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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.

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HAAG, Emma (Emma Catherine HAAG; Emma HAAG; Miss HAAG)

Musician, pianist

Born Venezuela, c. 1843; daughter of Johann Christian HAAG (1810-1891) and Catharina Maria GROTH (c. 1814-1876)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 1848
Died Unley, SA, 10 July 1912, aged "69"

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Documentation:

"NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS", Adelaide Observer [SA] (30 December 1848), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158926943 

Colonial Secretary's Office, Dec. 27, 1848.
The undermentioned persons having . . . memorialised the Lieutenant-Governor for the right and privileges of Naturalization as British subjects, - Notice is hereby given that their respective memorials have been favourably entertained by his Excellency . . .
The certificates will be dated 31st December current, and the oaths must be taken and subscribed within sixty days after that date . . .
Haag, Johann Christian . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Emma's father, Johann Christian Haag (1810-1891) emigrated from his native Wurttemberg to North America around 1833; probably around 1839, he married Catharina Maria Groth (c. 1814-1876), and about a year later, in Venezuela, their first child, Johann Christian Haag (c. 1840-1921) was born; Emma and her younger brother Adolph Henry (c. 1844-1862) were also probably born in Venezuela; there is no certain record of the family's arrival in South Australia; however, Johann Christian's 1848 naturalisation certificate (aged "36", blacksmith) states that he had resided in the colony for six months

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser [Adelaide, SA] (26 November 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article880210 

MRS. SMART (late MISS Pettman)
begs most respectfully to inform her Friends and the Public generally that her grand
VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL BENEFIT CONCERT will take place at the
TOWN HALL, NORWOOD, THIS EVENING (Tuesday), November 26.
With the assistance of the Norwood Philharmonic Society
and all the principal musical talent of Adelaide.
Miss E. Haag will make her debut on this occasion.
PROGRAMME. Part I . . . 5. Duet Pianoforte, Miss E. Haag and Mr. Heberlet . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ann Smart (vocalist); James William Heberlet (pianist); Norwood Philharmonic Society (association)

"CONCERT AT THE TOWN HALL, NORWOOD", The South Australian Advertiser (28 November 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article880291 

Mrs. Smart's concert was given on Tuesday evening last at the Town Hall, Norwood, at which the pieces set forth in an excellent programme were admirably performed; indeed, no other result could have been reasonably anticipated from the array of talent that was present on the occasion . . . A young lady, Miss Haag, next made her debut before a South Australian public, playing with Mr. Heberlet a duett from the music of William Tell, which was performed with much taste and artistic skill . . . The second part was, if possible, even more successful than the first. Where all were so excellent it would be invidious to particularise, but we cannot help referring to the performance of Miss Haag in "Home, Sweet Home," and also in the charming piece substituted as an encore - "The Convent Bells" . . .

"CONCERT", Adelaide Observer (30 November 1861), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158184229 

. . . Messrs. Compton and Heberlet, and a Miss Haag, who made her debut as a pianist, also contributed to the success of the performances . . . Miss Haag was very successful, and is likely to become a favourite. She acquitted herself well in the duet from "William Tell," with Heberlet, and also in the solo "Home, Sweet Home," for which she substitutcd on an encore, "The Convent Bell" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Henry Compton (pianist, vocalist)

"SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN RELIEF FUND", South Australian Register (11 October 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39131692 

It is not often that our German fellow-colonists emerge from their identity with South Australians to engage in demonstrations peculiarly national or to promote truly national objects. Nor is it desirable that this should be so; for in a new settlement everything which tends to retard the progress of amalgamation and the growth of parity in sentiment among its inhabitants is to be deprecated. There are times, however, when this rule may be overstepped - when the sympathy of race excuses demonstrations of a national character, evincing the devotion with which peculiar customs and institutions ore clung to and the deep-rooted sympathy which fellow-countrymanship inspires. Such an opportunity has the recent war in Schleswig Holstein afforded to the Germans here. The sufferings of the belligerent forces call for compassion and relief from all, but they naturally excite a more hearty compassion, a more tender solicitude, among those who were born and bred in the same land, and brought up under the influence of the same associations. The movement now on foot in the province to advance this laudable purpose of sending aid to those who have been involved in the disasters of the war recently raging there recognises, as we understand, no partisan motive, but is intended to secure funds for distribution among those who have need, whichever side they may be connected with. In this view the object cannot fail to commend itself to the favourable notice of all. Among other means of securing a respectable sum for transmission to "Fatherland" it was determined to hold a grand concert in Adelaide, the performers being the members of the Liedertafel and the Brunswick Band, assisted by several lady and gentleman amateurs. Accordingly on Monday evening White's Room was crowded to the very doors with a highly-respectable assemblage, consisting mainly of Germans, although many members of other nationalities were present . . .

The opening piece was Martin Luther's well-known hymn "A strong fortress is our God," in which both chorus and band took part. This was followed by the overture to the opera of Die Felsenmuhle, by the band, and that again by the amusing "Grasshopper Song," which has already acquired some degree of popularity in Adelaide. Mr. Oehlmann's solo from Beethoven went off well, and Miss Haag executed on the pianoforte Schulhoff's "Galop di Bravura" in an admirable style. After this a quartette, "The True German Heart," was rendered in a feeling manner, and shortly afterwards Mr. Schierenbeek and Mr. Mumme sung "Ich wolt, mein Lieb, ergosse sich" . . . Special allusion should be made to the chorus "To the Fatherland;" to a fantasia on the pianoforte by Miss Haag, which was encored . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Hermann Oelmann (vocalist); Johann Wilhelm Schierenbeck (vocalist); Charles Edmund Mumme (vocalist)

MUSIC: Galopp di bravura (Schulhoff)

"TOPICS OF THE DAY", The South Australian Advertiser (11 October 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31842331

. . . A young lady amateur - in fact the lady amateur of the evening, for there was but one - performed Schulhoff's Galop di Bravura; and later in the evening Favarger's fantasia on themes from "Oberon" very tastefully, and with great execution, though we confess the school to which the pieces belong is no favorite of ours . . .

MUSIC: Oberon fantasie (Farvager)

"DEATHS", Evening Journal [Adelaide, SA] (11 July 1912), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203472738 

HAAG. - On the 10th July, Emma, beloved sister of J. C. H., Arthur street, Unley.

"FUNERAL NOTICES", Evening Journal (11 July 1912), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203472742 

HAAG. - The Friends of the late Miss EMMA CATHERINE HAAG arc respectfully informed that her
REMAINS will be Removed from her Brother's Residence, Mr. J. C. Haag, Arthur-street, Unley,
TO-MORROW (Friday), July 10, at 11 a.m., for Interment in the West Terrace Cemetery . . .

HAAS, Meno (Meno HAAS)

Musician, professor of music (from Copenhagen)

Born Denmark, c. 1833
Arrived Adelaide, SA, by mid 1868
Died North Adelaide, SA, 10 March 1870, aged "37"

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THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Documentation: 

[Advertisement], South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (3 November 1868), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41404682

HERR M. HAAS, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, from Copenhagen,
will give INSTRUCTIONS on the PIANO on Czerny's own Method, so much approved of on the Continent.
For terms, apply to Mr. S. Marshall, Rundle-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Samuel Marshall (musicseller)

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (13 January 1870), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73056402

MR. HAAS, MUSIC TEACHER. Address. Kermode-street, North Adelaide east, by Mr. Robertson.

"DEATH", South Australian Register (11 March 1870), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39196215

HAAS. - On the 10th March, at Kermode-street, North Adelaide, of low fever, Mr. Meno Haas, Professor of Music, and nephew of Mr. E. Thorup, chemist, Gawler Town.

"THE LATE MR. HAAS", Adelaide Observer (12 March 1870), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158938830 

We regret to announce the death, at North Adelaide, of Mr. Meno Haas, a music-teacher of some talent. The deceased was a native of Denmark, and nephew of Mr. Thorup, of Gawler. He arrived in South Australia about two years ago, and for the last 12 months has followed his profession in Adelaide and the suburbs, where he leaves many to mourn his loss.

HACKETT, Edward (Edward HACKETT; Mr. HACKETT; also HACKET)

Musician, bass vocalist

? Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 13 March 1854 (per Edward, from New York, 20 November 1853, aged "31")
Active Melbourne, VIC, November 1853
Active Ararat and Ballarat, VIC, until December 1860
? Departed Melbourne, VIC, 29 May 1861 (per Great Britain, for Liverpool, aged "27" [sic])
Active Cork, Ireland, by November 1861, until 1872 or later

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Documentation:

? Names and descriptions of passengers per Edward, from New York, 20 November 1853, for Melbourne, 13 March 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3AF2902C-F96C-11E9-AE98-6F3E4C825073?image=105 (DIGITISED)

. . . Edw'd Hackett / 31 / [British] . . .

[Advertisement], The Banner [Melbourne, VIC] (15 November 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article179481956 

Opening of the New Organ in St. Francis's Cathedral, LONSDALE STREET.
THIS Magnificent Instrument, just erected by Mr. Henry Smith, will be opened on TUESDAY Evening, 22mi inst.,
with a Grand Selection of Sacred Music from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rossini, &c.
PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS: Mrs. Testar, Miss Miabella Smith, Miss Martin,
Mr. T. Ewart, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Loughnan, Mr. Hacket,
Assisted by a Chorus of Fifty Voices, several Members of the Philharmonic Society having kindly offered their services on this occasion . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Smith (organbuilder, vocalist); Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Meabella Smith (vocalist); Charlotte Martin (vocalist, Mrs. Quain, Ararat, 1859, below); Thomas Ewart (vocalist); Henry Loughnan (vocalist); St. Francis's cathedral (Melbourne)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (12 June 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4809306 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE - Miss Miabella Smith's Grand Vocal and instrumental Concert
Will take place on Thursday evening, June 15th, when she will be assisted by the following eminent artistes: -
Vocalist - Mrs. Testar, Miss Edwards, Mr. Hackett.
Instrumentalists - Herr Strebinger, Mr. Winterbottom, Herr Prinz, Pianist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Miss Edwards (vocalist); Frederick Strebinger (violinist); John Winterbottom (musician); Herr Prinz (pianist); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue)

"MR. WINTERBOTTOM'S CONCERT", The Argus (4 July 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794686 

The dirty state of the streets prevented full justice being done to Mr. Winterbottom's concert last evening; but a fair attendance resulted notwithstanding. Mrs. Testar, Misses Hamilton and Edwards, and Messrs. Hackett, Barre, and Winterbottom were the vocalists. Miss Smith and Messrs. Strebinger and Winterbottom contributed the instrumental portion. The performance went off evenly and well, many of the pieces being encored; and the audience apparently satisfied with their bill of fare.

ASSOCIATIONS: Octavia Hamilton (vocalist); Anthony Barre (vocalist); Emilie Smith (pianist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 July 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794674 

THE following Artists will appear at Prahran on Wednesday next [5 July] - Mrs. Testar, Miss Hamilton, Hackett, Elsasser.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Elsasser (pianist)

"THE CREATION", The Argus (5 July 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794741 

The spirited efforts of the Philharmonic Society were rewarded last evening by a crowded audience, in spite of broken weather and dirty streets; and the beautiful oratorio of the Creation was given in a style which did credit to the society and to the colony in which it is doing so much to introduce a taste for good music. Both the orchestra and the choruses were very strong; and under the effective leadership of Mr. Russell a degree of precision was observable which speaks volumes for the attention which has been bestowed in the rehearsal of a production, much of which is of a very difficult description. Mrs. Testar sang the solo parts which came to her share very well, as she always sings religious music; and Miss Edwards acquitted herself in a style of which we never before thought her capable. One or two of the other solos were very well given by Mr. Hackett and another gentlemen, whose name we did not hear. We trust that this excellent society may go on and prosper. Their efforts are all in the right direction, and it is only a matter of surprise that in so small and young a place as this they have been able to muster so powerful and efficient a choir, and to do such justice to the splendid productions of the great masters.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (conductor); another gentleman = Thomas Ewart (above); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association)

"MRS. HANCOCK'S CONCERT", The Argus (6 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4798586 

This lady gave a concert last evening at the Mechanics' to, we are sorry to add, rather a meagre audience. The beneficiare was, on making her appearance, greeted with considerable applause. Mrs. Hancock sang the several morceaux allotted to her with much taste, and more than once was called upon to respond to an encore. She had to contend against a piano miserably out of tune, and was also badly supported by the accompanyist, a Mr. Bial, who was by no means up to the mark . . . A Mr. Hackett sang "Tubal Cain," which by the way is becoming rather stale, in a passable manner. The concert was protracted to a late hour by the great number of songs and the incessant encores, but on the whole may be considered to have been very successful as far as the performance was concerned. We were sorry to see so thin an attendance, which must, however, be attributed to the number of public entertainments now going on.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ellen Hancock (vocalist); Charles Bial (pianist)

MUSIC: Tubal Cain (Henry Russell)

"CONCERT OF SACRED MUSIC AT PRAHRAN", The Argus (11 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4798780 

The concert in aid of the building fund of the Church of England schools took place on Monday evening [9 October], in the spacious building lately erected for that purpose . . . The programme contained a miscellaneous selection of sacred music, from the works of the First Masters. The performers were Mrs. Testar, Miss Edwards, Mrs. Goodliffe, Messrs. Hackett, Ewart, and Smith, and a few of the member of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society . . . The recitation and air, "Rolling in Foaming Billows," was well sung by Mr. Hackett, who possesses a good bass voice, although his style is at present rather crude . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Anne Goodliffe (vocalist)

"THE OPENING OF THE VICTORIAN EXHIBITION", The Argus (18 October 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799114 

The invitation of the Governor to the citizens to join him in making the day of the inauguration of the Victorian Exhibition a general holiday day, was not met to the full extent that was commonly expected would be the case. Several of the shops in the principal streets were kept open all day. The intense heat of the weather, and the clouds of dust which a scorching wind from the north raised also, no doubt, deterred numbers from venturing abroad; still there was a large concourse of people assembled in front of the building even two hours before the momentous period of the inauguration arrived, a proof that the event of the day had excited great interest . . . Immediately on the procession halting in front of the dais, the band and chorus struck up the National Anthem, the solos and part music being taken up by Mesdames Testar, Hancock, Quain, Miss Edwards, and Messrs. Ewart and Hackett. The chorus consisted of the members of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society. The audience were invited by the programme to join in the chorus, but with the exception of one or two voices which exhibited some energy in the line "May she defend our laws," any assistance which the choir derlvod from the unattached was of an exceedingly piano character . . . At the conclusion of the address, the choir and orchestra burst into the magnificent chorus from the Creation, "The Heavens are telling;" but much of the effect of this this composition was lost through the unfortunate situation of the musicians, who were located at the eastern extremity of the gallery, upon seats rising from the floor of the gallery to the ceiling. From this cause the music fell dead upon the ear, and the efforts of the very efficient orchestra and chorus, which Mr. Russell conducted, were rendered entirely nugatory . . . His Excellency having resumed his position on the platform, declared the Exhibition opened . . . and the sublime Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah was given. As in the instance of the previous chorus, the performance was entirely marred through the same cause . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Hotham (governor); Victorian Exhibition 1854 (event); Exhibition Building (Melbourne venue)

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", The Age (28 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851406 

A selection, comprising nearly the whole of Handel's sublime oratorio Judas Maccabeus was performed by the above society, at the Exhibition Building, to the most numerous and brilliant audience we have ever beheld in Melbourne . . . Mr. Hackett's fine bass voice told well in the songs, "Arm, arm ye brave," and "Rejoice O Judah," although we hardly thought he sang so well as we have heard him on some former occasions, particularly in the latter song, he seemed to drop the tones very abruptly, rendering the music as staccato as possible nearly the whole of the way through the song. We would suggest to Mr. Hackett that a more sustained style is more in keeping with Oratorial, and, in fact, Sacred Music in general. A Mr. King, we believe, sang the Recitative, "Be comforted" and the following song "The Lord worketh wonders": perhaps the most artistic song in point of execution in the whole Oratario, and one which requires not only a most powerful bass voice, but a voice well cultivated and under good control. Mr. King's, being a baritone, was sadly deficient in weight, consequently the effect of the song was lost . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry John King (vocalist)

"EXHIBITION CONCERTS", The Age (6 November 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154853692 

Handel's oratorio, the Messiah, was performed by the Philharmonic Society, on Friday evening [3 November], in the Exhibition Building to a numerous, and highly respectable audience . . . Mr. Hackett gave "For behold darkness," and "The people that walked;" in the latter, the band was a little too powerful, some of the chromatic passages, which we are used to hear with delight from the voice, were quite smothered and lost . . . "Why do the nations," was sung by Mr. Benham, who appears to us to possess an extraordinary voice, of excellent quality, and almost unlimited power . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Benham (vocalist)

"EXHIBITION CONCERTS", The Age (13 November 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851745 

The Philharmonic Society gave a much improved repetition of Handel's Oratorio "Judas Maccabeus," on Friday evening, to a larger audience, who, if we are to judge from their applause, were highly delighted . . . "The Lord worketh wonders," was entrusted on this occasion to Mr. Hackett, who handled the subject with a much greater amount of skill and ability than the gentleman who sang it on the former occasion. The concert altogether is the best we have heard, and adds still more to the laurels already won by the Philharmonic society . . .

"EXHIBITION CONCERTS", The Age (21 November 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851602 

The Philharmonic Society gave their fourth grand Concert on Friday evening last [17 November], to the most crowded and delighted audience ever assembled within the walls of the Exhibition building. The music chosen for the occasion was Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and a miscellaneous selection . . . Mr. Hackett sung "O Ruddier than the Cherry," with very correct intonation, but the want of speaking the words out distinctly destroys three-fourths of the effect of his singing. A more distinct and free delivery would not only make him an acceptable singer but a favourite. In the trio, "The Flocks shall leave the Mountains," he was more successful; it is an elegant composition, and was well interpreted on this occasion . . .

"M. HERWYN'S CONCERT", The Age (18 December 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154850976 

On Thursday evening, M. and Madame Herwyn made their second appearance before a Melbourne audience. The attendance was far more numerous than on their first appearance, and of a very select and fashionable description . . . Mrs. Testar was in excellent voice . . . Messrs. Lyall and Hackett were well received, the accompaniments to their songs being performed with great taste by Mr. White . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry and Celestine Herwyn (violinist and pianist); Charles Lyall (vocalist); Thomas White (pianist, accompanist)

"GRAND CONCERT IN AID OF THE HOSPITAL FUNDS", The Age (28 December 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154853346 

On Tuesday evening [26 December] the Philharmonic Society, performed Haydn's oratorio of the "Creation," for the benefit of tlie above institution, the Exhibition building was crowded to excess . . . Mr. Hackett sung all the bass songs with a very visible amount of improvement in style; we are more than ever persuaded that a more distinct enunciation of the words, and a free delivery of the tones of his fine voice direct from the chest, would render him a very valuable and favourite singer . . . We have not heard what the receipts of the evening were, but from the overflowing attendance, the Hospital must realize something handsome.

"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 hall was well filled with a most respectable assembly . . . 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 . . . The bass songs, belonging to Manoa and Harapha, were divided between Mr. Hackett and Mr. Biggs; those of Samson being sung by Mr. Ewart, whose tenor is of an excellent quality . . . Mr. Russell conducted the choruses with great precision . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (vocalist); Samson was the last oratorio that Hackett appeared in for the Melbourne Philharmonic; thereafter, he disappears from record by mid 1855, perhaps already having left Melbourne for the goldfields

"MUSIC AND THE DRAMA", The Age (29 December 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154869749 

. . . The performances at the Golden Age [Maryborough] on Saturday were for the benefit of Mr. Gibson, the comic singer. The [Maryborough and Dunolly] Advertiser says: "The programme was most judiciously made up, and the pieces selected were, with one or two trifling exceptions, beautifully given, and proved that a large amount of pains had been be stowed on their octting up. Mrs. White, good as she always is, on this occasion seemed even to surpass herself, and her rich, full voice never sounded to more advantage . . . Madame Vitelli was in excellent voice . . . With Mr. Hackett's singing we were much pleased; he possesses a bass voice of uncommon sweetness and extensive compass, and his performance on Saturday evening proved him to be an accomplished musician. Mons. Barre, we must candidly confess, we did not like; his "Figaro" was an overstrained piece of acting, and his "Marseillaise" lacked the primary essentials of time and tune. The concerted music was extremely well got up; and reflected the utmost credit on the conductor, Mr. White.

ASSOCIATIONS: J. W. Gibson (vocalist); Emilia Arnati White and Thomas White (vocalist and pianist); Annie Vitelli (vocalist); Anthony Barre (vocalist); Golden Age Concert Hall (Maryborough venue)

"MADAME ARNATI WHITE'S CONCERT", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (16 October 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66044748 

The large room at Bath's Hotel was crowded by the west end fashionables on the occasion of Madame White's concert last evening. The programme offered a choice selection of vocal music, comprising some of the most popular compositions of the English school. The lady was in excellent voice . . . She was assisted during the evening by Messrs. Oliver, O'Connor, and Hackett - amateurs who have already achieved a more than tolerable professional reputation as vocalists. The songs and concerted pieces were all very fairly and pleasingly rendered, eliciting repeated encores. The audience seemed to be highly gratified by the entertainment, the only drawback being the almost insufferable closeness of the atmosphere in the room. It is quite evident that ample patronage exists amongst us to support first-class musical entertainments, and we hope ere long to be able to record their frequent occurrence, when the new theatre in Sturt-street shall have been completed.

ASSOCIATIONS: Daniel Oliver (vocalist); Mr. O'Connor (vocalist)

"TARRANGOWER [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] . . . AMUSEMENTS", Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (11 December 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197087044 

The only amusement we have had here for some time were the concerts given at the Kangaroo and Eagle Hawk Theatres, by Madame Arnati White, assisted by Messrs. Bial, Hackett, and White . . . Mr. Hackett has a magnificent bass voice, and it is only necessary to hear him to desire to do so again. Mr. White's performance on the piano deserves great praise . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Rudolph Bial (violinist)

"THE MINERS' EXCHANGE", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (17 December 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66045663 

This Institution was opened last evening by a select Concert. The room was lighted by lamps suspended from the roof, and was particularly cool and comfortable. The approach was by a very neat circular doorway and hall leading through the building now standing in front of the Exchange. There were, owing to the attractions elsewhere, very few persons present. The pieces were however well received. Madame White, Messrs. O'Connor and Hackett and Herr Bial were deservedly encored several times during the evening, and altogether the performance was of a very enjoyable nature.

"CAMP HOTEL", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera [VIC] (5 January 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article280028483 

Mr. Gower's New Ball Room was well filled on Saturday evening, to greet Madame Arnati White and Mr. Hackett, on their reappearance on this gold-field. Her success on a previous visit was not forgotten, and we were very glad to see so many present. The powers of the two artistes were considerably taxed, as unaided they amused the audience for the whole of the evening. Madame White, as a vocalist, has very few superiors in this colony . . . Hackett too is a singer of no mean ability, and both in solos, and in duets with Madame White, received considerable applause from the audience. We believe further additions are to be made to the company. Mr. White presided at the piano-forte in his usually satisfactory manner.

"AMUSEMENTS . . CAMP HOTEL", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (22 January 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article280027293 

Mr. Coxon's comic songs, and more particularly his burlesques, are decidedly the attraction of the place; and notwithstanding other competitors in the shape of theatre and circus, the concert-room, at the Camp, is nighty crowded by an attentive and enthusiastic audience . . . The variety afforded by Madame White's songs is very pleasing; and we also much admired Mr. Hackett's singing the "Ship on Fire."

ASSOCIATIONS: John Coxon (comic singer)

MUSIC: The ship on fire (Russell)

"BULL AND MOUTH", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (15 July 1859), 1 supplement

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We were much pleased last night with the music of Macbeth, which we heard at this concert hall. The number of performers was rather small, being confined to three - Miss Chalker, Mr. Hackett, and Mr. Thatcher, with Mr. Owen, as usual, at the piano. We understand that Miss Sutherland has been re-engaged for this popular place of amusement.

ASSOCIATIONS: Marie Chalker (vocalist); Charles Thatcher (vocalist); Richard Owen (pianist)

MUSIC: Locke's music in Macbeth (correctly, mostly by Richard Leveridge)

"MISS SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (15 July 1859), 2

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This popular danseuse took a benefit on Tuesday evening last, at the Bull and Mouth Hotel, but we were sorry to observe that the Hall was not very well attended. The feature of the evening, in addition to Miss Sutherland's dancing, was Monsieur Coli's "Grecian Statues," which were considerably applauded. Thatcher's song of "Polly Dawson" was also very successful. Mr. Hackett and Miss Chalker sung several duetts in their usual pleasing manner.

ASSOCIATIONS: Susan Sutherland (dancer); Samuel Henry Coli (actor)

"BULL AND MOUTH", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (5 August 1859), 2

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The new stars, Mr. Golding and Miss Emma Ward, are proving very attractive; the lady's singing particularly being considerably admired. Some of Mr. Golding's burlesques are very good, and his Irish comic songs are irresistibly amusing. We do not remember to have ever heard on Ararat anything which pleased us so much as a duet sung by Miss Chalker and Mr. Hackett last evening, it was the celebrated scene from the Opera of Lucia, between Col. Ashton and Lucy. It was admirably sung and most deservedly encored. Professor Risley is, we understand, to take a benefit at this house on Monday next.

ASSOCIATIONS: Daniel Golding (vocalist); Richard Risley (gymnast)

"News and Notes", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (15 September 1859), 2

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Our readers will bear in mind the splendid musical treat in reserve for them to-morrow night at the Theatre Royal, when the Ballarat Philharmonic Society will perform Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" with a host of talent. Among the principal performers are Miss Harland, Mesdames Turner and Moss, Mr. Williams, Mr. Farquharson, and Mr. Hackett. Our advertising columns and the programmes supply further particulars.

ASSOCIATIONS: Julia Harland (vocalist); Charlotte Turner (vocalist); William Henry Williams (vocalist); Robert Farquharson (vocalist); Ballarat Philharmonic Society (association); Theatre Royal (Ballarat venue)

"AMUSEMENTS . . . CRITERION CONCERT HALL", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (19 September 1859), 3

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This popular place of amusement has recently been opened under the most favorable auspices, and with an excellent company of first rate artistes, who have been vary favorably received in the principal towns on the gold fields. The interior of the concert hall is very tastefully fitted up, and on Saturday night it was well filled by a respectable audience . . . The personal respectability of the talent engaged is such as to offer a guarantee that nothing bordering on the indelicate, either in word or deed, should be heard or seen; and everything is conducted with becoming neatness; and the lovers of the comic will not fail to be delighted with Dan Golding's delineations of the Irish character . . . Miss Chalker and Miss Ward - the former a soprano and the latter a contralto voice - are artistes not unknown to fame, and as professionals rank high in public estimation. Last, though by no means least, comes Mr. E. Hackett, who has a beautiful baritone voice, and whose debut before a Ballarat audience at the Philharmonic Society's concert on Friday night made a decided impression, that he is likely in all probability to become a favorite on Ballarat. Mr. A. R. Owen presides at the pianoforte; and the present company is one that shows the discriminating taste of Mr. Emery in catering for the public.

ASSOCIATIONS: Emma Ward (vocalist); John William Emery (proprietor); Criterion Concert Hall (Ballarat venue)

"BROWN'S (From our own Correspondent) 29th September", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (1 October 1859), 4

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. . . Our amusements have been somewhat limited during the week, but I believe it ie the intention of our host of the North Britain Hotel to treat us with the superior talents of Miss Chalker, Mr. Hackett, E. F. Morris, and other Ballarat favorites, who will appear this evening . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Edgar Francis Morris (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (28 October 1859), 1

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PEOPLES' CONCERTS, Mechanics' Institute, in future, on Monday evenings.
PEOPLES' CONCERTS. - Next Monday, Miss Chalker, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Ewart, and Herr Bial.

"News and Notes", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (27 December 1859), 2

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We understand that owing to the many season engagements of the professionals applied to, the Ballarat Philharmonic society have not been able to secure the assistance necessary to the production of the "Messiah" at Christmas as had been proposed. The oratorio is therefore postponed till the third week in January, when it will be performed in full, with most probably the professional assistance of Mrs. Hancock and Messrs. Ewart and Hackett.

[Advertisement], The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (30 December 1859), 3

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A GRAND SACRED & MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT,
In aid of the Building Fund of the CATHOLIC SCHOOL ROOM,
About to be erected on the Reef, will be given at BURNSIDE'S ASSEMBLY ROOM, ON MONDAY EVENING NEXT, JAN. 2.
MISS CHALKER, (By the kind-permission of Mrs. Young) will assist; also
MRS. YOUNG, Who has kindly volunteered her services for the occasion.
The following Amateurs (members of the Pleasant Creek Glee Club) have kindly consented to assist, viz.: -
Mrs. Quain, Messrs. Hackett, Keeley, Apperley, Wallace, and Bell.
Pianist and Conductor - MR. PARKER.
PROGRAMME.
PART I - SACRED.
OVERTURE.
" Kyrie Eleison," "Gloria in Excelsis," "Sanctus," from Mozart's 12th Mass - Mrs. Quain, Messrs. Hackett, Keeley, and Apperley.
"Qui Tollis," "Et Incarnatus," "Agnus Dei," (Bass Solo,) from Hayden's No. 3 - Mr. Hackett.
"The Heavens are telling," - Chorus - Creation.
"Ti Prigo," - Trio - Curschman - Mrs. Quain, Messrs. Hackett and Keeley.
"On Thee each living soul awaits," - Trio - Creation - Miss Chalker, Messrs. Hackett and Keeley.
An Interval of Fifteen Minutes.
PART 2. - MISCELLANEOUS.
"The Fairies Laughing Glee," - Trio - Messrs. Apperley, Hackett and Keeley.
"Tears of Anguish," Solo - Reichardt - (With vocal accompaniment) - Mr. Hackett.
"Bessie's Dream," - Lockley - Mrs. Young.
"The Image of the Rose," - Solo - Reichardt (With, vocal accompaniment) - Mr. Keeley and Glee Company.
"The Captive Greek Girl," - Hobbs - Miss Chalker.
"This Heart by Woe O'ertaken," - Recitative. "So may Courage." - Air, "Maritana" - Mr. Hackett.
"Scenes that are Brightest," - Maritana - Mrs. Quain.
"God Save the Queen," - Finale.
No Smoking Allowed. Admission: Reserved Seats, 4s.; Back Seats, 2s. 6d.;
Doors open at Half-past 7, Concert to commence at 8 p.m.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. Young = Louisa Urie (vocalist); Charlotte Quain (vocalist); Joseph Parker (pianist)

MUSIC: Ti prego, O padre (Curschman)

"THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (28 January 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72464631 

The Ballarat Philharmonic Society gave their first subscription concert of the season oa Friday night, at the Montezuma Theatre . . . The oratorio selected for the concert was the "Messiah" which was produced in full, and with gratifying success. The orchestra comprised about 60 performers, including Mesdames Hancock and Turner, Messrs. Williams and Hackett, and M. Fleury and his corps musicale . . . Mr. Hackett was in good voice, and in the several solos committed to his care he acquitted himself very well. In the air, "Why do the nations," he was encored, but did not comply . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Achille Fleury (violin, leader); Montezuma Theatre (Ballarat venue)

"THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The Star (9 April 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72466084 

The performance of the "Creation" by the Philharmonic Society, at the Theatre Royal, on Friday night last, was, no doubt, as great a success as either the public or the society anticipated . . . A few inadvertently hurried passages and some unaccountable delays which Mr. Conductor Turner could not prevent were observable, but scarcely so . . . Mr. Sherwin, Mr. Hackett, and Mr. D. Oliver are well known and require little criticism. The former hardly did himself justice, however, but in "In native worth" fully sustained his reputation. Mr. Hackett sang surprisingly well, especially when it is borne in mind that he performed bass solos with only a baritone voice of low register. In "Rolling in foaming billows," "Straight opening her fertile womb," and "Graceful consort," he evidenced those delicate perceptions of the characteristics of the music which belong to the real artist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Austin Theodore Turner (conductor); Walter Sherwin (vocalist); Daniel Oliver (vocalist)

"OPENING OF THE ARARAT HOSPITAL . . . THE CONCERT", The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (13 April 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article280106408 

. . . Of the performance itself we would willingly say much, but unfortunately our space is exceedingly limited. A great feature was the unexpected appearance of Mr. Hackett, so long and so favorably known to the Ararat public. He sang will splendid style, "Madoline," "Friar of Orders Grey," &c., and also in company with Mrs. Edwards, sang "What are the wild waves saying," which, was greatly, applauded . . .

[Advertisement], The Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (26 October 1860), 3

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SHAMROCK CONCERT HALL, BARKLY STREET, ARARAT.
Monday, 29th Oct., 1860. GRAND CONCERT AND BALL IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE ARARAT HOSPITAL.
The Committee have much pleasure in announcing that Mrs. Young, late MISS URIE, and MR. HACKETT
Have kindly volunteered their valuable assistance, together with several Lady and Gentleman Amateurs.
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . SONG - "Land of my dearest, happiest feelings," - (C. Keller) - Mr. Hackett . . .
DUETT - (Tenor & Basso,) "The Army and Navy," (T. Cook) - Mr. Hackett and Gentleman Amateur . . .

"THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (22 December 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66336437 

If there are such things as "rank, beauty and fashion" in Ballarat, they had assuredly gathered themselves together last night in the Mechanics' Hall on the occasion of the grand Christmas concert of the Ballarat Philharmonic Society. The orchestra was presided over by Mr. Turner, conductor, and Mr. Fleury, leader, whose position in the musical world of Ballarat needs no confirmation by eulogy of ours . . . The "Messiah" was the oratorio chosen for the concert, and the appropriateness of the choice will not be questioned. The only professed vocalists engaged were Miss Hamilton and Messrs. Ewart and Hackett, unless indeed we should remove Mrs. Turner from her more retired walk and include her among the professionals proper . . . Mr. Ewart was very successful in his solos, but Mr. Hackett appeared to be in very bad voice. Indeed, we think the society could have found in its own ranks soloists to equal his performances last night. It is but fair, however, to this generally popular vocalist to add that we understand he has been for a long time out of practice. And after saying what we have, we must not omit to mention a word in remembrance of those fine robust and sonorous notes in the lower register, which alone are worth going to hear in this singer's efforts . . .

Names and descriptions of passengers per Great Britain, from Melbourne, 29 May 1861, for Liverpool; Public Record Office Victoria

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. . . E. Hackett / [single male] 27 [sic] . . .

After Australia:

"CORK AMATEUR HARMONIC SOCIETY", Cork Daily Herald [Ireland] (25 November 1861), 2

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As briefly noticed in our issue of Friday, the first concert of the fourth of this Society was given in the Protestant Hall, on Thursday evening, before one of the most numerous and respectable audiences ever brought together in this city. J. C. Marks conducted with his usual ability . . . Song, "Land of my dearest, happiest feelings" by Keller, was sung by Mr. Edward Hackett in a most masterly manner, being heard to great advantage in the concluding passage, in which he sings the low D with precision and ease, by no means an easy achievement. He was loudly encored . . .

"FANCY FAIR IN QUEENSTOWN . . . THE CONCERT", Cork Examiner (23 August 1862), 2

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Yesterday evening the concert advertised to take place in further aid of the funds of the Sisters of Mercy came off in the same room as the bazaar was held in on the two previous days - the ballroom of the Queen's Hotel . . . A local amateur, with most beautiful voice - Mr. Edward Hackett - sustained the bass lines in most of the compositions for several voices, and in a manner that very few singers indeed, no matter what extended reputation, could surpass. A solo by this gentleman, Land of my dearest, happiest feelings, was very warmly applauded . . . Mr. and Mrs. Keays . . . with Mr. Hackett, sang The Faded Wreath. Mr. Hackett and Mr. Keays sang The Army and Navy, and Mr. Hackett and Mr. Baker Love and War . . .

"THE CHARITY CONCERTS", Cork Constitution [Ireland] (17 December 1862), 2

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The first of the Concerts in aid of the distress in Lancashire and the city coal fund came off last night at the Athenaeum, and proved the success it was expected to be . . . The magnificent music of HANDEL'S Judas Maccabaeus was admirably given, while the various solos, part songs, &c., that formed the second part of the Concert were rendered with great ability by the professional singers, and wonderful accuracy and taste by the amateurs . . .
The fine overture from ROSSINI'S Guillaume Tell introduced the second part. It was admirably played by the Band of the 11th Regiment, under the direction of Herr KOESSL, and was succeeded by HORSLEY'S pretty glee "By Celia's Arbor," which was sung with great taste by Messrs. MARKS, KEAYS, EDMONDSON, and E. HACKETT . . . KELLER'S fine son "Land of my dearest, happiest feelings," could not have falled to better hands that Mr. ED. HACKETT'S, who in it, as in everything he sings, delighted his audience with a voice that, for massiveness and clearness, has few equals in this city. His execution, with the intelligent expression thrown by him into whatever he sings, has already made him a favourite with a Cork audience. His reception last night was most enthusiastic. The trio "Through the world," by Miss KENT, Mr. EDMONDSON, and Mr. EDWARD HACKETT was well received . . .

[Advertismenet], Cork Daily Herald (7 June 1865), 1

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NEW HALL, BANDON. MADAME TONNELIER begs to announce that she will give a
GRAND CONCERT OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, At the above HALL, on THURSDAY Evening, 8th June . . .
when the following eminent Artistes will appear.
VOCALISTS: MADAME TONNELIER, MISS McCARTHY, AND MR. EDWARD HACKETT . . .

[Advertismenet], Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier (4 March 1867), 2

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MR. JAMES ROCHE'S CONCERT. MR. JAMES ROCHE feels much pleasure . . .
after the successful performance of his late Concert, of returning his most grateful thanks to the various amateur and professional vocalists who so kindly assisted him on this occasion.
He desires to ennumerate Miss Fennell, of the Philharmonic Concerts, Dublin; Miss McCarthy, of Cork;
Mr. William Topham, principal tenor, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin; Mr. Henry Baker, tenor of the Cathedral, Cork; Mr. O'Donoghue, Mus. Bac., Oxon;
Mr. Edward Hackett, and the gentlemen amateurs who so ably performed different choruses entrusted to them.
To the gifted condoctor, J. C. Marks, Esquire, Mus. Bac., Oxon . . .

"CONCERT AT BALLINCOLLIG", Cork Constitution (7 December 1872), 2

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Another of series of concerts and recitations in connection with the band and regiment of the 17th Lancers took place on Thursday evening the military school-room under the able and skilful conductorship of Trumpet-Major Poole, to whom great credit is due for their success . . . Cooke's duet, "Love and War," was most spiritedly sang Messrs. Sam Rogers and Edward Hackett of Cork, and brought down a loud encore . . . "Land of my dearest, happiest feelings" was sung by Mr. E. Hackett with the same finish and style which always characterises his efforts; his beautiful rich bass was heard with much effect in the low passages. On the termination he was warmly applauded . . .

HADFIELD, John (John HADFIELD; J. HADFIELD; Mr. HADFIELD)

Amateur vocalist, school teacher, singing instructor, music teacher

Born Devizes, Wiltshire, 8 March 1827; baptised Devizes (Wesleyan), 1 April 1827; son of James HADFIELD and Mary SHUFFLEBOTHAM
Married Maria Grace CHAPMAN (d. 1899), St. George, Camberwell, Surrey, England, 17 September 1852
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1853 (per Clara Symes, from Bristol, 15 October 1852)
Died Melbourne, VIC, 27 August 1888

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Hadfield+1827-1888 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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HADFIELD, Benjamin (Benjamin HADFIELD; Mr. B. HADFIELD)

Musician, teacher of singing, singing master, school teacher

Born 11 April 1828; baptised Devizes (Wesleyan), 4 May 1828; son of James HADFIELD and Mary SHUFFLEBOTHAM
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1853 (per Clara Symes, from Bristol, 15 October 1852)
Died Ballarat, VIC, 1 December 1897, aged "69/70"

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Documentation:

Baptisms, Devizes St. Mary (Wesleyan), 1827 and 1828; UK National Archives, RG4/2232

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/2972/records/912341 (PAYWALL)

John 2nd son of james Hadfield Warehouseman
and of his wife, daughter of John & Sarah Shufflebotham weaver of Macclesfield county of Cheshire
born March 8 1827 in the parish of Bishops Cannings Bath Road near Devizes in the county of Wilts.
Baptized Aptil 1st 1827 . . .

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Benjamin the Son of James Hadfield Warehouseman
and of his wife, daughter of John and Sarah Shufflebotham
Was born April 11 1828 Bath Road near near Devizes in the parish of Bishops Cannings county Wilts
Baptized 4th May 1828 . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Hadfield and Mary Shufflebotham had married at Prestbury, Cheshire, on 1 February 1825

England census, 30 March 1851, Shoreditch, Hoxton New Town; UK National Archives, HO107/1535/644/5

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6 East Road / Robert Staff / Head / Mar. / 40 / Carpenter & Gen. Workman / [and wife and 3 children]
William Hadfield / Visitor / Unm. / 25 / Organ Builder / [born] Cheshire Macclefield
Benjamin [Hadfield] / [Visitor] / Unm. / 23 / Clerk / [born] Wilts Devizes

ASSOCIATIONS: William Hadfield (eldest brother) was baptised at Macclesfield St. Michael, Cheshire, on 7 December 1825

1852, marriage solemnized at the parish church in the district parish of St. George Camberwell in the county of Surrey; register 1837-87, page 119; London Metropolitan Archives, P73/GEO/027

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No. 238 / [1852] September 17 / John Hadfield / Full age / Bachelor / Schoolmaster / Havil Road / [son of] James Hadfield / Silk manufacturer
Maria Grace Chapman / full age / Spinster / - / St. George's Row / [daughter of] George Chapman / Plasterer . . .

Names and descriptions of passengers per Clara Symes, from Bristol, 15 October 1852, for Port Phillip and Sydney; Public Record Office Victoria

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. . . Hadfield John / 24 . . .
[Hadfield] Benjamin / 24 . . .
[Hadfield] Maria / 19 . . .

Teacher record, John Hadfield, from 1853; Public Record Office Victoria

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No. 916 / John Hadfield / Born 8 March 1827 / Borough Rd. Normal Inst. London
St. Kilda . . . Employed from 1 April 1853

Teacher record, Benjamin Hadfield, from 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

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No. 8493 / Benjamin Hadfield / Born 11 April 1828
Templestowe M[aste]r 20 Mar '54 to 31 Dec. '54
Certified Teacher of Singing (D.S.B.) [Denominational Schools Board)
Singing Master D.S.B 5 March '55 to 31 Aug. 1862
Singing Master B. of Ed. 1 Sep. '62 to 31 Dec. 62
[Singing Master B. of Ed.] 9 March '68 to Dec. 72 . . .

"DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (21 December 1855), 6

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Yesterday afternoon the Exhibition Building was the scene of a highly interesting display of the musical ability of a large number of young Victorians, as developed under the able direction of Mr. G. L. Allan, singing-master to Denominational Schools. The whole of the basement storey was occupied by the children, (near upon twelve hundred in number,) selected from about thirty schools of all denominations in Melbourne, Collingwood, Richmond, Prahran, Emerald hill, St Kilda and Brighton, and with two exceptions (St. Mark's boys' school and St. Kilda school, in which the children are taught by their respective masters), under the musical instruction of Messrs. Hadfield, G. L. Allan, and J. H. Allen. The children, who were dressed in their best and looked supremely happy under their arduous vocal exertions, were ranged on each side of the building, and on the orchestra-platform erecting for the approaching performance of the "Messiah" by tho Philharmonic Society on Monday next. The director had his rostrum erected on the basement of the fountain, and from this position had every one of his little vocalists under his eye. The music performed consisted of part songs and rounds by Hullah, Crampton, and others, which were sung with a precision of time and tune alike creditable to the children, their teachers, and their director. Between the parts the children were supplied with some refreshments, which appeared to render them all the more alert for the resumption of their duties at the first rap from the director's baton. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Hotham were present in the gallery, and their entrance was greeted with the national anthem carolled forth by a thousand little throats. His Excellency and lady were evidently much gratified, and frequently applauded the efforts of the children, who were all evidently anxious to do their very best on the occasion. The gallery was densely crowded with a delighted auditory, and his Excellency and party did not leave their seats till all was over, when the juveniles gave him three times three deafening cheers, and then, trooping out of the building, swarmed iuto aud upon the omnibuses provided to carry them home.

ASSOCIATIONS: Benjamin was the Mr. Hadfield referred to here; and John the master of St. Kilda school who taught singing;
George Leavis Allan (singing master); John Harward Allen (singing master); Charles and Jane Hotham (governor and wife); Exhibition Building (Melbourne venue); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association); Music in schools (general)

"DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS SINGING. To the Editor of . . .", The Argus (26 December 1855), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4826547 

Sir, - In reference to your report of the performance of the Denominational Schools at the Exhibition on Thursday, I hope you will correct an error. Instead of Mr. G. L. Allan being the teacher of the whole of the schools, there are three singing masters - G. L Allan, B. Hadfield, and J. H. Allen, who each brought about an equal number of children.
There were also present the St. Mark's boys, taught by Mr. Brunton; and the St. Kilda Church Schools, taught by Mr. J. Hadfield.
Trusting you will correct the error into which you have fallen,
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
J. H. ALLEN, Singing Master to Denominational Schools.
December 21st, 1855.

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Brunton (singing teacher)

"FREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PRAHRAN", The Argus (21 January 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4828736 

On Tuesday evening last, a soiree was held in the school room adjoining this church . . . At intervals, a number of children, under the superintendence of Mr. Hadfield, contributed greatly to the entertainment of the evening by their singing. Many of the pieces were loudly applauded. Mr. Grieve, also, and his friends, sang several appropriate anthems . . .

"[Legislative] COUNCIL PAPER. REPORT FROM THE DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD FOR THE YEAR 1854", The Argus (24 January 1856), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4829041 

. . . The Board were enabled, during the current year, to obtain additional masters for teaching singing in their schools, and on the 5th March last appointed Messrs. Hadfield and Russell as singing masters in Melbourne and its vicinity, and Mr. I'Erson as singing master at Geelong and upon the resignation of Mr. Russell they appointed Mr. J. L. Allen as his successor on the 1st October last. The number of schools in which singing lessons are now given by the masters appointed by the Board amounts to about fifty, besides which there are some wherein the schoolmasters themselves teach their pupils singing. The Board have also, during the current year, turned their attention to the encouragement of drawing in their schools . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (singing master); Thomas William I'Erson (singing master)

"ST. KILDA CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY AND DAY SCHOOLS", The Argus (27 March 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4834115 

The children of the above schools met on Tuesday at midday, to enjoy their annual Easter treat, under the care of their minister, the Rev. V. Seddon, several Sunday school teachers and friends, together with Mr. and Mrs. Hadfield, the master and mistress of the day schools. They were plentifully regaled with buns, fruit, &c., to their evident satisfaction; and the afternoon was devoted to various suitable exercises and games, enlivened now and then by singing, in which a large number of the scholars showed great proficiency, under the tuition of their master, Mr. Hadfield. Loud and hearty cheers were given to their teachers and friends . . . The enjoyments of the day did not close till dusk, when the children separated, after singing "Rule Britannia" and the Doxology.

"EMERALD HILL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", The Argus (10 November 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7139755 

The third soiree in aid of the funds was held on Friday evening in the Great Iron Store. An attractive programme had the effect of completely filling the building with a highly respectable audience, who seemed thoroughly pleased with the efforts made to entertain them. Mr. B. S. Anderson occupied the chair. The entertainment principally consisted of glees, duets, and songs; Messrs. Ewart, Williams, and Hadfield were rapturously encored after singing the witches' glee, and Messrs. I. and D. Lawson and Wm. Henry were also honored with an encore in another glee, Mr. Ure an amateur singer of considerable talent had a double encore twice during the evening, and Messrs. Fish, Friend, Skeats, and other singers, received their merited share of applause. Two ladies, whose names did not transpire, sang a duet, which the audience insisted on hearing again; later in the evening, one of these ladies sang "Shells of Ocean" with much taste and sweetness . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Probably Thomas Ewart (vocalist) and William Henry Williams (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 January 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7142959 

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS St. Kilda, REOPEN on Monday, Jannary 12.
J. Hadfield, Certificated Master, from Borough-road, Normal Training School, London.

"DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL FESTIVAL", The Age (14 February 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154822319 

Yesterday, at two o'clock, the children under musical tuition in the Denominational Schools, to the number of nearly 1500, were assembled in the Exhibition Building, for the purpose of engaging in the usual annual festival. The children, who were all exceedingly well dressed, were selected from no less than thirty-two schools in Melbourne and its vicinities, namely: - Thirteen Church of England, six Roman Catholic, seven Wesleyan, three Free Church, two Independent, and the Scots' School. The number selected from these schools was 683 boys and 786 girls. The great bulk of the children have been under the tuition of Messrs. George L. Allan, Benjamin Hadfield, John H. Allen, and A. Brunton; those from St. Mark's boys' school, and the St. Kilda Church of England school, have been taught by their respective masters Messrs. Brunton and Hadfield. The children sang very creditably through a programme of about twenty pleasing little compositions by Crampton, Callcott, Hullah, Nelham, and others; besides adaptations of Mozart, Weber, Handel, and Arne. Their performance was of the most pleasing description, though we could not but regret that so few of the large number of children assembled took the trouble to sing. The thousand who did open their mouths, did it to good effect, as was abundantly manifest in the more stirring of the melodies, among which we may note "Rule Britannia," the "National Anthem," "Ye Mariners of England," and "Old England forever." The voices were ably conducted by Mr. George L. Allan, who has largely added to his respect both as a teacher and leader during the past year, and who we may state has devoted himself to the task assigned him with an enthusiasm which deserves the highest commendation . . .

"DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. ANNUAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL", The Age (12 December 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154835514 

Yesterday afternoon, at two p.m., was held in the Mechanics' Institution, the Annual Musical Festival and Exhibition of Drawings of the Children from Denominational Schools in and near Melbourne. Last year nearly 1500 children were assembled in the Exhibition building; but owing to that edifice being pre-engaged, the Mechanics' Institution was chosen instead, though it was found necessary to curtail the number of children engaged to 450. These were closely packed in the body of the Hall and upon the music stage belonging to the Philharmonic Society . . . The room was thus fully occupied, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen, attracted by the interesting nature of the proceedings, were unable to obtain admittance, but obliged to content themselves by standing on the staircases and in the entrance hall. The day was intensely hot, and the sufferings of those who were blocked up in the hall must have been intense.
His Excellency arrived punctually at two o'clock, when Mr. G. L. Allan ascended the rostrum, and gave the signal for commencement. The programme, which was divided into two parts, included a capital selection of part songs, glees, and choruses, from the works of Crampton, Bennett, Calcott, Mozart, Stevenson, Arne, Hullah, and others, all of which were most creditably executed by the numerous and shrill-voiced choir. Towards the end, it was deemed desirable by the conductor to bring the matter to a close, as the heat was evidently the cause of much exhaustion to every one in the room; he therefore directed the choir to confine themselves to the two last pieces on the programme. The first of these, Callcott's "Fairies," was given with infinite spirit and effect, and elicited from His Excellency a request for its repetition. "Rule Britannia" concluded the performance . . . Those assembled were under the musical tuition of Messrs. G. L. Allan, B. Hadfield, and J. H. Allen, singing-masters to the Denominational Board. The schools under the charge of Mr. Kaye having only just commenced a course of instruction, and not sufficiently advanced, were not present at the festival. All the masters we have mentioned were present, and assisted the children with the bass parts, when they were required.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Barkly (governor); Samuel Kaye (singing master); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue)

"DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL FESTIVAL", The Age (23 December 1858), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154878445 

The annual singing festival of the children attending the schools, under the management of the Denominational School Board, came off yesterday. It commenced at the Exhibition Building, William-street, at half-past eleven in the morning. About six hundred children of both sexes, and a much larger number of visitors were gathered in the building . . . At the time mentioned his Excellency arrived; and at a sign from Mr. Allan, the musical conductor, at the front of the platform, the children rose and saluted him by singing the National Anthem. It was not given with very good effect. In fact they experienced some sluggishness in getting off, and the manner of their conductor did not appear very encouraging. A number of pieces were, for the most part, very tamely executed, and that most beautiful piece, "The death of the just," was altogether a failure. The following pieces - "Now, Speed my Gallant Vessel," " When the Shallows Homeward go," were tolerably executed; and "The Crocus" was applauded. The "Bonny Christchurch Bells," a very difficult piece, was fairly executed; although Mr. Allan expressed some dissatisfaction with it; "Annie Laurie" was sung in excellent time, and with good feeling. And, "Gather ye Rosebuds," well delivered, completed the first part. The singing masters are G. L. Allan, B. Hadfield, J. Allen, and S. Kaye . . . The children then executed the second part of the programme. The singing was in most cases superior to the first part, and would have done honor to an adult assemblage. The "Cottager's Evening Song," was given excellently; "Youth and May," "Delight Spring," "The Evening Hymn," "Farewell to Winter," followed in succession. "Come Fairies Trip it on the Grass" was sung particularly well; "Home, Sweet Home," not so well; but "Rule Britannia" wound up the programme with an accuracy of time and hearty vigor that must have satisfied tho most fastidious. Mr. ALLAN then addressed his Excellency, offering some apology for the imperfections in the earlier part of the singing, arising from the impossibility, more especially in consequence of the unanticipated bad weather, of getting the children together to practise, and the fact that many of the children had been unable to attend so great a distance until the festival day . . .

"MUSICAL FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS", The Age (22 December 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154882464 

The annual musical festival and exhibition of drawings by children from the Denominational Schools in and near Melbourne, came off at the Exhibition Building yesterday shortly after noon. The children, about 1000 in number, had been selected from the different schools. The building was crowded at all points with an audience consisting for the most part of ladies and youug persons. A more interesting spectacle we have seldom witnessed. The children appeared much gratified with the opportunity afforded them of displaying their vocal powers . . . Mr. George L. Allan acted as leader of the singing, and was assisted by Messrs. Benjamin Hadfield, Mr. John H. Allen, and Mr. S. Kaye, who presided at the piano . . .

"ANNUAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL OF THE DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL CHILDREN", The Argus (21 December 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5695381 

The annual musical festival of the children attending the various Denominational schools about Melbourne was held yesterday, in the Exhibition Building, and, in addition to some 900 children, there must have been considerably over that number of spectators, the greater portion being ladies . . . On a stage alongside Mr. Justice Pohlman stood Mr. George L. Allan, under whose superintendence, assisted by Messrs. B. Hadfield, John Allen and S. Kaye, the children have been taught. The whole of the proceedings were conducted by Mr. Allen, who, baton in hand, gave the signal to commence, and kept the time throughout. Mr. Pringle presided at tho piano, and Mr. G. O. Rutter and Mr. John Russell also gave valuable assistance. The performance commenced at noon, and lasted for about three hours, an interval of 15 minutes between the two parts being devoted to affording the public an opportunity of judging of the skill of the children in singing from music at first sight, a feat which, considering that they did not average more than about 11 years of age, they accomplished with the greatest success . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Robert Grant Pringle (pianist); George Oswald Rutter (musician)

"MUSICAL FESTIVAL", The Herald (19 December 1862), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244405618 

Yesterday afternoon the final musical festival and exhibition of drawings of children in schools under the Board of Education, in and near Melbourne, was given in St. George's Hall, Bourke-street . . . The music was performed by about 500 boys and girls, selected from various denominational schools, and mostly between the ages of ten and fourteen. These had all been taught in the public schools by Messrs. G. L. Allan, J. H. Allen, B. Handfield [sic], and S. Kaye, singing masters under the Educational Board. The whole were under the superintendence of Mr. G. L. Allan, who discharge the onerous duties of conductor, Mr. Pringle, presiding at the piano, and leading with considerable ability. The children displayed a very marked degree of proficiency in part music, in a number of choruses and duets they were called upon to perform, and kept marvellously good time, when it is taken into consideration there had been no opportunity for a rehearsal by the young performers together . . . The most noticeable feature in the festival was the singing of music at sight, a very severe test of the thorough knowledge of the pupils. Messrs. Horsley, Russell, and Rutter undertook to act as judges . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Edward Horsley (musician); St. George's Hall (Melbourne venue)

"CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS, ST. KILDA", The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (15 December 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108123696 

A concert in aid of the building fund of the above schools was given last Thursday evening by some of the children, in the school-house, Acland-street. The room, which was tastefully decorated with flowers, was well filled by a most respectable audience, who evidently greatly enjoyed the evening's entertainment. About 70 children took part in the various performances, and they gave the greatest satisfaction to the audience, as was evidenced by the frequent bursts of applause. Several pieces, amongst which we would particularly mention "Oh! Listen to the Cuckoo's Song" and "Hail Smiling Morn," elicited encores. A very pretty hymn, composed by F. P. Seddon, Esq., was, also given with very good effect. Miss Fanny Hamilton, who possesses a very sweet voice, sung several solos in a superior manner. In "The Exile" she was very good, and in "What is Home without a Mother?" she received an encore. J. S. Seddon, Esq., the honorary organist of the church, presided at the piano, and played with his usual taste and skill. Mr. Hadfield, the schoolmaster conducted; and we must pay him a compliment upon the splendid time which the children kept in all the pieces they performed. Mr. Hadfield, has, we understand, been connected with the school for upwards of 14 years, having been appointed by the Rev. D. Seddon shortly after that gentleman became incumbent of Christ Church, and during that time he has been most successful in perceiving and eliciting the musical talents of his pupils. Of this we think there can be no greater proof than that out of 150 children attending the school, nearly one-half were enabled to go through a public performance in the creditable manner that they did on Thursday evening. The money raised by this concert is to aid in the re-building of one end of the school-room, which had become so dilapidated as to be unsafe.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick and John Seddon (musicians)

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser [VIC] (30 August 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150433814 

A musical and elocutionary entertainment will be given in the Chilwell Wesleyan school-room, Saffron-street, tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. The performers are the members of the Tonic Sol-fa Class, lately established in Chilwell, under the leadership of Mr. B. Hadfield. The programme is divided into two sections - sacred and secular . . .

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser (1 September 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150433871 

The entertainment at Chilwell last evenng was attended by about 300 persons, the large schoolroom being comfortably filled. As the class has been established only about three months, and as the one last evening was their "first appearance," it would, perhaps, be unjust to subject them to criticism; but they will, perhaps, pardon us for noticing those efforts in which they were particularly successful. All the pieces in the sacred part of the programme were rendered in a first-class style, the time which they kept doing great credit to their leader, Mr. B. Hadfield. We really must compliment the performers on their rendering of the sacred piece "Syria," which was very beautifully executed. That of "Saul" was also noticeable. As the second, or secular part, consisted mostly of solos or duets, it would be invidious for us to say more than simply that they were very well executed indeed. The class reflects much credit on Mr. Hadfield, and its utility may be inferred from the fact of it now numbering fifty members . . .

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser (22 March 1870), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148794220 

A very pleasing entertainment was given in the Mechanics' Hall last night by the children attending the Ashby Public School . . . The programme . . . gave great satisfaction to the audience. The part songs, duets, and rounds, were especially pleasing, being very effectively rendered by the scholars who certainly reflect great credit on their singing-master, Mr. B. Hadfield. Some pianoforte duets by young ladies also afforded an agreeable variety . . .

"MR. [JOHN] HADFIELD'S CONCERT", The Telegraph, St. Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (13 December 1879), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114579642 

The annual concert by Mr. Hadfield's pupils was held in the Town-hall, Prahran, on the evening of the 4th inst., when one of the most crowded and enthusiastic audiences ever assembled in the hall greeted the young performers. The reputation of these concerts is so firmly established that the whole of the tickets were sold almost immediately on the announcement, and a very large nuruber of persons were unable to gain admission. It must be borne in mind that the prize fund of the school is almost entirely dependent on the personal exertions of Mr. Hadfield, augmented by the contributions of a few gentlemen who have always taken an active interest in the school; and we are glad to be able to inform our readers that the pecuniary result of this concert is even more than usually satisfactory . . . Among the audience were to be noticed most of our leading residents who take an interest in the education and musical training of the young. The execution of the whole concert exceeded the high standard of previous efforts. It may be remarked, in passing, that Mr. Hadfield was the first teacher who gave legitimate concerts of school music in this district; and the selections on this occasion were all made with taste and judgment from high-class authors. The prevalent practice of introducing operatic and other music of that character was carefully avoided, such being entirely unsuitable for children, both in sentiment and compass as well as foreign to the principle which should govern school instruction in singing. The conductor's baton was of course wielded by Mr. Hadfield, who had Miss Hadfield is accompanyist at the cabinet organ, and Miss Jane Hadfield at the piano - an Erard's grand, specially provided for the occasion. It has been so often our lot to commend the playing of these highly accomplished young ladies, and their musical ability is so well known, that the mention of their names carries its own comment . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Emily Grace Hadfield (born 1858; Mrs. Henry Fitch, 1885; died 1885); Jane (Jeannie) Hadfield (born 1861; teacher of singing, appointed 1 April 1886; died 1923)

"POLICE COURT. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th . . . VOCAL EFFORTS CHECKED", Geelong Advertiser [VIC] (12 September 1882), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150390484 

Benjamin Hadfield, who endeavored to instruct the magistrates in the tonic sol-fa method of singing, was remanded for seven days for medical treatment, his spirits being exuberant.

"The Late John Hadfield", The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (1 September 1888), 4 (including portrait)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107814854 

John Hadfield, whose death many thousands lament to-day, was born at Devises, Wiltshire, England, on the 8th of March, 1827, and arrived in Melbourne with his wife and brother, Benjamin, by the ship Clara Symes, on the 9th February 1853, after a long but comparatively uneventful voyage of 120 days . . .
MUSICAL TALENT. In addition to the ordinary curriculum of school-work, or rather, in addition to teaching the principles of the "three R's," he devoted a lot of time to teaching music to the pupils. He trained the children to sing, and once every year a concert was given by them under his direction. These annual concerts he established about thirty years ago, and continued them up to the present time. It became an institution that was regarded with the utmost favor by the children, and many of them whose natural talent was in that way developed, are now well known in musical circles . . .

Will and grant of probate, John Hadfield, 1888; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/A0FE3CF1-F517-11E9-AE98-F560395CA7C1?image=1 (DIGITISED - WILL)

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/65026F98-F1D4-11E9-AE98-13E7A35BE283?image=1 (DIGITISED)

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3F9E23A9-F1DF-11E9-AE98-4B328E1B17D0?image=1 (DIGITISED)

"Deaths", The Ballarat Star [VIC] (2 December 1897), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215786043 

HADFIELD. - On the 1st December, at the residence of Mr. O. E. Jensen, 2 Raglan street, Benjamin Hadfield, aged 70 years.

HADSLEY, Frances Helen (Frances Helen WATSON; Miss WATSON; [1] Mrs. John BROWN; [2] Mrs. John HADSLEY)

Musician, music teacher, school teacher

Born London, England, c. 1800; daughter of Thomas WATSON and Mary TOMLING
Married [1] John BROWN (d. Windsor, NSW, 1841), St. George in the East, London, England, 28 February 1824
Active Windsor, NSW, c. 1842-43
Married [2] John HADSLEY, St. Matthew's, Windsor, NSW, 15 April 1843
Died Camperdown, NSW, 22 August 1881, aged "84" [sic] (BDM NSW 3349/1881)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frances+Helen+Brown+Hadsley+d1881 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HADSLEY-Frances-Helen (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Marriages solemnized in the parish of St. George [in the East] in the county of Middlesex in the year 1824; register 1820-29, page 59; London Metropolitan Archives, P93/GEO/044

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1623/records/7891588 (PAYWALL)

No. 177 / John Brown of the parish of Saint Paul Shadwell, a bachelor
and Frances Helen Watson of this parish, a spinster, were married in this church by licence this [28 February 1824]
In the presence of Thos. Watson, Mary Ann Seater Watson

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Watson (father) and Mary Ann Seater Watson (elder sister, born 25 September 1799; baptised St. George in the East, 13 April 1800); Thomas Watson (father) had married Mary Tomling (mother) at St. Mary, Stepney, on 28 October 1796

Report of a ship Long, from England, 26 August 1828, for Hobart Town, 14 January 1829, and Port Jackson, 21 January 1829; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1210/records/7955041?tid=64515913&pid=392287870640 (PAYWALL)

Cabin . . . Frances Brown & 2 children (1 male 1 female) / England / To her husband

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (17 December 1842), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12411795

WINDSOR. MRS. BROWN, returning thanks for the patronage she has received,
begs to inform her friends and the public that she has removed her establishment to Fairfield, the late delightfully situated residence of Dr. Gamack;
she will have vacancies for a few more Pupils after the ensuing vacation, which will terminate January 16, 1843.
The most respectable references will be given. Fairfield, December 1.

Marriages, St. Matthew, Windsor, April 1843; Biographical database of Australia (BDA)

https://www.bda-online.org.au/mybda/search/biographical-report/30211071401 (PAYWALL)

15 April 1843 / John Hadsley of his parish / Frances Brown of this parish

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 July 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12415980 

MRS. HADSLEY, in returning thanks for the kind patronage she has received,
begs to inform her friends and the public that her establishment re-opens on Monday, July 24th.
Fairfield, Windsor, July 6.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (12 December 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12414883 

ADVERTISEMENT. AS Mrs. Hadsley (late Mrs. Brown)
will have completed the education of the greater part of her pupils at Christmas,
and is induced to return to Sydney . . .
Mrs. Hadsley has taken the residence lately occupied by J. Gore, Esq., in O'Connel-street . . .

[Advertisement], The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature [Sydney, NSW] (20 January 1844), 394

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228134462 

MUSIC AT WINDSOR. SIGNOR V. CHIODETTI, professor of music, at Windsor,
HAS heard with surprise, that Mrs. Brown, now Mrs. Hadsley, who has recently left Windsor, where she kept a school, said to her pupils before leaving that he, the said Professor is incompetent to teach the Pianoforte.
V. Chiodetti cannot conceive what reason this lady had for making such an assertion . . .
But how little of all this does Mrs. Hadsley know, who can only pretend to teach her pupils to commit to memory a few airs which they perform mechanically without knowing why or wherefore?
And how few of the pupils of those "buy-a-broom professors" are ever competent to play a new piece at sight by themselves? . . .
Should Mrs. Hadsley, or her friends, feel offended at this necessary vindication,
V. Chiodetti is prepared to discuss the subject in public academy, at Sydney, with any one they may appoint.
Windsor, January 19, 1844.

ASSOCIATIONS: Vincenzo Chiodetti (musician)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (26 June 1862), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13230747 

MRS. HADSLEY has taken the house, corner of Lyons-terrace and South Head Road,
where she will receive her pupils at the close of the present vacation, July 21st.
Mrs. HADSLEY simply professes to prepare young ladies for the every day duties of life,
by imparting a sound English education, reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic,
with the necessary accomplishments, plain needlework, music, French, drawing, and dancing
Masters attend. 123, Liverpool-street, June 18.

"Deaths", The Sydney Morning Herald (24 August 1881), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28382107 

HADSLEY. - August 22, at her residence, Homeville, Missenden Road, Camperdown, Mrs. Frances Hadsley, aged 84 years.
HADSLEY. - August 22, at her residence, Homeville, Missenden Road, Frances Helen Hadsley, the beloved mother of Mrs. North, Captain J. W. Brown, and Mr. S. C. Brown, aged 84 years.

[Notice], New South Wales Government Gazette (26 August 1881), 4324

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223979460 

In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the will and codicil of Frances Helen Hadsley, late of Missenden Road, Camperdown, near Sydney, in the Colony of !New South Wales, widow, deceased . . .

HAEN, Edward (Edward HAEN; ? or HAYNE; HAINE)

Amateur vocalist, sailor, singer

Active Sydney, NSW, 1836

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HAEN-Edward (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"POLICE INCIDENTS", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser [NSW] (1 December 1836), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208060 

Edward Haen, just off a whaling voyage, with a head resembling a peak of the cloud-tipped Alps, was charged with being drunk and singing "All round my hat I vears the green villow," to the annoyance of his Majesty's drowsy lieges.
Bench - Were you drunk? Edward - I might have been the worse for licker.
Bench - Were you drunk? Edward - I can't say I was sober.
Bench - Were you drunk? Edward - I had been drinking.
Bench - Are you deaf? Edward - Slightly that way.
A constable then roared in his ear with the voice of a stentor, "were you drunk ?" Edward - To be sure, to be sure.
Bench - Pay five shillings. Edward - Here's the rhino. This is spoiling my cruise with a vengeance.

MUSIC: One of the earliest survivals of the music of All round my hat, and a version of the text attributed to J. Ansell as a costermonger's song (as sung by Mr. Jack Reeve), was set by John Valentine (London: c. 1834); see US edition:

https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/046/008 (DIGITISED)

A manuscript copy of the Ansell-Valentine London edition, sold by Francis Ellard in Sydney, c. 1840, survives in Lillias Dowling's Sydney album:

https://archive.org/details/Dowling41008/page/n257 (DIGITISED)

However, any version sung by a casual vocalist is unlikely to have been so harmonically complicated; and see also All round my hat (Tune archive)

HAGEN, Nestor (Wilhelm Franz HAGEN; Nestor HAGEN; Herr HAGEN; HAAGEN; HAYEN)

Musician, violinist

Born Malmedy, Belgium, 1 October 1833
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, by 11 April 1859
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 24 August 1859 (per Royal Charter, for Liverpool)
Married Adeline Louisa HITCHCOCK, Calvary Church, New York, NY, USA, 7 December 1870
Died Wiesbaden, Germany, 2 February 1899, aged "65"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Nestor+Hagen+1833-1899 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HAGEN-Nestor (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[News], Rheinische Musik-Zeitung [Cologne, Germany] 6/17 (8 April 1854), 111

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qO5CAAAAcAAJ/page/n317/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

Cöln. Am 4. d. M. fand das alljahrliche Prüfungs-Concert der Schüler der Rheinischen Musikschule . . .
Duo Concertant für 2 Violinen von Kalliwoda, vorgetragen von F. Bach und Nestor Hagen aus Bonn . . .

"Prüfungs-Concert der Rheinischen Musikschule . . .", Rheinische Musik-Zeitung [Cologne, Germany] 6/17 (28 April 1855), 133-34

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_O-1CAAAAcAAJ/page/n129/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

. . . Im grossen Casino-Alle am 24. April.
Programm. Erster Theil . . . 9) Concertsatz für die Violine von de Beriot, vorgetragen von Nestor Hagen aus Bonn . . .
In dem Vortrag des Concertsatzes von de Beriot zeigte sich Herr Hagen als einen vielversprechenden Geiger; in seinem Spiel herrschte Klarheit und Wärme. Auch in Bezug auf Technik waren ganz ausserordentliche Fortschritte seit vorigem Jahre nicht zu verkennen . . .

Arrivals per Arago, New York, 12 June 1857, from Southampton, England; US National Archives, NAID/M237, RG36

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYM237_175-0118?pId=1433739 (PAYWALL)

. . . Nestor Hagen / 21 / Musician / [from] Berlin . . .

Melbourne, VIC (by 11 April 1859 to 24 August 1859):

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (11 April 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5679318 

THEATRE ROYAL, Melbourne.
GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT . . . Mr. C. H. COMPTON
Has the honor to annnouce . . . that his
GRAND CONCERT Will take place . . . at the Theatre Royal,
On TUESDAY, APRIL 10, For which, in addition to the attraction afforded by the present
COMPANY of the THEATRE, He has secured the services of the following high and talented artistes,
Miss O. HAMILTON, Miss JULIA KING, Mons. BOULANGER,
Mr. LESLIE, Mr. LISSIGNOL,
And for this occasion only the efficiency of the Orchestre will be considerably augmented by the services of
Mr. JOHNSON, And the principal Performers of his Band,
Leader, Mr. E. KING,
Conductors: Mr. PRINGLE and Mr. CHAS. H. COMPTON.
Conductor and Musical Director: HERR JULIUS SIEDE.
Leaders: Mr. F. COPPIN and HERR HAGEN . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Henry Compton (musician); Octavia Hamilton (vocalist); Juliana King (vocalist); Edward Boulanger (pianist); Alexander John Leslie (violinist); Eugene Lissignol (pianist); Henry Johnson (master, 40th band); Band of the 40th Regiment (military); Edward King (violinist, leader, concert band); George Robert Grant Pringle (concert "conductor", i.e. pianist accompanist); Theatre Royal (Melbourne venue); Julius Siede (conductor, theatrical band); Frederick Coppin (violin, leader, theatrical band)

[Advertisement], The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (7 May 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154836267 

MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
THE SECOND SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT FOR THE YEAR
Will be held in the EXHIBITION BUILDING;
On TUESDAY EVENING, 10TH MAY, 1859,
When A SELECTION OF SECULAR MUSIC Will be Performed . . .
Conductor - Mr. Russell. Organist and Pianist - Mr. George R. G. Pringle. Leader - Mr. King.
PROGRAMME. Part I . . . Solo, violin (with full orchestral accompaniment), Fantasia Caprice, Herr Nestor Hayen [sic] - Vieuxtemps . . .
W. G. DREDGE, Honorary Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (conductor); William Gilpin Dredge (secretary); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association); Exhibition Building (Melbourne venue)

"PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", The Age (11 May 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154837491 

The very attractive programme issued by this Society drew together, in the Exhibition Building, last night, one of the largest audiences we have seen, the building being filled in every part. A distinguishing feature of this concert was the introduction of two debutants, and two pieces of music by local composers . . . The debutants were Mr. Lewis, an amateur, whose performance on the pianoforte of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique, notwithstanding its length, narrowly escaped an encore; and Herr Nestor Haagen, who performed a fantasia on the violin in a manner that showed a thorough mastery of his instrument and appreciation of his author . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Louis Lucas Lewis (pianist)

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle [Melbourne, VIC] (9 July 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201371817 

THE COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT to Mr. BOULANGER will take place at
Hockin's Assembly Rooms, on TUESDAY next, 12th instant,
on which occasion Mr. Boulanger will be assisted by the
Misses McCarthy, and Messrs. Bial, Hagen, and Sehdike. The Programme on Monday.

ASSOCIATIONS: Georgina and Maria McCarthy (vocalists); Charles Bial (pianist); Hockin's Rooms (Melbourne venue); in the event the advertised program did not include Hagen or Sehdike

Names and descriptions of passengers per Royal Charter, from Melbourne, 24 August 1859, for Liverpool; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/2386D03B-F7F0-11E9-AE98-9D30CFD3B15C?image=240 (DIGITISED)

. . . Nestor Hagen / 27 / Musician
Auguste Siliger [?] / 26 / [Musician]
Cha'l Bartell [?] / 24 / [Musician]
Fred. Mullahe [?] / 23 / [Musician]
August Schimiah [?] / 24 / [Musician]
C. Jaheman [?] / 29 / [Musician]

ASSOCIATIONS: One of these ? Sehdike (above)

After Australia:

Arrivals per Vigo, New York, 25 November 1859, from Liverpool; US National Archives, NAID/M237, RG36

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/7488/records/1655582?tid=106471474 (PAYWALL)

. . . Nestor Hagen / 22 / Trader / Germany . . .

Passport application, Nestor W. Hagen, 11 April 1874; US National Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1174/images/USM1372_201-0504?pId=1471575 (PAYWALL)

No. 37984 / April 11, 1874 / State of New York / County of New York /
I, Nestor W. Hagen do swear that I was born in Malmedy on or about the (1 October 1833) that I am a naturalized and loyal citizen of the United States, and about to travel abroad . . .

Death registration, Wilhelm Franz Hagen, 2 February 1899; Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Wiesbaden, 2702/925

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/61119/records/2357527 (PAYWALL)

. . . Wilhelm Franz Hagen / 65 / geboren zu Malmedy

[News], Signale für die musikalische Welt (13 February 1899), 201

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=smw&datum=1899&page=209&size=45 (DIGITISED)

* In Wiesbaden starb am 2. Februar ein geschätzter dortiger Musiker Nestor Hagen. Er war ein tüchtiger Künstler und ein weitgereister Mann. Als Violinist und Mitglied eines Quartetts concertirte er in Amerika und Australien, erlitt zweimal Schiffbruch und verlor dabei sein ganzes Eigenthum. Nachdem er sich in New-Pork als Musiklehrer von Ruf ein Vermögen erworben hatte, siedelte er nach Wiesbaden über, wo er die letzten 20 Jahre lebte.

Bibliography and resources:

Hagen family (2), Musik und Musiker am Mittelrhein 2 online

http://www.mmm2.mugemir.de/doku.php?id=hagen2 

Hagen, Nestor (Wilhelm Franz) b. Malmedy (Belgien) ca. 1834; d. Wiesbaden 2. Febr. 1899; Violinist . . .

HAILES, George Button (George Button HAILES; G. B. HAILES; Mr. HAILES)

Amateur musician, violoncello player, cellist, orchestral and chamber music player, vocalist, singing leader, choirmaster, timber merchant, builder, justice of the peace

Born Great Chesterford, Essex, England, 29 July 1808; baptised Great Chesterford, 28 January 1822 [sic]; son of William HAILES and Mary BUTTON
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 23 June 1840 (per Andromache, from London, 15 February, and Plymouth, 28 February)
Married Ann ILES (1827-1872), Melbourne, VIC, 1847
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 22 May 1875, aged "67, a colonist of 35 years"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=George+Button+Hailes+d1875 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HAILES-George-Button (shareable link to this entry)

HAILES, Frederick (Frederick HAILES; Fred. HAILES; Mr. HAILES)

Musical amateur, theatrical and musical memorist

Born Essex, England, 1852 (4th quarter); son of George Button HAILES and Ann ILES
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 20 March 1854 (per Marlborough, from London and Plymouth, 1 January, aged "1")
Married Lily Elizabeth TROTMAN, Melbourne, VIC, 1876
Died Melbourne, VIC, 24 April 1917, aged "64/65"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frederick+Hailes+1852-1917 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HAILES-Frederick (shareable link to this entry)

HAILES, Frank (Frank HAILES; Mr. HAILES)

Musician, violinist, viola player, publican

Born Melbourne, VIC, 1857
Married Juana Caroline COLE (1861-1938), VIC, 1885
Died Kew, VIC, 10 August 1938

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frank+Hailes+1857-1938 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HAILES-Frank (shareable link to this entry)

George Button Hailes (photograph, Thomas Foster Chuck, 1872); State Library of Victoria

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/17702 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Foster Chuck (photographer)

Documentation:

Baptisms, Great Chesterford, Essex, 1822; Essex Record Office, D/P 10/1/6

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/9850/records/2871766 (PAYWALL)

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=GBPRS/ESSEX-BAP/2252773 (PAYWALL)

28 January 1822 / born 29 July 1808 [sic] / George Button son of / William and Mary / Hailes / Great Chesterford / Farmer

ASSOCIATIONS: William Hailes and Mary Button married at Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, on 17 November 1794

[Advertisement], Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette [England] (11 May 1839), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000417/18390511/028/0001 (PAYWALL)

TWO DAYS' SALE. LINTON, CAMBS.
The attention of Agriculturists, Builders, Coopers, Cabinet Makers, Wheelwrights, and others,
is respectfully solicited to the Extensive STOCK-IN-TRADE of Mr. G. B. Hailes, (who is about to emigrate to Australia);
WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY WILLIAM STACKWOOD. On the Premises, on THURSDAY, May 16th, 1839.
THE STOCK consists of seasoned Oak, Ash, Elm, Cedar, Walnut-tree, Plane-tree, and Beech PLANK, upwards of 2200ft . . .
large assortment of Ironmongery, Sheet Lead, Paints, and various other Effects.
Second Day's Sale, Friday, May the 17th; The neat HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE . . .

"MELBOURNE TRADE LIST", Port Phillip Gazette [Melbourne, NSW (VIC)] (22 July 1840), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225007466 

Cargo of the barque THERESA, Young, from London . . . 1 case books, G. B. Hailes.

[Advertisement], Port Phillip Gazette (22 September 1841), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225008205 

MONSIEUR GAUTROT
HAS the honor to announce that a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music will take place
THIS EVENING, Sept. 22nd, at Messrs. Benjamin's extensive new Stores, Williams Town, at half-post seven o'clock.
PROGRAMME.
1st PART.
1. - Simphonie - CHERUBINI.
2. - Glee, Perfida Clori - AMATEUR
3. - Duetto - BOILEDIERE.
4. - Solo de Violon (M. Gautrot) - RODE.
5. - Ditenti Palpiti (ditto) - ROSSINI.
6. - English Glee (Amateur) - BISHOP.
2nd PART.
1. - Simphonie
2. - Glee (Amateur)
3. - Song (ditto)
4. - English duet (2 ditto)
5. - English Romana (ditto)
6. - French Song (M. Gautrot) - ROSSINI.
7. - Glee (Amateur) - MARTINI.
8. - God save the Queen, (3 voices.)
Tickets 10s. 6d, each, to be procured at the Albion Hotel, at Mr. Walter Butler's, and at Mr. Levien's, Williams Town.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph and Madame Gautrot (musicians, violinist and vocalist)

"CONCERT", Port Phillip Gazette (25 September 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225012286 

It affords us great pleasure to state that the Concert given at Williams Town, on Wednesday evening last, afforded universal satisfaction; it commenced with a concerted piece of music, arranged by Monsieur Gautrot, for three instruments, which was very cleverly executed by Gautrot, Hailes, and Tickel. Without being accused of flaterry, we pan speak in the most unqualified terms of Madame Gautrot; we heard her sing a solo in a tone of sweetness we have seldom heard surpassed. The other artistes were each excellent in the various songs they sung; the music, also, was much applauded. About fifty persons were present, a number of them from Melbourne, all of whom expressed their entire approbation. We trust we shall see M. Gautrot and friends paying us another visit previous to his embarkation for India.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Tickell (musician)

"MARRIED", Port Phillip Gazette (30 October 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225008965 

On Friday, the 29th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Waterfield, Mr. William Lush [sic, John Lush], widower, tailor, Melbourne, eldest son of the Rev. William Lush, New York, England, to Miss Caroline Hailes, daughter of Mr. John Hailes, merchant, Linton, Cambridgeshire, and sister to Mr. George Bolten Hailes, Builder, of this town.

ASSOCIATIONS: Keren Happuck Hailes; born 28 October 1805; arrived with brother per Andromache, 1840; married John Lush [sic]; died Melbourne, VIC, 1 March 1881

"THE CONCERT", Port Phillip Gazette (14 June 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224812501 

We understand that the gentlemen amateurs who have undertaken the onerous duty of getting up a concert for the benefit of the Hospital Fund, are making strenuous exertions to render the affair much superior to anything of the kind attempted in the province. Instructions have been sent to Sydney for the latest compositions, and we believe, the first overture will be the recent composition of Balfe, for his new opera, - The Daughter of St. Mark. From all we learn, the concert will be brilliantly attended; and, as a matter of course, the proceeds will swell the Hospital fund in no trifling degree.

ASSOCIATIONS: As reported in his Argus obituary (1875), George played in this concert, the full program of which below

[Advertisement], Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser (18 July 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226348038 

Grand Amateur Concert.
IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE MELBOURNE HOSPITAL.
THE Gentlemen Amateurs connected with the Melbourne Philharmonic Society,
having been applied to by the Governors of the MELBOURNE HOSPITAL,
beg to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen resident in Melbourne and its vicinity, and the Inhabitants of Port Phillip generally, that they intend giving a
GRAND CONCERT OF Vocal and Instrumental Music, in aid of the Funds of rhe above Institution, in the
QUEEN'S THEATRE, (the proprietor, Mr. Smith, having kindly offered the use of the same for the purpose,)
On FRIDAY, the 18th JULY next
Under the especial Patronage of HIS HONOR C. J. LA TROBE, ESQ., SUPERINTENDENT,
HIS HONOR THE RESIDENT JUDGE,
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR OF MELBOURNE,
(who have signified their intention of honoring the performance with their presence,)
AND OTHER PERSONS OF DISTINCTION,
on which occasion, several Ladies and Gentlemen, Amateurs resident in the Province, will lend their assistance.
Mr. Coppin has also most liberally offered the gratuitous assistance of the musical portion of his Launceston Company.
The services of Mr. Clarke have likewise been secured, who will preside at the Pianoforte.
Programme:
PART 1st.
Overture - "Zampa." - HEROLD.
Duet - "Comrade, your Hand," (from the "Bohemian Girl") - BALFE.
Song - "Dear Maid," (from "Joan of Arc") - BALFE.
Glee - "Discord, dire Sister". - WEBBE.
Duet - "Violoncello" and Pianoforte.
Song - "The Heather Hills" - GEIKS.
Scene - "For thee hath Beauty," from Oberon, (with orchestral accompaniments) - WEBER.
Song - "Wanted a Governess" - PARRY.
Overture - "Semiramide" - ROSSINI.
PART 2nd.
Overture - "Men of Promethus" - BEETHOVEN.
Song -"Non piu andrai" - MOZART.
Glee - "Return blest Days" - J. S. SMITH
Song - "Sister Dear," (from "Masaniello") - AUBER.
Fantasia - Pianoforte - KALKBRENNER.
Song - "Some Love one Day," from Der Freischutz, (with orchestral accompaniments) - WEBER.
Glee - "Come Live with Me" - WEBBE.
Duet - "When a little Farm we Keep," (with orchestral accompaniments) - PARRY [sic, Mazzinghi]
Overture - "Masaniello" - AUBER.
BOXES - Single Tickets, 7s 6d.; Family ditto, admitting four, £1 4s.
PIT - Single Tickets, 4s.; Family ditto, admitting four, 1 2s.
GALLERY - Single Tickets, 2s. 6d.
To be obtained at the offices of the Patriot, Gazette, Herald, Standard, Courier newspapers;
at Messrs. Puller's, Pittman's, and Clarke's Music and Stationery Warehouses;
at the Royal Hotel, Collins-street, and of Mr. Smith, at the Theatre. N.B. - The Concert will commence at half-past seven o'clock, P.M., precisely.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Thomas Smith (theatre proprietor); Charles La Trobe (Port Phillip distict superintendent); George Coppin (actor, theatre manager) and musicians in his company, Joseph Megson (violinist), and Henry Howson (violinist) and his brothers; William Clarke (pianist); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association, 1840s): Queen's Theatre (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News (14 June 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226472965 

GRAND CONCERT, Under the Immediate patronage of His Honor the Superintendent and His Worship the Mayor.
MR. J. GRIFFITHS has the honor to announce that his
CONCERT of vocal and instrumental music will take place at the room of the
Mechanic's Institute, THIS EVENING, JUNE 14TH.
On which occasion the Amateurs connected with the Musical Society have kindly given their services -
together with several distinguished amateur vocalists.
To render the orchestra full and complete, Mr. G. has engaged all the available talent of Melbourne.
Leader of the band - Mr. Megson
Solo violin - Mr. Griffiths
Solo pianoforte - Mr. Anderson
Solo flute - Mr. Odrich
Accompanyist - Mr. Pietzker.
PROGRAMME. PART 1.
Overture - "Guy Mannering" - H. R. Bishop
Song - "The Boy in Blue," - Mr. Griffiths - G. H. Rodwell
Duett - Flute and pianoforte, "Rondo Brilliante," Op. 14, Messrs. Pietzker and Odrich - Hoffmeister
Glee - "Poor Insect," Messrs. Griffiths, Hailes, and Vaughan.
Song - "Dermot Astore," by a Lady Amateur - F. N. Crouch
Solo - Violin - "La Tremolo," - De Beriot
Overture - Cheval de Bronze - Auber
PART 2.
Overture - "Fra Diavolo" - Auber
Song - "Molly Bawn," Mr Griffiths - Lover
Solo, pianoforte - 'Fantasia Brilliante, Mr. Anderson - Dohler
Duett - "Flow Gently, Deva," Messrs. Griffiths and Hailes - J. Parry
Cavatina - "Bid me discourse" - H. R. Bishop
Grand Scena - "The Maniac," Mr. Griffiths - Russell
Canone - "Perfida Clori," Messrs Griffiths, Vaughan, and Hailes - Cherubini . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Griffiths (violinist, vocalist); James Henri Anderson (pianist); Mr. Odrich (flute); William Pietzker (violin); Charles Vaughan (amateur); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue)

"A CRIMINAL TASTE FOR MUSIC", The Melbourne Daily News (21 November 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226517474 

Geo. Galley, a Frenchman, was charged at the police court on Wednesday with having indulged his taste for music to a criminal extent, by walking off with a piano forte the property of Mr. G. B. Hailes, the builder, in the month of March last. It appeared that on the 23rd March last, a piano forte was stolen from the premises of Mr. Hailes, which was subsequently discovered in the shop of Mr. Wilkie, the music seller of Collins street, Mr. Hailes being enabled to identify the instrument by certain marks and peculiarities, notwithstanding that it had undergone sundry alterations and additions since it was stolen. Mr. Wilkie stated that he purchased the piano from a man named Downey for nine pounds, Downey having purchased it from the prisoner for the sum of at ten pounds fifteen shillings, Galley was fully committed for trial, but admitted to bail, himself in eighty pounds and two sureties of forty pounds each.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Wilkie (musicseller);
see also, "DOMESTIC GAZETTE", Port Phillip Gazette and Settler's Journal (23 November 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225416917 

[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News (5 August 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226914206 

THE VICTORIA TOTAL ABSTINENCE CONVENTION GRAND CONCERT . . .
in AID of the FUNDS of the Convention, will be held at the
TEMPERANCE HALL, RUSSELL STREET, on TUESDAY EVENING, 5th AUGUST 1851.
Leader of the Band - Mr. Megson.
Conductor - Mr. Henry F. Hemy.
PROGRAMME. PART I.
Overture, - "The Crown Diamonds," Band - Auber.
Glee, - "Hark! the Curfew's solemn sound," Messrs, Hailes, Hemy, and Wheeler - Attwood.
Recitative and Air, - "O Love for me thy power," (Opera La Somnambula,) Mrs. Testar - Bellini.
Song, - "There is a flower that bloometh," Mr. Young - Wallace.
Violin SoIo, - "Air and Variations," Mr. Megson - Maurer.
Duett, - "I know a Bank, Miss Callow and Mr. Hemy - Horn.
Song, (by desire) - "The Flying Dutchman," Mr. Wheeler - Russell.
Buffo Song. - "The Lost Child," Mr. Cooze - Ford.
PART II.
Overture, "Maritana," Band - Wallace.
Glee, - "As it fell upon a day," Mr[s]. Testar, and Messrs. Hailes, Hemy and Wheeler - Mornington.
Piano Fantasia, - "Select Opera Airs." - Donizetti.
Song, - "The Child of the Regiment," Miss Callow - Donizetti.
Scena. - "All is lost now," Mr. Hemy - Bellini.
Ballad. - "By the sad sea waves," Mrs. Testar - Benedict.
Buffo Song, - "What is a woman like?" Mr. Young - Davey.
Finale. - "God save the Queen," Mrs. Testar, &c. - National . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Frederick Hemy (pianist, vocalist); Stephen Thomas Wheeler (musician, vocalist); Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Charles Young (vocalist, actor); William Joseph Cooze (vocalist, flautist); Miss Callow (vocalist); Temperance Hall (Melbourne venue)

Names and descriptions of passengers per Marlborough, from London, for Port Phillip, 20 March 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3AF2902C-F96C-11E9-AE98-6F3E4C825073?image=427 (DIGITISED)

Cabin Passengers . . . G. B. Hailes / 45 / Builder / English
Ann Hailes / 27 / - / English
William Hailes / 4 / - / Australian
Frederick Hailes / 1 / - / English
George Hailes / 14 days / English

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED", The Argus (21 March 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4804646 

March 20. - Marlborough, ship 1500 tons, Allen Young, from London and Plymouth 1st January, passengers - cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Hailes and family . . .

[Advertisement], The Age (2 November 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851975 

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION, Melbourne, 1854.
On Friday, November 3rd, The PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
Will perform Handel's Grand Oratorio, THE MESSIAH . . .
INSTRUMENTALISTS. VIOLINS. Messrs. Griffiths, King, Fleury, Strebinger . . .
VIOLONCELLOS. Messrs. Reed, Hailes and Kent . . .
LEADER - Mr. J. Griffiths.
CONDUCTOR - Mr. J. Russell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Edward King (violin); Achille Fleury (violin); Frederick Strebinger (violin); Thomas Reed (cello); John Russell (conductor); Melbourne Philharmonic Society (association); Victoria Exhibition 1854 (event); Exhibition Building (Melbourne venue);
Hailes was likewise listed in the orchestra for the whole series of Philharmonic concerts during November and December

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Age (12 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851329 

The Annual Meeting of this Society took place at the Mechanics' Institute, on Tuesday evening [9 January], and was well attended. The Rev. W. Jarrett on being called to the chair made a few prefatory observations and called upon Mr. Patterson, the secretary, who read the following - "Report . . .
"In the course of the past year the Society has given a series of twelve concerts, an achievement which we believe to be unequalled by any Society at home within one year of its establishment . . . The nett profit of the Concerts, prior to the Exhibition Concerts, was £59 8s. 3d. And the amount due from the Commissioners of the Melbourne Exhibition will clear off all the Society's liabilities, and leave a balance to its credit of £335 10s. 9d., as the result of its first year's exertions . . ."
The elections wero next entered into and the result is appended. - President, His Honor, Mr. Justice Barry;
Vice-Presidents, Mr. Jno. M. Smith and Reverend William Jarrett;
Conductor, Mr. Jno. Russell; Secretary, Mr. J. Patterson; Treasurer, Mr. J. J. Blundell;
Librarian, Mr. J. C. Stead; Assistant do, Mr. F. B. Hood;
Committee, Messrs. J. Edwards, T. Ewart, J. Griffiths, - Gould,
G. B Hailes, W. P. Walker, and W. H. Williams.
A vote of thanks was. passed to the retired office bearers, another to the chairman, and the meeting concluded.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Jarrett (chair); James Paterson (secretary); Redmond Barry (president); John Matthew Smith (vice-president); James John Blundell (treasurer); John Charles Stead (librarian); Thomas Ewart (member); Thomas Green Gould (member); William Henry Williams (member)

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 September 1861), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5703937 

PRAHRAN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
On TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, In the Town-hall, Chapel street,
Handel's Oratorio, The MESSIAH Will be performed,
In aid of the Funds of the Prahran and South Yarra Benevolent Society . . .
First Violin - Mr. Leslie.
Second Violin - Mr. A. Pringle.
Viola - Mr. G. Tolhurst.
Violoncello - Mr. Hailes.
Flute - Mr. Mortimer.
Trumpet - Mr. Richardson.
Double Drums - Mr. W. H. Tolhurst.
Organist - Mr. P. L. Plaister [sic].
Conductor - Mr. G. R. G. Pringle . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alexander John Leslie (violin); George and Alexander Pringle (conductor and violin); George and William Tolhurst (violin and drums); James William Richardson (trumpet); Philip Charles Plaisted (organist); Prahran Philharmonic Society (association); Prahran Town Hall (venue)

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser [VIC] (12 September 1861), 2

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The Harmonic Society's concert last night consisting of Haydn's "Creation" was a very successful affair, and one feature reflecting additional credit on the members was the very little external aid required. Beyond Miss Bailey, Mr. Hailes, Mr. Plumstead, Mr. Stoneham, and Mr. Gover everything was done by amateur members of the society, which is now stronger both in voices and instruments than at any former period . . . Mr. H. B. Moore conducted with his usual tact and evident thorough knowledge of what he was about . . . Mr. Gabb led admirably. Mr. Hailes, an amateur from Melbourne, played first violoncello. Mr. Plumstead on the organ, Mr. Stoneham on the flute, and Mr. Gover on the double bass, all contributed essentially to the evening's success. The hall was quite filled, and the pecuniary results will no doubt be satisfactory . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Amelia Bailey (vocalist); Henry Plumstead (organist); William Stoneham (flute); Henry Barman Gover (double bass); John Gough Gabb (violin, leader); Henry Byron Moore (conductor); Geelong Harmonic Society (association)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (26 February 1862), 5

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The adjourned annual meeting of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society was held yesterday evening, at the Mechanics' Institute, Collins street. Mr. Sumner presiding. The only business to be transacted was the election ot office-bearers for the ensuing year, which was at once proceeded with, and resulted as follows President, Sir Redmond Barry; Vice-Presidents, T. J. Sumner, Esq., and John Russell, Esq.;
Conductor, Charles Edward Horsley; Organist. T. G. Gould; Treasurer, Mr. J. J. Blundell; Librarian, S. Moxon;
Committee: - Messrs. Elsasser, Blundell, G. B. Hailes, W. C. Fisher, T. G. Gould, G. O. Rutter, the Rev. Wm. Jarrett,
Messrs. Moxon, and Alfred Woolley. Honorary Secretary, W. G. Dredge.
A unanimous cote of thanks was passed to Herr Elsasser for his services, as conductor, during the past year; and a similar compliment having been paid to the Chairman, the meeting terminated.

ASSOCIATIONS: Theodotus John Sumner (chair); Charles Edward Horsley (conductor); Septimus Moxon (librarian); Charles Elsasser (member); Wilhelm Carl Fischer (member); George Oswald Rutter (member); Alfred Woolley (member); William Gilpin Dredge (secretary)

[News], The Argus (6 January 1864), 5

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At a special meeting of the Philharmonic Society, held at the Mechanics' Institute last evening, Mr. J. Smith, jun., and Mr. J. C. Stead were elected auditors. Mr. G. B. Hailes presided. A meeting for the appointment of a committee and officers will take place next week, and the annual general meeting will be held the week after.

[Advertisement], The Argus (27 February 1864), 8

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ST. GEORGE'S HALL. SPECIAL CONCERT Will be given in
ST. GEORGE'S HALL On GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1864,
To introduce to the musical public of Melbourne a
MASS, Recently composed by Mr. G. O. RUTTER,
Under the immediate patronage of the following Committee of gentlemen: -
. . . W. C. Fisher, Esq., Right Rev. Dr. Goold, T. G. Goold, Esq.,
Montague Harvie, Esq., C. E. Horsley, Esq., G. B. Hailes, Esq., . . .
John Russell, Esq., T. J. Sumner, Esq. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Alipius Gould (cleric, patron); Montague Harvie (patron); St. George's Hall (Melbourne venue)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (13 April 1863), 5

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A grand amateur concert under the patronage of his Excellency the Governor . . . the Hon. J. P. Fawkner, and the Hon. Chas. Vaughan, will be given in St. George's Hall, Melbourne, on Wednesday evening, May the 4th, in aid of the poor of Collingwood district . . . and Mr. Hailes, J.P., has undertaken to make arrangements for the instrumental part of the performance. Under such auspices, and also taking into consideration the benevolent object of the project, the concert will, no doubt, be attended by a large, and fashionable assemblage.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Pascoe Fawkner (patron, friend of Hailes)

"THE COLLINS-STREET BAPTIST CHURCH . . . PRESENTATION TO MR. G. B. HAILES.", The Age (12 December 1866), 6

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Anniversary tea and public meetings, in connection with the above church, took place last evening . . . During the evening a handsome service of plate was presented to Mr. G. B. Hailes, by Mr. D. Lemmon, the senior deacon of the church, who read the following address, which was engrossed on vellum: -
"Baptist Chapel, Collins-street, Melbourne, 11th December, 1866. To G. B. Hailes, Esq., J.P.
Dear Sir, - On the occasion of your retirement from office as leader of the singing at Collins-street Baptist Chapel, Melbourne, we desire, on behalf of the church and congregation, to convey to you our obligations for your unwearied and gratuitous labors connected therewith, which have extended over a period of twenty-two years. In testimony of our appreciation of your valued services, so long continued, we beg your acceptance of the accompanying service of plate. Permit us, dear sir, to express the hope that though now you have retired from active duties, you may be spared yet many years to join with us in the service of song in the house of the Lord, and that when our course on earth is finished, we who have been associated together here may all unite in celebrating the praises of the "Trinne Jehovah" in the sanctuary above. - We are, dear sir, on behalf of the church and congregation, very faithfully yours,
Jas. Taylor, pastor; D. Lemmon, W. Smith, T. McFarlane, C. Hetherington, D. Hamilton, G. McFarlane, R. T. Blackwell, A. M. Shain, R. Reid, W. H. S. Blake, deacon."
A suitable inscription was engraved on each of the articles comprising the service, which is valued at eighty guineas, and was provided by Mr. C. McFarlane, jeweller, Elizabeth-street.
On rising to return thanks, Mr. Hailes was greeted with loud and prolonged applause. He thanked the congregation for the very flattering testimonial of their esteem, and expressed his determination never to part with it. He feelingly alluded to the many happy hours he had spent among those members of the church with whom he had been most intimately associated, and said that if over his services were required he would be found ready and willing to act to the best of his ability.
Short addresses relative to the progress of the church and to the services rendered by Mr. Hailes, were delivered by several clergymen . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Music in Baptist churches (general)

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 September 1869), 8

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MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
TO-MORROW EVENING Will be Re-produced, In the DUKE of EDINBURGH THEATRE,
Verdi's Grand Opera ERNANI, With a Band and Chorus of 200 Performers . . .
Conductor - Mr. David Lee.
BAND . . . Violoncellos - Mr. S. H. Hart, Mr. G. B. Hailes . . .
Principal Violin - Mr. E. King . . .
S. MOXON, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: David Lee (conductor); Sidney Herbert Hart (cello)

"THE CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT", Kyneton Guardian and Woodend and Malmsbury Chronicle [VIC] (27 November 1869), 2

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A grand classical concert of vocal and instrumental music by the members of the Kyneton Choral Society, assisted by Messrs. Edward King (leader of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society), Fred Tate, and G. B. Hailes, J.P. of Melbourne, was given at the Mechanics' Institute last evening . . . Last night's concert differed from those which have preceeded it in the inclusion in the programme of a number of instrumental quartettes (two violins, viola and violencello) executed by Messrs. Edward King, Ernest King, Fred Tate, and G. B. Hailes. The first of these was by Haydn, the second by Weber, the third by Haydn, (introducing the hymn God save the Emperor,) and the fourth by Mendelssohn. The quartettes were beautifully rendered and were warmly applauded . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Ernest King (violin); Frederick Tate (viola)

"DEATHS", The Argus (24 May 1875), 1

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HAILES. - On the 22nd inst., at his residence, 60 Nicholson-street, Fitzroy, G. B. Hailes Esq., J.P., aged 67 years, a colonist of 35 years standing.

[News], The Argus (24 May 1875), 5

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We have to announce the death of Mr. G. B. Hailes, J.P., of Fitzroy, at the age of 67 years, which took place at his resdence Nicholson-street, on Saturday last. Mr. Hailes was a very old colonist, having arrived from England in June, 1840, by the ship Andromache. Immediately on his settling in Melbourne he entered on the business of a builder, in which he met with such success that in 1852 he was enabled to retire on a competency. He then went on visit to his birth-place, in Essex, and returned to this colony in 1854, when he went to reside in Fitzroy, where he continued to live until his death. Mr. Hailes, although he never took any prominent part in public life, always displayed great interest in the various institutions of the city of Melbourne and of the suburbs with which he was more intimately connected by residence. He was for many years one of the leading members of the Fitzrroy Bench, and was, in fact, at the time of his decease, the senior magistrate of the district. He was also chairman of the Local Board of Advice, Fitzroy, having been chosen at the first election under the new Education Act. Mr. Hailes took much interest in musical matters, and was intimately connected with the Melbourne Philharmonic Society since its foundation, while it may be mentioned that he used to recall with pleasure the fact that he assisted with his violincello at the first charitable concert given in Melbourne about 30 years ago, the proceeds of which were devoted to the benefit of the hospital. Among the other charities of the city Mr. Hailes took a special interest in the Benevolent Asylum, of the committee of which he was a member for many years. The deceased gentleman was of the Baptist persuasion, and was one of the founders of the Collins-street Baptist Church, the choir of which he led for over 20 years. On his retirement from this position in 1866 the congregation testified their appreciation of his services by a presentation of a handsome silver tea service and a flattering testimonial. Although Mr. Hailes had only been confined fined to bed for a week previous to his death, his demise was not unexpected by his friends, as he had been in decaying health for a considerable time. He leaves a family of six sons and two daughters, nearly all of whom are grown up. Mrs. Hailes died three years ago.

"VICTORIA", Weekly Examiner [Launceston, TAS] (26 June 1875), 6

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The death of Mr. G. B. Hailes, J. P. of Fitzroy, at the age of 67 years, at his residence, Nicholson-street, on May 22nd is announced. Mr. Hailes was a very old colonist, having arrived from England in June, 1840, by the ship Andromache.

"THE METROPOLITAN LIEDERTAFEL", The Argus (5 February 1878), 7

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At the Melbourne Atheneum last night the members of this society resumed their pleasant entertainments, and their 40th concert (the first for the present year) was given before an audience which was numerous considering the state of the weather and other outside influences of a disturbing character. That portion of the programme devoted to instrumental music was well worthy of particular attention. The occasion served to introduce to the audience a new combination of instrumentalists led by Mr. Martin Simonsen, and entitled "The Simonsen Victorian Quartett Party," consisting, besides the leader, of Mr. Edward King (second violin), Mr. Hailes (tenor), and Mr. Hart (violoncello). Their first selection was from Op. 2 of Beethoven, scherzo and allegro-presto, and these were followed later on in the evening by the Adagio in A and Minuetto and Presto in D from Haydn, Op. 6. With such a master of the violin as Mr. Simonsen for leader, all that was required in the way of strict and spirited tempo, perfect intonation, and the fine nuance of light and shade was made most pleasingly evident to the audience. So good, indeed, was the effect produced in the allegro movement of the Beethoven quartett that the players were honoured with an encore, a compliment rarely accorded by a large audience to the performance of a classical composition for strings. In the Haydn selection those who were near the players were enabled to judge of the wonderful accuracy of Mr. Simonsen's staccato bowing in the presto movement, which seemed in rhythm to be the very prototype of all British hornpipes. The new quartett party made altogether a most successful first appearance . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frank Hailes (viola); Martin Simonsen (violin); Edward King (violin); Sidney Herbert Hart (cello)

"NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (11 March 1878), 2

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A meeting of the members of the Musical Association of Victoria was held on Saturday evening, in the club room of the association, at Garton's Hotel . . . The only musical performance which took place when the business of the evening was concluded was Mozart's quintette in A major for clarionet and strings. This was played by Mr. Lundborg clarionet, Mr. Ernest King first violin, Mr. Ryder second violin, Mr. Hailes tenor, and Mr. Montague violoncello . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John William Lundborg (clarinet); Ernest King (violin); George Hopwood Ryder (violin); Alfred Montague (cello); Victoria Musical Association (association)

"THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE. . . BY GARRYOWEN . . . THE TURF . . . THE MEETING OF 1841", The Herald (20 November 1884), 4

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Batman's Hill was now, by common consent, abandoned as a racing arena, for the special fitness of the Saltwater River Flat was undeniable. For several years the new locality was known simply as "The Racecourse." Gradually a small hamlet sprung up on the main thoroughfare from Melbourne to Mount Macedon. "Bob" Fleming, one of the first colonists, who took to retailing meat for the sustenance of the Melburnians settled down there, and it was in compliment to this pioneer butcher, the dozen huts and shanties were dignified by the name of Flemington, a nomenclature subsequently extended to the racecourse, to distinguish it as the chief turf rendezvous of Port Phillip. It was therefore determined by the Turf Club that the next meeting should come off there, and is did so accordingly, under the stewards previously appointed, with Messrs. W. Gardiner, and J. Rowe as clerks of the course, At 4 o'clock on the evening of the entry day (the 12th April) all the competing horses were paraded on the eastern side of Batman's Hill, and there was a strong muster of Melbournians of every age, sex and degree to behold the turn out. On the opening morning and under favorable weather, people began to flock from all parts to the since well known banks of the Satwater River. There was a town band of three performers in attendance, mastered by Mr. G. B. Hailes, afterwards a prosperous timber merchant and J. P., who played on the bass viol. His services were retained for L20 by Mr. Thomas Halfpenny, the keeper of the principal booth, the "William Tell," constructed of green bushes and canvas, and close by the grand stand, a shaky construction of stringy bark and ti-tree . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Edmund Finn ("Garryowen"); Thomas Halfpenny (publican, "William Tell", Collins-street)

"THEATRICAL GOSSIP", Melbourne Punch (21 April 1887), 8

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Frank Hailes, the well-known violinist, is now boniface of the British Lion Hotel, a popular place, by-the-way, with the pros.

"OLD MEMORIES. TO THE EDITOR OF . . .", The Argus (8 December 1905), 7

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Sir, - If not too late, I should like to add a few words in regard to early Melbourne musical memories. As a son of G. B. Hailes, one of the first string quartet in this city, I am pleased to see his name mentioned after so many years. My father and Mr. Claye arrived in 1840, and were vocalists, as well as instrumentalists. I have now some glee books, given to Mr. Hailes by Mr. Frederick Lord Claye. With Mr. John Russell, W. G. Dredge, and others they attempted to form a philharmonic society, but their numerical strength being insufficient, the society was not publicly started till 1853. I myself joined in 1860. I have a programme of the "Messiah" performance of 1854. Mr. John Russell was the conductor; Joseph Griffiths, first violin and leader; G. B. Hailes, 'cello. The programme does not mention Mr. Claye, nor can I recollect his being leader at any time. My brother Frank still plays on the old instrument, which arrived here in 1840. My father never missed a rehearsal or concert from the start, till his death in 1875, consequently he was known as the father of the Philharmonic. Many of the old members are still alive, notably Mr. W. H. Williams, an excellent tenor in his day.
- Yours, &c.
FREDERICK HAILES.
Dec. 6.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Lord Clay (musical amateur)

"AT POVERTY POINT", The bulletin (23 July 1914), 9

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"Kaniva": Died at Dunolly (Vic.), aged 80, Richard Clay, who arrived in Melbourne in 1840. His father, Frederick Lord Clay, one of the first solicitors in Port Phillip, was also one of its most capable musicians. With G. B. Hailes, J. E. Megson and another he formed the string quartette which played in Melbourne in the early '40's. Geo. Coppin, on his arrival in June, 1845, could play only three nights a week, so his orchestra, which included three of the talented Howson family, joined the quartette and gave concerts on the other evenings . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Megson (violin); Henry Howson (violin) and brothers; George Coppin (actor, manager)

"DEATHS", The Argus (28 April 1917), 13

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HAILES. - On the 24th April, at the Melbourne Hospital, Frederick, second son of the late G. B. Hailes, J.P., aged 65 years.

"AT POVERTY POINT", The bulletin (17 May 1917), 9

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Died recently in Melbourne, Fred Hailes, son of George Button Hailes, old-time Fitzroyite, who had five sons all over 6ft. in height. He was close up to the '70's when he went over. A life-long acquaintance with music and musicians constituted him an authority. In the long-gone days of "Penny Readings" the father and his boys took part in the old Fitzroy Court-house, glees, rounds and such being a family specialty. One of the boys has been for 30 years in the Williamson orchestra. Old G. B. Hailes came to Melbourne in 1840, and was one of the executors of the will of John Pascoe Fawkner.

"EARLY MELBOURNE . . . (By 'Old Chum') (No. 394)", Truth [Melbourne, VIC] (26 May 1917), 7

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I regret to announce the death of Mr. Fred Hailes, an old friend, since boyhood, and one of my most reliable correspondents. When I was engaged under the pen name "Hayseed," in writing up "Sportsmen of the Past," "Old Theatricas," and "Mummer Memoirs" in "Truth" and the Sydney "Sportsman," I had most generous help from Mr. Hailes whenever I needed assistance in fixing dates and identifying persons. He was the eldest son of Mr. George Button Hailes, who signed the "Old Colonists' Address" to the Duke of Edinburgh, in which he gave his year of arrival as 1840. As a builder, Mr. Hailes, senior, did good work in the "settlement" of Port Phillip, and made good use of his time and means. He was successful enough to return to England in about 10 years' time, but returned about 1853 [sic, 1854], bringing with him a wife and baby, the recently deceased Frederick Hailes. Mr. Hailes, senior (in partnership with a Mr. Hale) established himself in Stephen-street as a timber merchant and ironmonger. Being a steady man of business, keen and capable, he soon amassed enough to retire upon, taking up his residence in Nicholson-street, Fitzroy, where he remained until his death. He had five sons, each over six feet; he was a proud man, as he walked with the "stalwart five" in his suburb, where he was noteworthy in his attendance as a justice of the peace in the local court, and otherwise prominent in public matters. Mr. Hailes and his family were musical: the father played the bass viol, and the sons were either instrumentally or vocally musical. In the mid-sixties when "Penny Readings" were at fever heat, and each suburb had its weekly "readings," the Hailes family made frequent appearances in the Fitzroy Courthouse, where the "readings" were given, glees, rounds, and part songs generally being their speciality. Mr. Fred Hailes was a recognised authority on musical and dramatic matters connected with Melbourne, and had contributed much of his stored knowledge to the public press. He was a widower, and has left a son, who is likewise an enthusiast in music and the drama.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Michael Forde ("Old Chum")

"SEVENTY YEARS OF MUSIC. MR. A. MONTAGUE'S MEMORIES. GENESIS OP THE PHILHARMONIC. IV", The Argus (10 October 1825), 6

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. . . "In December, 1853, there occurred the opening concert of the Philharmonic Society. Handel's 'Messiah' was given, with Mr. John Russell as conductor and Mr. Joseph Griffiths as leader . . . I was a member of the orchestra at the first concert, but being then only 16, I did not occupy an important position. Thanks, however, chiefly to my friend Mr. 'Sam' Chapman, who was himself a 'cello player, but was then playing contra bass . . . My two first friends in the orchestra of the Philharmonic were Mr. Daniel ('Daddy') Hardman and Mr 'Sam' Chapman, 'cello and double bass players respectively . . . There were also Hailes, Ryder, and Kohler, all new to me. Kohler was our best horn player at that time. Hailes and Ryder were amateurs of considerable experience and skill, frequently heard at the Philharmonic Society's concerts and in the quartet of the period. A son of Mr. Hailes (Frank Halies), still occupies a good position as violin or viola player or 'cellist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Montague (memoirist, cello); Samuel Chapman (cello); Daniel Hardman (double bass); Franz Kohler (horn); George Hopwood Ryder (violin)

"DEATHS", The Argus (11 August 1938), 8

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HAILES. - On the 10th August, 1938. Frank, the beloved husband of the late Juanita Caroline Hailes, of 29 Little Charles street, Abbotsford. At rest. (Remains at John Allison's parlours, 94 Victoria street, Richmond.)

Bibliography and resources:

George Button Hailes, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195680769/george-button-hailes 

HAIMBERGER, Julius (Antonius Julius HAIMBERGER; Julius HAIMBERGER; M. HAIMBERGER; Herr HAIMBERGER)

Musician, violinist, pianist, composer

Born Lemberg (Lvov / Lviv), Poland (Ukraine), c. 1827 or 1831; son of Anton HAIMBERGER and Julie von CSALA
Married (?) Margaretha (TEUSEN) KRAMER, UK, c. 1854/55
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 31 July 1855 (per Oliver Lang, from Liverpool, 5 May)
Departed Sydney, NSW, January 1868 (for South America)
Died Lima, Peru, 30 March 1868, aged "40"

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HAIMBERGER, Margaretha (Hedewig Margaretha TEUSEN; Madame Ernest KRAMER; Margeritta KRAMER; Madame KRAMER; Madame CRAMER [sic]; Mrs. Julius HAIMBERGER)

Musician, contralto vocalist, guitar player, guitarist, "Tyrolese minstel"

Married (?) Julius HAIMBERGER, UK, c. 1854/55
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 31 July 1855 (per Oliver Lang, from Liverpool, 5 May)
Departed Sydney, NSW, January 1868 (for South America)

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KRAMER, Marie (Mademoiselle KRAMER; Miss KRAMER; Mrs. J. C. ELLIS) see main entry Marie KRAMER

Musician, soprano vocalist, guitar player, guitarist, "Tyrolese minstel"

Born Altona, Denmark (Germany), c. 1843; daughter Ernest KRAMER and Margeritta TUESEN
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 31 July 1855 (per Oliver Lang, from Liverpool, 5 May)
Married James Cole ELLIS (1843-1930), South Melbourne, VIC, June 1864
Died Penguin, Ulverstone, TAS, 25 August 1907

HAIMBERGER, Julia (Julia HAMIBERGER; Mrs. Thomas William Toone SMITH)

Musician, pianist

Born Melbourne, VIC, 1855; daughter of Julius HAIMBERGER and Hedewig Margaretha TEUSEN
Departed Sydney, NSW, January 1868 (for South America)
Married Thomas William Toone SMITH, by 1871
Died London, England, 1916 (4th quarter)

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HAIMBERGER, Margaretta (Margharita) (Margaretta HAIMBERGER; Mrs. John Joseph MULCAHY)

Born Sydney, NSW, 1863; daughter of Julius HAIMBERGER and Hedewig Margaretha TEUSEN
Departed Sydney, NSW, January 1868 (for South America)
Married John Joseph MULCAHY, Carcoar, NSW, 1882
Died Hobart, TAS, 2 March 1885

Summary:

Julius Haimberger was, by his own account in his 1858 NSW naturalisation documents, aged 27 and born in Lemberg (Lvov/Lviv), that is around 1831. Reports of his death in 1868 gave his age as 40, therefore born around 1827, and identified his father as Anton Haimberger (later Freiherr von Haimberger, of Vienna), who had indeed at the time been teaching at the University of Lemberg. Further confusing the matter of his year of birth, upon joining the Lodge Germania in Sydney in January 1864, Haimberger gave his aged as 39 (born c. 1824).

Julius, a "very young" violinist and political activist, became a disciple of Mikhail Bakunin in Dresden around the time of the May 1848 uprising there. At Bakunin's request, Richard Wagner took Haimberger under his wing, and organised his escape to Zurich in 1851, where he performed in the theatre orchestra for a season. Wagner having organised for him letters of introduction to Henri Vieuxtemps in Belgium, and Edward Roeckel in London, by 1853 or 1854 Haimberger was in England.

At Gravesend, Kent, on 20 October 1854, he was first reported appearing in a concert with the vocalists Margaretha Kramer and her young daughter Marie, as the latest incarnation of the "Tyrolese minstrels".

There is no record of a legal marriage between Julius and Margaretha in the UK. However, it was evidently as a family that they and Marie sailed for Australia, from Liverpool on 5 May 1855, on board the Oliver Lang (though their names do not appear in the manifest of immigrants, they may have undertaken the voyage in a semi-professional capacity as performers). Having arrived in Melbourne on 31 July, Margaretha continued performing in public as Madame Kramer. Shortly after their arrival in Melbourne, however, as Julius Haimberger and Hedewig Margaretha Teusen, the couple registered the birth of their first daughter, Julia Haimberger.

Marie Kramer's 1864 marriage notice recorded that she was the eldest daughter of the late Ernest Kramer, of Altona. Ernest and the Kramer family of "Tyrolean singers", including his wife and (? sibling) Trandel, first visited England in 1847, carrying with them a letter of introduction from Jenny Lind.

Ernest presumably having died in the meantime, Margaretha and their young daughter Marie returned to England late in 1852, in company with a Herr Oelkers, at least one report referring to the trio as a family. Oeklers was last recorded performing with the Kramers in May 1854, and by October Julius Haimberger had evidently replaced him as the male instrumentalist of the small troupe.

They made their first appearance in the Australian colonies for George Coppin and G. V. Brooke in Melbourne in mid August 1855. In Melbourne and Adelaide in October they were joined by the Tyrolese zither player Veit Rahm. Margaretha (already known as Madame Haimberger in Victoria) was presumably the "Madame Cramer" [sic] who appeared at Rahm's farewell benefit in Sydney on 29 May 1856, when she sang Crouch's Kathleen Mavourneen and, with John Howson, Glover's duet What are the wild waves saying?. Billed as "Madame CRAMER, of the Princess' Concert Room, London", she gave her own concert on 30 June, assisted by Flora Harris, Charles Packer and the Band of the 11th Regiment.

The last mention of "Madame Cramer" is a report of her appearing in a minor role at Andrew Torning's newly renamed English Opera House (Prince of Wales Theatre), on 7 July, in La sonnambula, under the direction of Linly Norman. However, as "Margeritta Haimberger" [sic] she was back in Ballarat, where Julius was then engaged at the theatre, by 21 July, as she later that month testified in a court action. In an advertisement, in Ballarat in December 1856, we learn that Margaretha "had the honor of appearing in company with Jenny Lind before Her Majesty the Queen", and that Julius was a "Member of the Conservatories of Leipsic and Vienna, and from the Royal Polytechnic Institution, and St. James's Theatre, London."

The Haimbergers moved north, via Goulburn, Sydney, and Bathurst, to Armidale, where, they briefly considered settling. On 24 November 1858, Antonius Julius Haimberger, originally of Poland, was naturalised, but by early 1859 the family had moved yet further north into what was shortly to become Queensland. At their first Brisbane concert, there was a "violin solo, composed and performed by J. Heimberger" [sic], that the Courier judged to be "a gem". Julius issued a prospectus for pupils in Ipswich, where he was intending to settle, in early February, and by the middle of the month had opened "JULIUS HAIMBERGER'S NORTH AUSTRALIAN MUSIC, STATIONERY, AND FANCY SHOP, BELL STREET, IPSWICH".

Back in Sydney in November 1863, Julius and William Stanley performed 2 movements from Beethoven's Violin sonata op. 12 no. 1.

In Sydney in January 1868, Haimberger advertised that he was leaving the colony. And in August that year, it was reported in the Queensland press, that he had died in Peru of yellow fever.

Julia Haimberger appears in the 1871 England census as Julia Smith, aged 16, married (evidently quite recently), born Melbourne, Australia, a visitor in Chelsea, with her husband, Thomas Smith, Surgeon, aged 35.

Documentation:

Britain (1847):

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette [Yorkshire, England] (28 May 1847), 5

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The celebrated Kramer family (who arrived here on Sunday, from Hamburg, by the Lion), gave their first concert in this kingdom, the Theatre-royal, on Wednesday evening. The attendance was remarkably small, owing no doubt, to the short notice given of the entertainment. The assembly present did not, however, regret their own attendance. Several of the songs were encored, and all were received with loud applause. The Tyrolese National Dance, by Trandel and Ernest Kramer, at the close of the concert, was well received. A first-rate band has been engaged for this evening's concert, which we would advise every lover of melody to attend.

[Advertisement], Morning Advertiser [London, England] (30 July 1847), 1

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VAUXHALL . . . Sixth appearance of the celebrated Tyrolean Minstrels, Ernest and Trandel Kramer . . .

[Advertisement], Bolton Chronicle [Lancashire, England] (27 November 1847), 1

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STAR INN, BOLTON . . . Herr and Madame KRAMER,
the celebrated Tyrolean Singers, ARE ENGAGED to appear for SIX NIGHTS . . .
on Monday next, which will be their first appearance in any Concert Room in England; having previously been engaged at the principal Theatres in the country, and received with the greatest satisfaction.
They have had the honour of performing before various Continental Sovereigns; and also HER MAJESTY, the Queen Dowager . . .
They sing in their native language, because if translated into English it would materially rob the music of its charms.
On MONDAY Afternoon, November 29th, and every evening during the week,
Herr and Madame KRAMER, the celebrated Minstrels of the Tyrol, in Switzerland, will appear in their native costume, and sing a variety of Tyrolean Songs and Duets . . .

[Advertisement], Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser (24 December 1847), 4

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QUEEN'S THEATRE, SPRING GARDENS. TONIGHT,
for the BENEFIT of the ETHIOPIAN HARMONISTS . . .
ERNEST KRAMER, TRANDEL KRAMER, the Tyrolese Singers . . .

Britain (1852-55):

"TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Hull Packet (12 November 1852), 5

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These talented and accomplished minstrels, consisting of Herr Oelkers, Herr Raisier, Madame Kramer, and Mademoiselle Maria, have appeared before the public for three nights during the past week in their national costume at the Public Rooms, Jarrett-street. On Monday and Tuesday, owing to Mrs. Kemble's presence at the Literary and Philosophical Ball, and other entertainments in the town, the attendance wea not ao numerous as might have been wished, but on Wednesday evening there was a crowded audience, who listened with delight to the many beautiful Swiss melodies which were charmingly sung and played, and enthusiastically applauded. We understand that they proceed to give entertainments next at Beverley, Driffleld, and Grimsby.

[Advertisement], Hull Packet (31 December 1852), 1852

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HULL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. FOR the BENEFIT OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS of those who were unfortunately lost by the wreck of the Steamer "VICTORIA" . . .
The TYROLESE MINSTRELS, Herr OELKERS, the celebrated Guitarist;
Madame KRAMER, the celebrated Vocalist; and Mademoiselle MARIE, Eight Years old,
who have performed before the principal Courts of Europe, have the honor to announce . . .
that they will give their well-knowvn entertainment of National Music, attired in their national costume,
in the MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, Hull, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY Evenings, December 30th and 31st, and WEDNESDAY Evening, January 5th, 1853 . . .

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Aberdeen Press and Journal (28 September 1853), 5

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Two Concerts were given in the Mechanics' Hall on the evenings of Friday and Saturday last by the Tyrolese Minstrels, who had just returned from performing, by Royal command, before her Majesty and Prince Albert at Balmoral. Notwithstanding what might have been expected after the Grand Concert on Thursday evening, the attendance was numerous. Herr Oelkers is a master of the Guitar, whose sweet tones, brought out also by Madame Kramer and Herr Blotny, who likewise play - had a very good effect, and mingled harmoniously with the voices. Madlle. Maria is a very young vocalist, but a very promising one: she sang sweetly and spiritedly, and was encored.

"ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL", Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (14 May 1854), 8

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Should the weather prove propitious, it intended to open this ancient and favourite resort to the public on her Majesty's birthday. Mr. Wardell, the spirited proprietor, has just returned from Paris and other parts of France, where he has succeeded in procuring an unusual amount of talent . . . the Tyrolese singers, Madame Kramer, and her daughter, as well Herr Olckers are among the first who will appear . . .

"ASSEMBLY ROOMS", Kentish Independent [Gravesend, Kent] (28 October 1854)

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On the evening of yesterday week, the "Tyrolese Minstrels" gave a concert at the Assembly Rooms, Harmer Street, under the patronage of worship the mayor; and notwithstanding that they had been for the previous month singing nightly at the Assembly Rooms, yet there was a full room to greet them upon this occasion, when they came forth alone, trusting to their own talents to "draw a house," pretty fair evidence that the high encomiums which have been passed upon them are well deserved. The programme consisted of Swiss and Tyrolean national airs, with one or two English songs, the whole of which were well applauded, and they were encored in the duets "The Merry Swiss Boy,” and "Travels in Steiermark," and Madam Kramer in "Life's Garden" and another of Jenny Lind's Swedish songs, and the little girl in the English song "Trab Trab." Herr Haimberger, who on this occasion appeared in his Tyrolean costume, performed the "Souvenir de Bellini," and two of De Beriot's solos the violin, in a manner which called forth the most rapturous applause.

"TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser (31 October 1854)

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Under this title, a party of four performers, consisting of Madame Kramle [sic] and daughter, Herr Haimberger, and Mr. Pitman, gave concert at the Corn Exchange Monday evening, under the patronage the Mayor. In their announcements it was stated, or, rather, inferentially so, that they were "this Tyrol family" recommended by Jenny Lind, and who, according to Colonel Phipps, "gave very great satisfaction" at Balmoral, 1847. Now we are rather sceptical upon this point. Madame Kramer herself might have been one of the Tyrol family alluded to, but beyond that we are rather dubious, more especially as, on their own bills, four adults, all in costume, are intended convey idea of the family. This, however, may considered of minor importance, the real question being, "Was it a good performance?" And here we readily answer in the affirmative. Madame Kramer is unquestionably a good singer, and was greatly applauded throughout. Her "Swedish song," in the third part, was a perfect gem, and received a warm encore. Miss Marie Kramer is a very young lady, who promises well. Her portion of the duets with Madame Kramer did her much credit, and her ballads were very pleasingly given. We like Mr. Pitman better as an instrumentalist than a vocalist. His accompaniments the pianoforte displayed considerable taste and brilliancy of execution, which we could have wished he had an opportunity of developing still further. Herr Haimberger performed a concerto, a fantasia, and a solo the violin, in a highly finished and artistic manner, and received much and well-earned applause. Several encores were given in the course of the evening, but we regret the attendance was not more numerous.

[Advertisement], South Eastern Gazette [Maidstone, Kent, England] (31 October 1854), 8

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THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS,
WHO have had the honour of appearing several times before her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN at Balmoral, and nearly the whole of the Royalty of Europe, most respectfully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Maidstone, that they will give TWO GRAND CONCERTS at the Star Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings, November 7th and 8th, 1854, under the patronage of the Worshipful the MAYOR. The following testimonials are among the many received by the Tyrol Family:-

"The Tyrolese sang at Balmoral, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and gave very great satisfaction. -
(signed) C. B. PHIPPS, Balmoral, September 15th, 1853."

"I am directed to say that the Tyrol Family performed before his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and Lady St. Germans, at the Vice Regal Lodge, and gave very great satisfaction -
(Signed) BAGOT, Comptroller. April 18th, 1854."

"I have great pleasure to recommend this Tyrol Family to all admirers of Guitar and Harmonious Voices.
(Signed) JENNY LIND. London, July 19th, 1847" . . .

[as above] - Kentish Independent, Oct. 28th, 1854.

PROGRAMME. PART I.
"The Wandering Minstrels," Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Kramer - Oelckers
"My Rifle Gun," Madame Kramer - National Song
Grand Concerto for the Violin, Herr Haimberger, (Member of the Conservatory of Leipzig and Vienna) - Ch. de Beriot
"Come away to the Valley" - Mademoiselle Marie Kramer - B. Vaughan
Solo on the Pianforte, Miss Hart - H. Herz
"The Merry Swiss Boy" - Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Kramer - National Song
PART 2.
"The Evening Prayer on the Mountain" - Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Kramer - National Song
"Life's Garden," Bravura song (by Jenny Lind), Madame Kramer - Ditto
"Souvenir de Bellini," Fantasia for the Violin, Herr Haimberger - Artot
"The Ride, or Trab Trab," Mademoiselle Kramer - Kucken
Duet - "Travels in Steiermark," Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Kramer - Oelker
PART 3
Duet - "The Spring," Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Kramer - National Song
"Swedish Song" (Jenny Lind), Madame Kramer - Ditto
Grand Solo for the Violin, Herr Haimberger - Ch. de Beriot
"The Happy Merry Mountain Home," Mademoiselle Marie Kramer - National Song
Solo on the Pianoforte, Miss Hart - C. Chaulieu
"The Merry Singers," Madame Kramer and Mademoiselle Marie Kramer - National Song . . .

"HACKNEY", The Musical World [UK] 32/52 (30 December 1854), 851

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A large audience assembled on Monday week, at the concert given at Hackney, by the Tyrolese Minstrels. Their singing was simple and unsophisticated, and had a natural charm, like the song of birds. Even professional singers might take a lesson from the "minstrels" in the emission of sound. The peculiarity of the so-called "Jodeln," only known in the Tyrol, baffles the experienced vocalist, whilst the natives can all accomplish it without study. Some of the songs executed by Madame Kramer and her interesting little girl, are extraordinary feats of natural vocalisation. Herr Haimberger performed several morceaux on the violin with excellent taste and execution. The audience encored with enthusiasm almost every piece.

[Advertisement], Kentish Independent [Woolwich, Kent, England] (24 March 1855), 1

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Lecture Hall, Nelson Street, Woolwich.
TWO GRAND CONCERTS by THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS, From the Royal Polytechnic Institution,
On Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, March 28th and 29th, 1855.
TO COMMENCE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK EACH EVENING PRECISELY.
Programme. PART I.
1. - "The Wandering Minstrels" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - National Song.
2. - "My Rifle Gun' - Madame Kramer - [National Song]
3. - "The Evening Prayer on the Mountain" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer - [National Song]
4. - "Wen ich ein Voeglein waer" - Herr Zablotng - [National Song]
5. - Great Fantasia and Variations for Violin - Herr Haimberger, (Member of the Conservatories of Leipzig and Vienna) - F. David.
6. - "Tyroler Iagerleid" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - National Song.
PART 2.
7. - "The Merry Singers" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - National Song.
8. - "Life's Garden" - Bravura Song (by JENNY LIND) - Madame Kramer - [National Song]
9. - "Early in the Morning" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer - [National Song]
10. - "Auf dem Berge" - Herr Zablotng - [National Song]
11. - Grand Concerto for the Violin - Herr Haimberger - Ch. de Beriot.
12. - "Come away to the Valley" - Mademoiselle Marie Kramer - B. Vaughan
13. - "The Merry Swiss Boy" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - National Song.
PART 3.
14. - "Tyrolese Bacchanalian Song" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - National Song.
15. - "The happy merry Mountain Home" - Mademoiselle Marie Kramer - [National Song]
16. - "The merry Post Boy" - Madame Kramer and herr Zablotng - [National Song]
17. - Grand Solo for the Violin - herr Haimberger - Ch. de Beriot.
18. - "Ich daham a Madlghabt" [sic] - Herr Zablotng - National Song.
19. - "Travels in Steirmark" - Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, and Herr Zablotng - Oelkers.
Testimonials, &c., received by the Tyrol Family: -
"The Tyrolese sand at Balmoral, in the presence of Her Majesty THE QUEEN, His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, and her Royal Highness the DUCHESS OF KENT, and gave very great satisfaction.
(Signed) C. B. PHIPPS. Balmoral, Sept. 15, 1853."
"The Tyrolese Minstrels had the honour of singing here, in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg and Princess Marie, who all expressed themselves highly pleased with their performances.
(Signed) HAMILTON. Hamilton Palace, August 30th, 1853."
"I am directed to say that the Tyrol Family performed before His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, and Lady St. Germans, at the Viceregal Lodge, and gave very great satisfaction.
(Signed) BAGOT, Comptroller. April 18, 1853."
"I have great pleasure to recommend this Tyrol Family to all admirers of Guitar and Harmonious Voices.
(Signed) JENNY LIND. London, July 19, 1847."
Admission 6d. Reserved Seats, 1s. . . .

[Advertisement], Aris's Birmingham Gazette [England] (16 April 1855), 3

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CONCERT HALL, COLESHILL-STREET, BIRMINGHAM . . .
Flattering reception of the celebrated TYROLESE MINSTRELS, MADAME KRAINER [sic], MADLLE. MARIE, HERR KOEHLER, AND HERR HAIMBERGER . . .

[News], Colonial Times [Hobart, TAS] (7 July 1855), 2

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Madame Bishop is on her way to Melbourne from San Francisco, as also Madame Kramer, the Tyrolese songstress.

Melbourne, VIC (from ):

[Advertisement], The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (10 August 1855), 8

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COPPIN'S OLYMPIC . . .
First appearance of THE SERIOUS FAMILY, MR. G. V. BROOKE In a New Irish Character . . .
THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th, 1855 . . .
Mr. Coppin, determined to give a variety of Entertainments, has entered into an engagement, for a limited number of nights, with the celebrated
TYROLESE MINSTRELS, MADAME AND MADEMOISELLE KRAMER;
Who will be assisted by the Celebrated Violinist, HERR HAIMBERGER . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); George Coppin (actor, manager); Coppin's Olympic (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (11 August 1855), 8

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COPPIN'S OLYMPIC . . .
First Appearance in these Colonies of The Tyrolese Minstrels,
Madame and Mademoiselle Kramer, Assisted by Herr Haimberger.
On SATURDAY EVENING, 11th August . . .

"COPPIN'S CLYMPIC", The Age (13 August 1855), 5

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. . . After the comedy on Saturday evening, the Tyrolese Minstrels made tlieir first appearance and gave an agreeable variety to the evening's entertainment. Madame Kramer and her daughter (who looks jnst like her mamma viewed through the wrong end of a lorgnette) gave some very characteristic Alpine melodies full of those quaint phrases, echoes, and unusual intervals which are peculiar to the wild strains of the mountainous regions of Switzerland and the Tyrol. Both Madame and Mademoiselle possess pleasing voices and tunable ears; and the simple and unaffected style of their singing made a very favorable impression upon the audience. Herr Haimborger's debut as a violinist was also successful. There is nothing either florid or brilliant in his style. It appeared to us to be emphatic and expressive, and to bear the same relation to that of other eminent violinists, which some of the modern German ballad music bears to the operatic airs of Verdi and Donizetti. He is a good timist and a genuine musician, and appears to rely for success less upon tours de force and what may be termed sleight of hand, than most violinists of any note do.

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 September 1855), 8

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COPPIN'S OLYMIC . . . Saturday Evening.
COURIER OF LYONS. After which THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS
Will introduce some of their novel national airs, and
HERR HAIMBERGER Will perform a Solo on the Violin, being positively the last night of his engagement . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (26 September 1855), 8

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COPPIN'S OLYMPIC . . . The celebrated TYROLESE MINSTRELS Will shortly make their appearance for a limited umber of nights, assisted by HERR RAHM . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Veit Rahm (zither player, vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (11 October 1855), 8

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MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
Under the Patronage of SIR WILLIAM AND LADY A'BECKETT, and several Families of distinction.
The TYROLESE MINSTRELS, from Coppin's Olympic, will give a
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT at the above place ON FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12.
Grand Selection of NATIONAL AIRS, As given before her Majesty the Queen, and all the Nobility of England.
"The Tyrolese sang at Balmoral, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and gave very great satisfaction.
- (Signed) C. B. PHIPPS. Balmoral, Sept. 16, 1853,"
"I have great pleasure to recommend this Tyrol Family to all admirers of Guitar and Harmonious voices."
(Signed) JENNY LIND. London, July 19, 1847."
"The Tyrolese Minstrels had the honor of singing here, in presence of her Royal Highness the Duchess Cambridge, and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg and Princess Marie, who all expressed themselves highly pleased with their performamces."
(Signed) HAMILTON. Hamilton-place, Aug. 30, 1853."
"COPPIN'S OLYMPIC. - The performances of the Tyrolese Minstrels was received with much favor, and Herr Haimberger was highly applauded for his superior peeformance on the violin. Last night the Tyrolese Minstrels introduced some new melodies, one of which, with a refrain, which was like the warble of a biid, was as charming a piece of vocalisation as we could desire to hear, and was redemanded with a burst of enthusiasm. In reply to the encore Madame Kramer and her daughter sang a duet, somewhat similar in character, and running off into the same joyous bird-like-thrill - an echo as it were of the "wood notes wild," which fill the valleys of the Tyrol, and still haunt the memories of those who have visited that romantic region." - Melbourne Age.
"COPPIN'S OLYMPIC - The performances of the Tyrolese Minstrels have steadily increased in popularity, and on their last appearance, on Saturday evening, they were loudly applauded and repeatedly encored." - Melbourne Argus.
HERR RAHM'S wonderful performances on his National Instrument, the Zither, has been so frequently noticed by the press of all the colonies that further mention is unnecessary. He has had the honor of performing before the Queen, the leading Nobility of England, and the various Governors of the Australian Colonies, with undiminislied success.
PROGRAMME.
Part I.
1. Trio - "The Wandering Minstrels," - Madame and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Rahm - Oelckers
2. "My Rifle Gun," - Madame Kramer - National Song
3. Violin Solo - Great Fantasia and Variations for Violin, Herr Haimberger (Member of the Conservatories of Leipzig and Vienna) - F. David
4. Duet - "The Miller's Maid," Madame Kramer and Herr Veit Rahm
5. "The Happy Merry Mountain Home," - Mdlle. Marie Kramer - National Song
6. Zither Solo - "Mountain Bells," - Herr Rahm
7. "Tyrolese Bacchanalian Song," - Madame and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Rahm
8. Nightingale Solo - Herr Rahm - Veit Rahmv 9. Trio - "The Merry Swiss Boy," - Madame and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Rahm - National Song
PART II.
10. Duet - "The Spring," Madame Kramer and Herr Rahm - National Song
11. Grand Solo for the Violin (Pianoforte accompaniment), Herr Haimberger
11. Duet - "Wedding Song of the Alps," Madame and Marie Kramer - National Song
13. "Swiss Girl," Mdlle. Marie Kramer - National Song
14. Trio - "Travels in Steirmark," Madame and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Veit Rahm - Oelckers
16. Solo - "Ranz de Vash," [sic, Ranz des Vaches] composed and executed by Herr Veit Rahm
16. Trio - "Swiss Peasant," Madame and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Veit Rahm
17. Bravura Song - "Life's Garden" (by Jenny Lind), Madame Kramer - National Song
I8. Tyrolese National Melodies, for Zither, Violin, and Guitar - Veit Rahm
19. Trio - "The Merry Tyrolese," Madame and Mdlle. Marie Kramer and Herr Veit Rahm
Front seats, 5s.; back seats, 2s. 6d.; children and schools half-price to front seats.
The Members of the Institution will be admitted at half-price upon presenting their tickets.
Doors open at half-past seven, to commence at eight o'clock.

ASSOCIATIONS: William and Matilda A'Beckett (patrons); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue);
see also review, "THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The Age (13 October 1855), 5

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Adelaide, SA (October 1855)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (23 October 1855), 1

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"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", South Australian Register (24 October 1855), 3

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[Advertisement], South Australian Register (24 October 1855), 1

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"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", South Australian Register (31 October 1855), 3

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Madame and Madlle. Kramer, Herr Veit Rahm, and Herr Haimberger gave their concert last evening, at the Theatre, under the patronage of His Excellency Sir Richard and Lady MacDonnell. The boxes were well filled. The programme included a great variety of pieces, chiefly Tyrolese national airs, the whole of which, without exception, were well received. Madame Kramer's vocalization is of a very superior order; she has a full rich voice, and her execution in the "Wedding Song of the Alps", and "Life's Garden", was particularly happy. In the programme two solos were allotted to Madlle. [Marie] Kramer, a child of about 10 years of age; and she sang them so sweetly, and with such correctness and feeling, that she was encored each time. Her voice also blended beautifully in the duets and trios . . . Herr Haimberger executed two solos on the violin, and produced a strain of melody from it such as has seldom been heard in Adelaide. He showed a perfect mastery over the instrument, and proved himself to be an accomplished musician . . .

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", South Australian Register (2 November 1855), 4

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. . . Herr Haimberger's performances on the violin were well received. If he does not merit the very high eulogium which Emerson pronounced upon Paganini of the ability to "produce rapture from a catgut", he is at least a thorough master of his instrument. His ability to produce a succession of chords with remarkable rapidity of execution is undoubtedly great, but his performances would be more fully appreciated if, like his coadjutors, he appeared rather more at ease . . .

"TYROLESE MINSTRELS AT MACCLESFIELD", South Australian Register (8 February 1856), 3

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Melbourne, VIC (March to May 1856):

[Advertisement], The Argus (29 March 1856), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4834142

1856 'DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 2 April, p. 5. , viewed 15 Dec 2024, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4834465

"THE ALPINE MINSTRELS", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (22 May 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93142918 

In spite of a most unpromising evening, a drizzling cold atmospheric condition, when the cozy parlor fire-sides might be expected to outweigh all musical temptation to go abroad, there was a pretty fair muster at the Crown Assembly Rooms to listen to Madame Haimberger's Tyrolean echos. Many of the songs and duets were the same as in the previous concert, but they are melodies that never tire. They are NATIONAL melodies, and the ablest musicians affirm that all such MUST be good - must contain something beyond mediocrity, or they never would have become national, nor retain their place as such. Madame Haimberger is a most talented expositor of the very characteristic music of Switzerland and the Tyrol; and it would be difficult indeed to find fault with any of the many beautiful pieces with which the audience were favored. Another and a farewell concert will be given on Saturday evening in the same rooms, next the Crown Hotel.

Sydney, NSW (late May to mid July 1856):

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (29 May 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12981802 

THIS EVENING. HERR VEIT RAIIM'S Grand Vocal and Instrumental Farewell Benefit,
THIS EVENING, Thursday, the 29th, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, will perform in his grand costume.
Programme. - Part I. . . . 7. Duet, "What are the Wild Waves Saying," Madame Cramer and Mr. Howson . . .
Part II.: . . . 6. Ballad, "Kathleen Mavourneen," Madame Cramer . . .
Finale, Grand Chorus, "God save tho Queen!" After the Concert, a Grand Dress Ball . . .

"HERR VEIT RAHM'S FAREWELL CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 May 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12978475

This talented artiste took his farewell benefit yesterday evening, at the Prince of Wales Theatre. He appeared in the costume of his native land (Tyrol), in which he had the honor of performing before her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, in 1852. The programme contained, besides concerted music, choice selections from popular composers, which were executed with considerable taste and skill, by Mrs. Guerin, Madame Cramer, and Mr. J. Howson. Mr. Packer presided at the piano-forte . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 June 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12978416

UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE - Madame CRAMER, of the Princess' Concert Room, London,
respectfully announces to the inhabitants of the colony that her grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert will shortly take place in the School of Arts, Pitt-street,
when she will be assisted by all the available talent in Sydney.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 June 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12984209

UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE - MADAME CRAMER
has the honor to announce her GRAND CONCERT of Vocal and Instrumental Music,
at the SCHOOL OF ARTS, on MONDAY EVENING next, June 30th, 1856.
By the kind permission of Colonel Bloomfield, the whole BAND of Her Majesty's 11th REGIMENT will attend and perform several of their favorite pieces.
PROGRAMME.
Overture - Zampa, Herold - Band
Song - "Hear Me, Gentle Maritana," (Wallace) - Mr. Banks
Song - "We may to happy yet" (by particular desire) - Madame Cramer
Canzonet - "My Mother bids Me" (Haydn) - Miss Flora Harris
Duet - "I've wandered in dreams" (Wade) - Madame Cramer and Mr. Banks
Irish Ballad - "Oft in the stilly night" - Mr. Packer
Operatic Selection - Waltz ("Dream on the Ocean ") - Band
Cavatina - "Oh, Charming May" (Rodwell) - Madame Cramer
Song - "The Sailor Boy's Dream" - Mr. Banks
Ballad - "May Day" (Packer) - Miss Flora Harris
Irish Ballad - "Savourneen Deelish" - Madame Cramer
Waltz - Band
Duett - "The Syren and the Friar" (Glover) - Miss Flora Harris and Mr. Banks
Buffo Song - Mr. Banks
Finale - "God save the Queen" - Band
Mr Packer will preside at the pianoforte.
Doors open at half-past 7, to commence at 8 o'clock punctually.
Tickets - Reserved seats, 4s.; back seats, 2s.
To be had of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Moffitt, Pitt street, and at the School of Arts.

"MADAME CRAMER'S CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 July 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12984329

"ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE", The Sydney Morning Herald (8 July 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12984588

Ballarat, VIC (mid July 1856 . . .):

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (12 July 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article250438704 

Star Concert Hall.
THE Proprietors have much pleasure in announcing they have engaged the Celebrated Alpine and Tyrolese Minstrels, and the violin solo player Julius Haimberger
together with Madame White, D. Golding, and Mr. John Gregg. Pianist - Mr. White.
Die Eigenthümer haben das Vergnüg ihren deutschen Patronen und Freundcn anzuzeigen:
dass sie die berühmten Alpensanger Frau Haimberger und Fraulein Marie Veramer sowie der Violisten T. Haimberger engagiret haben.
Open Every Evening. Admission, 1s. and 2s. 6d. 12th July, 1856.

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (19 July 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66038992

"POLICE COURT. Thursday, 24th July. Margeritta Haimberger v. White", The Star (26 July 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66039065

This was a summons for using insulting language, calculated to lead to a breach of the peace in a public place. Mr. Rainy appeared for the complainant and Mr. Dunne for the defendant. The complainant in this case was one of the Tyrolese minstrels engaged at the Star Concert Room.

Margeritta Haimberger sworn and examined by Mr. Rainy - I am a singer and the wife of Julius Haimberger. I know the defendant. He is engaged as well as myself at the Star Concert Room. He is pianist. On the evening of the 21st of July, a gentleman asked my little girl to sing "Annie Laurie." She said she was afraid to do so without speaking to Mrs. White, as it was one of her songs. In consequence of this affair Mr. White called me a blackguard. Mrs. White was much offended at my little girl speaking about singing the song. The words spoken by Mr. White were spoken in a public place. I gave him no provocation neither did I use any insulting language towards him.

Cross-examined by Mr. Dunn - This affair occurred in a room next to the concert room. I consider that to be a public place. The room where this took place is a room off the concert room, where professionals go to when they have finished their songs. People are in the habit of passing through the room.

Mr. Dunne submitted that the room in which the language was used being a kind of retiring room for the professionals could not be considered a public place within the meaning of the clause in the Vagrant Act, upon which the summons had issued, and, therefore the case must be dismissed.

Mr. Rainy argued strenuously in opposition to this view of the case, but his Worship said that it appeared to him that the room was something like the green room of a theatre. That certainly could not be called a public place within the meaning of the Act. He must, therefore, dismiss the case.

Julius Haimberger v. White.

This was a summons taken out by the husband of the complainant in the last case, against the same defendant for using threatening language. Mr. Julius Haimberger gave evidence to the effect that the defendant had threatened him with violence on more than one occasion, stated that the defendant had called him a coward in the concert-room in the daytime, on the 23rd inst., and challenged him to fight, and threatened to punch him.

His Worship said that all the parties appeared to be engaged at the Star Hotel, and this was a professional disagreement, which they had better settle among themselves. Mr. Haimberger said what aggrieved him was the language used to his wife by the defendant.

Mr. White here denied that he ever used the language imputed to him. Mr. Dunne said the fact was that Mrs. Haimberger had called his client, Mr. White, a blackguard, and he had replied that there were other people to whom the term might be applied as well as himself. Mr. Haimberger had threatened that he would serve Mr. White as Lola Montes served Mr. Seekamp, and Mr. White had dared him to put his threat into execution.

His Worship asked Mr. Haimberger if he apprehended any violence from Mr. White.

Mr. Haimberger: It is impossible to tell what a man of his character will do; he is capable of doing anything. (This remark caused much laughter.)

His Worship said he thought there was no case before him, and he should therefore dismiss the charge, and advise the parties to forget their differences.

"MUSIC AND THE DRAMA", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (29 December 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154869749 

At Collier's Theatre [Ballarat], Madame Haimberger, Mademoiselle Kramer, and Mr J. Haimberger, were to give a grand Christmas Concert. It will be re membered that these artistes gave a very successful concert at Melbourne somo months ago.

"CIRCUIT COURT. Monday, 16th February", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (17 February 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66040968 

At the opening of the Court the following persons took the oath of allegiance on being naturalized: -
. . . J. Haimberger . . .

Bendigo, VIC (February and March 1857):

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser [VIC] (27 February 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87997592 

CRITERION THEATRE. Open for Two Nights Only.
SATURDAY and MONDAY, February 28th, and March 2nd.
ALPINE AND TYROLESE MINSTRELS. A GRAND CONCERT
Will be given by Madame HAIMBERGER (late Kramer), and Mademoiselle KRAMER, the Celebrated Alpine and Tyrolese Minstrels,
and Mr. T. HAIMBERGER, Violin and Solo Player, Member of the Conservatoires of Leipzig and Vienna,
from the Royal Polytechnic Institution, and St. James's Theatre, London,
who had the honor of appearing before Her Majesty the Queen, and the principal Nobility of England.
TH Minstrels will perform in Full National Costume.
Mademoiselle Mary Kramer will introduce, during the Concerts, favorite Scotch and Irish Ballads.
Mr. Heimberger will perform Modern and Classic Compositions during the Evening.
Doors open at half past seven, Concert to commence at Eight o'clock.
Admission : Boxes and Stalls, 5s.; Pit, 2s.
For further particulars see bills.

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser (23 March 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87998064 

FRANKLYN HOTEL, SAILOR'S GULLY.
GRAND CONCERT, BY THE Tyrolese Minstrels and Mr. T. Haimberger.
This Evening, Monday, 23ird instant. Concert to commence at 8 o'clock.

Beechworth, VIC (June to September 1857):

Diary of John Buckley Castieau, Beechworth, VIC, 8 June 1857; original MS, National Library of Australia; transcribed and edited by Mark Finnane, online at Centre for 21st Century Humanities, University of Newcastle

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21875533 

https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/textmaptext/castieaudiaries (TRANSCRIPT)

[Monday 8 June 1857] . . . . In the evening went . . . to hear the Tyrolese Minstrels, Madame Haimberger & Mademoiselle Kramer. They sang some Native Airs very sweetly, their effect was much heightened by their nearly all having very eccentric but musical Choruses. The Young lady sang some English Airs but as might be expected succeeded much better in those of her own Country. Monsieur Haimberger played the Violin and gave a Solo. I did not however think much of it. I daresay he plays well but his style is very harsh to one who has revelled in Miska Hauser's Melodies or even heard Strebinger in his happy moments. The Songs were nearly all encored this made the Concert spin out a long time and it was nearly twelve o clock before I got home to bed. This day will be famed in Beechworth Annals in consequence of the Publicans having reduced (their?) nobblers from 1/6 each to 1/- (Quite time).

ASSOCIATIONS: John Buckley Castieau (diarist, theatrical amateur)

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (9 June 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113015646 

These performers made a successful debut in this district at the Star Theatre, attired in their picturesque national costume. Madame Haimberger and Miss Kramer attracted the admiring gaze of a crowded audience, while their finished delivery of the mountain airs peculiar to their own homes, astonished and delighted all alike. The musical "Iodelu," which is the refrain of almost all their songs, never fails to hang on the ear and to please the memory long after its sound has ceased. The ladies really deserve the high encomiums which have been passed upon them elsewhere, and which they most assuredly find echoed by the good folks of the Ovens. It is a great pity that the racy and original words of their songs cannot be understood by the majority of their hearers, as the absence of this understanding deprives the performance of half its merit. Mademoiselle Kramer sang several Scotch and Irish ballads during the evening with great sweetness and expression, but we own a decided preference for her native songs. Mr. Haimberger is an accomplished violinist, eliciting frequent and loud applause by his solos on that instrument. The entertainment was varied by performances on the harp and violin by Messrs. Zeplin and Griffith.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Frederick Zeplin (harp); George Griffith (violin)

"GENERAL SESSION, Friday, Aug. 7 . . . HORSE STEALING", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (8 August 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113016307 

Robert Harrington, auctioneer, Beechworth, was placed in the dock, charged with stealing a bay horse, the property of M. Haimberger, of Beechworth.
M. Julius Haimberger, who stated that the horse in question, which was exhibited outside the court, was his property. On the 24th July he directed it to be taken to Mr. Harrington to be paddocked; the receipt produced, signed by Mr. Harrington, stated he received the horse to be paddocked, at 5s. per week . . . His Honor summed up, and explained at some length the difference of embezzlement by a bailee and his receiving property with a felonious intent.
The jury, without retiring, found him guilty . . .

"STAR CONCERT ROOM", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (11 August 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113016317 

This favorite place of amusement continues to draw nightly a crowded house. On Saturday night the building was literally crammed, and the manner in which the entertainment was received speaks sufficiently for the catering of mine host Robertson. Mr. Oakey appeared in several comic characters, and was repeatedly encored. Messrs. Harrison and Percey were in good voice, and executed several pieces most effectively. The Tyrolese Minstrels were very well received, and Mons. Haimberger executed two solos on the violin in a masterly style. Mr. Austin Saqui presided at the piano, and accompanied the several singers in a manner that shewed him to be master of the instrument.

ASSOCIATIONS: Austin Saqui (pianist)

Southern NSW - Wagga Wagga, Gudagai, Tumut, Adelong, Yass (October to December 1857):

"WAGGA WAGGA [FROM A CORRESPONDENT] OCTOBER 15", The Yass Courier [NSW] (24 October 1857), 4-5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263880049 

We have been favoured for the last few nights by the performances of the "Tyrolese Minstrels," who gave great satisfaction to those who had the pleasure of hearing them. Their singing and playing is really delightful, and we have seldom, if ever, heard it excelled. The singing of Madame Haimberger and her daughter, Madlle. Kramar, is very good, and while one listens to the flute-like notes they pour forth, they feel that "music hath charms" indeed. The performances [5] of Herr Haimberger on the violin is really excellent; he plays, with much musical skill and taste, the most modern and popular airs. They leave our little town en route to Adelong, Tumut, and Gundagai, where I believe they intend performing, and take from herewith them the good wishes of all those who have had the pleasure of hearing them. We hope they shall again return, and that they may receive that patronage they deservedly merit while in Tumut, &c.

"SOUTH GUNDAGAI [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]", The Yass Courier (5 December 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263878669 

During the last week we have been delighted by the appearance amongst us of the Tyrolose Minstrels. Praise is superfluous: they will be listened to with pleasure and delight by all who love sweet sounds. Their national songs please for their novelty, us well as for their simplicity, und for that peculiar warbling, wbicli is a characteristic of Alpine vocalists. M. Haimberger possesses great skill and taste as a violinist.

"Court of Petty Sessions. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 . . . THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS v. HENRY HART", The Yass Courier (19 December 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263880789 

Mr. Julius Haimberger complained that on the 15th instant the defendant, who is landlord of the Royal Hotel, refused, without reasonable cause, to provide for himself and family, then and there lodgers at the Royal Hotel, with victuals, contrary to the statute. The defendant, on being called on to plead, admitted having refused to supply dinner, and requested permission to make a statement . . . A long and rambling dispute (for it was little else) then took place. It appeared that the Tyrolese Minstrels entered into an agreement with the defendant to board in the Royal Hotel during their stay in Yass, at the rate of 30s. each per week; paying a certain sum for the use of a large room in which to hold their concerts; on the first night of the concert the defendant forwarded a request for the free admission of his family, which he asserted, was a usual practice. A family ticket was given, and the defendant's family continued to attend nightly. On the following Tuesday the Minstrels intended to start for Queanbeyan, and requested their bill to be presented; they were dissatisfied with it and the general treatment they had received in the house, and presented a contra claim for £1, the cost of admission of defendant's family to the concerts for four nights - alleging that the ticket given had reference to only the first night's entertainment. These proceedings delayed the departure of the Tyrolese, and they required the defendant to prepare dinner for them, which he refused to do, hence the complaint. The defendant's statement went to show that at an early hour on the Tuesday morning referred to, the plaintiff had stated that he did not require to have dinner prepared, and, consequently no preparation was made; that at the time the victuals was demanded, no untainted butcher meat was to be procured - the weather having been very hot on Tuesday last . . . The Court inflicted a nominal fine of 1s. and costs of Court, declining to allow professional costs.

Goulburn, NSW (December 1857 to January 1858):

"LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE GOULBURN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser [NSW] (6 January 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118243140 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 January 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28634187

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 March 1858), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13007781

"GRAND CONCERT IN THE SCHOOL OF ARTS", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 March 1858), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13007977

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 April 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13008353

"CARCAOR. THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Bathurst Free Press (23 June 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64377146

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (16 October 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188981304 

. . . we have had pleasure in learning that Mr. Haimberger intends to settle in Armidale, with his family; and from notices in another column it will be seen that Mr. Haimberger has effected arrangements which we imagine must be attended with decided success.

Certificate to naturalize . . . Antonius Julius Haimberger, NSW, 24 November 1858; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1549/records/8597 (PAYWALL)

Whereas . . . Antonius Julius Haimberger . . . praying that he may be naturalized . . .
that Antonius Julius Haimberger is a native of Lemberg Austrian Poland, 27 years of age [sic],
and that having arrived by the ship Oliver Lang in the year 1853 [sic, recte 1855]
he is now residing in Armidale and is desirous of becoming a permanent resident in the colony and also to be allowed to hold land in fee simple . . .
GIVEN . . . this [24 November 1858] . . .

[Advertisement], The Moreton Bay Courier [Brisbane, QLD] (1 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3724791

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The Moreton Bay Courier (8 January 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3723874

[Advertisement], The Moreton Bay Courier (2 February 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3716966

[Advertisement], The Moreton Bay Courier (19 February 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3720182

"BIRTHS", Empire (12 October 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60549689

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (7 November 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13086313

"CONCERT OF THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Empire (11 November 1863), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60551354

The first of a series of musical entertainments of a novel character will be given at the School of Arts this evening. Some years since Madame Kramer (now Madame Haimberger), with her daughter and Herr Haimberger, visited this city, after a long tour through Europe, and delighted our citizens, as they had previously gratified the sovereigns of the old world, with their beautiful national Tyrolese melodies and instrumental performances . . . Since their former visit to Sydney, the Haimbergers have been located at Ipswich, where they have had leisure to mature their talents . . .

Register of admissions, Lodge Germania, Sydney, NSW; Museum of Freemasonry, London

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/60620/records/1248942 (PAYWALL)

1864 Jan'ry 7 . . . / Haimberger / Julius / 39 / Sydney / Professor of Music . . .
1865 May 2 / Staitke / Henry / Sydney / Musician . . .

"MARRIAGES", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (10 June 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5749565 

ELLIS - KRAMER. - At St. Luke's Church, Emerald-hill, by the Rev. R. B. Dickinson, James C. Ellis, to Marie, eldest daughter of the late Ernest Kramer, Esq., of Altona, Denmark.

"SYDNEY MECHANICS' SCHOOL OF ARTS", Sydney Mail (9 February 1867), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166802789 

The annual meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held yesterday evening, in the hall of the institution, Pitt street . . .
The classes continue their course of unobtrusive usefulness, and are moderately well attended. The committee thankfully recognise the persevering efforts made by their respective teacher under many discouraging circumstances . . .
Violin Class. - Mr. Haimberger states, - "That the number of pupils attending this class was not large, but they were very regular in their attendance at the weekly practices, and were well conducted. The progress made is such as can be expected for such a short time, considering the difficulty of the instrument" . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (19 February 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13147745 

TO MUSICAL AMATEURS IN BALMAIN - Mr. JULIUS HAIMBERGER, Professor of Music,
Member of the Conservatoires and Universities of Leipsic and Vienna,
at the suggestion of several residents in the above locality, proposes to form an
INSTRUMENTAL CLASS for the practice of Siring Quartettes and Orchestral Music.
Persons who are desirous of joining in this endeavour to cultivate a taste for the works of the great composers, will be good enough, as a preliminary, to communicate with any of the following gentlemen, who have kindly promised their support,
namely, Mr. F. Hamburger, Mr. Fitzpatrick; or Mr. MacDonnell.

"UNITARIAN CHURCH", The Sydney Morning Herald (26 March 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13151047 

THE annual meeting of the congregation of the Unitarian Church, Macquarie street, was held last evening . . . In reviewing our proceedings during the past year, we find . . . Mr. Haimberger's most generous services to our chapel singing class deserve especial notice. This class, which numbers about fifty members, about thirty of whom attend regularly, has been in existence for nearly a year, and Mr. Haimberger has, in the kindest manner, continued to instruct it gratuitously, during the whole time. Such of the members of our community who wish to improve themselves in this most delightful and useful accomplishment should not miss the opportunity which is thus open to them, and as Mr. Haimberger's only object in devoting a whole evening every week to this class is to improve the musical service of our our Church, the least that we can do is to afford him all the assistance and encouragement that we can in carrying out his praiseworthy design. The members of the chapel choir also deserved our best thanks for their kind exertions during the past year. We hope that their attention will soon be reinforced by some of the members of Mr. Haimberger's class . . .

"CENTRAL POLICE COURT. Tuesday [4 June]", Empire (5 June 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60840922 

Albert Kramer, a respectable looking youth, aged fourteen years, was brought before the Court by virtue of a warrant, in which he was charged with having no lawful visible means of subsistence.
Senior-constable Grace deposed: Between 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, I arrested the prisoner at No. 11, Stanley-street, Woolloomooloo, by virtue of a warrant, which I produce; he is charged in the warrant for that he is under the age of fourteen years, or thereabouts, and has no lawful means of support; I read the warrant to him, and he made no reply.
Julius Haimberger deposed: I am a professor of music, and reside at No. 11, Stanley-street, Woolloomooloo; my information, just read, that the prisoner has no lawful mean's of support, is true.
Police Magistrate: Was this lad living with you? Mr. Haimberger: Yes.
Police Magistrate: What is the lad? Mr. Haimberger: He is my step-son - the son of my present wife; he has lately come from the bush; I can not get him to do any work, he is beyond my control; I have sent him to the best of schools, but he will not stop and runs away. I have got him good situations, but he would not remain; he keeps the worst of company by his own account, and I refuse to support him any longer. (Witness made some further statement to the Bench inaudible to the prisoner, of whom something was said of his having made the acquaintance of Thunderbolt while in the bush.)
The Police Magistrate: Do you of your own knowledge know that the boy keeps the company of prostitutes, thieves, or reputed thieves, or has he ever been accused or convicted of any offence?
Witness: I cannot swear that of my own knowledge, that he associates with bad characters.
Mr. W. Roberts, solicitor, wished to interpose as amicus curae. He submitted to his Worship that to commit this lad on the evidence would be a sad perversion of the provisions of the Industrial Schools Act. If boys were to be sent on board the Vernon on such evidence, it would be a very easy mode of stepfathers getting rid of their stepsons. The lad's story about Thunderbolt may have been made to frighten his father.
Mr. Haimberger (to Mr. Roberts): I am well known, sir, but perhaps not to you.
Mr. Roberts: Oh, I don't doubt that. I merely wish to point out what may be an abuse of the provisions of a very useful Act, if this lad were committed on the story you have told.
The Police Magistrate: I cannot see my way clear to commit this lad, and I therefore order him to be discharged.

ASSOCIATIONS: Captain Thunderbolt (bushranger)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (19 December 1867), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28608276

SCHOOL OF ARTS. PITT-STREET.
MR. JULIUS HAIMBERGER has the honour to announce that he will give his last and
FAREWELL CONCERT, (prior to his departure for California,)
THIS EVENING, 19th December, at the SCHOOL OF ARTS, PITT-STREET,
on which occasion be will be assisted by Mdlle. Reiloff, Madame Haimberger, Miss Julia Haimberger, and by a Lady Amateur;
by Mr. C. E. Horsley, the celebrated composer, contrapunctist, and pianist, and by several Gentlemen Amateurs, who have all most kindly given their services.
MISS JULIA HAIMBERGER, twelve years old, born in Australia, makes her first appearance as pianist and accompanyist.
Admission - Reserved seats, 4s.; body of the hall, 2s 6d.; gallery, 1s.
Tickets to be had at the music repositories of Messrs. Paling, and Elvy, and at the School of Arts.
Doors open at half-past 7, to commence at 8 o'clock.

"MR. HAIMBERGER'S CONCERT AT THE SCHOOL OF ARTS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13163023

Mr. J Haimberger who is reputedly one of the best violinists in the colonies gave a farewell concert at the School of Arts, last evening prior to his departure for California. The audience was numerous and select, and the entertainment of a very superior character. The vocalists were Mddle. Reiloff, Madame Haimberger, a lady and gentleman amateur, and the instrumentalists Miss Haimberger, Mr. Horsley, and Mr. Haimberger. The first mentioned lady sang most effectively the Goat Bells, and an aria from Somnambula, the latter receiving an encore, and the lady amateur was similarly honoured for her rendering of "Five o'clock in the morning." Two songs were also pleasingly sung by a gentleman amateur. Mrs. Haimberger contributed a solo of Chopin's with violin obilgato, and Kucken's "When the moon's bright ray," satisfactorily. The instrumental portion of the programme consisted of two duets for piano and violin, executed by Miss and Mr. Haimberger, a violin solo by the latter and Chopin's march funebre and a solo of Mendelssohn's by Mr. Horsley. The two latter gentlemen are so well known as skilful performers that it is unnecessary to say they gave satisfaction, but it is only scant justice to mention in laudatory terms the pianoforte playing of Miss Haimberger, a child of only twelve years, who not only acted as accompanyist, but executed her parts in two duets in a manner that elicited the surprise and marked commendations of the audience, the delicacy of touch, the expression, and the execution were alike remarkable. Several glees formed an agreeable diversification during the performances.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (21 January 1868), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13161569 

A GENTLEMAN leaving the colony has for SALE,
2 superior VIOLINS, a Tenor, a Violoncello, a Cornopean, two Flutes,
Instruction Books, Vocal and Instrumental Music. JULIUS HAIMBERGER, 11, Stanley-st.

"DEATH", Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (6 August 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123356664 

On the 30th March, at Lima, Peru (after landing from Sydney), of yellow fever, Julius Haimberger, Esq., formerly of Queensland, eldest son of Baron Haimberger, of Vienna, Austria: aged 40.

[News], The Darling Downs Gazette [Toowoomba, QLD] (11 August 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75521718

We are sorry to observe, by the Queensland Times, that Mr. Julius Haimberger, late of Ipswich, is dead. Most of the residents of Ipswich were well acquainted with the name of this gentleman, who was a first-class violinist; and, no doubt, the old residents of Toowoomba will remember, some seven years ago, a series of concerts being given by this gentleman, in conjunction with Mrs. Haimberger and Miss Cramer, who, subsequently went to Vienna. Mr. Haimberger died, on the 30th March, at Lima, Peru (after landing from Sydney) of yellow fever; he was forty years of age, and the eldest son of Baron Haimberger, of Vienna, Austria.

Bibliography and resources:

Richard Wagner, My life, volume 1 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911), 491

https://archive.org/stream/mylifewagner01wagniala#page/491/mode/2up

. . . he [Bakunin] received me, seated on mattresses which lay distributed over the floor of the [Dresden] Town Hall side was a very young Pole (a Galician) named Haimberger, a violinist whom he had once asked me to recommend to Lipinsky, in order that he might give him lessons, as he did not want this raw in inexperienced boy, who had become passionately attached to him, to get drawn into the vortex of the present upheavals. Now that Haimberger had shouldered a gun, and presented himself for service at the barricades, however, Bakunin had greeted him none the less joyfully. He had drawn him down to sit by his side on the couch, and every time the youth shuddered with fear at the violent sound of the cannon shot, he slapped him vigorously on the back and cried out: "You are not in the company of your fiddle here, my friend. What a pity you didn't stay where you were!"

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Wagner (musician, conductor, composer); Mikhail Bakunin (political activist); Karol Lipinsky (violinist)

Ernest Newman, The life of Richard Wagner, Volume 2: 1848-1860 (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1937), 88-89, 91, 450

http://archive.org/stream/lifeofrichardwag000871mbp#page/n119/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

(88) It would seem, however, as if, before leaving Dresden, he [Wagner] plunged once more into the inner part of the town the neighbourhood of the Annenstrasse in order to take a last glance at the condition of affairs there. Some time before this, a young Galician violinist named Haimberger had been recommended to him by Bakunin, who wished Wagner to obtain for him a post in the Opera orchestra. If Praeger is to be believed, Haimberger told him in later years that at about eight o'clock one morning (presumably the 8th) he was with Wagner at the barricades when a young girl of eighteen was shot by a Prussian; whereupon Wagner, mounting a cart, cried out, "Men, will you see your wives and daughters fall in the cause of our beloved country, and not avenge their cowardly murder? All who have hearts, all who have the blood and spirit of their forefathers and love their country, follow me, and death to the tyrant." "So saying ", continues Praeger, "he seized a musket, and heading the barricade they came quickly upon the few Prussians who had strayed too far into the town, and who, perceiving that they were outnumbered, gave themselves up as prisoners." Praeger adds that he told the story afterwards to Wagner, "and he agreed entirely as to the truth of Haimberger's recital". While Praeger is, in general, an unreliable witness, there is no apparent reason . . . why he should have invented a story of this peculiarly circumstantial kind. While it may be doubtful whether the episode occurred precisely as he tells it, the probability is that something of the kind did happen. Further according to Praeger, (89) Haimberger alleged that on an earlier day Wagner, who was at the barricades with him, sent him for an ice for the relief of his parched throat again an incident which we can hardly believe anyone taking the trouble to invent. Finally Max von Weber, the son of the composer, is said to have told Praeger that he had seen Wagner with a gun on his shoulder, and that Wagner had advised the insurgents to strip the lead from the house-roofs for the casting of bullets. Of this, however, we have no confirmation . . .

(88 footnote) Haimberger fled to Switzerland after the rising, and in January, 1851, Wagner found a place for him among the violins of the Zurich orchestra for the season of that winter. With his usual kindness towards deserving young musicians, he did all he (89) could to assist Haimberger later, recommending him first to Röckel's brother Eduard in London, then to Vieuxtemps in Brussels, and using his influence with Sulzer in the matter of a passport for the young man . . . His innocent association with Haimberger in Zurich did him no good in the eyes of the police, to whom, of course, all political refugees were more or less criminals, carrying on their nefarious activities under the pretext of being concerned with art. In January, 1851, it was reported to Dresden that Wagner, "one of the coryphaei of the Swiss revolutionary party", was much in the company of "the Lemberg fugitive Haimberger", both of them having sinister connections with Austria.

ASSOCIATIONS: Carl August Roeckel (musician) and Edward Roeckel (musician), perhaps relatives of Armand Roeckel (pianist) and Joseph Roeckel (pianist), later active in Australia; Henri Vieuxtemps (violinist); Ferdinand Praeger (biographer, musician)

Curt Von Westernhagen (trans. Mary Whittal), Wagner: a biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 175

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QDQ7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA175 (PREVIEW)

. . . A young violinist from Lemberg (Lwow) called Haimberger, whom Wagner had known at the time of the Dresden rising and who had also fled to Switzerland, appeared at one of his concerts. An enquiry went from Prague to Dresden as to whether Wagner who was one of the ringleaders of the Swiss Revolutionary Party in Zürich, associated with the Galician fugitive Haimberger, and had Austrian connections, was identical with the "known Richard Wagner". . .

HALE, Mrs. (Mrs. HALE)

Musician, professor of music

Arrived Adelaide, SA, by 5 October 1852 ("lately arrived from England")

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

Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (5 October 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38464580

HALE, Amelia Ann (Amelia Ann HALE; Mrs. William McQUADE)

Amateur musician, vocalist, pianist

Born Windsor, NSW, 27 July 1829; baptised St. Matthew's, Windsor, 5 January 1831; daughter of James HALE (d. 1857) and Mary LYNCH (d. 1866) (m. 1828)
Married William McQUADE (1827-1885), Windsor, NSW, 11 September 1850
Died Sydney, NSW, 21 August 1875

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Amelia+Ann+Hale+McQuade+1829-1875 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALE-Amelia-Ann-McQuade (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"MARRIED", The Sydney Morning Herald (13 September 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12921026 

At Windsor, on Wednesday, 11th September, Mr. William McQuade, of Windsor, to Amelia Ann, only daughter of Mr. Hall [sic], Fairfield, Windsor.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (23 August 1875), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13359328 

McQUADE. - August 21, at her residence, Bomera House, Potts-Point, Amelia Ann, the wife of William McQuade, aged 46 years.

"Reminiscences - Personal and Political of a 50 Years' Residence at Windsor, on the Hawkesbury", Windsor and Richmond Gazette (13 September 1890), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72563275

A LECTURE, Delivered at the Windsor School of Arts, 22nd August, 1890, by WILLIAM WALKER, M.L.C.
I. - PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. (Continued.) . . .

. . . In the days of my early man-hood there were a number of amiable and hospitable families about Windsor - possessed of ample means, which they used with great generosity. I don't see many like them now-a-days. In particular, there were three which I would like to mention. There were the Scarvells, of Killarney, the Hales, of Clifton, and afterwards of Fairfield, and the Fitzgeralds of Windsor. When I was attaining to man's estate I was a frequently-invited guest to parties and social-reunions. My acquaintance with the Scarvells arose from the three eldest sons being my school-fellows at my father's school. They were weekly boarders, going home on Saturdays, returning on Monday mornings, and I was often taken with them to their happy paternal mansion. Mrs. Scarvell was a charming lady and the whole family most agreeable. The little homely parties which we used to have then can never be effaced from my memory. All the boys played the flute and I was an amateur at it myself, and we used to take it in turns to play the quadrilles, waltzes and polkas. Poor fellows they have all gone, and followed their respected parents to early graves. The Hales' were, if anything, more jolly, but it was chiefly whist-playing and music that prevailed at Clifton and Fairfield. Miss Hale was an accomplished pianist and singer. Her future husband, Mr. Wm. McQuade, and myself, used often to join her at the piano with songs. One we used to sing was the "Canadian Boat Song," seldom now heard. It occurred to me whilst riding home one night with Mr. McQuade and hearing St. Matthew's church-bell toll 11 o'clock, that I might make a parody upon it, which I did and we sang it as follow:

Sweetly as tolls St. Matthew's chime,
So sweet we pass our evening time;
Melodious music rings around,
The fields we charm with dulcet sound.
Ride, brothers ride - the hours fly fast,
The road is drear - the moonlight's past.

Soon as our horses pass the hill
The breeze is bushed; and all is still;
We sing our weary homeward song,
And echo tills the vales along.
Ride, brothers ride, &c.

We leave glad scenes and faces dear,
To brave the night, so dark and drear;
The stars alone upon us shine,
And thus we pass our evening time.
Ride, brothers ride, &c.

Mr. and Mrs. Hale were the most hospitable people I ever knew. They made a practice of inviting all the friends that they met at the Windsor races - on a race meeting - to dine with them at Clifton or Fairfield. They also had a good lunch or pic-nic on the ground during the day. I was always welcome to these, and, full of youthful spirits, I enjoyed them greatly, and at them I met with many gentlemen of social and political position whose acquaintance I found of value in after life. The Fitzgeralds were more formal. They gave several grand balls, and at one of these I met the young lady whom I made my first partner in life, so that I had occasion to remember with gratitude their attentions to me. It was after one of these delightful gatherings that I was inspired to write the following lines which were afterwards set to music by the late Isaac Nathan, the composer of Byron's Hebrew Melodies, and an opera called "Don John of Austria":

'Tis sad to leave those scenes of joy
Where mirth and music's glee
Pervade each heart and smiling face
And all is melody.
'Tis sad to think of by-gone hours
When happy we have been,
But which in time's unwearied flight
Will never more be seen.

'Tis sad to say farewell to those
Dear friends whose converse sweet
Has brightened gloomy nights' long hours
And welcomed us to meet;
But sadder far, it is to part
From those we dearest love,
Oh I such a rending of the heart
Ascends to heaven above.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Walker (memoirist); Scarvell brothers (flute players); Isaac Nathan (composer)

MUSICAL CONCORDANCE: A Canadian boat song [Faintly as tolls the evening chime] (arr. Thomas Moore)

HALFORD, Louisa Henrietta (Louisa Henrietta MILLAR; Mrs. George Britton HALFORD)

Amateur vocalist

ASSOCIATIONS: Niece of Anna Bishop (vocalist), daughter of her younger sister, Louisa Riviere (1815-1889)

See under entry for MILLAR

HALL, Miss (Miss HALL; one or more)

Musician, professor of music, pianist, vocalist, teacher of the pianoforte and French, German, and Italian singing

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1852; 1857

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALL-Miss (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"THE WEEKLY CONCERTS", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (6 October 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4787510 

We hear great things of the preparations for the Concert of tomorrow evening. The programme is not yet issued, but we understand that no fewer than four lady singers will appear, Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Pellatt, a Madame Clasen, and a Miss Hall . . .

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (14 October 1852), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4787646 

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 June 1857), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7132974

MISS HALL, Professor of Music, proposes to give
LESSONS on the PIANOFORTE, and also in English, French, German, and Italian SINGING.
Sho has high testimonials from Dr. Sterndale Bennett, and is permitted in this colony to refer to
Mrs. Hull, Richmond.
Mrs. F. Selwyn, Brighton.
J. D. Pinnock, Esq., Richmond.
Dr. Sewell, D.O.L., St. Kilda.
Dr. Van Homert, St. Kilda.
For cards of address apply to the Library Junction, St. Kilda.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Sterndale Bennett (musician, teacher)

HALL, Edward Smith (Edward Smith HALL; E. S. HALL; "Mr. Monitor HALL")

Musical amateur, newspaper proprietor and editor, journalist, concert reviewer

Born London, England, 28 March 1786
Married Charlotte HALL [sic], St. Luke, Finsbury, London, England, 21 December 1810
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 10 October 1811 (per Friends, from England)
Died NSW, 18 September 1860

https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635472 (NLA persistent identifier)

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HALL, Charlotte (Charlotte HALL; Miss HALL)

Amateur musician, pianist

Born Sydney, NSW, 3 November 1811; baptised, St. Philip, Sydney, 8 December 1811; daughter of Edward Smith HALL and Charlotte HALL
Died Sydney, NSW, 21/22 June 1859

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALL-Charlotte (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"COURT OF REQUESTS, FRIDAY, OCT. 5. Symons and Annette his wife v. Samuel Terry", The Monitor (8 October 1827), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31758983

The plaintiffs had lately been resident in Sydney, but were now on their passage to England. Mrs. Symons, previously to her marriage (which took place in the Colony the latter part of last March) had given a quarter's tuition in musick to Miss Martha Terry, daughter of the defendant. The latter had been repeatedly called on to pay the amount charged (three guineas sterling), and had evaded payment, first, by saying he would settle it when convenient; but finally he denied all knowledge of his daughter's having been a pupil of Mrs. Symons, but acknowledged that he had heard that she had visited Mrs. S. as a young friend, when it was probable they might amuse each other with a tune on the piano; but as to receiving lessons, he knew nothing of it . . .

. . . The Rev. Ralph Mansfield deposed that Mrs. Mansfield and himself had also been intimate with Mrs. Symons previously, as well as subsequently to her marriage . . . Mr. Mansfield was of opinion that Miss Spencer, she being, in his opinion, inclined to benevolence, would teach the daughter of a person in decayed circumstances without charge, even though she were herself, at the time, in a sickly state of health. Miss Charlotte Hall deposed to her having been a pupil of Miss Spencer, and subsequently of Mrs. Symons; but that she received her tuition in a morning, whereas Miss Terry attended to receive her lessons in an evening. But it so happened that, at two several times, Miss Terry casually mentioned to the witness, that she was taking lessons on the piano of Miss Spencer . . .

The defendant addressed the Court in explanation. He said, his daughter had taken instructions in music from Miss Spencer, and afterwards, when she became Mrs. Symons, without his knowledge. He admitted he had heard of her going to Mrs. Symon's lodgings, but he understood it was in the way of a friendly call. His daughter being a minor, was not competent to make such engagements as the one on which the action was founded and consequently he was not liable to judgment. (Being reminded by the plaintiff's attorney that Miss Terry could have given better evidence on such points than himself, if she had made her appearance.) Mr. Terry went on to say, that he would not allow his daughter to come into that Court on such a paltry occasion; and that, in his opinion, Mr. Hall ought to be ashamed of himself for permitting Miss H. to attend there, and give evidence as she had done. If Mr. S. had wanted three guineas, or even five guineas, he would chearfully have given it him; and that he was sure the plaintiffs had received from him aforetime, that which was equivalent to several fives: but he would resist a demand of this sort, when set up as a legal claim. (The attorney for the plaintiffs begged the defendant to desist from such insinuations; for that although he admitted Miss Spencer had not been rich, and could not afford to give the daughters of wealthy men tuition and tea parties all for nothing, her husband, Mr. Symons, was a gentleman of property, and needed not, nor would accept any gifts from Mr. Terry.) The Commissioner summed up in few words. He was satisfied in his own mind Miss Terry had been instructed by Miss Spencer, and therefore should give judgment for the plaintiffs. Damages £3 3s. sterling, and costs.

ASSOCIATIONS: Annette Symons (pianoforte teacher); Samuel Terry (merchant); Martha Terry (pupil), from 1829, Mrs. John Hosking; Ralph Mansfield (Wesleyan clergyman, witness); William Horton (Wesleyan clergyman, witness)

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (23 July 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13028180 

On the 22nd ultimo, suddenly, at the residence of her father in Sydney, Charlotte Hall, eldest daughter of Mr. E. S. Hall.

HALL, H. J. (Mr. H. J. HALL) = alias Barned Jullien COLEMAN (alias Watty WALLACK)

Actor, vocalist, dancer, monologuist, polpyhonist

Active (as H. J. HALL) c. 1861-65

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALL-H-J (shareable link to this entry)

HALL, J. (Mr. J. HALL)

Dancer, professor of dancing, theatrical dancer

Active Sydney, NSW, by 1851

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALL-J-NSW-1850s (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald [NSW] (17 April 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12926380 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 June 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12946380 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12953669 

HALL, J. (Mr. J. HALL)

Music importer

Arrived Melbourne, VIC, July 1857

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HALL-J-VIC-1857 (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (18 July 1857), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7135536

J. HALL begs leave to inform the friends of Mr. Henry J. King, Organist, Pianist, and Singer, that he is expected to arrive at Melbourne in a few days by the ship Commodore Perry, with a choice selection of new Music, &c.
Rosetta Cottage, Bank-street west, Emerald Hill.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry John King (senior; musician)

HALL, J. P. (MR. J. P. HALL; Mr. HALL)

Vocalist, bones player (New Orleans Serenaders, Howard's Serenaders), magician, wizard

Active NSW and VIC, by 1852

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=J+P+Hall+serenader (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney (14 February 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59773993

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 August 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12939560

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 September 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940257

"AMUSEMENTS", Illawarra Mercury [Wollongong, NSW] (24 November 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136441230 

We have much pleasure in drawing attention to the announcement in another column of the intention of Mr. J. P. Hall, a professor of the Cabalistic Art, and the Messrs. Howard's and Reading's serenaders, to appear this and the succeeding evenings, at the Illawarra Hotel, Dapto. The performances of both the Wizard and the vocalists that accompany him, have been well spoken of in other places, and we have no doubt but they will maintain their character here. We must furthermore remark that Mr. Brown has been to great expense in having his fine room handsomely decorated for the above occasion.

[Advertisement], Illawarra Mercury (24 November 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136441238 

Bibliography and resources:

Mr. Hall, Wizard of the South, Magic in Sydney

https://sydneymagic.net/hall.html 

HALL BROTHERS

HALL, John Thomson (John HALL; John Thomson HALL)

Musician, violinist, conductor

Born Sydney, NSW, 28 February 1841; son of John HALL (d. 1890) and Jane THOMSON
Died Kent Town, SA, 2 December 1883

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Thomson+Hall+d1883 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (15 September 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62047793 

Royal Prince of Wales Theatre.
Last Appearance of MRS. W. E. EVANS in her great character of EVADNE.
ON SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 15th. . . .
After which, Song, "Villikins and his Dinah" - Mr. Cull . . .
ROB ROY MACGREGOR is in active preparation, and will shortly be produced, with all the original music.
SOLE LESSEE: MR. WM. EVANS, Stage Manager: Mr. John Hall.

"DEATHS", The South Australian Advertiser (3 December 1883), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33774082

Loyau, Notable South Australians (1885), 184-85

http://archive.org/details/notablesouthaus01loyagoog

IT is somewhat remarkable that Australia has produced, or attracted to its shores to settle permanently, some of the best musical talent in the world. South Australia especially appears singularly favoured in this respect, and if we review the history of music here from its commencement, quite a galaxy of artists are recalled to memory. Among those who stand forth prominently to our mental vision, John Thomson Hall occupies premier place; a born musician with soul in every touch of his master hand; a genius, pouring forth from his instrument a flood of melody like the songs of British birds at eventide, thrilling the heart with every note. Such was Mr. Hall as we remember him at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide. He was born in Sydney in February, 1841, and commenced to study the violin when but seven years of age. His progress was rapid, for he loved music, like the true poet, for its own sake, and ere he reached his twelfth year, he had played, in public, many difficult solos, such as Ernst's Carnival de Venice. New South Wales was visited about that time by a distinguished violinist named Caranzani, bearing a noted Italian reputation, and Mr. Hall was placed under him and received lessons for two years, when he joined Winterbottom's orchestra (an orchestra, which, if heard now, would shame many of those which theatrical audiences are compelled to listen to nightly). It consisted of thirty performers, each an artist capable of performing the most difficult compositions, and Mr. Winterbottom, the conductor, was the best bassoon player in the world. Mr. Hall continued playing in orchestra for many years, and at the same time studied theory under that eminent and inspired interpreter of melody, the late Charles Packer. At the age of 24 he was appointed leader in Lyster's Opera Company, occupying that place for nearly five years, when he was elevated to the proud position of Musical Director, and produced some of the grandest operas that have been represented in Australia, viz. William Tell, Ernani, and others. About the year 1869 he arrived in Adelaide, and obtained the directorship of the Theatre Royal, and in this he remained until his death, which occurred in December 1883. We have had many musical celebrities here, but the familiar and sweet tones of John Hall's violin gained for him with the public of that day the right to rank as first of all his contemporaries.

HALL, George Hubert (George Hubert HALL)

Musician, violinist, conductor, composer

Born Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1858 (younger brother of the above)
Died Tooting Bec, London, England, 12 March 1936

Summary:

According to Hoyer, Hall married Mary Winifred McCullum, a musician, in Brisbane on 8 August 1882; they had three children before divorcing in 1892. George remarried the Victorian-born soprano Beatrice Izett (formerly Miss English), widow of the vocalist Frederick Standbridge Izett, in London on 21 April 1910. The couple travelled back and forth regularly between Australia and England, until their final trip in 1927, after which they remained in London until their deaths. Beatrice died in Wandsworth, London, on 18 December 1932, aged 54. In 1885 he acquired a violin that had previously belonged to Richard B. White, said to be a "Ruzerius [recte Ruggerius], some 200 years old".

Documentation:

NSW Registry No. 244/1859; Reg. 1882/B7869

[News], The South Australian Advertiser (29 May 1885), 4-5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36307252

Loyau, Notable South Australians (1885), 185-86

http://archive.org/details/notablesouthaus01loyagoog

BROTHER of the above, was born in Sydney, in November 1860. On completing his education, he, at the age of fifteen, took his first lessons on the violin from Mr. John Gibbs. He next was a pupil of Mr. W. Rice, and later on of Charles Packer. Under the able tuition of the latter, with whom he remained three years, he became proficient in piano and theory; so much so, that he was considered by his instructor one of his most advanced pupils. He was next associated with the eminent violinist, Herr Joseph Kretchman, and became a prominent member of that gentleman's quartette. Being offered an engagement with Lyster's Opera Company to come to Adelaide, Mr. Hall accepted it, and arrived here in 1880, remaining about eight months, when he returned to Sydney. He was there connected with the Montague Turner Opera Company as leader for two years, when, in consequence of his brother's illness and subsequent death, he was sent for to take his place as director of the Theatre Royal Orchestra, Adelaide. He has held that position ever since; with what success we leave the theatre- going public to determine, though it is an undoubted fact that the dramatic orchestra he conducts is one of the best in the colonies. Mr. Hall is leader of the Adelaide String Quartette Club, and has for the last three seasons played many of the best works of the old masters, taking part also at intervals with the most famed of our visitors in the musical world, such as Remenyi and others.

GRO UK Volume No. 1d, page 587, June Q, 1910. Reg District Lambeth

GRO UK Volume 1d, page 697, March Q, 1936, Reg Dist. Wandsworth

GRO UK Volume 1a, page 611 Dec Q, 1932 Reg Dist. Marylebone)

Musical works:

L'Aiglon (a musical play in 5 acts by Edmond Rostand, adapted into English by Louis N. Parker; Music by George H. Hall c.1904/6; J. C. Williamson, NLA; Ms. score and parts for orchestra; some parts signed and dated by G. H. Hall, 1904; some ms. parts for the overture bear the inscription "music by G.H. Hall, composed, selected and arranged", some ms. parts for the overture bear the inscription "arranged and composed by Adrian Amadio"); see also Miss Tittell Brune in "L'Aiglon" (the Eaglet): direction of J. C. Williamson

Flags of the free (from the musical "Prince of Pilsen"; c.1908; J. C. Williamson production, Music by George H. Hall)

My hansom girl (c. 1908) (music by Bert Gilbert & George H. Hall)

My thanks: To family historian Sharon Hoyer for sharing with me information on the Hall brothers.

HALL, John Caplin (John Caplen HALL [sic]; John Caplin HALL; John C. HALL)

Musical amateur, member and secretary Hobart Town Choral Society, newspapers proprietor

Born Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, 1822; baptised Newport, 22 November 1822; son of John HALL and Harriet ?
Died Sandy Bay, TAS, 23 December 1900, aged "78"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Caplin+Hall+1822-1900 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

Baptisms, Newport, Isle of Wight, 1822; England, Select births and christenings

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/16425008:9841 (PAYWALL)

22 November 1822 / John Caplen son of / John and Harriet / Hall

"Deaths", The Mercury [Hobart, TAS] (24 December 1900), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12824131 

HALL. - On Sunday, December 23, 1900, at his residence, Bourna Breena, Sandy Bay, John Caplin Hall, J.P.

HALL, Humphrey (Humphrey HALL)

Journalist, playwright, theatre and music historian

Born Maitland, NSW, c. 1870 (? July 1863)
Died Sydney, NSW, 28 December 1940  

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Documentation:

"MR. HUMPHREY HALL", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 December 1940), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17707264

Bibliography and resources:

[Humphrey Hall and Alfred John Cripps], The romance of the Sydney stage by Osric (Sydney: Currency Press in association with National Library of Australia, 1996)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22007847

HALL, John Lawrence (John Lawrence WOLLOXALL; otherwise John L. HALL; J. L. HALL)

Actor, comedian, theatrical manager

Born Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 24 August 1837; baptised Liverpool, 3 November 1839; son of John Lawrence WOLLOXALL (1801-1868) and Eliza GRIFFITHS (d. 1841)
Arrived ? Melbourne, VIC, 1853
Married (1) Emily WISEMAN (1844-1881), St. Michael's, Christchurch, NZ, 22 December 1864
Married (2) Jessie GRAY, ? 1882
Died Melbourne, VIC, 14 October 1888, aged "51"

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster in the Year 1839; bishop's transcripts, 1830-39, page 24; Lancashire Archives.

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2575/images/4421485_00386 (PAYWALL)

No. 191 / Nov'r 3rd / John Lawrence Son of / John Lawrence & Eliza / Wolloxall / White Chapel / Milliner . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Siblings Henry Stephen and Eliza Jane were baptised at the same ceremony

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 November 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5778185 

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. J. L. Hall . . .
THIS EVENING . . . To conclude with, for the first time in the colonies, Byron's chef d'oeuvre, entitled
PRINCESS SPRING-TIME; Or, the Envoy who Stole the King's Daughter . . .
The Music Arranged by Mr. E. Bentley . . .
Tho Ballet (with the Bell Dance, by the Belles of the Princess's) arranged by Mr. John Edouin.
The whole produced under the direction of Mr. J. L. Hall . . .
A GRAND BALLET, By Mr. John and Miss Julia Edouin, and the Ballet Corps. CORROBOREE CHORUS, Composed and arranged expressly for the Opening of the Intercolonial Exhibition, by Edward Charles Horsley, Esq. [sic], and kindly presented by him to Mr. J. L. Hall . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Edwin Bentley (musician); John and Julia Edouin (dancers); Charles Edward Horsley (musician, composer); Princess Theatre (Melbourne venue)

PIECE: Princess Spring-time (by Henry James Byron)

"Mr. J. L. Hall", The Telegraph [Brisbane, QLD] (16 March 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176705669 

"Death of Mr. J. L. Hall", The Express and Telegraph [Adelaide, SA] (15 October 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207755096 

"DEATH OF MR. JOHN L. HALL", The Lorgnette (20 October 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209736247 

John Lawrence Stephen Steele Woolloxall, died 14 October 1888; Victoria, Cemetery records and headstone transcriptions database

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/96367:61309 (PAYWALL)

Erected by a few friends to the memory of John Lawrence Stephen Steele WOOLLOXALL
known as John L. HALL comedian born at Liverpool, England 24 Aug 1837
died in Melbourne 14 Oct 1888.

Bibliography and resources:

John L. Hall, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188635456/john-lawrence_stephen_steele-hall 

HALLAS, Nathaniel (Nathaniel HALLAS; Nat HALLAS)

Musician, band master (Sandhurst Brass Band)

Arrived VIC, 1857
Died South Yarra, VIC, 2 January 1889, aged 52

Documentation:

"HAYMARKET THEATRE. THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", Bendigo Advertiser (17 November 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87948045

"THE VOLUNTEER BAND", Bendigo Advertiser (18 September 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87938803

"HALLAS'S BAND", Launceston Examiner (24 February 1874), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52891588

"DEATH OF MR. NAT. HALLAS", Bendigo Advertiser (4 January 1889), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88558581

The many friends of Mr. Nat. Hallas, so long and favorably known in musical circles in this city, will be surprised to hear of his sudden death, which occurred at his residence, Clara street, South Yarra, on Wednesday night. The sad intelligence of his death was received yesterday morning by Mr. J. A. Whitlam, an old friend of the deceased. Mr. Hallas arrived in the colony in  1857, after having studied under the late Mr. James Mellen, the celebrated bandmaster, of the Staley Bridge Band, Lancashire. The deceased gentleman was first engaged in this colony by Mr. J. B. Lewis, of Melbourne theatrical fame. In 1858 Mr. Hallas came to Sandhurst and accepted an engagement in the orchestra in the old Haymarket Theatre in Market Square, after which he took the leading parts in the orchestra of the old Theatre Royal at the Shamrock Hotel, and at the Lyceum Theatre in Pall Mall. Shortly afterwards Mr. Hallas formed the first brass band in connection with the volunteer movement in Bendigo. Subsequently he was appointed band-master of the Phoenix brass band of this city and gained great credit by the excellent manner in which he conducted his pupils. After a professional tour to New South Wales, New Zealand and the other Australian colonies, Mr. Hallas returned and again assumed the lead of the volunteer band, which was then mostly composed of young Bendigonians. This body some time afterwards seceded from the volunteers and formed themselves into the well-known Hallas' Sandhurst city band, of which the deceased acted as band master. The many pleasant evenings' open air musical concerts given the citizens by this band in the Lower Camp Reserve will for ever cause the name of Nat. Hallas to be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to listen to the various selections. Whilst under his charge the band also gained renowned praise in this and the adjoining colonies by carrying off the leading prizes in the different competitions and contests in which they took part. In 1884 Mr. Hallas left Sandhurst to fulfil an engagement under Messrs. Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, of Melbourne, and in whose orchestras he was a general favorite, whilst his genial face and hearty laugh will be greatly missed by those with whom he was connected. Mr. Hallas was 52 years of age, and leaves a widow and large family to mourn his demise, whilst in Sandhurst he will be sadly missed by his old pupils and comrades, amongst whom may be mentioned-Messrs. G. and C. Forster, T. A. Whitlam, R. Crawford, R. J. Meakin, T. Sayer. I. Moore, V. H. Byrne and others. His funeral takes place to-day, and several of his Sandhurst friends have decided to pay the last tribute to the remains of one who was respected by both young and old.

HALLIER, Henry Charles (Henry Charles HALLIER)

Musician, professor of music, piano tuner and repairer

Active Adelaide, SA, Sydney, NSW, 1841-43
? Died Cape Province, South Africa, 1871

Summary:

Hallier was active in Adelaide by May 1841. Later that year he was in Sydney, working for Francis Ellard, and, from December, as a freelance piano tuner. He was in Cape Town, South Africa, advertising as a piano tuner, by 1847

Documentation:

[Petition], The South Australian Government Gazette (13 May 1841), 3

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mBFOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (18 May 1841), 1s

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71614626

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (3 December 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872594

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 August 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28651411

HALLORAN, Henry (Henry HALLORAN)

Poet, lyricist

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-577198 (NLA persistent identifier)

HAMBLETON, John (John HAMBLETON; Mr. HAMBLETON)

Vocalist, actor, songwriter, evangelist, convict

Born Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, 1820
Arrived Tasmania, 26 April 1836 (convict per Layton, from London 26 August 1835)
Departed VIC, by 1849/50 (for California)
Returned to Australia, c. 1884
Died Geelong, VIC, 8 December 1889, aged 69

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Hambleton+d1889 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

A freed convict, Hambleton was principally an actor, but was frequently billed singing songs and comic songs between the plays at the theatre in Launceston and Sydney, and briefly Maitland and Geelong. At Sydney in November 1848 he introduced "An entirely new Local Comic Song, Advance Australia, or Sydney as it was, and is (An entire new song . . . written by himself)". Another regular hit of his was The unfortunate man.

He and his wife, also an actor, left Victoria for the Californian Goldfields in 1849, in company with, among others, Caroline Wallace (then "Mrs. Batters").

Later in England he underwent an extreme evangelical conversion, and returned to Australia to proselytise in the 1880s.

Documentation:

Convict records; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1398382; CON31/1/21

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON31-1-21,219,137,F,60 

[Tickets-of-Leave], The Hobart Town Courier (10 January 1840), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8748589

[Certificates of their Freedom], The Cornwall Chronicle (10 July 1841), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66017029

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (9 July 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36249168

"ROYAL CITY THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 May 1843), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12427124

"SUPREME COURT", Port Phillip Gazette and Settler's Journal (8 November 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223152892 

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney (11 November 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59767796

To be followed by an entirely new Local Comic Song, "Advance Australia, or Sydney as it was, and is," Mr. Hambleton.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 November 1848), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12910851

"THEATRICALS", The Maitland Mercury (15 September 1849), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article700259

"CALIFORNIA", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 June 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12918610 

"CALIFORNIA", The Courier (29 June 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2962575

"THE PACIFIC NEWS", Daily Alta California [San Francisco, CA, USA] (21 November 1850), 2

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18501121.2.6 

We have received the following card to the public from the committee on behalf of the Company of the Jenny Lind Theatre, relative to the article which appeared in the Pacific News of Tuesday morning, regarding Mr. Wingerd, formerly of the Jenny Lind Theatre. It appeared in the Picayune of last evening:-
o the Public. - The undersigned, members of the theatrical corps, under the management of the late J. B. Wingerd, and personal friends of the deceased, feel ourselves bound to notice an article which appeared in the Pacific News of yesterday, under the head of "Stockton street Accident," which for mean abuse of the memory of a Gentleman, could not well have been exceeded . . .
[signed] Jos. T. Downey, J. L. Byers, Michael Dillon, M. C. Faulkner, J. Hambleton, W. H. Carey, Francis B. Harrington, A. Campbell, Theodore Hutchingson, J. McCabe, George Mitchell.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Tracy Downey (actor); James Lucas Byers (actor)

"SUICIDE", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 March 1851), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12925788 

"Suicide of Mrs. Hambleton", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (29 March 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59772253 

"MR. JOHN HAMBLETON", South Australian Register (18 June 1884), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43661102

"MR. JOHN HAMBLETON", Evening Journal (18 June 1884), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197796708 

"DEATHS", Leader (14 December 1889), 42

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198057342 

"E. H. B.", The converted actor: a true narrative of God's remarkable dealings with the late John Hambleton ([?], [?], [? 1899])

http://archive.org/details/convertedactortr00beh

Bibliography and resources:

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/hambleton/john/32784

http://www.1859.org.uk/hambleton-earlylife.htm

Eli Daniel Potts and Annette Potts, Young America and Australian gold: Americans and the gold rush of the 1850's (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 123, 148

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10918887

HAMBLIN, Joseph (John HAMBLIN)

Musician, teacher of flute, violin, and singing, pianoforte maker, tuner, repairer, cabinet-maker

Born Speenhamland, Berkshire, England, 20 September 1820; baptised Lower Meeting House, Newberry, 13 March 1821
Married (1) Rebecca COMLEY (1821-1860), St. Mark, Kennington, 26 July 1842
Arrived Australind, WA, 6 December 1842 (per Trusty, from London, 3 August 1842)
Arrived SA, 1854; Bendigo, VIC, by 1855/56; arrived Kyneton, VIC, by August 1859
Married (2) Sarah Ann Pile BRITCHER (1826-1911), Kyneton, VIC, 1861
Died Kyneton, VIC, 19 November 1899

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Joseph+Hamblin+1820-1899 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HAMBLIN, Henry

Piano-maker

Born Kyneton, VIC, 25 November 1865
? Died QLD, 1961

HAMBLIN, Arthur

Piano-maker

Born Kyneton, VIC, 3 July 1867
? Died VIC, 1954

Joseph Hamblin (image courtesy Kyneton Museum, VIC)

Summary:

Joseph Hamblin, Australia cabinetmaker and pianoforte maker, was born in Newberry, Berkshire, the son of Joseph Hamblin (1796-1867), a shoemaker and Baptist minister, and Joanna Young (1796-1869). The family were living in London at the time of the 1841 census, in which Joseph, aged 20, is already identified as a pianoforte maker. According to his own later account, he completed a nine-year apprenticeship with John Broadwood and Sons.

Joseph married Rebecca Comley in London on 26 July 1842, and a week later the couple sailed for Western Australia. During his 12 years in the colony, he was active as a cabinetmaker and music teacher, and probably also as a performer. He was an early office holder of the Swan River Mechanics' Institution.

After a brief period in South Australia (1854-55), he moved to Victoria, and had settled in Kyneton by c.1859/60. In 1877 he advertised that his piano and music store had been established 15 years. Two sons by his second marriage, Harry and Arthur, both born in Kyneton, trained as piano makers and carried on the business after Joseph's retirement in 1889.

Documentation:

Baptism, Joseph Hamblin, 13 March 1821; England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 for Joseph Hamblin RG4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Berkshire Independent Piece 0299: Newbury Lower Meeting House (Independent), 1784-1837

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/2972/40612_B0147590-00037/22797 

[page 30] 1821 / Baptisms / Mar. 13 / Joseph Son of Joseph & Joanna Hamblin / Born at Newbury Sep. 20, 1820 / Baptized by me / John Winter

1841 English census; St. Peter's, parish of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey; London, PRS, HO107/1064/7

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8978/SRYHO107_1064_1064-0234 

Trafalgar Street / Joseph Hamblin / 45 / Dissenting Minister
Joanna [Hamblin] / 45
Joseph [Hamblin] / 20 / Pianoforte Maker . . .

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (10 December 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article643987 

ARRIVAL AT AUSTRALIND. On the 6th December, the Trusty, John Elsdon, Commander, from London. Out four months and two days . . . STEERAGE . . . Joseph and Rebecca Hamblin . . .

[Advertisement], Inquirer (19 February 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65583786

GEORGE LAZENBY hereby notifies his intention to leave the colony for a short time, on a visit to England, by the Halifax Packet.
N.B. - G. L. takes this opportunity of returning thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal patronage he has received during a residence among them of upwards of 12 years, and begs to state that he has engaged Mr. Joseph Hamblin to conduct the business for him during his absence; by a reference to whom all orders will be punctually attended to.
Pianos repaired and tuned by J. H. as usual.

"Shipping Intelligence", Inquirer (9 April 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65583058 

Sailed. - On the 3rd instant, the schooner Victoria, Carroway master, for Adelaide, via Albany. Passengers . . . G. Lazenby . . . Rebecca Hamlin . . .

"CABINET WORK", Inquirer (12 August 1846), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65769884 

Such of our readers as are admirers of handsome furniture, will do well to visit Mr. Lazenby's, and see the splendid sideboard just made by Mr. Hamblin from our native mahogany. We have rarely seen a finer specimen of mahogany furniture at home, and we are inclined to think that our jarrah, besides its immense superiority in hardness and durability, has also a more rich and close luxuriance of shade and colour, and a greater resemblance to marble in texture, than the real mahogany known in Europe.

"Shipping Intelligence", Inquirer (13 December 1848), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65738773 

Arrived. - On Wednesday, 13th instant, the barque Ranee, W. B. Mills, master, from England; L. Samson Agent. Passengers: A Sister of the order of Mercy and two Lay Sisters; steerage - Mr. and Mrs. Hamblyn, and two children, Miss Hamblyn, and 10 boys from the Philanthropic Institution.

[2 advertisements], The Inquirer (22 August 1849), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65739465

J. HAMBLIN, WHILE returning thanks to his friends, the Inhabitants of Western Australia, for past favours, begs to inform them that he is carrying on the business of Carpenter, Joiner, Cabinet-Maker, and Undertaker, at Mews's Cottage, Bazaar-Street, Perth, where he hopes, by economy and punctuality, to merit a continuance of their patronage.
Wanted, an Apprentice to the above.
Pianofortes tuned and repaired, as heretofore.
No connexion with any other house.

Music for the Million. J. HAMBLIN begs to inform the Youth of Perth and its vicinity, that he is receiving Pupils for instruction on the Flute, Violin, and Singing, in classes, on such terms as will give every one an opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of that which, in the absence of every other amusement, may be called a highly valuable science. A separate class for Boys under 14 years of age.

[Miss] E. HAMBLIN, Teacher of the Perth Colonial School, BEGS to inform the Inhabitants of Perth, that, to meet the wishes of many, she will commence a private class for instruction in the following branches of useful knowledge, viz.:- Reading, Writing, Slate and Mental Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History, Letter Writing, Drawing, &c., also Knitting, Netting; and Berlin Wool-Work. That due attention may be given, the private class will commence after the dismissal of the Public School.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph's sister Eliza Hamblin (Mrs. Benjamin Mason) (1828-1903), had arrived on the Ranee in December 1848

"Local Intelligence", The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (8 November 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3172024 

We have been much gratified with a view of several specimens of our colonial timber, which are now under preparation by Mr. Hamblin, of Perth, for transmission to the Industrial Exhibition; one of the blocks is of peculiar beauty and is a section of one of those large excrescences which are found upon the York gum, marbled in the most beautiful and minute manner we can conceive it possible for wood to be, and when well polished we have no doubt will attract much attention at the Exhibition.

"Shipping Intelligence. SAILED", The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (10 February 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3174991 

On the 2nd Instant, the brig Hamlet, McKennack, master, for Adelaide and Melbourne. Passengers . . . Mr. and Mrs. Hamblin and 4 children . . . and several others in the steerage.

[Advertisement], The Argus (20 April 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806099 

IF this should meet the eye of Joseph Hamblin, late from Swan River, please send your address immediate to William Blair, baker, Bendigo.

[Advertisement], The Kyneton Observer (18 August 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240897014 

Hamblin's, High Street, Kyneton, c.1870s (image courtesy of Kyneton Museum, VIC)

[Advertisement], Kyneton Guardian (22 July 1871), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232562846 

J. HAMBLIN, PIANOFORTE MANUFACTURER, HIGH-STREET, KYNETON, HAS on sale new and second-hand PIANOS by Broadwood and others, also to be let on hire cheap. MISS HAMBLIN Has on hand a large assortment of Concertinas. Flutes, Violins, Violincellos, Pegs, Bridges, Strings, Music and Music Books ; also. Stationary, School Requisites, Bibles, Church Services, Prayer Books, and Books for Presents or Prizes, Fancy Goods, and Toys of every description, Basketware, Cricketing Material, and Fishing Tackle. The only shop in Kyneton that keeps a large assorted STOCK OF BERLIN WOOLS.

"INTERCOLONIAL NEWS", The Queenslander (9 December 1871), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27268785

One of the local industries of Kyneton, Victoria, is pianoforte-making. The Observer says Mr. Joseph Hamblin, of that borough, sells excellent pianofortes of his own make. They have a compass of seven octaves, have patent metal bridges, and will bear the effects of the climate better than any imported instrument. The blackwood of the neighborhood serves for wrest planks as well as English oak, and the musk wood or native walnut, which has been found in the Dandenong Ranges, yields beautiful veneers that are susceptible of a magnificent polish. The timber, before being used, is kept from four to ten years in a room continually maintained at summer heat by a furnace. Mr. Hamblin imports the keys, wire, wrest pins, and all the smaller mechanism of his instruments.

[Advertisement], The Kyneton Observer (8 November 1877), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240927633 

PIANOS, ORGANS, AND HARMONIUMS. J. HAMBLIN . . . Established 15 years . . .

Hamblin's, High Street, Kyneton, c.1880s (image courtesy of Kyneton Museum, VIC)

"KYNETON EXHIBITORS AT THE GEELONG JUVENILE EXHIBITION", The Kyneton Observer (17 November 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240859701 

At this exhibition, which will be opened on Tuesday next, two exhibits occupying prominent positions are the separate handiwork of two young Kyneton natives - Mr. Harry Hamblin and Mr. Arthur Hamblin, sons of Mr. Joseph Hamblin, pianoforte manufacturer, of High Street. Mr. Harry Hamblin manufactured one instrument, and his brother, the other, without any assistance. The pianos are of the class known as upright grand, full trichord, in walnut cases. The panels are engraved and picked out with gold lines. The frames are iron. The instruments have celeste soft pedal, and are replete with every modern improvement. Other pianos of precisely the same class, and manufactured by Messrs. Harry and Arthur Hamblin, are on exhibition at their establishment at High Street. The young manufacturers have given abundant proof of their aptitude for their business, and are to be complimented and congratulated upon the success they have achieved.

[Advertisement], The Kyneton Observer (24 August 1889), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240799386 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Partnership heretofore carried on by J. HAMBLIN & SONS, as Pianoforte Makers, High Street, Kyneton, HATH THIS DAY BEEN DISSOLVED BY MUTUAL CONSENT: and in future the said business will be carried on by Henry Hamblin and Arthur Hamblin, under the style of HAMBLIN BROTHERS. All moneys owing to the late firm must be paid to them, and they will also discharge all liabilities of the late firm.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1889.
JOSEPH HAMBLIN.
HENRY HAMBLIN.
ARTHUR HAMBLIN.

[Obituary], The Kyneton Guardian (19 November 1899)

UNSEEN

"Death of Mr. J. Hamblin", The Kyneton Observer (21 November 1899), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240985311 

It is with sincere regret that we chronicle the death of Mr. Joseph Hamblin, of Kyneton East, which occurred at 2.30 o'clock on Sunday morning. The deceased, who had attained the age of 79 years, had been down the street on Saturday, 11th inst., and when he returned borne he complained of feeling unwell, and at once took to his bed, from which he never rose. Mr. Hamblin's complaint was at first the prevailing disease known as influenza, on which supervened bronchitis and pneumonia, and at his advanced age this complication of ailments was altogether too formidable for long resistance. Hence the patient, for whom everything that medical skill could devise was done by Dr. Faulkner, rapidly sank, and passed away at the time and hour stated above.

Mr. Hamblin was a native of Berkshire, England. He emigrated to West Australia in the forties, and was therefore one of the earliest pioneers of that colony, in which he remained for a number of years. He next settled down in South Australia, but after a residence of two years there he came to Victoria. In 1857 the deceased made his home in Kyneton, where he remained ever since. For several years he conducted a music warehouse business, which he only relinquished about 10 years ago, and which is now carried on in High street by his son Henry. Although the deceased had never either sought or filled any public position in the town, he used in years past to take a large interest in matters that concerned the town and district, and on more than one occasion publicly protested against the acts of public men which be considered would not prove beneficial. Mr. Hamblin possessed a quiet, unassuming, and cheery disposition, and was Christianlike and honorable - qualities which won for him the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact, and his many friends are now lamenting his death. He was formerly connected with the Baptist Church, then with the Salvation Army, and finally with the Plymouth Brethren, which sect he only joined a short time since. The deceased's wife and family of six sons and five daughters survive him. Mrs. Hamblin, who has been suffering from influenza, and was improving nicely, has not been so well since the death of her husband, which has caused her great grief. Only one of the sons, Mr. Henry Hamblin, lives in Kyneton - he and his wife are also suffering from influenza; the other sons are distributed amongst Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria.

The remains of the deceased were interred in the Kyneton cemetery yesterday afternoon, and were followed to their last resting place by a good cortege of mourners. The spiritual services were conducted by Mr. Young, of the Plymouth Brethren sect, and the funeral arrangements were discharged by Mr. J. Harris, of Woodend, which was in strict, compliance with the expressed wishes of the deceased.

"PIONEERS AND ALL. JOSEPH THOMAS HAMBLIN. A FAMILY ON THE LAND", The Bendigo Independent (8 May 1913), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227870322 

The story of Mr. Joseph Thomas Hamblin, of Don street, Bendigo, retired gold miner and agriculturist, is replete with interest, inasmuch as it is connected with the establishment on the land in two of the States of one of the largest families of sons and daughters and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law to be found in the Commonwealth. Their portraits form the principal decorations in the residence of the pioneer, where he and the wife of his youth, their strenuous half century of industry and enterprise successfully completed are now enjoying the long and placid evening of their life.

Mr. Hamblin's father was a native of Berkshire. His trade was that of a piano-maker. He was also an artist in woodwork. One of his most skilful efforts was a mosaic table, worked, in 500 pieces of wood, and which was presented to Queen Victoria on her coronation. He was one of the earliest colonists to leave England for West Australia. One of his shipmates from England was Sir John Forrest's father. During his residence in Perth, Mr. Hamblin, senior, was commissioned by the nuns and other Catholics to make a chair of Westralian wood for the first-born baby of Queen IsabeIla of Spain. It was composed of sandalwood and satin-wood, beautifully polished, carved with a grape vine in full-bearing, and the whole enclosed in a case which was also a work of art. Some £40 (equal to £100 now) was paid to the workman-artist for the elegant little piece of furniture. But in early, Australia there were not many commissions for work of that character.

The subject of our life-sketch was born in Perth in 1843. His parents about a dozen years later removed to Adelaide, settling there for a couple of years, and then coming on to Bendigo. They were overlanding to Victoria with bullock-teams. But near the Murray borders their bullocks were stolen, leaving them stranded with their waggons on the plains. There was nothing for it but to go back to Mt. Barker and get fresh bullocks. They then took the waggons back to Adelaide, sold them, and came around by ship to Melbourne, thence to Bendigo. Mr. Hamblin was only a lad during his earliest term of residence in Bendigo. They resided in a frame-tent near where the Terminus Hotel in Mitchell street now stands. He first worked for Mr. Blair, who had a bakehouse and a small shop in Williamson street, next to what is now Myer's furniture establishment. Everything (except meat) was still very high in price on the diggings, and he remembers them saying that a little while before they arrived Scotch pies which the men used to eat in the Shamrock concert hall during the intervals between Thatcher's songs, were a shilling apiece. The family next moved to Kyneton, where Mr. Hamblin, senior, was a piano-maker for many years and two of his sons after him. But Joseph Thomas Hamblin, at 19 years of age, heard the call of the New Zealand diggings. In 1861 he was amongst the first of the Victorian diggers to reach Port Chalmers, and join in the Gabriel's Gully Rush. He struck no rich pockets. But his trade of carpentering stood to him as a steadily-yielding little gold mine . . .

Works:

Circular pedestal table with tilting top c.1849, attributed to Joseph Hamblin; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia

https://cs.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=204660 

Hamblin Bros upright piano, made by Hamblin Bros in Kyneton, VIC, 1907; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/249434912 

https://collection.maas.museum/object/11179

Bibliography and resources:

Dorothy Erickson, "Lazenby, George (1807-1895)", Australian dictionary of biography suppl. (2005)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lazenby-george-13041 

. . . Lazenby employed other Methodists, the most notable being an apprentice Benjamin Mason and the pianoforte-maker Joseph Hamblin, a consummate craftsman who worked for him until 1847. Attempting to establish an export market for local timber, Lazenby took samples of furniture made from jarrah to England aboard the Victoria in 1845. Hamblin's wife and son sailed with him, while Hamblin remained to run Lazenby's business . . .

Jill Roy, The Hamblin family of Berkshire, Western Australia and Victoria (unpublished manuscript)

Dorothy Erickson, "George Lazenby", Design & Art Australia Online (2010/11)

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/george-lazenby/biography 

. . . Lazenby was in charge of the repairs to Government House in 1848 and was connected with the handsome jarrah cellarettes made at this time for Government House in Perth. These were most probably the work of Joseph Hamblyn/Hamblin who made him a sideboard of jarrah in 1846. The cellarettes have classic Regency lines - the style brought to the colony by the earliest settlers. The same people preferred their silver in this and Georgian style and as the periods represent a high period in both disciplines they retain their charm and usefulness and are treasured today. Hamblin who had undertaken a nine-year apprenticeship in England [with Broadwoods] was consummate craftsman . . .

HAMEL, Julius (Julius HAMEL)

Lithographer, general printer, music publisher

Arrived Melbourne, VIC, by 1853
Died Melbourne, VIC, 1894

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Julius+Hamel+d1894 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Bibliography and resources:

Neidorf 1999, 279-80

http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2926 (DIGITISED)

HAMERSLEY, Anne Louise (Anne Louise HAMERSLEY)

Amateur musician, vocalist

HAMERSLEY, Edward (Edward HAMERSLEY, junior)

Amateur musician, composer

Born Paris, France, 1 September 1835; baptised St. Martin in the fields, London, 11 May 1836, son of Edward HAMERSLEY (1810-1874) and Anne Louise CORNELIS (1815-1885)
Arrived Fremantle, WA, 28 March 1837 (per Shepherd, from London)
Died York, WA, 14 January 1921

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Edward+Hamersley+1835-1921 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1532449 (NLA persistent identifier)

Documentation:

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL", The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (4 March 1837), 860

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article640072 

ARRIVAL. - On the 28th instant, the Shepherd, Captain Jardine, from London. - Passengers: Cabin, Sir Charles W. Burdet, Bart., Mr. and Mrs. Hammersley, and two children . . .

"THE AMATEUR CONCERT", The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (25 June 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3173549 

THE concert in aid of funds for promoting a Musical Class for the Mechanics' Institute, took place at the Court House in Perth last Friday evening . . . The two Misses Ougden performed the Overture to La Dame Blanche very pleasingly on the piano; and Mr. E. Hamersley played an excellent accompaniment to the Rosita Waltz on the Cornet a Piston; Mr. A. H. Stone ably conducted the whole performance. The vocal parts were undertaken by Messrs. William Clifton, Bell and Parry . . .

"CHIPS BY A SANDAL WOOD CUTTER", The Herald (28 December 1867), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110068846 

. . . Wondered if young Mr. Hamersley made the music to the song - perhaps S. sang it to the Kangaroo Polka - Wondered Mr. Hamersley didn't PLAY his cards better, and get in for York . . .

"YORK", The West Australian (1 February 1921), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27955430 

The death occurred at Wilberforce, on January 14, of Mr. Edward Hamersley, who was one of the early pioneers of this state. The deceased gentleman was 84 years of age. He was a member of an ancient English family, who in the fifties, came to Western Australia and settled at Pyrton, Guildford. Wilberforce, where the late Mr. Hamersley settled as a young man, was purchased from the Clarkson family, and there Mr. Hamersley made his home. He was a man of scholarly attainments. He was an accomplished musician, as well as composer, had a thorough knowledge of astronomy and was a gifted linguist.

"RECOLLECTIONS. By C. E. V. Shenton, nee Lochee", The West Australian (19 October 1935), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32902596

AS Perth from its very earliest days has always been a musical and music loving people and still remains so, I think I ought to say something of their doings. There were some very fine musicians I have been told in those early days. Mrs. Luke Leake, senior, piano; Mrs. Hamersley, singing; the Rev. Wittenoom, cello, being among the foremost . . .

Musical works:

The drawing room polka. composed by Edwd. Hamersley junr., Pyrton, Western Australia (London: J. Blackman, [n.d.])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/214376245 

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-661629856 (DIGITISED)

With thanks to Hamish Darby, 2020, for bringing this work to my attention.

Bibliography and resources:

"Hamersley, Edward (1835-1921)", Obituaries Australia

http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/hamersley-edward-13739/text24543

HAMILTON, Mrs. (Mrs. HAMILTON)

Musician, music teacher, singing instructor, pianist, vocalist, organist

Active Launceston, TAS, by May 1858

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (6 May 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38991577 

INDIAN RELIEF FUND . . . ON THURSDAY NEXT, MAY 6TH, Will be performed, at the Cornwall Assembly Rooms,
HAYDN'S GRAND ORATORIO OF THE CREATION, UNDER THE DIRBETION OF MR. JOHN ADAMS.
On which occasion the eminent Basso, a MR. FARQUHARSON, has promised his valuable assistance . . .

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (5 January 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38998691 

PIANOFORTE LESSONS. - MRS. HAMILTON will re-commence her instruction in music and singing on Monday, Jan. 9. One or two additional pupils can be received. York-street.

"OUR LAUNCESTON LETTER [From our own Correspondent] . . . Tuesday Evening", The Mercury (15 April 1875), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8936580 

An organ recital to celebrate the opening of a new organ purchased for the Prince's Square Congregational Church of which the Rev. Wm. Law is pastor, took place this evening in the church. The organ is a new instrument just imported from England, and manufactured by Messrs. Bonnington and Sons, London . . . A well selected programme of sacred music, vocal and instrumental, had been arranged, the performers being Miss Mason, Miss Button, Mrs. Hamilton, and Mr. Sharp on the organ; while Miss Sherwin, Miss McAndrew, Mr. F. L. Fysh and others, gave their services as vocalists . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Sharp (organist)

"LAUNCESTON MUSICAL UNION", Launceston Examiner (22 November 1877), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37152522 

Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was performed by the Union on Tuesday evening in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute . . . The double quartette, "For He shall give His angels," - by Mrs. J. L. Maddox, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Wallace, Miss Sullivan, and Messrs. Mayhead, Sherwin, Roper, and Frost, was rendered delightfully . . .

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (29 September 1881), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38226922 

LESSONS IN MUSIC AND SINGING. - MRS. HAMILTON, Upper York-street, both visits and receives pupils. Quarter begins October 1st.

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (22 November 1882), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38277799 

PIANO FOR SALE.- Splendid trichord Collard piano in walnut case. Imported direct to order, beautiful tone and touch. Will be sold - a bargain. May be seen at Mrs. Hamilton's York-street.

"REMINISCENCES", Launceston Examiner (12 November 1892), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39477627 

. . . Who can forget genial old Jesse Biggs; Robert Sharpe, with his splendid handling of the Mechanies' organ; Samuel Joscelyne, the amateur organ builder, of whose sound workmanship and painstaking, energy the organ in the Anglican Church at Bothwell remains to this day? Mrs. Hamilton, too, amidst much teaching, found time to develop a taste and impart executive ability for the performance of high-class psalmody . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (organ builder, vocalist, bassoonist); Robert Sharpe (organist); Samuel Joscelyne (organ builder, cellist)

"SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY (W.S.)", Launceston Examiner (19 November 1892), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39478205 

Your correspondent H.B. in his interesting reminiscences last Saturday desired to know something more of the above society. As its secretary from start to finish I am only too glad to supply what information I possess from memory. The old society after practising in the Baptist Chapel, York-street, was dissolved. I believe in 1854 a meeting was convened at the residence of the late Mr. R. Kenworthy, Cameron-street, and there the new society was formed. It was decided to practice in the Wycliffe Chapel, York-street, and there the meetings were regularly held. The first invitation rehearsal was held in Tamar-street church, the late Rev. C. Price becoming an honorary member and an ardent supporter until its close. All the officers were honorary, and the concerts were given in aid of local charitable objects. These were held in the Cornwall Assembly Rooms. At the time of the Indian mutiny the society united with the Philharmonic and produced the "Creation" in aid of the fund for the wounded, which was a great success, the tickets being 10s 6d and 7s 6d, and the proceeds upwards of £600. The leading parts were Miss Lucy Chambers, soprano; Mrs. Hamilton, contralto; Mr. Henslow, Hobart, tenor; Mr. Farquharson, bass; Mr. J. Adams, conductor; Rev. W. A. Brook, pianist. This society then numbered 100 members, but, like everything in this city, interest and attendance declined, and eventually the society was dissolved, the property sold, and the books, etc., placed in care of the Mechanics' Institute, where, I suppose, they might be perused on application to the librarian, Mr. Johnstone, who was one of the old members.

ASSOCIATIONS: "W.S." = William Stokes (member); Launceston Sacred Harmonic Society (organisation); Lucy Chambers (soprano); Francis Hartwell Henslowe (tenor); Robert Farquharson (bass); Warren Auber Brooke (piano); Alexander Johnston (member)

HAMILTON, Mr. (Mr. HAMILTON)

Actor, vocalist

Active (? Hobart and) Launceston, VDL (TAS), 1840s

HAMILTON, Mr. (Mr. HAMILTON)

Vocalist

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1852

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 December 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788418

HAMILTON, Billy (Yab-bee; Yabbee; alias Billy HAMILTON) = Yab-bee - TAUNGURUNG (Nira Balug)

HAMILTON, Frederick Dicker (Frederick HAMILTON; Frederick Dicker HAMILTON) = Frederick Hamilton DICKER

Vocalist, sportsman, journalist

Documentation:

"THE THEATRE", Launceston Advertiser (7 October 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84755244 

On Monday night was produced an interesting Melo-drama entitled "Mabel's Curse," which gives excellent scope for the display of Mrs. O'Flaherty's talents . . . Considerable interest was excited by the announcement in the hand bills, that the old favourite song of "Jim Crow," was to be sung in character, by a "Gentleman Amateur," who went through the song with great eclat, and at the conclusion, was greeted with such boisterous encores, that he was necessitated to make a second appearance . . . Mr. Elmar's comic song was certainly one degree too low, and Mr. Hamilton's song about as much too high.

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Winstanley O'Flaherty (actor); John Adam Elmer (actor, vocalist); Olympic Theatre (Launceston venue)

HAMILTON, Mr. G. (Mr. G. HAMILTON; ? Mr. F. HAMILTON, above)

Vocalist

Active TAS and VIC, c. 1853-55

Documentation:

"MOUNT BLACKWOOD DIGGINGS . . . THE AUSTRALIAN RUSSELL", The Argus (26 September 1855), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4819291 

So Mr. G. Hamilton delights to placard himself as; and his particular friends, Messrs. W. W. Gibson, Shearcroft, C. P. Rignold and, though last, not least, Miss E. Thom, have been amusing (I hope to their own pecuniary advantage) the people of Mount Blackwood with concerts and a varied list of dramatic entertainments, in the large entertainment room of mine host Gregory, at Golden Point.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Henry Rignold (actor, vocalist); Edwin Shearcroft (actor); Eliza Thom (actor)

HAMILTON, Octavia (Eliza Octavia SCRIVENOR; Mrs. Augustus MOON; Mrs. Thomas Holme DAVIS)

Soprano (mezzo soprano) vocalist

Born Maida Vale, London, England, 6 June 1835; baptised St. Marylebone, 3 July 1835, daughter of John Walter SCRIVENOR (d. 1864) and Frances WILLIAMS (d. 1866)
Married Augustus MOON, St. Mary's, Islington, London, England, 12 May 1851
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 8 February 1854 (per Philip van Marnix, from London)
Married (? common law) Thomas Holme DAVIS (1827-1916), by c.1865
Active professionally until 1868
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 1874 (for England)
Died Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1907; buried Beckett Street Cemetery, 29 March 1907

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

Identity and genealogy:

My thanks to family historian Allister Hardiman for positively identifying this highly significant but mysterious singer as Eliza Octavia Scrivenor, daughter of John Walter Scrivenor (d. 1864, aged 66, Queanbeyan, NSW), and his wife Frances, who had arrived in Melbourne with their family perhaps early in 1854. Octavia, had married Augustus Graham Moon, a lodger in the Scrivenor household and son of a baronet, in London on 7 June 1851, the day after her 16th birthday. According to Victoria and its Metropolis (1888), 329, A. G. Moon arrived in Victoria in 1855, though Octavia was certainly singing in Melbourne in March 1854. (The Octavius Scrivenor advertised for in Sydney in October that year was a cousin.)

Allister thinks Octavia's choice of professional name was due to her paternal great aunt Ann, who married baron Charles Hamilton (their son James emigrated in 1839 to New Zealand and died there in 1844). He suggests that she had her first child by her second (common-law?) husband, the wine-merchant and amateur vocalist Thomas Holme Davis, in Melbourne, possibly as early as 1866. The adverse publicity that began with reporting of a court action between Octavia and Moon (by then already living with Davis) in 1865, and climaxed in the claims of child desertion in 1868, brought her professional career irrevocably to an end. Nevertheless, she and Davis appears to have continued living in Melbourne until late 1873 or early 1874, when they sailed for England. Interestingly Thomas Davis visited Australia again in 1883, billed as "manager of the Australian Wine Association in London . . . during the trip he calculates to purchase between 200,000 and 300,000 gallons of wine."

Young Augustus Moon junior appears not to have benefitted from his early start in the Industrial School, at least not if he was the same Augustus Moon, who, reportedly 30 years of age in October 1887, was arrested in Richmond "on a charge of behaving indecently to two young girls".

Summary:

Octavia Hamilton, "from the Philharmonic Concerts", first appeared in Melbourne at the Salle de Valentino in March 1854 with Maria Carandini and Lewis Lavenu. At John Winterbottom's promenade concert in August, the Argus judged her

a vocalist of more than ordinary ability. . . . This lady possesses a voice of excellent quality, and her intonation is true; she had certainly been gifted with many of the requisites of a singer, and the remainder of the qualifications may easily be acquired by her.

As the song by Charles Compton below suggests, she must have had a good low range. In Trovatore in January 1860, the Argus indeed noticed:

Miss Octavia Hamilton, in the part of Azucena, agreeably surprised us in the ungrateful task of a soprano singing music written for a contralto

[or, at least, mezzo-soprano]

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone . . . in the year [1835]

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1558/31280_194658-00291 (PAYWALL)

No. 340 / [July 3] / Eliza Octavia Dau't of / John Walter & Frances Anna / Scrivenor / Miland Place / Clerk / [born] 6 June

1857, Marriages solemnized at the Parish Church . . . Islington; London Metropolitan Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1623/31280_197201-00187 (PAYWALL)

List of passengers who have arrived at the Port of Melbourne on the 8th day of February, 1854, on board the Phillips von Martznitz [sic] . . .;

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1635/30796_125449__062-00137 (PAYWALL)

Mr. Scrivenor, 54 / Mrs. do. 53 / Francis do. 15 / Fred'k 12 / Mr. Moon 25 / Mrs. Moon 18 / Frances do. 1 1/2 / Walter Inf. . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 March 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4803856

SALLE DE VALENTINO - Monster Concert.
Mr. JAMES ELLIS has the honor to announce his Benefit will take place on Monday next, 6th March, on which occasion the Band will be considerable augmented, together with the following vocalists, who have kindly volunteered thelr services -
Madame Carandini
Miss Octavia Hamilton
Mrs. George Cox, from the Philharmonic Concerts
Mr. Lavenu, and Mr. Barlow
Solo on the Cornet-a Piston, by Mr. de Gray.
Tickets to be had at the Salle de Valentino.

[Advertisement], The Argus (30 March 1854), 3

ttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4805117

SALLE DE VALENTINO . . . Miss Octavia Hamilton, from the Philharmonic Concerts . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 April 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806509 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, - In consequence of the early closing of the Salle de Valentino, Miss Octavia Hamilton has the honor to announce that her First Benefit Concert in this colony will take place this evening,
Friday, April 28th, 1854.
For which occasion all the available talent in the colony had been secured, including the following distinguished artistes -
Mrs. Testar, Mrs. George Cox, Miss Octavia Hamilton, Mr. Walter Frazer, Mons Fleury, Signor Maffei, Herr Moritz.
Programme.
Part I.
Glee - Blow Gentle Gales, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Cox, and Mr. Frazer - Bishop.
Song - Constance, Mrs. George Cox - Linley.
Duet - What Fairy like Music? Miss Hamilton and Mr. Frazer - De Pinna.
CAVATINA - Robert, toi que j'aime, Mrs. Testar - Meyerbeer Solo - Cornet a piston, Signor Maffei
Ballad - Why do I weep for thee, Miss Octavia Hamilton - Wallace
Song - What is the Spell? Mr. Walter Frazer - Rooke
Duet - Elfin Call, Miss Hamilton and Mrs. Cox
Grand Duo, Pianoforte and Violin, Miss Hamilton and Mons. Fleury
(An interval fifteen minutes.)
Part II.
Trio - Sleep, Gentle Lady, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Cox and Mr. Frazer - Bishop.
Song - The Blind Girl to her Harp, Mrs. Testar
Duet - Syren and Friar, Miss Hamilton and Mrs. Cox - Bishop.
Solo - Violin, Mons. Fleury
Song - Mr. Walter Frazer
Song - There is a flower that Bloometh, Miss Octavia Hamilton - Wallace
Solo - Pianoforte, Herr Moritz
The Concert will commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Admission: - Front seats 5s.; Back Seats 3s.
Numbered Tickets to be had of the Secretary at the Institution, at Wilkie's Music Saloon, Great Collins-street, and of Miss Hamilton, at her residence, 71, Spring-street.

"MISS HAMILTON'S CONCERT", The Argus (29 April 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806598 

The Concert last evening at the Mechanics' Institution was well attended, and by a good-humored audience, who took very quietly a signal contre temps, viz, the absence of M. Fleury, who was to have played a violin solo, and a part in a duo with Miss Hamilton, but did not appear, so the lady's pianoforte performance was lost as well . . . Referring to the reception which most of the singers meet with, and to the attendance and omitting notice of the blanks, the concert may be said to have been successful.

"CONCERT AT THE THEATRE", The Banner (30 May 1854), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article179813387 

A concert for the benefit of Madame Carandini took place at the Theatre on Saturday evening, at which there was a good attendance. The entertainments consisted of the Soprano parts (sustained of course by Madame Carandini) of the well-known Opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, which was very creditably performed. Afterwards a tolerably good concert in which appeared Miss Octavia Hamilton, who is becoming a great favorite with the Melbourne public, and who sung several songs in a very pleasing manner . . .

"MISS. O. HAMILTON'S BENEFIT", The Argus (12 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4798847 

"CONCERT HALL", The Argus (15 May 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4808121

"PROMENADE CONCERT", The Argus (15 August 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4796395

"THE ROVING FIDDLER", Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature 105 (5 January 1856), 14

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z3hUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15

"MISSING FRIENDS", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 February 1858), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28634287

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Argus (22 September 1858), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7301499

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Argus (17 January 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5695548

[Il trovatore, Verdi] . . . Misa Octavia Hamilton, in the part of Azucena, agreeably surprised us in the ungrateful task of a soprano singing music written for a contralto.

[News], Empire (30 May 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60410980

. . . Miss Octavia Hamilton is a vocalist of great merit; without the slightest pretension to a contralto voice, the part of Azucena is beyond her power; but she poetesses a very sweet mezzo soprano, of great purity and clearness in the middle notes, and what is far superior, she sings in perfect tune.

DEATHS", The Argus (9 May 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5748652

"THE MESSIAH ON CHRISTMAS EVE", The Argus (26 December 1864), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5745489

[News], The Argus (25 February 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5736070

A case affecting a lady of some musical reputation in this colony was heard in the county court yesterday. The case occupied a place on the list under the title, Grose v. Moon, and was a plaint under a deed of settlement, dated 8th May, 1862, between Augustus Graham Moon and Eliza Octavia Hamilton; otherwise Moon, his wife, the claim being reduced to £49 19s. 11d. to bring it within the lower jurisdiction of the court. By the deed in question it was arranged that the defendant should pay £4 per week, but it was subsequently agreed, that the defendant, who is a Government clerk should make payments at the rate of £16per month. The plaintiff, as trustee, proved the execution of the deed, and said he did not always make the payments to Mrs. Moon herself; but left them at Mr. Davis's wine Store for her. The defence was, that after the execution of the deed, Mrs. Moon had lived with the defendant for some days, and that a stipulation that debts should not be contracted in defendant's name had been violated. The defendant in evidence proved that the deed was executed on a Friday; and that Mrs. Moon remained with him until the Monday evening following, and that he had been applied to for debts contracted by her. The judge held that the mere fact of Mrs. Moon remaining in the defendant's house for a few days did not vitiate the deed; and as the defendant had only been applied to for payment of debts contracted since the commencement of the action, the verdict must be for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.

"VICTORIA", Empire (1 March 1865), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60566842

"HOW INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ARE STOCKED", South Bourke Standard (1 September 1865), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66906560

A certain married lady - as we suppose we must call her - named Moon, but who is well known under the professional pseudonym of Octavia Hamilton, is married to a clerk in the General Post Office, by whom she had several children. Mrs. Moon is a well-known public singer, and as she is a general stage favourite it is to be presumed that her income is at least sufficient for her personal expenses. Her husband has a salary of £6 per week, and, so far as has been made known, has always been willing to support both herself and his children. The lady however, is necessarily of peripatetic habits and therefore the domestic arrangements can never have been of the most comfortable description. It is certainly a great hardship to any man that he should be obliged to support a wife who does not perform her part of the marriage contract. But Mr, Moon does not seem to have complained of being deprived of his wife's society, and probably he has sufficient reason for being tolerably satisfied with her periodical absence on professional business. At the same time, and while he recognises his liability to provide for his wife's maintenance and that of the children born to him, it would be beyond everything unreasonable to expect that he should patiently submit to be saddled with the support of his wife's offspring, whom by all the rules of nature he knows cannot by any possibility have been born legitimately. Moon, however, has the misfortune to know that his wife has on more than one occasion been inconstant to her vows . . . It seems that this Mrs. Moon has for some time been separated from her husband, who to avoid scandal, has regularly for three years, paid his wife two-thirds of his income, although she herself must have been doing very well in her own business. Since this separation, the faithless wife has given birth to two children whose father or fathers are not known; and recently she has had the cool effrontery to call upon Mr. Moon to provide for their support . . . Unable to keep this terrible family trouble any longer a secret, Mr. Moon took such steps as resulted in his being charged with deserting the children, and the whole of the disgraceful affair was brought out in court . . .

"LEFT TO A GRATEFUL COUNTRY", Bendigo Advertiser (27 May 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87896197

A lad eleven years of age, named Augustus Moon, was on Saturday sent by the Richmond bench to the Industrial School for five years, as a neglected child. The boy, who had all the appearance of having received a fair education, said he wished to be sent to the school to learn a trade, as by that means he was told he would become a "great man". He is a son of the well-known vocalist, Octavia Hamilton, whose name has been made notorious by her systematic and brutal neglect of her offspring. We believe she is now travelling in India, and no doubt earning a very "respectable" livelihood while this colony is obliged to support her children. The boy in question is, we believe, the fourth child of this woman now in the industrial establishments.

[News], Empire (1 June 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60853762

[Advertisement], The Argus (15 January 1874), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5879473

"CASTLEMAINE", Bendigo Advertiser (2 May 1883), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88515412

[News], The Argus (11 October 1887), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7911177       

Musical sources:

The light from the mountain, favorite ballad by an Australian Lady; the music by S. Nelson . . . second edition . . . as sung by Miss O. Hamilton (Melbourne: Edward Arnold, [1859])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22289758 (DIGITISED)

When I was young (song; words: Henry F. Chorley; music: Charles H. Compton; "Sung by Miss Octavia Hamilton" (Melbourne: For the composer by Clarson, Shallard & Co., 1859)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/34619128 (DIGITISED)

Bibliography and resources:

Patricia Kennedy, The rise and demise of Octavia Hamilton: a study of colonial celebrity and scandal (M. A. thesis, University of New South Wales, 2017)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/252606241 

https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/permalink/f/a5fmj0/unsworks_45202 (DIGITISED)

HAMILTON, Mr. St. George (Mr. St. George HAMILTON)

Musician, vocalist, pupil of Frederick Crouch

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1852

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mr+St+George+Hamilton+vocalist (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (13 March 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4783771

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (18 March 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4783858

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (20 March 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4783906

[Advertisement], The Argus (26 May 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4785276

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (27 May 1852), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4785309

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 June 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4785482

"THE WEEKLY CONCERTS", The Argus (28 June 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4786098

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 December 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788418

HAMMOND, Adela Ann (Adela Ann HAMMOND)

English composer (never visited Australia)

Born Kensington, Lambeth, England, 21 October 1821
Active England, 1835-44

Summary:

A pencil annotation on the State Library of Victoria's copy of a printed song, The shadow of the heart ("the poetry by W. H. Harrison, Esq. to whom the music is respectfully inscribed by his obliged young friend, Adela A. Hammond, Melbourne") notes that "This is the first song & music published in Melbourne prior to 1845" (MSS 12831, McCrae Family Papers).

The song was certainly not composed or first published in Melbourne, but in London in 1837, where it appeared under the title: "The Shadow of the Heart. The Poetry by W. H. Harrison, Esq.; the Music by Adela A. Hammond", apparently without any reference to Melbourne. But could it have been reprinted there later? Prue Neidorf identified Henry Lingham, active in Melbourne by the mid-1840s, as the lithographer. Perhaps Lingham had also previously produced the original London print in 1837. Neidorf tentatively dates the Melbourne print, if that is what it indeed is, to 1842-43, though it could have been closer to 1845, as the annotator stipulated, though why "prior to 1845" is not clear. Another of Hammond's compositions appeared in London in 1844, so if she did indeed come out to Melbourne herself, it could still have been just "prior to 1845".

Adela Ann Hammond was the daughter of a London businessman, Munden Hammond, with interests in newspapers and printing, and editor of Hammond's List of London and Provincial Newspapers (1850s). Her first work, Sleeping on Lily Beds, was published when she was "a child of 13 years of age". Her father, probably, appears to have had it and her later two works privately engraved and printed. In 1844 she published The Language of Love, and Nature's Music. Two Songs, the Music composed by Miss Adele Hammond. Hammond is not to be confused with the early 20th-century English song composer, Adela E. Hammond.

Documentation:

"NEW MUSIC. VOCAL", Court Journal (12 September 1835), 589

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LLcRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA589

"NEW PUBLICATIONS", The Literary Gazette (8 July 1837), 437

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9r9LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA437

The Shadow of the Heart. The Poetry by W. H. Harrison, Esq.; the Music by Adela A. Hammond.

We are given to understand that the composer of this beautiful air is but sixteen; if so, she is indeed a young lady of the greatest promise, for the composition would do credit to one of sixty - ay, even one who had grown gray among gamuts. There is what Dyer happily calls "the sweet diapason melancholy," sadly, and thrillingly interwoven with the words, which not only chains down the ear to "marble listening," but sinks deeply into the heart, like feelings arising from the remembrance of happy and bygone days. The poetry, too, is of an order such as we seldom meet with in songs of this class. It is exquisitely simple, without being maudlin, and touches the sweet cord of sympathy by the natural emotions which it awakens; for who has not sighed while contemplating the past? We give one stanza:

"The bird sings as sweetly his melody wild,
From the old hazel copse, as when I was a child;
And the sun shines as bright upon blossom and tree,
And the river goes dancing as blithe to the sea.
Whence the change that I feel? not in Nature, I trow,
For she smiles at the mourner, and mocks at his wo.
'Tis my heart! my own heart - which once know not a care -
Casts the shade of its sadness o'er all that is fair."

We would fain extract the whole song, were it not for infringing too much upon the rights of the publisher. To those, however, who understand and can feel poetry, we are certain that this verse will be sufficient to create an appetite for the remainder.

"REVIEWS OF MUSIC", The Idler and Breakfast-table Companion (15 July 1837), 76

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WGAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA76

The Shadow of the Heart. The Poetry by W. Harrison Esq.; the Music by Adela A. Hammond.
The Words and the Music of this song are alike commendable. The former are so sweet, and yet simple withal, that we subjoin a specimen: -

"The bird sings as sweetly his melody wild,
From the old hazel copse, as when I was a child;
And the sun shines as bright upon blossom and tree,
And the river goes dancing as blithe to the sea.
Whence the change that I feel? not in Nature, I trow,
For she smiles at the mourner, and mocks at his wo.
'Tis my heart! my own heart - which once know not a care -
Casts the shade of its sadness o'er all that is fair."

The air is plaintive, and pleasingly melancholy; and affords ample proof of the talent, ability, and soul of the fair composer.

"NEW MUSIC", Court Gazette (15 June 1844), 13

Bibliography and resources:

Neidorf 1999, 41-42

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34370996

http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2926 (DIGITISED)

"Henry Lingham", Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)

http://www.daao.org.au/bio/henry-lingham 

HAMMOND, J. P. (J. P. HAMMOND)

Actor, theatrical manager

Active Sydney, NSW, 1854-55

HAMMOND, Thomas Jackson (Thomas Jackson HAMMOND)

Musician, pianist

Born Ireland, c. 1859 (raised Glasgow, Scotland); son of Joseph HAMMOND and Ellen JACKSON
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, by June 1882
Died Melbourne, VIC, 8 December 1902, aged "44"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Thomas+Jackson+Hammond+d1902 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Documentation:

"PERSONAL", The Argus (9 December 1902), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9088594 

Members of the musical profession will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Thomas Jackson Hammond, which occurred yesterday at his residence, Airlie-street, South Yarra. Mr. Hammond was in his usual health on Sunday, but yesterday suddenly collapsed, death being due to suffusion of blood on the brain. The deceased gentleman was 44 years of age and unmarried.

[News], The Arena (11 December 1902), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255913338 

By the sudden death on Monday last of Mr. Thomas Jackson Hammond, Melbourne loses one of its most talented musicians, and one who was esteemed by very many outside musical circles. Mr. Hammond besides being organist of the Presbyterian Church, South Yarra, director of the Victorian College of Music and pianoforte examiner for the Musical Society, devoted much time to teaching and many a musical education has received its finishing touches in Burke and Wills Chambers. "T.J.," as he was affectionately known to his friends, was a man of genuinely aesthetic and literary tastes, and a delightful companion. It will probably be found that he has left some melodious compositions behind him. Death resulted at the age of 43, from suffusion of blood on the brain.

HAMMOND, W. H. (Mr. W. H. HAMMOND; Mr. W. J. HAMMOND; Mr. HAMMOND)

Vocalist, comic vocalist, song writer

Active VIC, c. 1857-59

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Hammond+vocalist+c1857-59 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

"AMUSEMENTS", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (3 January 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113013521 

Mr. Ellis's entertainments at the Star Theatre seem to take well. On Thursday evening there was a crowded audience, and Mr. Hammond acquitted himself to the evident satisfaction of all. It is a style of entertainment which suits the taste of the million; and the price of admission, 1s., affords every one an opportunity of enjoying a lounge, combined with vocal and instrumental amusement.

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (12 February 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014016 

STAR THEATRE. GRAND MONSTER CONCERT. MR. JAMES ELLIS . . . THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, FEB. 12 . . .
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . Comic Song - "Sam Slick" - Mr. Hammond - Wilson . . .
PART II . . . Comic Song - "Ethiopian Sernaders" - Mr. Hammond - Hammond . . .
Comic Song - "Billy Barlow" (the last new version) - Mr. Hammond - Hammond . . .

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (25 February 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014200 

TO-NIGHT. STAR THEATRE . . .
PART FIRST . . . Song - "Yankee Wonders" - Mr. Hammond . . .
Song, Comic - Mr. Hammond . . .
PART SECOND . . . Comic Song - "Ratcatcher's Daughter" - Hammond . . .

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2 March 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014264 

THE STAR THEATRE, Ovens and Murray Advertiser (26 March 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014615 

Mr. Coulon is gradually changing his concerts into a series of operatic entertainments. Dibdin's favorite little operetta of the "Waterman" has been repeated twice or thrice, with increasing favor. We know no style of entertainment more suitable to the tastes of the population around us . . . Miss Hamilton possesses very good dramatic powers of a light and playful nature. Her acting as Wilhelmina in the "Waterman" was decidedly good. She was the realisation of a lively, sprightly, coquettish young woman, plagued by her parents and wavering between two lovers. Mr. Belfield makes up very artistically for the fopish gardener's apprentice, Mr. Pearce is a very nautical Tom Tug. More than a word of praise is due to Mr. Hammond for his performance of the cantankerous mother, in which he excelled himself. The unfortunate father plagued with such a scolding wife found a good representative in Mr. Benner.

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser (6 November 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87984724 

. . . First time, the comic, local song, "BEECHWORTH NUISANCES!" Mr. HAMMOND will also appear in his inimitable songs of "BILLY BARLOW," AND "RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER" . . .

"THE STAR CONCERT HALL", The Star (31 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66333695 

This agreeable concert room is still abundantly patronised by the public, who are never tired when Mr. Wilson and Mr. White are the performers. The latter gentleman, together with Mr. Morgan, have frequently during the week sung "Robin Rough" in a most approved style; and the quaint homely words, fine sentiment, and pretty music, are so well brought out that an encore is the almost invariable result. Mr. Hammond, a comic singer, and the instrumental performances of Messrs. Piper (pianist) and Mather (violinist) agreeably vary the evening's amusements.

[Advertisement], The Star (10 February 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66333897 

HANCE, William (William HANCE; Mr. W. HANCE; Mr. HANCE)

Musician, organist, organ keeper, organ builder

Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 26 September 1823 (per Mariner)
Died Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 10 October 1842, aged 50

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Hance+d1842 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary (after Rushworth):

In 1825 Hance erected the John Gray organ, imported from London, in St. David's Church. He was also for a while organist, prior to the appointment of J. P. Deane. He worked variously as a schoolmaster, farmer, publican, poundkeeper and postmaster. In 1832 he was building an organ for one of Hobart's masonic lodges, the first documented instance of an organ being built in the colonies.

Documentation:

"AN ODE. Addressed to the Organ of St. David's Church", Hobart Town Gazette (13 May 1825), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1090751

[News], The Hobart Town Courier (21 April 1832), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4199601

The friends of masonry will be pleased to learn, that a second lodge has been established in Hobart town. It is held at Mr. Whitaker's, Freemason's Tavern, Harrington street. Mr. Hance, we are happy to learn, is engaged in building an organ for the lodge.

[News], The Hobart Town Courier (29 June 1832), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4198012

The anniversary of the nativity of St. John the Baptist happening this year on a Sunday, our two masonic lodges, in order not to interfere with each other, agreed to observe the celebration of the day, the one on the Saturday previous and the other on the Monday after. The Brotherly Union being the junior lodge of the two had the precedence, and in the evening a very numerous and respectable assemblage of the craft dined at the Lodge room, Freemason's Tavern . . . On Monday the original Tasmanian Lodge observed the memorable day in a similarly agreeable and elegant manner, through the help of Mrs. Cox at the Macquarie hotel, Mr. Lempriere, the master, filling the chair. The splendid organ building by Mr. Hance for the Brotherly Union is, we are glad to see, already in an advanced state.

Van Diemen's Land Annual and Hobart Town Almanack (1834), 7

[St. David's Church, Hobart] . . . Clerk, Mr. Smails; Organist, Mr. J. P. Deane; Organ Keeper, Mr. William Hance; Pew-opener and Sexton, Mr. J. Bryant; Clock-keeper . . .

[Advertisement: insolvency], The Hobart Town Courier (5 May 1837), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4172138

"MUSIC & MUSICIANS. St. Matthew's, Rokeby. An Historic Organ", The Mercury (17 October 1928), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24247131 

The very first pipe organ set up in Tasmania was built in London, in 1824, for old St David's Church, Hobart, and is still in use at St. Matthew's, Rokeby. The name plate of the builder bears the words: John Gray, No. 9 New Road, Fitzroy Square, London. Upon the case is written in ink:

This organ was made by Mr. John Gray, of London, in 1824, under the superintendence of Geo. Cooper, organist of St. Sepulchre's, London, and was erected in St. David's, Hobart, in 1825, and opened by Mr. Nance. [sic]

The last name is probably that of the first organist of old St. David's, and the inscription is signed by "Wm. Bedford, chaplain," who followed on the Rev. Robert Knopwood, M.A. (Cantab.), the first Tasmanian chaplain, whose grave is in Rokeby churchyard. The organ was transferred to St. Matthew's in 1858 when a larger instrument was bought for old St. David's.

"CENTENARY OF ST. DAVID'S CHOIR", The Mercury (21 June 1937), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25407442

Bibliography and resources:

Graeme Rushworth, "Notes on some early Tasmanian organs and also on the commencement of the Hobart Town Choral Society", OHTA Journal (April 1999), 33-39

https://ohta.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Rushworth-TasOrgans.pdf 

http://www.tasmaniananglican.com/ta200409-15

HANCHETTE, John Justinian (John Justinian HANCHETTE; J. J. HANCHETTE; HANCHETT)

Musician, professor of music

Born c. 1819
Active Launceston, VDL (TAS), by 1841
Died Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, 14 August 1894, aged 75

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Justinian+Hanchette (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=J+J+Hanchette (TROVE tagged)

Summary:

Hanchette, "Member of the Conservatoire Royale, Paris", was active in Launceston as a musician and medical doctor by 1841.

Documentation:

[Launceston news], Colonial Times (11 May 1841), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8751709

[Advertisement], The Courier (22 September 1849), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2964919

"QUARTER SESSIONS", The Hobart Town Mercury (4 March 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3243119

"TOWN TALK AND TABLE CHAT", The Cornwall Chronicle (7 July 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65993332

"DEATHS", Launceston Examiner (16 October 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41456456

"INSOLVENCY COURT", Launceston Examiner (17 August 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38654717

"DEATHS", The Argus (15 August 1894), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8694320

Bibliography and resources:

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=A&id=NG00672

HANCOCK, Edward (Mr. Edward HANCOCK; Mr. HANCOCK)

Musician, basso / bass vocalist

Born Bury St. Edmunds, England, 18 July 1825; baptised St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, 5 January 1826, son of William HANCOCK and Ann RANSOM
Married Mary Ellen BARTON, St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, 26 January 1850
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 15 October 1852 (quarantined until 25 November, per Lady Eveline, from London, 29 June)
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 25 May 1861 (per Suffolk, for London)
Died St. John's Wood, Hampstead, London, England, 25 July 1868, "aged 44"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Edward+Hancock+vocalist+c1852-61 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HANCOCK, Mary Ellen (Mary Ellen Foster BARTON; Miss BARTON; Mrs. Edward HANCOCK; Mrs. HANCOCK)

Musician, soprano / mezzo-soprano vocalist

Born London, England, 9 February 1826; baptised St. Andrew's, Holborn, 14 February 1826; daughter of Charles BARTON and Mary COLMAN
Married Edward HANCOCK, "ironmonger", St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England, 26 January 1850
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 15 October 1852 (quarantined until 25 November, per Lady Eveline, from London, 29 June)
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 25 May 1861 (per Suffolk, for London)
Died Shepherds Bush, London, 5 December 1894, "aged 67"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mrs+Edward+Hancock+vocalist+c1852-61 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

Edward and Mary Ellen Hancock arrived in Melbourne, VIC, on the Lady Eveline from London on 15 October 1852, as members of a musical party of four vocalists, the so-called City of London Glee and Madrigal Union, directed by his William Charles Lyon, and also including Lyon's brother, Edgar Ray. However, cases of smallpox having been found among the 250 intermediate and steerage passengers, the party was quarantined for over a month, until finally being released on 25 November.

Joined by another recent arrival from London, Harriet Cawse Fiddes, the group presented its first concert at the Mechanics' Institution on Saturday, 4 December, followed, though December and January, by half a dozen other appearances in Melbourne, and at least one at the Theatre Royal in Geelong.

With thanks September 2021 to Duncan Taggart (NZ) for kindly bringing to my attention the quarantine of the Lady Eveline's passengers

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn . . . in the Year 1826; register 1824-28, page 268

No. 2139 / [February] 14 / Mary Ellen Foster / Charles Barton, Conveyancer, [and] Mary Colman / New Ormond St. Born 9 Feb. 1826

[Advertisement], Leeds Intelligencer (15 March 1845), 1

THE GRAND CONCERT for the BENEFIT the LEEDS PUBLIC DISPENSARY under the Patronage of the Earl of MEXBOROUGH and the MASONIC BODY, fixed to take place Monday Evening, April 7th. PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS. VIEUXTEMPS (the extraordinary Violinist.) MISS DOLBY, MISS E. BIRCH. MISS BARTON (her first appearance) MR. ROHNER, MR. CALKIN, MR. JNO. PARRY". Leader of the Band, Mr. R. A. BROWN. Conductor the Concert. Mr. HOPKINSON. Further Particulars will duly announced.

"GRAND CONCERT - VIEUXTEMPS, THE VIOLINIST", Leeds Times (12 April 1845), 5

The concert in aid of the funds of the Leeds Dispensary came off on Monday evening last. The great attraction of the evening was M. Vieuxtemps, the celebrated violinist, a Belgian, and pupil of De Beriot . . . We must not conclude without mentioning the highly creditable debut of Miss Barton, a pupil of Mr. Hopkinson's. She possesses a voice of good compass and considerable sweetness; and with practice and experience, will, we have no doubt, prove an honour to her instructor.

"CONVERSAZIONE OF THE LEEDS SCHOOL OF DESIGN", Leeds Times (9 October 1847), 5

Last evening, the first "conversazione" and exhibition of local manufactures, took place . . . After Miss BARTON had sung an Italian Aria, the pupils of the school were introduced and exhibited specimens of their drawings, which excited very great interest . . .

"ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC", The Musical World [London, England] (1 June 1850), 340

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dwoVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA340

The third concert for the present season took place on Saturday morning in the Hanover Square Rooms, and was a decided improvement on the others. The following was the programme: . . .
PART II . . . Song - "Should he upbraid," - Mrs. Edward Hancock - Sir H. Bishop . . .

[Advertisement], Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette [England] (27 December 1850), 4

MUSIC-HALL. JARRATT-STREET. Mr. E. W. HAIGH'S ANNUAL GRAND CONCERT will take place on THURSDAY, the 2nd January, 1851, at Eight o'clock in the Evening, when will be assisted by the following Artistes: Mrs. EDWARD HANCOCK, from the Royal Academy of Music; Miss ATKINSON, from the Leeds Concerts; Mr. W. WINN, from the London Concerts; Mr. HEMINGWAY, from the Cathedral, Durham and Mr. HENRY HAIGH, Pupil of Signor Furtado . . .

"MESSRS. BIRD AND BOWLING'S CONCERT", Leeds Intelligencer [England] (18 January 1851), 5

. . . The vocalists were Mrs. Edward Hancock, (whom some of our readers will remember as Miss Barton,) who, with Mr. W. Winn, was formerly inhabitant of this town . . . Mrs. Hancock has improved since we last heard her, but was evidently labouring under indisposition . . .

England census, 30 March 1851; Middlesex, St. Marylebone, Cavendish Square; UK Archives, PRO HO 107/1487

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/MDXHO107_1487_1487-0111 

3 Upper Weymouth St. / Edward Hancock / Head / 24 / Ironmongers Assistant / [born] Suffolk Bury St. Edmunds
Mary E. [Hancock] / 23 / Teacher of Music / Middlesex London

"MAIDSTONE CHORAL SOCIETY", Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser [England] (23 December 1851), 3

Handel's oratorio "Samson" was performed by this society yesterday se'nnight . . . The principal vocalists were Mrs. Edward Hancock, and Mr. Donald King, of the Exeter Hall concerts, - Mr. Armes and Mr. Harcourt, Rochester Cathedral, - and Mr. Palmer, of Canterbury Cathedral . . . Mr. H. Tolhurst led the band . . . and also recognised with pleasure the veteran father of oratorio practice in Maidstone, Mr. Tolhurst, sen., who kindly came to render his assistance his former associates in the "good work" . . . Mrs. Hancock was scarcely equal to the music entrusted to her, her voice being deficient in compass and power . . .

"PEOPLE'S CONCERTS, LEEDS", Leeds Intelligencer (12 June 1852), 5

The fifth concert of the original series, with Mr. Spark as conductor, took place on Saturday evening last, at the Music Hall . . . The "stars" at this concert ware Mrs. Sunderland, Mrs. Hancock (from London), and Mr. Winn . . . Mrs. Hancock, who has a mezzo-soprano voice of much sweetness, sang in Leeds some years ago as Miss Barton . . .

Passengers by the Lady Eveline; Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923, 1852, 648

Hancock Edward 25 Ironmonger // Hancock Ellen 24 // Hancock William 34 Artist

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 December 1852), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788340

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. GRAND CONCERT. December 4th, 1852. THE CITY OF LONDON GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION. Under the direction of Mr. WILLIAM C. LYON, professor of the Royal Academy of music . . . Artists: Mrs. Edward Hancock, Professor of the Royal Academy of Music, Mr. W. C. Lyon, R.A.M., Mr. Edgar Ray, late of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. James, and Mr. Edward Hancock, R.A.M. assisted by Mrs. Fiddes, formerly Miss. H. Cawse.

[Advertisement], The Argus (13 December 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788477

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 January 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788697

[2 advertisements], The Argus (17 January 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788978

MRS. EDWARD HANCOCK begs to inform in her Pupils and Friends that she has removed to No. 44, Elizabeth-street, where she will give lessons in Singing, as usual.

[Advertisement], The Argus (27 January 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4789303

[Letter], "TO THE EDITOR", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (13 August 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86413621

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 September 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4796723

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.- MRS. EDWARD HANCOCK begs to announce to her friends and the public, that she will give a Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert on Monday, the 13th September, under the patronage of the Right Worshipful the Mayor, at which the following Artistes will appear: - Vocalists: Mrs. Testar, Miss Miabella Smith, Mrs. Hancock, and Mr. Hancock; Instrumentalists; Solo Piano, Miss E. Smith, pupil of Madlle. Clara Lovedey. Clarionet, Mr. Johnson; accompaniment, Mr. Buddee.

"GEELONG", The Argus (5 October 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4797803 

[Letter], THE GEELONG MONDAY CONCERTS. To the Editor", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (20 October 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86412410

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (31 October 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86412583

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 November 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799472 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. Mrs. HANCOCK and Mr. ST CLAIR'S Classical, Vocal, and Dramatic Entertainment. Tuesday, November 16th . . .

MR. WINTERBOTTOM'S GRAND CONCERT", Illustrated Sydney News (6 May 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63614269 

[Advertisement], The Argus (29 January 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4803684 

GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS. Concert Hall; Theatre Royal.
Immense Attraction. To-night. To-night. To-night. This and every night.
Miss Louisa Swannell, the Australian Nightingale, nightly received with unbounded applause.
For the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, (in character,) as Jeannette and Jeannot.
For the first time, Mona Emile de Granville will sing the highly admired and favorite airs Vive l'Amour et le Cognac, Partant pour le Syrie, And the Marseillaise.
Mr. Lyall, the admired tenor.
Band of twenty solo performers. Conductor. Mr. Callen.
Solo on the opheiclide and Clarionet, by Messrs. Johnson and Hartigan.
Concert to commence at Eight. One Shilling.

MUSIC: Jeannette and Jeannot (duet, music by Charles William Glover) ; see also Jeannette and Jeannot (Wikipedia)

Diary of John Buckley Castieau, Melbourne, VIC, 11 February 1855; original MS, National Library of Australia; transcribed and edited by Mark Finnane, online at Centre for 21st Century Humanities, University of Newcastle

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21875533 

https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/textmaptext/castieaudiaries (TRANSCRIPT)

[Sunday 11 February 1855] Went to Church this morning . . . Got home, had some tea, and went again to church. The Music was very good yesterday [i.e. Sunday]. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock well known professional Vocalists, giving their assistance to the Choir . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Buckley Castieau (diarist, theatrical amateur); St. Paul's church (Melbourne)

"GRAND CONCERT", The Argus (30 March 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806065 

Madame Carandini, one of the most pleasing vocalists that we have heard in the colonies, takes a benefit this evening at the Theatre Royal, in Bourke-street. The programme is unusually seductive in character, announcing as it does the performance of the entire first act of Bellini's "Norma" with Madame Carandini as Norma, and Mrs. Hancock as Adalgisa . . .

"L'ELISIR D'AMOUR", The Age (29 July 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154865726

This delightful opera buffo was produced at the Royal for the first time on Saturday evening, with the most decided success. Madame Bishop as Adina, Laglaise as Nemorino, Howson as Belcore, Coulon as Dulcamara, and Mrs. Hancock as Gianetta, were all admirable, and the chorus sang with unwonted spirit, precision, and effect. The only thing we had to regret was the wretchedly thin house which I assembled to hear this high musical treat. The applause however was enthusiastic, and encores very numerous; Coulon's make up was exceedingly good, and his acting and gestures eminently provocative of laughter.

[Advertisement], "TO THE PUBLIC. OPERA AND MR. NEILD", The Age (16 November 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154873525

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 September 1859), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5688947

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 October 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5689528

"MELBOURNE.- HANDEL CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS", The Musical Times (1 November 1859), 151

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SG4PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 December 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5694206

"PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Argus (18 January 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5695579

[News], The Argus (18 July 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5686320

On Friday night next Mrs. Edward Hancock, a lady most favourably known to the musical world of Melbourne for the last eight years, and whose talents, though unassuming, have been fully appreciated, both in opera and at the concerts of the Philharmonic Society, takes a benefit at the Theatre Royal. An opera will be produced on the occasion; and as that class of entertainment has at present something of novelty for the public, independent of the claims of Mrs. Hancock to support, it may be expected that there will be a large attendance.

[News], The Age (20 July 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154843879

Mrs. Hancock, an old favorite among the theatre-going and music-loving people of Melbourne, takes her benefit tonight at the Theatre Royal. The entertainments are to commence with "The Sonnambula," with Madame Carandini as Amina, and Mrs. Hancock as Liza. The names of Messrs. Sherwin and Farquharson also appear. The opera is to be followed by a concert, in which the Philharmonic Society lend substantial aid, and the whole is to conclude with the burlesque of "The Miller and his Men." Mrs. Hancock is sufficiently well known, and her talents are so well admired, that the announcement of her benefit should alone fill the house; but with the attractions offered in the bills, we can scarcely deem it likely that any invitation is needed from us to the admirers of musical entertainments to give a befitting reception to one of their oldest favorites.

"HOBART TOWN", The Musical World (2 February 1861), 79

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eegsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA79

The long expected Italian Opera Company arrived in Hobart Town, from Launceston, and opened a short campaign at the Theatre Royal, on the evening of the 22nd ultimo. The company consisted of Signor and Signora Bianchi, M. Paltzer, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, Messrs. J. Gregg, Megson, and Winterbottom, the well-known bassoon-player. They remained only a week, and although they introduced, and well performed, some of the choicest works of the modern lyric drama, they were not patronised so liberally as they deserved to be. Hobart Town Mercury Puff, Nov. 22.

[News], The Argus (15 May 1861), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5700224

We understand Mrs. Edward Hancock has determined finally to leave Melbourne, and has taken her passage in the ship Suffolk, to sail on the 25th inst. The members of the choir of St. Peter's Church intend giving that lady, on Monday evening next, in the schoolroom adjacent to the church, a complimentary benefit concert, as a parting token of their regard and esteem; and we trust that Mrs. Hancock's friends will muster in sufficient numbers to give this lady a substantial recognition of her professional abilities. As a singer of sacred and church music Mrs. Hancock has held a first position, and her absence from the choir of St. Peter's will be much felt by members of the congregation of that church.

[Advertisement], The Age (21 May 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154888509

"THEATRICALS AND MUSIC", Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (1 June 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201377391 

. . . An unusually large number of the members of the histrionic profession have left us during the week. By the Great Britain and Suffolk, Mr. Brooke, Mr. Young, Mr. Wallack, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, the Misses Clifford, and Miss Jones, have sailed for England. It will be a long time before we look upon their like again, and we fear that, for a time at least, the legitimate drama will be under a cloud.

. . . BENDIGO. The Lyster opera company continue to draw good houses at the Lyceum. "The Bohemian Girl" was repeated on Saturday last, with an alteration in the cast caused by the indisposition of Mr. Farquharson, whose part - Devilshoof - was sustained by Mr. Hancock . . .

"MELBOURNE", Dwight's Journal of Music [Boston, USA] (28 September 1861), 207

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QiBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207 

"DEATHS", The morning advertiser [London, England] (29 July 1868), 7

On the 25th inst, at his residence, St. John's-wood, Edward Hancock, aged 44, son of the late William Hancock, of Bury St. Edmund's, and nephew the late Thos. Hancock, Esq., of Marlbro' Cottage, Stoke Newington, much regretted.

England, national probate calendar, Mary Ellen Hancock, 1894

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1904/31874_222507-00036 

HANCOCK Mary Ellen of 19 Camden-gardens Shepherd's bush Middlesex widow died 5 December 1894 . . .

Musical editions:

My ain dear Nell (a new Scottish ballad written and composed by A. Hume; Sung by Miss Emma Stanley & Mrs. Hancock, fourth edition) (Melbourne: McCulloch and Stewart, [1859; new edition 1860])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19777625

Bibliography and resources:

Gyger 1999, 103, 106, 116

http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/4950

Thanks: To Kurt Ganzl for biographical information (January 2015)

HANCOCK, Frederick (Frederick HANCOCK) - birth name of Charles MIRAN

HAND, Josiah (Josiah HAND; J. HAND)

Concert promoter, venue proprietor, founder of Hobart Town Serenaders, occasional music publisher, publican, ex-convict, convict

Active Hobart, TAS, by 1853
Died Launceston, TAS, 9 June 1893, aged 80 years

https://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=&l-publictag=Josiah+Hand (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Courier (4 March 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2240517

MELOPHONIC CONCERT ROOM, "WATERMAN'S ARMS," LIVERPOOL-STREET. The Public of Hobart Town are respectfully informed by the Proprietor of the above Rooms, that he has now in his possession the original music and poetry of that deservedly popular and beautiful sentimental song, "BEN BOLT," (As sung by Rainer's Company of Serenaders at Launceston), The original Hobart Town Serenaders will sing the same on SATURDAY EVENING, Accompanied by an Eminent Performer on a powerful and rich-toned 6 1/2 Octave PIANOFORTE, Being its first introduction to an Hobart Town Audience. The music and the words of the song can be obtained by application to the Proprietor any day between the hour of 11 and 12 o'clock. JOSIAH HAND, Proprietor.

"NEW INSOLVENT", The Hobart Town Mercury (17 August 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3244758

"SERENADING", The Courier (29 January 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2461685

Recent reverses of fortune having befell Mr. Josiah Hand, the original introducer of Ethiopian Serenaders in this city, on appeal to the public, in the shape of a serenade for a benefit for him, is announced at the Albert Theatre on Monday evening next.

"Deaths", Launceston Examiner (10 June 1893), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90219805

"BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH", The Mercury (10 June 1893), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13284796 

Josiah Hands, an old colonist, died today, aged 80. He was at one time connected with the police in Launceston, and some years ago was licensee of a hotel in Hobart. Latterly he was engaged as a bailiff in the North. He was of a quiet unassuming disposition, and generally respected by all who knew him.

HANDOFF, Mr. (HENDORFF; HAVENDOFF; ? = HARENDORFF)

Musician, double bass player (Salle de Valentino)

Active Melbourne, (1853) 1855

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (23 June 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4809811

SALLE DE VALENTINO.- Mons. Fleury will perform on Monday, 25th inst - Newly decorated by the celebrated artists, Messrs. T. Pitt and Brogden. - Fleury's Band, comprising the leading talent of the colonies, will consist of the following artistes: Mons. Fleury, Conductor and Leader; Messrs. Reid, Fihon, 2nd Violins; Handoff, Double Bass; Kinzella, Clarionet; De Labestries, Cornopean; Baker, Saxe Horn; Hartigan, Ophecleide; Brown, Flute; Kummons, Bassoon; Sterne, Drum.

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 August 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4815588

. . . Double-bass - Herr Hendorff . . .

[Advertisement], The Star (25 September 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66051501 

. . . 1st double bass . . . H. Herndorff, 2nd . . . H . Elrot . . .

[Advertisement], The Star (23 December 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6633295 

. . . Double Bass . . . Mons. Havendoff . . .

HANMER, Mrs. Leicester (Mrs. Leicester HANMER; Mrs. HANMER)

Actor, theatrical manager

Active VIC, 1854-55; active NZ, 1863

HANMER, Julia (Julia HANMER; Miss HANMER)

Actor

Active VIC, 1854-55

HANSEN, Johann Christian (Johann Christian HANSEN; J. C. HANSEN)

Musician, organist (Pirie-street Chapel), composer

Active Adelaide, SA, by 1858
Died Jardeland, Denmark, 18 May 1885, aged 70

Documentation:

"SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS", South Australian Register (2 June 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49774124

"PIRIE-STREET CHAPEL", South Australian Register (20 December 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50176025

"CORROBBERO - More music", South Australian Register (23 March 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39175250

The facilities offered by the lithographer and printer of music from moveable types tend very much to encourage the publication of compositions, the product of "native industry". Genius is not confined to any particular locality, clime, or country, and no fiscal laws can restrain its manifestation. The number of musical compositions that have issued from our own colonial press would fill a capacious folio. Their performance would occupy a long evening without an encore. "Corrobbero" is the name given to a composition by Mr. J. C. Hansen, just published by Marshall, of Rundle-street. The title-page informs us that it is "a musical picture, representing the performance of a sort of religious warlike rite among the natives of Australia at the time of full moon". It has been lithographed by Penman and Galbraith, and dedicated to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. The front page is adorned with a gorgeous representation in coloured oils, of what a sprightly imagination might very well suppose to be an eruption of Vesuvius, were it not for the presence of a score or two of borbdignagian black spiders in impossible attitudes that stand on the activity of the mountain. The artist has evidently done his best. With regard to the music, though there are here and there some slight defects, it is on the whole one of the best compositions of the kind we have seen. It opens with an introduction in G major, compound common time, intended to awaken the peaceful and heart-cheering emotions produced in the mind by the full-orbed moon rising in "unclouded majesty". The next strain is an andante in common time, commencing in E minor, and terminating in B minor. It is ritualistic, and preparatory to the grand corrobboree described in musical language in the next strain. This is an allegro, and the rubric informs the instrumentalists that it represents the "grotesk (sic) dancing among the aborigines of Australia at the time of full moon, accompanied with a national song". The native "wabble, wabble, boo boo", is cleverly indicate in this "song with out words". An interlude follows. It is an adagio in E major for the organ, and is descriptive of the calm repose of "a beautiful moonlight night". This is we think the most artistic part of the whole composition. The corrobboree is then repeated, and winds up (or down) with a rushing presto. The composer has manifestly taken much pains over the work. It will, we think, become a favourite with the pianist. It is not of difficult execution (if we except the impossible holding-note in alto upon the fourth page), and in other respects it possesses the elements of popularity. It might with advantage be further elaborated and arranged as a quartette or for a quadrille band.

"TOPICS OF THE DAY", The South Australian Advertiser (24 March 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31976503

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (3 June 1868), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31978844

"DEATHS", South Australian Register (21 July 1885), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44947420

"OLD-TIME MEMORIES. AMUSEMENTS No. III", South Australian Register (8 September 1891), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48241700

Musical works and publications:

Corrobbero ("a musical picture, representing the performance of a sort of religious war-like rite among the natives of Australia, at the time of full moon, composed by J. C. Hansen") (Adelaide: S. Marshall, [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6435758

The Holy Bible (sacred song; respectfully dedicated to Lady Daly by her Ladyship's very obedt. servt. James G. Gibbs, the words by the Rev. J. Hall, M.A., the German translation by Joh. Chr. Hansen, musical professor) (Adelaide: S. Marshall, [186-])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11034556 

HANSON, James (James HANSON)

Writer on music

Active Launceston, TAS, 1867

Documentation:

"MUSINGS ON MUSIC. To the Editor", Launceston Examiner (30 May 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36643924

HANSON, Thomas (? HANSEN; "Tom the fiddler")

Musician, violinist, fiddler

Died NSW, 1906

Documentation:

"Death of Mr. Thomas Hanson", The Castlereagh (25 May 1906), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86282356 

HARBOTTLE, Thomas (Thomas HARBOTTLE)

Amateur musician, vocalist, choral singer, member Hobart Town Choral Society

Active Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 1848
Died Hobart, TAS, 22 December 1856

Documentation:

"Music & Drama", The Mercury (16 March 1927), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29666559 

Mr. Clinch, superintendent of mails, gives the interesting information that one of the pianofortes made by the J. Williams, of Hobart Town, who advertised in the "Royal Kalendar" for 1848, mentioned in these notes last week, is still in use at the house of his sister, Mrs. Corney, of Lunawanna, Bruny Island. It is also learned that Mr. Frank Harbottle, [? grandson of] one of the members of the committee of the Hobart Town Choral Society in 1848, died only a few years ago. He was well-known in musical and military circles. Another member, Mr. Reichenberg, was the father of Miss Reichenberg, organist at St. Joseph's Church, and a third, Mr. Vautin, was the father of Mr. D. Vautin, flutist, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and of his brother, a cellist.

HARBOTTLE, William (William HARBOTTLE; Captain W. HARBOTTLE)

Musical amateur, volunteer forces officer

Active Sydney, NSW, c. 1860s
Departed Sydney, NSW, 1866 (for England)
? Died Worthing, England, 12 November 1888, aged "58/59"

HARDEMAN, Henry (Henry HARDEMAN; also Mr. HARDIMAN)

Vocalist, singer at the "Black Boy" Hotel, actor

Active Sydney, NSW, and Adelaide, SA, 1844-45

Summary:

"From the Royal Pavilion Theatre", Hardeman first appeared in an Oddfellows night at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, during which in character he sang the comic song Billy the Snob. He then appears to have become a pub singer, for two months later this advertisement appeared in the Herald:

"NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE!  IF HENRY HARDEMAN, Singer at the Black Boy, George street does not call and pay the amount of his bill for board and lodging for himself and Samuel Marshall singer at the same place for whose expenses he became responsible, the conjuring machines woodcuts and bills of Billy the Snob, (the song which elicited such applause on the occasion of the benefit at the Theatre of one of the Brothers of the Odd Fellows Society) will be sold within ten days from this date, to defray the same. GEORGE BRIGGS. Miller's Point, Sydney, 26th December.

Having left for South Australia in January, and visited Melbourne in May, he opened "a little theatre named the Pavilion" in Currie-street, Adelaide, in September 1845, apparently a short-lived venture.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Australian (1 October 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37123667

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (19 October 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12408318 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 December 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12421190

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 January 1845). 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12876481

[News], South Australian Register (17 September 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27450897

HARDING, John (John HARDING)

Bandsman (H.M.S. Galatea)

Active Australia, 1867-68

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Documentation:

"The Attempted Assassination of the Prince", Empire (17 March 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60851386

"THE MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY", Empire (14 March 1868), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60851246

"THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH PRELIMINARY MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY", The Australasian (28 March 1868), 20

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137571407

"TRIAL OF THE PRISONER H. J. O'FARRELL", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 April 1868), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13165036

Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly during the season of 1869 (Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1869), 340

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ST41AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA340

HARDING, Thomas (Thomas HARDING)

Musician, instrumentalist

Born Devon, England, 3 April 1810
Arrived SA, 17 October 1839 (per Recovery)
Died St. Peters, SA, 21 April 1903, aged 93

Documentation:

"DEATHS", Kapunda Herald (24 April 1903), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110275576

"THE LATE MR. T. HARDING", The Advertiser (27 April 1903), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4941612

. . . For many years, when in the prime of life, Mr. Harding was a musician of local fame, the double bass viol being the instrument which he played. When the local Wesleyan Church singing was led by a string orchestra Mr. Harding was a leading instrumentalist, and at that time Kapunda possessed some of the best violinists in the State. 

"A FINE OLD COLONIST DEAD", The Advertiser (30 April 1903), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4943342

Mr. Thomas Harding, who died at St. Peters recently, was born on April 3, 1810. His father was a builder of Plymouth and Devon, but the son was educated for the law. He preferred his father's calling, and until 1839 he assisted him in his trade. In that year, with his wife and family, he sailed for South Australia in the ship Recovery, arriving here on October 17 of the same year. Mr. Harding assisted in the building of Government House, Government Offices, police barracks, Frome-bridge, and other prominent public erections. He then went to the River Murray, then Cockatoo and Lyndoch Valleys, and thence to Angaston. In 1850 he came to Kapunda, where he assisted in the erection of the smelting works on the Kapunda mine. He built many houses and other premises in Kapunda, and was one of the builders of the Methodist Church here. He was a great lover of music, and played a violoncello in the parish church, Plymouth, having previously been a flautist in the same choir. When in Adelaide his services were in great request, and he sometimes played in two or three places in the same evening. He was a member of the first band formed in Adelaide, when a drum had to be improvised from bullock hides. In the Kapunda Wesleyan Church he was the leading instrumentalist in the choir, which had a fame throughout the State. Mrs. Harding died about eight years ago since when Mr. Harding had resided with his daughters in Kapunda (Mrs. A. Menhennett and Mrs. Joel Carter), Mrs. Chinner (Angaston), and Mrs. Magor (St. Peters). He has left eight children, 57 grandchildren, about 120 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.

"THE LATE MR.THOMAS HARDING", Kapunda Herald (1 May 1902), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110275621 

. . . He helped to build the smelting works and the bull-engine smoke stack on the Kapunda Mines and afterwards built many houses in and around Kapunda, including the present Wesleyan Church. He was a great lover of music, and played well on several instruments, but his favorite was the violoncello. This old instrument, which is still in the town, he played at the Parish Church at Plymouth when he was 17 years old, and before that he played a flute in the same choir. When in Adelaide he was in great request, and sometimes played in two and three places in one nighty getting £2 2s. payment at each place, he was in the first band formed. They had their instruments, but were unable to get a drum, and made a substitute, using a bullock hide for the ends. On settling in Kapunda he joined the Wesleyan Church, and was leader of the choir, which was then known all over the colony. Two violins (Messrs. Thos. Rose and G. Fry), two flutes (Messrs. J. Rowe and Williamson), and two cellos (Messrs. Harding and J. Rose), and the four parts were well represented with singers. Often he was heard, in Mrs. Rose's absence, leading the singing and playing the bass at the same time. Afterwards for many years he played in the Philharmonic Society (late Mrs. Howe, pianiste), until, in 1882, his hand getting cramped he was unable to finger the strings, he resigned, and was presented with a handsome silver snuff box which he always greatly prized . . .

HARDMAN, Daniel (Daniel HARDMAN)

Violoncellist, double bass player, ophicleide player, chamber music quartet player, vocalist, hairdresser, hatter, licensed victualer

Born Yorkshire, England, 18 September 1806
Active Melbourne, VIC, by April 1853
Died Melbourne, VIC, 17 August 1891, aged 86, colonist of 38 years

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Daniel+Hardman+1806-1891 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

Daniel Hardman was the son of Edmund Hardman (1768-1840), hairdresser, and his wife Anne Duke (c.1864-1834), and grandson of John Hardman, musician. He and his eldest brother William (1792-1855 suicide) both started out in their father's trade, but turned to music professionally, as string players, William being appointed Music Seller in York to the queen and duchess of Kent in 1839 (Daniel was a partner), which was probably the pretext for Daniel's later claim to have performed before the queen and her mother, and to the infant prince Alfred, at Windsor. William and Daniel were both also founder members of the York Choral Society. He was appointed a York City Wait (York Waits) in 1829. By 1833-34, he and James Walker were also leading the so-called "Orange" (whigs) election brass band, in which he played, among other instruments, the ophicleide. He was reportedly insolvent in 1847. He emigrated to Victoria in 1852.

Documentation:

York corporation minutes, 15 January 1829 (transcr. in J. Merryweather, York music)

Daniel Hardman of York, musician, app'ted one of the City Waits with the usual salary.

"MARRIAGES", York Herald [England] (14 May 1831), 3

Lately, at Nottingham, Mr. Daniel Hardman, of this city, musician, to Miss Elizabeth Pultney, of the former place.

Municipal Corporations act, discussed in York Corporation minutes, 1836 and 1837

http://www.whitecottagewebsites.co.uk/waits/notes%26queries/THE%20ACT.htm 

http://www.whitecottagewebsites.co.uk/waits/notes%26queries/archive2002.htm 

The number of City Waits was formerly five, but is now reduced to two, the vacancies occasioned by death not having been supplied. Mr. Christopher Brown and Mr. Daniel Hardman are the survivors. Their salaries are £4 per annum each, with Livery Coats and Hats found once in six years, the expense whereof has averaged £1:1:0 per annum each. Your Committee are of the opinion that the Waits and the Tipstaves may be dispensed with, and they recommend those offices to be abolished. 8th February 1836.

Resolved . . . that bonds be given under the Common Seal to Mr. Daniel Hardman and Mr. Christopher Brown, late City Waits, for securing the payment of an Annuity of £2:13:4 to each of them, for his life, being compensations directed by the Lords of the Treasury to be paid to them respectively for the loss of their said office. 13th February 1837.

"TOKEN OF RESPECT", York Herald [England] (11 May 1839), 3

At the annual meeting the York Choral Society, last week, it was determined to present Mr. Daniel Hardman, of Bridge-street, with some testimony regard for his faithful services as Vice President of the society. Accordingly a very richly chased and handsome silver snuff-box, the value five guineas, has been provided . . .

"MALTON CONCERT", Yorkshire Gazette [England] (1 April 1843), 5

. . . The vocal performers were Mr. Kaye, with Miss Andrews and Mr. Ruckley, from York. The instrumental performers were Mr. D. Hardman, the double bass, Mr. G. Hick, who presided at the piano forte, both of this city; and the rest the band was composed of native talent, being members of the Malton Harmonic Society . . . Instead of the Fantasia Extempore on the piano Mr. Hick, an overture from the "Caliph of Bagdad" was played that young gentleman, accompanied by Mr. D. Hardman on the double bass, and Mr. Kaye on the violin - it gave great satisfaction . . .

"STILLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY", York Herald [England] (1 January 1844), 7

. . . Our space will not allow us further to mention the beautiful pieces which were admirably performed, but we must not omit "O Liberty," which was sung by Mr. Wilkinson, to a very pleasing style, accompanied by W. D. Hardman on the violoncello. Handle's anthem "The waves of the Sea rage horribly," was given by Mr. Reader, with contra basso obligate, by Mr. D. Hardman . . .

"YORK CHORAL SOCIETY", York Herald [England] (1 October 1853), 9

Many of our readers will be aware that the above society, which has greatly promoted the taste for music in this city, has existed for many years, and that on most occasions it has tended much to promote the gratification of our fellow-citizens . . . Mr. North next proposed the healths of the instrumental performers, and Mr. B. Wilkinson, in returning thanks, stated that Mr. D. Hardman, late of this city, had, by constant practice, been able to surmount the difficulty of playing the double bass violin . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (23 March 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article479093 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. Thursday Weekly Concert. Mr. MEGSON, Leader. Principal Vocal Performers: - Soprano, Mrs. Testar; Tenori, Mons. Barre and Mr. Huxly; Basso, Mr. Bancroft. Principal Instrumental Performers - Messrs. Megson, Reed, Cooze, Johnson, Chapman, Hardman, Portbury, &c, with several of the Band of the 40th Regiment. Mr. Buddee, Pianist. Prices of admission - To the public, 2s. reserved seats, 3s; members of the Institution, 1s. 6d

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (28 April 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792066 

Song - Thy Mighty Power with Double Bass obligato, by Mr. Hardman, as played by Signor Dragonetti, Mrs. Testar.

"MARRIAGES", The Argus (13 March 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5788299 

"THE RECEPTION CONCERT. TO THE EDITOR", The Age (29 October 1867), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article185507219 

SIR, - As an old recipient of professional engagements from the Melbourne Philharmonic Society (I may say for fourteen years), I was surprised at remarks in Mr. Summers's letter in your issue of this morning. I can confidently assert that the Philharmonic Society has ever given encouragement to professionals, and many musicians of good standing now owe, in a great measure, their success to its assistance. I disparage no one, but cannot remain silent when an attack is made on a parent society, without which the grand works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Mendelssohn could not have been rendered. The complaint of insult to the profession is not in my experience, borne out. Royal Commissioners will, no doubt, deal fairly with any matter brought under their notice. I have performed before our beloved Queen and her mother at the York festivals; also at Windsor Palace, when Alfred was a little boy, and shall be most happy to render my aid in giving him a hearty welcome. These remarks are not intended to provoke a paper war - that is out of my line, but I trust I never was ungrateful to persons or societies from whom I have received assistance - DANIEL HARDMAN. Emerald-hill, 28th October.

"CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. YORK", Yorkshire Gazette (29 December 1883), 8

The return of Christmas has been marked by the customary festivities in York . . . before the passing of the present Act which controls municipal corporate bodies, York possessed a body of "waits" who wore clothing of corporate purchase, and other special badges, and received a fixed salary. On the abolition the office in 1835 it became a matter of consideration as to whether they were really Corporation servants, and, as such, entitled to any consideration for their loss of office. The result of an appeal to a high court was that they were official Corporation servants, and entitled to a pension, and some £8 odd annually was awarded each. The body of "waits" numbered eight, and though the pension of these officials commenced so far back as 1835, it is a singular fact that one of them still lives to enjoy the privilege of his pension, which has periodically to be sent to him, in the person Mr. Daniel Hardman, in America [sic]. The seven who had been his fellow waits died long ago, and Mr. Hardman must now be over 80 years of age.

"DEATHS", The Argus (19 August 1891), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8652689

"SEVENTY YEARS OF MUSIC. MR. A. MONTAGUE'S MEMORIES. GENESIS OP THE PHILHARMONIC. IV.", The Argus (10 October 1925), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2150469

. . . My two first friends in the orchestra of the Philharmonic were Mr. Daniel ("Daddy") Hardman and Mr. "Sam" Chapman, 'cello and double bass players respectively. Hardman, a very old man, came from Yorkshire, the most musical county in England, and was a very experienced player on both instruments. He claimed to have played the overture to "Der Freischutz" under Weber's own direction, which is sufficient honour for any one individual, and he declared that Weber did not take it as fast as we were doing then.

Bibliography and resources:

J. W. Knowles, A list of York musicians from early times to present day (1924)

https://cyc.sdp.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/1018062 

Ian Jones, Brass bands in York 1833-1924 (York: Borthwick Publications, 1995), 4-6

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LOc1HX5Yh3EC&pg=PA4 (PREVIEW)

Ray Farr, The Distin legacy: the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 3, 7

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0-QxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 (PREVIEW)

Richard Rastall, "THE YORK HARDMAN FAMILY", York music update

http://www.townwaits.org.uk/yorkmusic_update.shtml 

HARDY (father and son)

Violinist, blind fiddler

Active Hobart, TAS, 1850

Documentation:

"Court of Requests . . . Hardy v. Dann", The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (14 November 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226532156 

Mr. McMinn for the plaintiff. This was an action by the plaintiff, a blind fiddler, for £8 8s. being waged for playing the violin in the defendant's public-house for a certain period. Plaintiff's son, a little boy 12 years old, who leads about his blind father, proved that the defendant had signed a written agreement, whereby he agreed to pay his father 8l 8s. for the son's fiddling for a certain period. The witness played for three months, and received all except 3l. After that period the defendant told the plaintiff that fiddling had been stopped, and he had no farther occasion for his son's services; but if it was allowed again he would still have him. The boy played from 6 to 10 p.m. in the defendant's house every night; the witness chiefly supports his blind father by playing the violin; the agreement between the parties was for six months. The defendant proposed adducing Mr. Vine as a witness, but as he had not given four days' notice of the nature of the defence, as ordered by the Act of Council, the evidence was rejected. Judgment for the plaintiff, 8l 8s.

HARDY, George (George HARDY)

Musician, clarinet player, bandsman (Band of the 12th Regiment), bandmaster, soldier

Born Bury St. Edmunds, England, 13 July 1833
Married Eliza Catchpole, Bury St. Edmunds, early 1854
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 19 October 1854 (per Camperdown, with the Band of the 12th Regiment)
Discharged (12th Regiment), Sydney, NSW, 1863
Died Maryville, NSW, 21 August 1896, aged 63

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 12th Regiment

Documentation:

"THE LATE MR. GEORGE HARDY. Funeral of a Well-known Musician", Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (24 August 1896), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136256202 

THE attendance yesterday at the funeral of Mr. George Hardy was greater than had been anticipated. The route from Smedmore to Honeysuckle Point Station was lined with spectators. The band, mustering over 40 performers, played the "Dead March in Saul," the weird strains being most impressive. Mr. Barkel was with the Model Band, and the 4th Regiment was present. The suburban bands were well represented by Adamstown, with Mr. Scott, and Lambton, the Maitland Band also being represented. The basses were remarkably strong, and added greatly to the effect. The musical profession were represented by Mr. Len. Williams, J. Fry, Professor Bellini, B. Oliver, and others.

Mr. George Hardy was a native of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, and arrived in Melbourne as a bandsman in her Majesty's 12th Regiment in 1854. After two years he proceeded to Tasmania, and remained there till 1858, when he came to Sydney, receiving his discharge in 1863. He resumed his trade as a bootmaker, and, organising a band amongst his fellow tradesmen, he filled the position of bandmaster with credit to the band and himself. He also held the position of solo clarionet player in Lyster's Opera Company for a considerable period. In 1873 he received the appointment of bandmaster of the Newcastle Naval Brigade Band and also of the Volunteer Artillery Band, both bands gaining a local reputation for their bands and bandmaster. He was also bandmaster of the Great Northern Band - a popular band with the public for a long time. He was also bandmaster of several suburban bands. A large number of Newcastle musicians directly or indirectly owe their introduction to Orpheus to George Hardy. Beginners he was always willing to assist in their musical career. His name forms a connecting link between the old country musicians, such as Gladney, Bertinshaw, Phasey, and last but not least Sergeant Hardy of the Scots Guards, a cornet player never surpassed and seldom equalled for tone and execution, as Crystal Palace and Alhambra audiences can testify.

He leaves a family of four sons and three daughters all proficient musicians, who feel their loss. Mr. Hardy was a worthy citizen of Newcastle for over 23 years. He was a member of the M U.O.O.F., also a member of the Black Preceptory, and has been for 35 years a member of the R.O.F., of which he was Chief Ranger for three years. Their respect and esteem for the deceased was shown by their attendance in large numbers. Newcastle has had good cause to be proud of her bandmasters, as owing to their tuition Newcastle musicians stand second to none. What is required is appreciation similar to that meted out to bands such as those of Newtown and Bathurst. Bandmasters and bandsmen are worthy of it, as they never refuse to attend a charitable affair.

"Deaths", Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (29 August 1896), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136257115 

HARDY. -Died, 21st August, at his residence, Hannell-street, Maryville, George Hardy, bandmaster. late bandsman H.M. 12th Regt., aged 63.

Bibliography and resources:

B. and M. Chapman, "Private George Hardy (c.1833-1895)", Australia's red coat regiments (archived NLA Pandora)

https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20200609043359/http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~garter1/history/hardy%20george.htm 

HARDY, George (George HARDY)

Musician, violinist, fiddler

Active north east VIC, 1859

Documentation:

"Indigo Police Court", Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (31 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117925630 

"INDIGO POLICE COURT", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (1 February 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117925647

George Hardy, on remand from Saturday was also brought up charged with the same [licensing] offence . . . Bassett's former depositions were read, and having been sworn, he was cross-examined by Mr. Norton, saw defendant playing a fiddle inside the place, we drunk dark brandy, it is a calico house. Mr. Norton stated that he should clearly prove that the place was not a calico place, and that the defendant was only hired to play the violin, at night, at the place spoken of by the witnesses he called. Robert Coventry, deposed . . . heard an agreement made by Hardy to play the violin for two pounds per week, the agreement is in my hand writing . . .

HARENDORFF, Herr (Herr; Mr. HARENDORF; HARNDORFF; ? = HANDOFF)

Musician, instrumentalist, ? double bass player

Active VIC, 1854-62

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

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 April 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806299 

[Advertisement], The Argus (19 June 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794030 

GRAND CONCERT. To-night Monday, 19th June,
At the CRITERION HALL, For the Benefit of the Criterion Band.
On which occasion only the following talented artistes will appear:-
Vocalists: Miss Hamilton, Mrs. George Cox, Mr. Barsham, Mr. Gover
Instrumentalists: Herr Strebinger, Mr. Weston. Mr. Wild, Mr. James Thorne, Signor Maffei, Mr. George Chapman, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hartigan, Herr Koehler, Herr Harendorff
Together with the entire Criterion Orchestra . . .

"COUNTY COURT", The Star (10 September 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66050117 

Harendorff v. Simms - An action for £4 10s, for services rendered by the defendant, and two other musicians at the Nugget Hotel, Buninyong. As it appeared the defendant was by no means liable, judgment was given for the defendant, with 15s costs.

[Advertisement], The Star (6 June 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66053450 

[Advertisement], The Star (24 October 1862), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66328150 

HARLAND, Julia (Julia Susannah WALLACK; Miss Julia WALLACK; Mrs. William HOSKINS, alias Julia HARLAND)

Musician, vocalist, actor, manager

Born Washington, DC, USA, c. 1819; daughter of Henry John WALLACK (1792-1870) and Frances JONES (d. 1836)
Married William HOSKINS (1816-1886), St. Margaret next Rochester, Kent, England, 3 September 1842
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 27 June 1856 (per James Baines, from Liverpool, England, 6 April)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 30 June 1856 (per London, from Melbourne, 28 June)
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 19 August 1872

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

ASSOCIATIONS: William Hoskins (husband, actor, performing and business partner); Henry John Wallack (actor, father)

Summary:

Julia was a daughter of the English actors Henry John Wallack and Frances Jones, who had married at St. Mary, Lambeth, on 20 November 1814.

Julia later claimed to have been born in Washington, D.C., in c. 1819/20, which seems likely, given that her father was reported to have performed in Baltimore in 1818/19, and that, on the family's next documented arrival in New York, from Hull, on 2 May 1821, they gave Julia's age as 2. Julia and her sister Fanny (1822-1856) were only very belatedly baptised together as adults, in London, in September 1852.

Julia's earliest certainly documented stage performance was in New York in December 1839, when she appeared with her father and sister Fanny in The hunchback at the New Chatham Theatre. She made her first stage appearance as a vocalist in New York in October and November 1840, in the opera Ahmed al Kamel, under the direction of the English composer and impresario, Charles Edward Horn, who was also reported to be her singing teacher. The following month she was given the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, which she sustained into the next year.

In Rochester, England, in September 1842 she married the fellow actor William Hoskins, and the new couple returned to New York immediately, where William briefly played opposite Emma Brougham, and Julia sang at the Park Theatre in The Israelites in Egypt, a staged pasticcio by Rophino Lacy of extracts from Handel's Israel in Egypt and Rossini's Mosè in Egitto.

They had returned again to England by mid November. Julia continued to appear regularly in London and the provinces under her maiden name as Miss Julia Wallack until June 1847. In Dublin, later that year, she made her debut as Julia Harland, with her vocal teacher, Henry Allen. She continued to appear opposite Allen during 1848, but by September 1849 was reported to be a pupil of the younger Manuel Garcia.

In March 1853, Hoskins and Harland first appeared with the young pianist Linly Norman. Later, in January 1855, the three began a provincial tour as the English Opera Company. Hoskins and the opera company last appeared at Gloucester in March and early April 1856, cutting short their advertised season in order to sail for Australia, with Walter Sherwin (tenor), and Robert Farquharson (bass, known in England as Farquharson Smith).

According to a report in the London press, they had been engaged by John Melton Black, proprietor of the Theatre Royal Melbourne, who accompanied them on the trip out.

Documentation:

LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship William from Hull, for New York, 2 May 1821; US National Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYM237_1-0855 (PAYWALL)

Wm. H. Wallack / 28 / Comedian / Great Britain
Fr's Wallack / 24 // Jas. W. Wallack / 3 // Julia Wallack / 2 . . .

[Advertisement], The evening post [New York, USA] (23 December 1839), 3

MR. H. WALLACK'S BENEFIT. NEW CHATHAM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Dec. 23,
will be presented the Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter - Mr. Wallack;
Julia - Miss Julia Wallack; Helen - Miss Fanny Wallack . . .

"National. Horn's New Opera", The ladies' companion (November 1840), 49

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lMEkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA49 

. . . A word now of the opera, Ahmed Al Kamel, - we wish we could speak of it in terms of praise, but as candid critics, we cannot . . . One of the most passable compositions in the opera, is the ballad sung by Miss Julia Wallack. This young lady, from a first appearance, and considering the arduous task allotted to her, acquitted herself most meritoriously; she has a most flexible and melodious voice; assiduity and study, we trust, will not by her be neglected, and a prosperous career will be sure to follow . . .

"The Winter Concerts", New-York mirror (13 February 1841), 55

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HsJCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55 

We were surprised and disappointed in not having heard the name of Miss Julia Wallack mentioned among those of the vocalists recently at Niblo's Concerts d'Hiver à-la-Musard. We had hoped that upon the discontinuance of the performances at the Park and National theatres, that as many of the principle artistes as possible who had been engaged at both houses, would have found employment for their talents elsewhere. Especially had we looked to see as great a number of vocalists from the National engaged at Niblo's as would have proved attractive. Miss Wallack, although quite young, and a debutante in music, possesses much talent, great worth, and is a most interesting girl, and many would be glad to hear her sweet voice among those who have contributed to render the winter concerts so popular. Practice must rid Miss Wallack of that undue degree of diffidence which characterized her efforts at the National theatre; but under the tuition of such an accomplished master as Mr. Horn, she will become one of the best among the many excellent vocalists now in this country . . .

[Advertisement], The evening post [New York] (31 May 1841), 3

NIBLO'S GARDEN . . . will be opened for the season, on MONDAY EVENING, May 31st 1841 . . . the present company consists of . . . Mrs. Rivers, Miss Julia Wallack, Miss Fanny Wallack . . . a new Burletta . . . called the SERGEANT'S WEDDING . . . Katrina, in which she will introduce a new Chansanette [sic], called the "Wizard" - Miss J. Wallack . . .

Marriages, St. Margaret Next Rochester, Kent, 1842; England, select marriages

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/944390:9852 (PAYWALL)

3 September 1842 / William Hoskins / son of Abraham Hoskins / and Julia Susannah Wallack / daughter of Henry John Wallack

"MARRIAGES", Kentish Gazette [England] (13 September 1842), 3

Sept. 3, at Rochester, Mr. W. Hoskins, to Julia, daughter of Mr. H. Wallack, manager of the Kent theatres.

"THEATRE ROYAL", Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent [Ireland] (6 November 1847), 2

Last night the new opera by Loder, called the Night Dancers, and founded the celebrated ballet of Giselle; or, the Willis, was produced with the moat complete and unequivocal success . . . Miss Julia Harland, the fair pupil of Mr. Allen, who on this occasion made only her sixth appearance in the lyric drama, performed the difficult part of Giselle in a style that amply justifies us in predicting for her the very highest triumphs that combined musical and dramatic genius can win. There was a delicacy, a grace, a pure maidenly feeling in every expression and movement that the audience felt to be irresistibly charming. Passion never was exaggerated, as is too much the fashion in your coypists of Italian fervor, and yet never was aught more removed from coldness or primness than her easy, animated, and purely natural acting. In the air, "I dreamt we stood before the altar," wherein she relates to her lover the sad forebodings of her vision of Willis' life, the sweet qualities of her voice, and its careful cultivation, were peculiarly observable. Nothing could be more touching than the tender tones in which she dwelt upon the sorrowful passages; and indeed the loud encore that followed was eminently deserved. In the beautiful air, "What delightful being's this?" sung on rising from the grave to her new life as a moonlight dancer, she was equally effective. But perhaps it was in the duet with Mr. Allen - "He loves me not!" - that her beautiful singing and delightful acting united won the greatest triumph. Nothing could be more naturally effective than the manner in which, while singing, she pulled the flower to pieces; and perhaps our stage has not often witnessed a more perfect exemplification of that most difficult achievement - the ars celare artem. In the rapturous finale, "Happy Giselle," with its brilliant cadenza and quick bursts of melody, Miss Harland had an opportunity for full display of her powers; and the applause which followed, applause as enthusiastic as that usually bestowed on the "Do not mingle one human feeling" of Sonnambula - was a tribute justly deserved . . .

[Advertisement], Freeman's Journal [Dublin, Ireland] (6 November 1847), 1

THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN. Mr. ALLEN, Primo Tenore, from the Theatre Royal, Drury lane, is engaged for a few nights, and will make his Seventh appearance on THIS EVENING (Saturday), with his Pupil, MISS JULIA HARLAND, her Seventh performance in the Lyric Drama, and who continues to be received with most enthusiastic applause. THIS PRESENT SATURDAY, November 6, 1847, will be produced a new Grand Romantic Opera In Three parts, called THE NIGHT DANCERS; PARTLY FOUNDED ON THE POPULAR BALLET "GISELLE." The Music by Mr. Loder . . . Albert, Mr. Allen; Giselle, Miss Julia Harland; Fridolin, Mr. Henry Corri . . .

"THEATRE ROYAL", Dublin Evening Post (11 November 1847), 3

. . . On Tuesday evening Wallace's opera of Maritana was produced in a style highly creditable. The part Don Cesar de Bazan afforded Mr. Allen an opportunity of displaying those talents as a vocalist which have raised him to the first rank in his profession . . . Miss Harland, as Maritana, won still more with a Dublin audience from her finished execution and sweet voice . . .

"MUSICAL MEMS . . . PROVINCIAL OPERA", The era [London, England] (6 February 1848), 10

Our favourite tenor singer, Mr. Allen, and his fair pupil, Miss Julia Harland, assisted by a basso cantante of good promise, who has been studying some time under Mr. Allen's tuition, are, we learn, about to start for the provinces to fulfil some lucrative engagements. They open at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, early in March, and from thence prosecute their tour through the country. Our readers will recollect the accounts of the sensation made by Miss Julia Harland, in Dublin, a few weeks since; there was but one opinion amongst the musical Irish as to her vocal and histrionic talent. She performed in "La Sonnambula," "Lucia," "Maritana," and "The Night Dancers," with the greatest eclat. The intention of Mr. Allen to perfect Miss Harland in the provinces, previous to her making her appearance on the London boards, accounts for his unexplained relinquishment of the repeated offers of Jullien, Bunn, and others, to perform in London during the present season. We understand Mr. Allen intends to treat his provincial friends with some musical novelties, amongst others the new operetta by our talented countryman, Mr. E. J. Loder. Miss Harland will also appear in Dublin for the first time in the operas of "Anna Bolena," "I Puritani," and the "Bohemian Girl."

[Advertisement], Cork Examiner (14 April 1848), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000425/18480414/057/0002 (PAYWALL)

MR. ALLEN Begs respectfully to announce . . .
he purposes giving TWO CONCERTS on MONDAY Next, 17th Inst.,
at the IMPERIAL HOTEL . . . Morning . . . and . . . EVENING . . .
Mr. ALLEN Will be assisted by his Pupil, Miss JULIA HARLAND . . .
Monsr. BOULLEMIER, and Mr. W. F. GILLESPIE, who will preside at the Piano Forte . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Anthony Boullemier (violin, later active in VIC)

"PRINCESS'S THEATRE", London evening standard [England] (5 October 1848), 3

The opera of Lucia di Lammermoor was played at this theatre last night, for the purpose of introducing a Misa Julia Harland, a pupil of Mr. Allen, as the heroine. The performance was far from being satisfactory to those who judge of operatic singing by a high standard, belonging entirely to that rank of mediocrity in which there is little or no promise. The debutante has a pleasing face and a fine figure, and so far is well favoured by nature for stage exemplifications; but in other respects there seems to be but small endowments to challenge success. Her voice is thin and unmusical, and when forced beyond its natural tones singularly acute and pungent, while there is a general falseness of intonation which still further dissatisfies the ear. It is a pity that these untried and immature vocalists should make these large and hazardous attempts; a lower species of ambition would be wiser, and the prospects of ultimate success more likely to fructify. Miss Harland had, of course, ample support from her friends; she was called for, before the curtain, after the first act, and again at the close of the opera. Mr. Allen was the Edgardo, and sang with his customary taste and sensibility; and the other parts were filled by Mr. Weiss and Mr. Gregg.

"GRECIAN SALOON", Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (16 September 1849), 10

The opera of "The Syren" is too familiar to the English public to render a detailed analysis of its merits necessary . . . The new version produced here on Monday was completely successful. It had the great merit of being placed on the stage in a style of superiority not always found at theatres having much greater pretensions than the one now under notice, and of being played in a manner reflecting much credit on all engaged in its representation. Miss Julia Harland, in her performance of Zerlina, did not lose a jot of the triumph she achieved in Amina, but has increased her reputation, and puts forth a new and strong claim for a high position in her profession by the artistic excellence she displayed in the delineation of the young mountain warbler echoing "her wood notes wild" among the heights of the Abruzzi. She is not seen in the first act; but her beautiful cadences and snatches of song which are heard from the wings and the back of the stage during its progress, formed a charming and promising prelude to her subsequent performances. She runs a scale of semitones through, the entire compass of her voice with the greatest facility. The graces and embellishments she employs are in the best taste, and always in character with the music she is singing. She always excels in the delivery of cantabile passages - witness the air in the commencement of the second act, "Beware, my pretty maidens;" and the duetto, "'Tis some mountaineer," both of which were delivered with depth of sentiment and impassioned expression. The sparkling roulades which so profusely adorn many of the airs in this opera are perfect specimens of truthfulness and facility. Her acting, too, is most natural - void of all effort at stage trickery. No wonder that the audience encored all that could be encored, and were enthusiastic in their applause as she crossed the stage at the conclusion. Miss Harland was formerly a pupil of Mr. Allen, but is now under the instruction of M. Emanuel Garcia. Mr. Frazer used his best efforts to support Miss Harland throughout the opera, rendering that lady essential service . . .

England census, 30 March 1831, Clerkenwell, Middlesex; UK National Archives, HO107/1519/202/4

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/2803659:8860 (PAYWALL)

63 St. John St. Road / William Hoskins / Head / Mar. / 35 / Comedian / [born] Derbyshire Newton Solney
Julia Susanna [Hoskins] / Wife / Mar. / 30 / Singer and Actress / [born] America Washington . . .

Baptisms solemnized [at Church Church, Broadway] in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster in the county of Middlesex, in the year 1852; City of Westminster Archives Centre, CCB/PR/1/1

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/17211:61866 (PAYWALL)

No. 663 / [1852] Sept'r 2 / Julia Susannah / [daughter of] Henry John & Frances / Wallack / Lynn in Norfolk / Gentleman . . .
No. 664 / [1852] Sept'r 2 / Frances / [daughter of] Henry John & Frances / Wallack / Lynn in Norfolk / Gentleman . . .

"MR. HOSKINS'S SHAKSPEARIAN ENTERTAINMENT", Morning Advertiser [London] (23 March 1853), 6

What may termed chamber entertainments seem to be daily gaining increasing favour in public estimation, and there are many reasons why they should, were there the time to descant upon them. Last night Mr. Hoskins added novel one to the many before the town, and produced at Sadler's Wells Theatre what he terms "Leaves from the Life, and Lays from the Lyre of William Shakspeare." It consists of two parts, the first on "the Ballad Literature of Shakspeare," which, besides being illustrated by the lecturer in a few brief and clever sentences, is vocalised by a small band of singers, consisting of Miss Julia Harland, Miss Brunton, Miss Fanny Beaumont, Messrs. Sharpe, Price, and Beale, the whole being conducted by Mr. Linly Norman. They performed a dozen of the most noted of the ballads which are interspersed in the plays. Miss Harland is by much the foremost singer of this little company, and sang "When daisies pied," "Come unto this Yellow Sand," and "Where the Bee Sucks," with great effect and feeling, and elicited on every occasion an encore . . .

[News], The globe (7 November 1853), 2

An English opera company, comprising Messrs. Reeves, Weiss, Farquharson Smith, Horncastle, Manvers, and Mrs. Sims Reeves and Miss Julia Harland, commence the season at Birmingham this evening.

"LYCEUM THEATRE", The musical world (19 August 1854), 555

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9JkPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA555 

Taking advantage of the recess, Mr. Allcroft engaged Mr. and Mrs. Sims Beeves for a series of three farewell performances in English opera previous to their departure for the provinces. These commenced on Wednesday with Balfe's Bohemian Girl, which not having been heard in London for a long time was almost as good as a novelty . . . Besides Mr. and Mrs. Sims Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Manvers, the cast included Miss Julia Harland as the Gipsy Queen, and Mr. Farquharson as Devilshoof . . .

[Advertisement], Cheltenham Looker-On (20 January 1855), 1

Royal Old Well. ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY. From the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. FOR A LIMITED NUMBER of NIGHTS, commencing MONDAY, Jan. 22, 1855, comprising the following eminent Artistes: - MISS JULIA HARLAND, MISS FANNY REEVES, MR. HENRY CORRI, MR. OLIVER SUMMERS, and MR. ELLIOT GALER, the new English Tenor. Conductor, MR. LINLY NORMAN. On MONDAY, Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, And the Musical Farce of NO SONG NO SUPPER . . .

"THE THEATRE", Gloucester Journal (19 January 1856), 3

Want of space compelled us to defer anything like a detailed notice of the Operatic Company during the last week of their engagement here. The novelties produced were the Mountain Sylph and Don Pasquale, the first time that either has been played at Gloucester. The music of the former, but too little known opera, was very nicely executed, Miss Harland playing the heroine . . . And while are on the subject of accompaniments we must not omit our warmest praise to Mr. Linly Norman, who is one of the best accompanyists we have heard, his touch being at the same time delicate and firm, and his playing always correct and tasteful. The performances on Wednesday being under the patronage of the City Sheriff (J. M. Butt, Esq.), and for the benefit of Miss Harland, a house literally crammed to the ceiling assembled to witness the Elixir of Love and Guy Mannering . . . Friday being an extra night, and the last of the season, Don Pasquale, one of Donizetti's most elegant operas, was produced . . . we must say that were excessively pleased the thoroughly finished and artistic manner which it was represented. Miss Harland, as Norina, was delightfully arch and coquettish . . . We hear that their next visit will be about April.

"GLOUCESTER - Theatre Royal", The era (23 March 1856), 11

Mr. Hoskins, the well-known comedian, gave a very clever entertainment last Monday . . . He was assisted in the musical portion by Miss Harland, Miss Maria Stanley, and Mr. Linly Norman. Miss Harland, who is a favourite here, was most cordially received, and encored in several of the Shaksperian songs; and Mr. Norman displayed his talent as a pianist by playing Thalberg's arrangement from Mose en Egitto . . .

"GLOUCESTER (From our own Correspondent)", The musical world (29 March 1856), 197

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_pkPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197

An entertainment called Leaves from the Life and Lays from the Lyre of William Shakespere was given here last Monday by Mr. Hoskins, a comedian, well known in London. He was assisted by Miss Harland, Miss Maria Stanley, and Mr. Linly Norman. The first lady was encored in several songs; and the entertainment was very successful.

"THEATRICAL ARTISTES FOR AUSTRALIA", The morning chronicle (7 April 1856), 3

Mr. J. H. Wilton has engaged a corps of theatrical artistes, who will take their departure for Australia in the ship James Baines, which was expected to sail from Liverpool for Melbourne on Sunday morning. They have been engaged for the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and will be accompanied by Mr. Black, the lessee and builder of that establishment, and by Mr. W. N. Lyons, Mr. Wilton's locum tenens. The artistes already engaged by Mr. Wilton are Miss Fitzpatrick, Miss Julia Harland, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. Farquharson, Mr. Sherwin, and Mr. Linley Norman, Mddle. d'Antoine, and Mons. Martin. Mr. Wilton is also in treaty for an Australian trip, with Mr. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wallack, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon, and Miss Cushman, Mr. Charles Matthews having for the present declined Mr. Wilton's offer, on the score of the ill-health of his wife (Madame Vestris.)

"GLOUCESTER - Theatre Royal", The era (13 April 1856), 11

Much disappointment was occasioned last week by the non-appearance of Miss Julia Harland, who was announced to play in the opera of Maritana, with Mr. Linly Norman as conductor. In consequence of their absence the house was closed on the Monday night . . . (We may as well state here that Miss Harland and Mr. Norman sailed for Australia last Sunday in the James Baines, from Liverpool.)

Australia (from 27 June 1856):

"THEATRICAL", The Argus (27 June 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7132148 

By the James Baines the following members of the musical and theatrical professions have arrived: - Miss Julia Harland, soprano; Mr. Walter Sherwin, tenor; and Mr. Robert Farquharson, bass. Mr. Linley Inman has accompanied these artistes as musical director and conductor, and they bring with them a repertory of thirty operas, with dresses and personal appointments complete. Mr. Hoskins, a light comedian of ability, formerly attached to the Sadler's Wells Theatre, also forms part of the troupe, and will proceed forthwith to Sydney, where they are under engagement for the present.

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED" and "THE R.M.S. JAMES BAINES", The Age (28 June 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154866486 

June 27 - James Baines, R.M, ship, 2315 tons, C. McDonald, from Liverpool 6th April . . .

"THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL", The Age (28 June 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154866485 

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Age (28 June 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154866486 

JUNE 30. - London (s.), 700 tons, Captain Watts, from Melbourne 28th instant. Passengers . . . Miss Harland, Mrs. Farquharson . . . Messrs. . . . Norman, Hoskins, Sherwin, Farquharson . . .

"ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE", The Sydney Morning Herald (12 July 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12984711 

The opera season commenced on the evening of Tuesday last, with Bellini's never-tiring "La Sonnambula." The occasion introduced to the Sydney public the new company who arrived in this colony, per the James Baines. The opera was supported in a manner worthy the patronage of "the lovers of the divine art." The performance being indebted for its success to a combination of talent, rather than to individual display. The musical firmament resembled a galaxy of lesser luminaries, unattended with any "bright particular star." The result of this union caused an evenness and compactness that perhaps has not been so complete and finished on any former representation. The prima donna, Miss Julia Harland, is a lady possessing considerable musical qualifications, and the impression she made as Amina was attended with success, both decided and enthusiastic. She was well supported by Mr. Walter Sherwin, as Elvino; his voice is a rich tenor, of good compass, flexibility, and sweetness. Although in those scenes where he doubts the fidelity of Amina, she sang with expression and feeling, and gave evidence of much study and careful training, he nevertheless lacked somewhat the skill of the dramatic artiste, and would tender the role more effectively by using a greater amount of earnestness and energy in his impersonation. Mr. Farquharson, as the "Count Rodolpho," enlisted the audience entirely in his favour. His voice is a fine basso, and his style artistic and descriptive . . .

"THEATRE ROYAL. OUR LYCEUYM. ENGLISH OPERA", The Argus (1 September 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7135802 

The Queen's Theatre, re-baptized under the title of "Our Lyceum," opens this evening with an English operatic troupe, under the management of Mr. John Black. The opera selected for the occasion is the "Bride of Lammermoor," and it will be the first time Donizetti's celebrated work has been presented in an English dress to a Victorian audience. Having had the advantage of witnessing a rehearsal we are enabled to give as an opinion that success will be found to be merited by the new arrivals, and we therefore look to see it achieved. Miss Julia Harland, the prima donna, is a daughter of Mr. Henry Wallack, well known to the British and American boards. From the slight opportunity we have had of judging of her professional qualities we are inclined to augur for her a flattering success. We have also a good opinion of the qualifications possessed by Mr. W. Sherwin, the tenor, and hope to see him ere many nights have elapsed a favorite with our Melbourne play-goers. Mr. Farquharson is decidedly an immense acquisition to our corps d'opera, and although Ashton is not a telling part for him, we anticipate a grand treat for the patrons of Our Lyceum this evening from the thoroughly established reputation which this excellent singer has acquired in the mother country, and which has been fully endorsed by our Sydney neighbors. Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Fiddes will, we believe, also appear. The orchestra and chorus have been judiciously selected. The former is under the direction of Mr. Linley Norman, with Strebinger for leader, and numbers several of our most popular instrumental performers, including Messrs. King (first violin), Johnson (clarionet), Hartigan (ophecleide), and in addition a Mr. Siche [recte, Siede], a flautist of high reputation in England and Germany, and who has only very recently arrived in the colony. Mr. Hosking, an admirable light comedian, who will be well remembered by the ci-divant patrons of Messrs. Phelps and Greenwood, also makes his debut this evening as Colonel Jack Delaware, a Yankee "patter" part, in the farce of "A Fast Train."

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (8 January 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66336718 

Mr. H. J. Wallack, the well-known English actor, and former manager of the Princess' Theatre, London, arrived in this colony on Thursday last by the Black Swan. He will appear on Ballarat, at the Theatre Royal, on Friday next, when the performance will be for the benefit of Mr. Hoskins, who is about to give up his connection with that theatre.

[Advertisement], The Star (26 February 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66337616 

[Advertisement], The Star (5 April 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66343953

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (23 January 1869), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28421289

"DEATHS", The Argus (20 August 1872), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5837271

HOSKINS. - On the 19th inst., at 8 Hanover-street, Fitzroy, Julia Susannah (better known as Julia Harland) wife of William Hoskins, comedian, and daughter of the late Henry John Wallack.

"DEATH OF MISS JULIA HARLAND", The Australasian (24 August 1872), 19

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137574040 

It is with extreme regret that I find recorded the death of Mrs. William Hoskins, professionally known as Miss Julia Harland, which took place on the afternoon of the 19th at her residence, Hanover-street, Fitzroy. The deceased lady was some time back married, in England, to Mr. William Hoskins, the popular comedian and manager, who is at present on a tour with Miss Florence Colville in New Zealand.

The late Mrs. Hoskins was descended from a family highly respected in the dramatic annals of the world - the Wallacks. Her elder brother was the best representative extant of Don Caesar de Bazan, and the younger, Mr. J. W. Wallack, at present in America, is about to visit this colony in company with Mr. Theodore Hamilton. Her father, the late John Henry Wallack, when on a visit to this colony, in 1862, appeared on the occasion of Lady Dons benefit, at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, as Sir Anthony Absolute, but increasing infirmities prevented his appearing afterwards.

Miss Julia Harland made her mark in English opera years ago, when she succeeded Madame Anna Hilton at the Princess's Theatre, London, as prima donna of the English Opera Company, then under the regime of the eccentric manager, J. M. Maddox, or as Punch used to term him, "King Maddox," where, in connection with Messrs. Leffler, Donald King, H. Horncastle, and Allen, she became the English operatic star of London. Some time after she accepted a lucrative engagement with the late Mr. Thomas Rouse (Bravo Rouse!), succeeding Miss Annette Mears at the Grecian Saloon, City-road, London. During her stay at this house, under the conductorship of Mr. B. Isaacson, her brilliant talents as a lyric actress and her splendid vocalisation soon brought that little theatre into notoriety, and nightly filled the coffers of the manager. One of the best operatic companies then obtainable was engaged to support her, including Mr. Fraser, a very able tenor, who afterwards died in America; Mr. Charles Horn, son of the eminent composer; Mr. Baldwin, a baritone from the English Opera-house; Mr. Eaton O'Donnell, Mr. H. Horncastle, Mr. Pat Corri (brother in law to the late Frederick Younge), the Misses M. A. and Emma Crisp, and Miss Johnstone; and Messrs. Campbell (father-in-law to Mr. John Dunn) and R. Phillips (both dead) as managers, and the late "little Robson" as comedian - a glorious company.

After severing her connexion with the Islingtonians and the Grecian, she appeared in London during the opera seasons at several of the principal theatres. In 1856, in company with her husband (Mr. William Hoskins) and Messrs. Walter Sherwin, Farquharson, and Linley Norman, she left England for this colony, arriving here in the August of the same year, announcing themselves as the "English Opera Company." Miss Julia Harland made her first appearance in Melbourne on the 1st of the following September at "our Lyceum" Theatre in the character of Lucia, in Donizetti's opera, "The Bride of Lammermoor," Mr. Hoskins appearing the same evening as Jack Delaware in the farce "A Fast Train High Pressure-Express." The company was very successful throughout the colonies, the talents of the deceased lady being everywhere especially recognised.

In 1859 she joined the opera company at the Princess's Theatre, and in conjunction with Madame Carandini, Messrs. Laglaise, Emile Coulon, Schultz, John Gregg, and others, appeared in the first cast of Verdi's opera of "II Trovatore" presented in the Australian colonies. Miss Harland's assumption of the gipsy, Azucena, was generally, acknowledged to be a splendid and thoroughly artistic performance, and materially added to her professional reputation.

On the retirement of her husband from management in Melbourne, and during his absence from this city, the deceased lady has been living in complete retirement, and for the last few weeks has suffered most acutely from dropsy, to which she ultimately succumbed. In her private life she carried with her the sincere respect and esteem of a large circle of friends. Mr. H. H. Hoskins, solicitor, of Talbot, her brother-in-law, Mrs. Alfred Phillips, and one or two other friends were with her in her last moments. - CALL BOY.

"Miscellaneous Items", Australian Town and Country Journal (31 August 1872), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70496756

Julia Susannah, wife of Mr. William Hoskins, the well-known comedian, died on the 10th instant, at her residence, 8, Hanover-street, Fitzroy. The deceased lady was the daughter of the late Henry John Wallack, comedian, for very many years theatrical manager. Under the nom de theatre of Miss Julia Harland, the deceased came to Australia with her husband, in 1858 [sic], with the English Opera Troupe, among whom were some others well-known to fame.

Musical resources:

John of Paris, a comic opera in two acts composed & partly selected from the original French opera by Boieldieu; the poetry by J. Pocock; and adapted for the English stage by Henry R. Bishop (cover inscribed: "Julia Harland 1856")

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/42808081 

Bibliography and resources:

Joseph Norton Ireland, Records of the New York stage: from 1750 to 1860 . . . vol. 2 (New York: T. H. Morrell, 1867), 323

https://archive.org/details/recordsofnewyork00irel_0/page/n383 

[THE NEW CHATHAM THEATRE] . . . Mr. James Wallack made his first appearance on this stage as Rolla and Dick Dashall. He afterward appeared as . . . Shylock, with Henry Wallack as Pizarro . . . The latter announced his benefit on the 23d [December 1839], and the first appearance of his daughters, Julia and Fanny - an announcement that excited much interest, and but for a violent storm, would have attracted an overflowing house. The play selected for their debut was the "Hunchback," cast in the following manner: Master Walter, Mr. Wallack; Clifford, Mr. Bannister; Modus, Mr. Tuthill; Julia, Miss Julia Wallack; Helen, Miss Fanny Wallack.

Miss Julia Wallack afterward turned her attention principally to music, and in the fall of 1840, appeared at the National, in subordinate characters, both in English and Italian opera. She made her first appearance at the Park, as Elvira, in "Don Giovanni," April 13th, 1841. After visiting Europe, she returned as Mrs. W. Hoskin, and re-appeared at the Park on the 21st of October, 1842. She remained there during the run of the "Israelites in Egypt," after which she returned to England and continued on the stage as Miss Julia Harland.

Miss Fanny Wallack became more of a favorite . . . She died in Edinburgh, Scotland, October 12th, 1856, aged about 34 years.

Dec. 31st [1839]. The Misses Wallack's benefit, with the "Honey moon," thus cast: Duke Aranza, Mr. Wallack; Rolando, Mr. H. Wallack; Jacques, Mr. W. H. Williams; Juliana, Miss Julia Wallack; Volante, Miss Fanny Wallack.

Kurt Ganzl, "What a lot of Wallack!: the story of Julia Wallack aka Julia Harland (Mrs. William Hoskins), theatreheritage.org

https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/profiles/item/697 

HARLOW, Clarissa (Madame Clarissa HARLOW, pseudonym)

Musician, pianist, pianoforte player

Active Adelaide, SA, 1857

HARPER, Miss

Musician, professor of music, pianist, vocalist, organist

Born England; daughter of Samuel Charles HARPER (d.1859) and Mary Ann HARRIS (d. 1854)
Active Adelaide, SA, by 1857

Summary:

At a concert of sacred music in Adelaide in May 1857, the Register reported:

Miss Pettman, in conjunction with a young lady whose name we understood to be Miss Harper, received the honour of a recall in a duet from Fawcett's Paradise.

(John Fawcett's oratorio had been premiered in Britain only in 1853).

Later a pupil of Cesare Cutolo, on his departure in 1859 Miss Harper offered her services as a teacher to his other lady pupils. In April 1861, as recently appointed organist of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, she accompanied a performance of Mazzinghi's Mass in B flat on the harmonium.

Documentation:

"CONCERT OF SACRED MUSIC", South Australian Register (9 May 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49770202

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (2 December 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49825391 

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (9 December 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49826919

"DIED", South Australian Register (13 December 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49825111

On the 11th October, at his residence Grosvenor-street, Cheltenham, aged 72, Samuel Charles Harper, Esq., eldest son of the late Rev. Thomas Harper, of London, and father of Miss Harper, professor of music in this city.

"DEATHS", South Australian Register (15 August 1860) 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50024645

"THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL", South Australian Register (2 April 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50018360

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (18 January 1864), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39119502

"MARRIAGES", South Australian Register (26 October 1865), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41034287

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (25 January 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39181593

EDUCATION. MISS HARPER (Pupil of Signor Cutolo) has a few VACANCIES for Pupils for the PIANO. Freeman-street.

? "MISS HARPER'S SEMINARY", Northern Argus (23 December 1879), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128499439 

HARPER, Joseph (Joseph HARPER; Mr. HARPER)

Dancer, dancing master, professor of dancing

Active Melbourne, NSW (VIC), 1843

Documentation:

"DANCING", Melbourne Times (11 March 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226924982 

HARPUR, Charles (Charles HARPUR)

Poet, songwriter, song recorder

Born Windsor, NSW, 23 January 1813
Died NSW, 10 June 1868

https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-481806 (NLA persistent identifier)

Documentation:

"THE KANGAROO HUNT; OR, A MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS", The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal (28 July 1860), 345-46

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72484741 

The gooburra [Kookaburra] . . . This bird is usually called the "laughing jackass" - how tasteful and poetic! and sometimes the "snake-killer," because of its preying upon reptiles. In the early times of the colony it was pretty generally known also by the name of the "settler's clock," being thus called on account of the poorer sort of farmers (designated in the parlance of the period "dungaree settlers," from a cheap Indian cotton stuff usually worn by them) using to regulate the hour of arousing their assigned servants to labour by the laughter-like peals which it invariably utters just before and after daybreak. The following "elegant extract" from a song that was popular amongst certain of the inhabitants of Windsor during the Author's boyhood, is humorously illustrative of this particular. The song itself was a rather lugubrious description of the unpleasant surprises experienced by some newly arrived convict during the first week or so of his assignment.

Next morning as I lay a-bed
A thinking on my woe,
I hears a something near the crib
Begin to ha and hoo:
By jabers! what is that! says, I,
It gave such a shock!
Why, laughing answered an old chum,
That 'ere's the Settler's Clock.

With that I peeps all through the slabs,
And to my surprise did see,
A most remarkable looking Bird
A laughing on a tree!
And at the same time twigged the cove
His bed-room door unlock,
Crying Up to work, you lazy hounds,
For don't you hear the Clock?

HARRINGTON, Frederick (Frederick HARRINGTON: Mr. F. HARRINGTON; ? W. HARRINGTON)

Musician, vocalist, serenader, flautist, flute and piccolo player, theatrical manager

Active NSW and VIC, 1853-58

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frederick+Harrington+serenader (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 March 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12944580

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 November 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12962685

[Advertisement], Empire (5 February 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60173331

HARRIS, Flora (Miss Flora HARRIS; Flora McDonald HARRIS; Madame Flora HARRIS; Mrs. Joseph Sheridan MOORE)

Musician, soprano vocalist, pianist, teacher of singing

Born St. Mary Newington, Surrey, England, c. 1830; daughter of Robert HARRIS and Mary Anne THEW
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 15 November 1852 (per Benjamin Elkin, from London, 28 July)
Married Joseph Sheridan MOORE, Sydney, NSW, 3 October 1857
Died Sydney, NSW, 29 January 1910, aged "80"

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1586788 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

HARRIS, Gertrude (Gertrude Louise HARRIS; Mrs. Thomas LAMB)

Musician, vocalist

Born Newington, Surrey, 18 July 1834 (daughter of Robert HARRIS and Mary Anne THEW)
Active Sydney, NSW, 1855
Married Thomas LAMB, St. James's, Sydney, NSW, 14 May 1857
Died Armidale, NSW, 20 September 1903

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Gertrude+Harris+Lamb+1834-1903 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HARRIS, Haidee (Haidee Beatrice HARRIS; Mrs. W. H. HARPER)

Amateur vocalist

Born Camberwell, Surrey, England, c. 1848 (daughter of Robert HARRIS and Mary Anne THEW)
Active Sydney, NSW, 1864-65
Married Henry William HARPER, St. Paul's, Redfern, NSW, 27 December 1866
Died Manly, NSW, 5 July 1934

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Haidee+Beatrice+Harris+Harper+d1934 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

The daughter of Robert Harris (c.1796-1882) and Mary Ann Thew (b. c.1807), Flora was born c.1830 at St. Mary Newington, Surrey, London, and named after a noted ancestor in her paternal grandmother's line, Flora MacDonald, the celebrated Jacobite heroine.

Robert's father having died early, he was largely brought up by his musician elder brother, Joseph Macdonald Harris (1789-1860), who was professionally active in musical life in London in the 1820s and 1830s, and a personal friend of Braham, Tom Moore, and Isaac Nathan. Robert was later a legal officer for the City of London and was also particularly involved in health policy and sanitation reform. In 1852, he resigned and with his wife and 9 children sailed for Australia, "the salubrity of whose climate was enlarged on by other friends". Flora, 22 at the time, was with them (as she testified at the Supreme Court in November 1874).

Flora Miss Flora Harris, "from the Exeter Concerts", first appeared as a soloist with Marianne Adcock for the Sydney Choral Society in April 1853, and at John Winterbottom's promenades in May. At Coleman Jacobs's Farewell in October, the generally rather ill-disposed reviewer for the Illustrated Sydney News noted: "Miss Flora Harris has improved, and with study and care may become a tolerable singer". Again for the Sydney Choral Society in December, the Herald noted:

Miss Flora Harris sung the "Adelaide" [Beethoven] with great taste. The particular charm of her singing is in the ease with which she varies her intonation, according to the character of each passage; and this, added to the sweet quality of her voice, renders her a thoroughly satisfactory singer.

As a singing teacher, Harris advertised that her system of instruction was based on that of her own former teacher, Domenico Crivelli.

A bound album of late 18th-century Scottish and English sheet music, belonging to Haidee Harris, is in the Stewart Symonds Collection, Sydney Living Museums. The contents of the collection date mainly from the 1790s, and, according to an inscription, was given to her by her mother in 1864 (see: https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/247835256) 

Flora Harris programmed several songs by her great uncle, Joseph Macdonald Harris, in Sydney concerts, The Grecian maiden's war song [was this perhaps The Indian hunter's song?], in June 1853, We part, forever part in November 1853, and The mariner's child to his mother in January 1854

Documentation:

1851, England census, parish of St. George, Camberwell, Surrey; London, PRO H.O.107/1582

268 Albany Road / Robert Harris / Head / 54 / Accountant for City of London / . . .
Mary A [Harris] / Wife / 44 / . . .
Flora [Harris] / Daug. / 20 / Vocalist & Teacher of Music / [born] Surrey Newington
Gertrude [Harris] / Daug. / 17 / Scholar / [born Surrey Newington]
Donald [Harris] / Son / 12 / Scholar / [born Surrey Newington]
Walter [Harris] / Son / 18 / Scholar / [born Surrey Newington]
Kathleen [Harris] / Daug. / 8 / Scholar / [born Surrey Newington]
Reginald [Harris] / Son / 6 / [born Surrey Camberwell] [on next page]
Beatrice Harris / Daug. / 3 / [born] Surrey Camberwell
Malcolm Harris / Son / 2 / [born Surrey Camberwell]

"SYDNEY CHORAL SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (23 April 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12945279

"PROMENADE CONCERT", Empire (2 May 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61323845

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 May 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12945576

"MR. COLEMAN JACOB[S]'S CONCERT", Illustrated Sydney News (29 October 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63613617

"SYDNEY CHORAL SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 December 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12950856

[Advertisement], Empire (4 February 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60148947 

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC. MISS FLORA HARKIS, Pupil of Signor Crivelli, First Master of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London, begs to announce that she continues to give lessons in the Theory and Art of Singing on the system of the above named eminent Professor. Miss Flora Harris is disengaged during a portion of Wednesday and Saturday, and can refer to several of the leading families of Sydney, in confirmation of the gratifying success which has attended her plan of instruction, in which principles of acknowledged excellence are practically illustrated by appropriate examples. For cards of address, and terms, apply to Messrs. WOOLCOTT AND CLARKE, 555, George-street, and to Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Pitt-street.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 August 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12952137

[Advertisement], Empire (8 August 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60164713 

MR. FISHER'S GRAND CONCERT. NEW CONCERT HALL, ROYAL HOTEL.
THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8.
Principal Performers: Miss Flora Harris; Miss. G. Harris (her second appearance); Mrs. St. John Adcock (who will make her first appearance as a Pianist these two years); and Messrs. Fisher, R. Walcot, T. Holme, and E. Colley; assisted by an efficient and powerful chorus. Conductor, Mr. Fisher. Pianoforte, Mr. Harwood.

[D. H. Deniehy]: "To the Editor", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 January 1859), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13020180

"THE WAIL FROM ENGLAND", The Sydney Morning Herald (18 September 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13234293

"MUSIC AND THE DRAMA", Empire (20 August 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60557607

The talented and favourite artiste, Madame Flora Harris, made a deep impression by her beautiful rendering of the air "Jerusalem, thou that, killest the prophets" [Mendelssohn].

"MUSIC AND THE DRAMA", Empire (21 April 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60569820 

The duet, "To the fair," sung by Mrs. Cordner, and Miss Haidee Harris, (amateur), was so sweetly sung as to be encored, a compliment highly deserved by these ladies, the former of whom possesses a fine contralto voice, and sings with improved taste and style; and the latter is the young lady whose beautiful vocalisation is always so greatly admired - who owes much, however, to her sister, Madame Flora Harris, under whose excellent tuition she has become so good a musician. Madame Harris was suffering from indisposition, but was nevertheless much applauded for what she did . . .

"Supreme Court", Australian Town and Country Journal (28 November 1874), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70486699

In the slander action brought by Mr. Joseph Sheridan Moore and Flora (nee Madame Flora Harris,) his wife, against Mr. Robert Glynn and Elizabeth, his wife, the plaintiff recovered a verdict for one farthing, and the Chief Justice certified for costs against the defendants. The slanderous words charged the female with being an expirée convict, &c, and were uttered by the female defendant during a neighbourly quarrel. There was no truth in the slander, as Mrs. Moore came to the colony with her parents, and has been highly respected, especially in musical circles, where she gained great celebrity as a singer.

"MISS FLORA HARRIS, 1855 - MRS. SHERIDAN MOORE, 1905", The Brisbane Courier (8 April 1905), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19322317

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (31 January 1910), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15151629

"PERSONAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (31 January 1910), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15151610

By the death, at the age of 80 years, of Mrs. Flora Sheridan-Moore, a regretted event which took place on Saturday at the residence of her daughter, at the post-office Elizabeth-street South a valued link is severed in the musical chain connecting present day concert goers with those of the last generation. As a girl "Miss Flora Harris" sang in the great choir at the opening of the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, in 1851. Two years later she was soloist and chorister at St. James's Church, Sydney, and in 1854 was soloist at St. Mary's Cathedral where she remained five years. In those days, the soprano was associated on the concert platform with Catherine Hayes, Anna Bishop, Sara Flower, Lucy Escott, Mme. Carandini, and other famous artists. In 1857 the artist married Mr. J. Sheridan-Moore, a University coach and writer of that period and retired for 30 years from professional life. However, Mrs. Moore decided to join the Sydney Philharmonic Society's choir, under Signor Hazon in 1889, and sang at nearly every concert, making, as she only too justly feared, her last appearance with it in the "Messiah" on Christmas afternoon last. The deceased had expressed a wish that she might live to see Signor Hazon on his return to Australia, a few days hence, her position as vice-president of the Philharmonic having given her especial opportunities of appreciating the Italian conductor's personal worth. The deceased, who was highly esteemed by all who knew her, leaves two sons and two daughters.

"MISS FLORA HARRIS", The Brisbane Courier (23 September 1929), 17

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21460421

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 July 1934), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17080592 

Related musical editions:

Agathe, or, When the swallows homeward fly ("sung by Miss Flora Harris . . . music by Franz. Abt) (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/26793746 

I'm leaving thee, Annie! [George Barker] ("As sung by Miss Flora Harris") (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [1854, and another edition])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23002076 

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19832866 

Hearts and homes (as sung by Miss Flora Harris; composed by John Blockley) (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/18562061 

I love the merry sunshine ([music by] Stephen Glover; sung by Miss Flora Harris) (Sydney: Woolcott and Clarke, [185-?])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22562441 

The wail from England (words: J. Sheridan Moore; music: W. J. Macdougall) [1862]

NO COPY IDENTIFIED

The beauty that blooms in Australia (a song; as sung by Madame Flora Harris; words by J. Sheridan Moore; music by W. J. Macdougall) (Sydney: Wilkie, Elvy & Co., 1863)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8822882 

Bibliography and resources:

J. Sheridan Moore, Memorials of the late Robert Harris (Parramatta: John Ferguson, 1882)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/26572692 

Frances Devlin Glass, "Moore, Joseph Sheridan (1828-1891)", Australian dictionary of biography 5 (1974)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-joseph-sheridan-4234

Barbara Short, Family secrets: stories from my mother's side of the family (Epping, NSW: Barbara Short, 2012)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/188361799 

HARRIS, George Prideaux Robert (George Prideaux Robert HARRIS)

Amateur musician, flute player, flautist, deputy surveyor (David Collins' party), natural historian, magistrate

Born England, 1775
Arrived Australia, 1803-04
Died Tasmania, 16 October 1870

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-467476 (NLA persistent identifier)

Summary:

One of several early colonial naval officers who were amateur flautists (including Matthew Flinders and Daniel Woodriff), Harris was deputy Surveyor with David Collins's party to Port Phillip, on board the Calcutta in 1803-04. In a letter to his brother, dated 14 February 1804, he asked to be sent "any new songs for the flute".

Bibliography and resources:

E. R. Pretyman, "Harris, George Prideaux Robert (1775-1810)", Australian dictionary of biography 1 (1966)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-george-prideaux-robert-2161

Barbara Hamilton-Arnold (ed.), Letters and papers of G. P. Harris, 1803-1812 Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip, and Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land North (Hobart: Hear A Book, 1995)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/13451613

Freda Gray, "Music of the early settlements of the 1800s", Papers and Proceedings Tasmanian Historical Research Association 43/2 (June 1996), (59-62), 59

https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.970201336 (PAYWALL)

[59] . . . The flute belonging to the son of Captain Daniel Woodriff of H.M.S. Calcutta, one of the two ships used to transport the first settlers to Port Phillip, is still with the family in Penrith, N.S.W., while Daniel James Woodriff's music is in the safe keeping of the Mitchell Library [sic, NLA] . . . Though only 15 years old, Daniel James Woodriffwas one who wrote of the voyage in 1803. Lieutenant Nicholas Pateshall also kept a record of the voyage of the Calcutta. His interest in music was obvious, for not only did he promise his 'favourite Aunt Parry' to keep up his flute practice, but also commented on the music he enjoyed during his stopover in Rio de Janeiro. The letters of G. P. Harris, Deputy Surveyor with Collins' party, suggest that he too must have had a flute with him, for in a letter home dated 14 February 1804, he asked his brother for 'supplies', among which he included 'any new songs for the flute'. There seems little doubt that the flute was one of the easiest instruments to carry around the world . . .

HARRIS, George (George HARRIS)

Piano tuner, repairer, articled apprentice (W. J. Johnson and Co.)

Active Sydney, NSW, 1857

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 January 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12991436

PIANOFORTES - GEORGE HARRIS, late with Messrs. W. J. Johnson and Co. pianoforte-makers, &c., Pitt-street, begs to inform the inhabitants of Sydney and its vicinity that his engagement under articles has ceased, and that he intends to follow the tuning and repairing department. Orders, from town or country, addressed to HUDSON, music-seller, l8, Pitt-street North, will meet with prompt attention. 16th January 1857.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 January 1857), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28636719

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 October 1857), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13001137

HARRIS, R. (R. HARRIS)

Music printer

Active Launceston, TAS, 1866

Summary:

In August 1866, Walch of Hobart published of Frederick Augustus Packer's Curacoa valse, set and printed by R. Harris, music printer of Launceston.

HARRIS, Richard (Richard HARRIS)

Pianoforte maker

Active ? VIC, c. 1861-63

HARRIS, Robert Douglas (Robert Douglas HARRIS; R. Douglas HARRIS)

Amateur musician, cornet and cornopean player, publican, commission agent

Active Launceston, TAS, by 1858
Died TAS, 1911

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Robert+Douglas+Harris+d1911 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HARRISON, Daniel (Daniel HARRISON)

Musicseller, importer, stationer

Active Geelong, VIC, 1850

Summary:

The bulk of the contents of the shipment advertised below appear to have been published by the London firm of D'Almaine & Co. in the middle and late 1840. The prolific Richard "Ricardo" Linter (c. 1818-1886) was one of their house composers; another was Henry Frederick Hemy, who, by coincidence, himself arrived in Victoria in December 1850. In Melbourne in January 1851 Hemy himself gave what he billed as the first Australian public performances of one of the items included in the shipment, his The chimes polka.

Documentation:

[2 of several advertisements], Geelong Advertiser (13 September 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91913339 

JUST OPENED, a case of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, comprising ACOORDEONS of different sizes, some very large and superior. Flutes, Flageolets and Piccoloes. Clarinets and Violins. Violin Strings, Violin Bows, Bridges, Pegs, &c., &c. Music for Accordeon, Flute and Violin. DANIEL HARRISON. Malop-street, West.

New Music. A LARGE and varied assortment just received by the Undersigned, comprising all the New Polkes, Waltzes, Quadrilles, Songs, Duets, Rondos, Selections from Operas, &c., &c. &c. To ensure a speedy sale, they are offered at the ENGLISH PRICES without any advance, thus obviating the common complaint as to the dearness of Music in these Colonies. Thie following are a few of the pieces:-

POLKAS. La Brunette Polka - Linter; Amazon Polka - Linter; Mazeppa Polka - Linter; Queen's Polka - Bardoni; Earl of Dublin Polka - Linter; Grasshopper Polka - Linter; Oberon Polkas - Kronin; The Chimes Polkas - Hemy; Her Majesty's Court Polkas - Linter; Jetty de Treffz Polka - Norman; Jenny Lind's Polk - Wallestein; Albone Polka - Kronin

QUADRILLES. The Owl Quadrilles - Linter; La Poste Quadrilles - Schubert; Full Cry Quadrilles - Linter; Prince of Wales Quadrilles - Jullien; Royal Horse Guards Quadrilles - Linter; Les Jolies Oiseaux Quadrilles - Linter; Garland Qtadrilles - Linter; Bella Donna Quadrilles - Linter; Rose Quadrilles - Czerny; Fairy Land Quadrilles - Linter; Cameo Quadrilles - Ditto; Venetian Quadrilles - Ditto; Les Oiseaux Orientales Quadrilles - Linter; Robin Goodfellow Quadrilles - Linter; Birthday Quadrilles - Hemy

SONGS, DUETS, &c. Yes! I will write to thee; Jeanie and Donald - Hodson; They have welcomed me again; I'm thinking now of thee Jamie; The United Service Song - Linter; Standard of the free - Simpson; Oh! Clear and Winding River - Halton; Heaven is my home - Flood; The Hindoo Widow - Guernsey; I love thee tho' we've said farewell; Of what are you thinking Jenny; The Secret to be happy - Donizetti; Buy my flowers - Holmes; The Shower of Pearls - Duet, Glover; The Mill Stream - Rossini; The Bridal Blessing - Glover; A home with thee - Palmer; With my dog and my gun - Bishop; I'll roam the gay world - Loder; When in happier days we wandered - Loder; Cheer thee, dark and helpless one - Esain; My Home! my happy home - Hodson; I'll hang up my harp on a Willow tree - Guernsey

Gems of Italian Operas - Six parts; Reminiscences of Burns - Linter; Harp of Erin - Czerny; Saze Coburg March; Pestal Waltz - Linter; Promenade Waltzes - Linter; La Piuie des Perles Valse - Osborne; Linter's Album of Dance Music. Musical Bijou for 1850. These works are splendidly illuminated.

A variety of Rondos, Marches, &c., &c. DANIEL HARRISON, Malop-street West. Any of the above can be sent by post at 2d for every 4 ounces weight.

HARRISON, John (John HARRISON)

Amateur songwriter, squatter, separationist

Born Cumberland, England, 1802; baptised Camerton, 12 December 1802; son of George HARRISON and Anne KIRCUP
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by c. 1830
Married Jane HOWE, St. Philip's, Sydney, NSW, 12 February 1831
Died Williamstown, VIC, 21 July 1869, aged "67"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Harrison+1802-1869 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467520 (NLA persistent identifier)

Documentation:

"Select Poetry", The Argus (30 October 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4771964 

SEPARATION.
Tune - "Betsy Baker."

In Australasia there did dwell,
A mother and a daughter.
The lass all others did excel,
And many lovers sought her
She was fair and lovely to the eye,
The wonder of each nation!
For golden wings she'd surely,
Had she but separation.

Tol de rol, &c. &c.

The mother old and feeble was,
And peevish too besides, Sir,
Her advocates - each braying ass,
Like frogs puffed up with pride, Sir,
Cried we'll not suffer them to part,
'Tis our determination;
What use the HEAD without the HEART,
They shan't have Separation.

Her lovers then began to prate,
And said Phil' shouldn't bear it;
Why should she any longer await,
She should be FREE they'd swear it
Then George her guardian forward came,
Cried no procrastination,
Shall be unshackled from the dame.
She's ripe for Separation.

The braying donkies stood aghast,
To see he did not heed 'em,
That Justice would be done at last,
And PHILLIPPA have FREEDOM.
Her flocks and herds, may they increase,
Now Happy past probation,
And blest with LIBERTY and peace
Hurrah! for Separation.

J. H.

This allegorical ballad was published in the M. M. Herald, and other papers, five years ago, and intended to be sung at the Lang Separation Dinner but the band only played the air, which impressed the idea upon my mind that the tune might become national; it is certainly equal in musical merit to that of Yankee Doodle.

For the tickets of said dinner I wanted a suitable device for the seal, but could meet with nothing I liked so well as the head of Victoria, which I selected, not through any particular affection for the diadem, but the name. It is a singular coincidence that the latter should have been subsequently adopted to designate the province. The tickets so stated read "Victoria Separation Dinner."

J. H.

MUSIC: Betsy Baker (tune); see also in Tune archive

"SEPARATION", Bendigo Advertiser (7 July 1883), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88517885 

HARRISON, Robert

Teacher of Singing and Pianoforte

Active Adelaide, SA, 1859 ("A pupil of . . . Signor Crivelli")

Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (23 June 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49903197

MR. ROBERT HARRISON (Pupil of the celebrated Professor of Singing, Signor Crivelli, of London), begs to inform his friends and the public that he intends to Resume the MUSICAL PROFESSION and TUITION in the MODERN LANGUAGES. Singing, Pianoforte, French, German, and Italian. Residence - Sydenham Road, Norwood.

HARRISON, W. (W. HARRISON; Mr. HARRISON)

Vocalist

Active Beechworth, VIC, c. 1857

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (29 September 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113017010 

HARROLD, Mr. (Mr. HARROLD)

Actor, vocalist

Active Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), by 1837

HARROLD, Mrs. (Mrs. HARROLD)

Actor, dancer, vocalist

Active Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 1838

Documentation:

"SHIPPING LIST. ARRIVALS", Daily Southern Cross [Auckland, NZ] (23 December 1843), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18431223.2.4 

Dec. 21. "City of Sydney," brig, Monro. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomspson and three children . . . Mr. and Mrs. Harrold and child.

[Advertisement], Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist (31 January 1844), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ACNZC18440131.2.8.1 

Fitzroy Theatre . . . OPENING NIGHT, FOR MONDAY THE 5TH FEBRUARY, 1844 . . .
THE PROSCENIUM has been painted and decorated by Mr. Duke (assisted by Mr. Harold), from magnificent designs.
THE SCENERY also by Mr. Duke, is entirely new, and the new drop Curtain must be seed to be appreciated . . .
The Company will consist of
MR. BUCKINGAHM, THOMPSON, WARMAN, DUKE, Theatre Royal Sydney
HARROLD, Hobart Town; Mrs. THOMPSON, Sydney; Mrs. HARROLD, Hobart Town;
MISS BUCKINGHAM, MASTER BUCKINGHAM; MISS HAROLD . . .

HARRY

Indigenous singer, songman

Active Parramatta, NSW, ? 1817-24

See main entry:

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/checklist-indigenous-music-1.php#006 

HARRY, John (John HARRY)

Musician, bandsman

Active NSW, 1852

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Band+of+the+11th+Regiment (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Notice], New South Wales Government Gazette (27 February 1852), 364

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230658132 

REPORT of a Deserter from the 11th Regiment of Foot. - Dated at Sydney, New South Wales, 22nd February, 1852. Man's name, John Harry; age, 24 years 1 month; size, 5 feet 7 inches; complexion, fresh; hair, dark brown, and inclined to curl; eyes, brown; time of desertion, 16th February, 1852; place of desertion, Sydney, New South Wales; date j of enlistment, 28th September, 1841; at what place enlisted, Chepstow; parish and county, Chepstow, Monmouth; trade, musician, and has taken a piclo [sic, piccolo] and part of a flute with him; Regimental Band dress - white jacket and red cap; remarks, 1st desertion, and has taken only what things he had on him.
W. K. BLOOMFIELD,
Lieut.-Col. 11th Regt.

HART, Anthony (Anthony HART; A. HART)

Amateur musician, cellist

Born Hackney, London, 1831; baptised St. Mary, Haggerston, 13 November 1831; son of William Doubleday HART (1800-1847) and Ann GREEN (d. 1891)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 14 January 1833 (per Helen Marr, from London, 9 August)
Married Martha ROGERS (d. 1877), Launceston, TAS, 6 March 1855
Died Launceston, TAS, 9 June 1911

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Anthony+Hart+1831-1911 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HART-Anthony (shareable link to this entry)

Anthony Hart

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the district of St. Mary Haggerston in the county of Middlesex in the year 1831; register 1830-94, page 27; London Metropolitan Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1558/images/31280_199241-00031 (PAYWALL)

No. 211 / [November] 13 / Anthony Son of / William Doubleday & Ann / Hart / 11 Packer Street / Tin Man . . .

Passengers per Helen Marr, Hobart, 14 January 1833; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:435154; CUS30/1/1 P185

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/435154 

Will'm Harp [sic] wife & 8 children . . .

Marriages in the district of Launceston, 1855; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:852653; RGD37/1/14 no 931

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/852653 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-14$init=RGD37-1-14P388 (DIGITISED)

No. 931 / 196 / March 6th 1855 Independent Chapel Tamar St / Anthony Hart / Adult / Grocer / [and] Martha Rogers / Adult . . .

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (20 October 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65988421 

Launceston Harmonic Society.
A Public CONCERT will be given by the above Society on Friday evening the 26th October, in the large room of the Mechanics' Institute, in aid of funds for a Piano Forte ordered from England.
Conductor - Mr. T. Sharp.
Doors open at seven to commence at half-seven precisely.
Tickets - Chairs 3s. each. Unreserved Seats 2s each, to be obtained at Mr. W. Sharp's Music Warehouse, Cameron-st., Mr. Hubbard (Mr. C. J. Irvine's), Brisbane-street, Mr. Hurst's, Charles-street, Mr. Harvey's, Elizabeth-street, Mr. A. Hart's, Wellington-street, and from the members of the Society.
Wm. Stokes, Hon. Sec. Oct 20.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Sharp (conductor); William Sharp (member); John Smithen Harvey (member); William Stokes (member)

"DISSOLUTION OF MECHANICS' INSTITUTE MUSICAL UNION", Launceston Examiner (12 May 1868), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36697572 

. . . . In dissolving the Musical Union, the members had determined to present to Mr. Sharp a memento expressive of their appreciation of his services. They had decided upon presenting to him a time-piece, and an address . . . [signed]:
Thos. Brain, hon. sec.; Frederick Lakin, Frederick Richards, Thomas J. Doolan, John Frost, John Chick, A. M. Wadham, A. McArthur, Wm. Sharp, J. J. Hanchett, Anthony Hart, S. Smith, Caroline Richards, Agnes Doolan, Alban Roper, Miss Wadham, Esther Green, Geo. Orpwood . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Brain (member); Thomas Joseph Doolan (member); John Frost (member); John Chick (member); John Justinian Hanchette (member); Alban Roper (member); George Orpwood (member)

"POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT", Launceston Examiner (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); Charles Galvin (clarinet); John Morris Davies (violin and/or flute); Samuel Joscelyne (cello)

"PROMENADE CONCERT", The Cornwall Chronicle (13 October 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65987876 

The promenade concert at the Mechanics' Institute was not so well attended yesterday evening as might have been expected, considering the ability of the musical amateurs under the conductorship of Mr. T. Sharp . . . The concert was opened with the overture to the opera "Bohemian Girl," and it was finely rendered by Mr. T. Sharp, Rev. W. A. Brooke, Messrs. W. Abbott, S. Joscelyne, A. Hart, C. Galvin, Roberts, Chick, and Harris . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Warren Auber Brooke (musician)

"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 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)

"CONCERT AT CARRICK (By our Special Reporter)", The Cornwall Chronicle (30 March 1874), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66077657 

On Friday last another of those pleasant little concerts for which Carrick is acquiring a reputation was given in the new school-room . . . and the arrangements were conducted by Mr. T. Sharp . . . the orchestra for the opening piece[,] Messrs. T. Sharp, W. Sharp, A. Hart, W. Abbott, Douglass Harris, Day, Chick, and Tevelein then stepped forward and delivered the favorite overture, "Il Tancredi," in a style that called forth great applause . . . After an interval of ten minutes the orchestra performed the overture "The Caliph of Bagdad," and gave the country residents another treat, as it is rarely such a band of performers can be found at a country entertainment . . .

"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 . . .

"ABOUT PEOPLE", Examiner (10 June 1911), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50478824 

The death of Mr. Anthony Hart, at his residence, "Annieville," Trevallyn, yesterday afternoon removes another link binding the present with old Launceston days. Although not a native, deceased was only two years of age when he first arrived in the city with his parents. This was as far back as 1832. The ship on which he embarked in London occupied six months on the voyage to Tasmania. Educated by Mr. Duncan McCaig, Mr. Hart served his apprenticeship to the carpentering trade. Like many others, though, he was attracted to the Victorian gold diggings in the boom days. Returning to Launceston he put his trade on one side and entered into the grocery business in Elizabeth-street, and afterwards opened a branch in Wellington-street. His career was successful, and about 21 years ago he gave up business, and has since been living in retirement. Many efforts were made to induce him to enter into public life, but without success. When the Trevallyn Town Board was formed he was elected one of its members, and took an active interest in the welfare of that suburb until within a year or so of its being taken over by the city. He was one of the oldest members of the Mechanics' Institute and Tamar-street Independent Church, and for many years was on the committee of the former. Mr. Hart was particularly fond of music. His favourite instrument was the violoncello. He was connected with the Launceston Musical Union, under the conductorship of Mr. Alex. Wallace, during the whole of its existence, and was a member of the orchestra. Even to within the last week or two he expressed a desire of having a musical evening as soon as he was well enough. On Thursday week he had a slight paralytic seizure, which forced him to take to his bed, and, sinking gradually, he breathed his last at 5.15 yesterday afternoon. Deceased was of a very retiring disposition, but was greatly esteemed by all who know him. His three brothers William, Frank, and Frederick predeceased him. Mrs. Hart survives him, also one son, Mr. Charles Hart, who is employed at Messrs. Wm. Hart and Sons. The funeral is appointed to leave at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow for Carr Villa Cemetery.

HART, Augusta (Prudence Augusta HUGHES; Mrs. James Peter HART; Mrs. HART; Augusta HART)

Actor, vocalist

Born c. 1811/13; daughter of Hugh HUGHES and ? ST. CLAIR
Married James Peter HART (d. by 1852), by 1829
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by September 1848
Died Carlton, VIC, 13 March 1889, aged 76/78

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Prudence+Augusta+Hughes+Hart+d1889 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HART, Margaretta (Margaretta Louisa Hughes HART; Miss HART; Mrs. Samuel Ashmore PRITCHETT)

Actor, dancer, vocalist

Born England, 13 February 1829; baptised St. Nicholas's church, Liverpool, 12 March 1831; daughter of James HART and Prudence Augusta HUGHES
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by September 1848
Married Samuel Ashmore PRITCHETT, St. James's church, Sydney, NSW, 30 September 1852
Died Woolloomooloo, NSW, 14 April 1858

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Margaretta+Hart+Pritchett+1829-1858 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HART, Ada (Adelaide HART; Ada HART; Miss A. HART; Mrs. J. R. DAVIES)

Dancer, vocalist, comedian, actor

Born England, c. 1830
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by September 1848
Married James Richard DAVIES, St. Paul's church, Dunedin, NZ, 29 December 1864
Died Woollahra, NSW, 13 April 1897

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Ada+Augusta+Hart+Davies+d1897 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HART, Fanny (Frances Lillian Wardlow HART; Fanny HART; Mrs. Robert Cornwell JEFFERY)

Comedian, actor

Born England, c. 1835
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by October 1848
Married Robert Cornwell JEFFERY (1832-1898), Sandhurst (Bendigo), VIC, 28 October 1872
Died East Melbourne, VIC, 7 May 1915

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Fanny+Hart+Jeffery+d1915 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

Baptisms at St. Nicholas's church (RC), Liverpool, 1831; register, 1826-39, page 10; Liverpool City Council

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2180/images/engl56170_282-nic-1-2_m_00225 (PAYWALL)

[Born] 1829 Feb. 13 / [baptised] 1831 Mar. 12 / Margarita Francesca Louisa Hughes Hart / filia / Jacobi et Prudentia Augusta Hart olim Hughes / [sponsors] Bernardus Hughes et Francesca Hughes . . .

"Theatricals", The Australian Sportsman (30 September 1848), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252650987 

Messrs. Wyatt and Knight seem resolved to omit no opportunity of adding to the strength of their already most effective company. We last week notified that engagements were under negotiation with Mrs. and the Misses Hart, who have just arrived from London, where (at the Mary-le-bone and Sadler's Wells Theatres) they had performed with much success. The lead which both these theatres have lately taken in the revival of the finest specimens of the noblest school of the Drama, is well known to our theatrical readers; and it has been with regret that we have recently heard of the failure, in a pecuniary point of view, of Mrs. Warner's spirited attempt at the Mary-le-bone. Critical and select as were that accomplished actress's audiences, they were not numerous; and she found, when 'all too late;' that populous as was that neigbourhood, it was by no means a playgoing one. She has therefore been compelled to relinquish her fondly cherished design; and retires, we believe, to the Surrey. Her company has thus boon dispersed, and to this circumstance may be partly ascribed, we presume, the arrival of Mrs. Hart and her daughters in Sydney.

If the young lady who made her graceful curtsey on Thursday evening represent the tallent of her family, we may assuredly congratulate both the management and future audiences upon such valuable acquisitions to the Victoria. Miss Hart is an artiste of no ordinary ability, and we predict for her a career of brilliant success in Sydney. Of engaging appearance and attractive figure, she immediately prepossessed the audience in her favor; and, as her powers became developed with the progress of the piece, it became evident that she was no novice in her art . . . She was ably supported by Arabin, Frank Howson, Rogers, and Mesdames Ximenes and Gibbs.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 October 1848), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12902930 

. . . In preparation, the fate of Boots at the SWAN in which Mrs. Hart, from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and Miss Adelaide Hart, from the Mary-le-bone Theatre, will make their first appearance.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 December 1849), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12908934 

. . . THIS EVENING, December 6, The performances will commence with the very favourite Opera of THE NIGHT DANCERS . . .
Wilis, Mrs. Hart, Mrs. F. Willis, Miss A. Hart . . . After which . . . Pas de Bouquet, or Flower Dance, Madame Torning, the Misses Griffiths, Miss Hart, and Signor Carandini . . .

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 March 1851), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28645829 

THIS EVENING, MARCH 29, WILL be presented the operatic extravaganza entitled GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Deputy English, Mr. Rogers; Don Giovanni, Miss Hart; Leporello, Mr. F. HOWSON; Finnikin, Mr. J. Howson; Popinjay, Mr. Hydes; Mrs. Leporello, Mrs. Gibbs ; Squalling Fan, Madame Torning . . . To be followed by the celebrated Scene du Ballet from LA PERI. The Prince, Miss Hart; the Peri, Madame Torning; Peris, Misses Griffiths, and A. Hart . . .

"MARRIED", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (2 October 1852), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251530616 

By special license, on the 30th ultimo, at St. James' Church, by the Rev. C. F. D. Priddle, Samuel Ashmore Pritchard, Esq., to Margaretta Louisa, eldest daughter of the late J. P. Hart, Esq., of Liverpool, England.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (18 July 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12971804 

SCHOOL OF ARTS. - Miss BASMANN and Mr. FAIRBURN beg most respectfully to inform their friends and the public that their second CONCERT will take place at the above institution, on WEDNESDAY evening next, 18th July. They will be assisted by the celebrated tenor, Mr. J. Fairchild; Mr. Stewart; and the renowned comic singer, Mr. Frederick Sams; and Miss A. Hart, her second appearance as vocalist . . .

"DEATH", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (21 April 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64376280 

On the 14th instant, at the residence of her mother, 22, Judge-street, Wooloomooloo, Mrs. S. A. Pritchett.

"MARRIAGES", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 February 1865), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30935926 

On the 29th December, at St. Paul's Church, Dunedin, by the Rev. E. G. Edwards, James Richard Davies, Esq., Government railway contractor, Invercargill, to Ada Augusta Hart, second daughter of Mrs. Augusta Hart, Sydney.

"MARRIED", Bendigo Advertiser (29 October 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88246568 

On the 28th October, at Sandhurst, by the Rev. Mark Butler, Mr. Robert Cornwall Jeffery, to Fanny Lillian Wardlow Hart. Melbourne papers please copy.

"FOOTLIGHT FLASHES", Evening Star [NZ] (6 October 1883), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18831006.2.18 

"Deaths", The Age (15 March 1889), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196986238 

HART. - On the 13th March, at her residence, 20 Shakspeare-street, Carlton, Augusta Hart, relict of the late J. P. Hart, Esq., Liverpool, England, aged 78.

"Deaths", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 April 1897), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14093513 

DAVIES. - April 13, 1897, at her late residence, 124 Grafton-street, Woollahra, Ada Augusta, the beloved wife of James Richard Davies, jun. New Zealand, Tasmanian, and Victorian papers please copy.

"MUMMER MEMOIRS", Sydney Sportsman (12 August 1908), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166741499 

. . . A friend supplies me with the following: - "Miss Ada Hart was daughter of an old actress, who used to play minor parts in opera with Frank Howson, and lived in the late fifties in Judge-street, Woolloomooloo (Sam Howard lived there in 1855). Ada was a pupil of Mrs. Eliza Torning, and in her day was a favorite dauseuse. She combined a little cluster of graces in her own person. As a dancer she added precision to ease, and lightness of movement to the harmony of form. She married Mr. Joseph Pritchard, who ran a boot emporium in George-street."

"MUMMER MEMOIRS", Sydney Sportsman (16 September 1908), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166740377 

An interesting letter from North Fitzroy, Melbourne, which sets at rest a disputed question: - "Dear Hayseed,- I take the liberty to correct an error of yours regarding the gentleman my sister, Miss Ada Hart, married. The gentleman was Mr. J. Davis junior, C.E., of Invercargill, New Zealand . . . A short time ago you mentioned the sisters Hart, one as playing "Don Giovanni." That was Margaretta, the eldest. I had the old bill of the burlesque for many years. I looked for it among my papers, but failed to find it, otherwise I would have enclosed it. Margaretta married Mr. Samuel Ashmore Pritchett, a wealthy land and station owner of Sydney, New South Wales. Both my sisters are dead many years, I am the youngest sister left . . .
I am faithfully yours,
Frances Jeffery (Fanny Hart)" . . .

"MUMMER MEMOIRS", Sydney Sportsman (21 October 1908), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166755941 

"DEATHS", The Argus (10 May 1915), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1515538 

JEFFERY (nee Hart). - On the 7th May, at 183 Simpson street, East Melbourne, Frances Wardlow, relict of the late Robert Cornwall Jeffery, Esq., musician. (Interred privately.)

HART, Sidney Herbert (Sidney Herbert HART; S. H. HART; Mr. HART)

Musician, violoncello player, cellist

Born Birtsmorton, Worcestershire, England, 1841 (last quarter)
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1863
Married Linda Anabella ANDERSON, Goulburn, NSW, 1879
Died West Melbourne, VIC, 8 August 1892, "aged 49"

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (2 May 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5748371

[Advertisement], The Argus (22 January 1887), 16

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11587329

[News], The Argus (26 November 1889), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8574387

"Deaths", The Argus (10 August 1892), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8448054

"DEATH OF MR. SIDNEY HART", North Melbourne Advertiser (12 August 1892), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66163782

. . . The late Mr. Hart, who was a native of Gloucestershire, arrived in Melbourne in 1863, and was at once engaged by the late W. S. Lyster as first violoncellist in his celebrated operatic orchestra . . . His connection with all performers of distinction who visited the colonies in itself is sufficient to prove his claim to be a thorough artist, and for many seasons of the Melbourne popular concerts, at which the works of the great masters were performed, he was the 'cello player of the celebrated Zerbini Quartette - a combination of players of concerted music which would find few to excel it even in the old world. The deceased gentleman had arranged the site of a concert in the North Melbourne Town Hall on Monday last, and, singular coincidence, it proved to be the date of his death. Mr. Hart married a sister of the late Alfred Anderson, a celebrated artist of his day, who was pianist to the Duke of Edinburgh. For six or seven years Mr. Hart had been in declining health . . . In private life he was a generous friend, of a most modest, amicable, and affectionate nature. As an artist he had few equals, if any . . . His funeral was largely attended by leading members of the musical profession . . . The remains were interred in the Melbourne General Cemetery.

ASSOCIATIONS: Member of Zerbini Quartette, son-in-law of James Henri Anderson, brother-in-law of Alfred Anderson

HART, Thomas Henry (Thomas Henry HART)

? Amateur vocalist, singer, patron, publican

Active Sydney, NSW, by 1831
Died Sydney, NSW, October 1853

Documentation:

"SOCIAL AMUSEMENT", The Sydney Monitor (30 April 1831), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32075372

[News], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (3 May 1831), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2200385

Mr. Hart, the proprietor of the George and Dragon inn, has established a sort of harmonic club at his house, the members of which meet once a week, and entertain each other with vocal music, "soberly".

"HART'S CONVIVIAL HARMONIC MEETING . . . TO THE EDITOR", The Sydney Monitor (11 May 1831), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32075430

Sydney, 6th May, 1831. SIR, As an Englishman I revere the laws of my country, but cant, whether religious or political I despise. Is it possible Mr. Editor, that the proprietor of that respectable Inn, the George and Dragon, in Pitt-street, has been served with a notice, to permit a body of respectable and loyal merchants and shopkeepers met for the innocent recreation of a little harmony, to assemble no more? It cannot I think as an Englishman be possible. A clergyman of my acquaintance once said, "that an idle mind was the devils own shop. board," surely even those pure and immaculate saints who would prevent all amusement, cannot think they have the power to prevent a private individual from entertaining the same social enjoyments in their own habitations. Are the musical and vocal parties at the Governor's or at our Chief Justice's drawing rooms attempted to be innovated upon? And have we not all equal rights? How is it too Mr. Cummings can give dinners? Let the Corsican answer that. Your's, no canter, no hypocrite. X. Y. Z. . . .

X. Y. Z. is naturally astonished. This impartial act of our Corsican Police Magistrate, shews the blessings we derive from being governed by the laws of a council nominated by the home Government, that is, nominated nominally by the Home Government, but really, by a faction of New South Wales. We remember well ten or twelve years ago, how deeply Sir John Jamison and others used to sigh for such a council in Macquarie's time. "Ah!" (said these sage politicians) "if we had a council of gentlemen, such goings on as these would never take place!" They have got their precious council; and what kind of goings-on are these of General Darling? The fact is, that we should recommend all Governors hereafter who wish to destroy the liberties of New South Wales, to begin as the General did., namely, by starving the convicts. The brave and noble-minded among them will then all turn bush-rangers. This will frighten the timid part of the Colony (three fourths of every community) to call for severe laws and an overwhelming police. They will also petition against the press if urged by the Berry's, Icely's, Maclaren's and Jones's, of the day. These things will reduce Englishmen to such slavery, that they cannot even meet at an inn and sing a song after nine o'clock at night. Ireland in a state of insurrection was not in a more deplorable a state than N. S. Wales is at this moment, as to civil liberty and domestic comfort. Bush rangers require horse patroles and an expensive police, and severe laws multiply criminals, and lots of Judges and lawyers and Registrars are wanted. These extravagances in their turn require more taxes; and these again invest the Governor with more influence in disbursing the cash. Thus the thing goes on in a circle ad infinitum ! ED.

? "FUNERAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 October 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12949242

HARTIGAN, Joseph William (Joseph William HARTIGAN; J. W. C. HARTIGAN; Sergeant HARTIGAN)

Ophicleide player, band sergeant (40th Regiment), composer

Born ? Dublin, Ireland, 1839; ? c. 1841; son of Joseph HARTIGAN and Martha ?
Active Melbourne, VIC, by late 1852
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 20 July 1864, aged 33

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Joseph+Hartigan+d1864 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

See also Band of the 40th Regiment (second tour)

Images (including obituary): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/67209

Summary:

According to a much later recollection (1925):

The ophicleide is not found in drawing rooms, being noisy and not blending well with the piano or strings, but in the orchestra, in conjunction with the trombone, it is invaluable as forming the bass of the brass. In the hands of Hartigan it became an instrument of considerable beauty, rendering the airs of the best operas with variations and cadenzas. Hartigan's death at the early age of 36 years [recte 33] was much deplored.

A Polka, "Matilda" (Hartigan) appears in programs by volunteer bands in March 1864. Hartigan himself was directing a volunteer band on St. Kilda Promenade in January 1864.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 March 1853), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4790755

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 March 1853), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4790813

[incorrectly HALLIGAN]

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 January 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802560

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 November 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799682

[Advertisement], The Argus (8 April 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4834972

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 August 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4815588

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 November 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7139342

[News], The Argus (7 August 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5719760

[News], The Argus (29 January 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5743326

[News], The Argus (8 March 1864), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5745330

"DEATHS", The Argus (21 July 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5750841

"NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (21 July 1864), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155018158 

We regret to have to record the death of Joseph William Hartigan, who has been for several years a resident in this city, and well known in the musical world as a composer, but more generally as the band sergeant of the 40th Regiment, which office he held till about four years ago, when his term of service in the regiment expired. Since then he has held the office of bandmaster of the Fitzroy volunteers, and of the St. Kilda promenade band. His splendid solo performances on the ophecleide, when a member of the 40th Regiment, formed one of the principal attractions of the promenade concerts that used to take place during the summer months in the Botanic Gardens. He was only thirty-three years of age. He had been ailing for about a month, but his death occurred suddenly yesterday morning. His funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon, from his residence in Marion street, Fitzroy, at the back of Granite Terrace, and will, we understand, be accompanied by the band of the Fitzroy volunteers, who are indebted to the care and ability of the deceased for the high efficiency they have attained. A number of the company will, we understand, also attend with the view of conducting the interment with the usual military honors. The deceased has left a widow and four young children wholly unprovided for, and it has already been proposed in some quarters to raise a subscription in their behalf - a movement which it is hoped will be liberally supported by those who so often enjoyed the pleasure of listening to his musical performances.

[News], The Argus (23 July 1864), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5750926

"SEVENTY YEARS OF MUSIC. MR. MONTAGUE'S MEMORIES. ARTISTS OF THE FIFTIES. No. II", The Argus (26 September 1925), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2143845

HARTLAND, Miss (Miss HARTLAND) = Eliza MILES (Mrs. Alfred OAKEY)

Vocalist

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1853 to 1855

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Miss+Hartland+vocalist+c1853-55 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HARTMANN, August (August Friedrich HARTMANN; August HARTMANN; A. HARTMANN; Herr HARTMANN; also HARTMAN)

Musician, violoncello player, tenor horn and trombone player, gold miner

Born Braunschweig, Lower Saxony (Germany), c. 1833
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, by 1856
Married Emily REID (d. 1914), York-sreet chapel (Baptist), Launceston, TAS, 17 February 1857
Active Beechworth, VIC, by c. 1857
Died near Beechworth, VIC, 11 January 1886, aged "52"

Documentation:

Names and descriptions of passengers per Black Swan from Melbourne, 22 July 1856, for Launceston; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/236CDF89-F7F0-11E9-AE98-BD278A18D665?image=100 (DIGITISED)

Steerage . . .
Chas. Frederick / 30
A. Hartman / 22
W. Wilton / 18
Chas. Hanig [? Henig] / 27
Wm. Ferric / 26
Sam'l Gale / 31 . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Christian Fredericks (musician)

"GERMAN BAND", Launceston Examiner [TAS] (26 July 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36298423 

A band of German musicians arrived in Launceston from Melbourne in the Black Swan on Thursday.

1857, marriages in the district of Launceston; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:856765; RGD37/1/16 no 689

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/856765 

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-16/RGD37-1-16P317 (DIGITISED)

No. 427 / 689 / Feb'y 17th 1857 / York Street Chapel Launceston / August Hartmann / 21 / Musician
Emily Reid / 21 / Spinster . . . [witnesses] Minna Wetter, Andreas Wetter

ASSOCIATIONS: Andreas Wetter (musician)

"LETTERS DETAINED FOR POSTAGE", Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (16 May 1857). 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113015312 

. . . Hartmann, August, Launceston - 2d. . . .

Index of naturalisation certificates, 1861; Public Record Office Victoria

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/7559:60711 (PAYWALL)

August Friedrich Hartmann / Musician / Chiltern /
Age (on date of naturalization) 27 / Native place Brunswick / Date of Certificate [2 September 1861]

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (28 January 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197440204 

STAR THEATRE, BEECHWORTH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30th.
GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT Will be given, on the above date, in aid of the funds for the erection of a
Monument to the Memory of the late Herr Schmidt.
The BAND will comprise the following gentlemen, who have kindly volunteered their services:
1st Violins - Herr WEINBERG and VAN DEN BERG
2nd Do - Herr BAUSCHMAN and Mr. WATTS
Tenor - Mr. E. S. RUSSOM
Violincellos - Mr. MORRIS and Herr OTTO
Contre Basses - Herr ESTHER and GERKE
Cornets - Herr SCHMIDT and BURKE
Clarinet - Herr VORHEN
Flute - Herr BUSSE
Flageolet - Mr. Henri RUXTON
Cornos - Messrs. PALMER and GEORGE
Trombone - Herr HARTMAN
Drums - Herr RUDOLPH
Conductor, Herr SCHLUTER.
Assisted by Ladies and Gentlemen Amateurs and the German Vocal Union . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Herr Schmidt (musician); Henry Weinberg (violin); Jacob Van den Berg (violin); August Borschmann (violin); James Watts (violin); Edward Stephenson Russom (viola); Heinrich Gerke (double bass); Peter Constantine Burke (cornet); Herman Vorherr (clarinet); Frederick Busse (flute); Henri Ruxton (flageolet); Daniel Richard Palmer (cornet); Adolph Schluter (conductor); Star Theatre (Beechworth venue)

"THE BEECHWORTH BRASS BAND", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (13 May 1873), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197046223 

The band committee held their second meeting last evening, there being present Mr. Bentley (chairman), Messrs. D. Fletcher, Cooper, Finch, J. Fletcher, Warren, and J. Scarlett. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. The report of the sub-committee was submitted by Mr. Cooper, which stated that sixteen young men had given in their names as willing to join the band, and that the committee had seen Mr. A. Hartman, of Three Mile, as to the office of band-master. The report was adopted. The committee resolved to take steps at once to canvass the town and shire for subscriptions . . .

"ENTERTAINMENT AT BEECHWORTH", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (12 October 1872), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197047408 

In reminding our readers that a musical entertainment, for the benefit of August Hartmann, will be given at the Oddfellows' Hall, Beechworth, on Monday, we need only point to the programme to show that the entertainment will be of a superior description. The Misses Drew, Mr. Hollister, and a whole host of talent, are announced to appear, so that a bumper house may be expected. Musicians who intend to take part are requested to meet at the Alliance hotel, on Monday, at two o'clock; the brethren of Court Robin Hood are also notified to assemble at their usual place of meeting, in order to proceed to the concert in full regalia.

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (30 December 1876), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197056308 

ODDFELLOWS' BALL, BEECHWORTH. MUSIC. DANCING.
THE FIRST of a SERIES of MUSIC and DANCING will take place in the above hall on
NEW YEAR'S NIGHT, January 1st, 1877, and will be CONTINUED EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT From Eight till Eleven o'clock.
Admission: Gentlemen, 1s. 6d.; Ladies, 6d.
The Orchestra will be composed of the following talented Musicians: -
Herr SCHLUTER - Piano.
AUGUST BORSCHMANN - Violin.
D. R. PALMER - Cornet-a-Piston.
AUGUST HARTMANN - Bass Viol.
Vivat Regina!

"ENTERTAINMENT AT MYRTLEFORD", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (7 October 1882), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207177206 

A correspondent writes - A grand Ethiopian entertainment was held at Myrtleford on Friday, the 29th ult., in aid of the local brass band, and, as usual in Myrtleford, was a great suecees, both financially and artistically . . . The entertainment opened with an instrumental overture, March from "Norma," played by the orchestra, which consisted of five performers, as follows: - Messrs H. Lawson and J. Cadzow, violins; Mr. A. Finnie, piccolo; Herr August Hartmann, tenor-horn; and Mr. Jas. Cunningham, junr., pianoforte . . .

"DEATH OF MR. AUGUST HARTMANN", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (16 January 1886) 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200579550 

It is with sincere regret that we have to chronicle the demise of Mr. August Hartmann, which took place at his late residence, at the Three Mile, near Beechworth, last Monday morning. Deceased was a very old resident of the district, to which he first came over thirty years ago, and was engaged in mining; but it was in his connection with music that he was more familiarly known to the public, he have [sic] been an accomplished musician and the bandmaster of a number of bands established in different towns in the district. His public services in the latter respect were fully recognised by the general public; while in private his quiet, unassuming manner gained for him hosts of friends, by whom his rather sudden removal from amongst them is sincerely deplored. He was known to his more intimate friends to have been suffering from an affection [sic] of the heart for many years past, and this, combined with an attack during the past week of what is known as English cholera, brought about his death. Dr Skinner, who attended the patient, during his recent illness, was unremitting in his attention; but naught that medical skill and careful nursing could do could avert the dread summons, and at four o'clock on Monday morning poor August Hartmann breathed his last, leaving behind him a sorrowing widow and family, besides innumerable friends in all parts of the district, to deplore the Ioss of a kind husband, father and companion.

"THE LATE HERR HARTMANN", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (16 January 1886), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200579564 

The funeral of the late Mr. August Hartmann took place on Wednesday afternoon, and the large attendance of all classes from different parts of the district proved the respect and esteem in which he was held. The hearse left deceased's late residence, at the Three Mile, early in the afternoon, followed by a number of friends from that locality. The mournful procession was in Upper Ford-street joined by 75 members of the Beechworth Court of Foresters, to which Mr. Hartmann belonged, in mourning regalia, and by a very large number of persons, in vehicles, on horseback and on foot; and being headed by members of the Wangaratta, Myrtleford, and former Beechworth brass bands, of which deceased was the band-master, playing appropriate music, it wended its way to the Beechworth Cemetery, where the interment took place, the Rev. H. Swan reading in a most im pressive manner the service of the Presbyterian Church at the grave, in the presence of one of the largest concourses of people that have assembled on similar occasions in the burial-ground. Mr. T. Gilchrist also read the Foresters' burial-service. The Yackandandah and Whorouly brass bands, with which Mr. Hartmann was connected, were represented at the funeral in addition to those above named. The funeral, arrangements were carried out by Messrs Greig and Wilson.

See also, "ORIGINAL POETRY. IN MEMORIAM: AUGUST HARTMANN", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (6 March 1886), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200577027 

Bibliography and resources:

August Friedrich Hartmann, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227745252/august-friedrich-hartmann 

HARTNELL, Rosetta (Rosetta MYERS; Miss MYERS; Mrs. HARTWELL [sic], Madame HARTNELL; HARTNELLE)

Dancing instructor, teacher of dancing and drawing

Active Sydney, NSW, 1844-47

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Rosetta+Myers+Hartnell (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

For a short time in 1845 a colleague of Eliza Emanuel, "Madame H. having taught very successfully Dancing in this colony, intends at her residence to open an evening academy, for that accomplishment". She was notoriously associated with the printer Edward David Barlow.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 February 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12410102

"CLAIM FOR MAINTENANCE BY A WIFE", The Sydney Morning Herald (12 February 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12877362

"MAITLAND", Bell's Life in Sydney (20 December 1845), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59767480

[Advertising], The Sydney Morning Herald (13 October 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12896936

HARTRIDGE, Mr. (Mr. HARTRIDGE)

Amateur vocalist, member of the Hobart Town Choral Society

Active Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), c. 1840s

HARVEY, Mr. (Mr. HARVEY)

Musician, violinist, vocalist ("local comic singer")

Active central VIC, c. 1856-60

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (17 September 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202631063 

MESSRS. HARNEY [sic], QUELCH and COPELAND respectfully intimate to the Inhabitants of Castlemaine and vicinity, they are open to engage for balls, suppers, and quadrille parties, either in town or country. N.B. - A String Band. Apply as above to Mr. Jones, Albert Hotel, Castlemaine.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (16 September 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197086660 

CRITERION ASSEMBLY ROOMS.
MESSRS. HARVEY & QUELCH respectfully intimate to the patrons of the above rooms, that the Quadrille Party is permanently fixed for Thursday evenings, commencing on the 17th inst.
Violinist - Mr. HARVEY.
Harpist - Mr. QUELCH.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (27 November 1857), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197088774 

BELLING'S WATERLOO HOTEL, FRYER'S CREEK.
MR. J. G. MOON BEGS to announce to his friends and the public that he intends giving a Dramatic Performance, Concert, and Ball, at the above Hotel, on Wednesday evening, December 2nd, on which occasion the following professionals and amateurs will appear: -
Mr. Wood, Scotch ballad singer; Mr. Quelch, harpist; Mr. Felix, comic delineator; Mr. Harvey, violinist and local comic singer; and Mr. J. G. Moon, grand buffo . . .

[2 advertisements], Mount Alexander Mail (12 April 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197088875 

MESSRS. HARVEY and QUELCH'S select Quadrille Party will commence on Tuesday Evening next, 10th instant. Gentlemen's Tickets, 2s Gd. Ladies free. Dancing to commence at half-past eight.

Criterion Assembly Room, Castlemaine.
A SELECT Quadrille Party held in the Lower Room of the above splendid Hall every Thursday Evening. Gentlemen's Tickets, 2s 6d. Ladies free. Dancing to commence at half-past eight.
Violinist, Mr. Harvey.
Harpist, Mr. Quelch.

"FOREST CREEK (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) FIRE", Mount Alexander Mail (22 August 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199050222 

On Monday night, the tent of Mr. Harvey, the violinist, who resides on Aberdeen's Hill, was burned to the ground. When the fire broke out, Mr. Harvey was away at Taradale, but his wife and children were at home. By the exertions of the neighbors, the inmates escaped without injury, and most of their furniture and clothing was saved. The accident has excited the sympathy of Mr. Harvey's friends, and I understand they intend to give him a benefit at the Red Hill Hotel, on Monday night.

"THE ODD FELLOWS' BENEFIT", Mount Alexander Mail (16 December 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199046979 

The entertainment at the Mount Alexander Hotel under the patronage of the Castlemaine and Chewton lodges of Odd Fellows, is described the most successful thing of the kind that ever took place on Forest Creek. The numbers present were variously estimated at from 400 to 300. Among the artistes were Mrs. Vincent, Mdlle. Louise, Mrs. King, Miss Barnet, Mr. Black, Mr. Kitts, and Messrs. Harvey and Quelch, all of whom generously volunteered their services. During the evening the "Maniac Lover" was performed by the amateurs. The beneficiares will receive between 50l and 60l.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (4 June 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199603131 

CRITERION HOTEL, CASTLEMAINE.
A QUADRILLE PARTY will be held in the Hall of the above, every Wednesday and Saturday evening, commencing at eight o'clock.
Violinist, Mr. Harvey.
Harpist, Mr. Quelch.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Quelch (harpist)

HARVEY, Mr. H. R. (H. R. HARVEY)

Musician, dancing master, violinist

Active Sydney, NSW, 1830

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (14 August 1830), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32074054

POLITE DANCING. MR. H. R. HARVEY, Late of the Surrey and Olympic Theatres,
RESPECTFULLY begs leave to make known to the Inhabitants of Sydney and its vicinity, that he intends to instruct young Ladies and Gentlemen in the polite art of his profession, in which he has been instructed by Messrs. Montgomery, Henry Elliston, and others of equal celebrity.
Mr. H. practised in London for upwards of fourteen years, during which time, his patrons were of the first circles of society.
Any reference that may be required, will be obtained, by applying at the Royal Hotel, at which place he has engaged the large Saloon joining the Theatre.
For the accommodation of Families and Schools, Mr. H. will attend privately, as he plays the violin, &c. In thus offering himself as a public and private teacher of Dancing, he indulges the hope, that he will share a portion of that liberality which the polite circles of society of Sydney have so very liberally bestowed upon teachers of of the above Art.
An Academy will be opened in the Saloon of the Royal Hotel, on Tuesday, the 17th Instant.
Nights of Tuition, Tuesdays and Fridays.
To commence at Seven o'clock, and to continue till Nine each evening.
Terms - £2 sterling per Quarter. Entrance, Half-a-Guinea.
All letters are requested to be addressed to H. R. Harvey, at the Royal Hotel.
Sydney, 4th August, 1830.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (8 September 1830), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32074169

HARVEY, John Smithen (John Smithen HARVEY; J. S. HARVIE)

Amateur musician, vocalist

Born ? England, c. 1816
Married Catherine ?, Nottingham, England, by 1845
Active Launceston, TAS, by late 1850s
Died Launceston, TAS, 7 October 1887, aged "70"/"71"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Smithen+Harvey+c1816-1887 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-1.php#HARVEY-John-Smithen (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (20 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38994789 

J. S. HARVEY, Tailor and Clothier, begs respectfully to announce that he has commenced business in Elizabeth-street . . .

"LAUNCESTON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY", Launceston Examiner (12 January 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38998773 

The annual meeting of the above Society was held on Thursday evening, the 6th of January, 1860, in the Trinity School-room. From the report road by the Secretary, we learn that the Society is steadily advancing. During the past year four concerts and one soiree have been given; but more progress has been made in the last six months; three of the concerts and the soiree have been given during this period. The amount devoted to benevolent purposes during the-year is upwards of £90. The number of members has also been largely augmented during the past six months; in July there were 87 members: there are now 112. The best feeling exists in the Society between the members and the officers, which augurs well for its future prosperity. From the Treasurer's report we learn, that the receipts for the year amounted to the goodly sum of £84 12s. 4d., and the expenditure £67 5s 10d., leaving a balance in hand to £17 6s. 6d. The following officers were elected for the ensuing six months:-
President, Mr. J. S. Harvey; conductor, Mr. T. Sharp; secretary, Mr. W. Stokes [sic]; treasurer, Mr. W. Gurr; librarian, Mr. W. F. Wathen.
Messrs. R. Sharpe, R. Kenworthy, A. Legg, W. F. Wathen, and H. Stephens, form the committee.
The thanks of the society were given to the past officers for their valuable services and to Mr. and Mrs. Stephens for the use of their room for committee meetings. The members have decided upon taking Haydn's 3rd or Imperial Mass for practice, and we can only say that we hope they will meet with the success they merit.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Sharp (conductor); William Stokes (member); Robert Sharpe (member)

"SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. [TO THE] EDITOR OF THE . . .", Launceston Examiner (12 May 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39000465 

SIR, - This Society, lately so flourishing, was dissolved on Wednesday evening at a special meeting called by circular and held in St. John's School-room. Some weeks ago Mr. Thomas Sharp, the conductor, informed the members that he should at some future time call a meeting to dissolve the Society. His reasons he gave as follows: "As a Sacred Harmonic Society we are not allowed to perform secular music, and it is quite necessary that secular music be made use of, as there is not sufficient scope for me to select from sacred music only . . ." After considerable discussion, the motion was put to the meeting by the Chairman (Mr. Harvey), and the show of hands dleclared in its favor. Mr. Sharp then proposed that the word "sacred" be struck out of the first rule ("That this society be called the Launceston Sacred Harmonic Society") which would put aside any objection that might be raised against secular music being introduced. This also was put to the meeting and carried, which left the society as before with the exception of the word "sacred," viz.- Launceston Harmonic Society . . . Proposed and seconded that this meeting form itself into a society to be called the Launceston Harmonic Society, and that the officers of the late Sacred H. S. be requested to act in the present society. Carried . . .
APOLLO.

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (20 October 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65988421 

Launceston Harmonic Society.
A Public CONCERT will be given by the above Society on Friday evening the 26th October, in the large room of the Mechanics' Institute, in aid of funds for a Piano Forte ordered from England.
Conductor - Mr. T. Sharp.
Doors open at seven to commence at half-seven precisely.
Tickets - Chairs 3s. each. Unreserved Seats 2s each, to be obtained at Mr. W. Sharp's Music Warehouse, Cameron-st., Mr. Hubbard (Mr. C. J. Irvine's), Brisbane-street, Mr. Hurst's, Charles-street, Mr. Harvey's, Elizabeth-street, Mr. A. Hart's, Wellington-street, and from the members of the Society.
Wm. Stokes, Hon. Sec. Oct 20.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Sharp (member); Anthony Hart (member)

"THE GRAND ORGAN IN THE MECHANICS, INSTITUTE, LAUNCESTON . . . THE EVENING CONCERT", The Mercury (26 June 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8799282 

. . . Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather, for the rain poured down in torrents, several hundred persons were present on Monday at the evening Concert which was a decided success. The programme comprised a selection of choice musical gems and the entertainment was agreeably diversified with vocal music . . . Handel's stirring song, "Honour and Arms," from the Oratorio of Samson, was . . . sung in a very spirited manner, by Mr. Biggs, who was loudly applauded . . . a song from the Oratorio of Joshua "Oh! had I Jubal's lyre" sang with telling effect by another lady member of the "Musical Union." Then came selections from Verdi's "II Trovatore." After that Mr. Harvey gave "Arm, arm, ye brave" from Handel's "Judas Maccabeus." The truthful rendering of this bold song was loudly applauded . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (vocalist)

"TOWN TALK AND TABLE CHAT", The Cornwall Chronicle (19 April 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66459327 

Mons. and Madame Heine having returned with Mr. Stewart, from their tour through the townships to the westward, gave another grand concert in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Monday evening. They were kindly assisted by Mrs. Sharp, Miss Sadler, and Mr. Harvey, and the result was most satisfactory in every point of view. The Hall was crowded, and the applause was most enthusiastic. Mons. Heine commenced the performance by playing a variety of airs on the grand organ, in it most masterly style. This was followed by the vocal quartette - "May Day" - by Mrs. Sharp, Miss Sadler, Mr. C. Stewart, and Mr. Harvey - Mr. T. Sharp playing the accompaniment . . . The second part commented with the beautiful quartette - "From Oberon in Fairy Land," by Mrs. Sharp, Miss Sadler, Mr. Charles Stewart, and Mr. Harvey; Mr. Robert [sic, Thomas] Sharp playing the accompaniment . . . In compliance with numerous requests, Mons. and Madame Heine have consented to give two final Concerts in the Mechanics' Hall this evening and to-morrow evening, when they will be assisted by the talented Amateurs of the Launceston Harmonic Society.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph and Ada Heine (violinist, pianist)

"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. There were ten ladies and seven gentlemen vocalists present, but several of the soprano vocalists who had attended the practice meetings were prevented from attending through indisposition. - The contralto singers were a Mesdames Hamilton and Spicer and Miss Irvine; tenors, Messrs. Sherwin, Spicer, and James, jun.; bass, Messrs. G. Collins, J. S. Harvey, G. Hubbard, Roper, F. Ferguson, and G. H. Harvey. The vocal department was under the direction of Mr. J. H. Melvyn; the instrumental arrangements were under the superintendance of Mr. T. Sharp . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alban Roper (vocalist); George Hunter Harvey (his son); James Hadock Melvyn (choir leader)

Deaths in the district of Launceston, 1887; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1211903; RGD35/1/56 no 388

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1211903 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-56$init=RGD35-1-56P36 (DIGITISED)

No. 3128 / 7 October 1887 / John Smithen Harvey (Margaret Street) / 71 years / Tailor / Senility / Jane Doolan Undertaker . . .

"Deaths", Launceston Examiner (8 October 1887), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39537046 

HARVEY. - On 7th October, at his residence Margaret-street, M.. John S. Harvey, aged 70 years. R.I.P.

HARVEY, William Salisbury (W. S. HARVEY)

Musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer

Born Salisbury, SA
Active Adelaide, SA, by 1869
Active QLD, from 1884
Died Fremantle, WA, 6 October 1911

THIS ENTRY IS A STUB ON PERSONNEL FIRST ACTIVE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 1860

Summary:

Harvey was active in Adelaide and environs in the 1870s as a sportsman and musician, specialising in performances on multiple instruments. At celebrations of the Prince of Wales's birthday in 1869, he played sets of quadrilles and waltzes on four instruments, and by the same day in 1880 he had graduated to offering to play "selections on six different instruments". In December that year at Gawler, "both of the overtures were given by Mr. W. S. Harvey on six instruments, the manipulation of which fairly brought down the house."

Among his certainly published compositions, all lithographed and printed by Penman and Galbraith, were the Zillah waltz and Zalina schottische (both 1875), and a quadrille set The South Australian lancers (1877).

Advertised as "THE MUSICAL WONDER. Playing Six Instruments Simultaneously with Orchestral Effects", he made his Queensland debut in June 1884.

The evening shadows schottische (1884), published in Brisbane, was "dedicated to Mr. H. J. Johnstons, the painter of the celebrated picture the title of which the composer has adopted". At Ipswich, Queensland, in May 1887, "W. S. Harvey performed the fiend-like diabolism of playing the cornet and the piano at one and the same time." The Old Memories Waltz "by the popular Australian composer W. S. Harvey" was advertised in September 1888.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (8 November 1869), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41395116

"NEW MUSIC", South Australian Register (25 August 1875), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40088436

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 November 1875), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40085781

"NEW MUSIC", South Australian Register (22 September 1877). 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40788403

; [Advertisement], South Australian Register (6 November 1880), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43145409

"THE GAWLER FRIENDLY SOCIETY FESTIVAL", South Australian Register (30 December 1880), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43146631

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier (9 June 1884), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3430896

"NEW MUSIC", South Australian Register (17 September 1884), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43813067

[News], Queensland Figaro (14 May 1887), 6s

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84111567

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier (28 September 1888), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3486260

"Mr. W. S. Harvey", Observer (7 October 1911), 41

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164735346 

Mr. William Salisbury Harvey, whose death at Fremantle was announced in our obituary notices on Friday, was well known in Adelaide. His father, the late Mr. John Harvey, at one time member of the Assembly, was an old resident of Salisbury, where his son was born, and where for many years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, besides having been a lover and supporter of horseracing, in which connection two of his horses, Minna and Beda, will be well remembered by old-time sports men. The deceased was a capable rider, and on several occasions piloted his father's horses to victory. The late Mr. W. Salisbury Harvey, who was named after the place of his birth, was a member of the old Adelaide Athletic Association, and scored many successes over hurdles and in pole jumping. He went to the Northern Territory at the time of the gold boom in the early seventies. He was a capable musician, and played on six instruments simultaneously. His genial manners and musical accomplishments were much appreciated, and tended considerably to relieve the monotony of camp life in the wayback.

HARVIE, Montague (Montague HARVIE)

Musician, flute player, flautist, organist and choirmaster (St. Stephen's, Richmond), music critic

Born Bideford, England, 1830
Active Melbourne, VIC, by 1856
Died Melbourne, VIC, 25 October 1875, aged 45

Image: https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/182621814

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (20 July 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5686440

"SANDHURST CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT", Bendigo Advertiser (6 May 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87936087

. . . Mr. Hallas being unable to vacate his position as cornet-player in the theatrical orchestra, be bad prevailed upon his friend Mr. Montague Harvie, (who was on a visit to Sandhurst), to prolong his stay, in order that a Sandhurst audience might be afforded an opportunity of hearing that gentleman's Prize Exhibition Flute, to which request Mr. Harvie acceded. The piece selected, was a Fantasia, by the late Charles Nicholson, introducing the favorite airs, "Life let us Cherish" and "Auld Robin Gray" also a French quadrille, "La Matilda." Mr. Harvie's thorough command of the instrument, and the richness and mellowness of the tones made this performance one of the most successful of the evening, and an encore was insisted on.

"THE CONCERT AT THE TEMPERANCE HALL", Bendigo Advertiser (7 May 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87936098

Several of our friends who attended the Choral Society's concert on Tuesday evening have expressed a wish to know something of the instrument which Mr. Montague Harvie has introduced into this colony from the International Exhibition of 1862, we acquainted him with the public desire, and are indebted to him for the following particulars, which he kindly placed at our disposal: "The splendid instrument known as Carte's patent cylinder flute, which gained the prize medal at "the International Exhibition of 1862, is constructed in the newest and most approved principles. The tube is a plain cylinder of solid silver, which in its termination at the headpiece forms a perfect parabolic curve. It is owing to this parabola, the accuracy of the cylinder, and the pure metal of which it is made, that this instrument possesses so much volume of tone. The ordinary wooden flute familiar to most people is faulty in its design and construction, and performers have always found great difficulty in playing in time, especially in the more remote keys. Here, however, all keys are equally perfect, and the performer can execute in any key the most difficult passages with brilliancy and precision. The action of the wind in this tube may be thus described: - The wind striking against the parabolic curve is intensified in its effect, and is reflected through the instrument in a direction parallel to the axis of the tube. It would be tedious to describe minutely the action of the keys; suffice it to say, that it is the result of many years' study by the eminent patentee, Richard Carte, (of the firm of Rudall, Rose, and Carte,) and it has been not inaptly described by the Times as the 'perfection of mechanical ingenuity'."

"GRAND AMATEUR CONCERT", The Ballarat Star (4 October 1866), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112858441

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 May 1869), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5812048

"SOCIAL", The Argus (3 November 1875), 1s

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7423986

Mr. Montague Harvie, a gentleman well known in literary and musical circles in Melbourne, died very suddenly, on October 25, of apoplexy. The deceased was a native of Bideford, Devonshire, England, and was 45 years of age. He came to this colony more than 20 years ago, and at different times was town clerk of Richmond, and in business as a merchant, and was connected with a portion of the Melbourne daily press as reporter and writer of musical criticism. His wife and her sister, daughters of Mr. Webb, formerly collector of Customs, are now in Europe, whither they went on a two years trip some months ago.

"VICTORIA", Launceston Examiner (11 November 1875), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52902397

HARWARD, Thomas (Thomas HARWOOD; Mr. HARWARD; also HAYWOOD; HARWOOD; HOWARD)

Amateur bass vocalist, tin-man, publican

Born Cornwall, England, 1814; baptised Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 25 December 1814; son of Laurence HARWARD (1782-1847) and Grace BADCOCK (d. 1817)
Married Amelia Rickman PERRERS (1815-1886), Holsworthy, Devon, England, 21 April 1840 (aged 24)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 11 December 1840 (per Brightman, from London, 29 August)
Died Adelaide, SA, 22 January 1856, aged "41"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Thomas+Harward+1814-1856 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

ASSOCIATIONS: William Harward (much younger half brother, below)

Documentation:

Baptisms in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 1841; England, Select Births and Christenings database

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/6437030:9841 (PAYWALL)

25 December 1814 / Thomas / [son of] Lawrence & Grace / Harward

1840, marriages solemnized at the parish church in the parish of Holsworthy in the county of Devon; Devon Archives

No. 32 / April 21st 1840 / Thomas Harward / 24 / Bachelor / Glazier / [of] Launceston, Cornwall / [son of] Lawrence Harward / Draper
Amelia Rickman Perrers / 25 / Spinster / - / Town of Holsworthy / [daughter of] Henry Wilson Perrers / Inn keeper . . .

"PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. JACOB MONTEFIORE", South Australian Register [Adelaide, SA] (3 June 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27444684 

On Thursday a public dinner was given by the Colonists of South Australia in the Queen's Theatre, Gilles-arcade, to Jacob Montefiore, Esq., one of the late Board of Commissioners for South Australia. The chair was taken by JAMES HURTLE FISHER . . .
On the removal of the cloth, "Non nobis Domine" was sung by Messrs. Ewen, Bennett, and Hayward, Mr. Bennett at the same time accompanying the vocal music with the piano forte.
The Chairman then gave "The Queen and Prince Albert," which was drunk with all the honours, and with great enthusiasm.
AIR - "God save the Queen," by Messrs. Bennett, Ewen, and Hayward.
The next toast was - "The Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." Drunk with all the honours.
GLEE - "Fill the bowl with rosy wine" . . .
A Glee by Messrs. Ewens, Bennett, and Harwood . . .
GLEE - "Glorious Apollo" - Messrs. Ewen, Bennett, and Hayward . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jacob Levi Montefiore (guest of honour); James Hurtle Fisher (chair); George Bennett (vocalist, pianist); William Ewens (vocalist); Queen's Theatre (Adelaide venue)

MUSIC: Glorious Apollo (Samuel Webbe); Fill the bowl with rosy wine (John Dyne)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Observer (1 July 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917178 

T. HARWARD, Tinplate Worker and Brazier, Hindley-street, returns his thanks to the inhabitants of Adelaide and the surrounding country, for the liberal encouragement he has received since he commenced business on his own account, and hopes by unremitting attention to merit a continuance of the same . . .

"AMATEUR CONCERT", South Australian Register (11 November 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27445887 

On Tuesday a vocal and instrumental concert, of which we had a short notice in our last, was given by several amateurs in Messrs. Lambert's new auction-rooms. The doors were opened at half- past seven, and nearly the whole of the seats were occupied by eight o'clock, at which time his Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Grey arrived . . .
Dr. Calcott's beautiful glee, "The Red Cross Knight," followed, by Drs. Kent and Wyatt, and Messrs. Ewens and Howard, accompanied on the pianoforte by Mr. Bennett. In our very humble opinion, the effect was rather injured by its being sung too fast: it had the appearance of being hurried over, and many of the best points were lost. Still, this is a matter of taste, and probably ours may be peculiar . . . The beautiful glee, "The Chough and Crow," was given in excellent style . . .
An entertainment of this kind is rather a novelty here, and we were much gratified to see that it could be so well done, and that it was so well supported. The most distinguished persons in the Colony were present, and the room presented a very pretty appearance from the taste and elegance of the ladies' dresses, not to mention their own beauty, which is proverbial. An air of cheerfulness seemed to pervade every one . . . We should suppose about two hundred persons were present. The room was well lighted, and all the arrangements were good. The concert was finished before eleven, but we understand that a large party remained to supper, which was furnished in another room under the superintendence of Mr. Henry.

ASSOCIATIONS: Benjamin Archer Kent (vocalist); William Wyatt (vocalist); George Grey (governor)

MUSIC: The red cross knight (Callcott); The chough and crow (Bishop, from Guy Mannering)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Observer (30 December 1843), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918071 

CONCERT. Under the distinguished Patronage of His Excellency the Governor.
MR. BENNETT respectfully begs to announce to the public, that he intends giving a concert of vocal and instrumental music at the South Australian Company's rooms, Rundle-street, on the 3rd January, 1844.
Tickets, 5s each, may be had of Mr. Ewens; Mr. Stanley, Rundle-street; and at Mr. Harward's, Hindley-street.

"MR. BENNETT'S CONCERT", Southern Australian (5 January 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71627957 

On Wednesday evening we had the pleasure of attending a concert given by the above gentleman. To our agreeable surprise, we found that Drs. Kent and Wyatt had given their valuable aid, and they, of course, contributed in no small degree to the harmony of the evening. Several excellent overtures and glees were performed in a manner which gave great satisfaction, and it was remarked that there was a decided improvement as the performances proceeded. "The Breath of the Briar," by Mrs. Murray, Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Poole, was beautifully executed . . . The Glee, "The Merriest Time of all the Year," also elicited universal applause. The little catch, "Ah! how, Sophia," was successfully performed by Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett. It is celebrated for its puns, having been expressly composed for cockney singers. "Ah! how, Sophia" ("a house o' fire"), cries one; "Go fetch the indian's" (engines), rejoins another; and the third quaintly remarks, "I'm but a lodger." The company were much amused, and heartily encored the piece. The following are the words:
Ah! how, Sophia, can you leave
Your lover, and of hope bereave?
Go fetch the Indian's borrowed plume
Yet, richer far than that you bloom.
I'm but a lodger in your heart.
And more than me, I fear, have part.
Altogether, this, we should say was one of the best concerts we have had in Adelaide. His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Grey were present. The attendance was pretty good, consisting of about 100 ladies and gentlemen, and will, we trust, encourage Mr. Bennett again to favor the public with a similar gratification at no distant period.

ASSOCIATIONS: Georgiana Murray (pianist, vocalist); Mr. Poole (vocalist)

MUSIC: Ah! how, Sophia (Callcott)

[News], Adelaide Observer (6 January 1844), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918101 

Mr. Bennett's concert took place on Wednesday evening, under the auspices of the Governor, who was present with his suite; the audience consisted of upwards of 80 persons . . . Bishop's glee, "the Boatie rows," was sang with precision, but it was destitute of that fulness and sustaining of tone so necessary in glee singing. Mr. Harward's voice is a good deep bass and with a little more cultivation will form a powerful addition to our vocal corps . . . The succeeding glees as well as some of the instrumental pieces, received valuable assistance from some gentlemen amateurs. The catch "Ah! how Sophia" was encored: it was sung correctly, but of the part "I'm but a lodger" we could not hear a syllable. The concert was wound up with the National Anthem, and as it seems to be a customary conclusion of all concerts here, there is no excuse for the want of pre-arrangement which characterised its execution.

"THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS", South Australian Register (6 January 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27446307 

On Monday last [1 January] the Brothers of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows met to celebrate their third anniversary . . . Fully one hundred and fifty members of the Adelaide Lodge and strangers sat down to dinner at about four o'clock in the Odd Fellows' Hall, late the Music Saloon, which has recently been considerably enlarged for the occasion, and which is altogether a most noble room . . .
Brother Harwood sung "On the Banks of the Blue Moselle" . . .

MUSIC: The banks of the blue Moselle (G. H. Rodwell);
Harward sang the same song again at the following, "ODD FELLOWSHIP", South Australian (17 October 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71603021 

"MR. BENNETT'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (6 January 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27446310 

On Wednesday evening last, Mr. Bennett gave his concert of vocal and instrumental music at the Company's Rooms, Rundle-street, and of which the following is the programme: -
PART I - Overture (Fra Diavolo) - Auber.
Round, by Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett, "Yes, Brothers, yes" - Rodwell . . .
Glee, by Mrs. Murray and Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett, "Boatie rows" - Bishop . . .
Glee, by Mrs. Murray, and Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Poole, "Breath of the Briar" - Whitaker . . .
Glee, by Mrs. Murray and Messrs. Ewens and Harward, "Hark! Apollo strikes the Lyre" - Bishop . . .
Glee, by Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett, "Mynheer Van Dunck."
Glee, by Mrs. Murray and Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Poole, "The merriest time of all the Year" - Aldridge.
Catch, by Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett, "Ah! how, Sophia" - Callcott.
Finale (solos by Mrs Murray and Mr. Ewens), "God save the Queen."
This performance reflected great credit upon our Adelaide Musicians. The selection was new, and of that dramatic kind which is best calculated to please a mixed audience . . . A few more such old favourite glees as "Mynheer Van Dunck" would have been acceptable to us, but the whole affair was so well managed and gave so much satisfaction to every one, that we are indisposed to whisper a word of aught but gratulation and pleasure. Above one hundred persons were present, including most of the higher and many of the middle classes. The Governor and his party arrived shortly before nine o'clock . . . The room was not all that could have been wished for the purpose, but there is perhaps no better in an eligible situation.

MUSIC: The boatie rows (arr. Bishop, in The antiquary); Hark! Apollo strikes the lyre (Bishop); Mynheer Van Dunck (Bishop)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Observer (9 March 1844), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918323 

ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY.
THE Committee begs respectfully to return their grateful acknowledgments to the public for the liberal patronage bestowed on the Society, at their Concert on Tuesday last, and further to announce that at the request of a number of respectable individuals they intend repeating the performance on Thursday evening next, March 14th, at the South Australian Company's Room, and for the accommodation of a large portion of the community the price of tickets will be for front seats 3s. back seats 1s. 6d.
The doors will open at half-past 7, and the performance commence at 8 o'clock precisely.
Tickets to be had of Mr. Stuckey, Rundle-street, Mr. Richard's, Tailor, King William-street,
Mr. John Edwards, and Mr. Harward, Hindley-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Richards (member); Adelaide Choral Society (association)

[News], Adelaide Observer (23 March 1844), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918352 

Last week the Adelaide Choral Society's Second Concert took place to a respectable, but limited audience. The chorus "And the glory of the Lord" was sung with much spirit. Mrs. Jones's rich voice told to great advantage in "He shall feed his flock;" the same may be said of Mr. Harward in "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?" Mr. Ewens delighted the audience with "Comfort ye my people" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. Jones (vocalist)

"LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE", Adelaide Observer (11 May 1844), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158918559 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is so much on the increase that the opening a third lodge in Adelaide, besides the one at the Port, has been found indispensible. Host Athorn, of the Albion Hotel, in Morphett-street, having recently added suitable apartments to his previous accommodations. The new lodge (to be called the Albion Lodge), has been established under Mr Athorn's roof, which will surely be called a hospitable one by all who had the privilege of invitation to the opening supper. The number of guests who sat at table, at which N. O. Williams presided, and P. G. Jones took the vice-presidency, was upwards of seventy. Host Athorn, who is a "back bone Colonist," seemed to have felt a commendable pride in setting forth upon this interesting occasion a multiplicity of the good things produced in the Colony. There were turkeys, geese, ducks, fowls, and roasted pigs, in profusion; the puddings and fruit tarts were various, and all excellent of their kind; and the produce of our Colonial vineyards and gardens in their unsophisticated forms, were such as to please the eye as well as gratify the palate . . . Several glees and songs were sung by Mesrs Ewens, Bennett, Harward, and other gentlemen, and the company parted at a late (query, early?) hour, highly pleased with their entertainment.

"MEMORIAL BY THE COLONISTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF CONVICTS", South Australian (14 February 1845), 2-4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71600655

. . . The Memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of her Majesty's Province of South Australia Humbly Sheweth -
That your memorialists emigrated to the province of South Australia, and have endured hardships, privations, and difficulties, incident to the first settlement of a new country, upon the faith of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, which guarantees that convicts should not, under any circumstances, be transported to such province . . .
[signatories] . . . Thomas Harward, Hindley street . . .

"THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S PLOUGHING MATCH", South Australian (8 August 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71602368

YESTERDAY, the above ploughing-match took place at Mr Cook's farm, near Hindmarsh . . . In the evening, a number of the members and friends of the Society dined at Mr. Payne's Hotel, when the prizes were distributed. Many good toasts were given, and songs sung; among which, we should not omit to mention some beautiful glees by Messrs. Ewens, Harward, and Bennett. The evening was spent with much hiliarity, and the parties separated pleased with each other, with the entertainment, and with the stirring and interesting proceedings of the day.

"THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (9 August 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27450701

. . . Glee by Messrs. Ewens, Bennett, and Harward - "Push the red wine about" . . .
Glee, Messrs. Ewens, Bennett, and Harward - the whole of the company joining - "Here's a health to all Good Lasses" . . .
The entire evening was spent in the most cheerful manner. Several gentlemen, besides Messrs. Ewens, Bennett, and Harward, contributed their vocal talents to the harmony of the meeting; we may particularize Messrs. Wotherspoonn, Russell, Bowman, Thompson, Cooler, Johnson, Mitchell, and Craig - nor must we for get Mr. Kenneth Campbell, who after the Chairman had left, was prevailed upon to give a song in the Gaelic language.

MUSIC: Push the red wine about (Bishop, from The heir of Veroni)

"HOPE LODGE (ODDFELLOWS') ANNIVERSARY", Adelaide Observer (8 November 1845), 3-4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158921104 

On Wednesday last [5 November] the Hope Lodge held its anniversary dinner . . . The musical department was under the management of Mr. Bennett, a member of the lodge, whose services were gratuitous, as were those of his friends, Messrs. Ewens, Harward, Hornabrook, and Yems. Dr. Kent and Captain Tolmer also kindly assisted, and we may truly say, that the anniversary festivities included a concert of no mean pretension, as well as a dinner.
After the cloth was removed, and Non nobis Domine sung by Dr. Kent, Messrs. Bennett, Ewens, &c. . . .
Glee - "The Boatie rows" . . . Glee - "Mighty Conqueror" . . . Glee, "Ye Mariners of England" . . .
Glee - "The Red-Cross Knight" . . . Glee - "Here in cool Grot" . . . [4] . . . Glee - "Foresters, sound the cheerful horn" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Hornabrook (vocalist); James Yems (vocalist); Alexander Tolmer (violinist)

"MR. BENNETT'S CONCERT", South Australian (2 January 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71603665 

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Bennett, assisted by the best musical talent in the colony, gave a concert in the large room behind the Free Masons' Tavern. The concert was attended by considerably more than two hundred persons, including a large number of country gentlemen, with their families, and of the haut ton and respectability of the city. His Excellency the Governor, who was kind enough to patronise the concert, arrived shortly after eight, and the performances immediately afterwards commenced. The principal performers, besides Mr. Bennett, were Mrs. A. J. Murray, Messrs. Ewens, Harward, Mitchell, Yems, and Hornabrook . . . The catch "Would you know my Celia's Charms," was uncommonly well performed, and was loudly encored. The performances closed with "God Save the Queen," sung with a loyalty and fervour, characteristic, we are glad to say, of this "happy land." We congratulate Mr. Bennett on the great success of his concert, and wish such pleasant meetings were more frequent.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Holt Robe (governor); Mr. Mitchell (vocalist)

MUSIC: Would you know my Celia's charms (Samuel Webbe)

"MRS. MURRAY'S CONCERT", South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (27 February 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195934646 

The extreme heat of the weather prevented our being present at this lady's Concert on Tuesday evening. We have therefore availed ourselves of the subjoined commmunication, which has been handed to us by a gentleman who attended: -
The lovers of harmony had a rich treat in Mrs Murray's concert. More pains had evidently been bestowed in "getting up this concert" than any have previously had in South Australia, and in any commendations we might bestow, it would be a difficult matter to individualise any of the performers, save Mrs. Murray . . . The selection, in the first place, was excellent. We are not of those who would spoil a musical treat by the introduction of novelty to the exclusion of taste; and by the true Child of Song, the glees of "The Breath of the Briar," "Awake AEolian Lyre," and "Oberon in Fairy Land" will always be appreciated as standard specimens of English taste and feeling in musical composition . . . Messrs. Mitchell, Harward, Yems, and Hornabrook, sung, in their several parts, in good tune and with great taste . . .

"MRS. MURRAY'S CONCERT", South Australian (9 April 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71607908 

On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Murray gave another Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music. She was assisted by Messrs. Bennett, Horncastle, Ewens, Mitchell, Harward, Yems, Hornabrook, Richards, father and son, and Smith; but we regretted much to perceive the miserable attendance, not more than fifty persons being present. This was the more marked, as on the preceding evening 300 persons had assembled in the same room to witness the exhibition by Messrs. Hall and Plush, of a series of dissolving views. We are afraid that musical taste is at a low ebb in the colony. The small attendance, however, had little effect tn damping the spirits and efforts of the performers, who exerted themselves to the utmost. Without intending to be invidious, we may mention, in particular . . . The glee, "Breath of the Briar" . . . as having been admirably performed. The Cockney catch, "Ah! how Sophia," by Messrs. Ewens. Mitchell, and Harward, was sung with much spirit, and deservedly encored.

"ODDFELLOWSHIP", Adelaide Observer (15 May 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158924312

On Tuesday evening last, the third anniversary, of the "Loyal Albion Lodge" of Oddfellows was celebrated in the great room of the City Bridge Hotel . . . That nothing might be wanting to add to the harmony and hilarity of the evening, Brother Bennett presided at the pianoforte, and several appropriate, songs and glees were chaunted by Messrs. Ewens, Mitchell, and Howard [sic] . . .

"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", Adelaide Observer (28 August 1847), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158924825 

. . . We (Adelaide Observer) were present at the Society's second concert, last night. Mrs. Murray's absence from indisposition, and the consequent silence of the organ were much to be regretted. The pieces performed were selected from, the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, &c. The quartette, "Judge me, O Lord," was sung with great Judgment by Messrs. Ewens, Burford, Harwood, and Mrs. Jones, and the supplicatory, plaintive tone, in which the solemn appeal was expressed, was truly touching. In the choral part of the same piece, the joyously triumphant notes of gladness, in which the Psalmist is made to exhibit his confidence and happiness, were well expressed. The recitative and solos gave painful proofs of the sufferings of their performances [? performers] from the prevalent epidemic . . . The grand chorus "Hallelujah," was rendered with admirable expression, precision, and power, and evidently left an effect on the audience that well suited a closing performance. Some of the instruments were, on a few occasions, rather out of tune; but the cornopean and bass violin did wonders, and it is hardly a stretch of praise to say that they themselves would form no insignificant orchestra. It is calculated that the two evenings' performances will leave a net profit of £60 or £70 on behalf of the South Australian British Destitution Relief Fund.

"Local News", South Australian (24 September 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71609470 

The remains of the late Mr. Payne were attended to the grave on Wednesday by his brother Odd Fellows . . . the whole proceeded to the residence of the deceased, and followed the corpse through Pulteney, Rundle, Hindley, and Morphett-streets, to Trinity Church, where the funeral service was performed, and an anthem sung by Messrs. Bennett, Mitchell, and Harward . . .

[News], South Australian Register (13 October 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48543479 

The amateur performance for the benefit of the Odd fellows school came off last night in the New Queen's Theatre, which was crowded to excess, there being no less than 500 persons present. The performances, upon the whole were far better than had been anticipated from the multiform description of the intended actors; the thronged audience appeared unanimously to be highly pleased with the evening's amusements; and Mr. Deering deserves great credit for his judicious arrangement of such anomalous materials. Two glees - "Here in Cool Grot," and "Mynheer Vandunk," were sung with admirable taste by Messrs. Ewens, Mitchell, Yems, Harwood, and Hornabrook, accompanied in first-rate style by Mr. Bennett, who very kindly volunteered his able assistance on the occasion. Mr. Tolmer perforrned a solo on the violin with exquisite sweetness; and Mr. Thomson another on the violencello which gave full satisfaction. The proceeds of the evening were reckoned to be about £70.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Deering (actor, manager); John Charles Thompson (cellist); New Queen's Theatre (Adelaide venue)

MUSIC: Here in cool grot (Mornington)

"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", South Australian Register (15 December 1847), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48543520 

St. John's Church was reopened last Sunday morning, by the Rev. Mr Bagshaw, who preached from John iv., 124, and chiefly rested on the origin and utility of the book of common prayer. The congregation was but small, owing to the extreme heat, of the day, and Trinity Church not being closed, as had been at first arranged. The music was magnificently conduced by Mr. Bennett, with his rich-toned harmonia, and the singing finely performed by Messrs Ewens, Mitchell, Yams, Harward, and Hornabrook, who kindly volunteered their services for the occasion . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Music in Anglican churches (general)

"ANTI-ROYALTY DEMONSTRATION", South Australian (4 August 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71612038 

YESTERDAY, about a hundred and sixty gentlemen dined together, at the late stores of Messrs. Elder, in Hindley-street, to celebrate the legal extinction of the Royalty exaction . . . The cloth being withdrawn, the Chairman gave the health of the Queen . . .
Glee - "God save the Queen." Mr. Bennett presided at the piano-forte; the vocalists were Messrs. Mitchell, Yems, Harward, and Hornabrook . . .
Glee, four voices - "How should we mortals spend our days?" . . . Glee - "Hail, smiling morn" . . .
Glee - "The Zephyr" . . . Glee - "The huge globe has enough to do" . . . Glee - "Here in cool grot" . . .
Glee - "Oh Willie brew'd a peck o' maut" . . . Glee - "Push the red wine about" . . . Glee - "Here's a health to all good lasses" . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (31 January 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38445946 

"Royal Hotel. MR. HARWARD begs to acquaint his friends that his
Opening Dinner will take place on Tuesday next [5 February]. Dinner on table at half-past six precisely.
Tickets, 2s. 6d. each, to be had at the "Freemasons' Tavern," "Plough and Harrow," "Norfolk Arms," "Temple Tavern," "York Hotel," "Royal Admiral," and at the bar.
On the following evening a Tradesmen's Ball will be held at the above place.
Tickets, to admit a gentleman and lady, 8s 6d each, including supper.

"LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SOCIETY . . . THE DINNER", Adelaide Observer (16 March 1850), 2 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159532901 

The first annual festival of the Licensed Victuallers' Society was held last evening, at the Freemasons Tavern, and a very splendid fete it was. One hundred and thirty gebtlemen sat down to dinner at seven o'clock . . .
Quartette - "Red Wine," by Messrs. Harwood, Hornabrook, Yems, and Mitchell . . . Glee - "Dame Durdon" . . .
Glee, "Willie brewed a peck o'maut," and on this glee we may safely pronounce that more admirable vocal harmony was never produced in the colony . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 June 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38448821

A FREE AND EASY held every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday evening, at the "Clarendon Hotel," Hindley-street, commencing at seven o'clock. Singing, accompanied by the Pianoforte and Violin.

"Harward's Royal Hotel," HINDLEY-STREET.
A FREE AND EASY is held every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday evening, at the above house, commencing at Seven o'clock.
Singing, with pianoforte and violin accompaniments.

"INSOLVENCY NOTICES", South Australian Register (12 July 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38442863

Thomas Harward, formerly of Hindley-street, Adelaide, tinman; afterwards of Hindley-street aforesaid, licensed victualler; and now of Grote-street, Adelaide aforesaid, out of business. Solicitor, Henry Johnson.

"COURT OF INSOLVENCY", Adelaide Observer (3 August 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159532009 

Thomas Harward, formerly of Hindley-street, tinman; late of the same street, innkeeper; and now of Grote-street, ont of business, an imprisoned debtor, was admitted to bail.
His schedule contained the following statement of his affairs:
Receipts.
On contracting first debt in the first week of November, 1849, had in cash - £23 0 0
Received since that date in business - 1200 0 0
Received for household furniture and fixtures, in bills and cash - 432 0 0
Lease of premises - 400 0 0
[TOTAL] £2055 0 0
Liabilities.
Debts as per list - 657 19 0
Balance overplus - 22 1 9
Expenditure.
From the 5th November, 1849, to July, 1850, house and trade expenses and Wages - 495 0 0
Rent - 75 0 0
Stock-in-trade at various times, and interest on money, borrowed - 1485 0 0
[TOTAL] £2055 0 0
Assets.
Goods claimed to be re-assigned - 17 8 0
Debts due to the estate 362 2 9
Personal estate 300 10 0
[SUBTOTAL] 680 0 9
[TOTAL] £2735 0 9

"BENCH OF MAGISTRATES. Monday, 23rd September. Quarterly issue and transfer of licences", South Australian Register (24 September 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38449366 

Thomas Harward, the Royal Hotel, Hindley-street, to Thomas Jelfs.
Mr. M. Smith opposed on the part of the Official Assignee, and on the ground that the insolvent Harward had no power to transfer, and the Official Assignee could, under the Act, carry on the business for the estate.
Mr. Hanson supported the transfer on the ground that long before the insolvency the applicant Jelfs paid £800 for the property, and was in possession of it, and the Official Assignee could not get a licence for another house on such a ground.
Mr. Smith said the insolvency followed immediately after the sale, and the whole transaction had a fraudulent aspect.
Mr. Hanson said there could be no fraud in paying the full value of the property.
Granted . . .

And see also, SUPREME COURT, CIVIL SIDE. Monday, 9 June . . . HANCE v. CARRUTHERS", South Australian Register (10 June 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38450814 

"ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HOPE LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS", Adelaide Times (31 October 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206987334 

The annual dinner of the Hope Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows took place last evening at the Freemason's Tavern. The room was not by any means so full as on the same occasion last year, a fact which may he attributed to the excessive heat of the day . . . The toast having been drunk, the National Anthem was beautifully sung by Messrs. Mitchell, Harwood, and Charles Walsh, accompanied, on the piano by Mr. Bennett, with a cornet-a-piston obligato by Messrs. Harwood, Jun. and McCullagh . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Walsh (vocalist, actor); William Harward (younger half-brother, cornet); Robert McCullagh (cornet)

"GRAND DINNER AND PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO JAMES HURTLE FISHER, ESQ., AT THE FREEMASON'S TAVERN", Adelaide Times (8 August 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207009184 

The friends and admirers of this gentleman, in token of their esteem tor the services rendered by him to the colony since its formation, gave a grand dinner to him, last evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern . . .
The cloth being drawn, the Chairman gave the "Queen." The toast was responded to with the greatest enthusiasm, and was followed by the National Anthem, sung by Messrs. J. W. Daniels, Mitchell, Harward, and Bancroft, Mr. Bennett presiding at the pianoforte.
This was succeeded by the Chairman's toast - "Prince Albert and the Royal Family," which was also well responded to by the Company. The glee singers then performed Lord Mornington's beautiful four part glee "Here in cool grot," which was loudly applauded.
The Chairman then gave "His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, the representative of Her Majesty in South Australia." The toast was well received, and was succeeded by the vocalists singing in good style "The Red Cross Knight" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Josiah Wyke Daniel (vocalist); Richard Bancroft (vocalist)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (16 October 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38439998 

THOMAS HARWARD, TIN and IRON PLATE-WORKER, begs leave to announce to his old friends and the public, that he has
RECOMMENCED BUSINESS in Rundle-street, nearly opposite the Sir John Barleycorn Hotel, and respectfully solicits their patronage and support . . .

"ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HOPE LODGE OF ODDFELLOWS, M.U", Adelaide Times (21 November 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207070685 

The Annual Dinner of this Lodge took place last evening at the Freemasons' Tavern. The attendance, we are sorry to say, was by no means numerous . . . The Chair was taken by F. S. Dutton, Esq., M.L.C.. support'd on the right by the Colonial Secretary and Dr. Backhaus . . .
The usual routine of toasts followed, and were responded to with due enthusiasm, the intervals being enlivened with some first-rate glee singing by Messrs. Mitchell, Bancroft, Harward, and Bennett.
The Chairman then called for bumpers, and proposed the health of the explorer of South Australia, Captain Sturt. The toast was drunk amid load applause. Song, Mr. Harward, "The Englishman." Capt. Sturt returned thanks. He assured them that it was with the warmest gratitude he witnessed the good feeling which was invariably expressed towards him. If in the prosecution of arduous discoveries he had been destined by providence to open upon [sic] this colony, he was sensible of the honor which had fallen upon him . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Stacker Dutton (chair); Henry Backhaus (cleric); Charles Sturt (surveyor)

"ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE 'OLD COLONISTS'", Adelaide Observer (3 April 1852), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160108923 

Amidst the many changes which are daily taking place in our community, and the utter absorption by the gold digging of every subject connected with our colonial history, it is grateful to find that there are some left who are not unmindful of the pristine days of her foundation and glory, and who, in reviewing the past, can augur from present prospects her future advancement. Our esteemed and thorough-going old colonist yelept William Williams, of the City Bridge Hotel, not willing that the Festival of 1851 [sic] should pass unremembered and unhonoured, invited some of the old 'uns to his festive board on Saturday evening last . . . Between 60 and 70 good men and true partook of the kind hospitality of the respected host . . .
Mr. Bennett gave the Old Colonists' Song on the piano, in his own style, and where can you find a better? . . .
Mr. Harwood - "The Island Home of an Englishman" . . .
After several other toasts, interspersed with some excellent songs by Mr. Harwood, Mr. Gouge, and others, accompanied on the pianoforte by the inimitable Geo. Bennett, the Chairman left the chair about 11 o'clock . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Apollos Harrison Gouge (vocalist)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (7 December 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49199354 

WANTED, a TINSMITH, for the Country, where constant employment and liberal wages will be given. For particulars apply to Mr. Thomas Harward, Hindley-street.

"DIED", South Australian Register (23 January 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49749296

On the 22nd instant, at his residence, Grenfell-street, Mr. Thomas Harward, aged 41 years.

"MARRIAGES", South Australian Register (26 April 1862), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50167965 

HILLIER - HARWARD. - On the 27th March, at Trinity Church, by the Rev. Dean Farrel, Mr. W. H. Hillier, only son of Mr. John Hillier, North Adelaide, to Lucy Griffy, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Harward, Hindley-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Lucy Griffy Harward (daughter, born Adelaide, SA, 23 December 1840; died Adelaide, SA, 22 October 1879)

"DEATHS", The Express and Telegraph (30 January 1886), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208430062 

HARWARD. - On the 29th January, at her son-in-law's residence, Adam-street, Hindmarsh, Amelia Rickman Harward, aged 71 years. An old colonist.

"MARRIAGES", Geelong Advertiser [VIC] (20 March 1914), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120209781 

MOUNTJOY - HARWARD (Diamond Wedding) - On the 20th March, 1854, at St. John's Church, Adelaide, by the late Rev. J. C. Bagshaw, M.D., Caleb, son of the late James Mountjoy, Kilkhampton, Nth. Cornwall (England), to Louisa Jane, daughter of the late Laurence Harward, of Kilkhampton, Nth. Cornwall, England.
"At Home" at "Airlie Bank," Retreat Road, Geelong, on Saturday, 21st March, afternoon and evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: Louisa Jane Harward (half-sister, born Kilkhampton, 1836; died Geelong, VIC, 5 July 1914)

HARWARD, William (William HARWARD; Mr. HARWARD, jun.; Mr. HARWARD; William Laurence HARWARD)

Musician, cornet and cornopean player, tinman, coachman

Born Cornwall, England, 1829; baptised Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 18 October 1829; son of Laurence HARWARD (1782-1847) and Elizabeth SHEPHERD (d. SA, 1852)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 31 August 1849 (per Caroline, from Plymouth, 4 May)
Married Christina WALKER ("Mrs. MERETON"), Scots church, Geelong, VIC, 17 July 1852
Died Collingwood, VIC, 4 June 1883, aged "54"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Harward+1829-1883 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Harward (much older half brother, above)

HARWARD, Christiana (Christiana WILKES; Christina; ? WALKER; [2] "Mrs. Thomas MERETON"; [3] Mrs. William HARWARD)

Actor, theatrical manager

Born Bermondsey, Surrey, England, 22 September 1814; baptised St. Mary, Rotherhithe, 25 November 1814; daughter of Andrew WILKES (c. 1785-1850) and Christiana CANA (1782-1858 Married (1, common law) Thomas MERETON, England, by 1843
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 3 January 1843 (per Posthumous, from London, August, via Melbourne, 10-25 December)
Married (2) William HARWARD, Scots church, Geelong, VIC, 17 July 1852
Died Collingwood, VIC, 29 October 1894, aged "79/80"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Christiana+Wilkes+Mereton+Harward+1814-1894 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HARWARD, Miss (Miss HARWARD) = Miss MERETON (Christiana MERETON, the younger)

Dancer

Born ? England, c. 1835-40; daughter of Thomas MERETON and Christiana WILKES
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 3 January 1843 (per Posthumous, from London, August, via Melbourne, 10-25 December)

HARWARD, Julia (Julia MERETON; Juliet; performed as Miss Julia HARWARD; Mrs. Henry Stuart JERDAN)

Actor

Born ? by 1852; daughter of Thomas MERETON and Christiana WILKES
Active professionally by c. 1862 until 1874
Married Henry Stuart JERDAN, St. George's Presbyterian church, Sydney, NSW, 14 July 1874
Died Melbourne, VIC, 8 August 1904, aged "52"

HARWARD, Louisa Jane (Louisa Jane HARWARD; Miss L. HARWARD)

Actor

Born ? ; daughter of William HAWARD and Christiana WILKES
Active on stage 1869-70
Married John ROBINSON, St. Patrick's cathedral, Melbourne, VIC, 29 July 1875

Summary:

William Harward was a much younger half brother of Thomas Harward above. Their father Laurence having died in Cornwall in 1847, his second wife, William's mother, Elizabeth (d. Adelaide, 15 March 1852), and her three youngest daughters, also emigrated along with William to South Australia, on the Caroline, in 1849, joining Thomas in the colony.

William was certainly the Mr. Harward and billed as playing cornet and cornopean solos and duets with Robert McCullagh from 1850. Probably semi-professional members of the Adelaide theatre band, they both resigned from their day jobs, as guards on the Kooringa mail, early in 1852, around the time of Elizabeth Harward's death. By July, Harward was with a large contingent of George Coppin's Adelaide theatre band and acting troupe in Geelong, VIC, playing there at the Theatre Royal with his new wife, the actor Christina Wilkes (? Walker), previously "Mrs. Mereton".

Documentation:

Baptisms in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 1829; Cornwall Family History Society

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FB%2F950310921%2F1 (PAYWALL)

18 October 1829 / William / [son of] Lawrence and Elizabeth / Harward . . .

England census, 1841, Holsworthy, Devon; UK National Archives, HO107/257/11/1/16/27

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/1409125:8978 (PAYWALL)

Mary Thorne / 60 / Ironmonger
Francis Honey / 30 / Tinman . . .
William Harward / 12 / Tinman ap[prentice] / [born in county, sic]

William: Adelaide, SA (1 September 1849 to mid 1852):

"ARRIVED", Adelaide Times [SA] (3 September 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206981081 

September 1 . . . Same day - The ship Caroline, 407 tons, Perry, from Plymouth, 4th May.
Passengers . . . Mrs. Harward and three daughters . . . Harward . . . in the steerage.

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (21 February 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195939444 

NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE . . .
MR. COPPIN in three new pieces. This Evening, Thursday, February 21 . . .
Solo, Cornet a Piston - Di' Piacere - Mr. Harward . . .
- J. LAZAR.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Coppin (actor, manager); John Lazar (actor, manager); New Queen's Theatre (Adelaide venue)

MUSIC: ? variations on Di piacer (Rossini, from La gazza ladra)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (18 March 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207115179 

SIX GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS, A LA JULIEN, At the Exchange, King William-street.
Under the Direction of MR. W. WALLACE.
THE First Concert will take place on Tuesday Evening, 19th March.
The Chorus and Orchestra will consist of upwards of thirty-five performers, and the programme will be selected from the works of
Julien, Mozart, Labitzky, Rossini, Lanner, Weber, Strauss.
The evening's amusements will embrace Waltzes, Quadrilles, Gallopades, Polkas, and Overtures; also Solos both Vocal and Instrumental.
List of some of the principal Performers: - . . . [band] Mr. Lee, Mr. Cobbin, Mr. Cobbin, jun., Master Cobbin, Mr. Richards, Her Matter, Mr. Harwood, Her Huenerbiers, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Hewett. Also a chorus of German Gentlemen Amateurs . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Spencer Wellington Wallace (violin, leader); Philip Lee (violin); William Cobbin and sons (musicians); Henry Augustus Richards (musicians); Charles Albert Frederic Mater (musician); August Christian Huenerbein (musician); George Bennett (musician); William Chapman (musician); Mr. Hewett (musician); Exchange Rooms (Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (20 April 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195939819 

NEW QUEENS THEATRE. - TO the Public. -
MR. RICHARDS (Leader of the Orchestra,) having been for the last eight weeks confined to a bed of sickness, and now lying in a very dangerous state,
in consequence of which a Wife and Four Children are placed in a very helpless situation,
Mr. LAZAR has consented to open the Theatre for the
BENEFIT OF MRS. RICHARDS, On Monday, April 22,
Without any charge whatever, the gross proceeds to be given up to her, and upon which occasion
MR. GEORGE COPPIN, And the following Ladies and Gentlemen have kindly consented to give their gratuitous services: . . .
[band] Mr. Chapman, Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Swift, Mr. Harward, Mr. Gatland . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Swift (musician); Thomas Gatland (musician)

[Advertisement], South Australian (5 July 1850), 1

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EXCHANGE, KING WILLIAM-STREET . . . MONSTER CONCERT.
GRAND GRAND COMBINATION OF TALENT IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE GERMAN AND BRITISH HOSPITAL . . .
85 PERFORMERS!!! . . . [including] THE ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY. Leader - Mr. Osborn.
THE DEUTSCHE LIEDERTAFEL. Director - Herr Cranz.
INSTRUMENTAL- Conductor - Mr. Wallace . . . Cornets a Piston, Messrs. Harwood and McCullagh . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Ferdinand Osborne (leader); August Friedrich Cranz (director); Robert McCullagh (cornet); Adelaide Choral Society (association); Deutsche Liedertafel (Adelaide association)

"MR. A. MOORE'S CONCERT", Adelaide Times (19 September 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207119155 

This gentleman gave his first Concert in the Colony last night. His reputation as a first-rate violinist malgre, a little affectation, was established on the first occasion of his appearance before a South Australian audience; and we were not therefore surprised to find on our entering the Exchange, that the room was very full. As we stated in an anticipatory notice a few days back, the programme had an unusually popular caste, containing as it did, various novelties not hitherto brought before the notice of our Colonial concert-goers; and this peculiarity doubtless attracted many who would not otherwise (considering the frequency of entertainments of the kind), have been present. The beneficiare conducted the instrumental pieces quite a la Julien, and wielded the baton with the true gusto of the disciples of that personage. Whether that circumstance, or the excellent leading of Messrs. Osborne and Lee were the cause we cannot say, but we assuredly never heard the Fra Diavoli Overture so well done since our first attending a Colonial concert . . . The lateness of the hour at which we write prevents us from entering into a detailed critique, but before we conclude we must not omit to notice Mr. Moore's violin solos, which were (the last in particular) exquisitely played . . . and the duet from Norma, "Deh Conte," performed in splendid style on two cornets-a-piston by Messrs. MacCullagh and Harwood and encored. The Concert as a whole was very succesful.

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew Moore (violin, conductor)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (23 September 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38449984

Adelaide Garrick Club . . . on Wednesday next, the 25th instant,
the members of tbe above Club will perform Moreton's Comedy, in five acts, of THE SCHOOL OF REFORM.
After the Comedy, GRAND DUO FROM "NORMA," Upon two Cornets-a-piston, Messrs. McCullagh and Harward
(as played by them with the greatest applause at Mr. Moore's concert) . . .
THE AMATEUR REED AND BRASS BAND Have kindly volunteered their assistance, and in the course of the evening will perform a variety of their favourite Polkas, Marches, &c.
- W. M. AKHURST, Hon. Sec.

ASSOCIATIONS: Adelaide Amateur Band (association); William Mower Akhurst (secretary)

[News], South Australian Register (26 September 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38452440

Notwithstanding the somewhat injudiciously selected comedy, the amateur performance at the Queen's Theatre last evening was most numerously and respectably attended . . . After the play there was a duo from "Norma" performed on two cornets by Messrs. McCullagh and Harward, which was most deservedly applauded and encored . . .

"ANNUAL DINNER OF THE HOPE LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS", Adelaide Times (31 October 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206987334 

The annual dinner of the Hope Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows took place last evening at the Freemason's Tavern. The room was not by any means so full as on the same occasion last year, a fact which may be attributed to the excessive heat of the day . . . The toast having been drunk, the National Anthem was beautifully sung by Messrs. Mitchell, Harwood, and Charles Walsh, accompanied, on the piano by Mr. Bennett, with a cornet-a-piston obligato by Messrs. Harwood, Jun. and McCullagh . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Walsh (vocalist, actor); Thomas Harward (older half-brother, vocalist)

"HOPE LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS", South Australian (31 October 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71627515

. . . "March from Norma," by the brass band exceedingly well played . . . "The Adelaide March," by the brass band . . .
"Victoria Waltz," by the brass band . . .
Mr. Harward executed a fine solo on the cornopean . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian (23 December 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71627877 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Open during the present week, Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
MESSRS LAZAR & COPPIN BEG most respectfully to acquaint their Friends and the Public generally, that the above Splendid Theatre, Being now completed, will open for the Season, THIS EVENING, Monday, December 23rd . . .
THE ORCHESTRA will embrace the leading Talent of the Colony, viz: -
Leader - Mr. Andrew Moore, assisted by Mr. S. W. Wallace, Herr Mater, Herr Zieglar,
Mr. Harwood, Mr. Lawrence, Herr Heunerbein, Herr Kierdel, and Mr. Chapman . . .
The Performances . . . To be preceded by Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni . . .
In the course of the evening, the Band will play Several New Polkas, Waltzes, &c. To conclude with the Musical Farce in Two Acts, of Love Laughs at Locksmiths.
To be preceded by Auber's Overture to Massaniello . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Ziegler (musician); Herr Keidel (musician); Mr. Lawrence (musician); Royal Victoria Theatre (Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (11 March 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38439476 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . . . On THURSDAY next, the 13th instant . . .
a GRAND CONCERT will be given, upon which occasion Messrs. Lazar and Coppin have great pleasure in announcing that, in conjunction with their own unrivalled Band,
the AMATEUR BRASS AND REED BAND have kindly consented to attend, under the direction of their Leader, Herr Huenerbein,
and will play during the evening some favourite pieces as performed at Mr. Moore's late Promenade Concerts . . .
7. Quartette for four brass instruments on the the favourite German air Lorilu [sic, Lorelei] - Messrs. Chapman, Harward, Huenerbein, and Mater . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian (11 March 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71686241

Grand Evening Concert. MADAME FRANCESCA ALLEN,
HAS the honor to inform the Residents of Adelaide and its vicinity that her First Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music will take place on
Wednesday evening, 12th March, in the Commercial Exchange, King William-street, on which occasion she will be assisted by
Madame Cranz, Mr. G. Bennett, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Ellard, Mr. Daniels, Mr. C. Walsh, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Lee, Herr Heunerbein, Herr Mater,
Mr. McCullagh, Mr. Harward, Mr. Barnett, &c. &. . . .
PROGRAMME. PART I . . . Duet - "I know a bank" - Cornopeans - Messrs. McCullagh and Harward . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Francesca Allen (vocalist); Mathilde Cranz (vocalist); George Bennett (musician); Frederick Ellard (vocalist, pianist); | Josiah Wyke Daniel (vocalist); Charles Walsh (vocalist, actor)

MUSIC: I know a bank (C. E. Horn)

"MADAME F. ALLEN'S CONCERT", Adelaide Times (14 March 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207067708 

Madame Allen's concert took place on Wednesday evening, at the Exchange. We were sorry to find that our anticipations, so far as regarded the attendance, were not realised; empty seats being far more prevalent than we could have either wished or imagined. The orchestral department was very meagre, but the little the instrumentalists had to do was performed satisfactorily, although the programme was not adhered to, a fact to be so far lamented, that instead of the Gazza Ladra Overture, which was set down to open the second part, the audience was treated to a hackneyed galop of Gung'l's, which has been already done to death at the Theatre . . . We are no admirers of the cornet a piston, but that instrument was done full justice to by Messrs. Chapman [sic] and Harward, who played the duet "I know a bank" . . .

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times [SA] (9 May 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207006569 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Open every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Proprietors - Messrs. LAZAR and COPPIN . . .
It is most respectfully announced that MRS. MERETON, From the Sydney and Port Phillip Theatres,
will have the honor of making her First Appearance in the course of next week, in a Domestic Drama (never acted here) called ELLEN WAREHAM . . .

"OFFICIAL RESIGNATIONS", South Australian Register (17 February 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38454808 

. . . R. McCullagh, T. Simpson, W. Harward, Kooringa Mail Guards.

"THE THEATRE", South Australian Register (14 May 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38462136 

Mr. Coppin's farewell benefit last night was attended by (probably) the largest number of persons ever seen within the walls of the Adelaide Theatre . . . It was a gratification to see him so well supported; Mrs. Mereton's acting was admirable for its spirit and truthfulness . . .

Melbourne and Geelong, VIC, (from mid 1852 to early 1854):

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (3 June 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4785482 

HERR MATER'S FIRST GRAND CONCERT, WILL take place on
Saturday, June 5, 1852, at the Mechanics' Institute, Collins-street.
PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS: Mrs. TESTAR, Mr. St. George Hamilton, Mr. Charles Walsh,
Messrs. Buddee, Megson, Reed, Cooze, Harwood, and Thompson, Herr Huenerbein, Messrs. Osborne and Wheeler,
Herr Zeigler, Mons. Lavrance, Messrs. Jenkins, Cossac, Cobbin, Beattie, and Barnard;
Assisted by the most powerful band ever concentrated in Victoria.
PROGRAMME: PART I. Overture - Il Don Giovanni - Mozart . . .
Quadrille - English, Band - Jullien.
PART II. Overture - La Dame Blanche, Band - Boildieu . . .
Quartette - Four Brass instruments.
Polka - Elephant (as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) - Jullien - Band . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Mr. St. George Hamilton (vocalist); Julius Buddee (pianist); Joseph Megson (violinist); Thomas Reed (musician); William Joseph Cooze (musician); Stephen Thomas Wheeler (musician); Mr. Cossa (musician); Mechanics' Institution (Melbourne venue); the artists in this concert included several others formerly of Adelaide, some also recently arrived, including Mater himself, Walsh, Thompson, Huenerbein, Osborne, Ziegler, Lavrance, and William Cobbin junior

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (4 June 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91931144 

CAUTION. THE undersigned will not ne answerable for any debts contracted by any of his family.
THOMAS MERETON. Great Malop-street, Geelong.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Mereton (actor, Christiana's former partner)

1852, marriages in the district of Geelong; Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria

No. 395 / . . . Church of Scotland . . .
William Harward of Geelong Bachelor and Christina Walker of Geelong Spinster
were joined together in wedlock on the 17th day of July 1852 at Geelong . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (31 July 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91929165 

THEATRE ROYAL. GRAND CONCERT, OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC,
Musical Director, Herr Hunerbein; Leader of the Band, Mr. Wallace; Pianist, Signor Montegani
SATURDAY Evening, 31st Inst.,
Grand March from NORMA - The Band . . .
Solo, Cornet-a-piston - Mr. Harward . . .
Galop, EVERGREEN - Labitzky - Band
Romance, LORD LOVELL - Mr. Coppin . . .
Quadrille, OCEAN WAVE - The Band
(TEN MINUTES)
Overture, MONTECCHI e Capuletti - Band . . .
English & German Duet - Hunerbein & Coppin
Polka, CECILLE - The Band . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Coppin's Geelong company also included several other musicians formerly of Adelaide, including Huenerbein, Spencer Wellington Wallace, and Alfred Mantegani (pianist); Theatre Royal (Geelong venue)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (5 August 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91929578 

THEATRE ROYAL, GEELONG . . . THIS EVENING, AUG. 5 . . .
The Entertainments will commence with a Petite Comedy, never acted here, entitled TIME TRIES ALL; OR, The Friendly Merchants.
Mr. Leeson (the Friendly Merchant) - Mr. Coppin . . . Laura Leeson - Mrs. Mereton [sic] . . .
To be followed by the admired interlude of A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING . . .
Lady Elizabeth Freelove - Mrs. Harward . . .

See also [Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (13 August 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91930378 

THEATRE ROYAL, GEELONG. HERR MATER'S' GRAND CONCERT, ON SATURDAY next, AUGUST 28,
ON which occasion he will be assisted by the choicest talent in Victoria.
PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS . . . Herr Huenerbein, Messrs. Harwood, Howson and Monthegarni.
PROGRAMME. PART I. Overture - Il nozze de Figaro - Mozart . . .
PART II. Overture - Norma, Band - Bellini . . .
Waltz - Die Orientalen = Labitzky . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Howson (musician)

Will of Thomas Mereton, made 14 January 1853; proved 1853; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/50C8D20C-F4EF-11E9-AE98-B1085C95704B?image=1 (DIGITISED)

Geelong January 14th 1853 / I Thomas Mereton . . . do hereby give and bequeath all my Estate . . . to be equally divided between my children (by the present wife of Mr. Harward)
by name Christiane, Elizabeth, Juliet, James, William, Ondine and Mary (now Mrs. Holloway) and Sarah Needham . . . and I appoint Henry Deering and William Marwell both of Geelong my executors. / Thomas Mereton.

ASSOCIATIONS: Edmund Holloway (actor, Christiana's son-in-law); Henry Deering (actor, manager)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (30 April 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94361657 

THEATRE ROYAL, GEELONG. SATURDAY, 30th APRIL.
GRAND CONCERT, IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE GEELONG HARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
LEADER OF THE ORCHESTRA - Mr. THOM, assisted by one Member of the Geelong Harmonic Society.
Second Violins - Mr. SAYERS, with two Members of the G. H. S.
VIOLONCELLOS - Two Members of the G.H.S.
TENORS - Mr. F. COPPIN, with one Member of the G.H.S.
CORNET - Mr. HARWARD.
TUBA BASSO - HERR HUNERBEIN.
FLUTES - Mr. ROYAL, with two Members of the G.H.S.
CLARIONET - M. G.H.S.
DRUM AND TRIANGLE - Mr. COPPIN.
PIANIST - Mr. CREED ROYAL.
PROGRAMME: PART I. Overtetre, "Caliph of Bagdad" - The Band . . .
PART II. Overture, "Guy Mannering" - The Band . . .
Duet (Cornet a Piston,) from the Opera of Norma - Mr. F. Coppin and Mr. Harward . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Bream Thom (violin, leader); William Francis Sayer (violin, vocalist); Frederick Coppin (violin, cornet); Creed Royal (flute, piano); Geelong Harmonic Society (association)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (24 June 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94358128 

THEATRE ROYAL. GRAND CONCERT,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SUFFERERS OF THE SHIPWRECK THE "EARL OF CHARLEMONT" . . .
Leader and Conductor, Mr. Thom . . .
ON SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1853.
PART I. OVERTURE. Figaro - The Band . . .
TRIO. - Two Cornets and Tuba Basso (first time) - Mr. F. Coppin, Mr. Harward, and Herr Hunsebine [sic] . . .
WALTZ. - First time, illustrative of the "Heart of an Englishman," commencing with "See the Conquering Hero Comes," and finishing with "The Roast Beef of Old England - The Band. (Labitzky.)
PART II. OVERTURE. - Fra Diavolo - The Band. (Auber.) . . .
D'Albert's new Set of IRISH QUADRILLES, entitled Ireland, introducing "Garry Owen," "The Brown Irish Girl," "Paddy's Resourse," "A Lovely Lass to a Fairy Came," "Gold Morning to your Nightcap," "Evelyn's Bower," with Solos for the Flageolet and Cornet - The Band . . .

"THE THEATRE", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (2 September 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86415356 

"All that Glitters is not Gold" was repeated on Tuesday night. Mr. Holloway enacted his part excellently. This gentleman's acting has improved very much. It is getting more chastened and finished, and we are happy to observe an absence of that rant in which he formerly indulged. He seems also to have a good perception of humour. Mrs. Thom performed her part in a manner which could leave nothing to be wished, even by the most fastidious audience. And Mrs. Harward, and Coppin, were, as usual, "all there" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Thom (actor)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (24 October 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86415478 

GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT! WINE AND TEA GARDEN, KARDINIA, SOUTH GEELONG.
MESSRS. HERRING AND OTTO beg leave to announce to their Friends, and the Public, that they intend giving a
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, in the above-mentioned Garden, on
MONDAY, October 24th, for which occasion they have engaged the first musical talent in the colony.
The String Band, under the direction of Mr B. Thom.
The Brass Band, under the direction of Herr. Hunerbein.
The Orchestra will consist of the following Artists:
1st Violin - Mr. B. Thom.
2nd Violin and Trombone - Mr. Gabb.
Tenor and Cornopean - Mr. F. Coppin.
Bass and Clarionette - Mr. Hunerbein.
Flute - Mr. Stoneham.
Cornopean - Mr. Harward.
Ophicliede - Mr. Tanner.
Drum - Mr. Stanley.
The Concert to commence at 3 o'clock, p.m. Admission - 2s. 6d.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Gough Gabb (musician); William Stoneham (musician); William Tanner (musician)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (29 October 1853), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86413935 

THEATRE ROYAL. GRAND CONCERT.
THE GEELONG HARMONIC SOCIETY Have great pleasure in announcing that the first
PERIODICAL CONCERT will take place on SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 29th, 1853.
The following selection of Music having been for a considerable time in rehearsal, will be produced by the LARGEST NUMBER OF PERFORMERS ever brought together in Geelong, under the Leadership of the Society's Director, MR. THOM . . .
PART I. Overture - Zara - Winter . . .
Instrumental Quartett, 2 Cornets, Trombone Basso and Opheclide - Messrs. Haward, Coppin, Hunerbein and Tanner . . .
Selections from the Opera of Stradella - by the Band - Flotow.
PART II. Overture, "Italiana in Algeri" - Rossini . . .
Surprise Galop - Band - Gungl . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (10 January 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86414168 

THEATRE ROYAL. RE-OPEN FOR THE SEASON. ON TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 10TH . . .
Solo on the Cornopean - Mr. HARWARD. DANCE - By Miss MERETON . . .
Sole Lessee and Manager - MR. DEERING.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Deering (actor, manager)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (14 January 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86414613 

THEATRE ROYAL . . . On MONDAY Evening, January 16th . . . DANCE, by Miss Harward [sic] . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (21 January 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86415237 

THEATRE ROYAL. SATURDAY EVENING. CONCERTS. REDUCED PRICES OF ADMISSION.
Saturday Evening, January 21st, 1854 . . .
INSTRUMENTALISTS: Primo Violin - Mr. F. Coppin - Cornopean - Mr. Harward.
Secondo - Mr. Sinclair - Saxe Tuba - Mr. Huenerbein. AND A FULL BAND . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (10 February 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86413150 

THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, 10TH FEBRUARY, 1854.
GRAND CONCERT. MR. AND MRS. MOORE Have returned. (Old Favorites and Great Novelty) . . .
SOLI PERFORMERS - MR. MOORE AND MR. HARWARD.
MR. F. COPPIN'S CELEBRATED BAND Will, during the evening, perform some admired Overtures, Waltzes, &c. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew and Rachel Moore (violinist and vocalist)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (29 April 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91933750 

THEATRE ROYAL. NOVELTY! NOVELTY!!
SATRUDAY, April 29th, GRAND EVENING CONCERT. PHALANX OF MUSICAL TALENT.
Principal Vocalists - MADAME SARA FLOWER, The Australian Nightingale.
Mrs. MOORE, the Favourite soprano.
Re-appearance of MR. F. W. SAYERS, The Primo Tenore of the Colonies.
MR. LABERNE, the John Parry of Australia.
Instrumentalists: Messrs. F. Coppin, Harward, Cossa, Heunerbein, Gabb, and A. Moore.
Leader - Mr. Coppin. Conductor - Mr. A. Moore.
PROGRAMME: PART I. Overture - "The Bohemian Girl," - Full Band - Balfe . . .
5. Waltz - 'D'Amour,' with Cornopean obligato by Mr. Harward - Koenig . . .
7. Solo - Cornopean, by desire - Mr. Harward . . .
9. Quadrille - "The Irish," - Full Band - Jullien . . .
PART II. Overrure - "Norma," - Full Band - Bellini . . .
5. Galop - "The Ne Plus Ultra," - Full Band - Gungl . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (vocalist); George Laberne (vocalist)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (5 August 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91933502 

THEATRE ROYAL . . . On MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7th, 1854 . . . Dance - Miss Harward . . .

Launceston and Hobart, TAS (from late 1854):

"CLARENCE THEATRE", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (14 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65714474 

. . . An old favorite with a new name, though not less welcome, Mrs. Harwood (late Mrs. Mereton) appears as Portia, in the Merchant of Venice, on Monday next. Miss Mereton is an accomplished danseuse, and also appears; while to the orchestra is consigned the unquestionable talent of Mr. Harwood on the cornet-a-piston.

ASSOCIATIONS: Clarence Theatre (Launceston venue)

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (28 October 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36290452 

CLARENCE THEATRE. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30.
Will be produced for the first time, an interesting drama entitled THE DEATH TOKEN. Mariette - Mrs. Harward . . .
R. BLAKE, Proprietor. G. ARABIN, Manager.
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31. MERCHANTS' SESPEAK . . .
Bulwer's celebrated play in five acts, entitled THE LADY OF LYONS.
SOLO, Cornet a Piston - "The Blue Bells of Scotland," with variations - Mr. Harward.
HIGHLAND FLING - MISS HARWARD . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Blake (proprietor); Gustavus Arabin (actor, manager); Clarence Theatre (Launceston venue)

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (20 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65717687

Royal Clarence Theatre. MONDAY evening, January 22nd . . . For the Benefit of MRS. MOORE . . .
The interlude to consist of - Song "The Irish Emigrant" - Mrs. Webster, (her first appearance these 5 years.) Song - Amateur.
Double Irish Jig, Miss Harward and Mrs. Moore. Song - "Annie Laurie," Mrs. Webster.
Solo - Cornet a Piston, Mr. Harward . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Mrs. Moore (actor, dancer); Mrs. Webster (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (3 February 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65719621 

CLARENCE THEATRE . . . Monday Evening, February 5th . . .
Solo - "Cornet-a piston" - Mr. Harward . . . New Dance - Miss Harward . . .

"Public Amusements. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (17 March 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2481009 

We have the pleasure of reminding our readers that this popular place of amusement re-opened on Monday evening next with an accession of talent alike creditable to the energy and perseverance, as in the real sense of the word, the patriotism of Mr. Watson, who has spared no expense in bringing forward first-rate professionals upon this occasion. It has previously been our satisfaction to record that Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Holt had arrived . . . They come out to one of their new pieces, "Civilisation; or the King, the Court, and the Indian," in which they will be supported by Mrs. Harward, late Mr. Mereton, an old established favourite . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Feltham Bold Watson (actor, proprietor); Clarance and Marie Holt (actors); Royal Victoria Theatre (Hobart venue)

[Advertisement], The Courier (15 September 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2490453

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Great Attraction. Mrs. Harward's Benefit. MONDAY EVENING, 17th September.
MRS. HARWARD begs to announce to the ladies and gentlemen of the City of Hobart Town and its environs that her Benefit is fixed for the above evening;
she therefore most respectfully solicits the kind favour of their patronage on the occasion, and trusts that the selection of pieces is such as will give general satisfaction.
The performances will commence with the beautiful Drama entitled VALSHA; or, The Slave Queen. Valsha, Mrs. Harward. To be followed by Solo, Cornet a Piston, Mr. Harward; Dance, Mr. Cohen To conclude with the celebrated Nautical Drama entitled BLACK EYED SUSAN. Susan, Mrs. Harward; William, Mr. Byers . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Lewis Cohen (dancer); James Lucas Byers (actor)

[Advertisement], The Courier (29 December 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2496416 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. NEW YEAR'S EVE. FAREWELL BENEFIT TO MRS. HARWARD.
MONDAY EVENING, December 31. Mrs. Harward, in conforming to a long-established usage, has much pleasure in announcing that her Farewell Benefit is fixed for the above evening, when she most earnestly trusts to have the satisfaction of securing such a patronage as her humble efforts in supporting the Drama may fairly be entitled to. On the above evening will be produced, for the first time here, the beautiful Drama entitled CARLINE, THE FEMALE BRIGAND. Carline (assuming the characters of Kreutz, a ferryman; an old Mendicant; a French Marquis; a Wandering Savoyard; and a Neapolitan Peasant Girl) Mrs. Harward.
To be followed by Solo, Cornet Piston, Mr. Harward.
Mrs. Harward will deliver a Farewell Address to the Married and Single.
Highland Fling, Miss Harward.
The entertainments will conclude with the admired Comedy of THE POST of HONOUR. Trudchon, Mrs. Harward . . .

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Tasmanian Telegraph [Hobart, TAS] (23 March 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232805544 

Monday night was a great event for the Garrick Club. The Rob Roy was certainly a great improvement on the last performance . . . Helen McGregor as impersonated by Mrs. Harward was vigorous, pointed, and perfect. We have already stated that she is our Prima-Donna and are happy to repeat the expression, she is the only Lady in this Island who could sustain the character - her voice was good, firm, resolute, and at the same time, the usual characteristic of modesty and unexcelled delineation of character, was effectively and truthfully pourtrayed in Diana Vernon, is to us a mystery - and why? - she appears to possess all the tact of an old actress: her excellent pronunciation the clearness of her delivery, the sweetness of her voice in the numerous songs incidental to the piece, require an especial notice; and that is, that she is the most advanced amateur we have had the honor to witness . . .

"MRS. HARWARD'S BENEFIT", The Tasmanian Times (15 October 1870), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232960830 

The Garrick Club announce a performance at the Theatre Royal as a farewell benefit to Mrs. Harward. This lady so long and favourably known to the play-going public of Tasmania, is now, we hear, about to leave the colony. She is well entitled to a complimentary benefit which we should be pleased to hear resulted in a substantial advantage. Mrs. Harward has for upwards of 20 years lent her assistance to the production of dramatic performances in Hobart Town, and if we were to excise from the list of such entertainments in this city during that period all those in which Mrs. Harward has played a part, whether with professional or amateur actors, we should retain but a very brief catalogue of such performances. Mrs. Harward has been long a popular favourite with the lovers of the drama; her acting, despite the disadvntage of so long a residence in Hobart Town, is far removed from mediocrity, and has always commanded deserved applause. We trust her friends and admirers will rally round her on this occasion, and that a bumper house on Monday night will testify to the public appreciation of her excellence and usefulness as an actress, and to her readiness at all times, to promote the cause of charity and benevolence, and to aid the efforts in the same direction of our local amateurs.

"AMUSEMENTS", The Tasmanian Times (5 November 1870), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232961228 

. . . Mrs. and Miss Harward - two very old residents and actresses of long standing - have taken their departure for Victoria. Farewell benefits were given to these ladies - one on the 18th ult. at the Theatre Royal by the G.V.B. Club - and one on the 31st ult. at Del Sarte's Rooms by amateurs . . .

"MARRIAGES", Evening News [Sydney, NSW] (17 July 1874), 2