with the representatives of the old-time colonial stage. We had lately to notice the loss of Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Bartlett, and it now devolves on us to record the death of another member of the theatrical profession who, years ago, was a histrionic light in this city, Mrs. C. J. Searle [sic], nee Miss Rose Fielding [sic], and better still known as Mrs. Robert Dale, died yesterday from dropsy, for the treatment of which disease she lately came to Melbourne from New Zealand. Mrs. Searle has lived for some years in retirement, her husband occupying a prominent position on the press in Christchurch. "A many years ago," as Buttercup sings, she was the best juvenile leading lady in the colonies, and in her time occupied that position in conjunction with G. V. Brooke and other stars whose names are revered amongst us. Mrs. Searle is to be buried to-morrow at 1 o'clock, and her remains will be followed by a number of members of the dramatic calling.

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Farquharson (vocalist)

"DEATHS", Globe [Christchurch, NZ] (30 April 1880), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GLOBE18800430.2.7 

SEARLE - April 28th, at Melbourne, Elinor, the beloved wife of Charles F. Searle, of this city, aged thirty-eight, of heart disease.

"THE LATE MRS. C. F. SEARLE", The Australasian (26 June 1880), 19

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142168863 

The recent death of this lady, who was long ago favourably known to us in Melbourne as Mrs. Dale, will probably render the following short biography of her not uninteresting to old theatre-goers. Her maiden name was Elinor Fielding, and she was born at Edgeworthstown, in Ireland. When very young she went to Scotland, and her first engagement, at about nine years of age, was with her sister Mary, in old Alexander's theatre. Mary, who married Henry Hodson (scenic artist), and brother of Georgia Hodson (Mrs. W. Lyster), was then the leading lady. Miss Fielding was one of the original juvenile performers with the since celebrated Leclercq family (Arthur, Carlotta, and Rose Leclercq, and Henry Leopold). As a child she was intimate with Fanny Cathcart, with whom she played many years after in the Olympic, Melbourne. The Fieldings removed to London, Mary taking a leading position at the Victoria with Miss Vincent, and subsequently at the Surrey, Strand, and Olympic Theatres. Elinor was a member of the elder Farren's Olympic Company, and accompanied them to the Brighton Theatre Royal. She played the child part of Henry Drayton, with the veteran as Grandfather Whitehead, and at 15 years of age she played Sophia in the "Clandestine Marriage," with Mr. Farren as Lord Ogleby. Her sister Mary was a great favourite at the Olympic, Mrs. Alfred Phillips being in the company, and Mr. Hoskins stage manager. Mary was the original Portia and Lady Macbeth to Robson's burlesque Shylock and Macbeth. Elinor married R. B. Dale, and came to Victoria in 1855, and played in the Olympic under the management of Mr. Coppin. She afterwards went up the country, and was a great favourite at the old Montezuma and Victoria theatres, Sandhurst. She played engagements on all the great rushes. On Mr. Dale's death she married Mr. C. F. Searle, and with him went to New Zealand with Mrs. Heir in 1869. She there became a great favourite in such characters as the nurse in "Romeo and Juliet," Mrs. Candour, Corny Carlyle, Lady Janet Roy, Sally Boker, and Mrs. O'Kelly. Of late years Mrs. Searle's health gave way, and for the last two years, which were spent in Christchurch, she suffered greatly from heart-disease. About 10 weeks back she came to Melbourne for the benefit of the milder climate, but, after rallying a little she got worse, and was seized with a fit on April 27, and died the same day.

ASSOCIATION: Georgia Hodson (vocalist); Fanny Cathcart (actor, vocalist); Elizabeth Elsbee Phillips (actor); William Hoskins (actor, manager)

"A Surprise Party (By C. F. S.)", Evening News (9 February 1901), 4 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114025320 

We were a very merry party . . . The location was a tiny but highly picturesque gold field in Victoria . . . If there are any old playgoers of the long past days I am recalling left they will probably hold in affectionate remembrance the once popular names of Teddy Shearcroft, Robert Baldwin Dale, and Fanny Wernham . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Fanny Wernham (actor)

DALE, Thomas (Thomas DALE; T. DALE)

Pianoforte and harmonium tuner and repairer, piano tuner

Born ? England, c. 1812
Active Castlemaine, VIC, by February 1855
Died Castlemaine, VIC, 22 December 1893, aged "81"

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QUERY: Was he Thomas Dale (Tasmanian convict)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (23 February 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202635018 

PIANO FORTES tuned, regulated, and repaired, by T. Dale. Apply at the Rev. J. Cheyne's, Parsonage, Castlemaine.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (25 May 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199052048 

T. DALE - Pianofortes and Harmoniums tuned and thoroughly repaired.
Barker-street, between Doveton and Berkley-st., Castlemaine.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (2 January 1860), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199047638 

DALE T. - Pianofortes and Harmoniums tuned and thoroughly repaired.
Barker-street, between Doveton and Berkley-st., Castlemaine.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (2 January 1869), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197310869 

Pianofortes & Harmoniums TUNED and thoroughly Repaired, Resilked and Polished by T. DALE, Barker Street between Doveton and Berkeley Streets.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (1 January 1879), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198858508 

Pianofortes and Harmoniums. TUNED AND THOROUGHLY REPAIRED BY T. DALE, Barker-street, between Doveton and Berkeley streets.

"DEATHS", Mount Alexander Mail (23 December 1893), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198245952 

DALE. - On the 22nd inst., at his residence, Barker street, Thomas Dale, Pianoforte Tuner.
OSCROFT. - At Castlemaine, on the 22nd inst., THOMAS OSCROFT, formerly of Guildford; one of the oldest residents in the district.

"ITEMS OF NEWS", Mount Alexander Mail (23 December 1893), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198245958 

Two of the very old identities of the district have passed away. One is Mr. Oscroft, who in the early days kept a hay and corn store; the other is Mr. Thomas Dale, pianoforte tuner, who has been in a very precarious state for some time past. A week ago it was thought that his hour had come, but he lingered on till yesterday . . .

Thomas Dale, Castlemaine, piano tuner, died 22 December 1893, administration and probate; Public Record Office Victoria

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DALLE CASE, Luigi (Luigi DALLE CASE; Signor DALLE CASE; Lewis DALLE CASE; DALLECASE; DELLA CASE; DELLACASE)

Circus performer, gymnast, theatrical manager, entrepreneur

Born ? Italy/France, c. 1801 (? c. 1810)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 10 July 1841 (per Salages from Ile Bourbon, 27 May)
Arrived Launceston, VDL (TAS), 29 October 1842 (per Waterlilly, from Sydney, 17 October)
Departed Launceston, VDL (TAS), late March 1843 (for Batavia)
Active South Africa, 1848-52; India, 1854-55
Died Agra, India, 27 June 1856, aged "55"

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DALLE CASE, Anna (Anna Rita DELIMA; Annita Rita DE LIMA; Signorina ANNA; Signorina Anna DALLE CASE; Mrs. Luigi DALLE CASE; Madame DALLE CASE; DALLECASE; DELLACASE)

Circus performer, gymnast, dancer

Born ? Brazil, c. 1830; (? 1832/33)
Arrived (1) Sydney, NSW, 10 July 1841 (per Salages from Ile Bourbon, 27 May)
Departed (1) Launceston, VDL (TAS), late March 1843 (for Batavia)
Arrived (2) Hobart, TAS, 5/7 January 1854 (per Walter Scott, from Mauritius, 30 November 1853)
Departed (2) NSW, after 9 June 1857 (for India)
Married Thomas Wallace WALKER, Calcutta, 23 December 1859
Arrived Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 3 June 1861

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[DALLE CASE], Emilia (Emilia FERMINO MATTO; FERMEIRO; Signorina EMILIA; alias Signorina Emilia DALLE CASE)

Circus performer, gymnast, dancer, vocalist

Born ? Brazil, c. 1834/5
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 10 July 1841 (per Salages from Ile Bourbon, 27 May)
Departed Launceston, VDL (TAS), late March 1843 (for Batavia)
Married William SEAL (d. 1858), Durban, South Africa, 27 August 1852
Died India, 21 May 1858, "aged 29"

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Summary:

Though he was not himself a public musician, Luigi Dalle Case was significant for local music and musicians during his short stay in NSW.

In company with the dancer Mons. and Mad. Charierre, Dalle Case, "and two children", and others of their troupe, arrived in Sydney from Mauritius, on 10 July 1841.

Charierre withdrew from the troupe on arrival, leaving Dalle Case to give his first gymnastic entertainments in August, on a bill that also included the two juvenile tight-rope dancers, Signora Emilia, "a young lady, seven years old", and Signorina Anna. Described elsewhere as the "Brazilian Girls", and sometimes as sisters, they were said to have been indentured to Dalle Case in Brazil, though it was evidently also assumed by some, and at least once reported, that they were his natural or adopted daughters. As Senhor Luiz Dalle Case, he had been in Buenos Aires in March 1839, when the Jornal do Commercio of 27 March reported that he "e sua familia" had performed. In later documentation, however, Anna gave her family name as Delima (or De Lima), and Emilia gave hers as Fermino Matto or Fermeiro.

According to The Monitor, "the élite of Sydney were assembled in great force" for a show that it doubted "many of our Australian youths now living will 'ever see the like again'." But the Herald concluded that, given the already depressed times, it must have been largely the "working classes" that were supporting Dalle Case and the theatres.

The two young girls also took singing lessons from John and Eliza Bushelle (John had spent time in Lisbon when young, and probably spoke some Portuguese), and the younger, Emilia, made her public debut as a vocalist at the Bushelles' concert in September 1841 singing Auber's Povera signora.

Among improvements promised for Dalle Case's last November performance at the Victoria Theatre was a "superior orchestra". By December, construction of his new tent theatre on the corner of George and Hunter Streets was underway, though the government at first refused him a license to use it. With decorations added by the artist John Skinner Prout, the so-called Olympic Theatre was judged by the Gazette to be an "elegant little amphitheatre".

In February 1842, Dalle Case began diversifying the Olympic fare by engaging actors, dancers, singers and musicians, notably including the Gautrots and Bushelles, most of them previously company members at the Royal Victoria Theatre. He hired John Deane junior to form and lead an orchestra. By March, however, Dalle Case and the rival theatre were in serious contention, and in April he was listed among the newly insolvent.

Dalle Case having meanwhile taken his troupe abroad to Parramatta, Maitland, and Windsor, several complaints against him came before the chief commissioner on 17 August. The record of proceedings is an interesting musical-historical document, in that those called and quoted verbatim and at length included John Bushelle, Joseph Gautrot (through an interpreter), and Charriere.

Dalle Case took a farewell benefit at the Victoria Theatre on 30 September, and embarked for Hobart on 5 October, with a small company including the two girls, Anna and Emilia. The company gave performances there and in the midlands and Launceston well into March 1843.

Dalle Case and company evidently left Tasmania in late March or early April, for they arrived in Batavia in mid May 1843. However, one child at least, and possibly (through not necessarily) also his mother, stayed behind. A woman calling herself Margaret Dalle Case (there is no record of a marriage, was it actually Signorina Anna, the registrar confusing Anna Rita with Marguerita?), having given birth to a son, Lewis Dalle Case was baptised at the Church of England, Green Ponds, on 18 August 1843.

In Sydney in April 1844, The Australian reported a rumour of Della Case's execution, which was, however, contradicted by reports of his continued touring in Malacca, Penang, Batavia, India, and, by January 1848, the Cape Colony.

Luigi Dalle Case and his son, Lewis, were in Bombay (Mumbai), India, by May 1855. Father and son died only a couple of days apart, of cholera, in Agra, in June 1856, Lewis said to have been aged 11 (whether he was the same Lewis born in Tasmania, or not, is uncertain).

Anna Dalle Case had by then long since parted company with her former guardian and later likely partner. In January 1854, she and her new partner Felix Lalanne arrived in Hobart from Mauritius, and remained in Victoria for several years, touring as circus performers. Their child Anna Rita Lalanne was born in Geelong, VIC, in 1856, and in May and June 1857 they were in Sydney, NSW. From there, no later than mid June 1857, they must have sailed for India, where, at the end of August, Felix died of cholera.

Anna married Thomas Wallace Walker, a master mariner, in Calcutta, on 23 December 1859, and the couple, together with her three surviving children by Felix Lalanne (boys aged 8, 6, and 3) arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, on 3 June 1861, intending to settle in the United States. However, there is some evidence that they may later have returned to Brazil.

THANKS: To Alan Robiette (October 2019 to March 2020) for kindly sharing findings from his extensive research into Luigi and Anna Dalle Case

Documentation:

Sydney, NSW (10 July 1841 to 13 October 1842)

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser [NSW] (13 July 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2553891

From Bourbon, same day [10 July] whence she sailed the 27th May, the French ship Salages, Captain Williams, with sugar.
Passengers, Monsieur Charrier, Lady, and servant, Monsieur Dellacas and two children, Monsieur Froget, Monsieur Fourcade, Monsieur Jourbert, and Monsieur Mayuel.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mons. and Mad. Charierre (performers)

[News], The Australian [Sydney, NSW] (13 July 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36849875

The French ship just arrived brings us a curious importation, which promises to add materially to the means of amusement for our towns' folks. Signor Dalcase has arrived here with two Brazilian feminine rope dancers of the respective ages of seven and nine years, who were indentured to him, under the promise, that when they arrived at the age of sixteen, they would be returned to their native country, with a certain sum of money in their possession. We have had an interview with the Signor, who gives us a wonderful account of the performances of these girls, who are able to ascend a rope at any elevation without the use of balancing poles. The Signor himself is a "professor of the Herculean sciences," and performs wonderful notions such as the lifting of weights, and the management of the Olympic column. We also have to add that a Monsieur Charriere will make his appearance before an admiring Sydney audience as a comic ballet dancer, in which "profession" he is said have great merit; and though last, not least, we hear of a clever dog that plays at cards like a discreet dowager, and of a monkey that fires a gun. This corps of "acrobates" and "funambules," in other words, of tumblers and rope-dancers, will, no doubt, vastly amuse the younger portion of our friends, and reap a substantial reward for their arduous and dexterous labour.

See also "GYMNASTICS", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (13 July 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2553879 

[Advertisement], The Australian (14 August 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36851818

GREAT NOVELTY!!! SIGNOR LUIGI DALLE CASE
HAS the honour to announce, that on the evening of
WEDNESDAY, the 18th of AUGUST, 1841 he and the Foreign Company under his management will exhibit a variety, of Gymnastic, Athletic, and other Exercises, of the most surprising description, at the
ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
The Entertainments Will he arranged in the following manner
ACT 1st.
No. 1. - Signorina Emilia a young lady, seven years old, will execute on the Tight Rope, a Dance of surpassing elegance and difficulty, interspersed with a variety of Attitudes and leaps, calculated to excites the Wonder of the audience.
No. 2. - Signorina Anna, will execute a Grotesque Dance on the Tight Rope, with various feats of agility, and will terminate by the Chair Equilibrium, which hits been deemed the "ne plus ultra" of Gymnastic power . . .
An efficient Orchestra is engaged, and will, during the Performance, play some popular Airs.
Boxes, 7s. 6d.; Upper Boxes, 5s.; Pit, 4s.; Gallery, 2s. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

"THE THEATRE", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (17 August 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2554188 

This evening Mons. Charriere will make his first appearance on the boards of the Victoria . . . Mons. Charriere has seceded from the connection entered into between himself and Seignor Dalle Case, previous to their leaving the Mauritius, and has, we understand, been engaged by Mr. Knight for the present season at the Victoria. On Wednesday evening the Foreign gymnastic company will make their first appearance at this establishment. The feats said to be performed by some of these performers, are truly wonderful, and will, we doubt not, have the effect of drawing a most crowded audience.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Knight (manager)

"THE FOREIGN GYMNASTIC COMPANY", The Sydney Monitor (27 August 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32190436

On Wednesday evening last, we witnessed the surprising feats of Signor Luigi Dalle Case and his Company, at the Royal Victoria Theatre . . .

"WEDDING", Sydney Free Press (18 September 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226357750 

Signior Luigi Dalle Case whose astonishing gymnastic performances have created so much sensation among the Australian public, has appeared in a entirely new character on the theatre of life, by entering into the matrimonial estate; having been married on Thursday last to Mrs. Roberts, wife of the late Mr. Richard Roberts of Sydney. After the performance of the ceremony, the happy couple and their friends retired to the residence of the bride in Phillip-street, where the nuptial festivities were conducted in a style of great eclat and liberality. We think it probable that this event will deprive the Sydneyites from the pleasure of a repetition of the singular and entertaining performances of Signior Dalle Case and his family.

"HOAX", Sydney Free Press (21 September 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226357471 

We have since learned that the story of Signor Dalle Case's marriage, which was reported in our last, is merely a false rumour . . .

"BUSHELLE'S CONCERT", The Sydney Herald (24 September 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12871293 

IT must have been very gratifying to Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle, to be received as they were on Wednesday evening by so crowded and fashionable a house - the most crowded indeed which has been witnessed at any concert for the last twelve months. At eight o'clock, His Excellency the Governor and Lady Gipps, attended by Mr. Miles, entered, when the orchestra struck up "God save the Queen," which we are sorry to say was, from bad leading perhaps, very indifferently played . . . In the second part, (passing over the feeble and badly led overture) we were highly delighted with the little Signorina, who sang with extraordinary effect "Povera Signora;" her laugh was inimitably naive . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John and Eliza Bushelle (vocalists); George and Elizabeth Gipps (governor and wife)

MUSIC: Povera signora (Auber)

"BUSHELLE'S CONCERT", Sydney Free Press (25 September 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226358212 

On Wednesday evening last, we again had the pleasure of hearing those deservedly great favourites of the Australian public, Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle, at the Concert given by them in the Theatre, which was attended by His Excellency and Lady Gipps, and by a crowded and fashionable audience, and all appeared highly delighted with the entertainment provided for them . . . The second part commenced with the Overture, after which Signorina Emilia sang "Povera Signora," with great taste and talent for one so young, and does ample credit to her instructor . . . The orchestral department was admirably conducted by Mr. Leggatt, and led by Mr. S. W. Wallace . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Leggatt (conductor); Spencer Wellington Wallace (violin, leader)

"THE TIMES", The Sydney Herald (29 September 1841), 2

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The depression in the money market has been severe, but not sufficiently so to affect the interests of the working classes in any material degree. This may be assumed from the fact that at the Theatre during the past eight or nine weeks, upwards of £500 per week has been taken for admission. This includes the regular nights of performance, concerts, and Signor Dalle Case's entertainments, the main support of which, except the concert, has undoubtedly been the working classes of Sydney, who must therefore be considered well off, when they can pay such sum for one species of amusement only.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (1 October 1841), 1

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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. LAST NIGHT of the GYMNASTIC COMPANY'S PERFORMANCE IN SYDNEY.
FRIDAY, the 1st October, 1841. FOR THE BENEFIT OF SIGNORINA EMILIA, who on this occasion solicits the support of those friends that have taken so kind an interest in her welfare.
In addition to every variety of entertainment that can be furnished by the Company, she is happy to announce that she has obtained the valuable assistance of her Musical Instructor,
MR. BUSHELLE in a vocal selection to be performed in the course of the Evening.
And by the kind permission of Colonel French, the Band of the 28th Regiment will be in attendance.
PROGRAMME. PART I. TIGHT ROPE DANCING, of every description, by SIGNORINA AMMA and SIONORINA EMILIA . . .
PART III - MUSICAL SELECTION.
1. The Swiss Maiden's Song, composed by Madame Malibran, accompanied by the Orchestra - Signorina Emilia
2. "When time hath bereft thee," Auber; full Orchestral Accompaniments - Mr. Bushelle
3. "Povera Signora," as sung at Mr. Bushelle's Concert - Signorina Emilia
4. The celebrated Irish Characteristic Ballad, "Molly Carew" - Mr. Bushelle . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 28th Regiment (military)

"SIGNORA AMELIA", Sydney Free Press (2 October 1841), 3

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Her benefit last night was the most overflowing that has been in the Victoria probably ever since it was opened; and we wish the Signorina many happy and equally lucrative returns of similar occasions. Her musical tutor, Mr. Bushelle, rendered his interesting and promising pupil very valuable service by the vocal interlude got up on the occasion. The singing of the Signorina interested the audience . . . Mr. B. never was in better voice . . .

"THEATRICALS", The Omnibus and Sydney Spectator (2 October 1841), 3

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. . . We saw Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle with their two pupils, the very interesting Brazilians the Senoritas Anna, and Emilia, who though they do not understand English, seemed to enjoy, with childish delight all they saw - more particularly the very clever grotesque dancing of their Compagnon de Voyage, M. Charriere, in the ballet of the Maturins, with childish delight, one of them declaring that she had sustained a principle character in it herself, a great while ago - when she was young . . .

"Fashionable Chit Chat", The Omnibus and Sydney Spectator (6 November 1841), 42

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The intended marriage of the Signor Dalle Case, is adjourned sine die, owing, as is reported, to the officious interference of some friends.

[Advertisement], The Australian (13 November 1841), 3

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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. LAST NIGHT Of Signor Dalle Case at the Victoria Theatre . . .
on WEDNESDAY Evening next, the 17th instant . . . he has made arrangements to have the house better lighted, a superior Orchestra, and an improved management behind the scenes, than that displayed on Wednesday Evening last . . .

"NEW THEATRE", The Sydney Herald (1 December 1841), 3

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Signor Dalle Case's temporary Theatre in Hunter-street, is being rapidly proceeded with. The roof, which is to be covered with canvas, is being erected.

ASSOCIATIONS: Olympic Theatre (Sydney venue)

[News], The Sydney Herald (9 December 1841), 2

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We understand that the Government have refused Signor Dalle Case a license for the exhibition of gymnastic performances at the corner of Hunter-street, - the grounds of which have not been stated. The Signor having been at a great expense (some £300 or £400) in erecting and materials for his building, it is to be regretted that the Government did not give him a decided refusal upon his first application for a license.

"Signor Dalle Case's Olympic Arena", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (22 January 1842), 2

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Although we have paid frequent visits to this building, and have been watching with great interest and admiration its development into the elegant little amphitheatre now in Hunter-street, we have refrained from noticing it in our columns, until we could give our readers some correct information as to its pretensions, and claims upon their patronage. The erection is a spacious booth, enclosed within a stout pailing, and from its external appearance gives the beholder but little idea of the display of taste within. The interior is divided into a circus (for horsemanship, &c.), a stage, dress circle, and pit - there is no gallery. The fittings up are of the most modern English style, after the plans of the Olympic, the Prince's Theatre, and the late Astley's - and are without question superior to any thing of the kind on this side of the line. The Signor seems to be sparing no expense. Mr. Prout is the artist who has designed and is executing the paintings and scenery - and were any new proof of talent, or taste required to establish that gentleman's fame amongst us, this we say would suffice for there is a beauty of conception - corrections of execution, and finish in his work that many of our Australian friends have, we are sure, never witnessed in theatrical scenery, and that only of late years has been deemed requisite in that art at home. We have long, and sometimes loudly bewailed, the incorrectness of perspective, and poverty of efficient in the scenery of our Colonial theatre, and while there was no other to compare and compete with, and those that visited, were satisfied - we could scarcely blame the managers for their penury or want of taste; but we must now look for a change. Signor Dalle Case has by his spirited liberality commenced a new era in Australian theatricals, and we can safely predict, that in the powerful art of scenic effect, we are about to follow very closely upon the celebrated artists of the mother country. Scene painting has, of late, especially during the last five years, made considerable advances in England. Macready was the first to determine upon representing Shakspeare's plays with appropriate scenery, and his design was splendidly carried out by the magic brush of Stanfield. Many of us perhaps, only know this artist as the royal academician, and landscape painter; but to others we have only to whisper the names of Stanfield and Roberts to refresh upon their recollections some of the most magnificent scenic effects ever produced. May this beautiful branch of the fine arts, with us, so impelled by the invigorating words, "Advance Australia."
The panels of the dress circle are decorated with medallions, enriched with gold and imitation of trellis work - each presenting a beautiful painting; among these are several Italian landscapes, two Mazzeppas, one the passage through the forest, the other the death, and the centre panel is a representation of Ducrow in his celebrated character of the Russian Courier on eight fiery steeds. These are all beautifully executed, and when illuminated with gas from the several elegant brackets surrounding, will afford a coup d'oeil certainly never before witnessed in this colony. The design of the proscenium is without exception the most beautiful we have seen; it is taken from the Judgment Hall of the Alhambra - a celebrated palace of Granada and the richness of the Moorish architecture, with its splendid variety of colour, afford scope for the artists which Mr. Prout appears fully resolved to take every advantage of. The proscenium is to be surmounted by the Australian arms.
Signor Dalle Case in all he has undertaken, has been quite up to the taste of the day, and we do hope that his enterprising endeavours will be appreciated, and meet the reward they merit. At all events, he will do us a national good, and afford tasteful and harmless recreation to our townsmen and visitors. With the liberality that has characterised all his proceedings amongst us, he has presented a handsome silver cup as a prize for the Anniversary Regatta, on the day of which the Australian Olympic Arena is expected to open - and we foretell that it will be the arena of many an honorable contest for public approbation.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Skinner Prout (artist, recently arrived); Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (British artist); David Roberts (British artist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (5 February 1842), 3

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Australian Olympic Theatre, HUNTER-STREET.
SIGNOR DALLE CASE most respectfully informs his friends and the public generally (who have hitherto so liberally supported him) that, anxious to deserve their increasing patronage, he has formed engagements, for the ensuing season, with
MR. & MRS. KNOWLES, MR. & MRS. O'FLAHERTY, MRS. XIMENES, MRS. LARRA;
and with MONS. CHARRIERE & MRS. BROCK for the Ballet department and principal Dancers.
The above names, ridded to his company already engaged, will, he feels assured, be sufficient guarantee for the nature of the various performances now in active preparation.
Signor Dalle Case also begs to announce that he is now in treaty with other parties of acknowledged talent, and that no exertion shall be wanting to render the entertainments at his establishment as perfect as his patrons can desire.
An Efficient Orchestra is now forming, which will be led by Mr. Deane, jun.
The Stage is rapidly undergoing great improvements, and will present, when complete, a depth of fifty feet, together with conveniences adapted to the production of the most effective Dramas.
A range of PRIVATE BOXES is being erected for the convenience of families and parties, and great care will be exercised in rendering that part of the house select.
The Scenery for the Stage will be of the first order, being executed by Mr. Prout, and under the his immediate superintendance.
The Stage Department will be under the sole management of Mr. Knowles, who will, Signor Dalle Case feels assured, prepare such Dramatic entertainments for the amusement of the public, as cannot fail to meet with general approval.
Several novelties are in a state of great forwardness, and will be presented in the course of the ensuing week, due notice of their performance will be given.
C. KNOWLES, Manager. VIVAT REGINA.

ASSOCIATIONS: Conrad and Harriet Knowles (actors); Eliza and Henry O'Flaherty (actors); Ann Ximenes (actor); Mary Ann Larra (actor); Mrs. Brock (dancer); John Deane (violinist, leader)

"THEATRICAL GOSSIP", The Sydney Herald (7 February 1842), 2

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. . . According to the advertisement which appeared in Saturday's papers, we perceive that the Signor has engaged Mr. Knowles, undoubtedly the most clever performer in the colony, whether in tragedy or genteel comedy; Mrs. Knowles, who sings a little, dances a little, and plays a general round of characters, better than any actress in Sydney; Mrs. O'Flaherty, who, as Miss Winstanley, was always a favorite, and plays heavy characters, both in tragedy and melodrama very well; her sister Mrs. Ximines, who sings and plays comedy; Mrs. Larra, who, in the Malaprop line, is first rate; and Mr. O'Flaherty, of whom we know nothing, except that report (report always does speak highly of a new performer) speaks highly of him. In addition to these there are for ballet, M. Charriere, Mrs. Brock, and the Brazilian girls . . .

"NEW INSOLVENTS", The Sydney Herald (26 April 1842), 2

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. . . Luigi Dalle Case, Hunter-street, Professor of Gymnastics, filed 23rd April . . .

[Advertisement], Australasian Chronicle (3 May 1842), 3

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Under the distinguished Patronage of his Excellency Lieutenant General SIR MAURICE O'CONNELL, K.C.B.
THE AIRTISTS of the FOREIGN OPERATIC and DRAMATIC COMPANY respectfully announce that, having obtained a License from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, they have at considerable expense fitted up the Lower Saloon of the ROYAL HOTEL as a Theatre where they will produce a series of the best French and Italian Musical Compositions, and the choicest Dramatic Pieces of the Parisian Theatres . . .
the first representation will take place on WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1842 . . .
After the Opera, "La Tarantelle," Spanish Dance, by Signorinas Anna and Emilia, pupils of Mons. Charriere . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Foreign Operatic Company (1842); Royal Hotel (Sydney venue)

"THEATRE", The Sydney Herald (19 May 1842), 2

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It will be seen from our advertising columns, that the amusements at the Victoria Theatre, this evening, are for the benefit of the Brazilian girls, Anna and Emilia, who have so often, since their appearance amongst us, amused the public by their graceful evolutions on the tight rope, and their extraordinary acrobatic exercises. Signor Dalle Case having sunk his all in the Olympic Theatre, which has proved a failure, from causes which need not be enumerated, has not now the means of supporting and educating these girls, but belonging, as he does to the order of Free-Masonry, that body have resolved to do all in their power, in giving their patronage and support to his protegees, the young Brazilians. It is to be hoped that the public will come forward on this occasion liberally with their patronage; it is performing an act of charity to the girls, who have been innocently involved in the misfortunes which have befallen the Signor.

"COUNTRY NEWS . . . MAITLAND. THE TURF", The New South Wales Examiner (22 July 1842), 3

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The Maitland races commenced on Wednesday [20 July], and will terminate to-day . . . We understand the sports began with spirit; and that every species of legitimate collateral amusement has been got up to divert the numerous assemblage of visitors on the occasion, and give eclat to the races. Among the latter, we understand, that Signor Dalle Case, with Signor Auguste, the Signorinas Ann and Emilia, and a small, but select company - have been performing in an unfinished building, rented from Mr. Smith of East Maitland, to crowded audiences . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Signor Auguste (performer)

"INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS . . . WEDNESDAY [17 August] . . . In the insolvency of Signor Dalle Case", The Sydney Morning Herald (18 August 1842), 2

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John Bushelle was called by Mr. DILLON, for the trustee, and deposed: - I know the insolvent; I know that he sold some lace; I know that a part of it was sold to Mr. Knight, of the Victoria theatre; the first parcel was sold within one week of the insolvent's sequestration; the insolvent told me that the first parcel sold only produced £5, but that it was worth £40; the insolvent came to me to ask me to make out a receipt for £12, which I declined to do, but it was afterwards written by his man, and signed by his servant under the insolvent's direction; I know a person named John Charles; I paid a visit to Messrs. Charriere and Gautrot, and was consulted by them as to the propriety of their receiving a number of boxes from the insolvent, when I at once told them that they were rendering themselves liable to a severe punishment if they received them, and that they had better send them back at once; I told them so the day after the sequestration; a long time afterwards, I heard from the insolvent that one of the boxes which had been sent to Messrs. Charriere and Gautrot's had been sent back, after John Charles had taken out sufficient things to satisfy his claim against the insolvent; I have heard from the insolvent that an organ had been sold to Cetta by his orders, which organ insolvent admitted to be his; I have reason to believe that £10 was the value fixed upon it; he has also informed me that his gold watch had been sold, but whether by private bargain or raffle I know not; it was sold within two months of the sequestration; I valued the watch at £30.
Since the insolvent's sequestration I have heard him say that he had money enough to pay his passage to India, or any other country; he proposed to me to go with him to South America, or some other country, and that he would pay my expenses; I did not believe that he had money sufficient for that purpose; I know that the insolvent applied to Charriere to state that he had given him (Charriere) a Turkey carpet six months before, for the tuition of the young ladies in dancing. I know nothing from the insolvent concerning some shawls, but he stated to me that when the French fleet was at Buenos Ayres, he had lent several thousand dollars, and that he expected to get a very good interest for them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nichols for the insolvent: I have not a good feeling towards the insolvent. I have not a bad one towards him. The insolvent said he would buy certain articles at Thorpe's. I heard that he had laid out large sums at Thorpe's from the report of the party who sold them. I was told that a certain number of shawls worth six guineas each, had been taken to Thorpe's by insolvent, but which were afterwards returned. I had this information from Thorpe's head shopman. I made it my business to enquire into the insolvent's affairs. I first understood about the lace two or three months after the sequestration, and a few days after I made Mr. Templeton (the insolvent's trustee) aware of what I knew. The insolvent told me that an application had been made to him about some lace, he complained to me in some foreign language of his being obliged to sell the lace at such a reduced price, and for so much under its value. I intend to proceed against him in some other court. I cannot now tell on what grounds. I did not tell Templeton anything until I had some notion of proceeding against the insolvent in another Court. Aa a matter of fact, I did not give any information to Mr. Templeton till this feeling arose. Auguste might have been present when the receipt for the lace was made out, but as he is rather insignificant in appearance, may not have remarked him. All I heard about 8 - - , and the boxes is hearsay, except what was confirmed by the insolvent. I have not spoken to him for the last five or six weeks. Charriere consulted me respecting the Turkey carpets, and I have had him subpoened to support my evidence. I believed the story about the French fleet twelve months ago.
Re-examined by Mr. Dillon: Another reason why I did not give the information sooner to Templeton was, that I imagined the insolvent had given all the information to his trustee.
Ameot Gautrot [sic], being sworn, was examined by Mr. Dillon, through E. C. Greene, sworn interpreter, and deposed: There were some trunks sent to my house; I do not know whether Dalle Case had any knowledge of their being sent down; directly after I found out that they belonged to Dalle Case, M. Charriere went to the theatre to make inquiry, and we sent them back by the same party who brought them; I cannot say whether they were brought by the back way for concealment or not; they were brought in open day [?, sic], and were also sent back in open day; I have been told that John Charles brought the trunks; my wife and Madame Charriere told me they belonged to Dalle Case; I think there were two boxes, but I am not sure.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nichols: We sent the trunks away, and met Mr. Bushelle afterwards, when we told him that we had sent the trunks away, and that we would have nothing to do with them.
Re-examined by Mr. Dillon: When we told Mr. Bushelle that we had done so, he said that we had not done right.
Joseph Charriere called, and examined by Mr. Dillon, through Mr. E. C. Greene, deposed: I know that Dalle Case sent some boxes to my house; I do not know when he sequestrated; I cannot say whether it was in April last. It was about three months ago when they were sent; I was out giving a lesson, and when I came home I found that some cases and trunks had been sent to the house occupied by me and Monsieur Gautrot; I afterwards went to Dalle Case, and told him I would not receive them; at that time I had not seen Mr. Bushelle; I never spoke to Bushelle about the boxes, but I think we have spoken on the subject; I believe there were three boxes and a bag; the boxes came to my house when I was living in Hunter street; it might have been two or three weeks before I left Hunter-street, but I am not sure. At the time of the fitting up of the Royal Hotel as a theatre, in company with Gautrot, we borrowed a Turkey carpet from the insolvent; this was at the first representation; the carpet is still at the Royal Hotel, and belongs to Dalle Case; I do not recollect that he instructed me to say that the carpet did not belong to him; he did not instruct me to say that he had given me the carpet for the instruction of the children. I do not recollect that he ever wanted me to make any representation as to who was the owner of the carpet. It does not belong to me nor did he ever give it to me. I told him about two months ago to take it away. He owed me some money, and I having none, he lent me a watch to keep until he paid me, this was given me before Madame Gautrot; this took place before he became insolvent. I have been thirteen months in the colony. I do not recollect whether he gave me the watch before or after the first performance at the Royal Hotel. It was a month before I left Pitt-street, and I left it three months ago.
John Charles, a negro, being called by Mr. DILLON, deposed: I recollect taking two boxes to Charriere's lodgings. I do not recollect taking anything out of them to pay myself, they were brought back twice, the first time I brought them back, and the second time I sent for them, they were devilish heavy; they were brought to my lodgings in Goulburn-street, and were returned to Dalle Case, there were two boxes and a trunk with a little organ, I did not get a farthing in payment of what Dalle Case owed me. I do not know of anything belonging to Dalle Case being concealed.
Mr. Knight, of the Victoria Theatre, was called by Mr. Dillon, and deposed: I gave Mr. O'Flaherty £18 10s. for a watch which he had won at a raffle at Mr. Aldis's; I never purchased any gold or silver lace from the insolvent; I purchased some tinsel lace of Auguste; I gave him £4 for it, and I had previously given him £1 - so that I gave in all £5 for it; I understood that Dalle Case had given the lace to him for wages; the transaction must have taken place on or about the beginning of April; I do not recollect any receipt for £12 whatever being sent to me; a second lot of lace was offered to me by Auguste for £10; Dalle Case told me he had let Auguste have the lace for wages; it was not more than three months before the coming out of the piece of Zadak and Kalasrade that I bought the first parcel of the lace.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nichols: I have often assisted Dalle Case with a pound ; I bought the lace two months previous to a particular piece coming out; I pitied Dalle Case, and feel convinced, if he had not fallen into such bad hands, that his creditors would not have lost to the extent they have done.
Auguste Bassiey, called by Mr. DILLON, and examined through Mr.Grene, as interpreter, deposed: - I sold an organ to a person named Cetta; it was my property; the insolvent owed me money at Bourbon, and I got it in payment; I got it at Bourbon; I always lived in the same house with the insolvent, and always ate at the same table, and I had the organ in the house; I was employed as clown, but not as domestic servant; I gave Dalle Case part of the money I got for the organ, as we were in great distress; I gave him the whole, but when I wanted money I used to get it back from him; I got some money from Mr. Knight, of the theatre, to whom I took some lace; I got £5 for it, and used it as money is generally used; I think I took some lace to him a second time, but as the price did not suit him I brought it back again; I have used it to trim my dresses, and there is very little of it left; I have made a receipt out in my own name for £12, for the second lot of lace; I gave that receipt to Mr. Knight; it was not made out under Dalle Case's direction; Dalle Case gave me both lots of lace in payment of what he owed me; I do not know the value of the second lot of lace, but Mr. Knight took it to oblige me; I have received more than £5 from Mr. Knight. I received £10, but I do not remember when. I do not recollect whether it was £10 or £12. I kept it for household purposes. I was not in partnership with Dalle Case. My wages were £2 at each representation.
George Strong, called by Mr. DILLON, deposed: I was employed as tailor at the Olympic Theatre. I cannot say whether any of the wardrobe has been taken away. I think there is about a dozen of white ostrich feathers, and a great number of other articles belonging to the theatre, missing; they were missing before Dalle Case's insolvency, and before I made out this inventory. I used to give up the key every night to the Signor.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nichols: other persons had access to the wardrobe as well as the Signor.
The examination being closed, Mr. DILLON submitted, that the Turkey carpet not being in the schedule, was sufficient to warrant the Commissioner in committing the insolvent for concealing his property.
Mr. Templeton stated, that when he asked the insolvent about the carpet he said that he had forgot it, and he thought that such was the case. The present meeting had not been called until he had received a very strong statement from Mr. Bushelle on the subject, he also considered it but fair to state, that after the boxes had been got at and were opened by the insolvent in his presence, that there was merely the children's dresses in them, which he did not think he was at all warranted in seizing, and if he had to take them, he would pay the value of them out of his own pocket sooner than strip them of what was their own.
Mr. DILLON stated that he knew nothing of the case farther than the strong statement which had emanated from Mr. Bushelle before he came into Court, and by which his examination had been regulated, in order, if possible, to ascertain whether it was true; that statement was as strong as it could be penned.
Mr. Nichols, for the insolvent, submitted, that no case had been made out against him, and with regard to the carpet it was evidently an unintentional omission.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER did not see any part of the evidence which could support the case against the insolvent. He had not acted up to the letter of the law in making out his schedule; but he thought the errors were the result of ignorance, and, therefore, so far as he had seen, there were no grounds for charging him with fraudulent insolvency. He saw no ground whatever on which to commit him, and, therefore, in so far as the evidence at present went, he dismissed the insolvent.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Gautrot (musician); Emanuel Charles Greene (dancing master, interpreter); George Strong (senior, theatrical tailor); Lawrence Cetta (carver, gilder, former convict)

"POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bushelle v. Dalle Case", The New South Wales Examiner (26 August 1842), 3

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On Monday morning, Signor Dalle Case, Professor of Gymnastics, was brought up on warrant before Mr. Windeyer, to answer the serious charge of threatening to blow out the brains of Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle, the celebrated Sydney vocalists, on Saturday night last.
The information of Mr. John Bushelle stated that from information given to him, he apprehended violence from Signor Dalle Case; he having been heard to say, that he would blow out the brains of himself or Mrs. Bushelle.
Mr. Nichols, who appeared on behalf of the defendant, submitted that the information must be dismissed, as it did not allege that Mr. Bushelle bore no malice towards Signor Dalle Case, which was necessary to justify a magistrate in issuing a warrant upon it, and it could not then be amended, as the defendant was there present to answer to it.
Mr. Windeyer said, that he did not know, that the omission (if omission it was) would stop the proceedings, if the witness was then willing to swear that he had no malicious feeling; not that such an omission would he considered a sufficient plea for stopping the proceedings, which might lead to the commission of the very act it was sought to have prevented. At all events, if it had the effect of stopping them, it would only be postponing them to a very short time as another warrant must issue immediately.
Mr. Nichols said, he had no objection to go on with the case if his Worship considered the information sufficient; but his reason for so frequently making objections to informations on the ground of informality was, that, in the event of its being necessary to prosecute for perjury in any case, before the Supreme Court, the Judges were likely to turn round on them.
Mr. Windeyer said, even if the Magistrate proceeded on an informal information, through ignorance and believing himself to be doing right, he did not think the judges would turn round on them. He did not think Mr. Nichols had ever known them to do so.
Mr. Nichols said, he had known them to do so, even in the case supposed by his Worship.
His Worship, however, over-ruled the objection and the case proceeded.
Mr.John Bushelle sworn, stated, I am not actuated by any ill-feeling or malice towards Signor Dalle Case; I only seek protection for myself and my wife. The party from whom I received the information that Signor Dalle Case had threatened to blow out the brains of Mrs. Bushelle and myself, has made an affidavit to that effect, and is in attendance to be examined. Whatever ill-feeling 1 may entertain towards Signor Dalle Case, I waive it in this instance, having only taken the present proceedings as a measure of precaution.
Cross-examined by Mr. Nichols. - I have certainly reason to believe that the man intended me injury; I have reason to complain of him; I decline stating my reason more particularly; I do not think it necessary to do so, or that it is relevant to the case.
His Worship said, he did not think the course of cross-examination Mr. Nichols was pursuing admissable in the present case.
Cross-examination resumed: I have no malicious feeling, but the natural sense of injury that any other person would have felt under similar circumstances. Mrs. Wallace's servant was the person who gave me the information that he had threatened to shoot me and Mrs. Bushelle.
Ellen Hynes, called and examined - About seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Signor Dalle Case came to Mrs. Wallace's, and entering Mr. Bushelle's room swore if he or any of them entered be would blow their brains out. Mrs. Wallace sent me down to Mr. Bushelle, to tell him not to return to the room while Signor Dalle Case was there.
Cross examined by Mr. Nichols: Signor Dalle Case came three times to the house on that evening; it was on the second time that he made use of these expressions. There was no one present, but Mr. Bushelle's two servants and me; one of them is here. I swear that he said he would blow their brains out if he saw them. He spoke in English, and not either in French or Irish. He was very violent.
Re-examined by Mr. Windeyer: the oath he made use of was by his "Heaven's Almighty!"
(Signor Dalle Case - "Ah, mon Dieu! Je ne le savlis pas [? Je ne le savais pas] - I do not know vat dat is!)
Re-examined by Mr. Nichols: I gave him no provocation; what he said, he said voluntarily. When he came into the place, I was not afraid of having my brains blown out. Signor Dalle Case lives at the same house with Mr. Bushelle.
Mary McDonald examined: I am in the service of Mr. Bushelle, and know Signor Dalle Case. Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle were at tea between six and seven o'clock, when Signor Dalle Case came in, and stamped and swore, and was very violent; and said, if they came out, he would blow out their brains. He came twice. Mr. Bushelle said that was his case.
Mr. Nichols said, although his client was so strong and powerful a man, he had no intention of committing a breach of the peace, and, therefore, he had no objection to enter into sureties to keep the peace for any amount his Worship might think proper to name.
His Worship said, he thought, that was the best way of settling it, and ordered the defendant to enter into sureties accordingly, himself in the sum of £10, and two sureties in the sums of £50 each, to be of good behaviour and keep the peace towards all Her Majesty's subjects, but especially Mr. and Mrs. Bushelle, for the space of twelve calendar months.
Mr. Knight, of the Victoria Theatre, and another gentleman, then came forward as bondsmen, and the Signor left the office, rejoicing with his friends.

ASSOCIATIONS: Probably either Caroline Wallace (Mrs. Spencer Wellington Wallace, Eliza Bushelle's sister-in-law) or Mrs. Spencer Wallace senior (Eliza's step-mother)

"DALLE CASE'S BENEFIT", Australasian Chronicle (1 October 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31737390

Last evening Signor Dalle Case took his farewell benefit at the Victoria previous to his departure for Hobart Town. The Signor's feats of physical strength were on this occasion more than ever surprising, and one or two of his ancient statues were good imitations. The young Brazilians also went through their astonishing feats of agility, some of which exceed any thing of the kind we have ever witnessed. We were glad to see the house well and respectably filled.

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . SAILED", The Australian (14 October 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37115377 

Oct. 13. - The schooner WATERLILY, Brown, master, for Hobart Town, with salt, &c. Passengers, Mrs. Montigue and child, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Crocker, Signor Dalle Case, Signorinas Anna and Amelia Dalle Case, and nine steerage . . .

Van Diemen's Land (TAS) (29 October 1842 to ? mid to late 1843)

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Courier (4 November 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2953584 

29 - Arrived the schooner Waterlilly, 155 tons, Brown, from Sydney 17th October, with sundries passengers, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. J. W. Crocker, Mrs. Montagu and child, Signor Dalle Case, Signorittas Anna and Amelia . . .

[Advertisement], The Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser [Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)] (16 December 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232480933 

Albert Theatre, CORNER OF LIVERPOOL AND ARGYLE STREETS.
SIGNOR DALLE CASE HAS the honour to announce to the Gentry and Inhabitants of Hobart Town and its Vicinity that (HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR having kindly sanctioned a Theatrical License being granted to him) the
FOREIGN GYMNASTIC COMPANY under his management will commence their Performances, at the above Theatre, on
MONDAY NEXT, the 20th instant, with SIGNOR DALLE CASE, being compelled to open the above Theatre in consequence of Mr. Clarke refusing him the further use of the Victoria, begs to assure the public that no expense will be spared in fitting up the new Theatre in an elegant and commodious manner.
For further particulars see Bills.
N.B. - Wanted, a few Good Musicians, Apply to Signor Dalle Case, at the Albert Theatre, Argyle Rooms.
December 16.

ASSOCIATIONS: Michael Clarke (manager, lessee); Royal Victoria Theatre (Hobart venue); Albert Theatre (Hobart venue)

[Advertisement], The Courier [Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)] (13 January 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2953298 

ALBERT THEATRE. Corner of Liverpool and Argyle-streets.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE FREEMASONS OF HOBART TOWN.
SIONOR DALLE CASE'S FAREWELL BENEFIT.
MONDAY, 16th JANUARY, 1843. The Performances of the Evening will consist of: -
1. Various Dances on the Tight Rope, by Signorinas Anna and Emilia . . .
3. The far-famed "Pas de Zephire," by Signorina Emilia . . .
5. A great variety of Athletic Exercises, by Signor Dalle Case.
6. The admired Song of "Povera Signora," by Signorina Emilia.
7. Solo on the Cornopean, by an Amateur.
8. The "Grand Egyptian Pyramid," by all the Company.
9. The National Dance of "La Tarantella," by the Young Brazilians . . .

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner [VDL (TAS)] (1 March 1843), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36232827 

WANTED immediately, by Signor Dalle Case, who leaves Launceston, on Saturday next, one, two, or three real FORESTER KANGAROOS.
Any person having such for sale, will receive £5 each by applying to him. March 1.

"THE [LAUNCESTON] RACES . . . THE THIRD DAY", Colonial Times [Hobart, VDL (TA)] (28 March 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8753448 

. . . Signor Dalle Case had a booth, with, seemingly, plenty of entertainment within; for there were three lusty fellows, one in flesh-coloured flannel, dancing gaily on huge stilts outside, and drinking as gaily out of a beer bottle: the wit of this was rather obscure to our dull faculties, but it seemed to please "the public" . . .

Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Green Ponds . . . in the year 1843; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1089109; RGD32/1/3/ no 2272

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1089109 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD32-1-3$init=RGD32-1-3-p567 

No. 105 / [baptised] 18th August 1843 / [born] - / Lewis / [son of] Lewis & Margaret / Dalle Case / [abode] Batavia / [profession] Player / [minister] Geo. Otter

After Australia (1843 to 1856)

"MENGELINGEN. TOONEEL-NIEUWS", Javasche courant [Batavia] (17 May 1843), 2

https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010503416:mpeg21:p002 

Dezer dagen is een gezelschap Acrobaten onder directie van Signor Dalle Case, alhier met het schip King William van Hobarttown . . .

"DALLE CASE", The Guardian [Sydney, NSW] (11 April 1844), 36

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228063088 

We have just learned that this well-known gymniast has suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Port Louis, in the Mauritius, for stabbing a man who had previously attempted to seduce the eldest of his pupils, Donna Anna.

"ITALIAN VENGEANCE", The Australian (16 April 1844), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37118870

By a private letter from Launceston, written to a foreign gentleman of Sydney, in the French language, we learn that Signor Dalle Case has been executed at the Isle of France, whither he proceeded from Hobart Town with his gymnastic and equestrian troop, for wreaking vengeance on a high official gentleman of that colony by stabbing him with a knife, for attempting the seduction of Signorina Anna, the eldest of the Brazilian girls, belonging to his company. We cannot, however, vouch for the truth of this account, being unable to find anything in our files of Launceston papers relating to it; although the French letter alluded to is very laconic upon the subject, as if it were one of such general notoriety, that his friend was perfectly acquainted with the whole particulars. "Vous savez, je pense, que Signor Dalle Case est pendu," he writes in a postscript at the foot of his letter -
"I suppose you know that Signor Dalle Case is hanged."

"PORT PHILLIP. THINGS THEATRICAL", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, VDL (TAS)] (3 July 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66022336..

. . . Signor Dalle Case, who was alleged, in one of the Sydney journals, to have been hanged, arrived at Singapore, from Batavia, with his pupils, the Signorinas Anna and Emilia, on the 18th January last, and, after a series of gymnastic entertainments, sailed thence on the 15th February for Malacca and Penang. - Port Phillip Herald.

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Australian [Sydney, NSW] (14 September 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37119914 

The Asia, Smith, from Lombock, arrived at Hong Kong 18th May: passengers, Signor Dalle Case, Miss Rita, and Miss A. Canada.

"Arrivals from ports not European. JANUARY 1845", The Bengal & Agra directory and annual register for 1846 (Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., [1846]), 490

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68568/page/n559/mode/2up

By John Brightman, T. Viali, commander, from China and Singapore: . . . Messrs. . . . Merch and Dalle Case, 1 Chinese girl and 9 Chinese performers, 3 children, 1 servant.

CALCUTTA, Oct. 7 (From our Private Correspondent)", Morning Post [London, England] (22 November 1845), 6

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18451122/032/0006 (PAYWALL)

. . . India is enjoying the Doorga Poojah holidays, which began yesterday, and will terminate on the 16th . . . some of the Hindoo aristocracy have resorted to the plan of securing the services of European tumblers, rope dancers, &c., hoping thereby to outdo the rival houses in getting together a crowd of visitors. To-night one Rajah, as per his play bill, published in the newspapers, is to win glory by the vicarial agency of Signor and Signora Dalle Case and Signora Emilia, the young Brazilian, who, with a Chinese company, are to exhibit wondrous feats of tight rope dancing, stilt dancing, and tumbling. To-morrow night the same corps is to constitute the grand attraction of a fete given by certain brother Rajahs . . .

"MADRAS", Launceston Examiner [VDL (TAS)] (21 March 1846), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36244137 

. . . The papers last week alluded to a scuffle between Mr. Lang the barrister, the editor of the Moofussilite, and Signor Dalle Case, at the Doorga poojah nautches at the house of Rajah Radhakantu Deb. The Hurkaru of this morning places the affair in its true light, and exonerates Mr. Lang from all censure. It appears that he had been invited to the platform by the Rajah himself; that the Signor approached the Rajah, and addressed him in broken English, when Mr. Lang offered his assistance to interpret his address, on which the big and muscular Dalle Case seized him by the collar, and hurled him among the crowd. The affair is likely to end in a prosecution for assault.

"MAURITIUS", The Courier [Hobart, VDL (TAS)] (10 March 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2972463 

Signor Dalle Case, having completed a tour of the whole eastern part of the globe, has returned to Mauritius. He is accompanied by the celebrated ourang-outang Gertrude, and the extraordinary dog Munito. Signora Emilia is still attached to the company, which is strengthened by the addition of some Chinese performers.

"MULTUM IN PARVO", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 April 1848), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12900861 

Signor Dalle Case, formerly of Sydney, was at the Cape of Good Hope in January last.

[Advertisement], Bombay Gazette [India] (15 May 1855), 1

ROYAL VICTORIA CIRCUS AND ARENA OF ARTS, On the Esplanade, near the Church Gate.
SIGNOR DALLE CASE has the honor to announce, that the first Performance will take place on MONDAY the 21st instant.
Light Rope Dancing by the Young Chinese Girl Hamoi, Mademoiselle Emelia . . .

"SIGNOR DALLE CASE'S CIRCUS", Civil & Military Gazette [Lahore, India] (10 June 1856), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0004542/18560610/041/0005 (PAYWALL)

The Signor's exertions in the cause of the present Legitimate Drama of Agra have met with continual reverses. His last performance but one, was stopped by the elements, like Napoleon; but the event was not his Moscow for all that, and Friday night saw everything more flourishing than ever, and a fuller audience than has been seen since the first representation. Everything went extremely well, and a deal better than could have been expected. The performers were more practised in their parts, and the principal efforts of the evening were brought up closer together than hitherto. The vaulting ambition of the Company, in its literal display at the commencement, very seldom over leapt itself and the fallings on the other side was few and far between . . . We need not particularize all the performances, but must not fail to mention those of the "Brazilian" girl, aged seven, whose feats were something extraordinary, and of themselves well worth the trouble of a visit. There was also considerable humour in the Pantomime which closed the evening. Mr. Dalle Case promises more performances, (he is himself to appear in the next, which is announced for Friday [13 June]) and we cordially wish him success.

British India Office ecclesiastical returns for 1856, Agra, Bengal, Roman Catholic burials (transcribed Alan Robiette, 2019)

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/725501:9898 (PAYWALL)

Lewis James Dellacase [buried] 25 June [aged] 11 [from] cholera [occupation] equestrian

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/715710:9898 (PAYWALL)

Lewis Dellacase, [buried] 28 June [died aged] 55 [from] cholera [occupation] equestrian

"BENGAL AND AGRA . . . DEATHS", The Indian news and chronicle of eastern affaires (15 August 1856), 369

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iHlNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA369 

CASE. - June 25, at Agra, Pigotha [sic, Pigetha, stage name], only son of Signor L. Dalla Case, aged 11 years.

CASE. - June 27, at Agra, Signor L. Dalla Case, Proprietor of the Royal Victoria Circus.

Report on the attack of cholera, in the central prison at Agra, in 1856, by John Murray, esq., M. D., medical visitor (Agra: Printed at the Secundra Orphan Press, 1856), 6

https://archive.org/details/b22355492/page/6/mode/2up 

. . . The most violent case of cramps was in an athlete, M. De la Casse, the proprietor of a Gymnastic Circus . . .

Australia, 1854-57 (Anna):

Return of the arrival at the port of Hobart Town of the barque Walter Scott, 5 January 1854, from Mauritius; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:417774; MB2/39/1/17 P385

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/417774 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/MB2-39-1-17$init=MB2-39-1-17p213 (DIGITISED)

PASSENGERS. CABIN / Mr. F. Lanne . . . Mrs. Dallecase, Child & Servant . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Felix Lalanne (circus performer)

"DANCING", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (19 January 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2243786 

Madame Anna Dalle Casse has made arrangements to give lessons in the accomplishment of dancing, and will attend private residences if required.
TO THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. - It may be useful to the subscribers of the Courier to inform them that M. Lalanne, the French equestrian, proposes to teach ladies and gentlemen the noble art of horsemanship in five and twenty easy lessons.

Index of births, VIC, 1856/11323; Public Record Office Victoria

LALANNE / Anna Ritta / [mother's name at birth] Anna Ritta DELIMA / [father] Felix / [registered at] Geelong

"CREMORNE. To the Editor of . . .", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (10 December 1856), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7141395 

Sir, - Perceiving in your issue of yesterday a letter signed a "Lawyer," relative to the ascent of Madame Dallcasse and M. Lalanne, that is to take place this evening, Madame Dallcasse begs to assure the public that she has every confidence in performing the above feat, and no one need apprehend any danger arising from such an exhibition, she having accomplished the same fifteen years ago at the Victoria Theatre, Sydney, and also at the Cape of Good Hope six years since.
The same performances having been executed in London and Paris, also the principal cities and courts of Europe, Madame Dallecase, therefore, cannot see why the people should be debarred witnessing the above grand performances.
A. R. DALLCASSE.
Cremorne Gardens, December 9th 1856.

ASSOCIATIONS: Cremorne Gardens (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW} (23 May 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12996016 

CREMORNE. - QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY. - Madame DE LA CASSE'S Rope ascent at 4 p.m. - elevated 230 feet.
. . . Madame DE LA CASSE'S Night Ascent, with Fireworks, at 10 p.m. . . .
Madame ANNA DELLA CASSE, Professor PARKER,
DHERANG and STEBBING, McGOR'S Pyrotechnist, and HERR APPEL'S Band are engaged for this occasion.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Parker (sword performer); Alfred Dherang (circus performer); Francis John Stebbing (circus performer); Conrad Appel (musician); Cremorne Gardens (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], Empire (9 June 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64982665 

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH - Re-engagement of Madame DALLECASE, Monsieur LALANNE, Messrs. DHERANG and STEBBING, and Monsieur EUGENE, for THREE NIGHTS MORE!! . . .

After 1857:

Marriages, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, 1859; India, Select marriages

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/106673:9901 (PAYWALL)

23 December 1859 / Thomas Wallace Walker / Annetta Ritta Lalaure [Lalanne]

Arrivals, Brazil, 1866; U.S. and Canada, Passenger and immigration lists index

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/4350501:7486 (PAYWALL)

Thomas Wallace Walker . . .

Passengers per Ship Wriel, of which Thomas W. Walker is master, from Calcutta, for Boston, 3 June 1861; US National Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8745/images/MAM277_59-0008?pId=3997038 (PAYWALL)

Annitta R. Walker / 27 / Brazil
C. G. Lalanne / 8 / Australia
Baptiste Lalanne / 6 / [Australia]
Felix Lalanne / 3 / [Australia] [sic]

Passengers per Saplace, from Brazil, arrived New York, USA, 29 May 1878; US National Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYM237_413-0003?pId=14595882 (PAYWALL)

. . . Anita Rita Walker / 48 / American / . . . Cabin . . .

Bibliography and resources:

Albert Weiner, "The short unhappy career of Luigi Dalle Case", Educational theatre journal 27/1 (March 1975), 77-84

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3206343 (PAYWALL)

Mark St. Leon, "Theatre, amphitheatre and circus in Sydney, 1833-60", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 97/2 (2011), 220-43, especially 223-25

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.201200129 (PAYWALL)

"Luigi Dalle Case", Encyclopaedia of South African theatre, film, media and performance (ESAT)

https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Luigi_Dalle_Case

DALMAS, Caroline (Caroline DALMAS; Madame DALMAS)

Musician, professor of music, school teacher

Born France, c. 1801
Active Parramatta, NSW, by June 1842
Died Sydney, NSW, 13 April 1851, aged "50"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Caroline+Dalmas+d1851 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DALMAS-Caroline (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Monsieur Charriere (dancing master)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (13 June 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28652817 

FRENCH AND ENGLISH Seminary for Young Ladies, Victoria House, Macquarie-street, Parramatta.
MADAME DALMAS, having been induced to open a select establishment for young ladies, begs to say, that she has had considerable experience in tuition, (in some of the highest families of Europe) and will limit the number of her boarders to twelve, in order to attend herself in all their studies . . .
Monsieur Charriere, dancing master, attends weekly . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 July 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12408669 

FRENCH AND ENGLISH SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES, SMITH-STREET, GEORGE-STREET, PARRAMATTA. MADAME DALMAS . . .
Madame D. gives private lessons at her residence, as professor of Languages, Music, and Drawing, to Ladies desirous of improving in those accomplishments.

"DIED", The Sydney Morning Herald (16 April 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12926337 

On the 13th instant, at the Sydney Hospital, Caroline Dalmas, of France, after a long and painful illness of eight years.

D'ALTON, Mrs. (Mrs. D'ALTON; Mrs. DALTON)

Musician, contralto vocalist

Active Melbourne, VIC, November 1854 to May 1855: ? Kyneton, VIC, 1859

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mrs+D'Alton+vocalist+c1854-55 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#D'ALTON-Mrs (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (23 November 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4800710

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION, MELBOURNE, 1854.
On Friday Evening, November 24th, 1854, the Philharmonic Society, assisted by the leading professional talent of the Colony,
will perform a Grand Miscellaneous Vocal and Instrumental Concert.
PROGRAMME . . . Duet, "Vanne se Alberghi in Petto" - Mrs. Testar and Mrs. Dalton - Mercadante . . .
Principal Vocalists: - Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Dalton, Miss Stewart, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Lyall . . .
Leader - Mr. Jos. Griffiths. Conductor - Mr. John Russell.

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Mary Ellen Hancock (vocalist); Eliza Stewart (vocalist); Mr. Hackett (vocalist); Thomas Ewart (vocalist); Charles Lyall (vocalist); Joseph Griffiths (leader, violin); John Russell (conductor); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association); Exhibition Building (Melbourne venue)

MUSIC: Vanne se alberghi in petto (Mercadante, from Andronico); famously, the last work performed on stage by Maria Malibran before her death (with Rosalbina Caradori Allan);
but note the second advertisement, on the day, but with a different duet, below:

[Advertisement], The Age (24 November 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154849135 

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION . . . THIS EVENING, November 24th, 1854 . . . PROGRAMME. PART FIRST . . . Duet, Mrs. Testar and Mrs. Dalton - "Lasciami non t'ascolto," - Rossini . . .

MUSIC: Lasciami non t'ascolto (Rossini, from Tancredi)

"CONCERT AT THE EXHIBITION", The Age (25 November 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154849208 

The Concert at the Exhibition yesterday evening was decidedly successful, both as regards attendance and the execution. Our old favorite, Mrs. Testar, was in admirable voice . . . Two new candidates for public favour appeared in the persons of Mrs. Dalton and Miss Stewart, who were, on the whole, very well received. This being the first appearance of the ladies, we cannot, of course, speak definitively of their respective merits; but they certainly promised well. For the rest, the Philharmonic Society acquitted themselves with their usual efficiency and skill; and the Concert, passed off with entire satisfaction to the numerous audience.

[Advertisement], The Age (30 November 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154849060 

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION, MELBOURNE, 1854.
On Friday Evening, November 24th, 1854, the Philharmonic Society, assisted by the leading professional talent of the Colony,
will perform a Grand Miscellaneous, Vocal, and Instrumental Concert.
Programme . . . Part II . . . Song (Mrs. Dalton), "By the sad sea waves" . . .

MUSIC: By the sad sea waves (Benedict)

[Advertisement], The Age (7 December 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154853479 

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION. Melbourne, 1854.
Thursday Evening, November 30th. The Philharmonic Society, assisted by the leading professional talent of the Colony,
will perform a Grand Miscellaneous Vocal and Instrumental Concert.
Programme . . . Part 2 . . . Ballad, "Dermot Asthore" (Mrs. Dalton) . . .

MUSIC: Dermot Astore (F. N. Crouch)

"EXHIBITION CONCERT", The Age (9 December 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154850645 

The seventh, and we presume the last of this series of concerts, was given by the Philharmonic Society, on Thursday evening [7 December]. The building was not quite so crowded as at some former performances. The music on this occasion was, in a great measure, repetitious from some of the former concerts, with some very injudiciously chosen part songs, and a few of Mons. Coulon's most popular songs . . . Mrs. Dalton sang "Dermot Asthore" in a very creditable manner; the song is well suited for her fine voice, she barely escaped being encored. A little attentive study on her part would do much towards making her one of our most attractive singers . . .

"PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. To the Editor of . . .", The Age (12 December 1854), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851450 

Sir, - For some time I have carefully read over the Musical Criticisms in the daily journals, and it became obvious to me that they were generally deficient in detail, and savoured too much of the parasitical . . .
I will now enter into the subject of last night's Concert [7 December] at the Exhibition. On the whole it passed off well, although the attendance was not so good as on the two previous occasions . . . Upon the merits or demerits of Miss Edwards it would be difficult to pronounce, as the size of the building precludes the possibility of so small a voice being heard. That lady's part in the trio should have been given to Mrs. Dalton, who possesses a contralto voice of no ordinary volume or tone, and with more experience will become a great acquisition . . .
- VERITAS. December 8.

ASSOCIATIONS: Miss Edwards (vocalist)

"M. and MADAME HERWYN. - EXHIBITION CONCERT", The Age (1 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154852221 

These distinguished performers have announced their intention to give another of those brilliant and popular concerts which have so much charmed and enraptured the lovers of the art in this city . . . Mons. and Madame Herwyn will be assisted in their performances by Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. D'Alton, and other first favourites in the world of music.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry and Celestine Herwyn (violinist and pianist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (8 January 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802775

EXHIBITION BUILDING. This Evening . . . Benefit of Monsieur and Madame Herwyn . . .
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . . 3. Song, by Mrs. D'Alton . . .
PART II . . . 5. Song, by Mrs. D'Alton . . .

"MONSIEUR AND MADAME HERWYN'S CONCERT", The Argus (9 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802826

The concert given by Monsieur and Madame Herwyn last night at the Exhibition building, was better attended than any of their previous performances have been, there being from 500 to 600 persons present. It was their last appearance in Melbourne . . . Mrs. Dalton sang "By the Sad Sea Wave", and "Deh non Voler" in good taste. She has a rich, even, contralto voice, over which a little more practice will give her a more full command . . .

MUSIC: By the sad sea waves (Benedict); Deh non voler costringere (Donizetti, from Anna Bolena)

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry and Madame Herwyn

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer [VIC] (12 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91862489 

THEATRE ROYAL, SATURDAY EVENING 15th JANUARY 1855.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, Under the Patronage of his Worship the Mayor,
MONSIEUR AND MADAME HERWYN, assisted by MADAME D'ALTON, MR. W. SAYERS, And a quartet of amateur vocalists.
CONDUCTOR - HERR A. CRANZ.
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . 2. - Song, "The sad sea waves" by Madame D'Alton . . .
6. - Song, "Bonnie Dundee," by Madame D'Alton . . .
PART II . . . 5. Song, - "Robert! toi que j'aime," (Meyerbeer), by Madame D'Alton . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Francis Sayer (vocalist); August Friedrich Cranz (musician); Theatre Royal (Geelong venue)

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 February 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4804360 

GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Exhibition Building, in aid of the Sufferers by the late Fire at Sandridge . . .
will be given on Thursday evening next, February 15th . . . Conductor on the Piano - Herr Elsasser.
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . 4, Cavatina: "Roberto o tu che adoro," Mrs. D'Alton - Meyerbeer . . .
PART II . . . 4. Song - "The Rosebud Droops," Mrs. D'Alton - Verdi . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Elsasser (pianist, accompanist)

"GRAND CONCERT AT THE EXHIBITION", The Argus (15 February 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4804428

The committee appointed to devise means of affording relief to the sufferers by the late calamitous fire at Sandridge, have announced a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music, to take place at the Exhibition Building this evening . . . Mrs. Testar, the most accomplished vocalist in the colony, will make her first appearance since her return from Van Diemen's Land, while Mrs. D'Alton and Miss Edwards, both of whom have acquired considerable popularity, are also to contribute to the enjoyment of the audience . . .

"PERFORMANCE OF SACRED MUSIC", The Argus (14 March 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4805582 

Last evening a subscription concert was given at the Mechanics' Institution, by the Philharmonic Society . . . The programme of the evening consisted of a selection from Handel's "Samson," the solo parts being sustained by Mrs. Testar, Mrs. D'Alton, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Hackett . . . Mrs. D'Alton, a lady who has only been a few times before a Melbourne audience, sang "Return, O God of hosts," "O, mirror of our fickle state," and the rest of the contralto songs belonging to the character of Micah. She possesses a rich and powerful voice, and was heard to great advantage in sacred music, particularly in her first song; her style is entirely free from affectation, and is altogether calculated to give the very best effect to compositions of this class; her low notes are firm and of excellent tone; nothing, indeed, could be more expressive of the sentiment set forth in the words than the manner in which
"From highest glory fall'n so low,
Sunk in the deep abyss of woe!"
. . . Mr. Russell conducted the choruses with great precision . . . Mr. Goold presided at the organ (which, by the way, sadly wanted tuning) very efficiently, and the band was ably led by Mr. Griffith . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (vocalist); Thomas Green Goold (organist); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue); the performance was repeated on 3 April as a benefit for the widow of James Paterson, the late secretary of the Mechanics' Institution

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 April 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806506

CONCERT HALL. Theatre Royal . . . Recommencement of the GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS . . . a la Jullien . . .
on Tuesday Evening . . . MRS. DALTON Will make her first appearance this evening.
Band of Twenty Solo Performers. Director and Manager, Mr. Callen . . .
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. Part I . . . Cavatina, "Robert toi que j'aime," Mrs. Dalton - Meyerbeer . . .
Part II . . . Ballad, "Annie Laurie," Mrs. Dalton . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Douglas Callen (conductor); foyer of the new Theatre Royal (Melbourne venue, while main hall still under construction)

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Argus (16 April 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806788

The concert room of the embryo Theatre Royal was crowded on Saturday night. The orchestra at this establishment is very efficient, a fact made sufficiently apparent by the splendid manner in which two movements of Mozart's grand No. 1 Symphony were performed. Jullien's Indian Quadrille, arranged by Mr. Callen was much relished by the audience, to whom the class of music of which it is a specimen is more appreciable than the recondite instrumental works of the great composers. Mrs. D'Alton was the only vocalist on the occasion, as the manager, not contemplating the resumption of promenade concerts so soon after the engagement of Mr. Coleman, had given his vocal corps a conge, which has not yet expired. The lady in question possesses a magnificent contralto, but on Saturday evening appeared to suffer from nervousness to a painful extent . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Coleman (polyphonist); John Melton Black (manager, proprietor)

[Advertisement], The Argus (21 April 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4807048 

CONCERT HALL, THEATRE ROYAL. PROMENADE CONCERT . . . this evening . . .
Part I . . . Song - Constance, Mrs. D'Alton - Linley . . .
Part 2 . . . Song - In happy Moments, Mrs. D'Alton - Wallace . . .

MUSIC: Constance (Linley); In happy moments (Wallace)

"CONCERT HALL", The Argus (23 April 1855), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4807117

. . . Mrs. D'Alton and Miss Louisa Swannell are pursuing a most successful career, both ladies being nightly encored . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Louisa Swannell (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 May 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4807741

THEATRE ROYAL, Bourke-street. Promenade Concerts Every Night . . .
Programme. Part I . . . Ballad - Constance, Mrs. D'Alton - Linley . . .
Part II . . . Ballad - The strain of happier days, Mrs. D'Alton - Glover . . .

MUSIC: The strain I heard in happier days (Glover)

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 September 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4818392 

COPPINS OLYMPIC. - Mr. G. V. BROOKE As Macbeth.
- First Appearance of Mr. and Mrs. HANCOCK, Mrs. DALE, Mrs. DALTON, and Mr. LYALL . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); Elinor Dale (actor, vocalist); Coppin's Olympic (Melbourne venue)

? = Mrs. D'Alton (Kyneton and Taradale):

"MR. WOODIN'S BENEFIT", The Kyneton Observer [VIC] (22 October 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240847131 

Last evening Mr. Woodin took his Benefit at the Kyneton Athenaeum, and, with the able assistance of Mrs. d'Alton, Mr. Sinnatt and other amateurs who kindly volunteered their services for the occasion, produced as delightful an entertainment as we have witnessed in Kyneton. Mrs. d'Alton, in particular, contributed greatly to the pleasures of the evening, and was frequently encored . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Woodin (musician)

? "ATHENAEUM BAZAAR", The Kyneton Observer (8 December 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240847473 

. . . A promenade concert took place in the evening, in which Mrs. D'Alton, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Sinnott, Mr. Woodin, and other musicians volunteered their valuable assistance, and gave a succession of comic and sentimental songs with great effect and spirit . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Barlow (vocalist)

[News], The Kyneton Observer (15 November 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240850502 

The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Melbourne conducted two confirmation services last Sunday. At the morning one, at Taradale, nineteen persons offered themselves for confirmation, and at the afternoon one, at Malmsbury, about thirty persons received the rite . . . On Monday evening a soiree, in aid of the Sunday School, was held at the Church at Taradale . . . The choir, led by Mrs. D'Alton, sung several anthems, &c., during the evening, with pleasing effect, and the company broke up at rather a late hour, after the episcopal benediction had been pronounced.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Perry (bishop)

[News], The Kyneton Observer (4 February 1871), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240908367 

An entertainment was given at the Mechanics' Institute, Woodend, on Monday evening last, in aid of the School Building Fund; and another on Tuesday evening, in aid of the Mechanics' Institute. On both these occasions the entertainments consisted of Concerts, in which those conducting them, had the advantage of the valuable assistance of Mr. MacManus, organist of the Episcopalian Church at Paramatta, near Sydney, who is now on a visit to Mr. Harper, and who kindly offered his services gratuitously . . . and on each evening the performance terminated with a farce by the Woodend Dramatic Society, assisted by Mrs. D'Alton, that on Monday being the "Blighted Being," and on Tuesday "Nan the Good for Nothing," both of which were very well performed . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred McManis (musician)

DISAMBIGUATION: Apparently not to be confused with a Mrs. D'Alton, vocalist, and her daughter Miss Maud D'Alton, active in Ballarat by 1870 and later, by c. 1875, in Williamstown

DALTON, John Walter Frederick (John Walter Frederick DALTON; J. W. F. DALTON)

Musical amateur, honorary secretary, Adelaide Choral Society

Born ? England, c. 1816
Arrived Adelaide, SA, by 1841 or earlier
Married Emma BLAKELY, Adelaide, SA, 11 June 1850
Died Glen Osmond, SA, 20 June 1855, aged "39"

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian (13 August 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71609077 

IN AID OF THE FUND FOR RELIEVING THE DESTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
A CONCERT of Sacred Music will be given, by the Adelaide Choral Society, for the above purpose, at the Large Room of the Freemasons' Tavern (kindly granted by Mr. Robinson far the occasion),
on Tuesday evening, the 24th inst. Performance to commence at 7 o'clock precisely.
The tickets are limited to Three Hundred; price, 5s.; and may be had of Mr. John Stephens, Observer Office; Platts's, the Exchange; the Adelaide Bazaar, Hindley-street; Mr. White; Mr. Pitman, builder, Ruudle-street, or of any of the Committee.
JOHN W. F. DALTON, Honorary Secretary.
Adelaide, August 10, 1847.

"THE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (7 October 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195936595 

His Excellency, in answer to a deputation, consisting of Dr. Kent, Mr. Dalton and Mr. Fooks, has consented to become patron of this deservedly popular institution, and will honor with his presence the next concert, which, we hear, is shortly to take place.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Young (incoming governor); Benjamin Archer Kent (member); Adelaide Choral Society (association)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (4 December 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206980053 

NOTICE. ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY.
THE First Annual Meeting of the above Society, will be held on Monday evening the 4th December; at the Concert Room, Freemasons' Tavern, when the Subscribers are requested to attend, as the Report and Accounts for the past year will be submitted.
The Chair to be taken at half-past 7 o'clock precisely.
B. A. Kent, Esq., M.D., President.
JOHN W. F. DALTON, Honorary Secretary.
Adelaide, November 30, 1848.

"THE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (22 September 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195938528 

The first concert of this society under the conductorship of Mr. Wallace, took place on Wednesday evening in the Exchange. The arrangements of the orchestra and of the audience portion of this fine room were, we believe, under the direction of Mr. White and Mr. Dalton, the indefatigable officers of the society, and were most satisfactory - if we except the "delay which took place beyond the hour fixed for the commencement of the concert. After the noble Overture to Semiramide, which was played with great spirit and correctness, we were treated with our old favourite, the Gipsey Chorus of Balfe - so well given that we felt surprised that it did not elicit the encore it richly deserved . . . We do not like to make comparisons which may be misconstrued; but the least we can say is, that the Choral Society, under the leadership of Mr. Wallace, has lost nothing in excellence since its last performances. M. S.

ASSOCIATIONS: Spencer Wellington Wallace (musician, recently arrived); George White (member); "comparisons" - with George Bennett (previous leader)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (30 March 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38438847 

Adelaide Choral Society . . .
THE Committee take leave to announce that their next Concert under the direction of Mr. S. W. Wallace, will take place on Monday next, the 1st April . . .
JOHN W. F. DALTON, E. PARIS, Honorary Secretaries. Adelaide, 25th March, 1850.

ASSOCIATIONS: Eugene Paris (member, amateur musician)

"MARRIED", South Australian Register (14 June 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38441006 

On the 11th instant, by the Rev. W. Haining, at her residence, Wakefield-street, J. W. F. Dalton, Esq., to Emma, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Blakeley, of Manchester.

"GOVERNMENT GAZETTE . . . FIATS (against prisoners, on their own petitions)", South Australian (12 July 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71626697 

. . . John Walter Frederick Dalton, Adelaide, Accountant, 2nd August at noon . . .

"DIED", Adelaide Observer (7 July 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158104323 

On Tuesday, 26th ultimo, at Glen Osmond, after a short illness, Mr. J. W. F. Dalton.

DALTON, W. (W. DALTON)

Musician, theatre orchestra player, percussionist, drummer

Active Sydney, NSW, 1858-59

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=W+Dalton+musician (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (11 December 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13017931 

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, Sydney, December 7, 1858. - To CHARLES POOLE, Esq. -
Dear Sir, - We, the undersigned . . . beg to tender you our services on the occasion of the complimentary benefit to be given to you at the above Theatre on Tuesday next, the 14th instant; and, with every good wish for your future success,
We are, dear Sir, your faithful servants,
G. V. Brooke . . . [band] John Winterbottom, conductor
R. Vaughan, Charles Frederichs, F. S. Wilkinson, W. Dalton, S. Davis, L. Hall, W. J. S. Tranter, Charles Eigenschenk.
Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney, December 9.

ASSOCIATION: Charles Poole (manager); Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); John Winterbottom (conductor); Robert Vaughan (musician); Christian Fredericks (musician); Theodore Scott Wilkinson (musician); Isaac Davis (musician); John Thomson Hall (musician); William Tranter (musician); Charles Eigenschenck (musician); Prince of Wales Theatre (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (27 August 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60403340 

Green Room, Prince of Wales Theatre, August 23rd, 1859.
TO CHARLES POOLE, ESQ., LESSEE AND MANAGER.
DEAR SIR - Allow us to congratulate you on the unprecedented fact of your having kept open the Prince of Wales Theatre during a period of fourteen months, notwithstanding the difficulties which beset you . . . We beg to subscribe ourselves, Your obedient servants . . .
[band] CHAS. EIGENSCHENCK, R. KOHLER, R. VAUGHAN, T. S. WILKINSON . . . C. FREDERICKS, J. HALL, ISAAC DAVIS, W. DALTON . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Wildblood Kohler (musician)

[Advertisement], Empire (21 November 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64093288 

GENERAL MEETING of the THEATRICAL PROFESSION, held November 19th, 1859.
It was Resolved, That none of the following Members of the Profession shall receive any engagement from Mr. CHARLES POOLE, or any deputed manager of his, until the present pecuniary claims of the whole professional body shall have been indemnified in full.
In guarantee whereof the following signatures were affixed: . . .
[band] . . . A. H. Chute [Chate] . . . W. Dalton . . . F. J. Sharp, R. W. Kohler, Charles Eigenschenck . . . J. Davis . . . A. Usher, Robert Vaughan.
R. STEWART, Chairman. FRANK VARLEY, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Henry Chate (musician); Frederick Sharp (musician); Alfred Usher (musician); Richard Stewart (actor); Frank Varley (secretary); Australian Dramatic and Musical Association (1859-60)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 November 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28627832 

GRAND ORCHESTRAL UNION AND VOCAL CONCERT.
The Second MONSTER CONCERT, for the Benefit of the Dramatic and Musical Artists, late of the Victoria and Prince of Wales Theatres, will take place
THIS EVENING, Thursday, November 24th, at the SCHOOL OF ARTS, when the following combination of talent will appear.
Pianist - Mr. C. Packer
Leaders - Messrs. Usher and Eigenschenck . . .
Tympani and Side Drum - Messrs. Sharpe and Dalton . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Sandys Packer (pianist); Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue); Mechanics' School of Arts (Sydney venue)

DALY, Mr. (Mr. DALY)

Precentor, conductor of psalmody

Active Ballarat, VIC, c. 1850s

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DALY-Mr-precentor (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"WESLEY CHURCH. MUSICAL CELEBRATION", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (25 August 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66057858

The erection of the organ in Wesley Church, Lydiard street, was celebrated by an inaugural musical service, on Friday evening last, when a selection of sacred music from the masters was performed by several gentleman and ladies connected with the Ballarat Philharmonic Society, the conductor of the society, Mr. Turner, presiding at the instrument . . . The Rev. Mr. Millard gave an address to the audience, in which he briefly recapitulated the history of the organ. He began by stating that the original precentor in the congregation there was Mr. Daly who had gone away. To him succeeded the Messrs. Doane, who organised a choir. And now they had an organ to assist in the psalmody of the church, and from which such excellent music had just been discoursed by Mr. Turner . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Austin Theodore Turner (musician); Joseph Attwood Doane (choir leader); Ballarat Philharmonic Society (association); Music in Wesleyan churches (general)

DALZELL, Miss (Miss DALZELL)

Vocalist, actor

Active Melbourne and Geelong, VIC, October 1850 to February 1851

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Miss+Dalzell+actor+vocalist (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News [VIC] (18 October 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226518827 

Queen's Theatre, MESSRS. MORTON KING AND CHARLES YOUNG
BEG most respectfully to announce to their friends and the public generally that they have became the Lessees of this establishment, and as they intend to introduce all the available talent of the Colonies as soon as possible, and to conduct it upon a scale of respectability and liberality, they trust in return to meet with their patronage.
ON MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1850, will be produced for the first time, an entirely new Comedy, in the acts, by Buckstone, entitled A LESSON FOR LADIES.
BARBARA - MISS DALZELL, From the Olympic Theatre, London, who will introduce the celebrated ballad of
"My Beautiful Rhine," from the Operrata of the spirit of the Rine [sic]
AFTER WHICH SYLPHIDE PAS SEUL - MADAME VEILBURN
SONG - Woman's Heart, (from the Opera of the Enchantress) - MISS DALZELL . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Young (actor, manager); Morton King (actor, manager); Jane Adele Veilburn (dancer); Queen's Theatre (Melbourne venue); Olympic Theatre (London venue)

MUSIC: My beautiful Rhine (music by Helstig, arranged G. W. Reeve); see also in libretto (by Morris Barnett); Woman's heart (Balfe, The enchantress)

"THE THEATRE", The Melbourne Daily News (23 October 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226520427 

There has been a vast improvement in the appearance of this place of amusement. It not only looks clean, a desideratum it certainly could not previously boast of, but has a bright and lively aspect - this is the result of the judicional coloring of the house and the disposition of the lights. The house was crowded; and the performance extremely good, well selected and well received. Mr. Young was flatteringly greeted with 'three rounds' of the house, and Mrs. Young and Mrs. Avins were also warmly welcomed. A lady named Miss Dalzell made her debut as a singer; gallantry forbids too severe a criticism, and therefore we will only say that to appear as a public vocalist, it is necessary to possess a voice with some harmony in it, and an accuracy of ear that will prevent one from singing (?) in one key while the band are employed in another. Miss Dalzell will never rival Jenny Lind . . . We were merely spectators for a few moments, but saw quite enough to convince us that in leaving the Theatre to the present Lessees, Messrs. Young and Morton King, the proprietor, has followed a very prudent course . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jane Eliza Young (actor); Julia Avins (actor); Jenny Lind (Swedish vocalist)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser [VIC] (21 January 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91917701 

Theatre Royal, GEELONG. CONTINUED NOVELTY.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF Madame Vielburn [sic], THE CELEBRATED DANSEUSE, From the Sydney, Hoart Town and Melbourne Theatres, WHO IS ENGAGED FOR "ONE NIGHT ONLY."
FIRST APPEARANCE OF MISS DALZELL, From the Queen's Theatre, Melbourne . . .
ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, 22ND JAN. 1850 . . .
The interlude will consist of
THE SYLPHIDE, MADABIE VIELBOURNE.
A FAVOURITE BALLAD, MISS DALZELL.
Irish Jig, - Madame Vielburne . . .
Proprietor - MR. H. ELMES . . .
Leader of the Orchestra - MR. STAINSBY . . .
STAGE MANAGER, MR. STUBBS.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Elmes (proprietor); Robert Stainsby (musician, leader); Gibson Stubbs (actor, manager); Theatre Royal (Geelong venue)

"THEATRE ROYAL", Geelong Advertiser (24 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91915582 

On Wednesday Madame Vielburn [sic], the celebrated Danseuse from the Sydney and Hobart Town Theatres made her debut, before a Geelong audience. Her graceful and superior style of movement in the "Sylphide" won her loud acclamations and a deserved encore. Miss Dalzell our new cantatrice, was equally successful, her chaste style in "my beautiful Rhine" electrified the house, although on her first appearance she b seemed rather nervous, she fully recovered on a repetition of the song being called for, when she surpassed her first efforts. Her talents style and prepossessing appearance will render her a favorite on the Geelong boards. Madame Vielburn and Miss Dalzell are two important acquisitions to our Theatre.

"THE THEATRE ROYAL", Geelong Advertiser (31 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91913477 

. . . Miss Dalzell is a sweet singer, and must become an established favourite . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser (13 February 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91915423 

THEATRE ROYAL, GEELONG . . . THURSDAY 13TH FEBRUARY . . . Favorite Ballad - Miss. Dalzell . . .

DAMM, Charles (Carl DAMM; Charles DAMM)

Political exile, professor of languages, ? musician, schoolmaster, German community leader

Born Baden Baden, Germany, 5 January 1812; son of Ignaz DAMM and Madgalene SCHMIDT
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, c. 1852-54
Married Adelaide POLISTACK, St. Peter's church, Melbourne, VIC, 5 August 1854
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 26 April 1863 (per Glendower, for London)
Died Karlsruhe, Germany, 16 September 1886

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Damm_(Politiker,_1812) (Wikipedia)

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Summary:

Carl Damm studied theology at Freiburg im Breisgau and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1837. He later converted to Lutheranism and worked as a schoolmaster. In 1848 he became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, and in May 1849 took part in the Baden uprising. After the revolution was put down, he escaped via Switzerland to England, and eventually sailed for Melbourne, VIC, where, on 21 June 1854, he was naturalised as a British subject.

Sentenced in absentia to 15 years imprisonment for high treason, it was not until 1863 that he was granted amnesty to return to Baden, where he continued to work as a schoolmaster. He died at Karlsruhe in 1886.

There is only one Australian document that states Damm was a musician (see 21 July 1858 below), and that may well be incorrect. However, being such an interesting figure, and because of his association with the musicians Charles Mater and Thomas Reed, he is included here anyway.

Documentation:

1854, marriages solemnized in the district of St. Peter's, Melbourne; register 1854-55; St. Peter's Eastern Hill

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/9732/images/43331_1831109387_0164-00027 (PAYWALL)

No. 364 / [5 August 1854] at St. Peter's Church / Charles Damm / Bachelor / [born] Baden Baden / Professor of Languages / 42 / Collingwood / [son of] Ignaz Damm, Gentleman [and] Magdalene Schmidt
Adelaide Polistack / Spinster / Prussia / 38 / Collingwood / [daughter of] Charles Polistack, Merchant [and] Elizabeth Smitt . . .
We do hereby declare that we are members of the Lutheran Church . . . married . . . according to the Rites of the Church of England . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 December 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801928

EDUCATION - Institution for Young Ladies, 1 Apsley place, Eastern Hill, Melbourne; under the direction of Mrs. A. Damm; assisted by Professor Charles Damm . . .

"A GERMAN ASSOCIATION", The Age (13 March 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154864528 

A very respectably attended meeting of Germans was held on Monday evening last, at seven o'clock, in the hall of the Criterion Hotel, for the purpose of electing a committee to conduct the business of the lately organized German Association . . . The election took place by ballot, and the following gentlemen were elected: - Messrs. Damm, Berndt, Brahe, Fallenstein, Schultz, Goethe, Braehe, Koenigk, Becker, Martin, Scherff, Kruse; Mr. Damm to be President . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (21 July 1858), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7297904 

IN the SUPREME COURT: No. 2,946. - Between WILLIAM MIDDLETON TENNENT, Plaintiff, and CHARLES ALBERT FREDERICK MATER and JANE CHARLOTTE MATER, Defendants. -
Notice is hereby given, that an action has been commenced in this Court by the above-named plaintiff against the above-named defendants, for that the above-named defendants are justly and truly indebted to the above named plaintiff in the sum of £550.18.9d. for money payable by the said defendant Jane Charlotte Mater, while she was sole and unmarried, to the plaintiff, for money lent by the plaintiff to the said Jane Charlotte Mater while she was sole and unmarried, and for money paid by the plaintiff for the use of the said Jane Charlotte Mater, while she was sole and unmarried, at her request, and for money found to be due to the plaintiff from the said Jane Charlotte Mater, while she was sole and unmarried, on an account stated between them; and a WRIT of FOREIGN ATTACHMENT has been ISSUED, directed to John Duerdin, Henry Adolphus Bronckhorst, and Charles Palmer, of Melbourne, solicitors, and Charles Damm and Thomas Reed, of Collingwood, near Melbourne, musicians, for the purpose of attaching in the hands of the said John Duerdin, Henry Adolphus Bronckhorst, Charles Palmer, Charles Damm, and Thomas Reed, all and singular the lands and other hereditaments, moneys, and chattels, bills, bonds, and other property of whatsoever nature, in the custody or under the control of the said John Duerdin, Henry Adolphus Bronckhorst, Charles Palmer, Charles Damm, and Thomas Reed, or either of them, at the time of the service of the said writ belonging to the above-named Charles Albert Frederick Mater and Jane Charlotte Mater, or to or in which such defendants shall at the time be legally or equitably entitled or otherwise beneficially interested (and whether solely or jointly with any person or persons), and all debts of every kind then due by the Charles Palmer, Charles Damm, and said John Duerdin, Henry Adolphus Bronckhorst, Thomas Reed, or either of them, to such defendants, although the same or part thereof may be payable only at a future day; and if at any time before final judgment in this action the said Charles Albert Frederick Mater and Jane Charlotte Mater, or any person on their behalf, will give the security required by law, the said Charles Albert Frederick Mater and Jane Charlotte Mater upon entering an appearance and upon giving notice thereof to the plaintiff, may apply, to the Court and have the attachment dissolved.
Dated this 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1858.
JAMES SMITH, 88 Collins-street east, Melbourne, plaintiff's attorney.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Mater (musician); Thomas Reed (musician)

[Advertisement], The Age (7 March 1860), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154881992 

GERMAN COLLEGE. An educational establishment for young gentlemen will be opened April 12th by Professor Charles Damm . . . A prospectus will be forwarded by application to the Rev. Mathias Goethe, or by letter to Professor Charles Damm, St. Kilda.

ASSOCIATIONS: Matthias Goethe (Lutheran pastor)

"ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA", The Age (26 June 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154841466 

A general meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria was held yesterday evening, at the building in Victoria street. His Excellency the Governor presided . . . The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and declared duly and unanimously elected members of the society: . . . Professor Charles Damm, Principal of the German College . . .

[2 advertisements], The Argus (19 January 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5696830 

Mrs. DAMM'S INSTITUTION for YOUNG LADIES RE-OPENED January 15 . . .
PRIVATE CLASSES IN LANGUAGES and SCIENCES RE-OPEN Tuesday, January 22. Professor CHARLES DAMM, Apsley-place, Eastern Hill.

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (1 January 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66330500 

Educational Institution for Young Ladies,
1 and 2 Apsley place, Eastern hill, Melbourne. Principals - Mr. and Mrs. DAMM . . .
Messrs. Elsaesser and Wilkinson, Music and Singing . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Elsasser (musician); William Augustus Wilkinson (musician)

[Advertisement], The Herald (9 July 1862), 1

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IN the Supreme Court. - No. 1559. -
Between AMBROSE KYTE, MOSES RINTEL, and JAMES QUIRK, Plaintiffs, and FRANCIS McDONNELL, Defendant. -
Notice is hereby given that an action has been commenced in this Court . . . for that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiffs (trustees of the Second Union Benefit Building and Investment Society) in the sum of two hundred and fifty-seven pounds eight shillings and sixpence, for subscription moneys, redemption moneys, and fines, for and on account of certain moneys advanced by the Second Union Benefit Building and Investment Society to the said defendant, and which he by deeds covenanted to pay to the said plaintiffs, and a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued directed to Adam Burns, manager of the Union Bank of Australia, at Melbourne, and Charles Albert Frederick Mater, Charles Damm, and Henry Adolphus Bronckhorst, for the purpose of attaching in the hands of the said . . . all and singular the lands and other hereditaments, moneys, and chattels, bills, bonds, and other property of whatsoever nature . . . Dated this eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. P. A. C. O'FARRELL, 8 Little Collins street east, Melbourne, Attorney for the abovenamed plaintiffs.

[News], The Herald (13 April 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244294096 

On Saturday evening, a complimentary dinner was given, at the Criterion hotel, to Professor Charles Damm, who is about to visit Europe. Mr. Damm was for some time President of the German Association, and the entertainment was given by the gentlemen connected with that body. After an excellent dinner - which was served in a style for which the Criterion has long been famous - had been discussed, and the cloth removed, the usual loyal toasts were given. The health of Professor Damm was then proposed, and most enthusiastically responded to. Mr. Damm returned his thanks for the high compliment paid to him, and referred to his long connection with the German Association, from which he was now about to sever himself. Several other toasts followed, and the company separated, after spending a most agreeable evening.

Bibliography and resources:

Karl Schaible, "Karl Damm", in Friedrich von Weech (ed.), Badische Biographien [4th part] (Karlsruhe: 1891), 70-73

https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbihd/periodical/pageview/152896 (DIGITISED)

D'ANGRI, Natale (Natale Spiridion Giorgio ANGRI; Natale D'ANGRI; d'ANGRI; Signor D'ANGRI; also Noel D'ANGRI)

Amateur musician, vocalist, miner, horticulturalist, nurseryman

Born Corfu, c. 1827; son of Saverio D'ANGRI and Maria VITURI
Arrived (1) Melbourne, VIC, 14 November 1852 (per Dinapore, from London, via Dartmouth, 16 August)
Arrived (2) Melbourne, VIC, 30 December 1855 (per Schomberg, from Liverpool, 5 October)
Married Eliza WATTS, St. Peter's church, Melbourne, VIC, 20 December 1856
Died Ballarat, VIC, 18 April 1897, aged "70"

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Documentation:

Names and descriptions of passengers per Dinapore, from London, 12 August 1852, for Port Phillip, November 1852; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/33FE03C7-F96C-11E9-AE98-C7AC77C28B87?image=249 (DIGITISED)

. . . Natale D'Angri / 24 / Corfu . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (30 June 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4793933

OPEN EVERY EVENING. - The Salle de Valentino, late Noble's Circus, top of Bourke-street, east.
Grand Promenade Concerts, Conductor, Mons. Fleury. Admission, 1s.
SIGNOR D'ANGRI, in his Magnificent Greek Costume, will appear to-night at the Salle de Valentino.
Greek National Airs and other novelties for the first time in the Colony . . .
MR. BARLOW is engaged at the Salle de Valentino, and will appear on Monday next and sing some favorite [REDACTED] Melodies.
Admission. 1s.

ASSOCIATIONS: Achille Fleury (musician); Robert Barlow (vocalist); James Ellis (proprietor); Salle de Valentino (Melbourne venue)

"WRECK OF THE SCHOMBERG. ALL ON BOARD SAVED", The Argus (29 December 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4826860 

It is with sincere regret that we have to announce the wreck of this splendid ship, of the Black Ball Royal Mail Line of clippers. Fortunately no lives were lost . . . The following is a corrected list of the passengers: - For Melbourne - . . . Natale D'Angri . . .

Names and descriptions of passengers per Schomberg, from Liverpool, 5 October 1852, for Melbourne, December 1852; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3B010F26-F96C-11E9-AE98-2719F500BDE6?image=269 (DIGITISED)

First cabin . . . Natale d'Angri . . .

1856, marriages solemnized in the district of St. Peter's Melbourne; register 1856-1857; St. Peter's Eastern Hill

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/10496:9732 (PAYWALL)

No. 769 / 1769 / This [20 November 1856] at St. Peter's Church /
Natale D'Angri / Bachelor / [born] Corfu Island / Gentleman / 30 / [presently of] Melbourne / [usually of] Ballarat / [son of] Savrio D'Angri, Gentleman [and] Mary Vituri
Eliza Watts / Spinster / [born] London / - / 22 / [presently and usually of] Melbourne / [daughter of] William Watts, Gentleman [and] Eliza Chambers . . .

"DEATHS", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (8 April 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66338401 

On the 6th inst., John D'Angri, aged 26 years, late of Corfu, of apoplexy.

Index to naturalisation certificates, Natale D'Angri, 25 June 1861; Public Record Office Victoria

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/19059:60711 (PAYWALL)

Natale D'Anrgi / Miner / Ballarat / Age (on date of naturalization) 34 /
Native Place - Ionian Isles / Date of Certificate - [25 June 1861]

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (26 August 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72516767 

The receipts at the Exhibition in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Monday and Tuesday, amounted to over £38. The programme of entertainments last evening was as follows, Mr. A. T. Turner presiding at the piano:
- The Band. - Song- "Leaf by leaf the roses fall," Miss Liddle. -
Song - "Fair as the rose," Signor D'Angri. - The Band. -
Song- "When the kye comes hame," Miss Liddle. The Band. -
Chemical Experiments, Mr. Hugh Gray. -
Sacred Song - "Eve's Lamentation," Mr. Brunn. The Band. -
Song - "Home, my heart's first home," Signor D'Angri. -
Song - "Phoebe Morrell," Miss Liddle. - Song - "Ever of thee," Miss Liddle.

ASSOCIATIONS: Austin Theodore Turner (piano); Maggie Liddle (vocalist); Ludwig Edward Bruun (vocalist)

"BENEVOLENT ASYLUM SOIREE", The Star (27 August 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72516795 

The newly erected north wing of the Benevolent Asylum was opened on Wednesday, and the occasion was celebrated by a grand soiree . . . The following was the musical programme for the evening: - "Oh come, come away," by the Children in the Benevolent Asylum; "Marching along," by the Children in the Benevolent Atylosn; pianoforte solo, "La Cracovienne," Mrs. Little; trio - "When time was entwining," Messrs. D. and A. Oliver and P. Cazaly; song - "Great Spirit hear my prayer," Mr. D'Angri . . . Mr. Cazaly was absent, but Mr. Miller assisted the other gentlemen whose names appear in the programme. Owing to the extremely crowded state of the room it was impossible to maintain quiet, and the excellent solos and part songs sung by the singers, and the clever instrumentation of Mrs. Little were not done justice to, although encores were given as freely as is usual. Mr. D'Angri was up nicely singing a very beautiful air when the evening was startled from its very moderate propriety by the sudden apparition of "Bones" junior upon the platform . . . This exceedingly comic episode upset the gravity of the meeting, and the sentimental song which Mr. D'Angri was singing was lost in a great burst of roystering merriment . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Catherine Little (pianist); Daniel and Albert Oliver (vocalists); Peter Cazaly (vocalist)

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (1 September 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72516880 

The last evening at the late exhibition at the Mechanics' Institute was one of the very best of the whole series. And this would have more clearly appeared in our necessarily brief notice of the proceedings, had we not inadvertently included in our notice a programme of a previous evening's entertainment. The following was the programme for the night in question, the whole of the musical performances being under the direction of Mr. A. T. Turner, to whom and his various accomplished assistants no little credit is due for the services they rendered: -
Solo from "Elijah" - Mendelssohn - "If with all your heart," Mr. A. T. Turner.
Solo from "Creation" - Haydn - "With verdure clad," Mrs. King.
Solo from "Creation" - Haydn - "Rolling in foaming billows," Mr. Lake.
Solo from "Elijah" - Mendelssohn - "O rest in the Lord," Mrs. Turner.
Solo from "The Messiah" - Handel - "But thou didst not leave his soul in hell," Miss Liddle.
Solo from "The Creation" - Haydn - "In native worth," Mr. A. T. Turner.
Trio from "The Creation" - Haydn - "On thee each living soul awaits."
An interval, during which the band executed a selection of popular music.
Part II. - Quintett - "Blow, gentle gales," Mrs. King and Mrs. Turner, Mr. Turner, and two gentleman amateurs. Song - "Ever of thee," Miss Liddle.
Duett - "What are the wild waves saying" - Glover - Mrs. King and Mr. Braun [sic, Bruun].
Song - "Yes, let me like a soldier fall" - Wallace - Signor D'Angri.
Grand Fantasia - On airs from "Sonnambula" - Thalberg - Miss Pilkington.
Chemical Experiments by Mr. Hugh Gray . . .
Trio - "Turn on old Time" - Wallace - Mr. King, Signor D'Angri, and a gentleman amateur.
"God save the Queen."

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza King (vocalist); Charlotte Turner (vocalist); John Lake (vocalist)

MUSIC: Yes, let me like a soldier fall (Wallace, from Maritana); Turn on old time (Wallace, from Maritana)

[Advertisement], The Star (11 November 1863), 3

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GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, IN AID of the FUNDS of the BALLARAT VOLUNTEER RANGERS . . .
In the Large Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, On THURSDAY EVENING, 12th NOVEMBER.
Overture - Band of the B.V.B.
Song - Mrs. King.
Song - "Sweet Spirit hear my Prayer" - Signor D'Angri. The Melbourne Drum and Fife Band, under the Leadership of Signor Pietro Canna . . .
Song - "When other Lips and other Hearts" - Signor D'Angri.
Rudolph's Grand March, by Gungl, performed for the first time in Australia, and arranged by Mr. Labalestrier, bandmaster of the B.V.R.
Interval of ten minutes.
PART II . . . Song - "I'm thine, only thine" - Signor D'Angri . . .
Mr. Weber has kindly volunteered to preside at the pianoforte . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Pietro Canna (drum major); Alfred Labalestrier (band master); Ballarat Volunteer Rangers Band (volunteer force)

MUSIC: Sweet spirit hear my prayer (Wallace, from Lurline)

"THE BALLARAT EAST MARKET. OPENING DAY . . . THE DINNER", The Ballarat Star (28 November 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112881515 

The grand fair and prize competition in connection with the opening of the new stock, produce, and general market, on the Peel street Reserve, was opened on Friday, 27th November . . . At the close of the day, the judges, stewards, and committee met at dinner at Dodds' Buck's Head hotel . . . After the enjoyable repast had been duly patronised, the usual loyal toasts were drunk with the usual accompaniments . . .
Mr. A. H. King proposed - "The Committee and Judges of the Market," complimenting them on their constant attention to their arduous duties . . .
Signor D'Angri - Song . . .

[News], The Ballarat Star (19 April 1897), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210364971 

General regret was expressed yesterday when it became known that Mr. Natale D'Angri, the well-known nurseryman, had died at his residence in Exeter street that morning. The deceased gentleman, who was 70 years of age, had been ailing for some months, and the cause of death was a general break-up of the system. As the proprietor of the Wendouree nursery, the late Mr. D'Angri was a prominent exhibitor at the various horticultural shows held in the district, and his name always occupied a conspicuous place in the prize-lists. The deceased leaves an adult family to mourn their loss. The funeral has been arranged to take place to-morrow afternoon.

"DEATHS", The Argus (24 April 1897), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9181652 

D'ANGRI. - On the 18th April, at Wendouree Nursery, Ballarat, Natale D'Angri, the dearly beloved husband of Eliza D'Angri, aged 70 years. At rest.

Bibliography and resources:

The descendants of 19th century arrivals - PART 3 (by a guest contributor), In their own image: Greek-Australians National Project Archives (Greek city times)

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/09/greek-australians-in-their-own-image-the-descendants-of-19th-century-arrivals-part-3 

DANIEL FAMILY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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DANIEL, Josiah Wyke (Josish Wyke DANIEL; Mr. J. W. DANIEL; DANIELS; DANIELLS)

Musician, amateur musician, semi-professional musician, tenor vocalist, singing class leader and instructor, choral leader and conductor

Born Abergavenny, Wales, 17 June 1826; son of James DANIEL (1802-1874) and Margaret WYKE (1800-1885)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 15 September 1850 (immigrant per Stebonheath, from London 1 June, and Plymouth 16 June)
Married Mary Jane FOWLER, Christ Church, Adelaide, SA, 18 November 1850
Died Adelaide, SA, 13 June 1891, aged 65

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Josiah+Wyke+Daniel (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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DANIEL, Emma Caldwell (Emma Caldwell DANIEL; Miss E. C. DANIEL; E. R. [sic] DANIEL; DANIELS)

Musician, pianist, vocalist, teacher, composer

Born Swansea, Wales, 16 March 1829; daughter of James DANIEL (1802-1874) and Margaret WYKE (1800-1885)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 15 September 1850 (immigrant per Stebonheath, from London 1 June, and Plymouth 16 June)
Died Morphett Vale, SA, 13 September 1919, aged "91"

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DANIEL, Mary Jane (Mary Jane FOWLER; Mrs. Josiah Wyke DANIEL)

Vocalist, choral singer

Born ? England/Wales, c. 1828
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 15 September 1850 (immigrant per Stebonheath, from London 1 June, and Plymouth 16 June)
Married Josiah Wyke DANIEL, Christ Church, Adelaide, SA, 18 November 1850
Died Adelaide, SA, 4 May 1904

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DANIEL, George Frederick Handel (George Frederick Handel DANIEL; Mr. Handel DANIEL)

Musician, pianist, vocalist, choral conductor

Born Adelaide, SA, 4 October 1851
Married Julia Sarah LAWRENCE (c. 1847-1887), Glenelg, SA, 20 December 1880
Died Adelaide, SA, 24 March 1890

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=George+Frederick+Handel+Daniel+1851-1890 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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DANIEL, Emily Jane (Emily Jane DANIEL; Mrs. Edmund SCRYMGOUR)

Vocalist

Born Adelaide, SA, 15 June 1853; daughter of Josiah Wyke DANIEL and Mary Jane FOWLER
Married Edmund SCRYMGOUR, Adelaide, SA, 14 December 1876
Died Mornington, VIC, 30 April 1933

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DANIEL, Arthur Haydn (Mr. Arthur Haydn DANIEL; Mr. Haydn DANIEL)

Musician, cornet player, vocalist

Born Adelaide, SA, 20 March 1857; son of Josiah Wyke DANIEL and Mary Jane FOWLER
Died North Unley, SA, 20 October 1937

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Josiah Wyke Daniel, c. 1890

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74163318 

Summary:

Brother and sister, Josiah and Emma Daniel, natives of Wales, but recently of Bath, England, arrived in Adelaide as immigrants on the Stebonheath in September 1850 with their parents and younger siblings. At first the family intended to sail on with the ship to Geelong, but during the prolonged delay, their father, James, accepted a post as minister of the local Baptist congregation, and decided instead to remain in South Australia. Josiah's future wife, Mary Jane Fowler, also came out with the family, and the couple married in Adelaide in November 1850.

The 24-year-old Josiah first appeared in Adelaide in December 1850 in a concert for the Adelaide Choral Society, billed as J. W. Daniel, "late Principal Tenor and Conductor of the Bath Madrigal Athenaeum and Choral Societies". According to his son Arthur (1936 below) he had also been a singer at Bath Abbey.

During the ensuing decade he was one of Adelaide's leading resident vocal soloists and choral conductors, also working with Carl Linger, the North Adelaide Choral Society, the Adelaide Sacred Harmonic Society (of which he was founding conductor), with various church choirs, and supporting visiting artists such as, in 1858, Maria Carandini. In 1859, Daniel and Linger were joint conductors of the Handel Commemoration Festival, in performances of Messiah and Alexander's Feast.

In Adelaide in September 1856, Emma advertised as "Miss E. C. Daniel", a "teacher of singing", giving her address as that of her brother. She "presided at the piano-forte" for his concert at the East Torrens Institute in October 1856. And in December "Miss Daniel", her elder sister Christiana (1827-1915), and "Miss E. C. Daniels" were both in Anna Bishop's party, embarking from Adelaide for Melbourne.

In January 1857 in Melbourne Emma advertised as a "Professor of Music and Singing, of considerable experience in England, and in the colony of South Australia", and in April was a vocal soloist at at Melbourne Philharmonic Society concert. In November 1859 Emma and her next youngest sister Louisa Margaret (1830-1903) applied for a licence to run a school at Morphett Vale. Emma remained there for the rest of her life. She and Josiah gave a soiree musicale at Noarlunga in September 1867, and a concert of sacred music at Morphett Vale Baptist church in 1868. Emma also assisted at Mrs. Hill's entertainment at Morphett Vale in 1874, and conducted the choir at the Baptist church, Morphett Vale in 1879.

Josiah and Mary Daniel gave several of their 11 children musical names, as well as a musical upbringing: George Frederick Handel Daniel (1851-1890), Arthur Haydn Daniel (1857-1937), Cecilia Daniel (1859-1934), and Charles Webber Daniel (1861-1898).

As the "Daniel Family", Josiah and his three eldest children, George, Emily, and Arthur, gave many concerts in regional centres from 1866, culminating in an extensive tour in mid 1869.

In 1854, Josiah edited a small volume of sacred texts marked up for singing with Anglican chants.

A song, Gently, mother gently, was published in Adelaide in 1861, reportedly composed by "Miss E. R. Daniel", almost certainly Emma (Miss E. C. Daniel); but no copy is known to survive.

Documentation:

York Place Meeting-House (Particular Baptist) Register, Swansea, 1801-1837; UK National Archives, PRO RG4/2607

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/2972/40612_B0149966-00006 (PAYWALL)

2 / THESE ARE TO CERTIFY that Josiah Wyke son of James Daniel and of Margaret his wife, was born in Abergavenny in the Parish of Abergavenny in the County of Monmouth the 17th Day of June in the year [1826] . . .

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/2972/40612_B0149966-00007 (PAYWALL)

4 / THESE ARE TO CERTIFY that Emma Caldwell daughter of James Daniel and of Margaret his wife , was born in Abergavenny in the Parish of Abergavenny in the County of Monmouth the 16th Day of March in the year [1829] . . .

1841 England census, Lansdown, Walcot, Somerset; UK National Archives, HO 107/970/2

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8978/SOMHO107_969_970-0108 (PAYWALL)

Cleveland Terrace / James Daniel / 35 / draper // Margaret [Daniel] / 40 // Josiah [Daniel] / 14 // Sarah Daniel / 13 // Emma [Daniel] / 12 . . .

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED", South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (16 September 1850), 2

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Sunday, September 15 - the ship Stebonheath, 1030 tons, Sargent, master, from London 1st June, and Plymouth 16th June. Passengers - For Adelaide and Port Phillip . . . James Daniels, wife and ten children, Mary Fowler . . .

"BAPTIST MINISTER", Adelaide Times (26 September 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207119353 

The Rev. James Daniel, late of Bath, Somerset, England, preached in the Baptist Chapel, Kermode-street, North Adelaide, on Sunday last, to attentive and highly respectable audiences. Mr. Daniel arrived here in the Stebonheath, and is on his way to Geelong, where he hopes, either to meet with a church, or to be able to raise one, in connection with his own denomination, and where he intends, under the providence of God, to settle down with his large family. Mr. Daniel's preaching talent is highly respectable, and of that popular cast, so likely to attract attention, and be productive of good. He supplies Mr. Allen's place again in North Adelaide on Sunday evening next, and will, it is hoped, continue preaching there, and in other places in Adelaide, until the Stebonheath's departure for Port Phillip, which is hardly expected in less than a month.

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (7 December 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195941296

ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY . . .
GRAND CONCERT OF VOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC, At the Exchange, on Tuesday, the 17th.
The Committee have great pleasure in announcing that the orchestra has been greatly augmented since their last Concert by several new and talented performers, among whom are the principal members of the Liedertafel and Mr. J. W. Daniels (late Principal Tenor and Conductor of the Bath Madrigal Athenaeum and Choral Societies).
PROGRAMME . . . PART 2 . . . 6. Romanza - O yes I marked the secret Tear - Mr. J. W. Daniels - Donizetti . . .
E. PARIS, Hon. Secretary. December 5, 1850.

ASSOCIATIONS: Eugene Paris (secretary); Deutsche Liedertafel (association); Adelaide Choral Society (association); Exchange Rooms (Adelaide venue)

"LOCAL NEWS", South Australian (9 December 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71627792 

At the last rehearsal of the Choral Society, Mr. J. W. Daniel, a gentleman lately arrived in the Colony, made his appearance for the first time, as a tenor singer, and in our opinion is the best we have yet heard, he having great flexibility and compass of voice, combined with a rich musical tone. We understand he will make his debut at the next concert given by he Society, when all lovers of music may look forward to a treat. The Orchestra, we find, has been augmented by the German Song Society, whose assistance will enable them to give the choruses a greater effect.

"ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (18 December 1850), 4

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Last evening a concert was given by the members of this Society, in the large room in the Exchange, which was one of the best we have yet heard in the colony, the Solos being well sung, and the Chorusses - the Deutsch Liedertafel having rendered their valuable assistance - being rendered with greater power and precision than heretofore. There was also another novelty in the introduction of a singer, new to this colony, Mr. Daniel, late of Bath, whose merits can scarcely be spoken of too highly. He has a flexible tenor voice of rich quality: his taste and execution are equal to his voice, and his manner prepossessing . . . The next piece was a song - "See around the throne of God," a beautiful composition by the Chevalier Neukomm, sung by Mr. Daniel in a masterly style; the impression made by this gentleman on the audience leaves no doubt of his becoming a lasting favourite with the musical public here . . . but the next two performances may be considered as the gems of the evening, namely, an English version of Donizetti's "Una furtiva lagrima," sung most exquisitely by Mr. Daniel, and rapturously encored; and a German quartett, sung by four German gentlemen, unaccompanied . . .

"LOCAL NEWS", South Australian (19 December 1850), 2

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The Choral Society's concert, on Tuesday evening, was one of the best of its kind we remember . . . Mr. J. W. Daniel, the lion of the evening, has a rich tenor voice of much sweetness. He sang Neukomm's beautiful song "See around the Throne of God" in a most pleasing manner. He is evidently a proficient in the art of singing, and will be a great acquisition to the society . . . The vocal pieces most worthy of notice, were a German quartette, deservedly enchored, and Mr. Daniel's Romanza "Oh yes, I marked the secret tear," to which a similar compliment was paid . . . We understand it is intended to appoint a vocal conductor for future concerts, and that the office will, probably, be filled by Mr. Daniel.

"LOCAL NEWS", South Australian (11 February 1851), 2

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A tea meeting was held yesterday evening at the Baptist Chapel, in Pulteney-street . . . and the company was addressed by the Rev. Daniel, minister of the chapel . . . The evening was enlivened by the performance of sacred quartettes, &c., by Messrs. J. W. Daniel, Burford, Chinner, and Wylde . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henville Burford (vocalist); George Williams Chinner (vocalist); Charles Wylde (vocalist)

"CONVERSAZIONE AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", South Australian Register (20 February 1851), 2

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The Quarterly Conversazione of the Library and Mechanics' Institute took place at the Exchange Rooms, on Tuesday evening . . . Mr. Daniels favoured the company with several songs, and duets with Mrs. Murray. Mr. Daniels has a very rich and sweet tenor voice, and was warmly applauded . . . An excellent glee was sung by Mrs. Murray, and Messrs. Daniels, Bancroft, and another gentleman; the whole ending with "God Save the Queen," the company all standing. At the request of Mr. Francis Dutton, one of the Vice Presidents, the company joined in a cordial vote of thanks . . . to Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Cranz, and the gentlemen who so kindly contributed the musical portion of the entertainment.

ASSOCIATIONS: Georgiana Murray (vocalist, pianist); Mathilde Cranz (vocalist); Richard Bancroft (vocalist); Francis Stacker Dutton (musical amateur)

"THE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (20 November 1851), 3

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The postponed concert of this Society took place last evening under discouraging circumstances. Mons. Del Sarte, who had sustained some injury by being thrown from his horse, was unable to attend; and Mr. Daniels was also absent through indisposition. An apology was made at the commencement by the Hon. Secretary for the absent gentlemen, and an intimation given that four pieces would necessarily be withdrawn. The apology was well received; but the programme was entirely performed, as members of the Society volunteered to take the parts assigned to Messrs. Del Sarte and Daniels. The affair lacked spirit; but the audience was indulgent, and faintly applauded the performance.

ASSOCIATIONS: Camille Del Sarte (vocalist)

"MADAME CRANZ'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (15 April 1853), 2

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In our notice of the announcement, on Wednesday last, we ventured to predict a large attendance at Madame Cranz's concert, but we were scarcely prepared to find so very large an attendance of the elite of Adelaide as graced the spacious hall of the Exchange last evening. His Excellency and Lady Young honoured the concert with their attendance. We also observed the hon. Colonial Secretary and several other official members of the Government. Several members of the Legislative Council were present, as were also His Worship the Mayor of Adelaide, and many members of the legal and medical professions. Many of our eminent merchants and other leading men were there; and, what was more gratifying still, a large portion of the audience was composed of ladies, who seemed delighted with the musical entertainment. The performances opened with Webber's well-known jubilee overture, which was executed by Mrs. Young and Mr. Linger on the pianoforte with great precision . . . Mr. Daniels sang several airs with his usual ability. This gentleman's voice is both deep and clear; his manner easy and unconstrained; and he is, consequently, a decided favourite with all who admire the delightful art in which he excels . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry and Augusta Young (governor and wife); Rebecca Cash Young (pianist); Carl Linger (pianist)

"MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", South Australian Register (11 August 1854), 2

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The first conversazione of the season in connection with the Mechanics' Institute, was held last evening, in the large room behind the Freemasons' Tavern, Pirie-street, on which occasion an interesting lecture on "The Early English Poets" was delivered by Mr. J. H. Clark. A musical entertainment succeeded, of which the following is a programme: -
Madrigal, "Near by a Streamlet," H. Walrent - Mr. Daniel's pupils.
Duet, Miss Chalker and Mr. Mitchell.
Glee, "In the Lonely Vale of Streams," Callcot - By the South Australian Quartett Society.
Song, Miss Chalker.
Chorus, "Fancy fly," (Opera of "Nino"), Verdi - Mr. Daniel's pupils.
Duet, Miss Chalker and Mr. Daniel, "How sad it is to say Farewell" - Bellini.
Glee, "Go, idle Boy," Callcot - By the South Australian Quartett Society.
Glee, "Smiling May," Mr. Daniel's pupils - Ludwig Esk.
"God Save the Queen."
Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather the room was nearly filled with a respectable and delighted audience . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Marie Chalker (vocalist); the otherwise unreported South Australian Quartett Society probably consisted of Daniel and his then regular associates in glee singing, Burford, Chinner, and Wylde, as see in the September 1854 concert immediately below; Mechanics' Institute (Adelaide association)

MUSIC: Vorria morire (by Hubert Waelrant, adapted to English words)

Programme for the concert of sacred music to be held at the Freeman Street Chapel, on Wednesday, 6th September, 1854, in aid of the War Relief Fund; pianists, Mrs. Young, and F. S. Dutton, Esq., M.L.C.; conductor, Mr. J. W. Daniel ([Adelaide: War Relief Fund, 1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20073549 

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/187719 (DIGITISED)

"SACRED CONCERT", Adelaide Times (7 September 1854), 3

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The Sacred Vocal Concert in aid of the War Relief Fund took place last evening in the Freeman-street Chapel, and was, as we predicted, decidedly the most brilliant and successful musical entertainment that has ever taken place in South Australia. The building was crowded, not less we should imagine, than 700 persons being present, amongst whom were Sir Henry and Lady Young, and most of the leading residents in Adelaide and the neighbourhood. Before noticing the performance in detail, we feel no hesitation in stating that in the management of the choruses, and the great science and judgment displayed in their execution, the performance of last evening - excepting, of course in point of numbers - would bear by no means a discreditable comparison with those we have been accustomed to hear in Exeter Hall. Mr. Daniels acted as Leader, in a manner which reflected great credit upon him. It, perhaps, was to be regretted that a fuller instrumental accompaniment was not available; although the two pianofortes, under the tasteful and brilliant management of Mrs. Young and Mr. Francis Dutton, were made the most of. We can only briefly refer to some of be more prominent features of this highly interesting entertainment, and amongst them we would mention as deserving of special prase the alto of Mr. Burford, which was eminently successful throughout. Miss Chalker sang with her accustomed good taste, and was, we thought, in remarkably fine voice. The old favourite "With verdure clad,'* and the duet from the "Creation," "Graceful Consort," sung by that young lady and Mr. Daniels, were warmly and deservedly encored. Mrs. Adamson delighted the audience by her beautiful rendering of Handel's "When warlike ensigns;" and Mr. Daniels gave "Arm, arm, ye brave" with very good taste, and was loudly encored. We will not conclude this necessarily hurried notice without recording our unqualified approval of the unaccompanied quartette of Franz Abt, "Morn awakes in silence," sung by Messrs. Burford, Chinner, Wilds, and Daniels, in very excellent style. The unsparing efforts of Messrs. White and Burford, to carry out the arrangements of the Concert with credit and eclat, have been completely successful, and we cordially compliment those gentlemen and all other parties concerned in the arrangements, upon the gratifying result of their exertions.

ASSOCIATIONS: Emma Adamson (vocalist); George White (musical amateur, steward)

"CONCERT OF SACRED MUSIC", South Australian Register (7 September 1854), 2

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The vocal concert of sacred music in aid of the War Relief Fund, took place last evening, at the Freeman-street Chapel. There was a very large attendance, every part of the building having been well filled, yet not so much so as to cause any inconvenience. His Excellency and Lady Young, with their accustomed punctuality, arrived precisely at half past 7 o'clock, immediately after winch the performance commenced, and the concert was over by 10 o'clock. During the evening the following pieces were repeated at the call of the audience: - "Arm, arm, ye brave," from Judas Maccabeus, sung by Mr. Daniel; "With Verdure clad," from Haydn's "Creation," sung by Miss Chalker; and "Morn awakes in silence," a quartett, which was admirably sung by four of the gentlemen of the orchestra. We believe that more than £200 will be added to the War Relief Fund from the proceeds of last evening.

"FUNERAL OF MR. G. BENNETT", South Australian Register (26 September 1854), 2

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The funeral which took place yesterday at 11 o'clock, was numerously attended by the brethren in Freemasonry of the deceased and other mourning friends, to the number of sixty or seventy persons. As the procession entered Trinity Church, the symphony to Knapp's funeral anthem was performed by Mr. Daniel, who presided at the seraphine, and the service was read with due solemnity by the Dean. Pope's Ode was sung at the Church by members of the Choral Society and some pupils of the vocal class of Mr. Daniel.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Bennett (musician, deceased)

MUSIC: Is there not an appointed time? ("An anthem taken out of the seventh chapter of Job. Proper for funerals", by William Knapp); Vital spark of heavenly flame ("Pope's ode"; music by Edward Harwood)

"ARRIVAL OF THE BISHOP", Adelaide Times (27 November 1854), 3

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On Saturday morning, at an early hour, the preconcerted signal was visible at the Flagstaff, notifying the arrival of the Albemarle, the ship in which the Bishop of Adelaide embarked from England; and shortly after 10 o'clock a numerous body of the clergy and laity of the city proceeded to the Port to receive and welcome his Lordship on his return to his diocese. A procession was then formed to escort his Lordship to the city, where he arrived about half-past 2 o'clock. He immediately proceeded to Trinity Church . . . members of the choirs of Trinity and Christ Churches performed the choral parts of the service, conducted by Mr. J. W. Daniels, Mr. Greenwood, the organist of Christ Church presiding at the harmonium. The service was commenced by the singing of an anthem, taken from the 52nd chapter of Isaiah, verse 1, "Awake, put on thy strength, O Zion." The Very Rev. the Dean then read the Litany, after which the Te Deum (Jackson) was sung . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Augustus Short (Anglican bishop); Samuel Greenwood (organist); Music in Anglican churches (general)

MUSIC: Awake, put on thy strength, O Zion (adapted from William Jackson); Te Deum in F (William Jackson)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Observer (27 January 1855), 2

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THE ADELAIDE INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG LADIES,
Tavistock-buildings, Rundle-street (Mr. Heathcote's House). -
Will be OPENED on WEDNESDAY, 17th January, 1855 . . .
Principal and Lady Superintendent, Mrs. J. M. BELL, late of the Edinburgh Institution, Charlotte-square . . .
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION . . .
3. PSALMODY, together with the Practice of Solfeggio, Elementary Exercises, and instruction in the Theory of Vocal Music - Mr. Daniel.
4. DANCING AND DEPORTMENT - Mr. Watts, Rundle-street . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Watts (dancing master)

"NORTH ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY", Adelaide Times (3 May 1855), 3

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The first concert of this Society was given last evening in the Baptist Chapel, Lefevre-terrace. There was a full and very respectable attendance. The programme was entirely of sacred music, the selections being from the works of Handel, Mendelsohn, Kent, Glover, Faucett, and Spohr. The first part comprised the anthem, Kent's, "Sing, oh Heavens," in which the chief feature is a trio in B flat, performed with some slight want of confidence, and therefore losing part of its effect. The tone of the concert was amply redeemed by the solo which followed - Mendelsohn's "O, Rest in the Lord," from the Elijah, sung by a young lady member of the Society, possessing a contralto voice of great power, and high finish and flexibility. A trio and chorus, "Daughter of Zion," followed, and introduced Mr. Daniels in a song, by Glover, entitled, "Faith." This was sung very excellently, and possessed the rare advantage of a thoroughly good accompaniment on the pianoforte by Herr Kunziè, a gentleman little known to the public yet, but whose fine touch and good style will speedily make him a favourite. Kent's "Hear my Prayer," an almost universally known anthem, possessing a remarkable degree of simplicity and pathos, was chastely rendered, the treble duets and solo exhibiting a little want of firmness; but, on the whole, given with sufficient expression to call forth a demonstration of applause. Miss Chalker then sung a beautiful solo, eminently suited to the quality of her sweet soprano voice - "Hark, a Glad Voice" - and having always been a favourite in the musical world, it is scarcely surprising that she was greeted with applause. The first part concluded with a solo and chorus called "Zion." The solo was taken by a tenor singer, Mr. Sanderson, and was well sung, a little more modulation only being wanted.
The second part opened with the best chorus of the evening, Kent's "Blessed." It was marked throughout by spirited treatment. Mr. Daniels then sung another of Glover's compositions, "Hope," a song containing a beautiful sentiment, and no less beautiful musical adaptation. Mr. Daniels dealt with it in an appropriate style, to the evident satisfaction of the audience. A pretty duet, given by Miss Chalker and Mr. Mitchell, "Children, Pray this Love to Cherish," was well sustained, and Herr Kunziè's accompaniment good. The young lady of whom we mentioned above sung the solo, "O, thou that tellest," in excellent style, her lower notes being firm and good, no wavering or indecision being discernable. The chorus following it was spirited and correct in time, and preceded what we we must characterise as the gem of the evening - Mr. Daniels' song, "Charity." It was finished with a quartette, and was sung so well as to he warmly encored. The chorus, Faucett's, "Blessed" followed, and the concert was closed by the "National Anthem," newly arranged. We have not space to mention in detail the excellencies of the various performers, suffice it to say that the concert was so well conducted as to make us express a hope that it will he speedily followed by another. To the conductor and leader great praise is due; and Mr. Lillywhite and Mr. Chapman efficiently sustained their parts, and Mr. Light presided ably at the harmonium.

ASSOCIATIONS: Carl Julius Kunze (pianist, accompanist); Francis Sanderson (vocalist); Mr. Mitchell (vocalist); William Lillywhite (conductor); William Chapman (leader); George Thomas Light (harmonium); North Adelaide Choral Society (association)

"RE-OPENING OF CHRIST CHURCH, NORTH ADELAIDE", Adelaide Times (25 May 1855), 3

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The services on the occasion of the re-opening of Christ Church, North Adelaide, after the completion of the extensive alterations and additions, were held yesterday, the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday. The service was conducted with a full choral performance, after the style of the services in the English cathedrals; the prayers were intoned, and the other parts of the service were sustained by three or four clergymen, headed by His Lordship the Bishop . . . the Bishop read the ante-communion service. In this service the responses to the Commandments were sung to Pilbrow's Melody; the other choral parts were from Tallis's Cathedral Service. The Te Deum and the Jubilate were performed from Jackson's score in F. The Anthem was so arranged as to include the beautiful solo (sung by Mr. Daniel) from Handel's Messiah, "But thou didst not leave his soul in hell," and part of the grand chorus, "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" . . .

"NORTH ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (20 June 1856), 4

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We learn that Mr. J. W. Daniel, who is so favourably known to the musical public, has accepted the office of Conductor in connection with the North Adelaide Choral Society. The number of orchestral members is already considerably increased, and we hear that the subscription lists are rapidly filling, so that the Society may now look forward to a highly successful career. It is pleasing to be enabled to add that the most influential residents in North Adelaide are manifesting interest in and affording their support to the Society.

"GRAND CONCERT", Adelaide Times (1 July 1856), 3

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Madame Cailly's concert came off last evening, in White's New Assembly Rooms, and notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the weather, the concert was exceedingly well attended, there being about 100 persons present. Madame Cailly was in fine voice . . . Mr. J. W. Daniels, whose appearance in public of late, we regret to say, has been at long intervals, sung several pieces with his usual taste and execution, and was received with that warmth and pleasure so deservedly due to an old favourite, whose name is associated with our past musical reminiscences . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Clarisse Cailly (vocalist); White's Rooms (Adelaide venue)

"MADAME CAILLY'S CONCERT", Adelaide Times (8 July 1856), 2

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Madame Cailly's next vocal and instrumental concert will take place this evening, in White's Concert and Assembly Rooms . . . Madame Cailly will sing . . . the Buffo Duett, from "The Barber of Seville," with Mr. J. W. Daniel, who, it is announced, will sing the Grand Aria Buffo, "Kynge Alfred in ye Danyshe Camp;" a most amusing comicality . . .

MUSIC: Kynge Alfred in the Danyshe camp (by Philip Klitz)

"MADAME CAILLY'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (9 July 1856), 3

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. . . Mr. J. W. Daniel also added very considerably to the gratification of the audience by his finished style of singing. His production of Ellis's [sic] Aria Buffo, "Kynge Alfred in ye Danish Campe," formed a striking contrast to most of the other compositions given during the evening. Transferring the imagination of the auditory to the good old days of yore, the composer, in an ingenious but extremely ludicrous manner, suddenly brings the thoughts and feelings home again; and we have the merry melodies of modern days poured forth in rapid succession on the ear . . . Mr. Daniel has always been a favourite with the public, but he has never been received with greater eclat than on this occasion. The song to which we have specially alluded was warmly encored . . .

"NORTH ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (20 September 1856), 4

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Last evening the first concert of the present series given by this Society took place in Lefevre-terrace Chapel, North Adelaide, under the conductorship of Mr. J. W. Daniel. The attendance was highly respectable, and the chapel was well filled. The orchestra consisted of about fifty vocal and instrumental performers, the latter having Mr. Chapman as leader. The programme was of a rather novel character - the selection, in accordance with the rules of the Society, was of a strictly sacred character, and comprised the first part of Fawcett's oratorio "Paradise;" the well-known chorus from the Messiah, "And the Glory of the Lord;" the rarely-attempted trio from Elijah, "Lift thine eyes;" the pathetic round by Cherubini, "Like as a Father;" the splendid chorus from the Mount of Olives, "Hallelujah to the Father;" and several other compositions of a high class. The names and styles of the greatest masters who ever lived to astonish and charm the world were thus introduced - Handel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Cherubini, Rossini, &c. There were one or two points which seemed rather exceptionable, and scarcely allowable when reference is had to the rules ordinarily governing concerts. Thus, for instance, the composer could scarcely have contemplated the idea that the beautiful vocal trio, "Lift thine eyes," should have been accompanied by three flutes, or rather that they should have played the voice parts. The idea was new it is true, but scarcely such as can be commended. Cherubini's three-voiced round, "Like as a Father," also was produced with eight voices, and though some of them were good ones, the effect was not so clear and expressive as it ought to have been. With these exceptions the performance was a good one. Evidently great pains had been taken by the conductor to get up the choruses, and the voices had benefited by the training. The instrumentalists were not so well up in their parts; but we were led to understand that this is explainable, as owing to peculiar difficulties which prevented the sufficient supervision of a leader. We hope this defect will be remedied by the next quarterly concert by the appointment of a gentleman to undertake that onerous duty. Miss Pettman appeared to advantage in her solo "An angel bright," a sweet and pathetic little composition; and we may also congratulate the Society on the acquisition of some excellent voices, one being especially noticeable as a good contralto. The young lady's voice, however, requires some cultivation, when she may expect to win laurels, having an extraordinary range. She acquitted herself admirably in "Eve's Lamentation," a fine little composition by Rossini, introduced, however, by the conductor into the "oratorio Paradise." This young lady, with her sister, sang a sparkling duet, by Mendelsohn, in a manner so sweetly chaste and rich that it elicited a rapturous encore; and on repetition it was, if possible, better sung. The Concert an the whole was highly Successful, the performance being spirited and tasteful, and the Society promises well for the future; and this may be regarded as due to the energy of Mr. Daniel, the conductor. He will doubtless attract around him still greater numbers of "sweet voices and tuneful hearts." We must not omit mention of a talented young lady, Miss Phillips, who presided at the pianoforte, and performed the numerous and difficult accompaniments with fluency, and a style highly creditable. We close this necessarily brief notice with wishing the Society good speed, though we have passed by without notice several excellently performed parts of the programme.

ASSOCIATIONS: Young lady amateur contralto was probably Caroline Tozer (vocalist, later Mrs. Peryman, as see below), and her sister Elizabeth Tozer (vocalist), both evidently pupils of Daniel; Mary Ann Pettman (vocalist); Miss Phillips (pianist, accompanist)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (25 September 1856), 1

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MISS E. C. DANIEL, TEACHER of MUSIC and SINGING. -
Pupils attended at their residences any short distance from town.
For particulars, address Mr. J. W. Daniel, Grenfell-street.

"EAST TORRENS INSTITUTE", South Australian Register (16 October 1856), 3

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Yesterday evening a concert was given in connection with the East Torrens Institute. The weather was exceedingly unfavourable for this the first concert, but notwithstanding all bad influences there was a good attendance. The programme contained a larger selection than usual of English melodies, and as a matter of course met with due appreciation. They were rendered tolerably well on the whole, though two circumstances have to be considered - the fact that nearly all the vocalists were amateurs, and also that there was evidently as regarded one or two pieces a want of rehearsal. The first part of the programme opened with Bishop's flue old solo and chorus, "The Chough and Crow," well sung on the whole, but wanting a little more firmness and vigour in the solo usually given by a tenor voice. Mr. Daniel, the clever conductor, then gave with considerable effect, the aria from "La Sonnambula," "As I view these scenes so charming;" and it was followed by an unaccompanied duet, "Life's sunbeams," sung by two young ladies - sisters, we believe. The duet "The sailor sighs," by Balfe, sung by Mr. Daniel, tenor, and a lady amateur, contralto, was regarded apparently as one of the best compositions of the evening. It was repeated in compliance with a warm encore. The same lady sang Donizetti's cavatina - rendered to English words - "Here, in this humble cot," and in answer to the encore gave "The old arm-chair," so well known as the production of Eliza Cooke, and the music by Henry Russell. Miss Petman sang two ballads during the evening, and was very well received. The second duet, sung by the two young ladies we have before referred to, Glover's sparkling little composition, "Garnering flowers," was redemanded, and they substituted Mendelssohn's "I would that my love." A gentleman amateur acquitted himself with credit in two ballads, "In this old chair," and "Within a mile of Edinburgh town." We have not time at this late hour of the evening to more fully particularize the merits or the performance, but we cannot conclude this paragraph without offering our meed of praise to Miss E. Daniel, who presided with ability and taste at the pianoforte, and to the able conductor for the skill he manifested in bringing together such an attractive programme under circumstances of some difficulty

ASSOCIATIONS: East Torrens Institute (Adelaide association)

"NORTH ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT", South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (10 April 1857), 2

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The concert of sacred music performed yesterday evening, at the Lefevre-terrace Chapel, was decidedly the most successful of any hitherto given by the North Adelaide Choral Society. The attendance was also considerably larger than on any previous occasion. The performances consisted of a very choice selection from the productions of some of the most eminent musical composers that have ever lived; and when it is remembered that the Society is composed almost exclusively of amateurs, it must be admitted that they were executed with a degree of accuracy and even of artistic excellence which, under the circumstances, could hardly have been expected. The principal vocal performers were Miss Petman and several young ladies connected with the Society, Mr. Daniel (conductor), Messrs. Sanderson, Peryman, and others whose names we could not ascertain. Amongst the instrumentalists were Mr. Chapman (leader), Mr. Davenport (pianist), Messrs. Betteridge, Loader, Kearnes, McMinn, Clisby, and Lowe. The entire orchestra consisted of about forty vocal and instrumental performers. Among the most successful of the harmonized pieces, we may mention Mendelssohn's quartette, "But the Lord is mindful;" Rossini's quartette, "Where are thy bowers, O Canaan;" and the chorus, "Sing unto God," from Judas Maccabaeus. Mr. Daniel sang, with great spirit and feeling, Neukomm's celebrated solo, "Veni sanctus spiritus" [sic]; Miss Petman also sang with great taste and accuracy Handel's exquisitely plaintive solo, "He was despised," though it is not a composition so well adapted to her voice as some we have heard her sing on former occasions. Two other young ladies (sisters, we believe) also delighted the audience with their sweet voices, which blended most harmoniously together in several pieces included in the programme. In concluding this notice, we would suggest to the Committee the propriety of supplying the audience with copies of the words at the future concerts of the Society. We also think that every effort should be mode by them to procure as powerful an harmonium as is to be obtained in the colony. Mr. Davenport certainly made the most of the pianoforte, but this instrument is almost useless in the performance of such choruses as those introduced last evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry or John Peryman (vocalists, members); Mr. Davenport (pianist); Henry Betteridge (musician); Joseph McMinn (amateur); Redford Clisby (musician)

MUSIC: Veni sancte spiritus (Neukomm)

Emma, Melbourne, VIC (December 1856 to early 1858):

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . CLEARED OUT", South Australian Register (10 December 1856), 2

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Tuesday, December 9 - The steamer Burra Burra, 337 tons, Allan Harper, master, for Melbourne via Portland. Passengers . . . Madame Anna Bishop and servant, Miss E. C. Daniel, Miss Daniel, Mrs. Watts, Messrs. Loder, Schultz, Siede . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Anna Bishop (vocalist); George Loder (musical director); Julius Siede (flautist); Martin Schultz (later married Bishop)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (29 January 1857), 8

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MISS E. C. DANIEL, Professor of Music and Singing, of considerable experience in England and in the colony of South Australia, respectfully informs the inhabitants of Melbourne and its vicinity that she gives instruction on the pianoforte, harmonium and in singing.
Schools and private families attended. The highest testimonials can be obtained from the first families in Adelaide.
Terms payable in advance in either study, three guineas a quarter. Address 268 Smith-street, Collingwood.

"PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (29 April 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154825054 

The second concert for the year came off yesterday evening, at the Exhibition Building, before a numerous and brilliant audience . . . Miss Daniel sang with Mrs. Goodliffe Mendelssohn's beautiful duet "I would that a single word," in a very pleasing manner, albeit there were a few discordances. Miss Daniel also sang the ballad of "Phoebe Morel" with considerable taste and feeling, but it was evident that diffidence stood in the way of success . . . The pianoforte accompaniments were ably given by Messrs. Gould and Pollard, and the whole conducted by Mr. Russell, whose skilful leadership was conspicuous in every department. Altogether we think this one of the most meritorious of the Society's concerts of miscellaneous music.

ASSOCIATIONS: Anne Goodliffe (vocalist); Thomas Green Goold (accompanist); Joseph Henry Pollard (accompanist); John Russell (conductor); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association)

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 December 1857), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7142786 

LADIES' SINGING CLASS, commencing on Monday 30th inst,
conducted by Miss Daniel, Professor of the Pianoforte and Singing.
Terms: One Guinea per quarter, in advance.
No. 2 John-street, near Bell's National School.

Adelaide, SA (from early 1858):

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (21 January 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49776202 

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. -
President - The Lord Bishop of Adelaide.
Vice-President - Rev. J. Gardner.
This Society's FIRST CONCERT will take place on Wednesday Evening, January 27, at White's Assembly Room.
Conductor - Mr. J. W. Daniel.
Leader - Mr. Chapman.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
1. Chorus - "O Father" - "Judas Maccabeus" - Handel
2. Solo and Quartett - "Lord God of Abraham" - Mendelssohn
3. Chorale - "Koerner's Battle Prayer" - Humonel [Himmel]
4. Motet- "But the Lord is mindful" - Mendelssohn
5. Solo and Chorus - "I Waited for the Lord" - Mendelssohn
Interval of ten minutes.
PART II.
6. Chorale - "Morn amid the mountains."
7. Solo - "Let the bright seraphim" - "Samson" - Handel
8. Cantata - "Abelard" - Calcott
9. Duet - "O that my head" - "Captivity of Judah" - Crotch
10. Chorus - "Sing unto God" - "Judas Maccabeus" - Handel
Concert to commence at 8 o'clock precisely.
Annual Tickets, to admit a subscriber and lady, £1 1s. each.
Family Tickets, to admit six members of same family, £2 2s. each.
Single Tickets, 3s. each.
Admission to reserved seats by Subscribers' Tickets only.
Tickets may be obtained from Mr. Wigg, Rundle-street; and Mr. White, King William-street.
E. SPILLER, Hon. Sec. January 21, 1858.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Gardner (vice-president); Emanuel Spiller (secretary); Adelaide Sacred Harmonic Society (association)

"NEWS OF THE DAY", Adelaide Times (10 February 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207159221 

The first concert of the Sacred Harmonic Society was given in White's Rooms yesterday evening, and was numerously and fashionably attended . . . Rev. John Gardner read a long and eloquent dissertation on the nature and utility of sacred music, which he passed under review. The various objections urged to the benefits of such societies as that just called into existence; after which, the concert commenced under the able superintendence of Messrs. Daniel and Chapman. The magnificent music of Handel, Mendelssohn, and other well-known composers, was given by the orchestra with marked effect, and in such a manner as could leave no doubt that great pains had been previously taken to enable both vocalists and instrumentalists to attain the degree of efficiency, which the audience, by a judicious and well timed appreciation marked their sense of. The instrumental power was, it anything, deficient in comparison with the vocal, in fact the orchestra was, owing to some cause or other, deficient in numbers; however, there can be no doubt that the favourable reception this, their first effort, has met with, will give encouragement to the friends and supporters of the Society on future occasions.

See also, "SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY", South Australian Register (10 February 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49774295 

"MADAME CARANDINI'S FAREWELL CONCERT", South Australian Register (18 June 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49774704 

The visit of Madame Carandini to this colony with the professional gentlemen who accompany her as operatic performers, is generally known to have been not very remunerative. This has resulted from various causes, but it is principally to be attributed to the circumstance that there have been, during the last few months, a greater number of places of amusement simultaneously opened in Adelaide than at any previous period of our colonial history. The demand exceeded the supply. In consideration of this, and in order to express their appreciation of Madame Carandini's talent as an accomplished vocalist, a number of influential gentlemen recently formed themselves into a Committee for the purpose of securing to her a benefit. A farewell concert was accordingly performed on Thursday evening, at which the company were assisted by several of our resident musicians, including Herr Linger, Mr. J. W. Daniel, Mr. R. B. White, Miss Tozer, and the Band of the Choral Society. The weather was favourable, and there was present one of the largest and most fashionable assemblages ever seen in Adelaide. We scarce need say that the performances were highly satisfactory . . . Mr. J. H. Daniel [sic] sang during the evening one of Russell's descriptive songs with great spirit. This gentleman, so well known to the colony for his musical ability, gave in this instance another proof of his excellent vocal powers. Without attempting the meaningless cadenza and unnatural embellishments by which singers of inferior taste and accomplishments seek to impose upon their auditors, Mr. Daniel always succeeds in pleasing those who hear him by his easy, finished, and thoroughly English style. By-the-by, we may here mention that the eight principal performers at this concert included native-born inhabitants of no fewer than five countries, namely, England, France, Germany, Italy, and South Australia. The evening's entertainment was concluded with, one of Parry's extremely amusing duets, sung by Madame Carandini and Mr. Lavenu, and which excited the risible organs of the entire audience almost beyond control.

ASSOCIATIONS: Maria Carandini (vocalist); Richard Baxter White (violinist, pianist); Lewis Henry Lavenu (vocalist, pianist, Carandini's musical director)

"SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY", The South Australian Advertiser (25 August 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article782652 

The third concert of this Society was held last evening at White's Rooms. We have not previously had the pleasure of noticing the progress of the very commendable and useful efforts made by the ladies and gentlemen composing this Society. We understand that the Institution commenced under encouragements extremely limited; but, through the untiring energy and care of those who took it in hand, suggested no doubt by a consciousness of the rosily beneficial nature of their motives, the Society has gradually gone on increasing in numbers and excellence, and the proceedings of last evening fully proved the perfect success of the originators. The room was very largely attended by a most respectable audience there being about 600 ladies and gentlemen present. The performances of the orchestra throughout the entertainment proved that the several pieces had been most carefully rehearsed and studied. They all merited and received the general applause of the audience; but we would particularly mention the solo of Handel, "Let the bright seraphim," sung by Miss Pettman with remarkable taste and execution; also the chorus concluding the first part of the entertainment. In the second portion of the programme, the duett by Miss Tozer and Mr. Daniels received marked approbation; while Miss Pettman's song "As pants the hart" was of a character entitled to particular notice. The chorus of "The Heavens are telling," by the whole company, which concluded the performance, brought forth such an expression of delight as told clearly the satisfaction of the audience for the evening's entertainment. In conclusion, we can only repeat to the promoters of this really excellent Society our earnest wishes for their success, and hope they will go on "prospering and to prosper.". . .

See also "ADELAIDE, Victoria [sic]", The musical times and singing class circular [London, England] (1 December 1858), 351

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=820PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351 (DIGITISED)

A concert was given by the Sacred Harmonic Society of Adelaide on the 24th of August. The Society, which is patronized by the Bishop of Adelaide and the Rev. Mr. Gardner, as president and vice-president, has continued to improve most materially since its formation, and the music on this occasion, which was of a miscellaneous description, was remarkably well performed. Mr. J. W. Daniel was the conductor, and Mr. Chapman leader.

"SIGNOR CUTOLO", South Australian Register (24 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49900368 

This talented pianist, with Miss L. J. Rowe and Mr. J. W. Daniel, gave a concert at the Port Theatre on Friday evening. The paucity of attendance was remarkable - a fact for which it is scarcely possible satisfactorily to account. It was undecided at first as to whether any performance would take place, but the Signor at length resolved to gratify the few lovers of music who were present, and despite the thinness of the house, and the annoying interruptions of one or two Goths in the gallery, the whole of the programme was good humouredly gone through. Of Signer Cutolo's performance it is unnecessary to dilate. It was the elaboration of a great musical genius and was exquisitely charming. The sweetness of Miss Rowe's singing, and the manly vocalisation of Mr. Daniel, were as usual, warmly admired and applauded.

ASSOCIATIONS: Cesare Cutolo (pianist); Louisa Jane Rowe (vocalist, pianist); Port Theatre (Port Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (10 February 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article788849

SIGNOR CUTOLO begs to announce that he will give a CONCERT,
assisted by Miss L. ROWE, Miss DANIELS [sic, Mr.], and HERR HEYDECKE (Clarionet),
in WHITE'S ASSEMBLY ROOM, on THURSDAY, the 17th instant, the evening of the Agricultural and Horticultural Show . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Theodor Heydecke (clarinet)

"THE HANDEL FESTIVAL", South Australian Register (2 November 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49781838 

The Committee appointed to make arrangements for the Handel musical festival have determined upon admitting no performers, either vocal or instrumental, to the orchestra, but such as are proficients, the object being to produce the greatest possible effect with the smallest possible number. Circulars have been issued to about a hundred persons of known musical ability, soliciting their cooperation. Arrangements have also been made for an adequate supply of music from Melbourne. The vocalists will be under the conduct of Mr. Daniel, and the instrumentalists under Herr Linger. It is intended that each division rehearse apart weekly, and that full rehearsals take place once a month.

ASSOCIATIONS: Handel Centenary (event)

"SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE", South Australian Register (21 December 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49780288 

The periodical soiree in connection with this institution was held on Monday evening last, at White's Rooms . . . The musical portion of the entertainment consisted of two parts, separated by the lecture. In the first part Mr. J. W. Daniel sang "The Light of other Days." This was followed by a solo on the pianoforte by Signor Cutolo, who acquitted himself In a style equal to any of his previous performances, and which drew forth thunders of applause at its conclusion. On being encored, he played "The Last Rose of Summer" with variations, in a most beautiful manner. In the second part Mr. R. B. White gave a solo on the violin - "Souvenirs de Mozart" - in which he was rapturously applauded and encored. Mr. Daniel also gave great satisfaction with "The Death of Nelson" and "The Ship on Fire."

ASSOCIATIONS: South Australian Institute (association, formed out of the Mechanics' Institute)

"THE HANDEL COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL", South Australian Weekly Chronicle (16 April 1859), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96494971 

This grand concert, which we were only able briefly to notice in onr issue of yesterday, was, without exception, the best ever given in the colony. White's spacious room was crowded in every part, and a large number of the audience were compelled to stand all the evening. The presentation of the sublime oratorio of the "Messiah" by means of the combined talent of the Choral and Sacred Harmonic Societies, under distinguished patronage, offered such an attraction to the lovers of fine music and intellectual enjoyment as has not been previously afforded in the colony . . . The overture at the commencement was performed by the full orchestra in a very creditable manner. Mr. Daniel then sang "Comfort ye," and the following air, "Every valley shall be exalted." In this song he acquitted himself admirably . . . Mr. Daniels sang a recitative and air in a masterly style . . . Mr. Daniel sung the recitative "For behold darkness" very successfully. It was almost a pity that the powers of Mr. Daniel were so severely taxed, for, besides singing in choruses, he took the great bulk of the solos some of which were adapted to tenor, some to bass, and some to baritone voices. Mr. Daniel's voice is of the latter description, and if the arrangements had been made so as to do justice to the vocal powers of each singer, he would not have been suffered to take any solos except those in which a baritone voice was required. Notwithstanding Mr. Daniel's well known versatility of powers it was impossible that he could shine equally in songs requiring such different tones of voice . . . The whole of the concert proved a brilliant success . . .

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL. SECOND EVENING - The second performance of the Handel commemoration festival, came off on Thursday evening, April 14, at White's Rooms. The performance consisted of "Alexander's Feast," and the music was of a more lively description than the solemn and pathetic airs with which the Messiah abounds. The opening recitative descriptive of the hero of the scene and his lovely Thais by his side, was given by Mr. Daniel very effectively. The aria immediately following was allotted to Madame Cranz; but, owing to a severe cold under which she was suffering, it was omitted by that lady and rendered by Mr. Daniel, who kindly undertook the song without any rehearsal . . .

"SOIREE AT THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE", The South Australian Advertiser (7 September 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1196844 

The quarterly soiree in connection with the South Australian Institute, held at White's Rooms on Tuesday evening, was in every respect "a brilliant affair," the room being lighted with gas for the first time, and the experiment being completely successful. The effect was if anything a little too glaring, there being 36 jets. There was not the slightest unpleasant smell, and the light was throughout beautifully clear and steady. The room was densely crowded even some time before the hour appointed for the commencement of the entertainment . . . The musical entertainment was conducted by Mr. J. W. Daniel, so long favorably known as a vocal and instrumental performer, and who certainly lost none of his laurels on the occasion. He was accompanied by Mr. R. B. White, whose performances as usual met with marked approval. Mrs. Perryman was in excellent voice, and was deservedly encored in a solo, and in a duet with Mr. Daniel from "Lucia di Lammermoor." A young lady-a pupil, we believe, of Mr. Daniels - made her debut on the occasion, and having an excellent voice and good tate, will, when possessed of a little more confidence, doubtless prove a valuable acquisition. Great taste was shown in the selection of pieces, and the entertainment was eminently successful.

"GRAND CONCERT AT THE GAWLER INSTITUTE", The South Australian Advertiser (14 December 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1200209 

The second anniversary of this Institute was celebrated at the Oddfellows' Hall, in Gawler Town, on the evening of Monday, December 12. It had been announced that the National Song would be performed to the air composed by Herr Linger, and a great deal of interest was manifested, many persons having come from town by the afternoon train . . . the "Prize Song of Australia" was introduced, numerous copies of the words and music having been previously distributed throughout the room. The piece was arranged for the concert as a solo and quartette for four voices, and was very favorably received by the audience, who broke out into loud applause at the end of each verse. It is likely that this song will become very popular, being not only simple, but pleasing, and as characteristic of a national melody, as an appropriate adaptation to the poem could be expected to be. When the song was finished, the audience manifested great enthusiasm, and loudly called for Herr Linger, who came forward and bowed his acknowledgments. The verses were sung as solos Miss Rowe, Mrs. Perryman, Mr. Daniel, and Mr. Oehlmann each taking a verse alternately, and all collectively singing the chorus as a quartette. Rendered as the song was on Tuesday evening, it was remarkably successful, and appeared to have made a favorable and permanent impression.

ASSOCIATIONS: Hermann Oelmann (vocalist); Gawler Institute (association)

MUSIC: The song of Australia (Linger)

Mount Pleasant and district, SA (from 1860 to c. 1873):

"MOUNT PLEASANT [From our own Correspondent] . . . February 29", Adelaide Observer (3 March 1860), 2 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158173750 

. . . On the 19th the service of the Church of England, which is now held here once a month until a clergyman is appointed to this district, was performed, when the Bev. A. R. Russell preached to a large and attentive congregation. Since the arrival of Mr. Daniel in this locality a great improvement has taken place in the performance of the service, owing to that gentleman kindly lending his harmonium, over which be so ably presides; and there is some hope of our soon having an efficient choir. We hope to have the walls of our church completed in the course of another fortnight.

"MOUNT PLEASANT ANNUAL PLOUGHING MATCH", The South Australian Advertiser (7 September 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article823691 

The above match took place on Wednesday, Sept. 5th . . . THE DINNER was held at the Mount Pleasant Inn, where a splendid entertainment was provided by Host Owen, and under the superintendence of Mr. Biggs, of Hindley-street. About 70 gentlemen sat down; amongst them were many of the most respectable and influential in the district. A better entertainment we have not witnessed for a long time . . . The cloth having been removed . . . Song, Mr. J. W. Daniel - "Man the Life Boat" . . .

"MOUNT PLEASANT [From our own Correspondent] . . . October 24", South Australian Register (26 October 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50030212 

On Thursday evening, the 18th inst., the inhabitants of the neighbourhood were enlivened by an entertainment of sacred music, given by Mr. J. W. Daniel, of musical celebrity, assisted by Mrs. Peryman and other friends who kindly gave their cervices on the occasion; the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of an harmonium for St. John's Church, which has lately been erected near the township. It being the first concert which has taken place in this locality, all were anxious to avail themselves of so great a musical treat, and before 6 o'clock the place was quite in a commotion. Vehicles, equestrians, and pedestrians were seen streaming in from all quarters, and long before 7, the hour announced for the commencement of the performance, the edifice in which it was to be held was so crowded that no more seats could be obtained, many persons having to stand. The first piece in the programme was that exquisite choral, "Morn amid the mountains," the performance of which did great credit to all the performers. This was followed by duets and solos, which by their beautiful rendering seemed to awaken the feelings of all present. Two or three deserve particular notice. "The shower of pearls" and the "Slave's sons at midnight," in which Mrs. Peryman's and Mr. Daniel's voices blended in sweetest harmony, calling forth the rapturous applause of every one. "Angels ever bright and fair" was sung by Mrs. Peryman in sweetest strains. "The last man," sung by Mr. Daniel, showed off his voice to great effect. It certainly is a piece to display the talent of the singer, which Mr. Daniel did not fail to do in the most masterly style. The evening's amusement was brought to a close with the beautiful quartett, "Praise the Lord." One and all appeared highly gratified. Mr. Daniel has handed the Treasurer of the Committee a cheque for £17.
The crops in this district are looking very well, and the refreshing showers which have lately fallen have gladdened the farmers' hearts with the prospect of a good harvest.

"ANGASTON [From our own Correspondent] . . . October 31", South Australian Register (2 November 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50029232 

On Wednesday evening, October 24, a concert was given in the Old Chapel, Mr. J. W. Daniel and Mrs. Peryman being the vocalists. The audience warmly testified their approval of several of the pieces. The special favourites were - "Man the lifeboat" (song), Mr. Daniel; "Slowly and softly" (Duet); "There is a path by the river," Mrs. Peryman; "Music on the waters;" and also a comic song by Mr. Daniel, "Come and take tea in the arbour."

[Advertisement], Adelaide Observer (10 November 1860), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158177868 

THE COUNTRY AGENTS OF THE "ADELAIDE OBSERVER" . . .
MOUNT PLEASANT - J. W. Daniel, storekeeper . . .

"NEW MUSIC", South Australian Register (8 March 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50020605

We have received a new musical production, entitled "Gently, Mother, Gently;" words by A. C. Judson, music by E. R. Daniel [sic]. It would be difficult to decide whether this is a song or a hymn. It commences as a ballad, in what may be called the lullaby tone, and terminates most decidedly in the style of the Union Tune-Book. As, however, it is the production of a young hand due allowance must be made for defects of this kind. Few composers are distinct and original at first, even whereas in this case, no plagiarism may be intended. The air generally is pretty and simple, and, at all events, quite as new as much other music that is published of a far more ambitious character.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. A. C. Judson (American writer, lyricist)

"POETRY", The South Australian Advertiser (12 March 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article831525

The following are the words, by A. C. Judson, to which Miss E. R. Daniel has set the music already favorably known to the public. The words are meritorious, especially the first two stanzas: the third falls off instead of rising. The music is simple and pleasing, and as the first effort of a young composer, merits a word of praise:
Gently, mother, gently
Chide thy little one . . .

"TUNGKILLO", South Australian Weekly Chronicle (1 June 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90034618 

On Thursday evening, the 23rd instant, a concert (interspersed with readings) was held in the Tungkillo Schoolroom, in aid of the funds of the same, there being a debt of a few pounds remaining. Although, the weather was very unfavorable there was a large attendance, the commodious schoolroom being nearly filled . . . The musical part of the entertainment was conducted by Mr. J. W. Daniel, who sung a number of songs, accompanying himself on the pianoforte, and with great ability and tact amused and delighted his audience; his songs comprised some of Henry Russell's masterpieces, selections from operas, miscellaneous English, Scotch, and Irish songs and ballads, as also several comic songs, all of which were admirably executed. The literary portion comprised selections from Shakspeare . . . Scott and Byron . . . and from the Ingoldsby Legends . . . Mr. Daniel concluded with the National Anthem; thus ending an amusing and interesting evening's entertainment, with which all the company were evidently well pleased.

"TUNGKILLO", Adelaide Observer (1 June 1861), 2 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158181063 

A correspondent says: - "The trustees of the Tungkillo School, finding themselves on the completion of the building some £14 in debt, resolved to hold a musical and literary entertainment, hoping by sale of tickets to wipe off a part of their liabilities. The entertainment came off on Thursday, the 23rd May, and when I say that the Trustees had secured the able services of Mr. J. W. Daniel, I hardly need add that the room was well filled and the audience highly delighted. Mr. Daniel undertook on this occasion the very difficult task of fixing the attention of a numerous mixed audience for about four hours by his own unaided exertions, and in this task he was wonderfully successful. Where all was super-eminently excellent, it is difficult, and in fact almost impossible, to select any of the pieces for special mention; but the breathless and in some instances tearful silence which marked the reception of the pathetic strains of "The Gamblers Wife," the beaming countenances of the auditory whilst listening to the spirit-stirring notes of "The Standard-Bearer," and the shouts of merry laughter which greeted "Mr. Billy Nutts," and the humorous description of the Baker's Shop on a Sunday," all conspired to show that Mr. Daniel possesses the power of carrying his audience with him, which I conceive to be the best proof I can give of his wonderful talent. Four short selections from Shakspeare, Scott, Byron, and The Ingoldsby Legends, were read . . . and served, with the interval between the first and second parts, to divide the musical portion into six sections. Altogether the objects in view were fuliv attained, as, after paying expenses, a respectable balance remains to the credit of the trustees; and the audience (many of whom came from the neighbouring towns of Mount Torrens and Mount Pleasant) took their departure apparently highly pleased at having spent an agreeable and instructive evening."

"CONCERT AT MOUNT PLEASANT", The South Australian Advertiser (20 September 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article877758 

A Concert of Sacred music was held in St. John's Church Tuesday, the 17th inst. The Church was beautifully decorated with evergreens and flowers, amongst which was a tasteful group forming the letters V. R., and having an illuminated crown in the centre. The attendance was not quite so good as was anticipated, but this might be attributed to the fact that Mrs. F. Perryman and Mr. J. W. Daniel and choir of St. John's Church, intended giving a repetition of the concert at Gumeracha on Thursday, and a secular entertainment at Tungkillo on Saturday. The programme consisted of selections from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Novello, Jackson, Callcott, and others. The celebrated "Aberlard" of Callcott; "Where are thy bowers, O Canaan," from Rossini's "Mose;" Haydn's "Wake the Song of Jubilee;" Novello's "Infant's Prayer;" and Haydn's "O lovely peace," were severally encored. In a word, the whole of the performances were eminently successful, being executed in a masterly style. The solos and duets were assigned to Mrs. Perryman and Mr. Daniel, whose musical talents are so well known to the South Australian public, that it would be superfluous to say any more than that they were quite equal to their usual performances. It is expected that the proceeds of this and a preceding concert will enable the choir to present the fine harmonium they have to St. John's Church.

"THE ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", South Australian Register (3 September 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50175752 

This Society, which was first organized about three months ago, gave its opening concert on Tuesday evening at the Adelaide Assembly-room. There was a very large attendance. His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief and the Misses Daly were present. The performance consisted of Handel's "Messiah." Herr Schmitt acted as conductor, Mr. Linly Norman presided at the grand pianoforte, and Mr. Chapman led the instrumentalists as violin-primo. The oratorio was to some extent abridged so as to reduce the three parts into two. The orchestra consisted of about 60 vocalists and 15 or 16 instrumentalists . . . Mr. J. W. Daniel, who, we believe, has not till now appeared before an Adelaide audience for about three years, sang the whole of both the tenor and bass solos included in the programme. To effect this requires an extraordinary compass of voice, ranging over at least two octaves. Yet the audience could not, we think, detect a faltering note . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Carl Schmitt (conductor); Linly Norman (pianist); Adelaide Philharmonic Society (association)

"TUNGKILLO [From a Correspondent] . . . December 6", Adelaide Observer (9 December 1865), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159499634 

The annual examination of the Tungkillo District School took place on Tuesday, December 5 . . . Mr. J. W. Daniel, of Mount Pleasant, most ably presided at the piano, assisted by Master George and Miss Emily Daniel, who sung several duets in a very pleasing style . . .

"NOARLUNGA", The South Australian Advertiser (12 September 1867), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28800739

. . . Miss Aitkin, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Daniel, and assisted by Miss E. Daniel, Master George Daniel, and Master William Malpas, gave a soiree musicale with readings and recitations in the Oddfellow's Hall, Wilunga, which was only well filled in the reserved seats owing to the stormy weather . . .

"MORPHETT VALE", The South Australian Advertiser (26 May 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31978583

On Tuesday, 12th, a grand sacred music concert took place in the new Baptist Chapel, under the management of Miss E. Daniels, assisted by Mr. J. W. Daniels, of Mount Pleasant, Master Daniel, and several amateurs . . .

"RIVERTON, APRIL 22", South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (1 May 1869), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91268912 

The Daniel family has paid this quarter a visit, and gave one of their entertainments this evening in Mr. Bathurst's hotel to a full house and highly respectable audience, who manifested their approbation of the tasteful selection by the talented conductor, Mr. J. W. Daniel, of whom it would be superfluous to say much, as his character as an accomplished musician is now so well known in the colony. Miss Daniel and her two brothers, Masters George Handel and Arthur Haydn, drew forth great applause. They bid fair to become most accomplished performers; and the family, taken together, can produce a treat to the most fastidious auditory. Another entertainment has been fixed for the benefit of a local public institution, when, no doubt, the performers, together with the good object, will be again well patronised. Some of the pieces were remarkably well sustained, and they are subjoined: -
Glees - "Hark, Apollo," "Ever True," "'Tis the Last Rose of Summer," "Where art thou, Beam of Light."
Songs, by Mr. Daniel - "Bellringer," "Man the Lifeboat," "Alonzo the Brave," "Jones's Sister."
Duets, by Mr. Daniel and Miss Daniel - "When I am far from Thee" - "The Soldier's Return."
Readings, by Mr. Daniel - "Inkermann," "Light Brigade."
Duets, by Master Arthur Haydn Daniel and his sister - "Flower Queen," and "Wind and Harp."
Piano fantasias, by George Handel Daniel, "Martha," and "Siege of Lucknow."
The readings were also well delivered, and solicited applause, particularly "Inkermann."
The piano accompaniments were played most effectually by Mr. and Master George Daniel; and, to be brief, the whole entertainment gave evidence of great ability and success in the labors of each member of this musical and artistic family. The instrumental manipulations of Master George were greatly admired.

[Advertisement], The Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal (16 June 1869), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110481962 

CONCERTS. THE DANIEL FAMILY ARE COMING.
CONCERTS will be given by the DANIEL FAMILY, in the Three Townships, as under:
KADINA, in the Oddfellows' Hall, on Tuesday, June 15 and 22.
WALLAROO, at the Cornucopia Hotel, on Wednesday, June 16, and Monday, the 21st.
MOONTA, at the Prince of Wales Hotel, on Thursday and Friday, June 17th and 18th.
PORT WAKEFIELD, at Merrett's, on Wednesday, June 23.
SALISBURY, at J. Harvey's, on Thursday, 24th June.
PROGRAMME . . .

"KADINA [From our own Correspondent] June 15, 1869", Kapunda Herald and Northern Intelligencer (18 June 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108265537 

The Daniel Family gave an entertainment this evening in the Oddfellows Hall, there was a very good house, and a capital programme was gone through. Mr. Daniel sang with great effect, and was loudly applauded in the songs "The Sailor's Grave," and "The Englishman;" the singing of Miss and Master Haydn Daniel was highly appreciated; Mr. Handel Daniel performed very brilliantly on the pianoforte, and altogether a very pleasant evening was spent. Just before the last piece was song Mr. Daniel thanked the audience for their attendance, and stated that they would give another entertainment on Tuesday evening next.

Adelaide, SA (from by 1873):

"MUSICAL MEMS", Evening Journal [Adelaide, SA] (7 August 1873), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197668293 

. . . Mr. Daniel also continues to conduct his musical classes with decided success . . . We learn that the children of several Sunday-schools in South and North Adelaide are rehearsing the "Pilgrim's Progress" under the superintendence of Mr. J. W. Daniel, with the view of giving a joint rendering of it, probably in the Town Hall, ere long.

"MRS. T. P. HILL'S ENTERTAINMENTS", South Australian Register (17 September 1874), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39818421

. . . Mrs. Hill affords the public an opportunity of hearing the vocal and instrumental music of Miss E. C. Daniel and Miss Brown . . .

"MORPHETT VALE", The South Australian Advertiser (15 April 1879), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73072173.

The anniversary services of the local Baptist Church were held on Good Friday . . . The choir, under the leadership of Miss E. Daniel, contributed some excellent music . . .

"DEATHS", The Advertiser (26 March 1890), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24496541 

DANIEL - On the 24th March, at Hutt street, George Frederick Daniel, eldest son of J. W. Daniel, Halifax-street, aged 38.

"DEATHS", South Australian Register (15 June 1891), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48099787

DANIEL. - On the 13th June, at Halifax-street, Josiah Wyke, beloved husband of Mary Jane Daniel, aged 65 years.

THE LATE MR. J. W. DANIEL", South Australian Register (15 June 1891), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48099782

On Saturday morning Mr. Josiah Wyke Daniel, an old and respected colonist, breathed his last. Mr. Daniel arrived in the colony from England in 1850, and was for many years engaged in the soft-goods business in Adelaide. For a time, too, he was a storekeeper at Mount Pleasant. During the last twelve years he was in the Civil Service as store-keeper at the Government Printing Office. The deceased always took a lively interest in promoting the study of music, and, possessing. a rich voice, he was highly thought of as a vocalist, and will be much missed from musical circles. He had only a brief illness, and he leaves a widow and grown-up family.

"GENERAL NEWS", The Express and Telegraph (15 June 1891), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208557018

We announce with regret the death of Mr. J. W. Daniel, which occurred at his residence, Halifax-street, on Saturday morning. Mr. Daniel, who arrived in this colony in 1850, settled in the city and rapidly made himself popular by his musical abilities and genial disposition. He officiated for years as organist in the leading churches in the colony, and business pursuits necessitating his removal to Mount Pleasant he acted for 13 years in the same capacity in that town. Returning again to Adelaide Mr. Daniel undertook the duties of organist at the North Adelaide Congregational Church, later on at Chalmer's Church and finally at the Rev. F. W. Cox's Church, in Hindmarsh-square, where he remained until his death. Mr. Daniel was perhaps the first to introduce to this colony the juvenile song services, which have since become so popular, and he will long be remembered for his praiseworthy efforts to instil into the children a love for that music with which he himself was so thoroughly imbued. For some years past Mr. Daniel has held the position of storekeeper at the Government Printing Office. He was taken ill on Monday last, but it was not until Thursday that any serious result was anticipated, and great sympathy is expressed with the widow and family in their sudden bereavement. The funeral which took place on Sunday, was very largely attended by all classes of the community, and a fitting tribute to the memory of the deceased was pronounced by the Rev. F. W. Cox, who officiated at the grave.

"PERSONAL PARS", Quiz and the Lantern (19 June 1891), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166351709 

Adelaide has sustained a musical loss by the death of Mr. J. W. Daniel, for many years store keeper at the Government Printing Office. How many remember his rendering of "Tea in the arbor."

"THE LATE MRS. J. W. DANIEL", The Express and Telegraph (4 May 1904), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208769942

Mrs. Daniel, widow of Mr. J. W. Daniel, who, a few years ago, was well-known in Adelaide as a vocalist, died at her residence, Halifax-street east, on Wednesday morning, at the age of 76 years. She arrived in 1850 from England, and resided in this State until the time of her death. The deceased left five daughters and one son - Mesdames E. Scrymgour, A. J. Billin, E. Scott, T. L. Smith, and R. A. Wadham, and Mr. A. H. Daniel.

"DEATHS", The Register (8 September 1919), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62393943 

DANIEL.- On the 6th September, at Morphett Vale, Emma Caldwell, second daughter of the late Rev. Jas. Daniel, aged 91 years.

"Miss E. C. Daniel", Observer (13 September 1919), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165898384 

The death occurred at Morphett Vale on Saturday of Miss Emma Caldwell Daniel, at the age of 91 years. She was the second daughter of the late Rev. James Daniel, and was widely known and highly respected in the Morphett Vale district.

H. Brewster Jones, "MEMORIES OF CARL LINGER", The Advertiser (24 February 1936), 17

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74163318

. . . It does not need any stretch of the imagination to picture J. W. Daniel the leading bass [sic] soloist of these times, and Carl Linger's right-hand man, who acted as choral master for the first performance of "The Messiah" in 1859, as one of the central figures in this graveside performance in February, 1862.

Mr. J. W. Daniel was bass soloist at Bath Abbey, in England, before coming to Australia in 1850. He was the son of a Baptist minister, and worthily upheld the family tradition in his activities in South Australia. He was the first to introduce the "tonic-sol-fa" system here, and on Saturday afternoons he taught as many as 500 children sacred songs and hymn tunes, Master Arthur Daniel, his son, leading the singing with his cornet. He died on June 13, 1891, aged 65.

In an interesting chat with Mr. Arthur Daniel, at the South Park bowling green on Friday, I was shown mementoes of the past, including a volume of the bass solos of "The Messiah" bound in red Morocco leather, with the initials J.W.D. in gold letters on the cover. This book was used 75 years ago by his father at the performance mentioned above. Mr. Arthur Daniel, who sang Sullivan's "Tit-Willow," with magpie-call interpolations, and rechristened "The Magpie," for 50 years or more, also told some interesting anecdotes of his father's career and his own. Mr. Daniel, although unable now to give his inimitable imitation of a magpie, can nevertheless give a faithful performance of the English cuckoo call, which he did on Friday. This versatile gentleman played the cornet in the Philharmonic Orchestra in 1873 - he was then 16 years of age - and Mr. Stephen Parsons, who was a member of the audience, well remembers the incident. It was a performance of "The Messiah" given by the same society Carl Linger had conducted 14 years earlier at its first presentation in this State . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Hooper Brewster Jones (musician, journalist); Carl Linger (conductor)

"DEATHS", The Argus (1 May 1933), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4732860 

SCRYMGOUR - On the 30th April, at her residence, Ourowlie, View street, Mornington, Emily dearly beloved wife of Edmund Scrymgour, loving mother of Rhoda (Mrs. Mayden), aged 78 years. - Our little mother at rest. Rest after weariness.

"DEATH", News [Adelaide, SA] (21 October 1937), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131890703 

DANIEL. - On October 20, at 28 Hughes street, North Unley, Arthur Haydn, second son of the late J. W. and Mary Daniel, beloved brother of Mrs. Ladyman Smith, Mrs. E. Scott. and Mrs. M. A. Wadham. In his eighty-first year . . .

Musical works:

Anthems, marked and pointed for chanting the services of the Church of England by J. W. Daniel (Adelaide: Printed by Hilton and Co., 1854)

Copy at the State Library of Victoria

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34369178 

https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma999676623607636 

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Denyer Hilton (c. 1824-1890)

Gently, mother, gently ("words by A. C. Judson, music by E. R. Daniel" [sic]) ([Adelaide: ?, 1861])

NO COPY IDENTIFIED

DANIELL, John Alfred (alias of Alfred HEARNE; John Alfred DANIELL; Mr. J. A. DANIELL; John DANIELL; J. DANIELL; DANIEL; DANIELS; once "Jonah DANIELL")

Musician, professor of music, pianist, pianoforte maker and tuner, composer

Born London, England, 17 March 1809; baptised St. Anne, Soho, 21 March 1810; son of James HEARNE and Ann PARRY (married St. Anne's, Soho, 1793)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by 1842
Married Sarah Jane GOODALL (c. 1812-1913), Christ Church St. Laurence, Sydney, NSW, December 1842
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by March 1843
Died Woolloomooloo, NSW, 29 June 1857, aged "48/49"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Alfred+Hearne+Daniell+1809-1857 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DANIELL-John-Alfred-Hearne (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Baptisms, St. Anne, Soho, Westminster, January 1810; register 1768-1812; City of Westminster Archives, STA/PR/1/3

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61865/images/61865_314054001181_17897-00206?pId=668606 (PAYWALL)

[Born] 1809 Mar. 17 / Alfred Hearne of James & Ann [baptised 1810 January] 21

Admissions, United Grand Lodge of England, London, No. 255B/367A, 1835; Library and Museum of Freemasonry

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/1602472:60620 (PAYWALL)

1835 Jan. 20 / 28 / Hearne Alfred / Pianoforte Manufact. / Camden Town . . .

Robson's London and Birmingham directory (1839), 544; also (1840), 1506

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2583/images/m0133-00604?pId=5675151 (PAYWALL)

Hearne A. Pianoforte manfr, 59 Judd st, Brunswck sq

"SHERIFF'S COURT - TUESDAY [20 July]. SPEYER v. HEARNE", Weekly Chronicle [London, England] (24 July 1841), 6

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002264/18410724/050/0006 (PAYWALL)

This was an action brought by a tailor, in Holborn, against Alfred Hearne, a piano-forte maker, in Judd-street, Brunswick-square, to recover the small sum of £2 2s 6d, the balance of an account for seating a pair of trousers, skirting, cuffing, lining, facing, and otherwise repairing a coat, and for making a pair of superfine doeskin dress trousers.
- Mr. Davidson appeared as counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Frazer for the defence.
- James Wilson, a tall, sleek-looking young gentleman, with a rough head of hair of an inflammatory colour, was called to prove that he brushed the coat before he took it home, and that he delivered it at Mr. Hearne's residence. He added that he knew nothing of "tailoring," and he could not recollect what repairs had been done to the coat, or whether it was a dress coat or a frock. He remembered, however, that it had new skirts (pointing to the "skirts" of his own coat, which produced great laughter.)
- The under-sheriff: Do you recollect if the coat was in a different state when you took it home than when you fetched it from the defendant's?
- Witness (in a simpering tone): On my honour I don't remember anything about it. (Immense laughter.)
- Juror: Do you remember what kind of skirting and lining was put to it?
- Witness (scratching his head): No, I really do not.
- Under-sheriff: Was it a blue or a black coat?
- Witness: It was a "dark one." (Renewed laughter).
- Did you fetch a coat at all from Mr. Hearne's?
- Witness (straining forward): Sir! (Loud laughter).
- The under-sheriff: You are certainly the worst witness that ever got into a box. I think your memory requires repairing with new skirts, cuffs, and everything else. (A laugh).
- Benjamin Rogers stated that he was in the employment of Mr. Speyer, and he made a pair of dress trousers for Mr. Hearne, but he never saw him. He could not tell whether they were made of doeskin or cassimere. He recollected that he took them home in a bundle, but he did not see the contents of it, or whether the trousers were the same that he had made.
- John Bowden said that 32s was a reasonable price for a pair of trousers.
- Mr. Frazer said that he could prove payment of the account if it had been pleaded, but he was excluded from so doing; and although they were aware of the difficulty of proving a negative, he should show that the defendant never had a pair of trousers repaired.
- Jane Plumford stated that she had been in the defendant's service two years and a half, and that there was nobody to open the door but herself. She I examined all parcels left for her master, and she could swear he never had a coat repaired, nor a pair of trousers. She was certain of this, as he only had one solitary pair of trousers, and if he had sent them to be repaired he must have remained at home without any. (Roars of laughter.)
- After some further evidence, the learned under-sheriff said that if the plaintiff had not been prepared to make out his case to their satisfaction, he had no right to call upon them to strain their consciences to return a verdict in his favour, instead of taking so trifling a matter into an inferior court.
- The jury consulted, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £1 12s only.
- Mr. Davidson said his client would rather be non-suited; but the undersheriff ruled that the application was too late after the jury had returned their verdict.

Banns read, Christ Church St. Laurence, Sydney, December 1842; Biographical database of Australia (BDA)

https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/30401030901 (PAYWALL)

Alfred Hearne / Bachelor / 28 / Free Emigrant / [and] Sarah Jane Goodall / Spinster / Free Emigrant / [banns read] 4, 11 and 18 December 1842

[Advertisement], The Australian [Sydney, NSW] (10 March 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12411473

MR. DANIELL, Professor of Music and Pianoforte-maker, from Broadwood's, London;
takes an opportunity of informing the nobility and gentry of Sydney and its surrounding districts, that he attends Quadrille parties and provides Bands, having a choice selection of Quadrilles, by Herz, Musard, Strauss, &c.
Pianofortes tuned on the approved principle of equal temperament.
All kinds of musical instruments repaired. Satisfactory references can be given.
At Mr. Clarke's, King-street East.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Broadwood and Sons (London pianoforte makers); John Clark (dancing master)

"UNCLAIMED LETTERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 May 1843), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12425026

. . . Mr. Daniels, professor of music . . .

"UNCLAIMED LETTERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (9 April 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12878623 

. . . Mr. Daniels, pianoforte turner [sic] . . .

Baptisms, St. James, Sydney, 1846; Biographical database of Australia (BDA)

https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/30311137202 (PAYWALL)

16 July 1846 / born 9 May 1846 / George William Goodall son of / Alfred and Sarah Jane / Hearne / Pianoforte Maker

"BIRTHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (12 May 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28649880

On Saturday, the 9th instant, at her residence, Rushcutter Bay, the wife of Mr. Jonah Daniell, of a son [sic].

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (16 May 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12887246 

TO THE MUSICAL INHABITANTS OF SYDNEY AND ITS ENVIRONS,
MR. DANIELS, Pianoforte Maker, and Tuner, takes this opportunity of informing his friends, and the public generally, that he has arrived from the interior, and will be most happy to receive orders from those who may require his services.
No. 90, Phillip street.

"COURT OF REQUESTS - £30 Jurisdiction . . . Naturals, Flats, and Sharps", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer [NSW] (19 June 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59763275 

Mrs. Parker, an aged gentlewoman, appeared through her attorney, Mr. George Robert Nichols, as plaintiff in an action of trover, for the recovery of the value of a pianoforte, illicitly detained by Mr. Robert Cooper, senior, better known to the colonial world as Wicked Bob. Defendant had pleaded not guilty, not possessed, lien, and so forth.
The plaintiff had engaged with Mrs. Cooper as governess to the young ladies, she accordingly entered upon her duties at Juniper Hall, and continued to instruct the refractory pupils for a period of several weeks, till Mrs. Cooper's ill-usage and abuse caused her to quit. During Mrs. Parker's residence with defendant, a piano belonging to the plaintiff had been removed from Sydney to Mr. Cooper's, in order to give the girls an opportunity of strumming till all was blue, and in consideration of the extra accommodation thus afforded, the pianist was to receive a rental of 30s. per month; in addition to her previously stipulated salary.
Mrs. Sarah Cooper, Miss Louisa Cooper, Miss Sarah Cooper, Miss Angelica Cooper, Miss Alfrida Julia Wilhelmina Cooper, Miss Saccharina Junipera Cooper, Mr. Gadcock, and Mr. Caldwell, were respectively yet vainly, well called by the officer of the Court; at length Mr. Nesbitt was put into the witness box, and deposed to having had charge of the said instrument as tangible security for the sum of £3; subsequent to Mrs. Parker's engagement with the Coopers, he received together with the amount due, an order to deliver the piano to the bearer of the note; he further estimated the musical machine at £18 or £20.
Mr. Badcock now arrived, and gave evidence to having served Mr. Cooper with a notice to deliver up possession &c, &c.
His Honor then recapitulated the evidence to the Assessors, and just as he was concluding his remarks, in stalked Mr. Archibald Little, the solicitor for the defendant. This latter gentleman objected in toto to the proceedings, as no notice to produce notice had been served, an objection, which, owing to the advanced stage of the plaintiff's case, was overruled.& A loquacious youth, named Daniels, who styled himself a tuner, was requested to step up and enlighten the Court as to the valuation. This "second Daniel come to judgment" stated, "that it was not worth a deal - 'twas, at least 40 years old a 5 1/2 octave." He further added by way of gratuity, that "no instrument could stand 40 years of constant strumming."
Mrs. Parker's evidence went to show that she was not discharged on any alleged ground of making free with Old Bob's worm, or in other words, of drunkenness, but she had found it necessary to leave on account of the ladies having on more than one occasion gone into her room, pulled the bed clothes off, and thrown cold water on her. The case closed, abruptly, and the Assessors found for the plaintiff, damages £20.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. Parker (governess, pianist), ? or Parkes (as see below, December 1848); Robert Cooper (merchant, householder)

"NEW MUSIC", Sydney Chronicle (29 February 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31755666

We have been peculiarly gratified by hearing played a piece of music adapted to the first set of Quadrilles, and arranged for the Piano-forte by Mr. J. Daniell, from some of the most favorite airs of France, Italy, and Germany. The music is exceedingly well suited as an accompaniment to the mystic mazes of the dance, whilst the melody and arrangement reflect great credit on the compiler. We venture to predict, that they will shortly become great favourites with the citizens, more especially as they will shortly be played by the band of the 99th regiment. The set is termed "La Militaire," and is dedicated to the Lady of Major General Wynyard.

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 99th Regiment (military)

"MUSICAL", The Australian (10 March 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132531

We have received a copy of La Militaire, a set of Quadrilles, selected from the airs of various nations; harmonized and arranged for the Piano-forte, and dedicated, by permission, to the Lady of Major-General Wynyard, C. B., by J. Daniell. We very sincerely congratulate Mr. D. upon the appearance of this very graceful publication, which reflects the highest credit upon him as a tasteful and classical harmonist. We feel satisfied that very few of our fair readers will be long without this agreeable addition to their musical portfolio.

ASSOCIATIONS: Louisa Warner (d. 1870), wife of Edward Buckley Wynyard (recently arrived commander of the forces in NSW, in succession to Maurice O'Conner)

[Advertisement], The Australian (10 March 1848), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132527

JUST PUBLISHED.
LA MILITAIRE QUADRILLES.
SELECTED from airs of various Nations, harmonised and arranged for the Pianoforte, and most respectfully dedicated, by permission, to the Lady of His Excellency Major General Wynyard, C. B., Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in New South Wales, by J. Daniell. Price, 5s.
To be had of all the principal Music-sellers and Stationers in Sydney; also, of the Author, Rushcutter's Bay.
Mr. Daniell takes the present opportunity of stating that he will leave Sydney for his annual journey to Bathurst, &c., in all March.
March 1, 1848.

"WINDSOR", Bell's Life in Sydney (24 June 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59763764

The news of this week is scarcely worth recording, except for the circumstance that some of our Bachelors gave a Ball at Coffey's Hotel last evening. Many casualties contributed to prevent a numerous assemblage of the elite of the district, but withal there was a goodly number, and everything passed off in a manner highly creditable to those engaged in it. Coffey, with his usual good taste, provided a most excellent supper and made the table literally groan under the weight of all the good things of this life. The music was of a superior description and the performers, Messrs. Daniels and Wilson from Sydney, deserve the highest encomiums; in fact everything was conducted in such a way as to elicit expressions of satisfaction from every guest.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mr. Wilson (musician)

"COURT OF REQUESTS . . . PARKES v. COOPER", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (16 December 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59767372 

This was an action brought by Mr. William Parkes, on behalf of his wife Sarah, against Mr. Robert Cooper, for damages, to the amount of £30, caused by a violation of an agreement, whereby Mrs. Parkes was hired tn instruct the younger parts of Mr. Cooper's family, in those particular branches of female education which the world terms "accomplishments," namely, piano fingering, French smattering and English of all sorts, from the use of the globes down to Murray's grammar, and arithmetical calculations, including multiplication . . .
The only proof for the plaintiff is the agreement to enter the service of the defendant on the 8th March, for 12 months, at a salary of £30 a year, payable monthly, and that she was dismissed in the latter part of April, because she would not sit up after ten o'clock to play the piano for quadrille dancing for the young ladies . . .
Mrs. O'Keefe . . . went on to say that Mrs. Parkes had repeatedly called Mrs. Cooper an angel, and her daughters little seraphs; and that she little thought that there was such a heaven in New South Wales as Juniper Hall.
Mr. Daniel, pianoforte player corroborated the latter part of this testimony; but as he had known Mrs. Parkes for a considerable time, and was aware that her usual habit was to look upon all persons as angels when first entering their service, and the reverse when she was tired of them; he had felt it his duty to warn Mrs. Cooper that he was afraid Mrs. Parkes was laying it on too thick. This gentleman had also prescribed for a piano, which had been redeemed for Mrs. P. out of the pocket of Mrs. C.
The only other material witnesses were a Mrs. Easton, who spoke to having seen Mrs. P. the worse for liquor, and having heard her use most disgraceful language to her employer . . .

Last will and testament, Alfred Hearne, alias John Daniell, of Rushcutter's Bay, 29 March 1850 (probate 5 November 1863); State Records Authority of NSW

https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1ebnd1l/ADLIB_RNSW112566413 

This is the last Will and Testament of me Alfred Hearne commonly known as John Daniel, of Saint James's Glebe, Rushcutter's Bay in the Parish of Alexandria in the County of Cumberland in the Colony of New South Wales, Piano Forte Maker.
I give devise and bequeath all the real and personal estate . . . to the use of my friend William Tunks . . . Licensed Victualler . . .
upon trust to permit my wife Sarah Jane Hearne to have the use . . . thereof during her widowhood . . . for the support of herself and the maintenance and education of my son George William Goodall Hearne . . . then in trust for my brother John Hearne, now or lately of Ryder's Court, Leicester Fields, Parish of Saint Ann's Westminster . . . England . . .
[dated 29 March 1850] [signed] Alfred Hearne Commonly known as J. Daniell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Tunks (executor)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 April 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12916928 

MR. J. DANIELL, pianoforte maker,
begs to inform his friends and the public, that being about to leave the colony for a short time, he has made arrangements with Mr. W. J. Johnson, Pianoforte maker, of 314 Pitt-ttreet, to take charge of his business during his absence, and requests that all favours intended for himself may be conferred on Mr. Johnson, in whom he feels every confidence.
J. DANIELL, April 5.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Jonathan Johnson (pianoforte maker, musicseller)

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . DEPARTURES", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser [NSW] (13 April 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article695105 

APRIL 7. - Una, ship, Captain Causzar, 793 tons, for California. Passengers . . . Alfred Hearn . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 March 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12934892 

PIANOFORTE TUNING.
MR. DANIELL having just returned to the colony, begs to inform his friends and patrons that he has again resumed his profession.
All business communications, from either town or country, addressed to the care of
Mr. MOFFITT, stationer, Pitt-street, or No. 90, Phillip-street, punctually attended to.
N.B. - Pianos on hire. March 6.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Moffit (stationer, bookseller, publisher)

"MISPLACED CONFIDENCES", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (24 April 1852), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251531809 

An instance of this kind was experienced on Tuesday, by a Mr. Daniell, of Rushcutter's Bay, who sought on that day the power of the law to see him righted, but unfortunately for him, the law did not recognize him as being the injured party, and therefore it could not redress any wrong that he might in his innocence suppose that he had suffered. Therefore all his confidence in legal proceedings was misplaced. The facts of the case were simply these, James Butler and James Thornton, upholsterers, appeared at the Police Office on Tuesday last, on summons, (charged by John Daniell, of Rushcutter's Bay,) with having obtained money from him by means of false representations. Complainant stated that some few days since, he gave the defendants an order to make him two sea-weed mattresses for 15s. each: instead of this, two mattresses were sent in his name with a bill of parcels for £3, which Mrs. Tunks paid on their representation that they had been ordered by Mr. Daniell, and that they were to receive payment for the same; instead of flax mattresses as stated in the bill, he found they were but sea-weed; he had requested defendants either to refund the overcharge, or take back the goods, to neither of these proposals would these people comply. Now again for the thousandth and one instance of the glorious uncertainty of the operation of the criminal law of England. The defence set up by these worthies was, that it was not Mr. Daniell's money which Mrs. Tunks' had paid away, but her own - he had, therefore, no legal cause of complaint; the gentlemen at the bar were therefore discharged. The false representation having been made to Mrs. Tunks on faith of which, she paid over her money.

"THE POLICE REGISTER . . . BED CLAIMS", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (24 April 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59774503 

"Your Worships," said Mr. John Daniell, of Rushcutters Bay, pianoforte maker, "I have been wofully deceived by Messrs. Butler and Thornton, upholsterers, who are now standing before you . . ."

Marriages, St. James, Sydney, 1852; Biographical database of Australia (BDA)

https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/30381154605 (PAYWALL)

29 July 1852 / Edwin James Hayman [and] Priscilla Bogg / [witnesses] Sarah Jane Daniell, Rushcutters Bay / J. Daniell, Rushcutters Bay . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (26 November 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12941869

NEW MUSIC - Just published, the GREAT BRITAIN POLKA.
Composed by Mr. J. A. DANIELL, and dedicated by special permission, to Captain Matthews and the Officers or the Great Britain, steam-ship.
To be had of H. MARSH AND CO., 490 1/2, George-street; Mr. Moffat; G. Hudson, Pitt-street, and of the Author, Rushcutters Bay.
Price, 2s. enamelled title pages; gilt ditto, 2s. 6d.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Marsh (musicseller); George Hudson (musicseller); Great Britain (steamship)

[Advertisement], Empire (6 December 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60134600 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Monday, December 6, 1852 . . .
Previous to the Afterpiece, the Band will perform the Great Britain Polka, composed by Mr. J. A. Daniell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 December 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12942131

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 6 . . .
Great Britain Polka, composed by Mr. J. A. Daniell, and arranged for the Orchestra by Mr. Gibbs . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Gibbs (violinist, leader of the theatrical band)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12942403 

THE GREAT BRITAIN POLKA.
PERSONS desirous of forwarding to their friends in Europe a copy of the above much admired Polka, composed by Mr. DANIELL, are reminded that the Great Britain steamship's mail will close this day, at 12 o'clock, and that it has been printed on thin paper, expressly for the purpose of economy in postage charges.
The same is played nightly at the Royal Victoria Theatre.
To be had of H. MARSH and Co., 490 1/2, George-street; Mr. MOFFITT; G. HUDSON, Pitt-street; and of the Author, Rushcutters Bay.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (31 January 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30939681 

MR. DANIELL, Pianoforte Maker and Tuner, No. 90, Phillip-street. N.B. - Piano for hire.

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (28 April 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62047662

[Advertisement.]
J. A. DANIELL, Professor of Music,
BEING about to visit Bathurst for the purpose of tuning and repairing Pianofortes, would feel; obliged by those families who have hitherto favoured him with their patronage, in leaving their address at the office of this paper.

"DONATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM DURING AUGUST, 1855", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 September 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28637511 

. . . An Ostracion from Watson's Bay. Presented by Mr. J. A. Daniell . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (20 February 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60174033 

MR. DANIELL, Pianoforte Maker and Tuner, has reduced his charges. Address, No. 90 Phillip-street.
An excellent square Pianoforte, with metallic plate for Sale, may be paid for by instalments.

"DEATH", The Sydney Morning Herald (1 July 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28632163 

On the 29th ultimo, at his residence, Duke-street, Mr. John Alfred Daniels, pianoforte maker, aged forty-nine years.

"FUNERAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (1 July 1857), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28632172 

The Friends of the deceased Mr. JOHN ALFRED DANIELS, pianoforte-maker, are invited to attend his funeral; to move from his late residence, Duke-street, Woolloomooloo, THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at a quarter to three o'clock.
JAMES CURTIS, Undertaker, Hunter-street, July 1st.

Burials in the parish of Camperdown in the county of Cumberland in the year 1857; Anglican Diocese of Sydney

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/504451:61177 (PAYWALL)

No. 6044 / John Alfred Daniels / Duke St. / [died] June 29 / [buried] July 1 / 49 years / Laborer . . .

"ANOTHER VICTIM OF INTEMPERANCE", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 July 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12997665 

Yesterday, the coroner, Mr, Parker, held an inquest at the house of Charles Tibbey, Dowling-street Hotel, Woolloomooloo, on the body of John Alfred Hearne, alias Daniels, who died on Monday night, after a brief illness. From the evidence it appeared that deceased, who was a married man, and a musician by profession, lived at Duke-street, Woolloomooloo; a witness named McDonell stated that he had met him some time back in the South Head Road, his face covered with blood, and a large bruise about the size of the palm of his hand over the left temple; he had no hat on, but appeared to be sober; in answer to witness' question as to how he had got hurt, deceased replied that his wife had cut it open with a candlestick, and that he had been to the station-house for a constable to go home and protect him, when he was told to go away or he would be locked up; deceased requested witness not to speak of what had happened, as he did not wish strangers to know of his family differences, two men-of-war's men, he said, had torn up one of their own shirts and bound his wounds up with it.
Another witness, who had known deceased for nearly 16 years, spoke to the same effect, the wound alluded to by first witness having been inflicted some six months back.
Deceased's son, a lad about eleven years of age, deposed that his father drank very hard, and accounted for the injury he had sustained on the head by stating that it had been inflicted by a man who came to the house some weeks back, wishing deceased to teach him music; his father had ordered the man out of the place, whereupon he rose up and struck him (deceased), knocking him against the drawers, and then ran off; his father was a little fresh at the time; on Friday, night last, deceased went to bed quite well to appearance, and, on Saturday morning, was found on the sofa with froth coming from his mouth, and in a fit; he died on Monday night.
Caroline Riley, a married woman, living in the same house, swore that the wife of deceased did not neglect her husband, and she had never seen Mrs. Hearne strike deceased.
Dr. Redhead deposed that he and Dr. McPhee had been called in on Saturday evening to see Hearne; from the state he was in, they were both of opinion that he would not recover; the remedies usual in such cases were prescribed; a post mortem examination by Dr. Redhead, had been made, which showed that serious apoplexy was the cause of death; the brain was much congested and otherwise diseased, with every other appearance of deceased having been a spirit drinker; his opinion was that the wounds to which the witnesses had alluded had nothing to do with his death. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Death from disease, brought on by intemperance.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Tibbey (? senior);
see also "DEATH FROM INTEMPERANCE", Empire (2 July 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64987510 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 July 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12997851 

NOTICE TO CREDITORS. - All persons having any CLAIMS against the estate of the late ALFRED HEARNE, otherwise known as JOHN DANIEL, will please send the particulars thereof, for examination, to the office of the undersigned.
STENHOUSE and HARDY, Solicitors, 19, George-street.

"LATEST ITEMS. SYDNEY", The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser [NSW] (11 July 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189958982 

. . . John Alfred Hearn, alias Daniels, a pianoforte maker, had expired suddenly from serious apoplexy brought on by intemperance . . .

[Notice], New South Wales Government Gazette (25 August 1857), 1665

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229174334 

IN the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the Will of Alfred Hearne, commonly known as John Daniel, late of the City of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, piano forte maker, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that William Tunks, of the City of Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, licensed victualler, the Executor named in the Will of the above named deceased . . .

"MARRIAGE", The Sydney Morning Herald (13 May 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13138212 

On the 9th instant, at St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, by the Rev. T. O'Reilly, WILLIAM GOODALL, only son of the late Mr. ALFRED HEARNE, and grandson of the late Lieutenant William Goodall, H.E.I.C.S., to AMELIA LOUISA, eldest daughter of Mr. HENRY SYKES, of Sydney.

Musical publications (extant in red bold; non-extant in black bold):

La militaire quadrilles (1848)

La militaire quadrilles, selected from airs of various nations, harmonized and arranged for the piano forte, and most respectfully dedicated by permission to the lady of his excellency major general Wynyard, C.B., commander of her majesty's forces in New South Wales, by J. Daniell (Rushcutters Bay: Author, [1848]); [cover] "William York St" [engraver]

hhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931125

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179494672 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Louisa Warner (d. 1870), wife of Edward Buckley Wynyard (recently arrived commander of the forces in NSW, in succession to Maurice O'Connell); William Wilson (engraver, printer)

The Great Britain polka (1852)

The Great Britain polka, composed by Mr. J. A. DANIELL, and dedicated by special permission, to Captain Matthews and the Officers or the Great Britain, steam-ship ([Sydney: ? For the author, 1852])

NO COPY IDENTIFIED

ASSOCIATIONS: Great Britain (steamship)

DANIELS, George Washington (George Washington DANIELS; G. W. DANIELS)

Actor, theatrical manager

Born Pennsylvania, USA, c. 1830
Arrived Sydney, NSW, August 1855 (per Fanny Major, from San Francisco, 6 June)
Married Fanny YOUNG (1835-1908), Bathurst, NSW, 9 April 1856
Departed Sydney, NSW, 26 February 1864 (per Novelty, for Auckland, NZ)
Died San Francisco, California, USA, 15 September 1870

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=George+Washington+Daniels+c1830-1870 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DANIELS-George-Washington (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], San Joaquin Republican [California, USA] (16 October 1852), 3

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRP18521016.2.16.2 

CORINTHIAN THEATRE. New Company and New Pieces!
First Appearance in Stockton, of the Following Well-known Talented Ladies and Gentlemen.
CAROLINE CHAPMAN, of Burton's Theatre, New York. Mrs. W. HAMILTON, Miss KATE GREY, Mr. E. P. BOOTH, W. B. CHAPMAN, of the Broadway.
Messrs. W. HAMILTON, G. W. DANIELS, W. BARK. FR. R. SMITH & J. ROWE,
making in all a DRAMATIC CORPS superior to any who have ever heretofore visited this City . . .
First Appearance . . . Monday Evening, October 18th . . .

[Advertisement], Sacramento Daily Union [California, USA] (24 March 1854), 2

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18540324.2.19.2 

A Card. SACRAMENTO THEATRE, March 23, 1854.
DR. VOLNEY SPALDING, - Dear Sir, - We, the undersigned, members of the company at the Sacramento Theater, under your management, deeply regret your contemplated retirement from that position . . .
Your devoted, humble serv'ts, . . . G. W. Daniels . . .

"SHIPPING", The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (17 August 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12973004

August 16 - Fanny Major, American barque, 226 tons, Captain Hays, from San Francisco June 6, and Navigators Islands June 17. Passengers - Madame Lola Montez, Mrs. Fiddes, Misses Fiddes (2) . . . Messrs. Folland, James Simmonds, F. Jones, Napthali, Daniels, Hardinsank [sic] . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Lola Montez (dancer, actor); Harriet Fiddes (vocalist) and daughters; James Simmonds (manager); Frank Folland (actor); Charles Eigenschenck (violinist, musical director)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 August 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12973001 

CAPTAIN W. L. HAYS. ESTEEMED Sir, - We, the undersigned, passengers on board the barque Fanny Major, desire to express to you our appreciation of your uniform kindness to us during our voyage from San Francisco to Sydney . . .
(Signed) Marie De Lindsfeld Heald "Lola Montez" . . . Harriett Fiddes; Josephine M. Fiddes; Harriett F. Fiddes . . . G. W. Daniels. . . James Simmonds . . . Fred. Folland; Charles Eigenschenck . . .

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (8 March 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048181 

NOTICE. THE Proprietors of the PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE,
beg to inform the Inhabitants of Bathurst and the Australian Public, that a
New Local, Musical, EXTRAVAGANZA, Is shortly to be produced at the
PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, Written by MR. G. W. DANIELS, and dedicated to CAPTAIN BATTIE.
The Piece is at present in rehearsal and will be produced with all the Scenery, Machinery, and Appointments, characteristic of this Establishment.
Due Notice will be given of its first representation.
Acting Manager - Mr. J. B. Russell.
Stage Manager - Mr. G. W. Daniels.
Leader of the Orchestra - Mr. G. Chittenden.
Scenic Artist - Mr. Guy.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Chittenden (musician); Prince of Wales Theatre (Bathurst venue)

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (22 February 1864), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60578405 

PRINCE OF WALES OPERA HOUSE . . .
GRAND TESTIMONIAL TENDERED TO MR. W. S. LYSTER . . . Sydney, January 19th, 1864 . . .
[signed] . . . Miss Fanny Young . . . G. W. Daniels . . . Chas. Eigenschenck . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Saurin Lyster (manager); Prince of Wales Theatre (Sydney venue)

"CLEARANCES - FEBRUARY 26", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 February 1864), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13090533 

Novelty, barque, 376 tons, Captain Austin, for Auckland. Passengers - Mr. and Mrs. Barry 2 children and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Daniells and 2 children, Miss Griffiths . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Whittle Barry (actor, manager)

"DRAMATIC COMPANY", New Zealander [Auckland, NZ] (11 March 1864), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18640311.2.18.2 

A dramatic corps of much ability arrived in the Novelty, yesterday evening, to pay Auckland a visit, judging from the following paragraph which we find in the Sydney Herald of the 27th instant: - "This evening the dramatic season at this theatre will terminate, when "Hester Lambert" and "Delicate Ground" will be repeated. Mr. Barry, the late stage manager of the Prince of Wales, with Miss Fanny Young, Miss Griffiths, and Mr. Daniels, yesterday left Sydney, in the Novelty, for New Zealand, for a professional tour, where no doubt they will be well received, as they will form a valuable addition to any company."

[Advertisement], New Zealander (31 March 1866), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18660331.2.2.7 

Prince of Wales Theatre. REMEMBER EASTER MONDAY.
Last night in Auckland of MISS FANNY YOUNG, MISS JULIA CORCORAN, MISS MARY CORCORAN, AND MR. G. W. DANIELS.
GOOD-BYE TO AUCKLAND on EASTER MONDAY, April 2.

USA census, 13 July 1870, Fourth Ward, San Francisco; United States Federal Census

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4259318_00177 (PAYWALL)

Daniels George / 40 / Actor / [born] Pennsylvania
[Daniels] Fanny / 30 / Keeping House / [born] England
[Daniels] George / 13 / At Home / [born] Australia
[Daniels] Charles / 10 / [At Home] / [born] [Australia]
[Daniels] Marian / 4 / [At Home] / [born] New Zealand

"DIED", Sacramento Daily Union (17 September 1870), 5

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18700917.2.35.1 

In San Francisco, Sept. 15th, Geo. W. Daniels, aged 40 years.

"AMUSEMENTS AT CALIFORNIA (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) SAN FRANCISCO, SEPT. 19, 1870", The era [London, England] (16 October 1870), 6

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/18701016/016/0006 (PAYWALL)

We regret to announce the death of Mr. George F. Daniels, the husband of Miss Fanny Young, late of Australia, at present a member of the Alhambra Theatre Company. She is left destitute, and with a large family dependent on her for support. Deceased was a pioneer actor in this state, and was respected by all who knew him. Much sympathy has been awakened in our midst for the afflicted widow, who has made many friends from her assiduous attentions to her profession, and the hard struggle necessary to support a sick husband. The managers of the California Theatre have generously agreed to devote the proceeds of a performance on Wednesday afternoon of this week to her benefit, the company having volunteered their services.

DANIELS, Harry (Harry Daniels LAZARUS; Harry DANIELS; Mr. H. H. DANIELS; Mr. H. DANIELS; Mr. DANIELS)

Vocalist, minstrel, comedian, actor, memoirist

Born northern England, c. 1839
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by April 1856
Active Bathurst, NSW, by June 1857
Married Isabella Percy PEPPIATT (1844-1905), VIC, 1868
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 26 June 1924, aged "85"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Harry+Daniels+Lazarus+d1924 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DANIELS-Harry-Lazarus (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (6 June 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62053675 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, DURHAM STREET.
CONCERT, on THURSDAY and SATURDAY, June 4th and 6th, on which occasion
Mr. DANIELS, of the Victoria Theatre, Sydney, will make his first appearance here in a COMIC DUET with Mr. Somers.
Irish Emigrant, &c., &c. - Mr. WALTERS.
Sailors Hornpipe, &c., &c. - Mr. SOMERS . . .

. . . CONCERT TO-NIGHT, SATURDAY.
PROGRAMME.
PART 1.
Cease your Clack (Comic Duet in Character) - Mr. Somers and Daniels
The Old Arm Chair - Mr. Walters
Tater Can (Comic Song) - Mr. Daniels
Widow Malone - Mr. Somers
Air - Flute - Mr. Ramsay
Slave Chase - Mr. Walters
Toddling off to Market (Comic) - Mr. Somers
Lord Lovel - Mr. Daniels
Irish Jig - Mr. Somers
An interval of 20 minutes.
PART 2.
The Thorn - Mr. Walters
Shocking Hard Times (Comic Song) - Mr. Daniels
Real Old Irish Gentleman - Mr. Somers
I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary - Mr. Walters
Pat and the Barber - Mr. Daniels
To conclude with the
SAILOR'S HORNPIPE - Mr. Somers . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: W. Walters (vocalist, musician); W. Ramsay (violinist); Mr. Somers (vocalist, dancer); Royal Victoria Theatre (Bathurst venue); Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

MUSIC: Matrimonial sweets ["Do cease your clack . . ."], also Mr. and Mrs. Clackett (song); The tater can ["I keeps a slap up tater can . . ." (song); Lord Lovel (ballad); Shocking hard times (comic song); Pat and the barber (song)

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (15 July 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62047333 

FREE CONCERT - FREE CONCERT!!
THREE NIGHTS PER WEEK. TO NIGHT WEDNESDAY, FIRST NIGHT, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY.
MR. D. CRAWLEY, BEGS to inform the inhabitants of Bathurst, that after great expense and trouble he is enabled to open the splendid Saloon, adjoining the bar, and trusts he may meet with the patronage of the public, having succeeded in securing the services of
MR. W. WALTERS, the favorite Vocalist and Concertina player.
Mr. H. H. DANIELS, whose comic celebrity and happy witticisms have called forth rapturous applause from a Bathurst audience &c.
And that talented Violinist MR. W. RAMSAY.
Doors open at 7 o'clock.

"TUENA CREEK (From a Correspondent)", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser [NSW] (2 December 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118245379 

. . . Mr. James Bright, of the Travellers' Rest, opened his new Theatre of Arts, on Saturday, to a crowded audience. Indeed, had the Theatre been larger it would have been filled, as, besides the Theatre being fill, his house was crowded inside and out, and the performance went off in first-rate style. There cannot be too much credit given to Mr. H. H. Daniels for the superior manner in which the whole contrivance was worked, and the way in which he varied the entertainment with comic songs, after every one of which he was cheered and encored. He was kindly assisted by Messrs. Walters and Ramsay, our old friends, who, with their usual liberality, offered their valuable services on the occasion. The affair was conducted very well, as up to the time I left there had been no row or the least extra noise. In fact it was quite astonishing, where so many of us diggers were assembled together, to see so much good fellowship shown one to another. I may, in conclusion, say that it is one of the quietest diggings I have been on, and I have been on a few. - November 25th, 1857.

"TUENA CREEK [FROM A CORRESPONDENT]", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (5 December 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048769 

Having been lately very dull on Tuena Creek in the shape of amusement, we anxiously looked forward for Saturday night as a treat. Mr. Bright on that night opened his new Theatre of Arts, and I am happy to say we were not disappointed. The scenery and performance were of a superior character; and great praise is due to Mr. Daniels for his management of the amusements, which were agreeably varied in his comic singing, which was excellent, and was loudly encored. It is to be hoped that he may long remain with us, to afford us many pleasant evenings I must also mention the very sweet and appropriate music played by our old friends Walters and Ramsay. In referring to Mr. Walters' attempt, as he called it, of the Ship on fire, I must certainly say that in my poor estimation it was a very respectable effort.

[Advertisement], The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (9 December 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118248235 

SPLENDID SCENIC AND MECHANICAL THEATRE,
IS NOW OPEN AT BRIGHT'S INN, TUENA CREEK,
Under the Management of Mr. H. DANIELS, late of the Victoria Theatre, Sydney, who in the course of the evening will introduce several choice COMIC SONGS, in character,
assisted by Messrs. WALTERS and RAMSAY, who have kindly offered their valuable services in the orchestra.
THIS MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION will comprise Views of Mount Vesuvius, The City and Bay of Naples, Sebastopol from the North and from the South . . .

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (15 March 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113237110 

Concert. MESSRS. WRIGHT BROTHERS, Violinists, late of the Strand Theatre, London,
and Messrs. Walters and Daniels, of Sydney, have arrived in Beechworth, and will give their
VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL ENTERTAINMENTS, at Mooney's Concert Hall, Ford Street, on Monday, March 15th, and other evenings during the week.
Descriptive Scena, Songs, Ballads, Solos, (Violin,) Comic Songs, local and characteristic.
To commence at Eight o'clock. Admission, Front Seats, 2s.; Back Seats, 1s. Select Ball after Concert.

ASSOCIATIONS: Wright brothers (violinists)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (4 June 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199603131 

GRAND CONCERT and DRAWING ROOM ENTERTAINMENT.
Messrs. WRIGHT BROTHERS, Violin Soloists, Mr. FRED. SAMS, Comic Vocalist and Flautist,
Mr. H. DANIELS, late of the Princess Theatre Melbourne,
Intend giving a Varied and Amusing Entertainment
TONIGHT AT MR. BEDDARD'S MOUNT ALEXANDER HOTEL, FOREST CREEK.
QUADRILLE PARTY AFTER THE PERFORMANCE.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederic Sams (vocalist, flautist); Princess Theatre (Melbourne venue)

"CLUNES", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (29 June 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66056737 

We have had a very agreeable treat here the last two evenings by the appearance of Messrs. Wright Brothers, violinists, Messrs. Daniels, Fred. Sams, and others, comic and sentimental vocalists. The entertainment was of a varied character, comprising most exquisite instrumentation by Messrs. Wright, comical effusions by Daniels and Sams, choice national melodies by a gentleman I wot not of, natural magic cleverly illustrated by deceptive adroitness, and dissolving views with beautifully managed chroma rope effects. Mr. J. Wright's solos on the violin could hardly be surpassed by the renowned Miska Hauser, and the vis comica shown by Sams in his character songs, was rich and rare. Altogether the entertainment was of unusual excellence, but indifferently patronised.

ASSOCIATIONS: Miska Hauser (violinist)

"DEATHS", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (27 June 1924), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4302972 

DANIELS (Lazarus). - On the 26th June, 1924, Harry Daniels (Lazarus), of Wilton House, Regent street, Fitzroy, loving father of Percy, Julie (of South Africa) and Charles, aged 85 years.

"PERSONAL", The Argus (27 June 1924), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4303254 

Many years have passed since Mr. Harry Daniels last appeared on the stage, but some of the older theatregoers remember him when he was still a comedian and character actor in Melbourne in the "eighties" and early "nineties." The full name of Mr. Daniels, who died yesterday at the age of 85 years, was Henry Daniels Lazarus. He was born in the north of England, and came to Australia in young manhood. He was in all varieties of plays from the days of G. V. Brooke to those of Brough and Boucicault. Some of his appearances were made in the last pantomimes produced at the Theatre Royal by Mr. George Coppin about 30 years ago. After ceasing to act, Mr. Daniels was in charge of the stage door at the Tivoli Theatre for some years . . . Mr. Daniels leaves a daughter (who has resided in South Africa for some years) and two sons. Mrs. Daniels died 18 years ago.

ASSOCIATIONS: Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); George Coppin (actor, manager); Theatre Royal (Melbourne venue)

Reminiscences:

"MUMMER MEMOIRS. Mr. HARRY DANIELS, AN OLD-TIME MINSTRELSY - THE BACKUS TROUPE . . . No. 36 (By 'Hayseed')", Sydney Sportsman [NSW] (23 September 1908), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166740007 

Mr. Fred Hailes (Melbourne) forwards me the following highly-interesting letter from one of the few old-time mummers left, Mr. Harry Daniels . . .
Mr. Harry Daniels says: - "Old-time Minstrelsy. - I will endeavor to give you a few of my early impressions and reminiscences. First and foremost it was about 1856 that Harry Lyons and myself sat in a dress-circle seat, the old style of bench, in the old Victoria Theatre, in Pitt-street, Sydney, witnessing the clever performances of the "Backus Minstrels." Never shall I forget what a grand display when the curtain rose on those artistes . . .
Yours, etc., Harry Daniels.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Michael Forde ("Hayseed"); Frederick Hailes (memoirist); Harry Lyons (actor); Backus Minstrels (troupe) finally departed Sydney in April 1856 after a farewell season at the Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

"AN OLD TIME ACTOR. PLAYHOUSES AND PLAYERS. HARRY DANIEL'S REMINISCENCES. INTERESTING INTERVIEW", Daily Telegraph [Launceston, TAS] (22 January 1910), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152217198 

. . . Speaking recently to an interviewer . . . "If I may say so without boasting," said Mr. Daniels, "I suppose there is now no living actor in Australia who has seen so much of the ups and downs of the profession as I . . .
"A few days ago," continued the old actor, "I spent a few hours in the Public Library, and there gazed upon that wonderful picture of those intrepid explorers, Burke and Wills and King, as has often been my wont. The sight of poor Burke's distraught face in that picture sends my memory back to the later fifties, when I was playing at the Old Star Theatre at Beechworth. Here it was that an incident occurred which, although it changed the whole course of Burke's life, nevertheless caused his name to live in the memory of Australians for ever. I was just getting out of my stage clothes, when the handsome, debonnaire Irishman came behind the scenes in search of the star actress, Miss Julia Matthews, with whom he had fallen desperately in love, and whom he was assiduously courting. He had come, poor fellow, to put his fate to the test. The lady, however, did not love him, and as he left the precincts of the theatre he had a look upon his face which the picture I love to gaze on always recalls to me. It was because Burke was a broken-hearted man that he gave full rein to his reckless spirit. Had Julia Matthews accepted him he would never have met his sad end, and perhaps never have carved a name for himself in the hearts of his countrymen. These facts are probably known, but I mention them because I was near him just after Miss Matthews had kindly but firmly rejected his passionate avowals . . .
"When the gold boom was at its height there were stirring times in Geelong, I can tell you. The old Star Theatre [sic, Theatre Royal], with hotel attached, was run by Josh Marks, or Meadows, as he was indifferently called. This theatre earned among members of the profession the sobriquet of the "Refuge for the destitute," because an actor out of an engagement could almost always get something to do with old Josh . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert O'Hara Burke (explorer); Julia Mathews (actor, vocalist); Star Theatre (Beechworth venue); George Meadows (performer, manager); Theatre Royal (Geelong venue); Launceston reprint above copied from "AN OLD TIME ACTOR", The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (13 January 1910), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241958647 

DANIELS, John Alfred (John Alfred DANIELS) see John Alfred DANIELL (alias of Alfred HEARNE)

Pianoforte maker

DANKS, William Smithers (William Smithers DANKS; W. S. DANKS; Mr. DANKS)

Amateur musician, vocalist, merchant

Born London, England, 26 December 1831; baptised St. John's, Lambeth, 19 April 1840 [sic]; son of Charles DANKS and Sarah SMITHERS
Arrived VIC, by c. 1860
Married Gertrude DAVIES (1850-1938), Carlton, VIC, 23 September 1871
Died Port Melbourne, VIC, 8 May 1905

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Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish of St. John the Evangelist Lambeth in the county of Surrey in the year 1840; register 1839-46, paged 101;

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/4119182:1558 (PAYWALL)

No. 802 / [1840] April 19 / [born] Dec. 26 1831 / William Smithers son of / Charles & Sarah / Danks / Pell St. School Ratcliffe Highway / School master . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Danks married Sarah Smithers at Christ Church, Newgate Street, in the City of London, on 9 February 1819; in the same 19 April 1840 ceremony, his younger brother James Smithers Danks (born 5 December 1839) was baptised; along with three cousins, children of his father's brother Titus Danks and his wife Harriet

England census, 30 March 1851, St. George in the East, Middlesex; UK National Archives, HO107/1547/113/37

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/418729:8860 (PAYWALL)

No. 13 Pell Street / Charles Danks / Head / Mar. / 56 / Schoolmaster / [born] St. Sepulchre City of London
Sarah / Wife / Mar. / 52 / - / [born] Surrey Christ Church //
William / Son / Unm. / 19 / Apprenticed / [born] Middlesex St. George's East
James / Son / 11 / - / [born Middlesex St. George in the East]

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (7 January 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199048969 

GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL. ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 7th,
The Opera Company will give A GRAND SACRED CONCERT
Consisting of selections from the Sublime ORATORIOS OF
THE MESSIAH, CREATION, ELIJAH, And Rossini's STABAT MATER.
To give greater effect to the Magnificent Choruses of Handel and Haydn,
MISS WILLIAMS, MRS. VINCENT. MRS. GARDNER, MRS. FOX, MISS MORGAN,
And Messrs. THORBURN, LOUGHNAN, HASLER, BUTTERWORTH, BANNISTER, NAYLOR, MORGAN, HODGSON, DANKS, Etc., Etc.,
MEMBERS OF THE Castlemaine Philharmonic Society,
With other Ladies and Gentlemen, have kindly offered their services.
Tickets to be had at the Theatre Royal, and at Mr. Hodgson's, Bookseller, Market sq.
Musical Director - Mr. Linly Norman
Prices of Admission - Stalls 5s, Boxes 3s, Pit 2s.
Doors open at half past 7, to Commence at 8.
On SATURDAY the Performance wlll commence with Wallace's Grand Opera of MARITANA,
AND A VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENTS For the BENEFITS of Miss JULIA HARLAND & Mr. W. SHERWIN.
And positively the Last Night of the Grand Opera Company.

ASSOCIATIONS (visitors): Julia Harland (vocalist); Walter Sherwin (vocalist); Linly Norman (musical director); English Opera Company (troupe)

ASSOCIATIONS (locals): Mrs. Vincent (vocalist); Sara Gardner (vocalist); Matilda Fox (vocalist, later Mrs. Hodgson, as see below); Henry Charles Thorburn (vocalist); John Darby Hasler (vocalist); Thomas Bannister (vocalist); Arthur Thomas Hodgson (vocalist); Castlemaine Philharmonic Society (association); Theatre Royal (Castlemaine venue)

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", Mount Alexander Mail (10 May 1861), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199606173 

The annual meeting of this society was held on Wednesday evening, at the Church of England Schoolroom, Mr. Christie in the chair. Mr. Hodgson, the Hon. Secretary, in reading the report apologised for its briefness, observing that it had been prepared in a hurry at the last moment, and did not enter so fully as he could have wished into the Society's affairs. The report stated that five concerts had been given during the past year, at which the following pieces had been performed, viz., The Creation, Imperial Mass, Selections from As the Heart Pants, The Messiah (repeated at Kyneton), and a Miscellaneous Selection, including the Bended Bow, a cantata, composed for the Society by Mrs. Fatherly, which was most favorably received . . . The next business was the election of officers for the present year, and the following gentlemen were chosen, viz., President, Captain Bull; Vice-President, A. J. Landon, Esq.; Mr. Christie, Treasurer; Mr. A. T. Hodgson, Secretary; Mr. Hasler, Librarian. Committee - Messrs. Green, Brown, Bannister, Perkins, and Heley. Conductor, Mr. Moss. Leader, Mr. Howson. On motion of Mr. Bannister, Mrs. Fatherly, Mr. Danks, and Mr. Taylor were elected honorary members of the society . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charlotte Crofton Fatherley (composer); Thomas Lawrence Brown (member); Frederick Moss (conductor); Henry Howson (leader, violin)

"FRYER'S TOWN CHORAL SOCIETY", Mount Alexander Mail (11 March 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200382079 

On Monday evening this society gave their first concert in Gladwin's schoolroom, Fryer's Town, to a crowded audience. The programme included a variety of choice secular and sacred selections, which were sung in a style which reflected the highest credit on Mr. Moss, the conductor . . . Mrs. Moss delivered a contralto solo with her usual accuracy of intonation and accent, while Mr. Dank's (of the Castlemaine Philharmonic Society,) interpretation of Handel's fine bass solo "For behold darkness," left little to be desired . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Fryer's Town Choral Society (association)

THE CASTLEMAINE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", Mount Alexander Mail (13 April 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197444091 

It is much to the credit of the Castlemaine public that the Miscellaneous Concert of this society, given at the Theatre Royal last night, was so numerously attended . . . Mr. Danks sang Solo - "The Bellringers," with medium execution . . .

"ITEMS OF NEWS", Mount Alexander Mail (16 April 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200525030 

We recently intimated that Rutter's Mass in D would be sung at the Church of St. Mary, Hargreave-street, at the Easter festival . . . In addition to those named, Mrs. Larkin, Miss Smith, Mr. Danks (who kindly came up from Melbourne to assist), Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Bannister gave their aid . . . Thanks are due to the choir, and especially to Mrs. Hodgson, for the opportunity afforded of hearing the piece, and thus helping the culture of a love of pure harmony.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Oswald Rutter (composer)

"MARRIAGE", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (26 September 1871), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5855554 

DANKS - DAVIES. - On the 23rd inst., at the residence of the bride's mother, Mount Washington-cottage, Dorrit-street, Carlton, by the Rev. Mr. Higgins, Wesleyan minister, William S. Danks, son of the late Charles Danks, Esq., of London, to Gertrude, youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Davies, of Wellington, Shropshire, England. No cards.

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Argus (23 January 1873), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5846819 

The annual meeting of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society was held on Tuesday evening in the Athenaeum . . . Mr. George Lewis moved that a vote of thanks be given to Mr. David Lee and that a donation of £50 be awarded him in acknowledgment of his eminent services to the society. The motion was seconded by Mr. Danks and agreed to . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: David Lee (musician); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association)

[News], The Argus (11 February 1887), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11589752 

The adjourned annual meeting of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society was held on Tuesday evening at the Assembly-hall . . . The retiring librarian, Mr. D. R. Stewart, was thanked for his services, and Mr. W. S. Danks was elected secretary in place of Mr. J. H. Marsden . . .

"FUNERAL NOTICES", The Age (10 May 1905), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198590175 

ACCEPT INVITATION all Friends of the Mr. WILLIAM SMITHERS DANKS to follow his remains to the Melbourne Cemetery, funeral leave his residence, 201 Station-street, Melbourne, THIS DAY (Wednesday), at 11 o'clock . . .

D'ANNA, Giuseppe (Giuseppe D'ANNA; Joseph D'ANNA, jun.)

Musician, bandmaster (H.M.S. Endymion [The Flying Squadron]), composer

Born Naples, Italy, 1842
Visited Hobart, TAS, Melbourne, VIC, & Sydney, NSW, December 1869
Died Buffalo, NY, USA, 1918

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Giuseppe+D'Anna+d1918 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Summary (after composers-classical-music.com)

D'Anna served as a bandsman in the British Royal Navy on the Hannibal in the Mediterranean, 1860; was bandmaster of HMS Endymion (1865-1881); from 26 November 1869 to 7 December 1869 he was in Melbourne Australia with the Endymion, one of the "Flying Squadron" that sailed around the world between June 1869 and November 1870.

Documentation:

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (4 December 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188573009 

Mr. G. D'Anna, the bandmaster of the Endymion has composed a waltz of considerable merit which has been highly spoken of by those who have heard it. The piece is now in course of publication by Mr. Troedel, of Swanston-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Troedel

[News], The Argus (7 December 1869), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5808790

The Flying Squadron possesses not only its poet but also its musical composer. Mr. D'Anna, the bandmaster of the Endymion, has sent us a copy of a very lively and dance able waltz, entitled the "Flying Squadron Waltz," composed by himself, and published by Mr. C. Troedel, of 100 Swanston-street. The lithographed frontispiece is executed in Mr. Troedel's best style, the design being really effective and appropriate.

Amateur performance by the officers of the flying squadron . . . in aid of the funds of the School of Industry, this Friday evening, December 17, 1869 ([Sydney: s.n.,] 1869)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16672594 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-69693458 (DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], Evening News [Sydney, NSW] (22 December 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107126458

TO-NIGHT, Grand AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE, For the BENEFIT of THE SAILORS' HOME.
Given by the seamen of H.M. Ship of War, ENDYMION . . .
The world-renowned and SPLENDID BAND OF H.M.S. ENDYMION, under the direction of Mr. G. D'ANNA,
will, by kind permission of Captain Lacy, attend the theatre, and during the evening discourse most eloquent music . . .

Musical works by D'Anna (colonial editions):

Flying Squadron waltz (1869)

Flying Squadron waltz, composed by Giuseppe d'Anna, bandmaster of H.M.S. Endymion (Melbourne: C. Troedel, [1869])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11612378

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-167909973 (DIGITISED)

Musical works by resident composers celebrating the visit:

Flying Squadron galop by H. W. Loveday, pianoforte tuner, &c. (Sydney: [for the author], [1869])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931562

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179647914 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry William Loveday (composer)

Flying Squadron galop most respectfully dedicated to Admiral Hornby and the officers of the squadron in commemoration of their visit to Tasmania by the composer W. H. Spiller (Hobart: Walch and Sons., [1869]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854286

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Library/SD_ILS-538321 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Spiller (composer); J. Walch and Sons (publishers)

Flying Squadron galop dedicated by permission to Rear-Admiral Hornby and the officers of the squadron under his command by N. La Feuillade, late of H. M. Brig "Arab" . . . (Melbourne: Charles Troedel, Lith., [1869])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854386

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166200432 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Nicholas La Feuillade (composer); Charles Troedel (lithographer, printer, publisher)

Bibliography and resources:

"Anna, Giuseppe d' (Danna, Joseph) jun.1842-1918", composers-classical-music.com

http://composers-classical-music.com/a/AnnaGiuseppeD.htm

Frederick W. Thornsby (ed.), Dictionary of organs and organists (1912), 338

https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryoforga00thoruoft#page/338/mode/2up

THOMPSON, G. HERBERT, Station Road, Winslow, Bucks. Born 1871 at Ventnor, I.O.W. Trained under Giuseppe D'Anna, of Ventnor . . .

Cindy McCreery, "Neighbourly relations: nineteenth-century Western navies' interactions in the Asia-Pacific region", in Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie (eds.), The Routledge history of Western empires (Routledge, 2013)

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XlRJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT374

D'APICE, Charles (Carlo Francisco Luigi d'APICE; Charles Francisco Louis; Signor d'APICE; Chevalier d'APICE; Cavaliere d'APICE; published (c. 1840s-50s) as Carlo SICA)

Musician, professor of music, teacher of pianoforte and singing, pianist, composer

Born Naples, Italy, 27 September 1817; only child of Antonio d'APICE (c. 1781-1857) and Clementine Maria SICA (1801-1884)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 10 June 1859 (passenger per Northam, from Suez, 28 April)
Married Mary WHITE, St. Mary's cathedral, Sydney, NSW, 26 April 1862
Died Hunter's Hill, NSW, 5 July 1888, aged "71"

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Carlo Sica (Charles d'Apice), c. 1845, photograph taken at Eugène Disdéri's studios, a few doors away from his publishers Pacini and Chabal;
(Disdéri et Cie., 8 Boulevart des Italiens, Paris) (d'Apice family)

Summary:

Naples (1817-39):

Born in Naples on 17 September 1817, Carlo d'Apice was the only child of Antonio d'Apice (c. 1781-1857), said to have been an officer in the Bourbon royal service at Caserta, and Clementine Maria Sica (1801-1884). Apparently, his childhood home was in apartments in one of the royal houses of Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies at the Villa Floridiana, at Vomero.

He was educated in Naples, and later trained at the Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, where he (like Vincenzo Bellini before him) enjoyed the patronage of one of its three governors, Giovanni Battista Carafa (1773-1849), duca di Noja, who was a cousin of his mother.

With Carafa's support and a small inheritance, he moved to Paris, and maintained close friendships with Carafa's daughters, Giulia (b. 1820, who later succeeded to her father's title), Livia (1825-1901, ducessa di Bojano), Carolina (b. 1829), and Maria (b. 1841).

Paris (c. 1839-59):

Having quarrelled with his father (a breach never healed), he adopted his mother's maiden name, and as Carlo Sica began appearing in public as a pianist in 1839.

In a letter to William Henry Paling in 1880, concerning the recent Sydney appearances of pianist Henry Ketten, d'Apice gave some account of own earlier career, Ketten's playing having put him in mind of his own experiences in Paris in the 1840s and 1850s:

It seemed to me when seated near the piano that I was in Paris, in my old place close to Liszt, in Erard's concert room, in 1845. Never since those days of brilliant artists, Thalberg, Prudent, &c, have I heard the piano move to such wonderful music . . . His playing invites for me a chain of distant souvenirs. I hear at the same moment the marvellous execution of Liszt, and the exquisite pathos of the voice of Rubini, the king of tenors, who always moved his audience to tears. To this double charm Mr. Ketten unites in his pianissimo passages on indescribable delicacy of touch which I thought never again to hear, and which reminds me of my old master Chopin . . .

What sort of other contact, if any, he indeed had with any of these artists - most notably "my old master" Frédéric Chopin - remains a matter of conjecture. Meanwhile, what little else can be know for sure about his public career and circle must be gleaned from concert reviews of his performances and his published musical compositions.

In Paris, his compositions were published under the imprints of Pacini and Chabal, and his works bear dedications, beside his Carafa and Thomas cousins (Livia Carafa married Luigi Thomas), to minor society figures, all women.

None of the printed editions of his compositions are dated, though those few with opus numbers might give some shape to a tentative chronology. Otherwise, it seems that the Pacini editions probably predated those of Chabal. His polka compositions probably date from no earlier than the height of the Parisian polka craze (c. 1843), and deriving from the Paris original edition, there is a single American edition of his Vittoria polka. Later, yet another version of this work was also published in Naples.

Later in Australia, he collectively dated his own bound album of his Paris editions "1845", though some of the prints are probably slightly earlier and later. However, there is no record of any new compositions by him appearing in Paris after the 1840s.

In 1853, he received a papal knighthood from Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti), on account of which he was later in Australia often referred to as Chevalier d'Apice. According to family tradition, he had assisted the papal states by acting as a courier.

Again according to tradition, he made some unfortunate investment decisions, prompting his then fiancée, an American heiress, the otherwise unidentified Miss Strather (? or Strother) to break off their engagement (a portrait of "Miss Strather, of Louisville, Kentucky, c. 1851" is listed in the catalogue raisonne of society painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter). He unsuccessfully attempted suicide by shooting himself, then left Paris for Suez, where, literally nursing his wounds, he briefly worked for his friend Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) in the administration of the canal project.

Sydney, NSW (1859-88):

On 27 April 1859, he embarked from Suez on the Northam, which docked at Sydney, NSW, on 12 June 1859. He travelled under the name "Charles d'Apice", which he henceforth used exclusively in Australia.

He received an encouraging welcome from the French consul, Louis Sentis, at his residence at Hunters Hill, and from the French priests at the nearby Villa Maria. He settled first at 4 Marlborough Street, Surry Hills, where he began to take music pupils, and later in Castlereagh Street in the city. But he was soon drawn back to Hunters Hill, where he purchased a house on the Lane Cove River called "Grand Cailloux", from the developer Jules Joubert, and renamed it Villa Floridiana after his childhood home. He was naturalised a British subject on 16 January 1861.

In February 1862, a malicious advertisement in the Melbourne press, wrongly accusing him of having left behind a wife and children in Europe, was clearly intended to disrupt his plans to marry Mary Madeline White, daughter of retired Bathurst publicans (and prominent Catholics) Patrick White and Anne Kinchela. The couple married, nevertheless, and lived thereafter among the French Catholic settlers at Hunters Hill. Charles reportedly never mastered conversational English, and he and his wife and their large family spoke French at home.

In the 1880s he taught music at several private schools, including notably, from 1881 to 1883, at St. Ignatius's College, Riverview. He returned to Europe twice, first in 1882, and again in 1884. Though he suffered hearing loss, he continued to teach up until the month of his death.

He died at home in Hunters Hill on 5 July 1888, and was buried in the churchyard at St. Charles's, Ryde, where his headstone can still be seen. From 1891 to 1897, with help from her daughters, his widow, as Madame d'Apice, operated a ladies' school from the family home. She died there on 10 January 1911.

THANKS: For the assistance of Richard d'Apice AM

Documentation:

Naples and Paris (1817-59):

"Marsiglia" [Marseille], L'Interprete [Naples] (9 October 1839)

Tutti quei gironali parlano assai favorevolmente del giovine maestro ed allievo del nostro reale Conservatorio di musica Carlo Sica - Egli in un concerto di piano-forte al Gran Teatro si à fatto grandissimo onore ed i Marsigliesi applaudendolo e festeggiandolo, lo chiamano un artista di merito, a cui non manca nè genio, nè eleganza, nè arditezza.

[Theatre and concert reviews], La Presse (Édition de Paris) (5 April 1841), 3

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k428442v 

. . . - Le concert de MM. Collignon et Wartel où ce'dernier a chanté avec le goût et le sentiment qui le caractérisent deux lieders de Schubert dont il s'est fait l'apôtre. Puis enfin la matinée musicale de M. Carlo Sica, où chantait la troup italienne, et dans laquelle le beneficiaire e exécuté sur le piano un nocturne de sa composition qu'on e trouvé trop court, ce qui n'était pas encore arrivé à un nocturne.
TÉOPHILE GAUTIER.

ASSOCIATIONS: Théophile Gautier (reviewer)

"ARRIVI E PARTENZA", Giornale del regno delle due Sicilie (16 April 1842), 327

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PuRSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA327 (DIGITISED)

PER GENOVA - John Broadhurst . . . J. W. Van Hoogstraten, capitano - Carlo Sica, maestro di musica . . .

"REVUE LYRIQUE. CONCERT DE M. SICA . . ." [Review of concert at Toulouse], L'Emancipation (27 July 1842)

. . . Voilà pourquoi le concert de M. Carlo Sica n'a pas en samedi tout le succès qu'il méritait, pas plus que n'en avait eu celui de M. Mas. M. Sica n'en est pas moins un pianiste du plus grand mérite. Son nom, que rien ne nous avait fait pressentir, quoiqu'il se fût produit à Paris et dans d'autres villes importantes, s'est désormais placé pour nous au rang noms de maîtres qui ony en le temps de se rendre célèbres.

Dans les trois morceaux qu'il a exécutés et qui étaient composés par lui, un caprice sur des airs napolitains, un motif de Belisario et un pastiche sur Roberto Devereux, cet artiste a déployé des qualités qu'on trouve rarement réunies à un degré aussi éminent. Nous ne parlons pas seulement de sa facilité à surmonter les difficultés les plus ardues, car cela peut s'acquérir par un nature heureuse et par un travail opinâtre; nous voulons mentionner sa manière exquise de nuancer et de dire le chant, ce qui n'est pas commun sur un instrument sec quoique brillant et qui ne devient sensible qu'en entrant en communication avec un véritable ame d'artiste. M. Sica a produit une égale sensation comme exécutant et comme compositeur, et les applaudissemens de bon aloi qu'il a obtenus allaient à cette double adresse . . .

[Review], Revue et Gazette des Theatres [Paris] (6 April 1843)

[On 1 April] . . . dans le salons de M. Manera, rue Fleéhier, 2, en présence d'une société distinguée, composée d'artistes et de gens du monde. Cette soirée était donnée par M. Carlo Sica, jeume pianiste, peu connu encore, et qui a prouvé dans un nocturne et dans un fantaisie de sa composition, ainsi que dans le première partie de deuxième concerto de Herz, qu'il pouvait prendre sa place à côté de nos meilleurs exécutans . . .

"NOUVELLES. Paris", La France musicale (3 March 1844), 71

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ylBfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71 

M. Carlo Sica, pianiste compositeur très recherché dans le grand monde, donnera un concert le 11, chez M. Pleyel, avec le concours de nos artistes les plus distingués.

[Review], Le Moniteur Parisien (2 April 1845)

Un des derniers et un des plus brillans concerts de la saison a été donné hier par M. Carlo Sica, jeune pianiste napolitain qui prendra bientôt rang parmi nos plus célères virtuoses. On a beaucoup applaudi une romance de la composition de M. Bazzoni, et deux morceaux brillans dans lesquels le beneficiaire a fait preuve d'un vrai talent de vituose et de compositeur. On a surtout applaudi le morceau intitulé: Souvenirs de Naples.

ASSOCIATIONS: Giovanni Bazzoni (composer)

"MUSIQUE INSTRUMENTALE", Bibliographie de la France . . . 34e année (Paris: Chez Pillet ainé, 1845), 500

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1BM6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA500 

Carlo Sica. La Caroline, polka pour piano-forté . . . 3-0; Chez Pacini, boulevart Poissonnière.

ASSOCIATIONS: Antonio Pacini (music publisher)

[Advertisement], Journal des demoiselles 25-5 (November 1855), unpag.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=v_wGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA422 (DIGITISED)

CATALOGUES GÉNÉRAUX DU PROGRÈS MUSICAL. (No. 11.) . . .
MUSIQUE DE PIANO (DIFFICILE)
CARLO-SICA. Grande fantaisie et variations sur un air de Roberto d'Evereux, 6 [fr.] . . .
MUSIQUE DE PIANO (DANSE) . . .
C. SICA. La Moqueuse, grande Valse, 4 50, - Les Trois gracieuses, id., 6 - . . .

Sydney, NSW (1859-88):

Charles d'Apice, c. 1860 (photograph William Hetzer, Sydney) (d'Apice family)

ASSOCIATIONS: William Hetzer (photographer)

"SHIPPING", Empire [Sydney, NSW] (11 June 1859), 4

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ARRIVALS - JUNE 10. NORTHAM, P. and O. Company's steamer, 1600 tons, Captain Stead, from Suez, 28th April, Aden 4th May, Mauritius 16th May, King George's Sound 1st, Kangaroo Island 5th, and Melbourne 7th instant.
Passengers: From Suez - . . . Mr. C. D. Apice [sic] . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (16 December 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64094515

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
Patron: His Excellency the GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Patroness: LADY DENISON.
THE FOURTH CONCERT Of the Season will take place
AT THE GREAT HALL OF THE SYDNEY EXCHANGE, MONDAY EVENING, December 10, 1859.
Doors will be open at half-past Seven, to commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
PROGRAMME.
PART 1.
1. Overture, "Massaniello" - Auber
2. Glee (Orpheus)
3. Quartette, instrumental, "God Save the Queen" - Onslow
4. Aria "Revenge Timotheus Cries." Alexander's Feast - Handel - Amateur, Mr. Waller.
5. Symphony.
PART 2.
1. Symphony
2. Une Reverie, et une Fantaisie sur trois airs Napolitains, Pianoforte - Signor CHARLES D'APICE.
3. Quartette vocal - A te O cara, from Il Puritani - Rossini.
4. Glee - "Huntsman's Song" - Pohlenz.
5. Overture - "Othello" - Rossini.
Conductor: Mr. J. DEANE.
H. R. Webb, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: William and Caroline Denison (governor and wife); James Waller (vocalist, but see review below); John Deane (conductor); Henry Richard Webb (secretary); Sydney Philharmonic Society (association); Exchange Hall (Sydney venue)

"SYDNEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13034700

The fourth concert of the season came off last night, in the hall of the Exchange, when, despite attractions of an intellectual character elsewhere, the building was filled by a very respectable auditory. The programme on this occasion embraced selections from Auber, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, and Weber. The finest performance vocally was by Mr. Black, who, in the absence of Mr. Waller, sang "The heart by woe o'ertaken," from the opera of Maritana. Mr. Black has an excellent and powerful voice, is a good musician, and sings with expression and animation. The opening piece, the overture to Massaniello, by the full orchestra, was very well performed - it is a grand and sounding piece of music, full of fine contrasts, the harmony now marching on in a magnificent volume, and anon, the many voiced instruments blending together in most subdued melody.
The concert was rendered somewhat memorable by the first appearance in this city of Signor Charles D'Apice, who played on the pianoforte what was termed in the programme "Une Reverie et un Fantasie sur trois airs Napolitains." Signor D'Apice is a good player - has expression and sentiment, and is evidently a cultivated musician. He had the honour of being encored, the only compliment of the kind paid during the evening.
The instrumental quartette, "God Save the Queen," by Onslow, was rendered in a praiseworthy manner, whilst in the vocal quartette, we only regretted that Miss Brady had so little to do. The concert, upon the whole, was successful, and the gentlemen who rendered such valuable assistance are worthy of all encouragement.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Reddie Black (vocalist); Mary Ann Brady (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 December 1859), 1

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CHARLES D'APICE, Professor of the Pianoforte and Singing, 122, Castlereagh-street.

Certificate of naturalization, Charles d'Apice, 9 January 1861; State Archives and Records NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1549/41713_330462-00065?pid=9831 (PAYWALL)

. . . Charles d'Apice is a native of Naples, is forty years of age, and having arrived by the Ship "Northam" in the year 1859 he is now residing in Sydney and being desirous of permanently settling in the said colony, of purchasing real property therein, and obtaining the rights and privileges of a natural born British subject . . .
Given under my Hand and Seal at Government House . . . this Ninth day of January [1861]
[signed] W. Denison [governor]

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 January 1862), 1

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PERSONS ADVERTISED FOR. - D'APICE, alias SICA, SIGNOR, Professor of Music, formerly of Naples. -
Your wife and two daughters just arrived safely, but in very delicate health, from London.
Pray do write without delay. Address General Post Office, Melbourne.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 January 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13223819 

PERSONS ADVERTISED FOR. - Referring to the advertisement under the above heading, inserted in the issue of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD of the 25th January instant, addressed to "D'Apice, alias Sica Signor, Professor of Music, formerly of Naples," stating "that his wife and two daughters had arrived at Melbourne," I can only say that I have never been married, and that the advertisement is a false and malicious libel.
CHARLES D'APICE. Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill, 25th January.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 January 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13223924

£25 REWARD. - If the Young Lady who left an Advertisement at this Office, on Friday evening, commencing "D'Apice, alias Sica, Signor," and which was published this morning, will DISCLOSE the name of the PERSON who employed her to bring the MS., so that the writer may be discovered, the above reward will be paid to her, by JOHN FAIRFAX and SONS.

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (11 February 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5709881 

PERSONS ADVERTISED FOR - D'APICE, alias SICA, Signor, professor of music, formerly of Naples, - your wife and two daughters just arrived safely, but in very delicate health, from London, pray do write without delay. Address General Post office, Melbourne.

An advertisement having appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of January 25, 1862, under the above head, addressed "D'Apice alias Sica, Signor," professor of music, formerly of Naples, stating that his wife and two daughters had arrived from London at Melbourne, - if such persons have arrived, they are requested at once to COMMUNICATE with the Superintendent of Detective Police, Melbourne.
C. H. NICOLSON, Superintendent of Detectives.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (13 February 1862), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13224480 

TO the EDITOR of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. -
Sir, . . . In conclusion I must say a few words upon the subject of a most shameful affair, which has appeared in one of the daily papers, reflecting in the most disgraceful way upon the character and position of a gentleman in Sydney, my own personal friend, who, I believe and know, to be a most honourable man, incapable of any act inconsistent with a Christian and a gentleman. This scandal is as diabolical on the part of the base originator, as it is untrue of the gentleman against whom it is directed. To my unbounded astonishment this vile procedure is attributed to me. It seems almost to lower myself even to deny (but I do solemnly deny) having had either act or part in this most infamous transaction, and conspiracy. The cowards who have covertly dared to include my name in their machinations have not yet had the courage to attack me openly, perhaps well knowing an open enemy who dares to slander is punishable by law. But, from the underhand weapons of concealed cowards, who can defend himself, such scandal is hydra-headed, or, like Greek fire, burning unquenched, hidden beneath the water. I offer a reward of Twenty Pounds to any person who will prove to my Solicitor that he has heard any one charge me to have been the author of it, in the presence of witnesses. It has been my rule through life to do nothing I ought to be ashamed of, and fear no man, to owe no man anything, to mind my own business, and not to interfere with the business of others, and being in no why bound to any one, except in the way of kindness, and feeling my conscience clear of any offence against my neighbour, I hope to be able to live down the power of scandal and malice - potent though it be, and enjoy the retirement of private life, like any other man, who justly claims so much as the reward of his daily labour. Be the result what it may I am clear before God, and in my own conscience that no one can truthfully say aught against me in any one of those things in which men have a right to judge their fellows, or refute the statements I have made.
CESARE CUTOLO, 140, Castlereagh-street, February 12th.

ASSOCIATIONS: Cesare Cutolo (musician)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (7 March 1862), 1

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PERSONS ADVERTISED FOR. Re D'APICE.
The following has been handed to us for publication.
(Signed) FAIRFAX and SONS. 3rd March, 1862.
Detective Office, Sydney, 26th February, 1862.
For the information of the friends of Mr. D'APICE, I beg to state that enquiries have been instituted at Melbourne by the detective police there, and advertisements have been published six times in the Melbourne Argus and Herald, of which the following is a copy: "Persons advertised for. - An advertisement having appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of 25th January, 1862, addressed D'Apice alias Sica Signor, professor of music, formerly of Naples, stating that his wife and two daughters had arrived from London at Melbourne; if such persons have arrived, they are requested at once to communicate with the Superintendent of Detective Police at Melbourne." (Signed) C. H. NICOLSON, "Superintendent of Detectives."
By the report of Mr. Nicolson, no answer has been given to these advertisements; no such persons have come forward or have in fact arrived, although every effort has been made to discover them if in Melbourne. CHARLES G. HARRISON, Inspector of Detective Police, Sydney.

"MARRIAGES", Empire (24 April 1862), 1

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MARRIAGES. D'APICE - WHITE - On Wednesday, the 23rd April, at St. Mary's Cathedral, by the Very Rev. J. Keating, V.G., assisted by the Rev. J. Sheridan, the Chevalier Charles D'Apice, son of the late Antonio D'Apice, Esq., of Naples, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Patrick White, Esq., of Bathurst.

"NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT . . . THE BENTLEY CASE", The Sydney Morning Herald (12 November 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13236997 

. . . Not long since the proprietors of the Sydney Morning Herald had felt it their duty to offer a large reward for the discovery of the author of some advertisements reflecting on the character of one Chevalier D'Apice, and there were other cases in which similar persecution had taken place . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Julia Bentley (pianist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 February 1865), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30935853

THE undersigned can dispose of a few hours twice a week for Tuition in Pianoforte, and Singing.
CHARLES D'APICE, Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill.

"FUNERAL OF HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE DE CONDE", Freeman's Journal (2 June 1866), 345

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115453627 

On Monday morning the last funeral rites were performed over the remains of his late Royal Highness Louis Marie Leopold Philippe d'Orleans, Prince de Conde, eldest son of the Duke D'Aumale, the fourth son of Louis Phillipe, late King of the French . . .

On Sunday there was no evening service in St. Mary's Temporary Cathedral as it was being appropriately prepared to receive the royal remains on the following morning . . .
Shortly before 11 o'clock the coffin was brought . . . to the hearse . . . The procession then moved in the following order . . . French Consul, Monsieur J. Joubert, Monsieur Bourcher, Baron de Milhau, Chevalier d'Apice . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Louis d'Orléans, prince of Condé (deceased)

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier [QLD] (2 September 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1287024 

EDUCATION, ASHGROVE LODGE, ASHFIELD [Sydney, NSW].
MRS. TAIT'S system combines a superior English EDUCATION, with the Modern Languages and Accomplishments, in which she is assisted by the following Professors, viz.:
PIANO - C. d'Apice, Esq., and Miss Nott.
SINGING - E. Spagnoletti and Madame Flora Harris . . .
DANCING AND CALISTHENICS - F. H. Needs, Esq. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Ernesto Spagnoletti junior (vocalist); Flora Harris (vocalist); Frank Hillier Needs (dancing master)

"OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH AT VILLA MARIA", Sydney Mail (18 February 1871), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162732465 

On Sunday last, 12th instant, the new stone church for the Marist mission station near Gladesville was dedicated to God, under the invocation of the B. V. M., by Monsigneur Eloy, the French Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Pere Joly and several other clergymen of the Roman Catholic communion. About 1500 persons were present on the occasion, a large proportion of whom arrived on the spot by the Parramatta River steamers, to witness the ceremony, and to share in the hospitality of the resident fathers of the mission.
Amongst the visitors thus assembled were Monsieur L. F. Sentis (the French Consul), M. Courtin V. C. and Chancelier, his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett, the Baron de Milhau, Il Cavaliere D'Apice, M. J. Joubert, M. D. M. Joubert, Mr. W. A. Duncan (Collector of Customs), M. Blanchard, M. Fesq, M. Delarue, Dr. Laure, Mr. M. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A., Messrs. Ellis, Haydon, Freehill, Pendergast, Makinson, Ryan, Clune, Armstrong, Holland, Dalton, Clews, J. J. Moore, Hurley, C. Smith, Bowden, Brett, E. Butler, Rubie, Phillips, Flynn, Flanigan, Lenehan, Robison, Reeve, and many others known to take an interest in the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church, and especially in the French missions in the Pacific.
The service began at about 11 o'clock, when the Right Rev. the Bishop, accompanied by his clergy and the acolytes, solemnly blessed the edifice according to the rites and ceremonies of the Pontificale Romanum. High mass was then very impressively performed, Bishop Eloy being the celebrant; the Rev. Pére Grézel officiating as assistant priest, the Rev. Pére Fangle as deacon, the Rev. Pére Hervé as sub-deacon, and the Rev. Péres Heuzé and Mureire acting as masters of ceremonies. The Rev. G. F. Dillon preached an eloquent and argumentative sermon from the first chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, the 48th verse. The choir of St. Patrick's, Sydney, sang Haydn's Sixteenth Mass, with Cherubini's Ave Maria, at the offertory. Mr. E. A. Roper assisted as organist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Augustine Duncan; Edmund Roper (organist); Louis Sentis (French consul); St. Patrick's church (Sydney)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 April 1871), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28418637 

MUSIC - Signor d'APICE attends twice a week at Mrs. Cowper's, 364, Liverpool-st., Darlinghurst.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 January 1877), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13396292 

PIANOFORTE and Singing Lessons. - Signor Charles d'Apice. Duties resumed Jan. 15. 335, George-st.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (7 January 1879), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13427339 

PIANOFORTE and Singing. - Signor d'APICE'S duties resumed January 15. W. H. Paling, 356, George-st.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Paling (musicseller)

Charles d'Apice, in later life (d'Apice family)

Letter, 20 December 1879, from the secretary to the French commissioner general for the Sydney International Exhibition 1879, to Charles d'Apice, inviting him to be a judge of musical exhibits (d'Apice family)

"THE MUSIC AT THE GARDEN PALACE", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 December 1879), 5

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The recitals yesterday were numerous, and, unfortunately, they were so nearly at the same hour that hearing them all was a matter of difficulty. Two at the orchestral platform were announced for 3 o'clock, and one in the French Court for a quarter-past 3; Mdme. Summerhayes goodnaturedly began before the time and shortened her fifty-sixth recital, of which we confess to have heard very little; but from previous knowledge and the remarks of the audience, we are prepared to endorse their verdict that the performance was "very good." In the French Court, a lady amateur, a pupil of Signor D'Apice played on Erard's full Concert Grand, exhibited by Messrs. Paling. The programme contained a Caprice, by Ketterer; "Rigoletto," Madame Oury; a Fantasia, by Thalberg, and a "Souvenir on three Neapolitan Airs," arranged by Signor d'Apice, and played by the pupil with considerable skill and intelligence.

ASSOCIATIONS: Cecilia Summerhayes (pianist); Garden Palace (Sydney venue)

"MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1879), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13444482 

The weekly meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners was held at the Exhibition Offices, Macquarie-street, yesterday afternoon . . . Mr. Jennings brought up the following report from the Committee on judging and awards:
The following judges have been nominated: . . .
Department 3, Education. - Class 313 [music]: Messrs. Mehlan [sic, Meilhan], Stretschmann [sic, Kretschmann], d'Apice, Hon. George Thornton, Messrs. Younger, Blackett, Jackson, and Packer . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jules Meilhan (musician, in the event did not serve); Edmund Blacket (architect, musical amateur); Charles James Jackson (organbuilder); Josef Kretschmann (musician); Charles Sandys Packer (musician); George Thornton (musical amateur); Montague Younger (musician)

Official record of the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879 (Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1881), cli (151), clxxxix (189), 390, 422, 1059 (index)

https://powerhouse.aflip.in/garden-palace.html#page/644 (DIGITISED)

[422] REPORTS OF JUDGES, AND AWARDS . . . CLASS 313. Musical Instruments. JUDGES.
BLACKET, EDMUND T., Architect - Sydney.
D'APICE, CHEVALIER CHARLES, Professor of Music - Hunter's Hill, Sydney.
JACKSON, CHARLES J., Organbuilder - Newtown, Sydney.
KRETSCHMANN, JOSEF, Professor of Music - Sydney.
PACKER, CHARLES, Professor of Music - Sydney.
THORNTON, HON. GEORGE, M.L.C. (Chairman) - Sydney.
YOUNGER, MONTAGUE, Professor of Music - Sydney . . .

https://powerhouse.aflip.in/garden-palace.html#page/650 (DIGITISED)

[428] . . . NEW SOUTH WALES.
CROOK, R. W. - Sydney. - Contra-bass, colonial manufacture. First degree of Merit.
EZOLD, William - Sydney. - Cottage Piano, make in the Colony. First degree of Merit.
Report - Well made; good workmanship and material; good tone and touch.
PALING, W. H. - Sydney. - Upright Pianos, manufactured in Paris. Commended.
Report - Good action, construction and finish; price reasonable; will wear well, and stand in tune.
SHERAR, George - Burwood. - Bagpipes, made in the Colony. Honourable Mention.
Report - Well made, and deserve honourable mention.
ST. HEAPS, C. Sydney. - Violins and Violoncello. Highly Commended.

ASSOCIATIONS (judges): Edmund Blacket (architect, musical amateur); Charles James Jackson (organbuilder); Josef Kretschmann (musician); Charles Sandys Packer (musician); George Thornton (musical amateur); Montague Younger (musician)

ASSOCIATIONS (exhibitors): Robert William Crook (violin and double bass maker); William Ezold (pianoforte maker); William Henry Paling (musicseller, importer); George Sherar (bagpipes maker); Alfred Walter Heaps (violin and violoncello maker); as reported on page 390, d'Apice himself also exhibited an "Arithmometer, or Calculating Machine" which was "Highly Commended"

"HENRY KETTEN. To the Editor", Evening News (18 May 1880),

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Sir, - Having received the annexed communication from so well known an artist as the Chevalier D'Apice, I should feel obliged if you would, in justice to the writer and visitor, afford it a place in your columns. -
I am, sir, yours, &c.,
W. H. PALING, 352, George-street, May 18.

"Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill," May 15, 1880.
Dear Sir, - Whilst every musician cannot fail to be indebted to you for the delightful evening's entertainment you afforded them on Thursday last by the introduction to us of the pianist, Henry Ketten, I feel impelled to convey to you the impression I felt on hearing the extraordinary performance of this truly wonderful artist. It seemed to me when seated near the piano that I was in Paris, in my old place close to Liszt, in Erard's concert room, in 1845. Never since those days of brilliant artists, Thalberg, Prudent, &c., have I heard the piano move to such wonderful music. Talent is not the word to use in speaking of M. Ketten. Genius is the only expression, or rather I feel inclined to say that he himself is music. His mastery of the mechanism of the instrument surpasses everything I have seen, but even that is thrown into the shade by the wonderfully musical tone which passes from his fingers to the piano making each note, not merely a note perfectly played, but a volume of rich sound. As for his crescendo, nothing in my long experience has equalled it. His playing invites for me a chain of distant souvenirs. I hear at the same moment the marvellous execution of Liszt, and the exquisite pathos of the voice of Rubini, the king of tenors, who always moved his audience to tears. To this double charm Mr. Ketten unites in his pianissimo passages on indescribable delicacy of touch which I thought never again to hear, and which reminds me of my old master Chopin. His preludes, too, when after a few strokes he leaves on the piano one sweet lingering sound, which, gradually dying away, gives the key to the coming melody. I fear that, I have made my note long, but it is not every day that one has to speak of genius. It would take a much longer letter to express half the pleasure I experienced. For the love which I bear to music, I trust that the musical students of Sydney will profit by the opportunity of hearing its highest expressions. I will earnestly recommend my own pupils to do so.
I remain, dear Mr. Paling, yours truly,
Charles D'Apice."
W. H. Paling, Esq.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Ketten (pianist)

"THE KETTEN RECITALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (7 June 1880), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13461660 

At the conclusion of the first part space was made on the platform for a number of gentlemen representing the musical profession of Sydney. Mr. Ketten entered last, accompanied by his manager, Mr. F. P. Pines. Mr. Michel (the Government interpreter) addressed a few words of welcome to and admiration for the great artist, and requested permission to read an address as follows:

"To Chevalier Henry Ketten, -
We, the undersigned, wish hereby to express to you our sense of admiration of your genius as a composer, and your unequalled technique as pianist. Mere praise would be injustice to you, and we can only adequately show how highly we are indebted to you, by offering you the well-earned wreath of laurel, as the homage of New South Wales to the greatest artist who has over visited this colony. We hope you may long be spared to let the rising generation benefit by the cultivating tendencies that are inseparable from your interpretation of musical art. We bid you our cordial farewell, and beg to assure you of our highest esteem." (Here follow the signatures.)

The "wreath of laurel," a beautiful coronet of massive silver, was handed by Mr. Beaver (the representative of the manufacturers, Messrs. Flavelle, Brothers, and Roberts) to Mr. Ketten, who was evidently deeply touched by the graceful offering. Signor D'Apice contrived to snatch the garland from the hand and place it on the head of the artist, and to embrace him in true Continental fashion. This turned the current of agitation for a moment, during which Mr. Ketten gathered his nerves, and in a very few words and by hearty gestures he showed his appreciation of the honour done him, and shaking hands with Mr. Paling, Signori Giorza, D'Apice, M. Michel, and others, he retired . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Paolo Giorza (musician)

"Odds and Ends", Australian Town and Country Journal (12 June 1880), 28

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The proceedings in connection with Mr. Ketten's leave-taking on Saturday night were of a novel, and let me whisper, slightly theatrical, and that of the sensational character, especially that of the laurel wreath presentation. Signor D'Apice evidently acted on the impulse of the moment, for I can scarcely imagine a gentleman would venture on the platform with the intention of crowning another with laurel, and finishing the performance by an embrace! Mr. Ketten seemed totally unprepared for either of the notions, and for a few moments the bewildered expression of his countenance implied that he was in expectation of something about to happen, even more startling. The wreath, which is a triumph of the jeweller's art, did not add greatly to the musician's personal appearance, and I thought it a great improvement when the ornament was removed . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 June 1880), 2

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PIANOFORTE and SINGING - Signor D'APICE resumes duties July 12.
He can now dispose of Mondays and Thursdays (the days of Belmore College, recently closed).
Early application necessary, W. H. Paling, 352, George-street.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (30 April 1881), 689

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WRENTMORE COLLEGE, SOUTH KINGSTON. The Misses COOKE. -
English, Mr. Fache; Mathematics, Mr. Whitfield; French, Monsieur Lalchère;
Music, Signor D'Apice and Governesses; Drawing, Miss Felton;
Dancing, Mr. Needs; Calisthenics, Sergeant Lees.
Pupils prepared for the Senior and Junior Examinations.

"ST. IGNATIUS' COLLEGE, RIVERVIEW", Freeman's Journal (24 December 1881), 17

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The first academical meeting and reunion of the students and their friends took place at the College of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, on Monday last [19 December], when the ceremony of presenting the prizes won at the Christmas examinations was performed . . . Before the prizes were distributed the students, in order to show their musical and elocutionary talent, rendered a number of instrumental and vocal selections, choruses, and recitations. The entertainment - a delightful one it was too - was carried out under the direction of the Very Rev. Rector, Rev. J. Ryan, S.J., Rev. T. Gartlan, S.J., Rev. M. Harrington, S.J., Herr Hugo Alpen, singing master, Signor D'Apice, professor of music, Mr. Hermes, bandmaster, Mons. Jules, and Mr. S. Murphy. Those who had the arranging of the programme entrusted to them showed most excellent taste in their selections, and it is a noteworthy fact that there was not one failure in the whole entertainment - every number was more or less meritorious, and the applause bestowed by the audience was fairly carried. Of the vocal musical selections the best in our opinion were "Silver Chimes," by F. Donovan, and the song from "L'Exilire d'Amore" [sic] by T. Kelly, and the best of the really fine choruses sung by the pupils was "Pull all together, Boys," which was given with great vigour. The college band acquitted itself creditably in the march from "Norma" and "Les Roses," and the duet for clarionette and cornet, by J. Ireland and F. Souter, was a most praiseworthy effort, the latter performer, in particular, displaying rare skill . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Hugo Alpen (singing master); Alfred Hermes (band master)

[Advertisement], The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser (14 January 1882), 4

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PIANOFORTE & SINGING. Miss Nealds, ST. KATHARINE'S, WINDSOR.
Reference kindly permitted to Herr Kretschman and Signor D'Apice.
Miss NEALDS will visit Richmond twice a-week.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 April 1882), 1

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SIGNOR D'APICE begs to inform his Pupils that he intends visiting Europe for twelve months, leaving on May 12th, and will resume his musical tuition in June, 1883. Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill.

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. HOBSON'S BAY", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (22 December 1882), 6

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DEC 21. Chimborazo, SS. (Orient Line) 3,817 tons, J. F. Ruthven R. N. R., commander, from London via Plymouth 6th ult, Naples 13th ult, Port Said 18th ult, Suez 20th ult, Aden 27th ult, and Diego Garcia 5th inst. Passengers - Saloon: For Melbourne - Baroness Von Donop and servant, Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Hobart, Very Rev. Dean Beechinor . . . For Sydney: Mr. and Mrs. O. M. de Lepervanche, Misses Lepervanche (2), Mr. and Mrs. A. Paterson and child, Mrs. Vosper, Rev. M. Walsh, Chevalier C. D'Apice . . .

"Music and Drama", The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (6 January 1883), 33

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. . . Reports have reached here as to the dangerous state of the health of Mr. Henry Ketten. From Signor D'Apice, who has just returned from Europe, we learn that the great pianist has had a very serious illness, has recovered so far as to take part as judge in the examination of pupils at the Conservatoire de Paris, and after playing at the Pasdeloup concerts is to start on a tour through Russia, whither Rubinstein himself is anxious to welcome his brother artist . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 July 1883), 2

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CAMBRIDGE-STREET, South Kingston. - WRENTMORE COLLEGE. Principals, the Misses COOKE.
In addition to governesses, the following professors attend: C. J. Fache, English and mathematics; Dr. Roth, science lecturer, director of physical education; music, Signor d'Apice; singing, Signor Steffani; drawing, Miss Felton. School reopens July 16.

"CLEARANCES - JANUARY 29", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 January 1884), 8

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Melbourne (s.), 4000 tone, Captain R. Minter, for Marseilles, via Melbourne and Adelaide. Passengers - for Marseilles: Mr. and Mrs. H. Gardin, Messrs. Chas D'Apice, E. Michel, Wallart, J. Ballan, and H. Wilson . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 April 1885), 10

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BURWOOD, KENT HOUSE. - Tuition for the Second Quarter will (D.V.) be resumed on MONDAY, April 13.
Miss LESTER receives a very limited number of Boarders in connection with the Day-school.
In addition to Resident Teachers the following Professors will attend:
Mr. Fraser (of Trin. Col., Cam.): English, Latin, and Mathematics. Madame Boivin (from Paris): French.
Signor d'Apice: Music. Mrs. Thompson (recently from England): Music and Singing.
Dr. Roth: Calisthenics and Physiology. Messrs. Needs: Dancing.
N.B. - Non-pupils are at liberty to join Professors' Classes.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 July 1887), 3

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SIGNOR D'APICE resumes his Pianoforte Lessons to advanced pupils July 11. Drummoyne-st., Hunter's Hill.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 July 1888), 1

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D'APICE. - July 5, at Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill, Charles d'Apice, aged 71.

"ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION", New South Wales Government Gazette (10 July 1888), 4767

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In the will and codicil of Charles Fransisco Luigi d'Apice, late of Villa Floridiana, Hunter's Hill, near Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, gentleman, deceased . . .

Musical sources:

Owner bound album of sheet music (Sydney, d'Apice family);
cover label: "MUSIC BY / CHARLES D'APICE SICA. / 1845.";
binder's label: "Bound by D. Roberts, 284, Pitt St., Sydney" (David Roberts, bookseller and bookbinder, at that address 1858-73);
top right of the first print inscribed "Pour ma trés chère Livia. Villa Floridiana Hunters Hill Dec:ber 1883 Charles d'Apice";
and preserved between the bound leaves is a manuscript song La Plainte de l'âme! dedicated to the "duchesse de Bojano" and addressed to Livia's daughter Jeanne de Bojano, dated at Paris 14 April 1884 during one of Charles's two return trips to Europe; as explained below, however, the music is by Donizetti.

Charles d'Apice probably had the album bound in the 1860s, long before he gave it to his daughter Livia, on her 18th birthday on 16 December 1884). His third child and first daughter Livia (1866-1962) was named after his Neapolitan relative, Livia Carafa Thomas, ducessa di Bojano. Livia Carafa (b. 1825) was herself dedicatee of the eponymous Livia, and, much later, of the manuscript song La plainte de l'âme, romance, d'Apice's last surviving work, and the only surviving composition post-dating the 1840s. Livia Carafa's younger sister Carolina was likewise dedicatee of La Carolina, and their mother Vittoria Carafa, of Vittoria; two other prints in the album are dedicated to otherwise yet to be identified members of the Thomas family (Livia married Luigi Thomas).

CONTENTS (in bound order):

1. Grande fantasie et variations sur un air de Roberto Devereaux de G. Donizetti, op. 6 (Pacini, Paris)
2. Les trois graces, grandes valses, op. 9 (Pacini, Paris)
3. Album des salons (Chabal, Paris)
3.1. Les mousquetairs, polka
3.2. Livia, mazurka
3.3. La gazelle, polka
3.4. La brise d'automne, valse
3.5. Polka sur l'hymne populaire a Pie IX
3.6. Néobulée, redowa
3.7. La clochette de Champfleury, polka mazurka
3.8. Tarantelle Napolitaine
4. Vittoria, polka (Pacini, Paris)
5. Souvenir de Champ-Fleury, valse (Chabal, Paris)
6. La sauterelle, grande polka (Chabal, Paris)
7. Vittoria, polka (Pacini, Paris)
8. La sylphide, valse brillante (Pacini, Paris)
9. La constante, valse brillante (Pacini, Paris)
10. Le rêve au Bord de la Loire, valse (Pacini, Paris)
11. Le rêve, nocturne (Pacini, Paris)
12. Trois études de concert (Pacini, Paris)
[loose insert] La plainte de l'âme, romance (autograph MS, Paris, 1884; music by Donizetti)

Musical works (extant in red bold; non-extant in black bold):

? Unpublished works:

Caprice sur des airs napolitains (? unpublished MS, Paris, by c. 1842)

NO COPY IDENTIFIED; also as "Une Reverie et un Fantasie sur trois airs Napolitain", performed by the composer, Sydney, 1859; and "Souvenir on three Neapolitan airs, arranged by Signor d'Apice", performed Sydney, by one of his pupils, 1879

Works published by Pacini, Paris:

Grand fanstaisie, op. 6 (version A)

Grande fantaisie et variations pour piano sur un motif de Roberto Devereux de G. Donizetti dédiées à sa majesté la reine des Français par Carlo Sica, opera 6
(Paris: Chez Pacini, editeur de musique, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [c. 1842]); publisher's number "3711"

Cover, 16 pages music [2-17]; the chief difference between the two versions is that in A, probably the earlier, a prelude (absent in B) precedes the introduction; copy of A at Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional; from the music collection of concert pianist Juan Maria Guelbenzu (1819-1886), inscribed: "À mon cher ami Guelbenzu, Carlo Sica".

http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000138963 (DIGITISED)

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ASSOCIATIONS: Juan Maria Guelbenzu was in Paris, where he met Chopin, Thalberg, and Liszt, until 1841, when he returned to Spain to take up the post of organist in the royal chapel.

Grand fanstaisie, op. 6 (version B)

Grande fantaisie et variations pour piano sur un air de Roberto Devereux de G. Donizetti dédiées à sa majesté la reine des Français par Carlo Sica, opera 6
(Paris: Chez Pacini, editeur de musique, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "391"

Cover, 13 pages music [1-13]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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La rêve, nocturne, op. 7

La rêve, nocturne pour le piano dédié a Mademoiselle Isaure de Coussy par Carlo Sica, op. 7
(Paris: Chez Pacini, editeur de musique, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "392"

Cover, 5 pages music [1-5]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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ASSOCIATION: Isaure de Coussy was the daughter of Zélie de Coussy, herself a singing pupil of Marco Bordogni and close friend of Donizetti and dedicatee of Don Pasquale; Isaure had been a piano pupil of Frederic Kalkbrenner in 1837, see:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270578719 

Les trois graces, grandes valses, op. 9

Les trois graces, grandes valses pour piano dédiées a Madame Faustine Abeille et Mesdemoiselles H. Rullon & S. Rousselle par Carlo Sica, op: 9
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens, No. 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "386, 387, 388"

Cover, 12 pages music [2-13]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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CONTENTS:

La gracieuse, valse par Carlo Sica à Mme. Faustine Abeille [introduction, nos. 1, 2]
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "386"; 3 pages music [2-4]

La rêveuse, valse par Carlo Sica, à Mlle. Honorine Rullon [nos. 3, 4, 5]
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "387"; 3 pages music [5-7]

La badine, valse par Carlo Sica, à Mlle. Séraphine Rousselle [nos. 6, 7 and coda]
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "388"; 3 pages music [8-13]

ASSOCIATIONS: Faustine Abeille was much later dedicatee of a book of poems, La Guirlande de Faustine (Paris, 1861), which included sonnets by A. de Flaux and Fr. Delahaye (see Veyrières, Sonnettistes, 155):

https://archive.org/stream/monographieduson02veyr#page/154/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Trois études de concert, op. 10

Trois études de concert pour le piano composées par Carlo Sica, op. 10
(Paris: Chez Pacini, editeur de musique, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's numbers "381, 382, 383"

Cover, 15 pages music [1-15]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family), contents below:

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CONTENTS:

1er étude de concert pour la main gauche seule par Carlo Sica, à Madame Joséphine de Lamarlier
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "381"; 3 pages music [1-3]

2me étude de concert par Carlo Sica, à Madame P. Maurice de St. Venant
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "382"; 5 pages music [4-8]

3me étude de concert par Carlo Sica, à Madame Mathilde Bergevin
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens 11, n.d.); publisher's number "383"; 7 pages music [9-15]

La sylphide, valse

La sylphide, valse brillante pour le piano par Carlo Sica à Mlle. Félicité Forget
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "384"

3 pages music [1-3]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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La rêve au bord de la Loire, valse

La rêve au bord de la Loire, valse pour le piano à Mme. Venancia Blanchon
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "389"

Cover [missing], 2 pages music [2-3]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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La constante, valse brillante

La constante, valse brillante pour le piano par Carlo Sica à Mme. Mathilde Bergevin
(Paris: Chez Pacini, Boulevart des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "390"

2 pages music [unnumbered]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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Vittoria, polka (version A)

Vittoria, polka pour le piano dédié à Madame la duchesse de Noja par Carlo Sica
(Paris: Chez Pacini, éditeur, Boulevard des Italiens, 11, n.d. [? c. 1845]); publisher's number "393"

Green cover, 3 pages music [2-4]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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ASSOCIATIONS: The dedicatee was Vittoria Carafa, mother of Livia and Carolina

La Caroline, polka

La Caroline, polka pour piano forte dédié à Mademoiselle Caroline Carafa de Noja par Carlo Sica
(Paris: Chez Pacini Editeur, Boulevard des Italiens, No. 11, n.d. [1845]); publisher's number "394"; engraver, Renard; stamped, "1845"

Copy at Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43271456n (CATALOGUE RECORD)

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ASSOCIATIONS: Dedicated to the third Carafa sister, Carolina (b. 1829).

Works published by Chabal, Paris:

Souvenir de Champ Fleury, valse

Souvenir de Champ Fleury, valse pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mme. Frasquita Soultzence
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulev't des Italiens, 10, n.d. [before 1846]); [no publisher's number]

Cover, 3 pages music [1-3], copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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ASSOCIATIONS: Chabal was at the Boulevart des Italiens address until c. 1846, and thereafter at Boulevart Montmatre.

La sauterelle, grande polka

La sauterelle, grande polka pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mme. Sophie Falcon de Cimier, née Kozloffski
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre 11, n.d. [before 1846]); no publisher's number

Cover, 5 pages music [1-5]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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Album des salons (also separately [1]-[8] below)

Album des salons par Carlo Sica, 1. Les mousquetaires, polka; 2 Livia, mazurka; 3 La gazelle, polka; 4. La brise d'automne, valse; 5. Polka, sur l'hymne à Pie IX; 6. Néobulée, redowa; 7. La clochette, polka mazurka; 8. Tarantelle Napolitaine
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre 11, n.d. [after 1846])

Album cover, over 8 separate titles, listed separately below; copy in composer's "1845" album, Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[1] Les mousquetaires, grande polka

[1] Les mousquetaires, D'Artagnan, Arthos, Porthos, Aramis, grande polka en 4 parties pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mlle. Félicie Fournier
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "6"

Cover, 4 pages music [2-5]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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ASSOCIATIONS: The dedicatee was the young Félicie Fournier (1831-1888), who as Félicie Schneider was later a portrait painter.

[2] Livia, mazurka

[2] Livia, mazurka pour piano, par Carlo Sica, à Mme. la duchesse de Bojano, née Carafa de Noja
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); [no publisher's number]

Cover, 4 pages music [2-5]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[3] La gazelle, polka brillante

[3] La gazelle, polka brillante pour piano, par Carlo Sica à Mme. Joaquina Thomas D'Alvares
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "2"

Cover, 3 pages music [1-3]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[4] La brise d'automne, valse brillante

[4] La brise d'automne, valse brillante pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mlle. Sofia Frank
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "7"

Cover, 5 pages music [1-5], subtitle on [1] "(Son souffle qui m'inspire murmure à mon oreille)"; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[5] Polka brillante sur l'hymne populaire à Pie IX

[5] Polka brillante sur l'hymne populaire à Pie IX, pour le piano, par Carlo Sica à Madame Victorine Ragonneau de Beauregard
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "4"

Cover, 5 pages music [1-5]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[6] Néobulée, redowa brillante

[6] Néobulée, redowa brillante pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mme. Emilie de Rougement
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "3"

Cover, 2 pages music [2-3]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[7] La clochette de Champfleury, polka mazurka

[7] La clochette de Champfleury, polka mazurka pour piano par Carlo Sica à Mlle. Léontine Thomas
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); [no publisher's number]

Cover, 3 pages music [1-3]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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[8] Tarantelle Napolitaine (edition 1)

[8] Tarentelle [sic] Napolitaine pour piano par Carlo Sica à Madame Amélie Carpentier, née Godde
(Paris: chez Chabal, Boulevart Montmatre, 11, n.d. [after 1846]); publisher's number "1"

Cover, 4 pages music [2-5], "Tarantelle Napolitaine" [title on 1]; copy in composer's "1845" bound album (Sydney, d'Apice family)

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Later editions:

Vittoria, polka (version B)

Vittoria, polka par Carlo Sica (in Les lionnes, deux mazurkas et deux polkas, dansés dans les bals Parisiens, en 3 livraisons . . . No. 3. Vittoria & Eva polkas [no. 2 = Eva polka par Jos. Straka])
(Philadelphia: A. Fiot; New York: W. Dubois, n.d. [? 1844-50])

Cover, 2 pages music [Sica, unnumbered]; copy at Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 169, Item 066

https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/169/066 (DIGITISED)

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ASSOCIATIONS: The Parisian polka craze began to be widely reported internationally during 1844, and examples of music composed for the dance began to appear in print outside France shortly afterward; this US edition, probably of c. 1844-50, appears to be a simplified version from the Pacini edition;
Augustus Fiot began to publish music in 1835, first in partnership with Leopold Meignan, and alone from 1839 until 1855;
William Dubois began publishing music in New York as early as 1813; he was frequently in partnerships; however, a period spent working under his own name only, from 1844 to 1850 most likely corresponds with this issue

Vittoria, polka (version C)

Vittoria, polka, de Ch. Sica, à Mme. la duchesse de Noja
([Naples]: Privilegiato Stabilimento Musicale Partenopeo di T. Cottrau, Str. S. Pieto a Majella, 31, n.d.); publisher's number "9070"

Wrapper "Polke favorite", 2 pages music [2-3]; photocopy from unidentified source

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ASSOCIATIONS: The dedicatee was Vittoria Carafa, mother of Livia and Carolina.

Tarantelle napolitaine (editions 2 & 3)

Tarantelle napolitaine pour piano pour piano par Carlo Sica à Madame Amélie Carpentier, née Godde
(Naples: Établissement Musical Parthénopéen successeur de B. Girard et Cie. Rue S. Pieto a Majella, 35, n.d. [? 1850]); publisher's number "9596"

Wrapper "Tarantelles", 3 pages of music [1-3]; copy at British Library

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/498147534 (CATALOGUE RECORD)

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Another copy, music identical with above, but with new wrapper:

"Il Carnevale Napolitano 1853, musica scelta per balli da sala . . . Repertorio edito con privilegio dallo Stabilimento Partenopeo successore di B. Girard e C."
([Naples, 1853])

Unidentified copy

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La moqueuse (waltz)

La moqueuse, grande valse par Carlo Sica

Advertised for sale in Paris in 1855; NO COPY IDENTIFIED

Manuscript:

La plainte de l'âme, romance ("Musique de Charles d'Apice"; correctly by Donizetti)

La plainte de l'âme, romance par Charles d'Apice à Madame la duchesse de Bojano, Paris 14 April 1884, offert par l'auteur à l'aimable Mlle. Jeanne de Bojano, C. d'A.

"Autograph" MS; cover, 3 pages of music, title on [1] "Paroles de Lamartine . . . Musique de Charles d'Apice"; first line: "Oui je sais votre indifférence . . ."; loose folder, in composer's "1845" album, Sydney, d'Apice family)

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ASSOCIATION: Dedicated to Livia Carafa Thomas (1825-1901); however, this "work" is musically identical to, and ultimately derived from, the manuscript setting of the same words, formerly in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, and now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, attributed to, and in the hand of, Gaetano Donizetti:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52509613g (DIGITISED)

The words are not by Lamartine, but by Émile Barateau (see 1842 published setting by Gustave Carulli)
Donizetti's setting was still unpublished at the time d'Apice made his 1884 "copy", which he may plausibly have first sourced, in the 1840s, from an authorised copy belonging to Isaure De Coussy (dedicatee of La rêve nocturne above) or her mother Zélie, who was dedicatee of one of Donizetti's other (published) Barateau settings, Pas d'autre amour que toi; there is no record that d'Apice ever attempted publicly to pass the music off as his own; neither, however, is there any known explanation as to why he did attempt to do so privately in this manuscript; was it perhaps a musical joke, the perpetrator knowing that the dedicatee, Livia Thomas, would immediately recognise his imposture? or, if he believed he would get away with it, was it a simple case of musical larceny?

Bibliography and resources:

Lorna Blacklock, "Chevalier Charles d'Apice of Villa Floridiana, Hunters Hill", Descent 8/1 (September 1976), 15-19

Errol Lea-Sacrlett, Riverview: aspects of the story of Saint Ignatius' College & its peninsula 1836-1988 (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1989), 45, 48, 50, 123

[50] . . . For the most part they [the lay masters in the early 1880s] were a seedy lot, sometimes talented but mercurial, often eccentric and incompetent, rarely cast in the mould of good schoolmen. In the earliest years only three-Jules Czetwertinski, Carlo Luigi d'Apice, and W. J. Therry - remained long enough to make any kind of mark, and d'Apice was necessarily limited by the fact that he was music master, responsible only for giving tuition in the piano and singing to those who wanted it. His presence nevertheless enhanced the environment of the school as he had been a concert pianist of some renown in Europe and, in a quite different capacity, enjoyed the rank of Chevalier of the Order of the Golden Spur, bestowed on him by a grateful Pope Pius IX for whom, in the disguise of a woodman, he had carried secret despatches in his shoe during the siege of Rome in 1848 . . .

DARLING, Ralph (Raph DARLING)

Governor of NSW

Born c. 1772
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 17 December 1825 (per Catherine Stewart Forbes, from London, via Hobart Town)
Departed Sydney, NSW, 22 October 1831 (per Hooghly, for England)
Died Brighton, Sussex, England, 2 April 1858

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DARLING, Eliza (Elizabeth DUMARESQ; Lady Ralph DARLING)

Amateur musician, musical patron

Born West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, 10 November 1798
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 17 December 1825 (per Catherine Stewart Forbes, from London, via Hobart Town)
Departed Sydney, NSW, 22 October 1831 (per Hooghly, for England)
Died Hartfield, East Sussex, England, 3 September 1868

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Documentation:

Letter, Eliza Darling (Sydney, NSW), to her brother Edward Dumaresq, 9 March 1826; Allport Library, Hobart (ed. in Fletcher, Ralph Darling: a governor maligned, 210)

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/NS953-1-309

We are very gay, Dinner Parties on Tuesday and Fridays - on the evening of Friday Music - and on Tuesdays a Ball - two Quadrilles of twelve - Henry has found a Blind Fiddler and two men who play the Pandean Pipes. These he calls his Vagabonds.

ASSOCIATIONS: Probably Joe Love ("the celebrated blind fiddler"); Henry Dumaresq (brother); perhaps the two pandean musicians were Henry Taylor and Henry Feathers; another pandean piper in the colony was Michael Donovan; for an earlier notice of pandean pipes see Chronicle (January 1819)

Letter, Elizabeth Macarthur, Sydney NSW, March 1827, to Eliza Kingdon; later manuscript copy, State Library of New South Wales, also ed. Macarthur (Onslow) 1914, 458

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5QkzGn/MkZOxG80V7dGe (DIGITISED - original)

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. . . Our present Governor General Darling entertains strangers frequently. There are evening parties once a week at the Governor's House. Mrs. Darling is perfectly accomplished in Music, & exerts herself to please all. Our greatest annoyance at present is from a licentious press. We have four Editors of Newspapers, who every week publish so much trash & pour forth such torrents of abuse against every person & every thing respectable . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Macarthur (correspondent)

[Government notice], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser [NSW] (3 September 1828), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2190976 

GEORGII IV. REGIS. (No. 14.)
GENERAL RALPH DARLING, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council.
[An Act for Regulating Places of Public Exhibition and Entertainment.]
1st September, 1828.
WHEREAS it is expedient, that Provision should be made for guarding against the evil Consequences which the unrestricted Power of opening Places of Public Exhibition and Entertainment, in the present Circumstances of this Colony, must necessarily produce:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR of New South Wales, by and with the Advice of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
That, from and after the Passing of this Act, if any Person, or Persons, shall act, represent, or perform, or cause to be acted, represented, or performed, whether such Acting or Performance be gratuitous, or be for Hire, Gain, or Reward,
any Interlude, Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Concert, Play, Farce, or other Entertainment, of the Stage, or any Part or Parts therein, or any Stage-dancing, Tumbling, or Horsemanship, or any other public Entertainment whatever, to which Admission shall or may be procured by Payment of Money, or by Tickets, either transferable or not transfereable, or by any other Means, Promise, Token, or Consideration, as the Price, Hire, or Rent of Admission, or of Places, Seats, or Boxes, for the Day, Week, Month, or Year, or for any less or longer Time whatever; or if any Person, or Persons, shall take or receive, or cause to be taken or received, any Money, Goods, or valuable Thing whatsoever, by Way of Rent, Fee, or Reward, fo the Use or Hire of any House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, wherein any such Exhibitions or Entertainments as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, shall be acted, represented, performed, exhibited, or done; or being the Owner or Occupier thereof, shall permit or suffer the same to be so used and applied, every such Person shall, in Case the Place wherein the same shall be acted, represented, performed, exhibited, or done, be without Authority and License from the Colonial Secretary, or the Acting Colonial Secretary for the Time being, forfeit and pay, for every such Offence, the Sum of £50, of lawful Money of Great Britain, to be recovered in Manner hereinafter-mentioned.
II. And be it further Enacted, That every House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, wherein any such Exhibitions, or Entertainments as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, shall be acted, represented, performed, exhibited, or done, unless the same be authorised and licensed by the Colonial Secretary, or the Acting Colonial Secretary for the Time being, shall be deemed a disorderly House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place; and it shall and may be lawful to and for any Constable, or other Persons, being thereunto authorised by Warrant, under the Hand and Seal of one or more of the Magistrates of the Territory of New South Wales, to enter such House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, and to seize every Person who shall be found therein; and every Person, so found, shall be deemed to be a Rogue and a Vagabond, and shall be liable and subject to all such Penalties and Punishments as are inflicted on, or appointed for the Punishment of, Rogues and Vagabonds; Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That if any such Exhibitions or Entertainments as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, shall be acted, represented, performed, exhibited, or done, in any House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, wherein Ale, Beer, Wine, Spirits, Coffee, or any other Liquors, shall be sold or retailed, the Place, wherein such Exhibitions or Entertainments as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, are represented or done, shall be deemed to be a disorderly House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, and the Licence, or Licenses, of the Person being the Occupier of such last mentioned House, Room, Building, Garden, or Place, shall thenceforth become forfeited and void; and the Person, being the Holder thereof, shall, in Addition to such Loss of Licence, forfeit, and pay, for every such Offence, the Sum of £50 of lawful Money of Great Britain, to be recovered in Manner hereinafter mentioned.
III. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Penalties and Forfeitures, imposed for Offences committed under this Act shall be recovered, in a summary Way, before Two Justice of the Peace for the District where any such Offence shall be committed, by the Oath or Oaths of one or more credible Witness or Witnesses, or by the Confession of the Offender, the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, rendering the Overplus to such Offender, if any there be, above the Penalty and Charge of Distress; and, for Want of sufficient Distress, the Offender shall be committed to any House of Correction, or Gaol, of any such District, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Six Calendar Months; and if any Person or Persons shall think him, her, or themselves, aggrieved by the Order or Orders of such Justices of the Peace, it shall and may he lawful for such Person or Persons to appeal therefrom to the next Court of General or Quarter Sessions, to he holden for the District within which such Conviction shall be made, whose Order therein shall be final and conclusive.
IV. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced or brought against any Justice of the Peace, or any other Person, for doing, or causing to be done, any Thing in Puisuance of this Act, such Action or Suit shall be commenced within Six Calendar Months next after the Fact done; and the Defendant or Defendants, in such Action or Suit, shall and may plead the general Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence; and, if, upon such Action or Suit, a Verdict shall be given for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiff's shall become Nonsuit, or shall not prosecute his or their said Action or Suit, then the Defendant or Defendants shall have treble Costs, and shall have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants have in any other Cases by Law.
V. And be it further Enacted, That all Fines, which shall be levied under this Act, shall be paid into the Treasury, and appropriated to His Majesty, His Heirs, and Successors, in Aid of the general Fund, for the Support and Maintenance of the Government of the Colony.
"Ralph Darling."
Passed the Council, this 1st Day of Sept. 1828.
T. DE LA CONDAMINE, Clk. Col.

[News], The Australian [Sydney, NSW] (5 September 1828), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36866972 

The Act for regulating Places of Public Exhibition and Entertainment, which GRACES a column in another page, has excited as much of public surprise as of public disappointment and mortification . . . Under the new Act Mr. Levey will have to apply for a license before he can open the theatre he has so spiritedly commenced building, and has now nearly finished, in George-street. The public look forward with considerable interest to the opening of the new theatre.

ASSOCIATIONS: Barnett Levey (theatre proprietor)

"Domestic Intelligence. FETE CHAMPETRE AT VAUCLUSE", The Sydney Monitor (22 October 1831), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32076228 

On Wednesday last, agreeably to public invitation to the Colonists at large, by the proprietor of that beautiful Estate, Vaucluse, a multitude of Colonists assembled there to commemorate the event of the recall of Lieut. General Darling, by partaking of Mr. Wentworth's old English hospitality, and making merry with divers old English diversions and pastimes. At eleven o'clock, carriages of all descriptions lined the South Head Road filled with well-dressed people of both sexes, decorated for the most part with blue ribbons, and a few with tri-coloured. The harbour was not less gay. About fifty boats with blue and tri-coloured pennants glided towards the scene of amusement, some having music on board, to add to the harmony of the holiday.
About twelve o'clock Mr. Wentworth arrived from Sydney, where he had been unavoidably detained on business. A signal was given and quickly spread among a thousand persons then assembled, and in an instant, hats were off, and, deafening hurrahs succeeded. Mr. Wentworth hastened into the house to escape these joyous salutes, particularly of a large body of Natives, who, as his countrymen, had placed themselves near the house to receive him.
At one o'clock, the company was nearly doubled. Parties were grouped under trees, while the numourous boats moored in the Bay looked like a little fleet. The carvers now prepared their knives to cut up an ox and six sheep, which were roasting in the open air at the termination of the cleared ground near the sea-side, but so great was the pressure, that they were forced to leave the viands in the hands of the company, who quickly cut up and as speedily despatched the whole, together with a thousand loaves. The stores were now thrown open, and Colonial gin and beer were distributed in tubs, but not sufficiently speedy to satisfy the multitude, who were eager to drink the health of the Patriot of Australia.
The company then assembled on the lawn in front of the house, and called for Mr. Wentworth. As soon as he appeared, he was chaired (without asking his leave) round the domain by a band of his countrymen, followed by the rest of the company, who made the hills and valleys of Vaucluse resound with their cheers. The females, who were disposed in parties under the trees, and those in the boats, waved their handkerchiefs and ribbands. After going the round of the company, the host was safely landed at his dwelling.
Mr. Hall, Mr. Ex-Sheriff Mackanness, and many of the principal citizens of Sydney then underwent the like honour; and each of them after the ceremony, made an appropriate speech, which was heard sentence by sentence, amidst the alternate hurrahs of the company.
Dancing, blind man's buff, hurling, wrestling, and two or three bits of boxing bouts, kept between three or four thousand persons busily engaged through the day. Not more than 2000 however were present at one time, as many left before others arrived. The road was thronged all day.
A party of between fifty and sixty gentlemen partook of a cold collation prepared in the hall, at which Mr. Wentworth attended, and upon his health being drunk, returned thanks by saying,
"Gentlemen - I am too fatigued to say much, and the best thanks I can return are, that I am truly gratified that you seem to enjoy yourselves, and I have only to beg that you will continue to make yourselves at home."
In the evening time front of the house was tastefully illuminated with variegated lamps, disposed as follows:
"W (CROWN) IV
GOD SAVE THE KING!
DOWN WITH THE TYRANT!
Several songs were sung in the course of the evening by one party (chiefly composed of Native Youths, among whom were the sons of some of our substantial country gentlemen); the following extempore song was sung, and encored more than once; -

AIR - The Death of Nelson.

RECITATIVE.
String, string my harp, Apollo's muse,
Australia's joy into my lays infuse,
To sing the Tyrant's fall; whose subtle crest,
Must long be heralded, Australia's pest!

AIR.
'Twas out of Sydney Bay,
The Hooghley sail'd away,
Each heart was bounding then!
The Tyrant wends his way,
On this auspicious day,
To England home again!
No more shall manacles oppress!
Our Sovereign grants us this redress!
Bless William, home, and beauty!
Australia's sons arouse and claim
Your free born rights, nor hear with shame,
Australia flinch'd from duty!

All hail the glorious day,
That crush 'd a Tyrant's sway,
Our joyful shouts proclaim!
T'o each that lent his aid,
Our grateful tribute's paid,
Long may they live in fame!
And when our peaceful land is blest,
Our rights secured, ourselves at rest.
Australia, peace, and beauty;
We'll quaff, as round the goblet glides,
And sing, while joy o'er all presides,
"Australia's done her duty!"

Then join both heart and hand,
To free our adopted land,
From tyranny's dire scourge!
May Bourke propitious prove,
And gain Australia's love,
Nor vengeful feelings urge!
That when he leaves us to return,
A parent's care we then may mourn,
For Bourke,. and peace, and beauty!
Our love shall cheer him on his way;
And William, England, Bourke shall say,
"Australia's done her duty!"

And should fierce war alarm,
Or any offer harm,
To England, our lov'd land;
Our Native youth shall shew,
Their loyalty's bright glow,
And first in battle stand.
And when her foes are silent laid,
And loyalty's fair tribute paid,
For Australasia's beauty;
High shall her native banners curl,
On which is stamp'd (when they unfurl)
"AUSTRALIA'S DONE HER DUTY!"

About seven o'clock, two immense bonfires, composed of stacks of wood intermingled with barrels of tar, were lit, whose red glare was seen very distinctly by the inhabitants of Sydney. The surrounding woods were illuminated like a second Vauxhall. This gala continued nearly all night, and some two, or three hundred found their way home early on Thursday morning. Some of the company had come purposely from Windsor, Liverpool, and Campbell Town.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Charles Wentworth (host); Edward Smith Hall (newspaper editor)

MUSIC: The death of Nelson (Braham)

Bibliography and resources:

"Elizabeth Darling", Design & Art Australia online

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-darling 

"Darling, Eliza (1798-1868)", People Australia

http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/darling-lady-eliza-19490 

DARWIN, Charles (Charles DARWIN)

Visitor, correspondent, diarist

At Sydney, NSW, 12-30 January 1836 (per Beagle)
At Hobart, TAS, 6-15 February 1836 (per Beagle)
At King George's Sound, WA, 6-14 March 1836 (per Beagle)

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Summary:

A brief entry on Darwin is included here for his general impressions of the colonies and their Indigenous and settler inhabitants, and his accounts of two musical events, one a private concert he attended at the home of Alfred Stephen in Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), and the second, a "corroboree" by the Mineng people at King George's Sound, WA.

Documentation:

Sydney and NSW:

Diary, Charles Darwin, Sydney, NSW, January 1836; Darwin's Beagle diary (1831-1836), MS, English Heritage 88202366, Down House, Kent; ed. R. D. Keynes, Darwin's Beagle diary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 395 and following

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=427&itemID=EHBeagleDiary&viewtype=text (DIGITISED)

[681] Jany 12th . . . At last we anchored within Sydney Cove; we found the little basin, containing many large ships & surrounded by Warehouses. - In the evening I walked through the town & returned full of admiration at the whole scene. - It is a most magnificent testimony to the power of the British nation: here, in a less promising country, scores of years have effected many times ass more than centuries in South America. - My first feeling was to congratulate myself that I was born an Englishman: - Upon seeing more of the town on other days, perhaps it fell a little in my estimation; but yet it is a good town; the streets are regular, broad, clean & kept in excellent order; the houses are of a good size & the Shops excellent well furnished. - It may be faithfully compared with full [illegible] to the large suburbs which stretch out from London & a few other great towns: - But but not even near London or Birmingham is there an aspect of such rapid growth; the number of large houses just finished & others building is truly surprising; & with this nevertheless every one complains of the high rents & difficulty in procuring a house. - In the streets [682] gigs, phaetons & carriages with livery servants are driving about; of the latter vehicles many are as neat as those in London extremely well equipped. Coming from S. America, where in the towns every man of property is known, no one thing surprised me more, than not readily being able to ascertain to whom this or that carriage belonged. - Many of the older residents say that formerly they knew every face in the Colony, but now that in a morning's ride, it is a chance if they know one. - Sydney has a population twenty-three thousand, & is as I have said rapidly increasing; it must contain much wealth; it appears a man of business can hardly fail to make a large fortune; I saw on all sides large fine houses, one built by the profits from steam-vessels, another from building, & so on. An auctioneer who was a convict, it is said intends to return home & will take with him 100,000 £ pounds. - Another convict who is always driving about in his carriage, has an income so large that nobody scarcely anybody ventures to guess at it, the least assigned being fifteen thousand a year. - But the two crowning facts are, first that the public revenue has increased 60,000 £ during this last year, & secondly that less than an acre of land within the town of Sydney sold for 8000 £ pounds sterling.

[683] I hired a man & two horses to take me to Bathurst, a village about 120 one hundred & twenty miles in the interior, & the centre of a great pastoral district; by this means I hoped to get a general idea of the appearance of the country. In the morning of the 16th I set out on my excursion; the first stage took us through Paramatta, a small country town, but second to Sydney in importance . . . [685] At Sunset by my good fortune a party of a score of the Aboriginal Blacks passed by, each carrying in their accustomed manner a bundle of spears & other [686] weapons. - By giving a leading young man a shilling they were easily detained & they threw their spears for my amusement. - They were all partly clothed & several could speak a little English; their countenances were good-humoured & pleasant & they appeared far from such utterly degraded beings as usually represented. - In their own arts they are admirable; a cap being fixed at thirty yards distance, they transfixed it with the spear delivered by the throwing stick, with the rapidity of an arrow from the bow of a practised Archer; in tracking animals & men they show most wonderful sagacity & I heard many of their remarks, which manifested considerable acuteness. - They will not however cultivate the ground, or even take the trouble of keeping flocks of sheep which have been offered them; or build houses & remain stationary. - Never the less, they appear to me to stand some few degrees higher in civilization, or more correctly a few lower in barbarism, than the Fuegians. - It is very curious thus to see in the midst of a civilized people, a set of harmless savages although certainly harmless wandering about without knowing where they will sleep, & gaining their livelihood by hunting in the woods. - Their numbers have rapidly decreased; during my whole ride with the exception of some boys brought up in the houses, I saw only one other party. - These were rather more numerous & not so well clothed. - I should have mentioned [687] that in addition to their state of independence of the Whites, the different tribes go to war. In an engagement which took place lately the parties, very singularly chose the centre of the village of Bathurst as the place of engagement; the conquered party took refuge in the Barracks. - The decrease in numbers must be owing to the drinking of Spirits, the European diseases, even the milder ones of which such as the Measles are very destructive, & the gradual extinction of the wild animals. It is said that from the wandering life of these people, great numbers of their children die in very early infancy. When the difficulty in procuring food is checked increased, of course the population must be repressed in a manner almost instantaneous as compared to what can takes place in civilized life, where the father may add to his labor without destroying his offspring.

[699] 27th [January] Accompanied by Capt. King rode to Paramatta. Close to the town, his brother in law Mr. Mac Arthur lives & we went there to lunch. The house would be considered a very superior one, even in England. - There was a large party, I think about 18 in the Dining room. - It sounded strange in my ears to hear very nice looking young ladies exclaim, "Oh we are Australian, & know nothing about England". - In the afternoon I left this most English-like house & rode by myself into Sydney . . .

[700] Jany 29th. On the whole, from what I heard more than from what I saw, I am was disappointed in the state of Society. - The whole community is rancorously divided into parties on almost every subject. Amongst those who from their station of life ought to be amongst the best rank with the best, many live in such open profligacy, that respectable people cannot associate with them. There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist or their children & the free settlers; the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers. The whole population poor & rich are bent on acquiring wealth; the subject of wool & sheep grazing amongst the higher orders is of preponderant interest. The very low ebb of literature is strongly marked by the emptiness of the booksellers shops; these are inferior to the shops of the smaller country towns of England. - There are some very serious drawbacks to the comforts of families, the chief of which these is perhaps being surrounded by convict servants. How disgusting to be waited on by a man, who the day before was perhaps by your representation flogged for some trifling misdemeanour? The female servants are of course much worse; hence children acquire the use of such the vilest expressions, & fortunately if not equally vile ideas. On the other hand, the capital of a person will without trouble produce him treble interest as compared to England: & with care he is sure [701] to grow rich. The luxuries of life are in abundance, & very little dearer, as most articles of food are cheaper, than in England. The climate is splendid & most healthy, but to my mind its charms are lost by the uninviting aspect of the country. Settlers possess one great advantage is that it is the custom to send in making use of their sons, when very young men from sixteen to twenty years of age, to in taking charge of remote farming stations; this however must happen at the expence of their boys associating entirely with convict servants.

- I am not aware that the tone of Society has yet assumed any peculiar character; but with such habits & without intellectual pursuits, it can hardly fail to deteriorate [deleted: & became like that of the people of the United States]. The balance of my opinion is such, that nothing but rather severe necessity should compel me to emigrate. - The rapid prosperity of this colony is to me, not understanding such subjects, very puzzling. - The two main exports are Wool & Whale Oil, - to both of these which productions there is a limit. The country is totally unfit for Canals; therefore there is a not very distant line beyond which the land carriage of wool repay the expence of shearing & tending sheep: The pasture everywhere is so thin that already settlers have pushed far into the interior; moreover very far [702] inland the country appears to become extremely poor. - I have before said agriculture can never succeed on a very extended scale. So that, as far as I can see, Australia must ultimately depend upon being the centre of commerce for the Southern Hemisphere; & perhaps on her future Manufactories: from the habitable country extending along the coast, & from her English extraction she is sure to be a maritime nation: possessing coal, she always has the moving power at hand.

- I formerly imagined that Australia would rise into as grand & powerful a country as N. America, now it appears to me, as far as I can understand such subjects, that such future power amp; grandeur is very problematical. - With respect to the state of the convicts, I had still fewer opportunities of judging than on the other points. The first question is whether their state is at all one of punishment; no one will maintain that it is a very severe one. But this, I suppose, is of little consequence as long as it continues to be an object of dread to Criminals at home. The corporeal wants of the convicts are tolerably well supplied; their prospect of future liberty & comfort is not distant & on good conduct certain. A "ticket of leave", which makes a man, as long as he keeps clear of crime & suspicion as well as crime, free within a certain district, is given upon good conduct after years proportional to the length of the sentence: - for life, eight years is the time of probation; for seven years, four, &c. - Yet, with all this, & overlooking the previous imprisonment & wretched passage out, I believe the years of assignment are passed with discontent & unhappiness: as an intelligent man remarked to me, they [703] know no pleasure beyond sensuality, and in this they are not gratified. The enormous bribe which government possesses in offering free pardons, & the deep horror of the secluded penal settlements, destroy confidence between the convicts & so prevents crime. - As to a sense of shame, such a feeling does not appear to be known; of this I witnessed some singular proofs. - It is a curious fact, but I was universally told that the character of the convict population is that of arrant cowardice, - although not unfrequently some become desperate & quite indifferent of their lives, yet that a plan requiring cool or continued courage was seldom put into execution. - The worse feature in the whole case is, that although there exists what may be called a legal reform, or that very little which the law can touch is committed, yet that any moral reform should take place appears to be quite out of the question. - I was assured by well informed people that a man who should try to improve could not, while living with the other assigned servants; - his life would be one of intolerable misery & persecution. - Nor must the contamination of the Convict ships & prisons both here & in England be forgotten. - On the whole, as a place of punishment, its object is scarcely gained; as a real system of reform, it has failed as perhaps would every other plan.

Letter, Charles Darwin, Sydney, NSW, 28 January 1836, to Susan Darwin; ed. Nora Barlow, Charles Darwin and the voyage of The beagle (London: Pilot Pressm 1945), 131-33

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1571&viewtype=image&pageseq=147 (DIGITISED)

SYDNEY. January 28th, 1836. My dear Susan, The day after tomorrow we shall sail from this place . . . Here we arrived on the 12th of this month. - On entering the harbour we were astounded with all the appearances of the outskirts of a great city: numerous Windmills - Forts - large stone white houses; superb Villas &c. &c. - On coming to an anchor I was full of eager expectation; but a damp was soon thrown over the whole scene by the news there was not a single letter for the Beagle . . .

Two days after arriving here I started on a ride to Bathurst, a place about 130 [miles] in the interior. - My object was partly Geology, but chiefly to get an idea of the state of the colony, and see the country. Large towns all over the world are nearly similar, and it is only by such excursions that the characteristic features can be perceived. This is really a wonderful Colony; ancient Rome, in her Imperial grandeur, would not have been ashamed of such an offspring. When my Grandfather wrote the lines of "Hope's visit to Sydney Cove" on Mr. Wedgwood's medallion he prophecyed most truly. Can a better proof of the extraordinary prosperity of this country be conceived, than the fact that 7/8ths of an acre of land in the town sold by auction for £12,000 sterling? There are men now living, who came out as convicts (and one of whom has since been flogged at the Cart's tail round the town) who are said to possess without doubt an income from 12 to 15000 pounds per annum. - Yet with all this, I do not think this Colony ever can be like N. America: it never can be an agricultural country. The climate is so dry & the soil light, that the aspect even of the better parts is very miserable. The scenery is singular from its uniformity. - Everywhere open Forest land; the trees have all the same character of growth & their foliage is of one tint. - It is an admirable country to grow rich in; turn Sheep-herd & I believe with common care, you must grow wealthy. Formerly I had entertained Utopian ideas concerning it; but the state of society of the lower classes, from their convict origin, is so disgusting, that this and the sterile monotonous character of the scenery, have driven Utopia & Australia into opposite sides of the World. - In my return from my ride, I staid a night with Capt. King, who lives about 30 miles from Sydney. - With him, I called on some of his relations, a family of MacArthurs, who live in a beautiful very large country house. When we called I suppose there were twenty people sitting down to luncheon; there was such a bevy of pretty lady like Australian girls, and so deliciously English-like the whole party looked, that one might have fancied oneself actually in England. From Sydney we go to Hobart Town, from thence to King George Sound and then adios to Australia. From Hobart town being superadded to the list of places I think we shall not reach England before September . . .

[Barlow, footnote] The "Beagle's" visit to Sydney took place only forty-eight years after Admiral Arthur Phillips [sic] had founded the colony; on that occasion some clay had been brought back to England of an unusually fine quality, from which Josiah Wedgwood the Potter and grandfather of Charles Darwin, had caused a medallion to be modelled, representing Hope, encouraging Art and Labour under the influence of Peace ["Hope's visit to Sydney Cove"], presiding over the infant settlement. Erasmus Darwin, Charles's paternal grandfather, wrote the prophecy referred to, which is quoted in FitzRoy's "Voyage of the Adventure and Beagle," 1839, Vol. II, p. 621.

ASSOCIATIONS: Erasmus Darwin (poet); see The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island compiled from authentic papers which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries (London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789), titlepage, iv, v

https://archive.org/stream/voyageofgovernor00phil#page/n21/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,
Courts her young navies and the storm repels,
High on a rock, amid the troubled air,
Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair;
Calm'd with her rosy smile the tossing deep,
And with sweet accents charm'd the winds to sleep;
To each wild plain, she stretch'd her snowy hand,
High-waving wood, and sea-encircled strand.
"Hear me", she cried, "ye rising realms record
Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word. -
There shall broad streets their stately walls extend,
The circus widen, and the crescent bend;
There ray'd from cities o'er the cultured land,
Shall bright canals, and solid roads expand. -
There the proud arch, Colossus-like, bestride
Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing tide;
Embellished villas crown the landscape scene,
Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between.-
There shall tall spires, and dome-capt towers ascend,
And piers and quays their massy structures blend;
While with each breeze approaching vessels glide,
And northern treasures dance on every tide!"
Here ceased the nymph - tumultuous echoes roar,
And Joy's loud voice was heard from shore to shore -
Her graceful steps descending pressed the plain;
And Peace, and Art, and Labour, join'd her train.

Sydney Cove medallions, 1789, Josiah Wedgwood; State Library of New South Wales

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See also:

http://www.portrait.gov.au/postcards/2015/01/the-medallion (DIGITISED)

Hobart Town, VDL (TAS):

Diary, Charles Darwin, Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), January-February 1836; ed. Kearns 1988, 408 and following

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=432&itemID=EHBeagleDiary&viewtype=text (DIGITISED)

[703] [January] 30th. The Beagle made sail for Hobart Town: Capt. King & some other people accompanied us a little way out of Harbour . . . [704] [February 6] . . . After a six days passage, of which the first part was fine & the latter very cold & squally, we entered the mouth of Storm Bay . . . Late in the evening we came to an anchor in the snug cove on the shores of which stands the capital of Tasmania, as Van Diemen's land is now called. - The number of Ships was not very considerable. - The first aspect of the place was very inferior to that of Sydney; the latter might be called a city, this only a town. - In the morning I walked on shore. - The streets are fine & broad; but the houses rather scattered: the shops appeared good: The town stands at the base of M. Wellington, a mountain 3100 ft high, but of very little picturesque beauty: from this source however it receives a good supply of water, a thing which is much wanted in Sydney. - Round the cove there are some fine warehouses; & on one side a small Fort. - Coming from the Spanish Settlements, where such magnificent [705] care has generally been paid to the fortifications, the means of defence in these colonies appeared very contemptible. - Comparing this town to Sydney, I was chiefly struck with the comparative fewness of the large houses, either built or building. - I should think this must indicate that fewer people are gaining large fortunes. The growth however of small houses has been most abundant; & the vast number of little red brick houses dwellings, scattered on the hill behind the town, sadly destroys its picturesque effect appearance. - In London I saw a Panorama of a Hobart town; the scenery was very magnificent, but unfortunately there is no resemblance to it in nature. - The inhabitants for this year are 13,826; in the whole of Tasmania 36,505.
- The Aboriginal blacks are entirely all removed & kept (in reality as prisoners) in a Promontory, the neck of which is guarded. I believe it was not possible to avoid this cruel step; although without doubt the misconduct of the Whites first led to the Necessity . . .
[707] 12th - 15th [February] . . . I had been introduced [to] Mr. Frankland, the Surveyor General, & during these days I was much in his Society. - He took me two very pleasant rides & I passed at his house the most agreeable evening since leaving England. There appears to be a good deal of Society here: I heard of a Fancy Ball, at which 113 were present in costumes! I suspect also the Society is much pleasanter than that of Sydney. - They enjoy an advantage in there being no wealthy Convicts. - If I was obliged to emigrate I certainly should prefer this place: the climate & aspect of the country almost alone would determine me. - The Colony moreover is well governed; in this convict population, there certainly is not more, if not less, crimes, than in England.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Frankland (surveyor general)

Letter, Charles Darwin, Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 14 February 1836, to Catherine Darwin; from Barlow 1945, 135-36

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1571&viewtype=image&pageseq=151 (DIGITISED)

HOBART TOWN, VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. February 14th, . . . 1836 [Postmark 7 July, 1836]
My dear Catherine, I am determined to begin a letter to you, although puzzled, as you may see by the length of the date, to know what to write about. I presume you will have received, some few days before this, my letter from Sydney. We arrived here after a six days' passage, & have now been here 10. Tomorrow morning we sail for King Georges Sound, - 1800 miles of most Stormy Sea. - Heaven protect & fortify my poor Stomach. All on board like this place better than Sydney - the uncultivated parts here have the same aspect as there; but from the climate being damper, the Gardens, full of luxuriant vegetables, & fine corn fields, delightfully resemble England.
To a person not particularly attached to any particular kind, (such as literary, scientific &c.) of society, & bringing out his family, it is a most admirable place of emigration. With care & a very small capital, he is sure soon to gain a competence, & may if he likes, die Wealthy. - No doubt in New S. Wales, a man will sooner be possessed of an income of thousands per annum. But I do not think he would be a gainer in comfort. There is a better class of Society. Here there are no Convicts driving in their carriages, & revelling in Wealth. - Really the system of emigration is excellent for poor Gentlemen.
You would be astonished to know what pleasant society there is here. I dined yesterday at the Attorneys General, where, amongst a small party of his most intimate friends, he got up an excellent concert of first rate Italian Music. The house large, beautifully furnished; dinner most elegant, with respectable! (although of course all Convicts) Servants. - A short time before, they gave a fancy Ball, at which 113 people were present. - At another very pleasant house, where I dined, they told me, at their last dancing party, 96 was the number.
- Is not this astonishing in so remote a part of the world? - It is necessary to leave England, & see distant Colonies of various nations, to know what wonderful people the English are. - It is rather an interesting feature in our Voyage, seeing so many of the distant English Colonies. - Falkland Island, (the lowest in the scale) 3 parts of Australia: Isd. of France, the Cape. - St. Helena, & Ascencion. - My reason tells me, I ought to enjoy all this; but I confess I never see a Merchant vessel start for England, without a most dangerous inclination to bolt. It is a most true & grievous fact, that the last four months appear to me long as the two previous years, at which rate I have yet to remain out four years longer. There never was a ship so full of home-sick heroes as the Beagle. - We ought all to be ashamed of ourselves. What is five years, compared to the Soldiers' & Civilians', whom I most heartily pity, life in India? If a person is obliged to leave friends & country, he had much better come out to these countries & turn farmer. He will not then return home on half pay, & with a pallid face. - Several of our Officers are seriously considering the all important subject, which sounds from one end of the Colony to the other, of Wool . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Stephen (attorney general, musical amateur)

King George's Sound, WA:

"Kangaroo dance of King George's Sound", after drawing by J. Neil, plate in Edward John Eyre, Journals of expeditions . . . to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 (London: T. & W. Boone, 1845), 2; National Gallery of Australia

http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=204633 (DIGITISED)

Diary, Charles Darwin, King George's Sound, WA, 6-10 March 1836; MS, English Heritage 88202366, Down House, Kent; ed. Keynes 1988, 411 and following

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=443&itemID=F1925&viewtype=image (DIGITISED)

K. George's Sound. 1836. March 6th - 10th . . . During the two first days after our arrival, there happened to be a large tribe called the White Coccatoo men, who come from a distance paying the town a visit. - Both these men & the K. George's Sound men were asked to hold a "Corrobery" or dancing party near one of the Residents houses. - They were tempted with the offer of some tubs of boiled [711] rice or sugar. As soon as it grew dark they lighted small fires & commenced their toilet, which consisted in painting themselves in spots & lines with a white colour. - As soon as all was ready, large fires were kept blazing, round which the women & children were collected as spectators. - The Cockatoo and King George's men formed two distinct parties & danced generally in answer to each other. The dancing consisted in the whole set running either sideways or in Indian file into an open space & stamping the ground as they marched all together & with great force. - Their heavy footsteps were accompanied each time with a by a kind of grunt, & by beating their clubs & weapons, & various other gesticulations, such as extending their arms or & wriggling their bodies. It was a most rude barbarous scene, & to our ideas without any sort of meaning; but we observed that the women & children watched the whole proceeding with the greatest pleasure. - Perhaps these dances originally represented some scenes such as wars & victories; there was one called the Emu dance in which each man extended one his arm in a bent manner, so as to imitate movement of the neck of one of those birds. In another dance, a one man took off all the motions of a Kangaroo grazing in the woods, whilst a second crawled up & pretended to spear it him. - When both tribes mingled in one dance, the ground trembled with the heaviness of their steps & the air resounded with their wild crys. - Every one appeared in high [712] spirits; & the group of nearly naked figures viewed by the light of the blazing fires, all moving in hideous harmony, formed a perfect representation of a festival amongst the lowest barbarians. - I imagine from what I have read that similar scenes may be seen amongst the same coloured people, who inhabit the Southern extremity of Africa. In T. del Fuego we have beheld many curious scenes in savage life, but I think never one where the natives were in such high spirits & so perfectly at their ease. - After the dancing was over, the whole party formed a great circle on the ground & the boiled rice & sugar was distributed to each in succession to the delight of all.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mineng (Indigenous Noongar people)

DASTON, Harriet Elizabeth (Harriet Elizabeth DASTON; Harriett; Miss Harriet DASTON; Madame DASTON; Mrs. Frank Ebenezer WORRELL)

Soprano vocalist, "opera singer"

Born London, England, 1835; baptised St. Giles in the Fields, 30 December 1835; daughter of George DASTON (d. 1890) and Harriet BEARD (d. 1874) (m. St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 25 May 1831)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 4 September 1856 (immigrants per Lloyds, from London)
Married Frank Ebenezer WORRELL (1836-1895), NSW, 1857
Died Tungamah, VIC, 24 August 1902, aged "67"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Harriet+Elizabeth+Daston+Worrell+1835-1902 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DASTON-Harriet-WORRELL (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the county of Middlesex in the year 1835; register 1835-37, page 437; London Metropolitan Archives, Dl/T/036/081

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1558/images/32184_218909-00050?pId=8664869 (PAYWALL)

No. 5219 / 1835 Dec. 30 / Harriet Elizabeth [daughter of] / George & Harriet / Daston / 8 Clark's B[uildin]gs / Undertaker . . .

England census, 30 March 1851, St. Anne, Soho, London; UK National Archives, HO 107/1510/307/44

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/MDXHO107_1510_1511-0093 (PAYWALL)

9 Richmond Buildings / George Daston / Head / 47 / Nightman / [born] Devon ? Owrbry
Harriet [Daston] / Wife / 49 / Needlewoman / Berks, Maidenhead
George [Daston] / Son / 9 / Mid'x St. James
Harriet [Daston] / Dau'r / 15 / Opera Singer / [Mid'x] St. Giles

List of Immigrants per Ship Lloyds, arrived the 4th day of September 1856; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1204/IMAUS1787_081408-0143 (PAYWALL)

Daston George / 46 / Carpenter / [born] Devon / [Read and Write] Both
Harriett / 47 / Wife / Berks / [both]
Harriett / 20 / Housemaid / Middles'x / [both] . . .

? "BREACH OF THE MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (21 October 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18645107

William Aitkins was summoned to appear before the bench, at West Maitland, yesterday to answer a breach of this act, by refusing to pay Harriet Daston the sum of £2 due to her. The money was paid into court.

ASSOCIATIONS: Either Harriet or her mother

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (1 December 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28636322 

CREMORNE. - THIS DAY, First Appearance of Mdlle. DASTON, from the Royal Italian Opera, Just arrived . . .
CREMORNE. - THIS DAY, Madlle. Daston will sing several of her most favourite ballads and operatic gems.
CREMORNE THIS DAY, Choice selection of Scotch Music, by the Cremorne Brass Band and Herr Mohr's String Band . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George and Henry Mohr (musicians); Cremorne Gardens (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 February 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12992623

CONCERT! Concert!! Concert!!! - Great attraction.
Mr. H. LESLIE, the great American bone-player and delineator of Ethiopian character, is continuing his engagement at the
Rainbow Tavern Concert Hall, Mr. MYERS' (late Mr. Toogood's).
The managers have much pleasure in announcing to the public that they have succeeded in closing an engagement with the celebrated
Miss HARRIET DASTON (late of the Royal Academy, London).
Mrs. Platt, pianist; managers, Mr. Platt and Shearsby;
singers, Miss H. Daston, Mr. Turner, H. Leslie, Mr. Smith, Mr. Davis. Admission free.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Turner (vocalist); Harry Leslie (entertainer); Mrs. James Platt (pianist); formerly Toogood's Saloon (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (18 March 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28637201 

CONCERT, CONCERT. CONCEUT. - Great Attraction. -
Mr. HENRY LESLIE, the great American Bone Player and Delineator of Ethiopian Character, has entered upon his engagement at the
Concert Hall, at the Fortune of War Hotel, Pitt-street, corner of Brougham-place, near King-street;
likewise the celebrated Miss Harriet Daston, late of the Royal Academy, London.
Mrs. Platt, pianist, accompanied by the usual talented company from the Rainbow Tavern, Pitt-street.
Managers Messrs. Platt and Sheasby.
The proprietor, Captain W. R1NGLAND, has determined, to simply all wines and liquors of the very best quality.
Doors open every evening, at 7 o'clock. Admission, free.

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (2 November 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18684900

GRAND TESTIMONIAL CONCERT, AT THE OLYMPIC THEATRE,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH, 1861, To Mr. R. A. NICOLS, of the East Maitland and Morpeth Amateur Serenaders,
on which occasion Madam H. Daston, the celebrated Soprano, and some of the West Maitland Amateur Serenaders, have kindly offered their services.
PROGRAMME . . . PART SECOND . . .
Song. - Kathleen Mavourneen - MADAME H. DASTON . . .
Song. - I'll be no Submissive Wife - MADAME H. DASTON . . .
Song. - Kate Kearney - MADAME H. DASTON . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: R. A. Nicols (amateur); Olympic Theatre (Maitland venue)

MUSIC: Kathleen Mavourneen (Crouch); I'll be no submissive wife (Lee); Kate Kearney (Lee)

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (20 August 1864), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18699524 

CONCERT - CONCERT. A GRAND CONCERT
IN AID OF The Building Fund of the Maitland School of Arts,
Will be given in the Hall, on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, 22ND INSTANT.
The Entertainment will consist of the following PROGRAMME:
PART I . . . 4. Song - "Kathleen Mavourneen" - Mrs. Frank Worrell
PART II . . . 15. Song - "By the sad sea waves" - Mrs. Frank Worrell
Mr. Marmaduke Wilson will preside at the piano . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Marmaduke Henry Wilson (pianist)

MUSIC: By the sad sea waves (Benedict)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (2 October 1867), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5779434

VARIETIES. Sole Proprietor and Director - Mr. T. Coker. Acting Manager - Mr. De la Chapelle.
GRAND RE-OPENING NIGHT, Great improvements, brilliant decorations, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5.
Engagement of the distinguished cantatrice, Miss ANNIE BRAMLEY, From the Royal Academy of Music, London, whose first appearance at Lyster's Opera di Camera created such a sensation.
Madame Daston, from the New York Opera-house (first appearance in Australia).
Miss Emma Weippert, characteristic vocalist. . .
Musical Conductor - Mr. Fr. Zeplin. Pianist - Mr. Montague. Leader of the Grand Orchestra - Mr. T. Zeplin . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Coker (proprietor); Emma Weippert (vocalist); Frederick Zeplin (conductor); Thomas Zeplin (leader); Alfred Montague (pianist); The varieties (Melbourne venue)

[News], The Argus (12 November 1867), 5

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An action was tried yesterday, in the County Court, Worrell and Wife v. Coker, in which the plaintiff sought to recover nine guineas for three weeks' salary to the wife, introduced to the public as Madame Daston, For the plaintiffs it was proved that Madame Daston had sung for five nights at the Varieties, on account of her engagement with the defendant, and after that her name had been omitted from the bills; she had been paid three guineas as for one week's work and labour, and in full of all demands to date; but she was then summarily dismissed, although engaged for a month. For the defence several professionals were called, who stated that, although well received, as all the artistes were, on the opening night, Madame Daston was hissed off the stage each evening thereafter. One witness described her singing of "Dermot Asthore" as equal to half the length of Bourke-street; and another gave a more abbreviated but equally unhealthy opinion of her execution, that there was little music in it, and that what little there was from the impulse of her own genius, the songs announced as by popular composers being sung in a style quite independent of the maestro's invention; this created a difficulty, as the instrumentalists were unable to accompany her satisfactorily. The judge gave a verdict for the defendant.

MUSIC: Dermot Astore (F. N. Crouch)

[News], The Age (12 November 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article185507363 

Mr. Coker, the proprietor of the Varieties concert saloon, was summoned in the County Court, yesterday, by two persons named Worrell for £9 9s, an amount alleged to be due to Mrs. Worrell for professional services at the Varieties. It seemed that under the name of Madame Daston the female plaintiff had been engaged to sing by Mr. Coker's manager. She was announced as from the Opera House at New York, but on the first night of her appearance it was found that her knowledge of music was of the most limited character, and that her voice was by no means pleasant to the ear. If she was not positively hissed on this occasion she was on the Monday following, and on every succeeding night till Friday. On that day the manager, M. De la Chapelle, wrote her a letter, stating that, all things considered, he would have to withdraw her name from the bills. This was done, and on the next day she received a week's salary, £3 3s. She now sought to recover the balance of a month's. Three witnesses were called for the defence, Messrs. Wilton, Megson and Zeplin; and those all agreed that the lady was incompetent to sing even a common ballad. A verdict was given for the defendant.

ASSOCIATIONS: H. B. Wilton, alias of Boyle Robertson Patey (agent, manager); Joseph Megson (musician)

"GENERAL NEWS", Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (16 November 1867), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199057726 

Mr. Coker, the proprietor of the Varieties, was on Monday the defendant in a case in the County Court, being summoned by Mr. and Mrs. Worrell for three weeks' salary, at £3 3s. per week, alleged to be due to Mrs. Worrell. The facts shown were that prior to the re-opening of the Varieties, Mrs. Worrell answered an advertisement from the manager for professionals seeking engagement, and in consequence of her representations was engaged for one month as a singer at a salary of £3 3s. per week. She yesterday gave evidence that she had sung at many of the principal theatres, opera-houses, and music-halls in London, and also in California. After she had sung five nights at the Varieties, her name was removed from the programme, and she was paid only one week's salary. The defence was, that Mrs. Worrell was thoroughly incompetent for the engagement she had made, and was, therefore, not entitled to demand the fulfillment of the engagement. Mr. Wilton, stage manager of the Varieties, described Mrs. Worrell's vocalisation and musical powers as the most wonderful he had ever heard in public for incapacity. The people, he said, hissed her whenever she appeared and disappeared, and kept up all manner of laughter, noises, and signs of disapprobation while she was on the stage. The first song she delivered was "Kathleen Mavourneen;" and besides her thorough want of voice, she did not understand the music. The word "Kathleen," he said, she made half as long as Swanston street. The song was then changed, and the "Sad Sea Waves" was tried with the same melancholy results. Mr. Megson, a musician, also one of the Varieties company, deposed that if Mrs. Worrell, whose nom de theatre is Madame Daston, had ever possessed a voice, "it was gone," and that she never had had any musical education. Mr. Zeplin, the conductor of the orchestra, stated Madam Daston's singing was positively ridiculous, and the composers had nothing whatever to do with the tune or time she kept, both being peculiarly her own. His Honour Judge Pohlman returned a verdict for defendant, without costs. Mr. Worrell conducted his own case; Mr. Spensley appeared for defendant.

"CURIOUS CASE AT THE FITZROY COURT", The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (27 November 1873), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245303938 

At the Fitzroy Police Court this morning, before Mr. Templeton, P.M., and a bench of justices, an adjourned case of Emily Vesey v. Harriet Worrell for assault was heard. Mr. Stephen appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Edwards for the defendant. The case was partly heard on Thursday last, when the complainant made a statement to the effect that the defendant's house in Gertrude street west - in which she herself had resided - was permitted by Mrs. Worrell to be used for immoral purposes. The bench then adjourned the case, in order that the police might make inquiries into the character of the house.
To day a constable who was supposed to know something about Mrs. Worrell's establishment was called, but was not in attendance. It was announced, however, that he had sent word to the effect that he knew nothing to the dishonor of the home in question.
Another constable, who happened to be in court, was then placed in the witness-box, and stated that he had frequently seen men and women go into the house, and he had been impressed with the suspicion that the place was not quite a respectable one. In cross-examination, however, he admitted that he had no tangible foundation for his suspicions.
A lady, who stated she was a teacher of music, said that she occupied a room in Mrs. Worrell's house, and had done so for the last four months. Never knew of any impropriety taking place in the house, except on one occasion, and then she informed Mrs. Worrell of it. That impropriety gave rise to the circumstances that brought about the present proceedings. At ten minutes to one on a certain morning, a girl living in the house tapped at her (witnesses's) door, and said that Mrs. Vesey had a strange man in her room. Witness at once rose, took her lamp in her hand, went down stairs, and told Mrs. Worrell, who compelled Mrs. Vesey to leave the house. Mrs. Worrell's husband lived with her, and was employed in a coach-building establishment in town.
Cross-examined by Mr. Stephen: Was not accustomed to receive visits from gentlemen. On one occasion had a visit from a professional gentleman - a musician. He came at seven o'clock in the evening, and remained a few hours. He was not a married man. Once saw a man go into Miss ---'s room. There was a married lady with a baby living in the house, and another person had lately come. One young person living in the house hail told witness that she was employed sometimes at the theatre or Opera House. Would not have lived in the house if she had any reason to suspect it was not a respectable one.
A Mrs. N ---- said she had lived in Mrs. Worrell's house for two months. It was quite respectable. Witness's husband was at present at St. Arnaud.
A man residing in the neighborhood of the Worrell's house was called to speak to its character, but he declared he could say nothing on the subject.
Mr. James Williams, another neighbor, who happened to be in court, was also reluctantly compelled to give evidence. He said there were a lot of women in Mrs. Worrell's house. Had never seen any man there except Mr. Worrell.
Mr. Templeton said there was nothing in the evidence to support the charge which had been made against the defendant's house by the complainant. Mrs. Worrell was, under the circumstances, perfectly justified in turning the complainant out of her house. The defendant was fined 1s, with 2s 6d costs. Mr. Stephen recommended his client to proceed in the County Court against Mrs. Worrell for damages for the assault.

"DEATH OF DISEASE OF THE HEART", The Maitland Mercury (24 March 1874), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18782777

On Saturday afternoon an old woman, sixty-five years of age, named Harriet Daston (known about West Maitland as "Old Grannie Daston"), died at the residence of her husband, in the Horse-shoe Bend. She had been ailing for the past eight or nine days, and was suffering from erysipelas of the legs. She was addicted to drinking and when in liquor would often be out at night . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Her mother, Harriet Beard Daston

? [News], Tungamah and Lake Rowan Express and St. James Gazette [VIC] (20 August 1896), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article270137853 

At the local Police Court on Monday last . . . Summonsing Officer Faigh charged Harriet Worrell and Richard Herbert Burke with neglecting to send their children to school for forty school days during the quarter, as required by the Education Act. Defendants were fined 1s and 2s 6d respectively . . .

"DEATHS", Tungamah and Lake Rowan Express and St. James Gazette (28 August 1902), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article270118140 

. . . We also have to record the demise of Mrs. Worrell, senr. Mrs. Worrell was one of the oldest identities of Tungamah and was greatly esteemed by all who knew her. The burial took place on Monday [25 August], Messrs. Farr Bros having charge of the mortuary arrangements.

DAVENPORT, Mr. (Mr. DAVENPORT)

Musician, pianist, accompanist

Active Adelaide, SA, c. 1857

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVENPORT-Mr (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"NORTH ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT", South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (10 April 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49769018 

The concert of sacred music performed yesterday evening, at the Lefevre-terrace Chapel, was decidedly the most successful of any hitherto given by the North Adelaide Choral Society. The attendance was also considerably larger than on any previous occasion. The performances consisted of a very choice selection from the productions of some of the most eminent musical composers that have ever lived; and when it is remembered that the Society is composed almost exclusively of amateurs, it must be admitted that they were executed with a degree of accuracy and even of artistic excellence which, under the circumstances, could hardly have been expected. The principal vocal performers were Miss Petman and several young ladies connected with the Society, Mr. Daniel (conductor), Messrs. Sanderson, Peryman, and others whose names we could not ascertain. Amongst the instrumentalists were Mr. Chapman (leader), Mr. Davenport (pianist), Messrs. Betteridge, Loader, Kearnes, McMinn, Clisby, and Lowe. The entire orchestra consisted of about forty vocal and instrumental performers. Among the most successful of the harmonized pieces, we may mention Mendelssohn's quartette, "But the Lord is mindful;" Rossini's quartette, "Where are thy bowers, O Canaan;" and the chorus, "Sing unto God," from Judas Maccabaeus. Mr. Daniel sang, with great spirit and feeling, Neukomm's celebrated solo, "Veni sanctus spiritus" [sic]; Miss Petman also sang with great taste and accuracy Handel's exquisitely plaintive solo, "He was despised," though it is not a composition so well adapted to her voice as some we have heard her sing on former occasions. Two other young ladies (sisters, we believe) also delighted the audience with their sweet voices, which blended most harmoniously together in several pieces included in the programme. In concluding this notice, we would suggest to the Committee the propriety of supplying the audience with copies of the words at the future concerts of the Society. We also think that every effort should be mode by them to procure as powerful an harmonium as is to be obtained in the colony. Mr. Davenport certainly made the most of the pianoforte, but this instrument is almost useless in the performance of such choruses as those introduced last evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: Josiah Wyke Daniel (conductor, vocalist); Francis Sanderson (vocalist); Henry or John Peryman (vocalists, members); Mary Ann Pettman (vocalist); William Chapman (violin, leader); Henry Betteridge (musician); Joseph McMinn (amateur); Redford Clisby (musician); North Adelaide Choral Society (association)

DAVIDSON (DAVIDSON; DAVIDSON'S)

Musicseller, music and instrument retailer and importer

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1856-57

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Davidson's+music+warehouse (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIDSON (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Davidson was perhaps not the name of the otherwise unidentified proprietor, but rather of the London music publisher, George Henry Davidson, whose cheap sheet music series feature so prominently in the advertisements

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (15 August 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7134922 

MUSIC - A large assortment of Songs, Ethiopian Melodies, Glees, Duets, Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Overtures, &c.
Instruction Books for Pianoforte, Violin, Flute, Cornopeon, Accordion, Concertina, Singing, &c., at Davidson's music warehouse, 35 Queen-street.
Plays. - Cumberland's British and Minor Theatre, on Sale at Davidson's music warehouse, 35 Queen-street.

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 September 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7136337 

MUSIC - The whole of Davidson's Musical Publications, 6d. per four folio pages. 35 Queen-street.
PLAYS. Plays. Plays. - Cumberland's British and Minor Theatres, 6d. each. Davidson, 35 Queen-street.

[Advertisement], The Argus (6 December 1856), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7141284 

DAVIDSON'S CHEAP MUSIC, 6d. per Sheet. 160 Bourke-street east: removed from 35 Queen-street.

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 December 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7141802 

SAM COWELL'S COMIC SCENAS, for Piano-forte, Sixpence and One Shilling each. Davidson, 160 Bourke-street east. 1

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 August 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7137208 

SINGING, Pianofortes, Guitar, TAUGHT by a lady experienced in tuition.
Pupils expeditiously qualified for the drawing-room.
The Guitar is a melodious accompaniment to the voice, available for a lady or a gentleman.
Address Music, Davidson's, bookseller, 160 Bourke-street east.

DAVIDSON, Alexander (Alexander DAVIDSON; DAVISON)

Musician, bassoon player, bandsman, Band of the 99th Regiment, soldier

Arrived Sydney, NSW, 19 February 1843 (per Earl Grey, from Deptford, 16 September 1842, via Hobart Town)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 11 July 1848 (per Sir Edward Paget, from Sydney)
Died Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 12 December 1849

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Alexander+Davidson+d1849 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIDSON-Alexander (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 99th Regiment (military)

Documentation:

Paylist of the 99th Regiment, 1 April to 30 June 1843; Australian Joint Copying Project, from UK National Archive, WO12/9806

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1687788266 (DIGITISED)

Privates . . . 830 / Davidson Alex'r / . . . Band . . .

"THE BAND OF THE 99TH", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 September 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28651200

. . . Their bass instruments are of the first description, for in addition to the Bassoons, the Serpent, and last though not least the Ophecleide . . .

[Advertisement], The Australian [Sydney, NSW] (29 November 1845), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37154101

GRAND CONCERT.
Mr. MARSH begs to announce that his Concert, will take place on
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3RD, AT THE ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
1st Violins - Messrs. Gibbs, Wallace, John Deane . . .
Oboes - Messrs. R. Martin, W. Cleary . . .
Bassoons - Messrs. Hill, Davidson, McGuiness . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Stephen Hale Marsh (musician); John Gibbs (violin, leader of the theatrical band); Spencer Wellington Wallace (violin); John Deane (violin); Robert Martin (oboe, master of the 99th band); William Cleary (oboe, corporal 99th band); Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

Paylist of the 99th Regiment, 1 October to 31 December 1849; Australian Joint Copying Project, from UK National Archive, WO12/9812

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1689861541 (DIGITISED)

Privates . . . 830 / Davidson Alex'r / . . . Died in Regimental Hospital on 12 Dec'r 1849

DAVIES, Miss (Miss DAVIES; Miss DAVIS; perhaps Celia Emily DAVIES)

Musician, pianist, composer

Active Sydney, Pyrmont, NSW, 1861; Balmain, NSW, 1862

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-Miss (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

The otherwise unidentified "Miss Davies" or "Miss Davis", of "Pyrmont", a "native of the colony" and a "favorite pupil" of Edward Boulanger, composed the song Tapping at the window, peeping o'er the blind, a setting the popular verses Village courtship by the British poet Charles Swain, which was published in Sydney by James Fussell late in 1861. No copy has been identified.

She can perhaps be tentatively identified as Celia Emily Davies (1849-1896), the younger daughter of the emancipist Thomas Edward Davies (1799-1863), and his wife Johanna Deasy (or Dacy) (1809-1877), of Pyrmont. If so, her much older (and only surviving) sister, Elizabeth, had married George Uhr in 1849.

Whether the same or a different person, "Miss Davies" or "Miss Davis", "of Balmain", composed the "original Ballad", The dying girl, which was given for the first time by Sara Flower in George Peck's concert on 17 December 1862, and again for Agostino Robbio two nights later, and published by Lewis Moss in January 1863.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (30 November 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13067111

NEW MUSIC - Tapping at the Window, Peeping o'er the Blind, words by C. Swain, music by Miss Davis, Pyrmont.
Love's Minstrel, or Gentle Troubadour; and Take this Glass of Sparkling Wine, by Wallace, 2s. 6d. each.
A pianoforte piece, the Minstrel Boy, will be published immediately. J. C. FUSSELL, Crescent-street, Sydney.

ASSOCIATIONS: James Fussell (publisher); Charles Swain (English poet)

"NEW MUSIC", Empire [Sydney, NSW] (7 December 1861), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60481350

We have much pleasure in noticing a new song by Miss Davies, entitled "Tapping at the Window." It is a very simple and pleasing composition, and we can confidently recommend it to those young ladies who take a delight in exercising their vocal powers. The song is written in the Polacca style, a novelty in its kind, and its compass ranges from D to E, the air commencing with a sweet symphony, being suitable for either a soprano or contralto voice. The words are by the late Charles Swain, Manchester, but in the present publication they have been incorrectly copied from the original. The melody is very cleverly and feelingly adapted to the lively idea of the poet, whose premature death at a comparatively early age, was greatly deplored in the world of literature. We believe the authoress, Miss Davies, is a native of the colony, having been a favourite pianist pupil of Boulanger, which, in our desire to aid Australian ability, is an additional incentive to our bringing this lady's composition under notice.

[Advertisement], Empire (17 December 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60520384

GEORGE PECK'S GRAND CONCERT OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
THIS EVENING, December 17, IN THE MASONIC HALL . . .
Original Ballad- "The Dying Child" - first time. Music composed by Miss Davis, Balmain - Madame SARA FLOWER . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (vocalist); George Peck (musician); Freemasons' Hall (Sydney venue)

"SIGNOR ROBBIO'S CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1862), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13071343

Last night Signor Agostino Robbio gave his first Concert, in the Exchange Hall, to a select, but not very numerous audience. The valuable professional assistance of Signor Cutolo and Madame Sara Flower was given on the occasion, Mr. Frederick Marsh [sic] acting as accompanying pianist . . . Madame Sara Flower was in excellent voice. She sang "Io ti lascio," "The Dying Girl," Keller's "Exile," and Donizetti's "Love Song" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Agostino Robbio (musician); Cesare Cutolo (pianist); Henry Marsh (pianist, accompanist); Exchange Hall (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 January 1863), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13073009

NEW SONG. - The DYING GIRL, by Miss DAVIS, sung by Madame Sara Flower at Signor Robbio's Concert, published THIS DAY.
Price, 2s. 6d., post free. MOSS, 5, Hunter-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Lewis Moss (musicseller, publisher)

? [Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 August 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28612801 

MUSIC LESSONS by Miss DAVIES, 169, Premier-terrace, William-street. Terms, £1 1s. per quarter.

Musical publications (extant in red bold; non-extant in black bold):

Tapping on the window (1861; words by Charles Swain)

Tapping at the window, peeping o'er the blind, words by C. Swain, music by Miss Davis, Pyrmont (Sydney: J. C. Fussell, [1861])

NO COPY IDENTIFIED; words survive separately, see "VILLAGE COURTSHIP", in Charles Swain, Letters of Laura D'Ouverne (London: Longman, 1853), 62

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=o3xqyWx6i_oC&pg=PA62

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Swain (English poet); James Fussell (publisher)

The dying girl (1862-63; words by Emily Varndell)

The dying girl, ballad, sung by Madame Sara Flower, words anonymous, music by Miss Davies (Sydney: L. Moss, [1863]); "E. Turner, printer"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/214295150

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-661634026 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (vocalist); Lewis Moss (publisher); Edward Turner (printer);
see also "THE DYING GIRL . . . EMILY VARNDELL", The penny illustrated news [London, England] (18 May 1850), 246

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=srZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA246 (DIGITISED)

DAVIES, David (David DAVIES; "Dai'r Cantwr"; "Dai y Cantwr"; Daffydd DAFIS)

Amateur musician, singer, choir leader, leader of psalmody, precentor, violinist, composer, arranger, songwriter (unlikely)

Born Llancarfan, Glamorgan, Wales, c. 1812/13; son of John DAVIES and Mary ?
Convicted Carmarthen assizes, Wales, 22 December 1843 (sentenced to 20 years transportation)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 10 July 1844 (convict per London, from England, 12 March, aged "31")
Ticket of leave, April 1854; conditional pardon, 14 August 1855
Died Ross, TAS, August 1874, aged "between 60 and 70"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=David+Davies+d1874+Dai'r+cantwr (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1811206 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davies_(Dai'r_Cantwr) (Wikipedia)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-David (shareable link to this entry)

Summary (after Williams 1959):

Davies was born in the hamlet of Treguff (Tregof) in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire, in 1812 or 1813 (his age was given as 31 when he reached Tasmania in July 1844). His father is said to have been John Davies, a tenant of the duke of Beaufort. It would seem that John was dead at the time of Dai's transportation, but Dai's mother, Mary, his brothers, William and Morgan, and his sisters Ellen Jane Margaret Elizabeth (it is not clear how many persons these names indicate) were alive. He was moderately tall, with brown hair and reddish whiskers. In the police records his trade is given as "farm labourer; can plough." He is said to have worked in a quarry at Newcastle, Bridgend, where he acted as local preacher among the Wesleyans, and as a farm labourer at Cadoxton, Barry, where he attended the Philadelphia Baptist chapel. The threnody . . . speaks of him living, also, at Troedrhiw'r-clawdd and Tredegar. He may have been the David Davies of Bridgend who won the harp at the Cymreigyddion eisteddfod at Abergavenny in 1838. He explained his sobriquet to the Tasmanian authorities by the statement: "I taught them to sing at church" . . .

Documentation:

? "ABERGAVENNY CYMREIGYDDION SOCIETY", The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian [Wales] (20 October 1838), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3632430/3632433/13 (DIGITISED)

. . . "For the best Male Singer with the Harp after the manner of Gwent and Morganwg." -
A medal value £2 2s. and a premium of £1 1s.
Sixteen competed for this prize. The medal was adjudged to Mr. John Jones, Merthyr, and the premium to David Davies, of Bridgend . . .

"CAPTURE OF TWO OF THE RINGLEADERS IN THE ATTACHS ON PROVATE PROPERTY. LLANELLY, SATURDAY MORNING [30 September]", Evening Mail [London, England] (2 October 1843), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001316/18431002/025/0005 (PAYWALL)

A few nights since an attack was made upon the Gwenwyth Iron Works at Pont-y-Beren by a number of men; they surrounded the house at between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, and fired several shots . . . [largely as below]

"ARREST OF JOHN JONES AND DAVID DAVIES", Welshman [Carmarthen, Wales] (6 October 1843), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4345924/4345927/31 (DIGITISED)

Some nights since [23 September] an attack was made upon the Gwenwyth Iron Works at Pont-y-Berem by a number of men; they surrounded the house at between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, and fired several shots, commenced battering at the door, demanding to have the managing clerk, Mr. Slocombe, brought out to them. His wife in the most heroic manner presented herself at an upstairs window, and demanded who they were, and what they wanted with her husband? The answer of the leader was "I am Rebecca, and we demand to see him instantly." The wife, however, firmly refused, stating that her husband was not there. Finding that they could not gain admission, they said Mr. "Newman the proprietor of the works, in whose house Mr. Slocombe resides, has behaved well, and we will not hurt him; but if Mr. Slocombe is not out of the country within a week, we will make him a head shorter;" they then fired some more shots, and made off. It appears that several persons who were present at his outrage had been forced from their houses to join them, and consequently information was given to the magistrates that the ringleaders were John Jones, alias Shioni Yscyborfawr, a man of about 30 years of age, and David Davies, alias Dai y Cantwr, or David the Singer, and that before they proceeded to Mr. Newman's house they had met on the Bryn Dyleth Mountain, and, having separated, had gone by the way of Pont y-Berem, and Trymsaran, pressing men to join them; they then proceeded to a house called the Stag and Pheasant, where they disguised themselves, and proceeded to Mr. Newman's. In consequence of this information, warrants were granted, and placed in the hands of Inspector Tierney, who with 18 men of A division, and accompanied by a person well acquainted with the country, last Thursday week [28 September] scoured the mountains, searching every public-house and suspicious place, and at a public-house near the Five Roads they succeeded, about 12 o'clock last Thursday night week, in apprehending David Davies, who was immediately handcuffed and conveyed in a cart to Llanelly, where he was placed in the custody of the military at the work-house. On Friday further efforts were made, & at about 11 o'clock Jones was apprehended at a place in the mountains called the Tumble. Both the prisoners were conveyed to Carmarthen for examination. The first examination took place on Monday before Col. Trevor and Mr. Prytherch reporters were denied admittance. The prisoners were then remanded until Thursday, and again after an examination of several hours, were once more remanded until Monday next. Several charges were brought against them amongst which was one for destroying Spudders Bridge toll house.

ASSOCIATIONS: Rebecca riots (movement)

"THE WINTER ASSIZES", The Welshman (8 December 1843), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4345969/4345972/22 (DIGITISED)

John Jones alias Shoni-scyborfawr, Tinker, David Davies, alias Dai y Cantwr, Miner, charged with a Riot on the 23rd day of Sept. last, or early on the following morning, at Coalbrook works, in the parish of Llanon, in this county. - John Jones further charged with having, on the said 23rd day, or early the following Morning, at Coalbrook aforesaid, discharged a loaded gun, at one Rebecca Slocombe, with intent to murder her. - John Jones, and David Davies, further charged with having, on the 17th day of September last, at Spudder's Bridge, in the parish of Pembrey, in this county, demolished, pulled down, and destroyed the dwelling house of one Thomas Walter.
- John Jones, further charged with having, on the 19th day of Aug. last, at Porthyrhyd, in the parish of Llandamg, in this county, demolished, pulled down, and destroyed the dwelling house of one John Lewis. - John Jones, further charged with having, on the 15th day of Sept. last, at Tyryonis, in the parish of Llandarog, in this county, feloniously begun to demolish, pull down, and destroyed the dwelling house of one Esau Thomas.
- John Jones, further charged with having, on the 18th day of Sept. last at the parish of Llanon, in this county, attempted to discharge a gun, at one James Banning, with intent to murder him.
- John Jones, lastly charged with having, on the 29th day of August last, unlawfully entered the dwelling house of one John Evans, Gellyglyd, in the parish of Llanon, in this county, and then and there a gun, feloniously did steal, take, and carry away.

"CARMARTHENSHIR WINTER ASSIZES . . . SENTENCES", Cambrian (6 January 1844), 4 column 5

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3333929/3333933/20 (DIGITISED)

John Jones alias Shoni-Scyborfawr and David Davies, alias Dai-y-Cantwr, were then placed at the bar, for the purpose of receiving the sentence of the Court. In passing sentence his Lordship addressed the prisoners as follows: - John Jones, you have been convicted of shooting at a fellow subject with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . . . it is utterly impossible I can allow you any longer to remain in this country, or ever to return to it. You David Davies may not be sent away for so long a time, but still a long term of years - probably the greater portion of those which remain to you -  must be passed in a foreign land. How different will your position there be from that which it has been here. Here you were at liberty to choose your own master - sort of service - and to quit it if you did not like it; earning wages which you might enjoy and dispose of at your own option. No such liberty remains for you. You will be placed under a task-master, not chosen by yourself. You will hate to do the work which you are ordered to do, and not work chosen by yourself. You will not be allowed to quit it however irksome to you. Payment for it you will have none, except as much food as will preserve your strength, and enable you to continue your forced and unpaid labour. You will be not in name but in fact slaves; for to that I must sentence you for your guilt and for the protection of the public of this country. The sentence of the Court upon you John Jones is, that you be transported beyond the seas for the term of your natural life; and the sentence of the Court upon you David Davies is, that for this offence to which you have pleaded guilty, you be transported for the term of twenty years. - The prisoners heard the sentence with smiles of indifference. -  They were handcuffed and removed from the dock.

"CONFESSION OF SCHOI-SCYBOR-FAWR AND ALSO OF DAI-Y-CANTWR", The Welshman (12 January 1844), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4345994/4345997/21 (DIGITISED)

It having been rumoured for several days past that Shoni-scybor-fawr and Dai-y-Cantwr had confessed, and made some important disclosures, we used every exertion to discover the truth of the report, and have succeeded in ascertaining its correctness. It appears that Shoni sent for Mr. William Chambers, jun., of Llanelly, and acquainted him with his wish to unfold to him the number and nature of the offences to which he had been a party. On that gentleman's arrival, the prisoner made a statement which was reduced to writing . . . Dai-y-Cantwr's statement is much shorter than that Shont-scybor-fawr. He says that he assisted Shoni in most of his offences. That he also was present at the firing of Tynywern and Mansant farms, and that he saw Mr. Chambers's horse shot. He next names a number of people who, he alleges, assisted him in committing different outrages upon property. He concludes by stating that the proposal to shoot Mr. Chambers did not originate with any person in particular, but that it was the GENERAL OPINION IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THAT THE YOUNGER MR. CHAMBERS OUGHT TO BE SHOT.!!!

See also "FURTHER CONFESSTION OF THE CONVICTS SCHOI-SCYBOR-FAWR & DAI-Y-CANTWR", The Welshman (19 January 1844), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4345999/4346002/24 (DIGITISED)

Voluntary examination and statement of David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr), 17 January 1844; People's Collection Wales

https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/7448 (DIGITISED)

The Voluntary examination and statement of David Davies otherwise called Dai'r Cantwr now a prisoner confined in the Gaol of the County of Carmarthen under sentence made in the presence and hearing of Mr. Chambers Junior Esq. J. P. & John M. Tierney, Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, the seventeenth day of January 1844 relative to a proposal of sending a threatening letter to Mr. McDougal of Trimsaran in the parish of Pembrey in the County of Carmarthen who saith as follows: . . .

Hobart Town, VDL (TAS):

Convict record, David Davies, per London; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1378956; CON33-1-56P53; CON14-1-28 Image 28

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1378956 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-28$init=CON14-1-28P28 (DIGITISED)

No. 13167 / Davies David alias Dai Cantwr / [tried] Camarthen Special As. / 22 Dec. 1843 / 5 ft 11 in / [age] 31 / 20 [years] / [Protestant] / [Reads and writes] / [Single]

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-56$init=CON33-1-56P53 (DIGITISED)

No. 13167 / Davies David alias Dai Cantwr / Camarthan Special As's 22 Dec'r 1843 20 years /
Embarked 12 March 1844 / Arrived 10 July 1844 / [Trade] F. Laborer can plough / . . . [native place] Glamorgan . . .
16 / 3/ '52 Ticket of leave . . . C. Pardon 14 / 8 / '55 . . . The Welsh name means David the Singer. I taught them to sing at Church . . .

"Supreme Court Office, 8th March, 1852 . . . TICKETS-OF-LEAVE GRANTED", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (20 March 1852), 184

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65575784 

. . . David Davies, London . . .

"ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM AUSTRALIA", Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette [Wales] (15 January 1853), 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3090440/3090443/28 (DIGITISED)

By the kindness of Captain DONOVAN, of this town, we have been favoured with the subjoined valuable letter from Australia, written by Mr. Ishmael Jones, sawyer, formerly landlord of the White Lion public-house, Union street . . . On the 25th of June last Mr. Jones set out for Australia, from Kingroad, in the Deborah, but left his wife and children here; and the very sensible letter, with which we have been so kindly obliged, is addressed by him to his family. It is as follows:-

Melbourne, Victoria, Sept. 26th, 1832.
My dear Wife and Children, I arrived here on the 15th instant . . . Shoni 'Seubor Fawr and Dai'r Cantwr are both liberated, and doing well . . .

"Audit Office, 4th February, 1854 . . . TICKETS OF LEAVE GRANTED", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (11 February 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65715102 

. . . David Davies, London . . .

1874, deaths in the district of Campbell Town; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1159798; RGD35/1/43 no 66

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1159798 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-43$init=RGD35-1-43p46 (DIGITISED)

66 / 1972 / August 10th 1874 / David Davies / between 60 & 70 / Labourer / Suffocation . . .

"BURNT TO DEATH (From a correspondent)", Launceston Examiner (15 August 1874), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52894618 

A melancholy affair occurred at Ross on the night of the 10th inst., by which an old man between 60 and 70, named David Davis, but better known as "Taff Davis," lost his life . . .

"THE REBECCA RIOTS. DAI'R CANTWR BURNT TO DEATH. COMMUNICATION FROM THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA", Western Mail [Cardiff, Wales] (19 November 1890), 4

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4322457/4322461/51 (DIGITISED)

. . . Chief Secretary's Office, Hobart, October 7, 1890.
Sir, - In reply to your letter of the 7th of August last, addressed to his Excellency the Governor, requesting to be furnished with particulars respecting David Davies, alias "Dai'r Cantwr," I have to inform you that, your communication and enclosure having been referred to the Warden of Ross, I now forward for your information a copy of a report, dated the 2nd instant. I also transmit a copy of your printed enclosure, headed "The Leaders of the Rebecca Riots," which appeared in the Western Mail, Cardiff, of the 7th of August, 1890. - I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, P. FYSH, Chief Secretary.

"Morien," care of Editor, Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales.
[COPY] Office of Superintendent of Police, Ross, 2nd of October, 1890.
The Worshipful the Warden. Sir, - Re David Davies - This man was living at the Ross Hotel, Ross, and slept in one of the out-houses on the night of the 11th of August, 1874. He had been drinking, and went to his bedroom at about 9.30 p.m., and on the morning of the 12th he was found burnt to death. An inquest was held the same day by Adam Jackson, Esq., coroner, when a the verdict was returned of "Accidentally burnt to death." It was supposed that he had been lighting his pipe during the night, and accidentally set fire to his bed-clothes. He was buried as a pauper by the Government.- I have, &c., (Signed), WALTER PRICE, Superintendent of Police.
William H. Bennett, Warden.

"DAI'R CANTWR AND SHONI SCUBOR FAWR . . . REMINISCENCES BY MR. DANIEL OWEN", Evening Express [Cardiff, Wales] (19 October 1893), 2

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3239141/3239143/45 (DIGITISED)

. . . reminds me that 55 years ago I knew "Shoni Scubor Fawr" by sight, but I never spoke to him. He was a great pugilist, but a quiet a and inoffensive man. For some purpose or other, in the year 1843 he went down West (to Camarthenshire, I believe), when David Davies ("Dai'r Cantwr") and Shoni were a induced to join the Rebecca rioters . . . David Davies was called "Dai'r Cantwr" because he had acted as leader of choirs in Monmouthshire and played the violin. He was very popular with the singers. When in Carmarthen Gaol, in 1843, he composed thie well-known song "Drych i fyd wyf i fod."
In that year Shoni Soubor Fawr and Dai were transported for twenty yeears for their action a with the 'Beccas. When I went to Hobart Town, in Tasmania . . . in 1856, I dined one Sunday with Mr. John Thomas, who at one time owned, with his brother David, Darran Ddu Colliery, Pontypridd. He (J. Thomas) was then Government surveyor in Tasmania, and he told me that he used to take Shoni out of gaol every morning and take him back in the evening. He was compelled to do so. I, therefore, had no opportunity of seeing Shoni. I then made up my mind, as I travelled from Hobart Town to Launceston . . . to make inquiries about Dai'r Cantwr. When the coach arrived at a place called Oatlands we had to wait there for twenty minutes, so I inquired where Dai'r Cantur lived. I found the house, but Dal was not in, being at work on a contract on the Government road. I, however, called at Jones's house (Frost, Williams, and Jones, the Chartists), but, unfortunately, he was out, and I did not see him . . . Then I went to see Williams, but again I was disappointed . . . I, however, saw his son Llewellyn, who came to Melbourne about the year 1858. He was a native of Caerphilly, and was a splendid performer on the harp. He had typhoid fever in Melbourne, and was ill for a long time. He shortly afterwards returned to Caerphilly, and died there . . . A few years ago "Morien" and I made inquiries respecting Dai'r Cantwr, and we received a communication from the Governor of Tasmania, in which he stated that Dai, who lived in a small hut, had been burnt to death about seventeen years ago. One night, after retiring to rest, his hut caught dire, with the result just stated.

"GLIMPSES OF OLD WELSH DANCES. A CLUE YIELDED IN THE NORTH. By Mr. SAM JONES, Liverpool", Western Mail [Wales] (12 April 1926), 9

HOLYWELL, Saturday . . . We have already collected three folk-tunes. The first was obtained in the Swansea Valley from an old gentleman 92 years of age, and it bears some resemblance to "Chewer Can Mlynedd," which appears in "Alawon Gwerin Mon" (Grace Gwyneddon Davies). The tune sung to us certainly possesses a stamp of greeter antiquity than the Anglesey air, being composed in the Dorian mode. The old gentleman heard it sung 70 years ago by Dai y Cantwr and Shoni 'Sgubor Fawr, two of the old ballad singers whose names have become a tradition in Wales. The simplicity and solemnity of the old tune constitute a perfect garb for those famous words, "P'le byddaf mewn can mlynedd." It was but natural that the old Welshman should indulge in reminiscences of those quaint old characters, of how Dai and Shoni were transported to Van Diemen's Land for 21 years and life respectively, for their active part in the Rebecca Riots . . .

Musical sources:

Choir book, "David Davies 1839":

A manuscript album, 63 folios (of an original 64), printed with empty 4 staves, 210 x 110 mm, bound in leather over card boards, brought by Davies to Tasmania in 1844, currently (as of 2020) in a private collection; the book was probably acquired by Davies empty in 1839, and the music thereafter entered in his hand; the hymn tune "Waterloo" (fols. 52v-53r, image above) is signed "Noted Feb'y 16th 1844 D. Davies"; the contents consist of hymn tunes and anthems for voices, mostly in 3 (SAB) or 4 parts (SATB), without separate keyboard accompaniment, mostly anonymous or unattributed, but including one item attributed to "J. A. Lloyd" (as see below), and another, fol. 20r, unattributed in the source, which in a US print concordance is attributed to "E. Davies", in Caniadau Seion, 159 (as see also below):

https://archive.org/details/caniadauseionsef00mill/page/158/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Folio 43v-44r, opening of the anthem, Cwymp Meddwdod, by John Ambrose Lloyd ("6.6.8. Three time"); printed concordance, Casgliad o donau ar y gwahanol fesurau arferedig yn mysg y Cymry, gan J. A. Lloyd, Liverpool (Liverpool: J. Jones, 1843), 214-22

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ys1vV6enLrgC&pg=PA214 (DIGITISED)

Printed hymn tunes:

Moses Davies, "Bremhill. 8 & 7.", and D. Davies, "Dysgwyliad", 8 & 7., in Richard Mills (ed.), Caniadau Seion (Utica [USA]: E. E. Roberts, Thos. T. Evans, 1853), 144-45

https://archive.org/details/caniadauseionsef00mill/page/145/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

E. Davies, "Brwydr y groes. 8, 7 &4.", Caniadau Seion, 159; also in Davies's manuscript album above, fol. 20r

https://archive.org/details/caniadauseionsef00mill/page/158/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Ballads attributed to Davies (attributions unlikely):

Drych i fyd wyf i fod ("A nostalgic song, written when a prisoner in Carmarthen") (attribution possible, but unlikely):

"CAN DAFYDD DAVIES (DAI'R CANTWR)" Y Seren orllewinol [Wales] (April 1849), 90

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7eIGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90 (DIGITISED)

A gyfansoddwyd yn nghararchar Caerfyrddin, ar yr achlysur o'i alltudiaeth yn achos terfysg Merched Rebecca. Ar y don "Rhoslyn Castle."

Drych i fyd wyf i fod,
Collas glod allaswn gael,
Tost yw'r nod, dyrnod wael
I'w gafael ddaeth a mi.
Yn fy ie'nctyd drygfyd ddaeth,
Yn lle rhyddid caethlyd maith,
Chwanegwyd er fy ngofid,
Alltud wyf, ar ddechreu'm taith . . .

Cyfl. J. J., St. Clair.

Can hiraethlon David Davies, Dai'r Cantwr pan yn garcharor yn amser Rebecca; Ton - "Rosslyn Castle"; broadside, National Library of Wales

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1102179 (DIGITISED)

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1063706 (another edition - DIGITISED)

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1061750 (another edition - DIGITISED)

See also [News], The Western Mail [Cardiff, Wales] (13 August 1890), 4

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4321701/4321705/38 (DIGITISED)

In the year 1843 the neighbourhood was disturbed by the Rebecca riots. "Dai y Cantwr" (to whom your excellent writer Morien referred last week) wrote the following "lament" when sentence of twenty years' exile was pronounced on him:-
Drych i fyd wyf i fod . . .
[TRANSLATION.] I am to be a spectacle to the world;
I have lost the reputation I might have obtained.
Severe is the stroke - the sad buffet -
To the reach of which I an brought.
In my youth adversity came;
Instead of liberty, long captivity
Has been added to my grief.
I am an exile at the beginning of my course.
I shall be sent from my country -
From my fathers' house, notwithstanding tender bringing up,
To the midst ef the black hordes -
Over the sea, from my fair confines.
Oh, what distress has overtaken me!
Lond banishment - this will drive me bound
For twenty years.
Hard is the measure, long affliction" . . .

MUSICAL CONCORDANCES: Roslin Castle (tune archive); see also as "Roslin Castle dead march" in Third part of The musician's companion (Boston: Elias Howe, Jr., 1844), 20

https://archive.org/details/thirdpartofmusic03howe/page/20/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Y negro du ["O fechgyn heini Cymru"] ("composed in exile by David the Singer") (attribution unlikely):

Y negro du, a gyfansoddwyd gan Dai'r Cantwr pan oedd yn alltud Cwyn yr amddifad, ton - "Calon drom"; broadside, c. 1850s-60s; National Library of Wales

https://discover.library.wales/permalink/44WHELF_NLW/6kpfmq/alma99210955102419 

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1104322 (DIGITISED)

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1065657 (another edition - DIGITISED)

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1073004 (another edition - DIGITISED)

O fechgyn heini Cymru, rhowch glust i'm canu i
'R wyf wedi cael fy nanfon dros foroedd maith a lli,
I dreulio ugain mlynedd, trwm iawn yw'm cyflwr i,
Yn mhell mewn gwlad estronol yn mhlith y Negro du . . .

MUSICAL CONCORDANCE: The tune "Calon drom", set to "O mor drom fy nghalon i" (Oh how heavy is my heart), for solo voice, with symphonies and accompaniments for harp; Evan Williams MS, page 11, 1745; Royal College of Music, London

See Ben Dijkhuis, "Canu penillion", Musicology of the Celtic and neighboring styles ( = Phyllis Kinney, Welsh traditional music, 51, plate 5)

http://musicologie.baloney.nl/main/vormen/vormen.penillion.htm 

Bibliography and resources:

David Williams, "DAVIES, DAVID ('Dai'r Cantwr')", Dictionary of Welsh biography (1959)

https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-DAV-1812 

[Hugh Anderson], A Rebecca in Tasmania: the lamentations of David Davies, Welsh convict . . . (North Melbourne: Red Rooster Press, 2009)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/239099158 

DAVIES, Charles Alfred (Mr. C. A. DAVIES)

Musician, vocalist, organist, pianist, music teacher

Born Oswestry, Shropshire, England, 15 January 1864; son of John Whitridge DAVIES and Susan GREGORY
Arrived Adelaide, SA, November 1882 (passenger per Peshawur, from England)
Died Gawler, SA, 28 February/1 March 1889, aged "25"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Charles+Alfred+Davies+1864-1889 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-Charles-Alfred (shareable link to this entry)

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

DAVIES, Edward Harold (Edward Harold DAVIES; E. Harold DAVIES)

Musician, organist, composer, educator, university professor, Indigenous culture reporter and song collector

Born Oswestry, Shropshire, England, 18 July 1867; son of John Whitridge DAVIES and Susan GREGORY
Arrived Adelaide, SA, January 1887
Married Ina Jane DELAND, 1893
Died Adelaide, SA, 1 July 1947

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=E+Harold+Davies+1867-1947 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1293171 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-E-Harold (shareable link to this entry)

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Summary (edited from University of Adelaide)

Harold Davies studied music under Joseph Bridge at Chester Cathedral while apprenticed to an architect. Following his brother Charles to South Australia in January 1887, he immediately became organist and choirmaster at Christ Church, Kapunda, and conducted musical societies there and in Gawler. He went back to England in 1890 to qualify as an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and on his return was appointed organist to St. Peter's Glenelg, then to St. Paul's, Adelaide.

From 1897 until 1919 Davies was organist and choirmaster at Kent Town Methodist Church. During these early years he undertook formal study at the University of Adelaide, graduating Mus. Bac. in 1896 and D. Mus in 1902, the first music doctorate to be conferred by an Australian university. At the same time he taught piano, organ, singing and composition privately and, later, class singing at Methodist Ladies College, before his appointment as professor of music at the university in succession to J. M. Ennis in 1919.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Kapunda Herald [SA] (16 February 1883), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106574826 

PIANOFOETE TUNING. C. A. DAVIES (Organist of Congregational Church, Kapunda)
is prepared to undertake the TUNING of PIANOFORTES in Kapunda and the surrounding district on moderate terms.
Yearly arrangements entered into if desired.

[News], Kapunda Herald (1 February 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107362293 

Mr. E. Harold Davies, brother of Mr. C. A. Davies, the well-known musician, arrived from England recently, and has been appointed organist at Christ Church. Mr. E. H. Davies brings with him an excellent reputation as an instrumentalist, having studied for some years under Dr. J. C. Bridge, of Chester Cathedral. It is Mr. Davies' intention of residing in Kapunda, having entered on his duties as organist at Christ Church on Sunday last, and he announces in our business columns that he is prepared to take pupils for instruction on the organ, American organ, and pianoforte.

[Advertisement], Kapunda Herald (4 February 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107362333 

E. HAROLD DAVIES (Organist of Christ Church, Kapunda, and Pupil of Dr. J. C. Bridge, of Chester Cathedral),
Having recently arrived from England, is prepared to take Pupils for Instruction on the ORGAN, AMERICAN ORGAN, and PIANOFORTE on Moderate Terms.
Address, POST-OFFICE, Kapunda.

"HARVEST FESTIVAL", Kapunda Herald (15 February 1887), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107362418 

. . . The new organist (Mr. E. Harold Davies) is to be congratulated on the way he conducted the choral portion of the service.

"SACRED SERVICE AND ORGAN RECITAL AT CHRIST CHURCH", Kapunda Herald (22 April 1887), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107363201 

. . . The organist, Mr. E. Harold Davies, issued a very attractive programme, made up of sacred selections, vocal and instrumental, from the works of composers whose genius has immortalised them . . . The choir was a mixed one, the Christ Church choir being assisted by several well-known local vocalists. Mr. Davies, of course, presided at the organ, and opened the programme with the overture to "Samson" . . . Mr. Davies played Organ Sonata No. 2, one of the six sonatas, comprising the only organ works of Mendelssohn . . .

"MR. DAVIES", Bunyip (22 April 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97227558 

It may be of interest to some of our readers to learn that Mr. Harold Davies (a brother of Mr. C. A. Davies, who is well-known to the musical residents of Gawler), was in Adelaide on Wednesday last, and after playing upon the Town Hall Organ before Professor Ives, was admitted in the rota of City organists.

"DEATH OF MR. CHARLES A. DAVIES", Bunyip (1 March 1889), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97230189 

It is our sad duty to announce the death of Mr. C. A. Davies, the talented young organist of the Congregational Church. The illness to which Mr. Davies has succumbed has been of some standing and continued growth so that his death does not come with the surprise it otherwise might. Mr. Davies at the time of his death was just 25 years of age. He had been about six years in the colony, three of which he was organist at Kapunda, and also correspondent of the Register. The last three years he has been in Gawler, where by his skill and kindly manner he secured a large number of friends. About twelve months ago he paid a visit to his relatives in the old country, but returned no better in health. The funeral procession leaves Hylands to-morrow, and a short service will be held in the Congregational Church, the Rev. Walter Jones officiating. Mr. Davies comes of a highly respectable family, and has a younger brother in the colony who is organist at the English Church at the Port. Mr. Davies died at a quarter past four this morning.

"Obituary. DEATH OF MR. CHARLES A. DAVIES", Evening Journal (2 March 1889), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199860159 

We regret to record the death of Mr. Charles A. Davies, which took place at Gawler yesterday. The deceased gentleman, who was only twenty-five years of age at the time of his death, came to the colony for the benefit of his health, and arrived in the Peshawur in November, 1882. Soon after he settled in Kapunda, when he became organist of Christ Church, an appointment he filled with singular ability and success. He was also prominently connected with the Philharmonic Society of that town, and for a time acted as Kapunda correspondent for the Register. In 1885 he accepted an invitation to become organist of the Gawler Congregational Church, and has since resided in that town, with the exception of a few months' absence on a visit to England. His musical abilities were of a high order, and but for the feeble state of his health would probably have achieved great distinction in his profession. He was unusually gifted as a teacher, and both at Kapunda and Gawler did all be could to advance the interest of music. His estimable social qualities won for, him a large circle of friends, who now deplore the premature close of a bright and promising career. Mr. E. Harold Davies, of Glenelg, is a brother of the deceased gentleman.

Bibliography and resources:

Catherine J. Ellis, "Davies, Edward Harold (1867-1947)", Australian dictionary of biography 8 (1981)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davies-edward-harold-5908 

Professor Edward Harold Davies (1867-1947), papers, 1887-1947; University of Adelaide

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/mss/davies/ 

DAVIES, Euphemia May (Euphemia May BEVERIDGE; [1] Mrs. William Owen DAVIES; Mrs. DAVIES; DAVIS; [2] Mrs. Robert BONNOR)

Musician, pianist, teacher of the piano-forte

Born Edinburgh, Scotland, 1796; baptised 11 May 1796; daughter of William BEVERIDGE (1763-1807) and Barbara MAY (1763-1832)
Married (1) William Owen DAVIES (d. 1840), Hamilton, Scotland, 1 December 1823
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 10 September 1824 (per Portland, from Leith, 1 April)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by October 1824
Married (2) Robert BONNOR, St. James's church, Sydney, NSW, 9 January 1845
Died Sydney, NSW, 9 March 1871, aged "65" [sic]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Euphemia+May+Beveridge+Davies+Bonnor+1796-1869 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-Euphemia-May (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Baptisms, Edinburgh, 1796; Scotland, Select births and baptisms

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/16287978:60143 (PAYWALL)

11 May 1796 / Euphemia May [daughter of] William Beveridge [and] Barbara May

"MARRIED", Perthshire Courier [Scotland] (12 December 1823), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001174/18231212/026/0003 (PAYWALL)

At Hamilton, on the 1st inst., William Owen Davies, Esq., Newtown, North Wales, to Euphemia May, second daughter of the late William Beveridge, Esq. writer to the signet.

[News], Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser (10 September 1824), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1090321 

Arrived this afternoon from Scotland, the Australian Company's ship Portland, Captain Snell, R. N. having on board 87 passengers, and a valuable cargo of merchandize. - The Portland left Leith the 1st of April, and on her passage touched at Rio de Janeiro . . . The following is a list of the passengers who have arrived per the Australian Company's ship Portland, from Leith: - . . . Mr. W. O. Davies, Mrs. Davies . . .

New South Wales census, November 1828; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.paperturn-view.com/?pid=NDM43339&p=83 (DIGITISED)

[Davies] William / 26 [sic] / [ship] Portland / 1824 / Householder
[Davies] Euphemia Davies / 26 [sic] / [Portland] / [1824] . . .
Robert / 3 // Peter / 2 // James / 2 months / [all born in the colony]

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser [NSW] (15 September 1829), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2193421

MRS. DAVIES begs to inform the Ladies of Paramatta and its Vicinity, that she will give Lessons upon the
PIANOFORTE, DRAWING, and the FRENCH LANGUAGE.
O'Connell-street, Parramatta, September, 1829

[Advertisement], The Sydney Times (14 December 1834), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252811491 

CAUTION. WHEREAS unforseen circumstances of too delicate a nature to give publicity having occurred in the conduct of
EUPHEMIA MARY DAVIES [sic] towards her husband, her children, and family connexions in Europe, which has caused a separation between myself and the said Euphemia Mary Davies, my Wife.
This is to give notice, that I will not be responsible for any debt or debts she may contract.
WILLIAM OWEN DAVIES. Parramatta, 28th Nov., 1834.

"MARRIAGES", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 January 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12876630 

By special license, at St. James's Church, Sydney, on the 9th instant, Robert Bonnor, Esq., of Bathurst, to Mrs. Euphemia May Davies, of Parramatta.

"FUNERAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 March 1869), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13188600 

The Friends of the late Mrs. EUPHINA MAY BONNER [sic] are invited to attend her Funeral; to move from her late residence, Newtown Road, off Parramatta-street, on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, at a quarter to 3 o'clock.
J. and G. SHYING, Undertakers, George-street South, opposite Christ Church.

"ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION", New South Wales Government Gazette (19 December 1871), 2857

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223720218 

. . . In the goods of Euphemia May Bonnor, late of Bathurst . . . deceased . . .

DAVIES, Jane (Jane PRICE; [1] Mrs. Frederic MESSITER; [2] Mrs. John DAVIES; DAVIS; "Desda")

Songwriter, poet, author

Born Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, 1837; baptised Rodborough, 30 July 1837; daughter of William PRICE and Anne PEGLER
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 1839 (with parents, per Argyle, aged "2")
Married (1) Frederic MESSITER (d. 1860), St. Mary's, Balmain, NSW, 10 June 1857
Married (2) John DAVIES (d. 1891), St. Michael's, Surry Hills, NSW, 26 March 1861
Died North Sydney, NSW, 25 March 1890, aged "53"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Jane+Price+Messiter+Davis+(Desda)+d1890 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-470920 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-Jane-Desda (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Jane Messiter of Balmain, "Desda", was both author of the words and dedicatee of Ernesto Spagnoletti, senior's song Your Willie has returned dear, an "answer" to Willie we have missed you by the American songwriter and composer Stephen Foster.

Her husband, Frederic Messiter, died in February 1860, and in March 1861 Jane married John Davies, a draper, of Kiandra House, George-street, Sydney, who in the meantime, in August 1860, had "published" her second song, Cooey, also set to music by Spagnoletti senior.

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish of Rodborough in the county of Gloucester in the year 1837; register 1813-44, page 168; Gloucestershire Archives, P272 in 1/5

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/554563:5066 (PAYWALL)

No. 1341 / [1837] July 30th / Jane daug'r of / William & Anne / Price / Stroud / Iron founder . . .

Assisted immigrants per Argyle, 1 April 1839; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/65957:1204 (PAYWALL)

. . . Price William / 56 / Gloucestershire / Currier // Anne / 40 / Servant // William / 10 / Child // . . . Jane / 2 . . .

"MARRIAGES", The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (17 June 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12997127 

On the 10th instant, at St. Mary's, Balmain, by the Rev. W. Stack, Mr. Frederic Messiter, of Malmesbury, Wilts, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late William Price, Esq., of Rodborough Fort, Gloucestershire.

[News], Empire (18 October 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64091601

The welcome given to "Willie" - on his return home - in the song of "Willie, we have missed you," has induced a Sydney poet - writing under the soubriquet of "Desda" - to express Willie's gratitude for his kind reception. To the text of "Your Willie has returned, dear," - an answer to the above, named well known song - Mr. Spagnoletti, one of the best musicians in this city, has composed a remarkably pretty song, which has just been published by Messrs. Henry Marsh and Co. In the simple ballad school, English composers excel; there is an air of touching homeliness in this class of composition, that appeals to the tenderest feelings. The song under notice has a very pleasing, but simple, unornamented, and flowing melody. It is within the compass of every voice, extending only to E, the entire distance including a note more than the octave. The accompaniment is also exceedingly light and easy of execution. We are convinced that if this ballad be occasionally heard, it will be come one of the most popular songs of the day.

ASSOCIATIONS: Ernest Spagnoletti senior (composer); Henry Marsh (musicseller, publisher)

"CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (9 December 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13034195

Balmain seems quite a musical suburb. Only about a fortnight since we reported a successful and well attended concert in aid of the funds of the School of Arts, and our columns of to-day advertise another for this evening. Signor Spagnoletti intends favouring the residents of Balmain, and we trust that they in return will patronise his efforts to afford amusement at once intellectual and entertaining. Four new songs appear in the programme, two of which have not yet been sung in public, "Cooey," written by the Australian songstress "Desda," is one of them; the music of which, by Spagnoletti, we hear from private sources is extremely new and pretty.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 July 1860), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13043712

COO-EY, an Australian Song, published by JOHN DAVIS [sic], draper. Kiandra House, George-street.
COO-EY, new Song, to be had at Kiandra House, and the principal Music-sellers.

"NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 August 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13043918 

Under the euphonistic name of "Coo-ey," a new song has issued from the musical press, the words by, an Australian lady, and the music by Spagnoletti, R.A. Most of our readers are aware that the title is derived from the aboriginal cry by which the dusky denizens of the bush make known their whereabouts to each other. The "argument" of the poetry, however, has nothing whatever to do with the aborigines, but is the simple recital of how a young maiden wandered from a pic-nic party and could not find them again - how she resorts to the "Coo-ey," and is overheard by a youth, who conducts, her safely to her friends. The denouement being that "He's blessed the star that led the maid to rove," as he found a "trusting wife within the grove." The peculiar tone in which this cry is usually given is preserved in the music, with such modulations as make it accord with the preceding passages. The printing is very clear and good; the publisher is Mr. John Davis, of Kiandra House, George-street.

"NEW MUSIC", The Australian Home Companion (11 August 1860), 23

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72484765

Coo-ey! This very characteristic Australian song has come under our notice. The poetry is excellent, the subject very interesting, the aboriginal cry gracefully introduced. The music (by Signor Spagnoletti) is simple, but pretty; within the compass of ordinary singers, and with a very easy accompaniment. No doubt the publisher, Mr. Davis, of Kiandra House, Sydney, will meet with a large demand for this song.

"ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE", Empire (21 August 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60496606

. . . A new song, under the eccentric title of "Cooey," has been published, the music by Signor Spagnoletti, and the words by a lady already favourably known to the public. It is a simple, pleasing production, and has already attained considerable popularity . . .

"MUSICAL", Empire (22 August 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60496704

Since the last summary we have two, new and pleasing songs, Cooey, written by Desda, composed by Spagnoletti, R.A. . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (21 August 1860), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60496608 

COOEY. - The second edition of this popular song will shortly appear. JOHN DAVIES, Kiandra House.
COOEY tells the tale of many a fair Australian. JOHN DAVIES, Draper, Kiandra House.
COOEY's a pretty, simple, truthful Ballad. To be had of all Music Sellers.
COOEY. - Hourly increasing demand for this charming little Song. JOHN DAVIES, Kiandra House.

1861, marriages solemnized in district of Sydney, St. Michael, Surry Hills; Anglican Diocese of Sydney

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/900355106:611 (PAYWALL)

No. 64 / St. Michael's Church Surry Hills Sydney March 26th 1861 / John Davies [sic] / [born] England / Draper / Full age / George St. Sydney / [son of] John Davies, Farmer, [and] Sarah (Morgan)
Jane Messiter / [widowed] Feb'y 8th 1860 / [born] England / - / Full age / Botany Rd. Sydney / [daughter of] William Price, iron founder [and] Anne (Pegler) . . .

"MARRIAGES", Empire (8 April 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60494676 

DAVIES - PRICE - On the 25th March, at St. Michael's, by the Rev. H. S. King, Mr. John Davies, of Kiandra House, George-street, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Price, of Stroudwater, Gloucestershire, and widow of the late Frederic Messiter, B.A., late of Balmain.

"COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT TO MISS SPAGNOLETTI", The Maitland Mercury (11 March 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18696764

. . . the vocal gem of the evening was "Una voce poco fa" - the celebrated cavatina in "Il barbiere de Seviglia," which was executed by Miss Spagnoletti in her best style, and elicited most rapturous applause. She also sang "Good-bye," and being encored, sang "Rolling home to merry England," and "Cooey," all of which were most favourably received by the audience . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Nina Spagnoletti (vocalist)

"NEW PUBLICATIONS, ETC.", Illustrated Sydney News (23 December 1871), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63618442

The Rival Fairies, an Australian Story, by "Desda" (E. Turner, Hunter-street). - This is a pleasant little story, pleasantly told, about "Little Minnie's Troubles" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Edward Turner (publisher, printer)

"Deaths", The Sydney Morning Herald (26 May 1890), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13770600 

DAVIES. - May 25, at Leddicott, Lavender Bay, North Shore, Jane, the wife of John Davies, aged 53 years.

Musical publications:

Your Willie has returned dear (1859)

Your Willie has returned dear, answer to "Willie we have missed you," dedicated to Mrs. F. Messiter, words by DESDA, composed by Spagnoletti, R.A. (Sydney: H. Marsh and Co., [1859]); "John Degotardi, printer"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13522608

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-164963198 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Ernest Spagnoletti senior (composer); Henry Marsh (musicseller, publisher); John Degotardi (printer, engraver)

SONG: Willie we have missed you (by Stephen C. Foster)

Cooey (1859-60)

Cooey! popular Australian song, composed by Signor Spagnoletti, R.A. [on page 1: "words by an Australian Lady; music by Spagnoletti, R.A.; to Madame Sara Flower, as sung by Nina Spagnoletti."] (Sydney: James Reading & Co., [1860])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13522435

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-177911327 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (dedicatee); Nina Spagnoletti (vocalist); James Reading (publisher)

VIDEO RECORDING: Live performance by Elizabeth Connell (1946-2012), London, November 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM5FiSfDrEE (STREAMED)

Other publications:

The rival fairies; or, Little Mamie's troubles, an Australian story for children by Desda (Sydney: Edward Turner, 1871)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12217613

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52798937 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Edward Turner (publisher, printer)

And see also, among others in newspapers, "AUSTRALIA . . . [BY] DESDA", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 August 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13045077

And "THE RELIEF OF THE DISTRESSED . . . [BY] DESDA", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 July 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13145402

Bibliography and resources:

Angus Trumble, "Desda", The Trumble diaries (website), posted 30 January 2011

http://angustrumble.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/desda.html

DAVIES, John (John DAVIES; J. DAVIES)

Amateur actor, comedian, vocalist, theatre proprietor and manager, newspaper journalist and proprietor, publican, convict, emancipist

Born London, England, c. 1813; son of John Michael DAVIES (d. 1873) and Hannah BENJAMIN (d. 1866)
Convicted Middlesex, London, England, 6 December 1830 (transportation for 7 years)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), August 1831 (convict per Argyle)
Married Elizabeth ELLIS (c. 1819-1877), Penrith, NSW, 16 December 1840
Died Hobart, TAS, 11 June 1872, aged "59"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Davies+c1813-1872 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463412 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIES-John (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Ann Davies Falchon (sister, actor); Arthur Falchon (brother-in-law, actor)

Documentation:

Convict record, John Davis, per Argyle; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1385879

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1385879 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-10$init=CON31-1-10P63 (DIGITISED)

691 / Davies John / Argyle Aug't 5, 1831 / Midd'x 6 Dec'r 1830 / . . . Stated his offence. Fraud. Single.

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-3$init=CON18-1-3P15 (DIGITISED)

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON14-1-2$init=CON14-1-2P31 (DIGITISED)

Davis John / trade: 2nd Class Clerk / 5 ft 4 in / Age 18 . . . // . . . [born] London

"AMATEUR THEATRICALS", Port Phillip Gazette [Melbourne, NSW (VIC)] (23 February 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225012023 

As announced, the first night's entertainment of amateur theatricals came off on Monday night last, for the benefit of the Hospital Fund. The building chosen for the display of dramatic talent and decoration was the house known as the Pavilion, in Bourke-street. This theatre, the first of which Melbourne has been possessed, was originally built under the auspices of a party of the name of Hodge, and is, we understand, the property of Mr. Jamieson, landlord of the ----- [Eagle Tavern] . . . Mr. Buckingham, of the Gazette office, undertook the arduous duties of stage manager . . . [in The widow's victim] . . . Mr. Davies, of the Patriot, is scarcely of the calibre of a Jeremiah Clip, his weight and size, on so small a stage, being rather against the running action and pantomine [sic] kept up in the scenes where the barber is the prominent figure. His ludicrous imitations of the celebrated actors, interlarded with love-making, in his own peculiar fashion, his personation of two different characters, and his general accuracy and self-possession, received their due meed of applause . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Buckingham (actor, manager); Pavilion Theatre (Melbourne venue, later styled "Royal Victoria Theatre")

[Advertisement], Port Phillip Gazette [Melbourne, NSW (VIC)] (8 June 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225011052 

THE GREATEST NOVELTY OF THE SEASON.
MR. DAVIES' BENEFIT. TOMORROW EVENING, June 9, 1842,
will be performed, for the first time in the Province, with new Scenery, Music, Machinery, dresses, Decorations, &c.,
the popular melodrama, THERESE; OR, THE ORPHAN OF GENEVA.
For beauty of scenery, variety of incident, and moreover, for powerful developement of plot,
Mr. Buckingham feels confident this admired play will stand first of any scenic representation yet exhibited on the Melbourne Stage.
The scenery is entirely new, and painted expressly for the piece by Mr. Southall;
the music by Mr. Brown; the Dresses by Mr. Brock; the Machinery by Mr. Sewart; the Properties by Mr. Warman;
and the whole under the entire direction of Mr. Buckingham.
Count de Morville (Lover of Therese) - Mr. Smith.
Fontaine (the Pastor) - Mr. Capper.
Crawin (the denouncer) - Mr. Buckingham.
Lavigue (the Lodge-keeper) - Mr. Davies.
Picard (Steward to the Countess) - Mr. Miller.
Delpare (a Magistrate) - Mr. J. M. Smith.
Judge Hawthorn - Mr. Brown.
Therese (the Orphan of Geneva) - Miss Southall.
Countess de Morville - Miss Sinclair.
Bridget (Wife of Lavigne) - Mrs. Avins . . .

"THE AMATEUR THEATRE", Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser (13 June 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226512221 

The performances on Thursday evening at the Amateur Theatre were for the benefit of Mr. Davies, and the manner in which the house was attended, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather and the miserable state of the streets, shewed sufficiently that his merits as an actor are appreciated in Melbourne. The pieces selected were "Therese, or the Orphan of Geneva," and "The Widow's Victim," the former for the first and the latter for the second time. "Therese" was a most indubitable failure, and its defects as a performance were rendered more glaring by the very injudicious conduct of the manager, who lost his temper on some symptoms of disapprobation from the audience, and twice interrupted the performance to expostulate with the hissers. For this very blameable conduct, however, he subsequently apologized. Another species of misconduct on the same occasion requires notice at our hands - Messrs. Davies and Boursiquot are accused of gagging, aggravated in the former case by the allusion being of a personal description, and in the latter case by want of delicacy. However laughable these squibs may be, or, however fair the hits which may be made at the foibles of particular individuals, they must not he again tolerated, and we trust the audience will have sufficient respect for themselves to put them down instanter. "The Widow's Victim" went off with great eclat. The Theatre opens again this evening, for particulars we refer our render to the bill of fare in another column.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Darley Boursiquot (amateur)

[Advertisement], Port Phillip Gazette [Melbourne, NSW (VIC)] (18 June 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225009399 

ADVERTISEMENT. To the Editor the Port Phillip Gazette.
Sir - You will confer a favor on those ladies and gentlemen composing the Corps Dramatique by inserting the correspondence which has passed between [? us] and Mr. McLauren, in reference to that individual's riotous conduct in the theatre on Thursday night.
G. BUCKINGHAM, Melbourne, 17th June, 1842.
TO MR. McLAUREN.
We, the members of the Amateur Theatre, feel it our duty to call upon you, in consequence of your gross conduct during the progress of the performance on ????? day evening last, to apologise to us [? i]ting for the very ungentlemanly manner you insulted the ladies of this company with your drunken remarks, otherwise, we feel it our duty to charge you before the Police Magistrate with obstructing the Constables in the execution of their duty, and creating a disturbance in the Theatre. And, we beg to call your attention to Major St. John's upright decision in the case of Mr. Moles, and we shall also deem it expedient to publish an account of your act in the Melbourne journals.
Your immediate reply is required. We are, Sir, Yours &c., &c.,
George Buckingham,
John Davies,
James Southall,
William John Miller,
Richard Smith,
James Warman,
H. S. Avins,
Robert Stainsby,
Richard Capper,
Joseph Harper.
MR. McLAUREN'S REPLY.
I am called upon by the Stewards of Amateur Theatricals, I may favor them an apology, but I do not intend in the first instance to confer with subordinates. J. M. McLAUREN, [ ? Police] Office, June 17.

ASSOCIATIONS: William John Miller (amateur actor, vocalist); Henry Stacey Avins (amateur actor); Robert Stainsby (musician); Joseph Harper (dancer, dancing master)

"DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE", Port Phillip Gazette (18 June 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225009389 

The stewards of the Amateur Theatricals held a meeting in the Pavilion, at noon, on Thursday last, to audit the accounts, take steps for the renewal of the license, and order the entertainments for the closing weeks of the season, so as to invest them with the greatest amount of attraction . . . The Melbourne corps dramatique are about to present Mr. Buckingham, the Stage Manager, with a handsome silver cigar case, neatly chased, and suitably inscribed, as an acknowledgement of his kind and assiduous care, in training them up to the profession. Nothing could be more appropriate on the part of the performers, and no one could have so well earned the gratifying present as Mr. Buckingham. At the commencement of the season, this gentleman had to form a corps of actors and actresses out of the most heterogeneous materials; how well he has succeeded, let the semi-weekly entertainments at the Pavilion bear witness. With the exception of Mr. Millar, Mrs. Avins, and Mr. Davies, Mr. Buckingham had to deal with persons totally unacquainted both with the commonest practices of the histrionic art, and with their own capabilities. With equal perseverance and judgment, he has successfully drilled a company of twelve performers, and developed their respective talents. When the offering has been presented, we shall take an opportunity of describing it more minutely . . .

[Advertisement], Port Phillip Gazette (10 September 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225008587 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . . . This Evening . . . will be performed . . . One O'Clock; OR, THE WOOD DEMON . . .
Mr. Davis and Mr. Batters having retired from the Theatre, the characters of Hardyknute and the Wood Demon will be represented by Mr. Cipper [sic, Capper] and an Amateur . . .

ASSOCIATIONS:

"THE THEATRE", Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser (29 September 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226509272 

The performances at the theatre this evening are for the farewell benefit of Mr. Davies, who is so universally a favorite among the play-going people that nothing short of a bumper audience can be expected. - The pieces selected for the occasion are Billy Taylor, or the Gay Young Fellow, and the Wood Demon, the former an established favorite everywhere, and the latter a crack piece in the Melbourne theatre.

"THE THEATRE", Melbourne Times (15 August 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226925286 

By special permission of the Magistrates this place of amusement was opened last evening for the benefit of Mr. Davies, under the patronage of the Licensed Victuallers' Society. We were happy to see that the house was a bumper. The pieces selected for the evening's performance were, the Maid and the Magpie, and the Married Bachelor; all the characters being sustained in a manner which left no doubt that Melbourne has its dramatic talent . . .

"VICTORIA THEATRE", The Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser [Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)] (10 May 1844), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232482646 

Madame Adelle's benefit took place on Monday evening last, and we were most agreeably surprised at the result, for the evening's entertainments were gone through with great eclat; indeed, we had not the slightest conception, that, in addition to Mrs. Clarke's company at present performing at Launceston, so efficient a corps dramatique could be procured in the colony . . . Not the least attractive portion of the evening's entertainments, was the first appearance of a Mr. Davis, from the Sydney and Port Phillip Theatres, who made one of the most successful debuts we ever witnessed on our colonial stage; his acting, in all the pieces, was excellent, but more particularly in Love in Humble Life. We hope Mrs. Clarke will avail herself of his valuable services, as he will be a great acquisition to her Theatre . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Adele Veilburn (dancer); Anne Remens Clarke (actor, vocalist, manager); Royal Victoria Theatre (Hobart venue)

[Shipping news], Port Phillip Gazette (15 June 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224812455 

A vessel supposed to be the Henry from Launceston in sight at sundown. Private letters from Launceston, state that Mr. Davies, late of the Melbourne stage, together with Mrs. Clarke and others of the crops dramatique in Launceston are passengers by the Henry.

"THE THEATRE", The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (1 September 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226348279 

Last night Messrs. Boyd and Davies re-appeared on the boards; their reception was most flattering. They are decidedly the best performers at present on the boards of the Queen's Theatre, and have been absent too long.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Spencer Boyd (actor); Queen's Theatre (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (26 October 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226349656 

QUEEN'S THEATRE ROYAL. MR. DAVIES S BENEFIT.
Under the immediate Patronage of the Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen , and Town Councillors of Melbourne, who have signified their intention of honoring the Theatre with their presence on this occasion.
Mr. DAVIES has the honor most respectfully to announce to the gentry of Melbourne, his friends, and the public generally, that his Benefit is fixed for
THIS EVENING, OCT. 26TH, When he trusts to receive a continuation of that patronage he has hitherto enjoyed, and which has ever been his study to merit.
MR. BATTERS, MR. WINTER, and a GENTLEMAN AMATEUR, have kindly given their assistance for this night only.
In the course of the evening the Orchestra will perform the celebrated overture of "Fra Diavolo," and the "Marriage of Figaro."
THIS EVENING, OCT. 26, 1846, Will be presented for the first time at this Theatre, with new and appropriate scenery, dresses, and decorations, the celebrated Drama, entitled,
GUSTAVUS THE THIRD; OR, THE MASKED BALL.
Klaubert - Mr. DAVIES.
(Grand Gallopade by the Characters.)
Clown (with Comic dance) - Master Chambers
Celebrated Medley Dance (first time) - Mr. Chambers
[REDACTED] song (new version) "Sich a Getting-up Stairs" - Mr. Newson
Song - "The, Anchor's Weighed" - Mr. Falchon.
Mr. Douglass will then perform several astounding acrobatic feats.
After which, the Drama will proceed.
*** In order to give sufficient time to arrange and light up the masquerade scene, between the second and third acts, the following songs will be sung in front of the Act drop.
The Rover, in character (first time at this Theatre) - Mr. Falchon
[REDACTED] song - "Sitting on de Rail" - Mr. Newson
After the Drama,
Highland Fling - Mr. Chambers
National Medley Dance - Master Chambers.
To be followed with, the celebrated song and chorus from
JACK SHEPPARD. Blueskin - Mr. DAVIES.
Naval Hornpipe - By an Amateur.
The evening's entertainments will conclude with, for the first time, the laughable Farce, entitled,
A GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. Paul - Mr. DAVIES.
N. B. - Ladies and gentlemen desirous of assuming characters in the masquerade scene, which is thrown open to the public, in accordance with the plan adopted at the London Theatres, are requested to make early application for tickets, in order that masks and dresses may be prepared.
Tickets and Boxes to he had from Mr. Davies, at the Theatre; at the Royal Hotel; the Prince of Wales; the Commercial Inn; Pullar's and Pitman's Stationery Warehouse; Clarke's Music Warehouse; and from the principal Shop and Innkeepers in Melbourne.
J. T. SMITH, Proprietor.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Chambers senior and junior (dancers); Frederick Newson (vocalist); Arthur Falchon (vocalist, Davies's brother-in-law); John Thomas Smith (proprietor)

MUSIC: Song and chorus in Jack Sheppard (Buckstone) probably Nix my dolly pals fake away (Rodwell)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (4 January 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12894843 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JANUARY 4 . . . To conclude with the laughable Farce of THE MIDDY ASHORE . . .
Tom Cringle (boatswain of the "Billy Ruffin,") Mr. Davies, from the Melbourne Theatre . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

"SALE OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE",

According to previous announcement, this celebrated building was yesterday brought to the hammer by Mr. T. Y. Lowes . . . The bidding commenced by Mr. Judah Solomon offering £1000; Mr. Butler said £2000; then £2500 Mr. Davis; after a pause Mr. P. Oldham bid £2800; next Mr. E. Butler £2900; Mr. Douglas, T. Kilburn, Mr. Lewis, and others also made offers, - the few closing bids resting principally between the two last-named gentlemen, who advanced £50 above each other until £3200 was reached; and at that figure the building was eventually knocked down to Mr. Richard Lewis, - the purchase including the properties attached to the theatre. A small allotment at the rear was also knocked down to the same gentleman at £72. Immediately upon Mr. Lewis becoming the purchaser, he granted a lease for five years to Mr. John Davies, of the Waterloo, and Mr. Watson, of long theatrical renown in the colonies, for five years, at an excellent rent; the possession immediate; and as the present tenant (Mr. Osborne) "finishes up" tonight, a short recess will be occupied in the performing such repairs and alterations as are required to make this a comfortable and attractive place of amusement, which under the lesseeship of two such veterans as Davis and Watson, we have no doubt it will become . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Feltham Bold Watson (actor, manager); Robert James Osborne (actor, manager); Royal Victoria Theatre (Hobart venue)

"POLICE COURT. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 . . . A CASE OF THEATRICALS. Davis v. Beauchamp", The Hobart Town Advertiser [TAS] (30 June 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264628258 

The hearing of this case attracted a crowded auditory, among whom were the principal members of the corps dramatique now in Hobart Town. Mr. John Davies, on behalf of himself and Mr. Watson, Lessees of the Victoria Theatre, complained of Robert Beauchamp, one of the Victoria Theatre performers, setting forth that the said Robert Beauchamp, being hired and engaged by the complainant, did on the 27th June, absent himself from his service, before the termination of his contract . . .
Mr. Davies, being sworn, deposed to the following effect: -
The defendant and his wife were engaged at £4 a week, Mrs. Beauchamp to act, and defendant to perform and assist in scene painting. Notice was given annul that contract, but on Saturday last he agreed to an engagement to act and assist in scene painting at £2 a week. Cross-examined by Mr. Macdowell - He was not engaged as a comedian; we engage no parties in our theatre as comedians; they are engaged for general utility - (a laugh) . . . A person named Warner at Melbourne was our agent. An agreement, in writing, between Mr. Warner, the Melbourne agent, and defendant, here shown to the witness . . . Our agent exceeded our instructions first in allowing defendant's salary to take a retrospective effect; secondly, in giving Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp a free passage to this colony, instead of binding them to repay us, as instructed; and, thirdly, for giving passages to Mr. Beauchamp's four children, contrary to our intentions. All the company we brought to this colony were bound to repay us by small instalments, if we demanded it; the agent exceeded his authority, also, in engaging Mr. and Mrs. Elmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp; we only intending either one or the other to be engaged; we entered into a new agreement with defendant shortly alter he arrived; he did not go on the stage in Hobart Town before the new arrangement was made; yes, he first played to see what he was worth (a laugh), and we then told him we would give him the salary; after his wife had performed once or twice, we found her of no use to us . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Beauchamp and wife (actors); John Adam Elmer and wife (actors)

"Local Intelligence", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (24 August 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172860305 

. . . We hear that Mr. John Davies has disposed of his interest in the theatre to Mr. F. B. Watson the present acting manager and co-lessee. Both Messrs. Watson and Davies are deserving of public support, as they took the theatre, painted and decorated it in a handsome manner, engaged all the available talent in this and the neighbouring colonies, at a time when theatricals were at a very low ebb indeed in this city. We hope Mr. Davies will not quit his connexion with the Victoria before he takes a benefit, in order to let his friends have an opportunity of testifying their appreciation of his enterprise in the Victoria Theatre.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Courier (4 July 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2239747 

TOMORROW EVENING, July 5, 1854.
FAREWELL BENEFIT of A'BECKETT EVANS, Stage Manager.
On which occasion the following artists will appear: Mr. Kemble Mason, Mrs. Brougham, Madame Carandini, and Mr. John Davies, who has kindly volunteered his aid.
Mr. A'Beckett Evans will appear in three favorite characters. Under the patronage of the Licensed Victuallers . . .
The performances will conclude with the celebrated farce of MARRIED AND BURIED,
Benjamin Bowbell, with the original song, Mr. J. Davies; Gimbo, with its original song, Mr. A'Beckett Evans . . .
F. B. WATSON - Lessee. Musical Director, MR. L. H. LAVENU.
A'B. EVANS - Stage Manager.

ASSOCIATIONS: Emma Brougham (actor); Maria Carandini (actor, vocalist); Richard A'Beckett Evans (actor, vocalist); Lewis Henry Lavenu (musical director to Maria Carandini)

MUSIC: Oh I weep for the hour (music by Isaac Nathan); in The illustrious stranger (or, Married and buried)

"LOW COMEDY", The Courier (7 June 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2462649 

Fit materials for the skeleton of a comedy may probably be gleaned at the Police-office on Wednesday next, when the indomitable John Dunn, the low comedian, figures as the defendant to an information preferred against him by the enormous John Davies, proprietor of the Mercury, for a threatened assault, or something of that kind on Friday night last.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Benjamin Dunn (comedian)

"SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SITTING. SATURDAY, APRIL 13TH . . . UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING", The Hobart Town Advertiser (15 April 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264665561 

John Davies was brought up on the charge of maliciously wounding Samuel Prout Hill. A second count charged the offence as a common assault . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Samuel Prout Hill (victim)

"DEATHS", The Mercury (23 April 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8838898 

DAVIES - At Sydney, after a long and painful illness, on the 17th inst., Hannah, the wife of Michael John Davies, aged 77 years, - the mother of the proprietor of this journal.

"DEATH OF MR. JOHN DAVIES, M.H.A.", The Mercury (15 June 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8923225 

We believe we no ways exaggerate public feeling when we say that seldom has there been such a general expression of regret as was caused yesterday forenoon by the unexpected death of Mr. JOHN DAVIES, so long connected with this journal . . . As a man of business he had few equals. Eighteen years ago having purchased the Guardian newspaper he, in partnership with another gentleman, started The Mercury, under by no means encouraging circumstances. But he was not a man to be easily daunted . . .

"DEATHS", The Mercury (6 January 1874), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8927463 

DAVIES. - On the 27th December, at Windsor, N.S.W., Michael John Davies, in his 86th year, father of the late proprietor of this Journal.

DAVIES, John Morris (John Morris DAVIES; J. M. DAVIES)

Amateur musician, violinist, flute and piccolo player, flautist, bandsman, tobacconist, publican

Born Launceston, VDL (TAS), 5 November 1842; son of James DAVIES (c. 1810-1880) and Ann Jane FRANCIS (c. 1820-1904)
Married Emma Banks, Launceston, TAS, 9 January 1868
Died Launceston, TAS, 16 March 1901, aged "58"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Morris+Davies+1842-1901 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

1842, births in the district of Launceston; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1105188; RGD33/1/23/ no 1212

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1105188 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD33-1-23$init=RGD33-1-23-P708 (DIGITISED)

No. 1212 / 5 November / John Morris / Male / [of] Jane Davies / Anne Jane Davies formerly Francis / Blacksmith . . .

1868, marriages in the district of Launceston; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:873069; RGD37/1/27 no 527

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/873069 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-27$init=RGD37-1-27P276 (DIGITISED)

No. 288 [527] / House of Abraham Banks Evandale 9th Jan'y 1868 / John Morris Davies / 25 / Bachelor / [and] Emma Banks / 22 / Spinster . . . Church of Scotland . . .

"POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT", Launceston Examiner [TAS] (14 September 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36705959 

A popular entertainment was given last night, in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute, under the auspices of the "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association," when some of our most popular amateurs took part, as well as Messrs. Linly Norman and J. H. Melvyn, whose services had been engaged for the occasion as instrumentalists . . . the room being comfortably full. The programme was one of more than ordinary interest, embracing an equal proportion of vocal and instrumental music, with reading, recitations, &c., and each part opening with an overture, in which the performers were Messrs. Norman, Melvyn, Abbott, Roberts, Harris, C. Galvin, Chick, Davies, Joscelyne, and A. Hart . . .
The following was the programme: Part 1. - Overture, "L'Italiana In Algieri," orchestra . . . Part 2. - Overture - "Bohemian Girl," orchestra . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Linly Norman (pianist); James Hadock Melvyn (musician); W. Abbott (violin); Henry Roberts and/or son (violin); Robert Douglas Harris (cornet); Charles Galvin (clarinet); John Chick (violin); Samuel Joscelyne (cello); Anthony Hart (cello)

"POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (15 September 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65984918 

The first entertainment of a series to be given by the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association took place in the large hall of Mechanics' Institute on Monday evening . . . The orchestra consisted of Mr. Abbott (first violin), Mr. J. M. Davies (violin), Mr. Charles Galvin (clarionet), and Mr. Harris (cornet). The overture of L'Italiana in Algieri elicited a burst of applause seldom accorded here to any mere instrumental music . . . The programme was a long one including readings, recitations, the overtures "Bohemian Girl" and "Haydn's Symphony No. 3" . . . and Mr. J. M. Davies a flute solo "My Pretty Jane" . . .

"MECHANICS INSTITUTE", Launceston Examiner (21 October 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36706679 

A popular entertainment by amateurs was given at the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening, but was sparsely attended . . . We append the programme. - Guy Mannering, Messrs. Abbott, Roberts, Galvin, J. M. Davies, A. Hart, Joscelyne, Biggs, C. Kemp, and Chick . . . overture, - "Tancredi," Messrs. Abbott, Henry, Hart, Biggs, Davies, Galvin, Joscelyne, and Chick . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (bassoon)

"GRAND AMATEUR CONCERT", Launceston Examiner (25 July 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39688424 

A grand amateur concert of vocal and instrumental music, in aid of the funds required for the improvement of the boat used in the Mission work in Bass's Straits, was given at the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening . . . The concert was commenced about a quarter to eight, by an overture "Fra Diavolo" by a very full and efficient orchestra, consisting of the Rev. W. A. Brooke and Messrs. T. Sharp, Abbott, Chick, Day, Galvin, J. M. Davies, W. Sharp, Joscelyne, and Douglas Harris . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Warren Auber Brooke (amateur musician); Thomas Sharp (violin); William Sharp (double bass)

"GRAND CONCERT AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", The Cornwall Chronicle (4 September 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66025540 

On Monday evening a grand vocal and instrumental concert was given in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute in aid of the widow of the late Mr. Jesse Biggs . . . The concert commenced with Auber's overture to "Masaniello," by ten performers - Mr. Thos. Sharp, Mr. Abbott, and Mr. Chick (violins), Mr. Wm. Sharp (double bass), Mr. Joscelyne and Mr. A. Hart (violoncellos), Mr. C. Galvin (clarionet), Mr. J. M. Davies (flute), Mr. A. Day and Mr. R. D. Harris (cornets), and Mrs. H. B. Nicholls presided at the pianoforte. The overture was excellently performed, in perfect time, and with fine effect. It gave entire satisfaction, and elicited universal applause . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew John Day (cornet)

"SACRED & SECULAR CONCERT", Weekly Examiner (5 July 1873), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233103911 

The members of St. John's Church Choir, assisted by a few friends, on Tuesday evening last gave a concert in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute, in aid of a fund for providing an organ for St. John's Church Sunday School . . . rendered to a large audience in a manner that must have been as gratifying to the conductor, Mr. T. Sharp, as it was satisfactory to those present. The first piece was a sacred overture "Samson," by the orchestra, composed as follows: - Messrs. W. Abbott (piano), Thomas Sharp, John Chick, Jas. Tevelein (violins), W. Sharp (bass viol), A. Hart (violincello), J. Galvin and T. J. Doolan (clarionets), A. Day and Douglas-Harris (cornopeans), J. M. Davies (flute). This is, perhaps, the best orchestra that can be formed in Launceston, and this grand overture was performed in fine style, as was also the sublime, soft, and silvery pastoral symphony subsequently . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Tevelein (violin); Joseph Galvin (clarinet); Thomas Joseph Doolan (clarinet)

"CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WESTBURY. OPENING CEREMONIES. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20", Launceston Examiner (21 May 1874), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52893100 

This being the day fixed for the solemn opening of the new Roman Catholic Church at Westbury, by the Most Rev. Bishop Murphy, arrangements were made for giving eclat to the ceremonies, and special efforts were made to render the music as perfect and attractive as possible. The programme included the celebration of solemn High Mass Coram Pontifice, the choir, with full orchestral accompaniments, to perform Mozart's No. XII. Mass . . . The Orchestra comprised the following: Violins - Messrs. T. Sharp, W. Abbott, J. Chick, J. Tevelein; Violoncellos - Messrs. A. Hart, S. Joscelyn; Contrabasso - Mr. W. Sharp; Flute - Mr. J. M. Davies; Cornopean - Messrs. R. D. Harris and A. Day; Organ - Miss Dowling . . . The vocal department was under the direction of Mr. J. H. Melvyn; the instrumental arrangements were under the superintendance of Mr. T. Sharp . . .

"DEATHS", Daily Telegraph (27 March 1901), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153966666 

DAVIES. - On the 26th March, at his residence, Ship Hotel, Lower George-street, John Morris, eldest son of Ann and the late James Davies, aged 58 years.

"OBITUARY. JOHN MORRIS DAVIES. Launceston, March 27", Tasmanian News (27 March 1901), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article185258580 

John Morris Davies, landlord of the Ship Hotel, died shortly before midnight on Tuesday, after a lingering illness, at the age of 58 years. The deceased served his apprenticeship to the ironmongery business of Mr. Wm. Hart, and in his young days was a smart business man, as well as being endowed with social qualities that made him extremely popular with his associates. He was an excellent musician, being one of the finest piccolo players in the North of the Island, and a leading member of one of the Launceston bands. For some years past, Mr. Davies has been totally blind, having lost his sight through an attack of influenza. He leaves a widow and large family of sons and daughters.

DAVIS, Mrs. (Mrs. DAVIS)

Musician, teacher of music and dancing, school mistress (Norfolk House)

Active Parramatta, NSW, 1840-47

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Mrs-1840s (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Australasian Chronicle [Sydney, NSW] (29 December 1840), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31730288 

NORFOLK HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT, for Young Ladies, Parramatta, under the immediate patronage of the Right Rev. Doctor Polding.
The system of education embraces reading, writing, arithmetic and bookkeeping, use of the globes, the French and Italian languages, plain and ornamental needlework, drawing, music, and dancing.
To enlighten and improve the mind, by an education solid, and fit to form young ladies for society, is the object Mrs. Davis proposes to herself in this establishment, of which she is the proprietor.
The situation is delightful and healthy, and Mrs. D. will pay strict attention to whatever may conduce to the health and comfort of her pupils.
The young ladies receive religious instruction from the sisters of charity . . .
References may be made to the Vicar General, or any of the Catholic clergymen.
The classes will be re-opened on Monday, 10th January.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Bede Polding (bishop)

"PARRAMATTA. NORFOLK HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT", Morning Chronicle (20 December 1843), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31741752

On Thursday last, at noon, the usual yearly "Examination" of the young ladies at Mrs. Davis's establishment, Norfolk House, took place in the presence of a numerous assembly of the relatives and friends of the pupils, prior to the Christmas vacation. His Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Polding, Archbishop of Sydney, the Rev. Dr. Gregory, the Reverends N. Coffee (Parramatta), Johns Fitz-patrick, and several other Clergymen, Mrs. O'Brien, Superioress of the Convent, the Sisters of Charity, and many ladies both from Sydney, and resident in Parramatta, were present during the "Examination." Specimens of the progress made by the young ladies in the various departments of Music, Drawing, Dancing, French, General History, Geography, Arithmetic . . . Several of the newest, and some very difficult overtures, rondos and duetts, were very tastefully and brilliantly executed on the Piano, and both the vocal and instrumental performances were in the highest degree creditable, as well to the fair pupils as their talented instructor. The style of dancing was greatly admired for its peculiar ease, and graceful modesty, unassuming and unstudied.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Gregory (cleric)

[Advertisement], Sydney Chronicle (4 September 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31753257

NOTICE OF REMOVAL. MRS. DAVIS begs to inform her friends and the parents and guardians of her pupils, that she has removed her establishment from Parramatta to Pitt-street South, Sydney, the residence of the late W. Hutchinson, Esq.

DAVIS, Mr. (Mr. DAVIS)

Musician, organist, pianist, pianoforte tuner

Active Goulburn, NSW, 1853

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mr+Davis+organist+1853 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Mr-Goulburn-1853 (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser [NSW] (23 April 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101731034 

INSTRUCTION ON THE PIANO-FORTE.
MR. DAVIS, Organist of St. Saviour's, Goulburn, will be prepared to receive pupils at his residence after 1st May.
Pianofortes, in town, tuned at the following rates:
Grand - £1 1 0; Cottage - 0 12 6; Square - 0 10 6

ASSOCIATIONS: See also Richard Burgess (previous organist of St. Saviour's church, also a piano tuner)

"MUSICAL", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (14 May 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101735469 

A few days since we had the pleasure of inspecting a new piano-forte, lately purchased in Sydney by Mr. Davis, the organist of St. Saviour's Church. The instrument is truly, a splendid one, combining the powerful tone of the Horizontal Grand with the sweetness of the Cabinet. It is an Erard's Patent Cottage, and is of the construction that bore away the prize at the Great Exhibition, where even Broadwood was a competitor.

DAVIS, Mr. (Mr. DAVIS, of Kennard and Davis)

Musical instrument repairer and tuner

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1855-56

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Kennard+and+Davis (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Mr (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Isaac Debock Kennard (business partner)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (3 November 1855), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4822468 

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Repaired by Kennard and Davis can be warranted to stand.
The nobility's cards sufficient guarantee as to competency.
All orders received at Mr. Prebble's, watchmaker, opposite Theatre Royal.
ORGANS, Finger and Barrell, Seraphines, Harps, Guitars, Violins, Tuned and Repaired by Kennard and Davis.

ASSOCIATIONS: Isaac Debock Kennard (musician, piano tuner); Theatre Royal (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Argus (5 November 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4822546 

PIANOFORTES Tuned, 7s. 6d.; Repaired Cleaned, Regulated, Resilked.
Kennard and Davis, from Broadwood's and Ball's, London.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Broadwood and sons (London pianoforte makers); Ball family (London pianoforte makers), several members died before 1840; James (Jacobus), in 1822; Gabriel, in 1834; and Edward, in 1836

[Advertisement], The Argus (6 March 1856), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4832516 

ORGAN BARREL for £7. Plays 21 tunes. Kennard and Davis, organ builders, Wellington-street, Collingwood.

[Advertisement], The Argus (16 March 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4833287 

PIANOFORTES and Organs, no matter, how much out of repair, tuned and repaired equal to new.
Pianofortes tuned, 7s. 6d. Highest recommendations.
Kennard and Davis, from Broadwood and Ball's, 32 Wellington-street, Collingwood, and at C. Prebble's, jeweller, opposite Theatre Royal.

DAVIS, Mr. (Mr. DAVIS)

Musician, orchestral musician

Active Sydney, NSW, 1854

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mr+Davis+musician+1854 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Mr-1854 (shareable link to this entry)

DISAMBIGUATION: Not Isaac Davis (violinist, arrived c. 1856)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (25 August 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60196081

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Andrew Torning, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THE LESSEE feels great pleasure in announcing to his friends and the public, that the above popular place of amusement, with extensive improvements, will open for dramatic and operatic performances (on a scale superior to any yet attempted in the colonies) on
MONDAY, August 2d., with the following company: -
Mr. Frank Howson, Operatic Manager.
Mr. Lavenu, Musical Director.
Mr. John Gibbs, Leader of the Orchestra . . .
ORCHESTRA. Messrs. Lavenu, John Gibbs, C. Riffel, G. Strong, J. Guerin,
Davis, R. Vaughan, M. Vaughan, Wright, Wheeler, Turner, Seymour, McLaughlin, Bing, Theobald, Earle, and Master Hudson.

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew Torning (manager); Frank Howson (operatic manager); Lewis Henry Lavenu (musical director); John Gibbs (leader, violin); Carlo Ryfell (musician); George Strong (violin); James Guerin (violin); Robert and Michael Vaughan (flute and musician); Mr. Wright (musician); Stephen Wheeler (cornet); John Turner (musician); Richard Seymour (trombone); Mr. McLaughlin (musician); Mr. Bing (musician); Robert Bishop Theobald (musician); Mr. Earle (musician); George Hudson junior (musician); Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

DAVIS, Charles Henry (Charles Henry DAVIS; C. H. DAVIS; Right Rev. Dr. DAVIS, O.S.B.)

Amateur musician, pianist, organist, vocalist, clarinet player, choral instructor, composer, Roman Catholic cleric, bishop

Born Usk, Monmouthshire, England, 18 May 1815
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 8 December 1848 (per St. George, from London and the Downs 20 August)
Died Sydney, NSW, 17 May 1854

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Charles+Henry+Davis+1815-1854 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462487 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Charles-Henry (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Charles Davis, a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, was sent to NSW to be John Bede Polding's bishop coadjutor as first bishop of Maitland.

According to the later recollections of John Henry Curtis, who, as Brother Anselm, was a monk of St. Mary's cathedral, Sydney, at the time, Davis arrived in Sydney late in 1848, and instituted "a reform" in the choir at the cathedral:

He began by selecting some simple Masses of his own composition . . . Bishop Davis was much pleased with the progress of his choir, and when he heard them sing for the first time his masterly arrangement of "Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem" in the Tenebrae service . . .

According to the Herald's report of his funeral:

On Friday the solemn requiem mass was celebrated, the choir singing the Gregorian "missa de Requiem" harmonised by the late Bishop, who to his many accomplishments added that of being a musician of a very high order of talent.

At Downside, Davis had composed for the college band.

Documentation:

England census, 6 June 1841, College of St. Gregory the Great at Downside in the parish of Midsomer Norton, Somerset; UK National Archives,

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/SOMHO107_937_939-0576?pId=13384581 (PAYWALL)

Rev. Joseph Wilson / 40 / President . . . [Rev.] Charles Davis / 26 / [Professor] . . . [Rev.] Edwin Davis / 22 / [Professor] . . .

"Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVALS", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (9 December 1848), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251538181 

Dec. 8. - St. George, ship. 605 tons, Jones, from the Downs 20th August. Passengers - Right Rev. Dr. Davis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland . . .

"IMPORTS", The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (7 May 1853), 135

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161105788 

May 6. - Zeepaard, from London . . . 1 piano, Bishop Davis . . .

"IMPORTS", Empire (3 March 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60149791 

Per Hollands Trouw from London . . . 1 case musical instruments, Rev. Bishop Davis . . .

"FUNERAL OF BISHOP DAVIS", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12957587

. . . As this is the first time the obsequies of a Bishop have been performed in this colony, it may not be without interest to describe the ceremonial observed by the Roman Catholic Church in conducting it. About six o'clock on Thursday evening, the body was removed to the Cathedral Church of St. Mary's, and placed on a handsome catafalque . . . In this state the body lay during the whole of Thursday and Friday night. It was visited throughout both days by crowds of his own and other religious denominations: and on the evening of each day the vespers for the dead were chaunted by the clergy and the choir of the cathedral. On Friday the solemn requiem mass was celebrated, the choir singing the Gregorian "missa de Requiem" harmonised by the late Bishop, who to his many accomplishments added that of being a musician of a very high order of talent . . . On reaching Subiaco the scene was most affecting . . . The scene will never be forgotten by those who witnessed that procession slowly winding down the gently-sloping road that led to the cemetery. The chantors on the way, as on leaving St. Mary's, chaunted the beautiful hymn, "May the Lord lead thee into Paradise," and also the splendid Gospel canticles "Magnificat" and "Benedictus" . . .

"THE LATE BISHOP DAVIS", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (24 June 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251542315 

. . . The music was admirably conducted by the Rev. and talented A. Curtis, O.S.B. with much feeling and exquisite taste. Such is a brief sketch of the obsequies performed for the late Bishop Davis. Cujus anima requiescant [sic] in pace - Amen. - Communicated.

ASSOCIATIONS: Anselm Curtis = John Henry Benedict Curtis (cleric)

"Lines to the Memory of Bishop Davis. Written for the Third Anniversary of His Demise - May 17, 1857", Freeman's Journal (23 May 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115558133 

. . . The hand of music now is still
That once the organ touch'd,
And his sweet voice of melody
Is now for ever hushed.
'Tis hushed, the, lov'd familiar lay -
"Laudate's" thrilling strain -
Which roused the soul's devotion deep,
O, freed the heart from pain . . . - J. J. C.

Other sources:

Correspondence, Downside Abbey records, 1819-69, Australian Joint Copying Project, reels M995-99 [finding aid]

https://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/blogs/m_995-999_downside_abbey.pdf 

Letter, Brother Henry Moore, Sydney, NSW, 16 January 1849, to Brother Adolphus Morrell; Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of Downside Abbey

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1088209548 (DIGITISED)

. . . He [Davis] appears quite delicate - whatever may be his appearance he is able to sing mass & &c. without any great fatigue . . . The present copes & vestments &c. are well worthy of such a Gothic Bishop as My Lord of Maitland who universally pleases at the altar by acting "right bishopfully" - his singing is much admired, especially the manner in which he gives the episcopal benediction . . . great changes have been expected by Dr. Davis in the choir. We manage now to recite Matins and Lauds in an hour instead of an hour and 20 minutes. The foregoing is under Dr. Davis's care. The large organ in St. Mary's with its 22 stops is going to be moved at his suggestion from the end of the church to the right hand gallery, and when they put it together again it will be put to rights - half the pipes are silent at present . . .

Letter, Bishop Charles Davis, Sydney, NSW, 3 February 1849, to Father Thomas Heptonstall; Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of Downside Abbey

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1088209621 (DIGITISED)

. . . The organ of St. Patrick's church was opened about 3 weeks ago, it is a nice instrument, and gives universal satisfaction. St. Patrick's is rather a handsome church and capable at a pinch of holding 1200 people . . . St. Benedict's church though not so large as St. Patrick's is more correct in style, but as the congregation are poor it is not so richly ornamented . . . The large organ in St. Mary's is in a deplorable state, every portion out of order - Bevington certainly made a very incomplete job of this organ though it appears to be a grand instrument. The materials were not well seasoned, and the bellows intended to supply the pedal organ is much too small, consequently this apparently fine portion of the organ is altogether lost. The Archbishop has during the last year put off doing any thing to it until my arrival. we are now busily engaged taking it down & now I hope that we shall be able to put it into something like order. I have a very excellent workman engaged at it. He was employed some years in England in one of the large organ factories and I think it is possible he will make a good job of it. I employed him to put up the new organ in St. Patrick's Church in which he has given every satisfaction. He shall put up the new bellows for the pedal organ for which Bevington ought to pay. The expences of cleaning and repairing the organ will be about £70 in addition to which the bellows will coset £25 or £30. They have hitherto had at St. Mary's a paid organist and choir, and strange to say all Protestants (two principal singers from the Theatre) which has cost the church £100 a year. I have put a stop to this, by drilling the community of the monastery, and last Sunday they made their debut in the chancel of the Cathedral. They did very well indeed although there was no organ to assist them. I hope to have the organ finished for Easter, and then I am sure all parties will be more satisfied with the simple chaunting of the good monks and innocent little postulants (in number 14) than with all the "aws" and "ahs" of the theatre, especially when they consider the costliness of this latter [? piping]. I am also to teach one of the young religious the organ, a very promising pupil . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Bevington (London organbuilder, died 8 November 1850)

Letter, Bishop Charles Davis, Sydney, NSW, 28 February 1850, to Father Norbert Sweeney; Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of Downside Abbey

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1088210895 (DIGITISED)

. . . In my last letter that in which I enclosed my attempt at harmonizing the "Ave Verum," I told you that I would send you a trifle which I had just then written, and I fear it is not worth me taking the trouble to look over it, much less to make use of it. However such as it is I send it, and I am vain enough to think that perhaps you may try it. Don't allow Br. Laurence to criticise it too severely, - he will not find much originality of melody, and probably will discover many errors in the harmony. The whole of it should be done pretty briskly, with the exception of the "Crucifixus" and 2 or 3 other little bits. It is very likely that ther are some mistakes in the copying. Br. Anselm has only just brought it to me I have hardly time to examine it carefully. They either like it or pretend to like it here. I suppose you are having [ ? propers ] of Plain chaunt. We do a good deal of it here during Lent and Advent (always without the organ) and manage to make a pretty fair row. We use the copies of the Benedictine Graduale, Vesperale &c, - fine old folios which the Archbishop got from some of the monasteries in Germany. The chaunt is wild and bold, and free from the multiplicity of notes and hee-hawing to be found in the French Plain Chaunt. Our own chaunt however at dear St. Gregory's though from Douay is not so liable to this objection as the French chaunt is. In spite of the attractions of the old [?? ?? ?? ??] we introduce a good many of Br. [??]'s choice pieces . . .
If you go London during the next vacation, you must try and collect some sacred music for me - any thing and every things will be acceptable, for although we are pretty well off at St. Mary's, there are other churches in great want of music. I am anxious that any church and chapel in the diocese should have a choir and I shall not rest till I have accomplished this object. Motetts, Masses, &c. by Webbe, Novello, Mozart &c. &c. will all be acceptable and convertible to some good purpose. We have in Sydney a very beautiful little church, early English (and pretty correct) dedicated to St. Benedict. It has at present only a miserable seraphine and I am annoyed to think that while St, Mary's and St. Patrick's have each a fine organ, our holy father's church should be without this essential. I am seriously thinking of having one if I can muster the all necessary. For about £200 or less I think I could get a very efficient one. I would have it all enclosed in a swell excepting perhaps some of the bass pedal pipes, - about 10 stops would be sufficient with 1 1/2 or 2 octaves of pedals acting upon the manuals, as in the organ at Downside, for I presume that a separate pedal organ would make the affair to expensive. I should be inclined to get it from Bevington for really the organ in St. Mary's made by him is a [? swell] instrument. When you do to London if you have time to call at Bevington's and talk to him about this little mater I shall be greatly obliged by your doing so . . . Should Bevington be inclined to do the thing well and happily, it may prove of some service ultimately to him. as I hope to be able before I die to supply many churches with organs. Bevington ought to [?] at least £30, for in consequence of his having put too small a pair of bellows in St. Mary's pedal organ I was obliged soon after I came to Sydney to have a new pair made at a cost of £30 . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Brother Anselm = John Henry Benedict Curtis (cleric)

Letter, Bishop Charles Davis, Sydney, NSW, 1 March 1850, to Father Thomas Heptonstall; Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of Downside Abbey

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1088210932 (DIGITISED)

. . . I write another hasty line to say that I have today baptized the little black boy. His name is John David, the former from his Godfather the Archbishop, the latter from myself, this being the feast of St. David. He has been only a fortnight with us - We got him naked from the Bush and we dare not keep him longer for if the Blacks were to find out where he was, they would be sure to steal him away. His father gave him up to the Archbishop quite cheerfully, but we understand that he is already sorry for having done so, and is longing to have him again. The child is quite happy . . . the captain has kindly engaged to take just care of him . . . The family or tribe name of the little Black is Murra . . . I have paid Captain Jones for the little boy's passage.

Letter, Bishop Charles Davis, Sydney, NSW, 22 August 1850, to Father Thomas Heptonstall, . . . choir progressing admirably . . .

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1088211015 (DIGITISED)

. . . The Choir in the Cathedral is going on admirably. It seems almost incredible that they should have continued so long the old system of paying £30 per annum each to theatrical singers, with a community of young men and fine boys in the monastery, yet when our present plan was proposed and introduced it met with great opposition, some in high quarters, not from the good archbishop however, for as he told me he had long been wishing the changes. At present all acknowledge the superiority of the new system, not to speak of the great saving in the expence . . .

Bibliography and resources:

"MUSIC AND MUSICIANS AT ST. GREGORY'S, 1823 to 1831", The Downside review 7 (1889), 12

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BHsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA12 (DIGITISED)

. . . The professor of music who succeeded . . . was A. W. Taylor, also of Bath. He was the son of a small farmer in Gloucestershire, and, having shown a very decided musical talent, was apprenticed to Andrew Loder, of that city . . . Taylor retained his post at Downside uninterruptedly for some years . . . and under his auspices, music, both sacred and secular, made considerable progress at the college. The Masses of Webbe gave place to the more difficult ones of Cassali, Baldi, and Ricci, and the latter in their turn were ultimately succeeded by those of Haydn and Mozart. The choir, however, that took part in the works of the last-named composers was always very limited in its numbers, there being scarcely ever as many as two voices to each part. It fell chiefly to the lot of my dear old friend, Charles Davis (afterwards Bishop of Maitland) and myself to sustain the treble and contralto parts, whilst Dom. Nicolas Kendal and Dom. Ephrem Pratt took the bass, and Bro. J. B. Spencer the tenor. All those who knew Charles Davis will remember what a charming voice he had, and what an accomplished musician he afterwards became. I well recollect how, when we were boys together, he extracted a promise from me that I would preside at the organ when he sang his first Mass, and how, when I had complied with that promise, I volunteered to perform a similar office when he was consecrated Bishop, little dreaming at the time that my second pledge would ever have to be redeemed . . .
- JOHN LAMBERT

ASSOCIATIONS: John Benedict Spencer (cleric, vocalist)

"MUSIC AND MUSICIANS AT ST. GREGORY'S. II. - 1838", The Downside review 7 (1889), 87-91

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BHsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 (DIGITISED)

. . . Arriving, then, at St. Gregory's in the year 1838 . . . Dear Charles Davis was an efficient organist, but I do not think he came to the fore as a solo vocalist until two or three years later . . . About the year 1841 - as far as my recollection serves me - the choir declined, and fell from bad to worse until I left . . . Fr. Hodgson then sang bass, and Fr. C. Davis tenor - under difficulties, as he had at the same time to play the organ. In my later years Fr. C. Davis rapidly improved in singing, making much of what I thought an agreeable but far from first-class voice. Fr. Hodgson then leaving - or falling into bad health, I forget which - the choir fell much to pieces. Several organists were tried, all more or less of a distressing and halting character, in order if possible to allow Fr. C. Davis greater facility for his solo efforts. Various basses were also essayed. Good Fr. Oswald Davis, with a stentorian voice, bellowed forth even as a bull of Bashan . . .

Of outside professional assistance I can only remember Henry Field, of Bath, who frequently assisted both in choir and lay performances. Field, with a far from powerful tenor voice, did much with it, singing like a well-trained vocalist, and with expression - albeit in a somewhat flashy and bravura style. We boys used to look forward to his visits, when we were sure to have Zingarelli's "Laudate" and an "O Salutaris" of Himmel's. Bianchi Taylor, from Bath, was music master during my stay at the College; but as he performed in public rarely, if at all, in my time, and as I never received musical instruction, I am unable to write of his capacities. I am under an impression that Taylor composed a few songs, and a duet of a certain mild degree of merit. Writing of musical composition, I remember at one time there was quite an outburst of amateur composers. Many, with greater or less incapacity and inaptitude, essayed Kyries, Benediction music, and Litanies to the best of my belief in no instance leaving abiding results. Such outbursts, as far as my experience goes, invariably do occur in all choirs, professional or amateur, and are a great nuisance, very rarely leaving any profitable fruit for musical posterity.

As to lay vocal pieces, I remember little of concerted music, and that confined to a few of Bishop's, Webbe's, and Mazzinghi's glees, and Locke's Macbeth music. At Christmas and on other festive occasions we had plenty of songs. In those days they partook of a loyal, Bacchanalian, and sporting character chiefly . . . Fathers Placid Hall, and later on Oswald Davis, sang the "Old Carrion Crow." Dr. Barber, our venerated president, gave, with much quiet humour, "A Farthing Candle", "Johnny Lambert," and very capitally, "Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl"; Fr. Charles Davis, one or two of Moore's melodies and "The Vicar of Bray"; and Dr. Sweeney, "Tubal Cain" and some other of Russell's songs, at that time very popular . . .

When I first came to Downside no band existed. Fr. Charles Davis, becoming sub-prefect-having already a few trifling irons in his fire, such as mathematics and sundry other classes, being master of elocution, superintendent of all theatrical affairs, organist, choir-master, infirmarian, and what not besides - threw himself with characteristic energy into the formation of a band. His was indeed:
"A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
"Fretted the pigmy body to decay,
"And o'er-informed the tenement of clay"!
Hardly, indeed, pigmy of body, or exactly fiery of soul; but loveable, ardent, impulsive, and alas! already wearing himself to pieces with over-work. At first our band was small in numbers, - some six - but great of sound; a cornet, trombone, and big and little drum formed the majority of instruments. O'Connell visited the College, and I remember he was serenaded - very vilely serenaded - with "Patrick's day." It was however an early effort the band was enlarged and refined, until we had some ten in it. The larger drum was happily suppressed, or toned down; we had two cornets, two clarionets - one played in the capacity of conductor by C. Davis himself, and an octave flute amongst other additions. I cannot remember playing overtures; but we arrived at selections from operas and dance music - some favourite waltzes of that day, "The Auroras," being successfully performed. Nothing, however, would satisfy Fr. Charles Davis but military music to lead us in our marches and on to battle, under the generalship of Sergt. Major Wheatley, military instructor. Here, alas! vaulting ambition o'erleaped itself, for it never came to anything. Once or twice a drummer and Fr. Benedict Blount, with his octave flute, attempted to lead us to the fray. The musicians, however, could never keep step, and, describing a beery and what Joe Cox use to call a "ro-tattery" motion, the effort was abandoned . . .
- W. BARNEWALL.

ASSOCIATIONS: Oswald Davis (one Charles's two brothers there)

J. H. B. Curtis, "A NOTICE OF DR. CHARLES DAVIS, BISHOP OF MAITLAND", Austral light (February 1902)

[J. H. B. Curtis, from Austral light above], "A NOTICE OF DR. CHARLES DAVIS, BISHOP OF MAITLAND", The Downside review new series 2 (21) (1902), 177-83

https://archive.org/details/downsidereview01unkngoog/page/n212/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

This desultory and brief sketch is meant to be a small tribute of affection to the memory of one of the worthiest prelates that ever trod Australian soil. Few of the present residents of Melbourne are perhaps aware that there ever was in Australia a prelate bearing the name of Charles Henry Davis. And fewer still know anything of his great attainments and most exemplary life . . .

As he is writing exclusively from memory, he may make a few trivial [178] errors in dates and some other unimportant particulars. He is not acquainted with any of the particulars of the early life of Bishop Davis beyond a few narrated to him by a very worthy priest named Father Cuthbert Moore, who was for many years in the same religious house with the Bishop at Downside. He says that Father Charles, as he was then called, was the very life and soul of the place. The boys of the great college attached to the Monastery almost worshipped him. They often familiarly spoke of him as "dear little Charlie." When he held the office of prefect, he led them in all their games. He was their stage-manager at their Christmas plays, as he had received a training in elocution from one of the leading English tragedians . . .

But it was as a musician that he chiefly excelled. He was the organist of the church, and played the noble instrument in a style that some of our best organists would envy. The boys used to say he could knock smoke out of the old organ pipes. He had received a kick on the left hand from a horse which necessitated the amputation of the third finger at the second joint. To make up for the loss of the finger he practised "pedalling" most assiduously, and it was a veritable treat to hear him pedalling the scale passages in the Creed of Mozart's Twelfth Mass. He always used to play that Mass from the full orchestral score, instead of the organ score, and did so many a time in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, where the present writer had the honour of turning the pages for him, which took him all his time, as the edition was in octavo, and contained only a few bars in each page. He introduced many effects not in the organ score, and rarely ever played it twice alike. His playing of the psalms at Vespers was really unsurpassable, and almost unapproachable. Every verse received a different treatment according to its meaning, and the pedal runs were [179] often something marvellous. There was at the time a paid organist attached to the Cathedral. His name was Walton. He was a thorough organist of the strict English school. The dear Bishop used often to say that he would give a great deal to be able to play as well as Walton did. But the choir and the congregation preferred the Bishop's style. The music would always go with far more spirit when the good Bishop was presiding at the organ. In addition to being organist at St. Gregory's, he was also band master of the college band, which contained some grand players. Father Davis could play almost any instrument in the band. His chief one was the E flat clarionet. A clarionet had to be specially constructed for him with a key for the stump of the third finger of the left hand, instead of a hole. He played difficult solos on the slide tenor trombone. He arranged and composed hundreds of pieces for the band, including four or five brilliant and very effective marches, which he also often played on the organ. But from the time of his consecration as Bishop, he never played on any instrument but the organ or piano.

After his consecration, and prior to leaving Downside for Sydney, he ordained his younger brother a priest. He composed expressly for his brother's first Mass a grand motet to the following beautiful words: -

Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum; Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech . . . Memor sit Dominus sacrificii tui, et holocaustum tuum pingue fiat. Sacerdotes tui induantur justitiam, et Sancti tui exultent.

This was often sung subsequently in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. When the Bishop was at the organ, and also joining in the tenor part with his charming voice, the people were always delighted.

The Bishop arrived in Sydney in the year 1848 . . . [180] . . . One of the very first acts of Bishop Davis was to institute a reform in the singing of the Cathedral choir. Up to his arrival, the best singers in the city were always engaged, and the soprano part was sung by ladies. The Bishop, although admitting that the music was of a very high character, could not relish the thought that it was produced by paid choristers, many of whom could have had no reverent feeling for the sacred words they sang. Accordingly, he commenced to drill a choir from the brethren of the Monastery attached to the Cathedral, and the young postulants who were being educated for the priesthood. He was fortunate enough to find some capital voices among them. He drilled them with the most patient assiduity, devoting at least one hour every day to rehearsals. He began by selecting some simple Masses of his own composition. But after a few months his little choir was able to attack the works of some of the great masters, and sing them well. There was a solemn high Mass every Sunday. This practice was inaugurated by the Very Rev. Dr. Backhaus, who arrived in Sydney a few years before the Bishop . . . [181] The ceremonies at the Cathedral were then carried out with so much splendour, and such strict attention to the rubrics, that new arrivals from the old world used to be completely astounded at their magnificence . . .

. . . Bishop Davis was much pleased with the progress of his choir, and when he heard them sing for the first time his masterly arrangement of Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem in the Tenebrae service, he must, although still so young, have almost felt inclined to sing his Nunc dimittis, (It should have been previously recorded that the Bishop was very young when consecrated - some years under forty). The singing, in Holy Week, was all unaccompanied by the organ. The lovely harmonies of the Christus factus est, and the following Miserere would stimulate devotion in the hearts of the most apathetic. Whenever the choir had to take part in any grand function, the Bishop himself would always make up for them a fine bowl of generous eggflip to strengthen their voices . . .

[182] . . . Bishop Davis had three serious attacks of illness. The second one lasted for several weeks, and well-nigh proved fatal . . .

[183] . . . At his funeral there was the largest concourse of people that had ever been seen in Sydney. People of every class, from the very highest to the lowest - of all denominations - followed his funeral through the streets of the city as far as the old toll-bar, on the Parramatta Road. Many went with the clergy the whole distance to Subiaco, where were deposited the remains of one of the most angelic creatures that ever trod this earth.

J. H. B. CURTIS.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Henry Benedict Curtis (former pupil);
Humphrey Walton (organist); Henry Backhaus (cleric); the above also reproduced in Birt below

Henry Norbert Birt, Benedictine pioneers in Australia, volume 2 (London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911), 205-212, 214

https://archive.org/stream/benedictinepion00unkngoog#page/n194/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

https://archive.org/stream/benedictinepion00unkngoog#page/n202/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[214-15] . . . During the year 1838, Bevington & Son, of Frith Street, Soho, sent out their estimate for the organ, for to that firm its construction had been finally entrusted. It was to be delivered at Sydney for £735, but this estimate did not include the front of the case which was to be provided locally. The organ was not entirely successful. Unseasoned wood - or at least wood unsuited to the Australian climate - had been employed, with the result that the instrument got woefully out of condition in a few years; and as soon as Dr. Davis arrived in Sydney he superintended its reconstruction, which was carried out by a man who had once worked in an organ-builder's factory. This undertaking cost close on £100.

Sir John Lambert, P.C, K.C.B., an old fellow student at Downside of Bishop Davis, writing in the Downside Review [vol. 7, page 8 f.] about his recollection of music at St. Gregory's during the years of his stay there, 1823-1831, mentions that he and his "dear old friend, Charles Davis," were treble and contralto of the choir, and Brother J. B. Spencer, who is mentioned in Dr. Polding's letter, was the tenor . . .

R. A. Daly, "Davis, Charles Henry (1815-1854)", Australian dictionary of biography 1 (1966)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davis-charles-henry-1963

J. Brian Butler, "'Dear little Charlie': a memoir of Charles Henry Davis: 1815-1854: monk of Downside and first bishop of Maitland ", Tjurunga: Australian Benedictine Review 73 (November 2007)

Graeme Pender, "The life and contribution of bishop Charles Henry Davis OSB (1815-1854) to the Catholic Church in Australia", Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society (2018),

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.184937944554221 (PAYWALL)

Graeme Pender, "Bishop Charles Davis's musical contribution to the early Australian catholic church", The Australasian Catholic record 96/2 (April 2019), 166-77

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.411589406938966 (PAYWALL)

DAVIS, Daniel (Daniel DAVIS; Corporal DAVIS; D. DAVIS; Mr. DAVIS)

Musician, bandsman (in NSW), Band of the 58th Regiment, band corporal, bandmaster (in NZ), soldier

Born c. 1825
Arrived (1) Sydney, NSW, 28 September 1844 (per Pestonjee Bomanjee, from Chatham, 14 May, via Hobart Town)
Departed (1) Sydney, NSW, ? April 1845 (for New Zealand, active there by 28 April)
Arrived (2) Sydney, NSW, 19 December 1846 (per Java, from Auckland, New Zealand, 5 December)
Departed (2) Sydney, NSW, 11 June 1847 (per Thomas Lowry, for New Zealand)
Died Auckland, NZ, 31 May 1858, aged "33"

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Daniel (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Pay list of the 58th Regiment, 1 April to 30 June 1844; Australian Joint Copying Project, from UK National Archives, WO12/6744

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1653411107 (DIGITISED)

Privates . . . 1498 / Davis Daniel / . . . Band / Embarked for N. S. Wales 14th May

Pay list of the 58th Regiment, 1 April to 30 June 1846; Australian Joint Copying Project, from UK National Archives, WO12/6747

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1654103591 (DIGITISED)

660 / Drum-Major as Serjeant / George Gallagher
Sergeants . . . 760 / Shanaghan James / Band
Privates . . . 1498 / Davis Daniel / Band . . .

Pay list of the 58th Regiment, 1 April to 30 June 1847; Australian Joint Copying Project, from UK National Archives, WO12/6748

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1654458466 (DIGITISED)

Privates . . 1498 / Davis Daniel / . . . To New Zealand 12 June / Band . . .

[News], New Zealander [Auckland, NZ] (3 January 1849), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18490103.2.5 

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was convened at the Masonic Hotel, Princes-street, by Dr. Davies, coroner, to inquire into the death of James Shanaghan, late Band-master of the 58th Regiment. The jury having proceeded to the Albert Barracks to view the body of the deceased, the following evidence was adduced: - . . .

Daniel Davis sworn, saith - I am Corporal of the Band of 58th Regt. I saw deceased last alive last night about twelve o'clock. He was then in a state of intoxication. I went into the band room this morning about four o'clock. I then thought deceased was asleep, when Private Kearns told me that he was stiff. I got out of bed, and finding he was dead, I gave the alarm. Dr. Thomson was sent for, and came immediately. He was turned partly on his right side. His handkerchief was quite tight round his neck, and we removed it; his face and head were on the pillow. He was more on his face than on his back. Deceased was Band Sergeant of the 58th Regt.

Verdict - Died of Apoplexy.

ASSOCIATIONS: James Shanaghan (band sergeant, bandmaster)

[News], New Zealander (2 February 1853), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18530202.2.14 

The Band of the 58th Regiment will perform the following pieces of Music, in the Government Lawn, to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, from four to six.
PROGRAMME - Overture 0p. - "The Fair Maid of Perth" - Waddell.
Melange Op. - "Il Flauto Magico" - Mozart.
Quartette Op. - "I Puritani" - Bellini.
Cavatina Op. - "I Lombardi" - Verdi.
Quadrille - "The Ernani" - Jullien.
Polka - "Cavablerie" - Berte.
Galopadi - C. W. F. Stier.
Grand Spanish March arranged by - D. Davis.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles William Ferdinand Stier (composer, master of the Band of the 11th Regiment in NSW)

[Advertisement], New Zealander (7 September 1853), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18530907.2.2.6 

NOW PUBLISHED, PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.
A GRAND PROMENADE MARCH (the first of a series of Compositions for the Piano-forte),
composed and arranged and dedicated to Lieutenant-Colonel WYNYARD, C. B.,
and the Officers of H. M. 58th Regt., - by DANIEL DAVIS.
J. Williamson, Bookseller.

ASSOCIATIONS: Edward Buckley Wynyard (commander, dedicatee)

[Advertisement], New Zealander (8 July 1854), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18540708.2.9.3 

NEW MUSIC, Composed and arranged for the Pianoforte,
by DANIEL DAVIS, Bandmaster H.M. 58th Regt.
ARRIVED PER "EGMONT."
THE GOVERNOR WYNYARD POLKA, price 2s. 6d.
The Wynyard Quadrille, price 3s.
The Auckland Waltz, price 3s.
The Rose Anna Quadrille, price 3s.
The Ruapekapeka, price 2s.
A Galop to the Diggings, price 2s.
J. Williamson, Bookseller, etc.

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Henry Wynyard (lieutenant governor, NZ, dedicatee)

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross [Auckland, NZ] (3 November 1857), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18571103.2.12.4 

NOTICE. THE Undersigned has the honor to notify to his connexions and the public generally, that he has, THIS DAY, admitted into Partnership Mr. Daniel Davis; and that the business will in future be conducted under the style of . . . DINNIN AND DAVIS, FAMILY GROCERS, AND WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, QUEEN-STREET . . .

"DIED", New Zealander (2 June 1858), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18580602.2.7 

On the 31st May, at the residence of Mr. DINNIN, Ponsonby Road, Mr. DANIEL DAVIS of the firm of DINNIN & DAVIS, of this City, and Band Master ot the 58th Regiment, aged 33 years.
The funeral will leave Saint Patrick's Church, this day, (Wednesday), at 2 p.m. Friends will please accept this invitation to attend.

"DEATH OF MR. DANIEL DAVIS, BAND-MASTER OF THE 58TH REGT.", New Zealander (2 June 1858), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18580602.2.13 

Our obituary of to-day contains an announcement which will be read with general regret; that of the death of the able and esteemed Band-master of the 58th Regiment, in his 33rd year. The event was not unexpected, for in addition to having been for several years in delicate health - in great measure, we believe superinduced by too close study of his profession - a short time since, Mr. Davis burst a blood-vessel. As a musician he possessed considerable ability, and that his taste was cultivated was shown by the excellent selections he made for public performance. He was at all times ready to do his utmost to promote the practice and performance of music among civilians, as was shown by the interest he took in the Auckland Choral Society. As a military conductor, the high state of efficiency to which he brought his Band is proof of his competency for that important post; and we know of our personal knowledge, that he was very anxious that those who were about to be discharged should be provided with such employment as would keep them in Auckland. As a man Mr. Davis was as much respected as a musician. His remains will be interred this afternoon.

DAVIS, Emily (Emily FITZGERALD; Emily Geraldine FITZGERALD; Miss FITZGERALD; Mrs. William Butler DAVIS; Madame BUTLER; Madame Davis BUTLER; Madame D. BUTLER; Madame Butler DAVIS; Mrs. Butler DAVIS)

Musician, vocalist, pianist, publican's wife

Born Dublin, Ireland, 1828; baptised St. Mary's (RC), Dublin, 30 April 1828, daughter of William FITZGERALD and Mary Ann ?
Married (? common law) William Butler DAVIS (c. 1822-1895), by 1855
Active Melbourne, VIC, by January 1856
Died Richmond, VIC, 20 July 1882, aged "54"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Emily+Fitzgerald+Butler+Davis+1828-1882 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Emily-Butler (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Register of baptisms, April 1828, St. Mary (RC pro-cathedral), Dublin, Ireland; Irish Church Records; Irish Genealogy

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/f49a750177205 

30 [April 1828] / Emily of Will'm and Mary Anne Fitzgerald [sponsors] Fred'k Sisson, Marg't O'Beirne

"THEATRE ROYAL", Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent [Ireland] (30 June 1846), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000812/18460630/044/0003 (PAYWALL)

The theatre opened last night for the summer season with Balfe's opera the Bohemian Girl. Miss Romer, Mr. Borrani, and Mr. Harrison, were the vocalists . . . We are happy to notice favorably Miss Fitzgerald, pupil of Mr. Levy, whom we not remember to have heard before. The opera was announced for repetition this evening. The new opera of Maritana is announced for Wednesday. The author of this opera also an Irishman. The merits of the composition are attested by its great success beyond the channel . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Harrison (vocalist); Richard Michael Levey (musician, conductor)

[Advertisement], Freeman's Journal [Dublin, Ireland] (10 May 1847), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18470510/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN . . . ON THURSDAY, 13th May . . . An Irish Ballad by Miss Fitzgerald arranged by Mr. Levey . . .

[Advertisement], Freeman's Journal (28 February 1849), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18490228/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN . . . TOMORROW, (Thursday), 1st March, 1849 . . .
To conclude with the Comic Opera of THE LOVE SPELL.
Nemorino, Mr. W. Harrison; Adina, Miss Rainforth; Dr. Dulcamara, Mr. H. Corri; Sergeant Belcore, Mr. Borrani; Gianetta, Miss Fitzgerald . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Rainforth (vocalist); Haydn Corri (vocalist)

"THEATRE", Cork Examiner [Ireland] (9 March 1849), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000425/18490309/011/0002 (PAYWALL)

MISS RAINFORTH with Messrs. HARRISON, BORANNI and CORRI made their appearance last evening in the Bohemian Girl . . . Miss FITZGERALD got through that most odious music in which the Queen shrieks her hatred and her orders very creditably . . .

"THEATRE ROYAL - THE OPERA", Freeman's Journal (30 October 1850), 2

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Ths announcement of Bellini's opera of Norma for last evening created no small amount of interest in our musical circles. Many connoisseurs who rank amongst the most ardent admirers of miss Catherine Hayes as a dramatic vocalist . . . seemed to think it unsuited to the delicately feminine maniere and personel of our Irish prima donna . . . The subsidiary characters, sustained by Mr. Houghton and Miss Fitzgerald, were admirable in their way, and, in all, the opera went off with the highest eclat . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Catherine Hayes (vocalist)

"PORTSMOUTH BOROUGH SESSIONS", Hampshire Telegraph [England] (11 January 1851), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000069/18510111/021/0005 (PAYWALL)

. . . A true bill was found at these Sessions against Wm. Butler Davis, builder, at Southsea, for obstructing a common highway, at Southsea, and the defendant came before the Bench of Magistrates the next day, and put in bail to appear and plead to the indictment at the next Sessions . . .

? [Advertisement], Hull Advertiser [Yorkshire, England] (5 August 1854), 4

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MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, GEORGE-STREET, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. WILL OPEN ON MONDAY, AUGUST 7TH,
BARNUM'S COLOSSAL PANORAMAS WORLD, Accompanied by the talented Opera Company MADAME ELLISE (From the Italian Opera Company, Covent-Garden);
MISS FITZGERALD (From the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane); MR. HARRISON (From the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane);
MR. HORNCASTLE (From the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane). A Full BAND . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (1 January 1856), 8

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NEW YEAR'S DAY. - Great Attraction. National Hotel, Bourke-street.
Admission Free. Grand Concert every evening, supported by the following talented and favorite artistes: -
Mrs. Davis Butler
Madame Florini
Mr. E. J. Piper
Mr. H. J. Lindsay
Signor Bardini, and
Mr. James Macdonald.
Conductor, Mr. Lindsay.
Musical director and pianist, Mr. Piper.
NEW YEAR'S DAY - A Grand Morning Concert will be given in the magnificent Music Saloon of the National Hotel on this day. To commence two o'clock p.m.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry James Lindsay (vocalist); Signor Bardini (vocalist); James McDonald (vocalist); Edward John Piper (pianist); National Hotel (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (11 January 1856), 8

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NATIONAL HOTEL. Free Concerts, Bourke-street, Every Evening . . .
Mrs. Butler, the much-admired soprano, and Signor Bardini, the celebrated baritone, every night.

[Advertisement], The Argus (16 January 1856), 8

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THE Queen's Letter will be sung by Mrs. Butler, at the National Concert this evening.

MUSIC: The queen's letter (J. W. Hobbs)

NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Bourke street.
Grand Concert Every Evening in the above well-known and splendid Saloon.
The following artistes will appear: -
Miss Fitzgerald and Messrs. Bardini, Macdonald, Morgan, and Cassidy;
Pianist, Mr. Piper. Proprietor, Mr. Hutchinson.

ASSOCIATIONS: J. W. Morgan (vocalist); James W. Cassidy (vocalist); William Hutchinson (proprietor)

[Advertisement], The Age (24 March 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154861870 

TILKE'S CITY HOTEL, Great Bourke street.
The Proprietor begs to announce that the magnificent new
MUSIC HALL of the above Hotel, which has been decorated and lighted at immense expense,
will open this evening, Monday, March 24th, with a
Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, supported by the following artistes: -
Madame D. Butler, the celebrated Soprano.
Mr. J. W. Morgan, the eminent Basso.
Mr. Frank Martin, Tenor. Mr. E. J. Piper, Pianist.
Also a Select Band, including Soloists on the Concertina, Violin, Flute, &., &.
To commence at eight o'clock.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Tilke (proprietor); Frank Martin (tenor); Tilke's City Hotel (Melbourne venue)

"FREE CONCERT", The Argus (2 April 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4834465 

Mr. Tilke, the proprietor of the well known dining rooms in Bourke-street has metamorphosed his premises into a very elegant Concert-room which is crowded every evening. The musical entertainments are under the direction of Mr. Morgan an excellent bass singer, who has organised a little band of vocal and instrumental performers whose talents would do credit to many a stage of higher pretensions. The soprano is a Madame Butler who also possesses qualifications of a superior order.

[Advertisement], The Age (7 April 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154865469 

TILKE'S CITY HOTEL . . . MADAME D. BUTLER, the celebrated Soprano, from the Operas Covent Garden and Dublin . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 May 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4837303 

CITY HOTEL, BOURKE STREET.
GRAND CONCERT, Under the Patronage of the Right Worshipful the Mayor.
A GRAND CONCERT will be held This evening, at Eight o'clock, at the City Hotel,
on behalf of the necessitous sufferers by the late melancholy occurrence at that establishment.
The Committee are glad to announce that they have been promised the services of Mr. H. Johnson, and several members of the Band of the Fortieth Regiment.
PROGRAMME. Part 1st. Overture - The Band of the Fortieth.
Glee and Chorus - Chough and Crow - Madame Butler, Mr. Friend, and Mr. J. Morgan - Bishop.
Ballad - The Spirit of Good - Mr. Friend
Cavatina - Bid me Discourse - Madame Butler
Descriptive Scena - Ship on Fire - Mr. H. J. King - Russell.
Solo - Violin - Mr. E. King - De Beriot.
Duett - The Singing Lesson - Madame Butler and Mr. Leveson - Barnett.
Scena - The Flying Dutchman - Mr. Morgan - Parry, junr.
Duett - Pianoforte and Flute - Messrs. Piper and Foote - Donizetti.
Part 2nd. Overture - The Band of the Fortieth.
Trio - The Wreath - Madame Butler, Messrs. Friend and Leveson - Mazzinghi.
Fantasia - Piano - Die Fahnenwacht - Mr. E. J. King [sic]
Song - The Wolf - Mr. Morgan - Shield.
Rondo Finale - La Sonnambula - Madame Butler.
Aria - Hear me gentle Maritana - Mr. Leveson - W. V. Wallace.
Solo - Flute - Mr. Foote.
Glee - Red Cross Knight - Madame Butler and Messrs. Friend and Morgan - Calcott.
Finale - Band.
Tickets, 5s. each, to be had of the Music sellers and Hotel keepers.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Johnson (master 40th band); Henry John King (pianist, vocalist); Edward King (violin); Mr. Foote (flute); John Leveson (vocalist); Band of the 40th Regiment (military); the "late melancholy occurrence at that establishment" was a serious instance of food poisoning

MUSIC: The chough and crow (Bishop, from Guy Mannering); Bid me discourse (Bishop); The wreath (Mazzinghi); Do not mingle [Ah! non giunge] (Bellini, La sonnambula); The red cross knight (Callcott)

"CONCERT AT THE CITY HOTEL", The Age (8 May 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154868247 

On Wednesday evening a concert which had been originated for the benefit of necessitous sufferers by the late unfortunate occurrence at this establishment, was held in the concert-hall of the hotel . . . The music consisted of selections from the works of Donizetti, Bishop, Mazzinglie [sic], Wallace, Shield, Calcott and others, which were generally rendered with marked success. Madame Butler, and Messrs. Morgan, Leveson, and Friend undertook the concerted music, and also performed several solos. Madame Butler was in excellent voice, and sang with much spirit, "Bid me discourse," and the finale from "La Sonnambula," in each of which she was encored. With Mr. Leveson in Barnett's capital duett, "The Singing Lesson," she also gained considerable applause, and, as in her other efforts, an encore was demanded and granted . . .
Whatever may be the results of the concert, we believe Mr. Tilke has an earnest desire to afford to those who really require it, every assistance in his power. Mr. Tilke's losses have been all but ruinous. No one can know this better than himself. He must endeavor to bear them, and as rapidly as possible restore himself to his former position, but he will not be aided in this by the vexatious reiterations of an all but forgotten grievance, nor, thereby, will the public be benefited.

"TILKE'S CONCERT HALL", The Age (4 June 1856), 2

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This favorite lounge continues to attract nightly a throng of visitors . . . Last night Mr. Morgan sang the famous air, "Man the Life-boat" in a style which ensured a unanimous encore. "The Bloom is on the Rye" was given with much unpretending sweetness by Madame Butler, who, at a later period of the evening sang Nelson's "Mary of Argyle" with perfect taste and feeling . . .

MUSIC: The bloom is on the rye (Bishop); Mary of Argyle (Nelson)

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 July 1856), 8

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NATIONAL CONCERTROOM, Bourke-street. - Immense Success of Madame Butler, who will appear nightly.
NATIONAL CONCERT-ROOM, Bourke street. - Brilliant Success of Mr. and Mrs. G. Williamson, the greatest characteristic Comic Vocalists in the colonies.

ASSOCIATIONS: George and Caroline Williamson (vocalists)

"POPULAR CONCERTS", The Age (29 July 1856), 3

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We have lately occupied a leisure evening or two in visiting the various popular concerts held in connection with the principal hotels . . . by personal visits to the concerts nightly held in connection with the City and National Hotels in Bourke street . . . At the present moment, we observe that the vocal staffs of the National and the City are remarkably efficient. The other evening, at the former place, we heard a quintett from the Enchantress exquisitely performed. Some brilliantly executed operatic airs by Madame Butler, and several very clever characteristic songs by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson; at the latter, two or three of Bishop's glees were rendered in almost faultless style under the management of Mr. Morgan, who is perhaps the only basso profondo in the colony, and himself a favorite singer. Madame Naej too, a very tasteful French operatic vocalist, nightly carols some of Rossini's and Auber's finest musical productions in a style which, but for the excellent conduct of the concert room, and the no less seemly behaviour of the audience, we should in hackneyed phrase have said, was worthy of a better place.

ASSOCIATIONS: Madame Leon Naej (vocalist)

MUSIC: The enchantress (Balfe)

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 October 1856), 8

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NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Bourke-street east. - Mr. Power, the favorite baritone, will appear every evening.
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton will appear every evening . . .
. . . Madame Butler, the eminent soprano, will appear every evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Pierce Power (vocalist); John and Emma Pendleton (vocalists)

"Criterion Hall", Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (17 October 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202632563 

These concerts continue to delight the million, and the proprietors manifest a praiseworthy diligence in catering for the amusement of their patrons. This week more talent has been engaged in the persons of Madame Bishop [sic] and Mr. McDonnel. The former is really a first-class singer, and although she made her debut in Castlemaine, on Thursday to a comparatively thin attendance, yet was exceedingly well received, and will prove a star of the first magnitude in her sphere. Mr. McDonnell made a most favourable impression, and it is almost unnecessary to say that Mr. Williamson is popular as ever. Miss Saqui, Mrs. Williamson, and Mr. Benham, still as heretofore are most successful in their efforts to please the public, and altogether a most recherche and attractive entertainment is nightly given at these rooms.

ASSOCIATIONS: Sarah Saqui (vocalist); Henry Benham (vocalist); Criterion Hall (Castlemaine venue)

"Madame Butler", Mount Alexander Mail (17 November 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202633107 

We remind the lovers of good music that a very pleasant hour can be spent at the Criterion Hall. It would appear invidious to speak of one vocalist where so many are good, but we must specially mention the charming singing of Madame Butler, as this lady is not only gifted with a melodious voice, but is evidently a thorough musician. Her manner of singing "Una voce," (though adapted to English words) strongly recalls to the memory Sontag in Rossini's "Il Barbere," and several of her ballads may be classed as musical gems. To those who have not yet heard her, we say go. To those who have heard her we need not say go again. Mr. Williamson's comic singing is excellent, and devoid of vulgarity. - Communicated.

"Criterion Hall", Mount Alexander Mail (19 November 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202635591 

The corps of vocalists who now sing, at the Criterion Hall comprises the names of Madame Butler, Mrs. Williamson, Mr. Small, Mr. Williamson, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Benham . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joe Small (vocalist); Frederick Dixon (vocalist)

"MUSIC AND THE DRAMA", The Age (2 February 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154823966 

[Castlemaine] . . . At the Criterion Music Hall, they have engaged Mr. Power, Madame D. Butler, Mrs. Williamson, Mr. Bentham, and Mr. G. Williamson, all late of the National Hotel concerts, Melbourne. Mr. Moss is pianist and musical director, whose lightness of touch and florid execution are admired by all lovers of harmony . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Moss (pianist)

"THE MORALE OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS. To the Editor of the . . .", Mount Alexander Mail (6 February 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202635522 

. . . Many of us diggers remember the time when a man trying to dance to another trying to play the accordion was called a ball, we are glad to find such scenes are fast giving way to an improved taste, and we hail with much pleasure the appearance of such artistes as Madame Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Craven (and Picco if he would wash the black off his face); and for the frivole we can laugh at Williamson and thoroughly enjoy Small in his local sketches and amusing exposes of the follies of the day . . . But on the other hand and speaking personally, (for there is no accounting for taste), I do not believe in the dirty-faced men who appeared at the Criterion a few days since, nor do I care to see what you are pleased to call "the clever Herr's performance." I especially avoid, seeing for the second time a man dancing in woman's clothing, which formed part of the performance at one of the concert rooms some months ago, but as the press spoke favourably of these entertainments, I suppose they are all right, though I may have doubts as to whether they are not a few years behind the age . . . - CROTCHET.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry and Eliza Craven (actors, vocalist); American Picco (musician); "the clever Herr" = Hiram Sugna (performer)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (27 March 1857), 1

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MADAME BUTLER'S BENEFIT. CRITERION HALL. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON.
MADAME BUTLER begs to announce to announce to the inhabitants of Castlemaine that she intends taking her Farewell Benefit, on
THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, When in addition to the usual company she will assisted by several is AMATEUR GENTLEMEN Who have kindly offered their services.
The Programme will consist of New Songs, Duetts, Etc.
And some Operatic Gems, in which (by desire) Madame Butler will accompany herself on the Pianoforte.
Tickets, 3s each, to be obtained at the Criterion hotel; Mr. Andrews's, Market-square; and at the "Mail" Office.

"DAYLESFORD (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)", Mount Alexander Mail (21 August 1857), 4

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. . . Madame Butler, Mrs. Bourne, and Mr. Taunton have been playing at the Golden Age, and the Freemason's Hotel. They were well received. Herr Goldmich, the celebrated musician, whose advertisement will be found in another column, is a great favourite here, and rendered great assistance by his instrumental performances . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Georgina Bourn (vocalist); Mr. Taunton (vocalist); William Gollmick (pianist)

"CASTLEMAINE POLICE COURT . . . ANNUAL LICENSING MEETING", Mount Alexander Mail (21 June 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197089350 

. . . William Butler Davis. Refused, as the house was not complete . . .

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (20 December 1858), 3

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Builder's Arms Hotel CONCERT HALL, HARGRAVE STREET.
THE proprietor having spared no expense in fitting and decorating the above Hall, invites his friends and the public to try their vocal powers in the best sounding room in the colony. MADAME BUTLER will preside at the piano forte, and sing some of her Operatic Gems during the evening. Opening Night - December 24th. Admission free.

"BIRTHS", Mount Alexander Mail (17 September 1860), 3

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On the 14th inst., at the Royal Hotel, Mrs. Butler Davis, of a son.

"SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH", The Kyneton Observer [VIC] (21 February 1861), 2

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. . . A series of concerts were given in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, in the latter end of January, two of which were for the benefit of the Institution, and one for the popular performer, Mr. Barlow. Madame Butler and Mr. Vincent, from Castlemaine, both assisted in production of some new operatic pieces which were well received . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Barlow (vocalist, musician); John Rimmer Vincent (pianist)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (26 July 1861), 1

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WANTED, a Steady Girl to take charge of two Children. Apply, Mrs. Butler Davis, Builders' Arms Hotel, Hargreave-street.

"NEW INSOLVENTS", Mount Alexander Mail (23 September 1861), 2

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William Butler Davis, of Castlemaine, late hotelkeeper.
Causes of insolvency - Pressure of creditors, and inability to realise on property.
Assets, £2,631 9s.; liabilities, £1,715 11s. 2d.; surplus, £915 17s. 10d. Mr. Goodman, official assignee.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (24 July 1863), 3

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MRS. SAMUEL BUTLER begs to announce a Vocal and Dramatic Entertainment, assisted by the Celebrated Singer, Madame Butler, who was deemed the "Sontag of Australia" . . . on Thursday the 30th.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. Samuel Butler (elecutionist, probably unrelated); Henriette Sontag (European vocalist)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (1 August 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200381134 

MADAME BUTLER. MADAME BUTLER has declined to appear in Mrs. Samuel Butler's advertised Entertainment, on account of circumstances which preclude her from so doing.

"TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS", Mount Alexander Mail (9 November 1863), 2

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The good people of Castlemaine appear to be determined to enjoy themselves on the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The Kyneton and Castlemaine Light Horse, together with the Castlemaine Volunteer Rifle Corps, will meet, parade, &c. The cricketers will arouse themselves on the Wattle Flat Reserve. In the evening the Castlemaine Volunteer Band will give a grand vocal and instrumental concert at the Theatre Royal, in aid of the funds for erecting an Orderly Room for the Corps. The programme is of an ample and varied character. It is as follows : - The full Band will open with an Overture, after which Madam Butler Davis will sing "The Queen's Letter," and several other favourite songs . . . Mr. Angus will sing "Britons, Awake," and other songs . . . Mrs. C. Fatherly will preside at the piano. We hope there will be a full house.

ASSOCIATIONS: Silvanus Angus (vocalist from Melbourne); Charlotte Crofton Fatherley (pianist); Theatre Royal (Castlemaine venue)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (19 December 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196427549 

MUSICAL SOIREE. This Evening, December 19th, In the Concert Hall of the O'Hara Burke Hotel.
MRS. BUTLER DAVIS Will preside at the Pianoforte, and sing some favourite songs. She will be happy to see her friends and patrons.

"CASTLEMAINE POLICE COURT . . . THE O'HARA BURKE HOTEL", Mount Alexander Mail (6 January 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197441218 

Mr. A. Thompson was charged, by Senior Constable Hickey, with illegally abandoning the above named licensed house. Mr. Paynter applied for a new license for Mr. Butler Davis, the in-coming tenant. The notice of application had been duly posted. He remarked on the hardship upon publicans in the up-country districts who were unable to transfer licenses, as was done in Melbourne, but he supposed this state of things must be borne until a new Publicans' Act was passed. The license was at once granted.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (12 July 1865), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197092123 

O'HARA BURKE CONCERT HALL. GRAND REVIEW CONCERT, THIS EVENING. Madame Butler Davis will preside at the Piano Forte. Admission free.

"DEATHS", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (22 July 1882), 1

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DAVIS. - On the 20th July, at Palmer-street, Richmond, Emily Geraldine, wife of Wm. Davis, of the Public Works department, Melbourne.

Probate and administration, Emily Geraldine Davis; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3BD56DBD-F1DD-11E9-AE98-C11C24AB17A8?image=1 (DIGITISED)

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DAVIS, Henry (Henry DAVIS)

Musician

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1862

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-D-1.php#DAVIS-Henry (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"STEALING FROM A DWELLING", The Argus (14 April 1862), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5713309

Louis Harris, a German, was charged with this offence. Henry Davis, a musician, living in Little Bourke-street, stated that about three months ago the prisoner came to him in a very destitute condition, and he relieved him, allowed him to stop at his house, and gave him clothing. One morning, about a month ago, witness got up and found that the prisoner had decamped with a couple of blankets, a watchchain, and several trinkets. He did not see him again for a month afterwards, when he met him, and as he would give him no satisfaction, he had him arrested. Remanded till Wednesday.

DAVIS, Isaac Henry (Isaac Henry DAVIS; Isaac DAVIS; I. DAVIS; J. DAVIS)

Musician, professor of the violin, professor of music and dancing, violinist, violin and viola player, pianist, orchestral leader, bandmaster, publican

Born Southwark, Surrey, England, c. 1836; son of Coleman DAVIS (d. 1862) and Mary JACOBS (m. 1830)
Arrived Sydney and Goulburn, NSW, by May 1856 (aged "not above 18")
Married Catherine Mary EVERITT (c. 1846-1931), Albury, NSW, 15 October 1866
Died Sydney, NSW, 29 July 1918, aged "83/84"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Isaac+Henry+Davis+d1918 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Summary:

Isaac Davis, reportedly aged "not above 18", was recently arrived from London when first documented playing at Goulburn, in a concert in aid of the funds of the local hospital, in May 1856, with the soprano vocalist Caroline Joel, formerly Miss Davis, and sister of the emancipist Samuel Davis (c. 1813-1892), a Goulburn store-keeper (shortly to move to Sydney), who were his paternal aunt and uncle.

Documentation:

England census, 6 June 1841, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey; UK National Archives, HO107/1085/9/20/34/25

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/SRYCHO107_1085_1086-0143?pId=16062875 (PAYWALL)

Dover Place / Coleman Davis / 40 // Mary Davis / 35 //
Elizabeth / 9 // Henry / 8 // Priscilla / 5 // Isaac / 4 // Dina / 2 [all born outside county, sic, but see below]

England census, 30 March 1851, St. George the martyr, Southwark, Surrey; UK National Archives, HO 107/1563/526/21

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/SRYHO107_1563_1564-0031 (PAYWALL)

8 Dover Place West / Coleman Davis / Head / 53 / Teacher of Music / [born] Surrey, Southwark
Mary [Davis] / Wife / 44 / Dancing Mistress / Middl'x St. George in the East
Elizabeth [Davis] / Dau. / 19 / [Dancing Mistress] / Surrey St. George Southw'k
Pricilla [Davis] / Dau. / 15 / - / [Surrey St. George Southw'k]
Isaac [Davis] / Son / 14 / - / [Surrey St. George Southw'k]
Dinah [Davis] Dau / 12 / - / [Surrey St. George Southw'k]

"CONCERT IN OF THE FUNDS OF THE GOULBURN HOSPITAL", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser [NSW] (17 May 1856), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118308291 

A concert will be given in the early part of June at the Grand Concert Room of Mr. Woodward's, Commercial Hotel, for the benefit of the Goulburn Hospital . . . The performances, both instrumental and vocal, will be of a first class order, and a young professional recently arrived from England, of great celebrity as a Violinist, is to perform on the occasion.

"GRAND CONCERT IN AID OF THE GOULBURN HOSPITAL", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser [NSW] (31 May 1856), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118311800 

A Grand Concert of vocal and instrumental music, for the benefit of the Goulburn Hospital, was given last Thursday evening, in the grand concert room of the Commercial Hotel, Sloane-street, Goulburn . . . The performances were conducted by five amateurs, viz: - Mrs. Jewell, a songstress of very superior talent, from London; Mr. Isaac Davis, a young violinist, recently arrived in the colony from London, and who, although apparently not above eighteen years of age, displayed a mastership over his beautifully-toned instrument which elicited loud encomiums from the audience. In fact, he was encored upon every occasion.

ASSOCIATIONS: Caroline Joel ("Mrs. Jewell") (vocalist, Isaac's paternal aunt)

"GOULBURN [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT]", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 June 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12983292 

. . . On Wednesday evening, the amateur concert for the benefit of the hospital, was given in the concert room of the Commercial Hotel, the use of which was generously granted by Mr. Woodward. The large room was crowded to excess, nearly 400 persons being present. The performers were, Mrs. Joel and Messrs. Holmes, Davies, and Bennet. The singing of Mrs. Joel was much admired, and many of her songs were encored, the audience testifying their approbation by applause. The playing of the gentlemen performers was repeatedly applauded, and certainly was of a first rate kind. Many were of opinion that Mr. Davies' performance on the violin was but little excelled by Miska Hauser, whose musical talent gratified the Goulburn public last year. The concert was acknowledged to have been the best ever held in Goulburn, and the amount realized for the charity, will be such as to reward the kindness and liberality of those who provided so great a treat.

ASSOCIATIONS: Miska Hauser (violinist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (4 October 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12987518

MR. ISAAC DAVIS, Professor of the Violin, and who has lately arrived from England, has vacancies for a few pupils.
Terms, &c, apply to Mr. J. DAVIS, Mr. Samuel Davis, Sydney, York-street, near the Synagogue.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (18 December 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12990189 

OUR LYCEUM, - Mr. W. H. STEPHENS, in announcing his first Complimentary Benefit, has much pride and pleasure in publishing the following document, placed in the Green-room of the theatre, and signed by the whole company:
. . . "The opening of the above mentioned theatre having furnished employment to a number of actors, actresses, artists, musicians, carpenters, and others, and Mr. W. H STEPHENS having been principally instrumental in effecting this great good, it is proposed to give him a Complimentary' Benefit, on THURSDAY EVENING. December 18, 1856.
All persons employed in "Our Lyceum Theatre" disposed to tender their Gratuitous Services on the occasion will please affix their signatures . . .
The following signatures are appended: . . .
THE BAND - Messrs. Wheeler, Davis, Friedlander, Wilkinson, Boans, H. Cramer, F. Cramer, Hall, Cramer, &c., &c.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Stephens (actor, manager); Stephen Thomas Wheeler (musician); William Friedlander (musician); Philip Barnett Boam (musician); Cramer brothers (musicians); John Thomson Hall (musician); Lyceum Theatre (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (18 March 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28637201

THE NEW AUSTRALIAN EVANS' SALOON.
At MYERS' (Late Toogood's), corner of Pitt and King streets. The proprietor begs to announce that inconsequence of the extensive alterations and decorations, it is impossible to open the above Saloon until THURSDAY EVENING, 19th March.
The following talented artistes are already engaged, viz. -
Mademoiselle B. Basmann, Madame Sala, Mr. H. Lamoreaux, Mr. Ryall, Mr. Turner, Comic and Characteristic Singer, Mr. G. F. Howard;
Musical Director; Mr. J. Davis. Doors open at 7 o'clock; admission, free.

ASSOCIATIONS: Wilhelmina Basmann (pianist); Henry Lamoureux (Thompson) (vocalist); John James Ryall junior (vocalist); John Turner (vocalist); George Birkbeck Mason (alias Howard) (vocalist); Toogood's Saloon (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 March 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28637341

GRAND CONCERT! CONCERT!! CONCERT!!!
The New Australian EVANS'S Saloon, at Myers', late Toogood's, open every evening. Several new vocalists will appear in the course of the evening.
Mr. Davis will perform several popular solos on the violin.
Pianist and Musical Director, Mr. Cobham; Managers, Messrs. Harrison and Davis. Doors open at 7. Admission Free.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mr. Cobham (pianist)

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (2 May 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60278296 

LYCEUM THEATRE. Go on SATURDAY EVENING, and hear Mr. A. B. DAVIS in one of his inimitable comic songs.
LYCEUM THEATRE. - Master RICH as Paddy Malone; Mr. DEVEROUGH in "Trim the Lamp;" and Mr. I. DAVIS in one of his solos on the violin.

ASSOCIATIONS: Harry Rich (performer)

[3 advertisements], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 May 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12995082

GRAND CONCERT!!! - The BUCKINGHAM FAMILY'S Entertainment, on THURSDAY next, at Mr. Williams' Hotel, Woolpack Inn;
assisted by Mr. J. Davis, the inimitable violinist, from the Prince of Wales Theatre,
and the eminent basso, Mr. Lamoureux, from the Hanover-square Rooms, London. Seats, 2s. 6d.; reserved ditto, 5s.
WINDSOR -The Buckingham Family's Concert on FRIDAY, assisted by Mr. I. Davis, the inimitable violinist.
RICHMOND - The Buckingham Family's Concert on SATURDAY, assisted by Mr. I. Davis, the violin solo performer.

ASSOCIATIONS: Buckingham family (entertainers, musicians)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 May 1857), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28631905

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. - Quadrille Playing, Harp and Pianoforte, by Messrs. Cobley and Emanuel.
Fee, £3 3s., with Mr. Davis, the violinist, £1 11s. 6d. extra. Apply to JOHNSON and CO., Pitt-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Edwin Harry Cobley (harp); Abraham Emanuel (pianoforte); William Jonathan Johnson (musicseller)

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (22 July 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048925 

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.
Stage Manager - Mr. B. N. JONES . . . Leader of the Orchestra - MR. I. DAVIS . . .
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 23rd . . .
Favourite Ballad - Mr. Walcott. Song, "Dick Turpin," - Mrs. Jackson . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Benjamin Napthali Jones (actor, manager); Robson Beilby Walcot (vocalist); Prince of Wales Theatre (Bathurst venue)

"PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (24 October 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62053726 

. . . Mr. Davis, the talented leader of the Orchestra takes his benefit on Saturday next, when will be performed Buckstone's admired Comedy of "A Lesson for Ladies," to be followed by the Chamber Scene from Hamlet, by a gentleman amateur, of whose powers report speaks highly, after which another gentleman has kindly volunteered to sing July McCan. To conclude with the musical extravaganza called "This House to be Let," founded on the sale of Shakespere's house at Stratford, being the first occasion of its performance in these colonies. We are confident that we need say no more than to express our hope that the public will not be slow to acknowledge the services of an artiste, whose skilful and spirited efforts in the musical department have done so much to enliven these performances . . .

"AMATEUR CONCERT IN AID OF THE BATHURST HOSPITAL", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (7 November 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62050381 

It has rarely fallen to our lot to chronicle among our local "events" a circumstance which has suffered us so much unqualified gratification, as the Concert which took place on Wednesday evening at the Victoria Theatre . . . Miss Julia Clifford and Mr. Bruton also volunteered their valuable services together with Mr. Davis and Mr. Brown as instrumentalists . . . Mr. Bruton's laughable comic songs, and Mr. Davis' very clever performances on the Violin, met with a very enthusiastic reception, and this latter gentleman's assistance in conjunction with that of Mr. Brown, did much to increase the efficiency of the concerted pieces, and accompaniments . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Julia and John Bruton (actors, vocalists); James Brown (violin); Royal Victoria Theatre (Bathurst venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (11 December 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13017931 

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, Sydney, December 7, 1858. - To CHARLES POOLE, Esq. -
Dear Sir, - We, the undersigned . . . beg to tender you our services on the occasion of the complimentary benefit to be given to you at the above Theatre on Tuesday next, the 14th instant; and, with every good wish for your future success,
We are, dear Sir, your faithful servants,
G. V. Brooke, Henry Edwards . . . [band] John Winterbottom, conductor
R. Vaughan, Charles Frederichs, F. S. Wilkinson [sic], W. Dalton, S. Davis, L. Hall, W. J. S. Tranter, Charles Eigenschenk.
Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney, December 9.

ASSOCIATION: Charles Poole (manager); Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); Harry Edwards (actor); John Winterbottom (conductor); Robert Vaughan (musician); Christian Fredericks (musician); Theodore Scott Wilkinson (musician); W. Dalton (musician); John Thomson Hall (musician); William Tranter (musician); Charles Eigenschenck (musician); Prince of Wales Theatre (Sydney venue)

"FRIGHTFUL BALLOON ACCIDENT", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (24 December 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59869832

MR. HENRY EDWARDS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, DOES NOT RETURN TO GIVE A DESCRIPTION OF HIS AERIAL VOYAGE! . . .
This venturous and gallant gentleman had previously made every preparation for his "voyage in the air," even down to the writing and rehearsal of its description to be delivered on the stage of the "Prince" upon his return. He had taken a solemn farewell of his anxious friends, and deposited his will in the fiddle case of Isaac Davis, Esq., whom he appointed sole executor . . .

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (27 August 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60403340 

Green Room, Prince of Wales Theatre, August 23rd, 1859.
TO CHARLES POOLE, ESQ., LESSEE AND MANAGER.
DEAR SIR - Allow us to congratulate you on the unprecedented fact of your having kept open the Prince of Wales Theatre during a period of fourteen months, notwithstanding the difficulties which beset you . . . We beg to subscribe ourselves, Your obedient servants . . .
[band] CHAS. EIGENSCHENCK, R. KOHLER, R. VAUGHAN, T. S. WILKINSON . . . C. FREDERICKS, J. HALL, ISAAC DAVIS, W. DALTON . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Wildblood Kohler (musician)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 November 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28627832 

GRAND ORCHESTRAL UNION AND VOCAL CONCERT.
The Second MONSTER CONCERT, for the Benefit of the Dramatic and Musical Artists, late of the Victoria and Prince of Wales Theatres,
will take place THIS EVENING, Thursday, November 24th, at the SCHOOL OF ARTS . . .
Leaders - Messrs. Usher and Eigenschenck; Second violins - Messrs. Josephson and Hall; Tenori - Messrs. Rice and Davis . . .
R. STEWART, treasurer. FRANK VARLEY, secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Usher (violin, leader); Walter John Rice (viola); Martin Josephson (viola); Richard Stewart (actor, vocalist, treasurer); Frank Varley (secretary); Australian Dramatic and Musical Association (union)

"COPY OF PROTEST", Empire (12 June 1860), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60411624 

Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney, Tuesday Morning, May 22nd, 1860.
WE, the undersigned, professors of music, vocal and instrumental, and also the chorus engaged in the forthcoming Opera season, deem it a bounden duty . . . to protest against the ability of Sig. CUTOLO, as a conductor of grand opera . . .from inexperience, unable to wield the baton as conductor
[signed] GIOVENINA BIANCHI, EUGENIO BIANCHI . . . PALTZER . . .
C. EIGENSCHENK, leader, PRINCE, J. MAN, W. RICE, J. DAVIS . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Cesare Cutolo (pianist); Eugenio and Giovanna Bianchi (vocalists); Jacques Paltzer (violinist, replacement conductor); Henry Prince (musician); Italian Opera Company (troupe)

"THE SPIRIT OF THE WEEK", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (6 October 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59873485 

Mrs. Joel, sister of Mr. Samuel Davis, of the Exhibition Hotel, had a very narrow escape on Sunday afternoon last, whilst proceeding to Watson's Bay in a dogcart, in company with Miss Clelia Howson and Mr. Isaac Davis . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Clelia Howson (vocalist)

[Advertisement], Empire (23 January 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60505561

A GRAND CONCERT ORCHESTRA.
A want which has long been felt in this city will be speedily supplied.
Messrs. G. PECK and J. DAVIS are now organising a complete FULL ORCHESTRA, of resident musicians, adapted for Concert Room or Theatrical business.
Competent musicians disengaged are invited to join for the purpose of commencing a course of practice forthwith.
Particulars may be obtained on application at PECK'S Music Repository, 387, George-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Peck (violinist, musicseller)

"OPENING OF THE LYCEUM THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 July 1861), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13066952

Last night the Lyceum Theatre in York-street, having undergone several substantial repairs and alterations, was re-opened in the presence of a very numerous and highly respectable house. Mr. John Winterbottom, the eminent orchestral leader (formerly one of Jullien's band), took a complimentary benefit on the occasion . . . The leaders of the orchestra were Messrs. G. Peck and J. Davis, the conductor being Mr. Winterbottom.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (26 December 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28625249 

MR. NATHAN'S CONCERT, Masonic Hall, MONDAY, 30th December, 1861 . . .
the following list of Professional Gentlemen have handsomely tendered their gratuitous services:
Violins - Mr. King, Mr. Ernest King, Mr. F. Howson, Mr. Strong, Mr. Freelander. Viola - Mr. Davis. . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Isaac Nathan (composer); Edward King (violin); Ernest King (violin); Frank Alfred Howson (junior) (violin); George Strong (violin); Masonic Hall (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 January 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13065757

GRAND COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT to Mr. W. J. CORDNER . . .
at the Masonic Hall, on THURSDAY, January 30th . . .
the following . . . have, in the kindest manner, tendered their valuable services: . . .
E. King, F. and J. Howson, juniors, J. Davis, Peck, Friedlander . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William John Cordner (musician); John Howson junior (musician)

"CONCERT", Empire (31 January 1862), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60508134 

. . . The second part commenced with an instrumental-quartette by Messrs, E. King, J. Davis, and F. A. and J. Howson, consisting of variations on the well-known air, "The Last Rose of Summer," arranged by Mr. F. A. Howson, and most excellently arranged it was - there being a complete change in the style of harmony every time the melody is introduced. This portion of the entertainment reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Howson for the skill and musical talent displayed in it . . .

Albury, NSW (by December 1862 to 1867):

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (20 December 1862), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264151923 

MUSIC. I. DAVIS, leader of the orchestras of the principal Theatres in London and Sydney,
now being a resident in Albury, will be prepared on after the 1st January to give
lessons on the Violin and Pianoforte, including composition and Thorough Bass.
For Terms address I.D., Exchange Hotel, Albury.
Schools liberally treated with. Pianofortes tuned.

"EXCHANGE THEATRE", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (24 January 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264152009 

A novel performance took place at the theatre on Thursday evening, which caused no little astonishment. Contortionists and India-rubber Flexibles are always popular, but Devani, formerly sprite at the London theatres, contortioned and india-rubbered to an extent which must entitle him to be the chief of all the Bounding Brothers in creation. His performances are, in fact, wonderful. He is to appear again to night for the last time when, as before, the performances will be varied by some of the very talented accomplishments of Mr. Davis, the Albury Paganini, on the violin.

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (24 January 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264152006 

EXCHANGE THEATRE . . . MONS. DEVANI Will give his Final Performance this Evening, SATURDAY, 24th INSTANT . . .
Mr. I. DAVIS will on the occasion perform Paganini's far-famed Solo of "Carnival de Venise," and other selections from Blagrove, Meyerbeer, Wallace, and Verdi . . .

[Advertisements], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (28 February 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264152134 

EXCHANGE ASSEMLBY ROOMS. MR. I. DAVIS, Professor of Music and Dancing,
respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of Albury and its vicinity that, at the solicitation of several families, he purposes opening a
DANCING ACADEMY Early in March, of which due notice will be given.
I. D. trusts by strict attention to those pupils committed to his care to merit a share of public patronage.
Terms per Quarter for Dancing: - Adults - £2 2 0. Juveniles - 1 10 0.

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (28 May 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264153823 

Albury Volunteer Band. ALL Parties desirous of joining the Band are requested to attend a
MEETING at the Exchange Assembly Rooms, on MONDAY EVENING, 30th MAY, at Eight o'clock precisely.
I. DAVIS, Secretary pro tem.

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (9 July 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264153986 

Exchange Theatre. ALBURY AND BELVOIR DRAMATIC CLUBS.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENINGS, 15th and 16th JULY.
THE Performances will commence with an original Domestic Drama, entitled - THE CHIMNEY CORNER.
After which Grand Solo on the Violin by Mr. I. Davis . . .

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (5 November 1864), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264154384 

MR. I. DAVIS, Professor of Music. Schools attended. Pianofortes tuned. Terms moderate. Exchange Hotel, Albury.

"PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS . . . LYCEUM THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 February 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30935882 

. . . On Tuesday the performances were for the benefit of Mr. Isaac Davis, on which occasion "Othello" was produced . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Davis had apparently returned to Sydney to lead the Lyceum band for summer season

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (25 March 1865), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264155042 

Quadrille Assembly. MR. I. DAVIS begs to inform his numerous patrons that he intends holding the
FIRST of his series of Quadrille Assemblies at the Exchange Theatre, on FRIDAY, 7th APRIL.
Gentlemen desirous of joining will please communicate to I. Davis.
An Assembly will be held every Friday Evening on and after the above date.
Tickets admitting a Lady and Gentleman to each Assembly, £1 1s. per quarter.

"THE VOLUNTEER BAND", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (27 May 1865), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264155403 

The first anniversary of the mastership of Mr. I. Davis will occur on the 7th proximo, and the occasion will be marked by a performance at the Exchange Theatre according to announcement elsewhere. There is no reason why Albury should not possess its local Band, and if Mr. Davis can accomplish it he will deserve great credit.

"THE AMATEUR BAND", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (10 June 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264155463 

The anniversary entertainment of the Albury Amateur Band, got together, taught and superintended by Mr. I. Davis, took place at the Exchange Theatre on Wednesday evening, when they and the local Serenaders, with some assistance of friends, gave a capital performance, which afforded great amusement. The Band, which entirely filled the stage, played a few pieces and selections, and the remainder of the concert consisted of songs, both sentimental and comic, instrumental solos, and interludes of every variety, both black and white, and causing great mirth. The attendance was good, and the result satisfactory so far as money is concerned. We must not omit to add that Mr. Sipp volunteered his services, and came out with great force, and perfectly astonished both audience and brother performers.

ASSOCIATIONS: Rudolf Sipp (pianist)

"ALBURY (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) CONCERT IN AID OF THE ALBURY VOLUNTEER BAND", Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (10 June 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112912176 

. . . The programme, Part 1st, consisted of glees, songs, duets and operatic selections, and the Volunteer Band performed several pieces with exceedingly good taste under their able conductor, Mr. Davis . . . Mr. Alpen and Mr. Davis played a very nice duet on the piano and violin with good effect . . . A solo on the violin was played exceedingly well by Mr. Davis . . . The concert, I heard, realized £20.

ASSOCIATIONS: Hugo Alpen (pianist)

[2 advertisements], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (4 November 1865), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264156378 

LAVINGT0N HOTEL, BLACK SPRINGS, ALBURY.
MESSRS. JENNINGS & DAVIS beg to announce that they have erected a new Hotel dose to the works of the Lavington Crushing Machine, and that the same IS NOW OPEN For the accommodation of their numerous friends and the public.
All Liquors, Wines, Beer, &c., of the best quality, at Albury prices.

EXCHANGE THEATRE. TUESDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1865.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. I. DAVIS, BANDMASTER.
Assisted by the Albury Dramatic Club, Volunteer Band, and Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs . . .

"SOMETHING NEW", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (23 December 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264156666 

On New Year's night, Mr. Isaac Davis proposes to present a new feature to the notice of Albury, in the shape of a promenade concert at the Exchange Hotel. This will consist of some instrumental music, a selection of songs and duets by Mrs. Clarke and some amateurs, with polkas, schottisches, quadrilles, &c., between. After the programme has been gone through the business of dancing will commence in earnest, and be continued all night, if desired. For all this amusement the tickets are only to be charged five shillings, and a great gathering may therefore be expected. This novelty is, we presume, to take the place of usual German ball previously held at the "Exchange Hotel" on New year's night.

ASSOCIATIONS: ? Anne Remens Clarke (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (17 February 1866), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264157019 

Dissolution of Partnership. NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between John Jennings and Isaac Davis, as publicans, at the Lavington Hotel, Black Springs, is this day dissolved, the undersigned having disposed of the whole of his right, title, and interest, to Mr. Robert Denny.
ISAAC DAVIS. Dated this 30th day of January, 1866 . . .

[Advertisement], The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (3 March 1866), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264157115 

FANCY REPOSITORY, ALBURY.
SAMUEL LANE, in retiring from business, begs to thank the public for the liberal support accorded him during the past seven years, and also to solicit for his successor, Mr. I. DAVIS, a continuance of past favors.
ISAAC DAVIES, IN reference to the above, trusts by strict attention to business and by keeping only firstrate articles, to merit a share of public patronage, having opened with an entire NEW STOCK of Fancy Goods, Tobacco, Stationery, &c.

"ALBURY SMALL DEBTS' COURT. TUESDAY, APRIL 10", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (14 April 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264157365 

Mrs. Clarke v. Isaac Davis, £2 2s. Professional services. This was brought by Mrs. Clarke as having been engaged to sing professionally at a promenade concert and ball announced some few months since to take place at the Exchange Theatre. The speculation was a thorough failure, but plaintiff was in attendance to sing, and went through her part as a matter of form to the few who were there to listen, and, without regard to whether the matter was a success or a failure, now stood upon her legal rights for payment. The amount was paid into Court.

"THE HOSPITAL AND BENEVOLENT ASYLUM", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (28 April 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264157467 

It will be seen from a notice in another column that Mr. Alpen, with the assistance of Mr. Davis and others, intends giving a concert for the benefit of the above institutions. We have no doubt that, with the array of talent that will be present on this occasion, consisting of professionals and amateurs, and the object for which the entertainment is being given, a crowded house will be the result.

"VISIT OF THE HON. HENRY PARKES TO ALBURY . . . THE BANQUET", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (16 May 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264157541 

In the evening between forty and fifty gentlemen assembled at the Exchange Hotel on the occasion of the Banquet given to welcome the Colonial Secretary . . . After the good things had been disposed of the list of toasts was proceeded with . . . The music, incidental to the healths, being ably supplied by Mr. Alpen and Mr. Davis . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Parkes (politician)

"MARRIED", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (20 October 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264158504 

On Monday, October 15th, 1866, at his residence, Townsend Street, Albury, by the Reverend Francis Neale, Mr. I. DAVIS to CATHERINE EVERITT, also of Albury.

VIC (by mid 1867):

[Advertisement], Kilmore Free Press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser [VIC] (5 September 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70061986 

VOLUNTEER BAND. GENTLEMEN desirous of joining the above will please communicate at once with Mr. DAVIS, Fitzroy-st. Kilmore.

ACADEMY FOR MUSIC AND DANCING.
I. DAVIS, (LATE LEADER OF ORCHESTRAS OF THE PRINCIPAL THEATRES IN LONDON AND SYDNEY,)
Begs respectfully to inform the inhabitants of Kilmore and surrounding district that, at the solicitation of many influential families, he has been induced to settle amongst them for the purpose of giving LESSONS in the above ARTS.
I.D's long experience both in England and the colonies will he trusts be sufficient to secure for him a share of public patronage.
TERMS PER QUARTER.
Pianoforte - £2 2
Harmonium - 2 2
Harp - 3 3
Singing - 3 3
Violin - 2 2
Tenor Violin - 2 2
Violincello - 2 2
Composition & thorough bass - 3 3
Dancing (juvenile class) - 1 10
A liberal allowance made to schools.
Private parties, &c., attended professionally.
Pianofortes tuned at moderate charges;
Fitzroy Academy, Fitzroy street, Kilmore.

"Local", Kilmore Free Press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser [Kilmore, VIC] (5 September 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70061976 

By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Mr. Isaac Davis, professor of music and dancing, is endeavouring to form a volunteer band in Kilmore, and we have no doubt but that his efforts will meet with the hearty co-operation of the townspeople. Mr. Davis has previously organised a band at Albury, whose proficiency under his tuition is testified to by the local press in the following manner: -
"Here we must convey a well merited compliment to the bandmaster, Mr. Isaac Davis, who in a few short months, laboring gratuitously, has rendered Albury independent of foreign music. The majority of the Volunteer band knew nothing of the harmonic art when Mr. Davis first offered to form them into an orchestra, but their proficiency last Wednesday would contrast favorably with the performance of many professional bands."

"Local", Kilmore Free Press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser (19 December 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70062301 

By our advertising columns, it will be seen that Mr. I. Davis has decided upon finally taking up his residence amongst us, and that his next quarter for music, will commence on the 2nd proximo.

ASSOCIATIONS: In the circumstances, therefore, it seems unlikely that he was the fiddler Isaac Davis, sentenced to three months imprisonment in Geelong, for stealing a violin, see "GEELONG GENERAL SESSIONS", Geelong Advertiser (15 November 1867), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147775076 

"COUNTY COURT", Bendigo Advertiser [VIC] (20 September 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88245680 

Davies v. Kitchen. - Claim for £49 damages for breach of contract. £14 was paid into court by defendant, for wages admitted to be due. Mr. McDermott, instructed by Mr. McCormick, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martley, instructed by Mr. Brown, for the defendant. Isaac Henry Davies deposed that he was a violinist by profession, and that on 10th October last defendant entered into a contract with him to play at the Prince of Wales Theatre for twelve months, at £2 per week. The engagement was broken off by Kitchen, who dismissed him; he was abused by Kitchen, and assaulted by Fisher, his manager. He never refused to play; he was always ready and willing to do his duty.
Cross-examined: On the night of the 6th July he was requested to play a solo, and he refused to do so because this was not a part of his duty; he was not engaged to play solos; he told Mr. Fisher if he could show that he signed an agreement to play solos he would do it, not otherwise.
Mr. Martley produced the contract, in the possession of defendant - signed by plaintiff, which showed that he had agreed to play solos.
Plaintiff said there was no mention of solos in the agreement which he held, and he thought the two were identical. When he signed the document he heard nothing about solos, although he read it. He was certainly not aware of the discrepancies at the time he signed the instrument. At the time of the engagement there was nothing said about solos.
The documents were prepared by Fisher.
Mr. McDermott pointed out that the document held by defendant wasn't a counterpart of the other; there was evidently a mistake, and a mistake vitiated a contract.
His Honor remarked that the plaintiff read over the document before he signed; and independent of that, was not a violinist bound to play solos if required.
Mr. Martley said that the plaintiff was the solo violinist in the theatre, and therefore he was naturally expected and bound to play solos.
His Honor gave a verdict for the amount, - paid into court - £14, with costs, £2 13s 6d. Mr. Martley said if the defendant had paid costs into court with £14 he would have had a verdict, and the omission, he wished to say, was not the fault of the attorney, Mr. Brown.

"NEW INSOLVENTS", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (2 October 1872), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5839846 

(Schedule filed in Sandhurst) Isaac Henry Davis, of Sandhurst, musician.
Causes of insolvency - Sickness in family, and want of employment.
Liabilities, £117 0s. 4d.; assets. £26 14s.; deficiency, £90 6s, 4d. Mr. John Hasker, assignee.

? "POLYTECHNICAL EXHIBITION", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express [NSW] (1 November 1873), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257941193 

We notice from an advertisement in another column that Mr. I. Davis purposes visiting Albury at an early date, with his grand Polytechnical Exhibition, in which are introduced two hundred paintings illustrating bible history from the commencement of the world to the Resurrection.

Albury, Hay, and Sydney NSW (by mid 1874 to 1918):

"CONCERT AND READINGS", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express [NSW] (22 August 1874), 13

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A miscellaneous entertainment, consisting of readings and vocal and instrumental music, in aid of the building fund of St. Matthew's Church, was given in the Church of England School building on Thursday evening . . . [13] . . . We cannot conclude this brief notice without a few remarks upon a new feature introduced at this concert in the shape of some duets arranged for piano and violin. In these, Mr. Alpen at the piano, displayed his usual brilliancy of execution, but Mr. Davis demands more than a passing notice. He is a violinist of a much higher order than is usually met with in country towns. His style of bowing is excellent, his tone firm and resonant, while his execution could hardly be surpassed. He also possesses in a high degree the somewhat rare faculty of throwing expression into his playing. We liked the duet "Il Furioso" (an arrangement of an old opera by Auber [sic, ? Donizetti]) best; both players seeming to enjoy the piece, and to put forth all their energies to do it justice; but Mr. Davis's solo "Carnival de Venise" was the piece which best displayed his qualities as a violinist. In the course of this performance he played a little bit in what is technically known as the harmonics, which pleased his audience greatly and called forth loud applause . . .

"THIRD CONCERT OF THE ALBURY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express [NSW] (10 October 1874), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257943715 

The third concert or the Albury Philharmonic Society took place on Wednesday evening, last, at the Court-house. Our anticipations with regard to it were fully realised, as in every sense of the word it was a complete success. The spacious hall was almost inconveniently crowded, and the platform decorated with flags and evergreens, and filled with the singers, presented a really charming sight. The society has gained in numbers and strength since the last concert, a fact the full sound of the opening chorus at once showed; but the great improvement noticeable was the addition of an orchestra, which though only consisting of six performers, was wonderfully efficient. Mr. Davis, as leading violin, played remarkably well, but this - as we understand the gentleman in question was for years the leader of a first-class orchestra at the Opera-house in Sydney - is not to be wondered at. We may, however, congratulate the society on the acquisition of his valuable services. The other members of the orchestra also deserve a meed of praise . . . As conductor Mr. Alpen did his devoir admirably . . .

"THREATENING LANGUAGE", The Riverine Grazier [Hay, NSW] (4 December 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140552202 

At the Police Court, this morning . . . Henry Honkel was I charged on summons with using threatening language to Isaac Davis . . . Isaac Davis, a storekeeper, stated that on Friday last he had occasion to leave his shop, and that when he returned he heard swearing and cursing in the defendant's place, which is next door . . . Catherine Davis, wife of the previous witness, corroborated the previous testimony . . .

"TABLEAUX VIVANTS", The Riverine Grazier (14 December 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140553801

An entertainment consisting of a series of tableaux vivants, and an excellent concert programme, was given in the Academy of Music last evening . . . The number which was probably enjoyed most was Mr. J. Davis' violin solo, consisting of fantasias on airs, trick playing and imitation of the bagpipes, the last named causing the wildest demonstrations of approval . . .

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (5 August 1918), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15796714 

DAVIS - July 29 1918. Isaac H. Davis, late leader of orchestra, Drury Lane Theatre, London, and Victoria and Prince of Wales Theatres, Sydney, passed to the higher life, aged 83 years. Interred privately at Waverley.

"MRS. CATHERINE DAVIS", Goulburn Evening Penny Post [NSW] (15 September 1931), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99781650 

Mrs. Catherine Davis, widow of Mr. Isaac Davis died on Sunday at Paddington, aged 85 years. She was a native of Goulburn, and for many years was a contributor to the Press. She is survived by three sons and two daughters. The funeral took place at Waverley cemetery yesterday.

DAVIS, Sophia Letitia (Sophia Letitia ? JONES; Mrs. James Wentworth DAVIS; Sophia Letitia DAVIS; Mrs. DAVIS)

Musician, soprano vocalist, pianist, teacher of singing, piano, guitar, musicseller

Born ? Ireland, c. 1799
Married James Wentworth DAVIS, Ireland, by c. 1825
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 22 June 1832 (per Lindsay, from Sligo, Ireland, 26 November 1831, via Greenock, 24 January)
Died Hobart Town, TAS, 8 July 1850, aged "51"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Sophia+Letitia+Davis (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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DAVIS, James Wentworth (senior) (James DAVIS; James Wentworth DAVIS; J. W. DAVIS)

Musicseller, stationer, seed merchant, farmer

Born ? Ireland, c. 1797
Married Sophia Letitia JONES, Ireland, by c. 1825
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 22 June 1832 (per Lindsay, from Sligo, Ireland)
Died ? VIC, January 1853; ? Geelong, VIC, late 1852, aged "55"

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Summary:

Sophia Letitia Davis (c. 1799-1850) was a musician, vocalist, pianist, teacher of music and singing, and music and instrument seller. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she and her husband, James Wentworth Davis, of Mall, at some time a Sligo tobacco farmer, arrived in Tasmania from Ireland in 1832, and she briefly became the leading female concert and oratorio singer in the southern colony.

Sophia's father was thought by the family to have been an Anglo-Irish Anglican clergyman named Jones, and a Letitia Jones, listed with a residential address in Dublin, may have been her widowed mother. Documentation of James and Sophia's births and marriage have not been traced, either in Ireland or England, however the baptism of their only surviving child, James, took place at St. George's, Dublin, on 12 June 1826.

Sophia appears to have been a vocal and keyboard pupil in Dublin of the composer and conductor Haydn Corri, son of Domenico Corri. Her surviving papers, now in the State Library of Victoria, include an undated page of manuscript instructions headed "The Delivery of the Voice", and signed "H. C." (reproduced in Pullman 1982, opposite page 12), and a professional letter of reference, concerning her capacities as an organist, from Haydn Corri, dated 30 July 1831. Also among her papers is an autograph letter of reference, dated 4 July 1829, to Davis from the vocalist Angelica Catalani (1780-1849),

The actor, vocalist, composer and songwriter G. A. Hodson (usually rendered as George Alexander, but correctly George Alfred Hodson) who was also music director at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, dedicated to a "Miss Jones" his song Haste idle time upon publication in 1818. On the circumstantial evidence (the song was bound first in one of Sophia's Dublin music albums), she may have been the Miss Jones in question, though this is by no means certain, and it is perhaps more likely that the Miss Jones in question belonged to the Jones family of Dublin theatrical managers, of whom Frederick Jones was the patriarch.

Family tradition has it that the Davis family left Ireland for Van Diemen's Land because of the political unrest, contagion (cholera was said to have claimed a daughter) and tobacco blight. They arrived in Hobart on 22 June 1832, and James established himself as a farmer and horticulturalist on their property, Waverly Park, at Kangaroo Point.

In Hobart Town, Sophia first set herself up in practice as a "professor of music, pianoforte and singing" and public singer. Her music collection includes her (slightly incomplete) copy of a rare early English quarto edition (c. 1810) of Haydn's The creation, from which she sang solo arias in oratorio concerts in Hobart in 1834. Her relatively short colonial public career, following her first concert advertisement in July 1832, peaked in 1833-24 in Hobart, in concert and oratorio collaborations with John Philip Deane, William Russell, Joseph Reichenberg, and George Peck. But she met with serious local competition when the much younger professional actor and vocalist Maria Taylor made her local concert in November 1833.

One of Sophia's Hobart vocal pupils was Margaret Barron, daughter of the baker Patrick Barron. Papers in her collection, and other documentation, attest that, at least for a short while, she taught music to the families of the lieutenant governor George Arthur, chief justice John Pedder, and perhaps also of the colonial secretary, John Burnett. Among her papers are also several invitation cards to events at the Arthurs' Government House. Sophia also spent a month in Launceston over Christmas 1834 and the New Year of 1835, advertising there as a teacher and music-seller, and ending her time in the town by giving a concert, with help from local musicians.

On returning to Hobart in January 1835, she and James opened a retail store at 23 Elizabeth-Street, him as a horticultural supplier, she as a musicseller and stationer (though music was also advertised under James's name), adding toys and fancy goods and a circulating library in the adjoining house. She imported and sold sheet music, musical instruments, and in particular pianos. Her papers include documentation of several shipments, as well as autograph letters to her from two regular suppliers, the London piano-maker, Thomas Tomkison and the London (and formerly Dublin) musicseller Isaac Willis. After the end of 1836, however, her name is replaced by that of her husband in all advertisements for the business, musical or otherwise, and thereafter she largely disappeared from notice by the Tasmanian press.

Sophia and her husband moved themselves and their family from Hobart in 1845; James and son landed at Port Phillip in April. In 1845 they resettled in Gippsland, on a pastoral run they had purchased from William Wade (he had established it in 1843) bringing a piano with them. A bill of lading for shipping the piano dated 29 August 1845 has since been lost, but Sophia's papers still include an invoice from W. Hamilton, Upholsterer Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, Elizabeth Street, Hobarton, to Mr. J. W. Davis for removing and packing a piano forte on board ship, dated 28th August 1845. According to family tradition, it was the first piano in Gippsland. They and their servants and hired workers planted a large garden and fruit trees and enlarged and improved Wade's hut. James described it in 1848 as "a very comfortable weather-boarded cottage, and out offices" (Pullman 1982, 121). Davis's claim to the land was rejected by the government, and in 1849 he sold the cottage to the Rev. Willoughby Bean (Lawrence at al. 2009, 69).

Sophia herself lived in Gippsland for only a few years; she became ill and returned to Hobart for treatment in 1850 only to die there.

James Davis senior died in Victoria late in 1852 or early 1853; their son, James Wentworth Davis junior (1826-1905), continued to farm the family property in Gippsland; he was also a capable amateur musician, having been taught by his mother, and was probably responsible for purchasing the small amount of post-1850 music in the family collection.

Sophia's personal music collection survives largely intact, and includes several large quarto albums (approx. 300mm height), all probably bound in Ireland (c. 1830). The contents consist mainly of printed sheet music, published in Dublin and London, dating from c. 1800 to 1830, mostly up-to-date theatrical and opera songs, and piano pieces and arrangements from the 1820s. Each volume contains between approximately 30 and 45 separate titles. Notable among the contents are rare English editions of two-piano arrangements of Haydn's "London" (or Salomon) symphonies, and opera songs by Mozart and Michael Kelly; a rare original London printed edition (c. 1823) of Henry Bishop's Home, sweet home, and manuscript copies of piano sonatas by James Hook. Some of the printed vocal sheets bear performer's and/or teacher's light pencil annotations. A few other printed sheet music titles from the 1830s and 1840s were acquired by Sophia in Hobart or Sydney, including two items from Sydney music retailer and publisher Francis Ellard, whom she had almost certainly known earlier in Dublin. Until it was acquired by the late Ettie Pullman (descendant, family historian, and professional genealogist), the collection was stored for much of last century in the family home in South Gippsland, where the Davises had first settled in the mid 1840s.

MUSIC REFERENCE: Haste idle time, the celebrated pollacca as introduced as introduced by Miss Byrne with unbounded applause in The haunted tower, composed and dedicated to Miss Jones by G. A. Hodson, the words . . . by F. N. Bellchamber (Dublin: I. Willis, n.d. [1818])

Copy from family collection ONSITE PDF (FREELY DOWNLOADABLE)

Documentation

Ireland (to 1832):

Baptisms, The Year 1826,; register of baptisms, parish of St. George (Church of Ireland), Dublin, Ireland

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/e092670070143

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-298-2-1-082 (DIGITISED)

James son of James and Sophia Davis was Born 6th June 1826 and Christened 13th June 1826. Registered 13 June 1826 by me John Short Curate

[Advertisement], Sligo Journal [Ireland] (8 July 1828), 4

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Musical Education. ITALIAN AND ENGLISH SINGING, PIANO FORTE, &c. &c.
MRS. DAVIS, respectfully informs the Nobility and Gentry of Sligo and its environs, that she will give instructions in the above branches of accomplishment.
Educated by some of the most eminent Masters, and her method having been sanctioned by the approval of families of the first distinction, she flatters herself, from her long experience in teaching in Dublin, she may merit the approbation of those families who may honor her with an engagement.
Has no objection to attend families in the Country - Cards of her Terms may be had at her Lodgings at
Mr. HENRY's, Knox's-street. Sligo, July 8, 1828.

8 July 1829, Angelica Catalani's concert, Sligo; Sophia Davis, associate vocalist