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Introductory note:

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

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

A major upgrade of the contents of this page was begun in 2024, and, when finished, newly added documentation (including genealogical data) and Trove tagging will bring the page content up to the end of 1860 close to completion.

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

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

HEALE, William Samuel (William Samuel HEALE; W. S. HEALE)

Manager (for Henry Marsh and John Winterbottom's promenade concerts)

Born c. 1820
Active Sydney, NSW, by 1853
Died Hawthorn, VIC, 21 April 1896, aged 76

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Samuel+Heale+d1896 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Empire (1 June 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61324735 

PROMENADE CONCERTS. Positively the last Night. MR. W. S. HEALE, Manager to Messrs. H. Marsh and Co., begs to inform his friends and the public, that having made arrangements with Mr. Winterbottom, for his inimitable band, begs to announce that his benefit takes place on Thursday, 2nd June.

HEALES, Thomas (Thomas HEALES)

Amateur vocalist, cordwainer

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1850

Documentation:

"THE CORDWAINERS' ANNUAL FESTIVAL", The Melbourne Daily News (13 April 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226321331 

HEALY, George (George HEALY)

Musician, professor of music

Active Bathurst, NSW, 1856

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press (16 February 1856), 3

htthttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048803

GEORGE HEALY. Professor of music, BEGS to acquaint his Patrons and the Public in general, that having entered into arrangements to play at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, his Quadrille Band will not be at liberty to play at private parties on those nights. At the same time he begs to state that on any of the other nights of the week, his services may be commanded as usual. Piano-fortes tuned any where within 30 miles of Bathurst. Balls, Weddings, Christenings, attended on the shortest notice. For further particulars, enquire at Mr. W. L. Pike's, Howick-street, or at the Advertiser's Bathurst, February 16th, 1856.

HEANY, Mr. (Mr. HEANY; ? HEANEY)

Musician, violinist, fiddler

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1849

Documentation:

"ASSUALTS", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (10 August 1849), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4770791 

Mr. Thomas Stevens, Road Contractor, was fined 10s at the Police Office on Wednesday, for assaulting a person named Heany. Mr. S., on returning to his house on Tuesday night, found the complainant in the kitchin playing a fiddle for the amusement of his servant; as the complainant had entered the premises without Mr. Stevens's permission, the latter became angry, and broke the fiddle over the musician's head.

HEAPE, Benjamin (Benjamin HEAPE)

Musical amateur, merchant

Active Melbourne, NSW (VIC), 1841

Documentation:

Kerr's Melbourne almanac and Port Phillip directory for 1842 (Melbourne: Kerr and Thompson, 30 April 1842), 333

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/246294895 

MELBOURNE HARMONIC SOCIETY. Established 1841.
Leader - Mr. Charles Beswicke.
Conductor - Mr. William Clarke.
Treasurer - Mr. John Jones Peers.
Secretaries - Messrs. Benjamin Heape and William Dredge.
The Harmonic Society meets every Thursday evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Collins-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Beswicke (amateur); William Clarke (musician); John Jones Peers (amateur); William Gilpin Dredge (amateur);
and see also "THE CHRONICLES OF EARLY MELBOURNE . . . by Garryowen [ = Edmund Finn]", The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (23 June 1883), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241140142 

In 1841 was established the first musical combination, viz: - The Melbourne Harmonic Society, with the following office-holders - Leader, Mr. Charles Beswicke; Conductor, Mr. William Clarke; Treasurer, Mr. John Jones Peers; Secretaries, Messrs. Benjamin Heape, and William Dredge. They met every Thursday evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Collins street, and their role was select sacred music performances, or rather private rehearsals, but the effort did not come to much.

And see also The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1851, by Garryowen (Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888), 488

https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/book/13087793 (DIGITISED)

HEAPS, Alfred Walter (Alfred Walter HEAPS; Alfred HEAPS; Mr. A. HEAPS)

Violin maker

Born Holbeck, Yorkshire, England, 1853 (first quarter), son of John Knowles HEAPS
Arrived Sydney, NSW, after 1875
Died Paddington, NSW, 14 May 1906, in his 54th year

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Alfred+Walter+Heaps+1853-1906 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Documentation:

"The Sydney International Exhibition", Australian Town and Country Journal (17 April 1880), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70942888

"MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE GARDEN PALACE . . . MR. HEAP'S VIOLINS" [sic], Australian Town and Country Journal (29 November 1879), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70975075

Mr. Albert Heaps, of Albert-street, Darlinghurst, exhibits in the north gallery, over the British court, near the organ, two very fine violins, made by his father, Mr. J. K. Heaps, of Leeds. These instruments are not much to look at, being destitute of meretricious ornament, but if a violin-player gets one of them up to his shoulder, he will not lay it down in disgust. We have heard both of them played on, and know we are not praising them unduly. The tone is free, that is, the instrument responds to the most delicate touch of the bow, and in this respect they differ from common fiddles, from which the tone can be extracted only by grinding. M. Bailly, of Mirecourt, France, has two violins - copies from the old masters - in a case in the gallery over the French court, in the charge of Mr. L. Moonen; and there are a few trade violins in the German court. These, along with Mr. Crook's Australian double bass, and Mr. Heap's fiddles and violoncello, are the only bow instruments in the Exhibition.

"Answers to Correspondents", Australian Town and Country Journal (9 August 1884), 20

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71015816

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (17 May 1906), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14772571

HEAPS - May 14, at his residence, 466 Oxford street, Paddington, Alfred Walter Heaps, son of the late John Knowles Heaps, of Folly Hall, Holbeck, Leeds and dearly beloved husband of M. Heaps, in his 54th year. Home, New Zealand, and foreign papers please copy.

"THE LATE MR. A. W. HEAPS, VIOLIN MAKER, A SKETCH OF HIS CAREER", Australian Town and Country Journal (27 June 1906), 39

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71531685

Mr. Alfred Walter Heaps, whose death occurred recently at his residence, Oxford-street, Paddington, Sydney, somewhat suddenly, at the age of 53, furnished a rather uncommon example of the talents, of a father being handed down unimpaired to his son. The deceased was a native of Leeds, Yorkshire, and the fifth son of the late Mr. John Knowles Heaps, whose work as a violin, viola, and violoncello maker and restorer is well known wherever players on the "king of instruments" and its kin do congregate.

His father, having decided that his son Alfred should follow in his footsteps, at the age of 16 apprenticed him to Handel Pickard - musical instrument maker and professor of the violoncello - of Leeds, in 1860, and there he remained until the end of 1874. Then the youthful instrument maker went into his father's workshop, and secured his first public triumph, when, in 1875, in company with his father, he exhibited a quartette of instruments at the Leeds Exhibition. This exhibit secured a prize medal and certificate. During the time the young man was employed by his father he turned out several violins, prized so highly by their purchasers that offers of from £30 to £50 would not bring about a sale. Shortly after 1875, Mr. Heaps was offered, and accepted a position to manage the musical department of a wholesale house in Sydney. He continued in this employment for some time, during which he found his business as a violin maker and repairer increasing so rapidly as to demand all his time. His experience in restoring old instruments was gained with Mr. Pickard in Leeds, where several very valuable violins were entrusted to him for repairs, and restoration. His success in this branch of the industry gained him the reputation of an expert, and his work in Australia enhanced the golden opinions formed of him in the old land.

During the past 17 or 18 years, Mr. Heaps made many violins and violoncellos. For the former he never received less than £25, and for the latter from £35 to £42. Among his customers for violoncellos was the late Mr. Edgar Strauss, for whom he made one in 1891. This fine artist used the instrument for his solos during the whole of his residence in Sydney. Mr. Strauss, on his arrival from San Francisco in 1889, was introduced to Mr. A. W. Heaps, from whom he obtained the loan of a 'cello made by his father. Mr. Strauss played upon it for twelve months, and was so enamoured of the instrument that he offered 80 guineas for it. The 'cello was not for sale, so Mr. Strauss did the next best thing - he ordered one to be made from the same model. This was done, and the maestro never used any others. So that the 'cellos, made by the Heaps - father and son - were responsible for the sweet music that Edgar Strauss made in Sydney. A second instrument was also made for Mr. Strauss from this model.

Ovide Musin, the celebrated violinist, while in Sydney a few years ago, also entrusted Mr. Heaps, with the repairing of his two violins. One of these was a Gagliano. During this business interview several of his violins were brought under M. Musin's notice. They pleased him, and he gave the maker an unsolicited testimonial, couched in terms of warmest approbation, classing him as "one of the best violin makers he had met in his long artistic career."

The secret of Mr. Heaps' success, which was hailed by Messrs. Rivers Allpress, Straus, Rice, and Wentzel (of the Orpheus Quartette), Dr. Scheidel, Max Schluter, and others well capable of judging, was the extreme care he took, the excellence of his material, and his fine models. Some of the sycamore which he used had been preserved since about 1828, and another portion, still in tree block, was purchased in 1836. In pine his stock included some that was exhibited as music wood in London in 1851, and purchased from Messrs. Bernhardt and Sons; and sycamore presented by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone to Mr. J. K. Heaps, and cut by the Grand Old Man himself off his own estate. Indeed, his stock was so large that he often laughingly stated it would easily last him his lifetime. He still continued to purchase as opportunity offered, so that at his demise he would be able to bequeath to his son (whom he intended should follow the profession) whatever might be unused.

His death, as has been stated, came suddenly, and his valuable stock outlived him.

What all violin makers wish to discover what many of them experiment practically daily to find out - is the secret of the varnish used by Stradivarius, Guarnerius, and Amati on their wonderful violins. It is unfortunate that no one has managed to unearth this, though there is no doubt that continuous experiments have improved the varnishes used on the modern violins. Mr. Heaps was an enthusiast on the subject. His varnishes were well known. The fact of his newly-made instruments possessing such fine tone - as compared with old instruments speaks for itself, as the fine tone is attributed in violins to the merit of varnish in conjunction with the workmanship.

The late Mr. Heaps, was very popular both among professional and amateur musicians, and his advice, often sought, was highly valued, and outside the purely musical circle he had many friends, to whom his sudden death came as a great shock. He leaves a widow and six children. Two of the elder children are sons, (the eldest having served an apprenticeship with the father), and by them the business, conducted on lines laid down by their grand father (Mr. J. K. Heaps) and their father, will be carried on in future.

HEARNE, John Alfred (John Alfred HEARNE) = alias John Alfred DANIELL (also DANIEL; DANIELS)

Musician, pianoforte maker and tuner

Died Sydney, NSW, 29 June 1857

HEARTH, Thomas (Thomas HEARTH)

Pianoforte maker, repairer and tuner of musical instruments (from Clementi, Cheapside, London)

Active Sydney, NSW, from 1839; Launceston, VDL (TAS), from 1842; Adelaide, SA, 1845

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Thomas+Hearth+pianoforte+maker (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (22 July 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32164938

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (2 December 1839), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32166453

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (24 May 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12869234

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (12 September 1841), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12871112

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (6 August 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66016875

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (21 December 1842), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36250868

"ATTEMPTED ROBBERY", The Cornwall Chronicle (21 September 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66271497

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (19 October 1844), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36238187

[Advertisement], South Australian (25 March 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71601011

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (18 June 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73843009

HEASMAN, Mr. (Mr. HEASMAN)

Musician, band leader

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1849

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (16 January 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4765716 

HEATH, Mrs. (Mrs. HEATH)

Musician, professor of the pianoforte and singing

Active Sydney, NSW, February to July 1853

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 February 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12943639 

MRS. HEATH, Professor of the Pianoforte and Singing. Application for terms, references, &c, is requested to be made to Mrs. HEATH, 5, Bridge-street.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 June 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12946398 

MRS. HEATH, recently from London, and pupil of Heinrich G. Dellevie and George Dixon, (Mus. Doc.)
Professor of the Pianoforte and Singing, No. 5, Bridge-street.
TERMS PER QUARTER: - For a lesson of half an hour, twice a week:
Pianoforte, two guineas and a half; Singing, two guineas and a half.
For a lesson of one hour, twice a week: Pianoforte, three guineas and a half; Singing, three guineas and a half.
Lessons given at the residence of the pupils will be charged at the rate of a guinea and a half per quarter in addition to the above.
To ladies desiring a few finishing lessons in either of the above accomplishments, Mrs. Heath will be happy to afford the requisite assistance.

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (6 January 1858), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7144630 

MRS. HEATH, Teacher of the Pianoforte. Terms, two guineas per quarter. Mrs. Heath can receive Two Young Ladies to Board and Educate, Avoca Cottage, Duke-street, Prahran.

HEBERLET, James William (James William HEBERLET; J. W. HEBERLET; also HERBERLET; HERBELET; HEBERLE)

Musician, professor of music, pianist, organist

Active Adelaide, SA, 1858-92
Died Kensington, SA, 25 June 1910

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=James+William+Heberlet+d1910 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (5 May 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article792382

MR. J. W. HEBERLET, PIANIST, Organist of St. Margaret's Church, Woodville, will attend PUPILS on the PIANOFORTE and SINGING; also on the HARMONIUM preparatory to Organ study.

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (6 May 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article792421

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (27 December 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1200585 

"NORWOOD PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The South Australian Advertiser (22 October 1861), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article878936

"CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY", South Australian Register (21 July 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41018890

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (6 January 1879), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42978531

[News], The South Australian Advertiser (9 May 1885), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36306002

"WINTER ENTERTAINMENT", South Australian Register (9 July 1892), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48532530

HEDGES, William Henry (William Henry HEDGES)

Musician, professor of music

Born ?; son of James HEDGES
Active Mount Gambier, SA, by 1868
Married Anna Maria Peckwell BYASS, Mount Gambier, SA, 19 April 1869

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Border Watch (11 July 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77165364

[Advertisement], Border Watch (27 October 1868), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77165991

"NEW INSOLVENTS", The Argus (4 May 1875), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11516387

William Henry Hedges of Hamilton, music teacher. Causes of insolvency: Falling off of business, sickness of self and family, and bad debts. Liabilities £76.11s; assets £57. 15s. 6d., deficiency, £18.15s.6d.

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier (21 July 1881), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article915211

I WILLIAM HENRY HEDGES, Professor of Music, now residing at Ipswich-road, near the Woolloongabba, in the district of Brisbane, do hereby give notice that it is my intention to apply at the next Monthly Licensing Meeting or Special Petty Sessions, to be holden for this district on the 9th day of August next ensuing, for a PROVISIONAL PUBLICAN'S LICENSE . . ." 

HEDGELAND, James Frederick (James Frederick HEDGELAND; Frederick HEDGELAND; F. HEDGELAND)

Musician, organist, teacher of the pianoforte, singing class instructor (Hullah's system)

Born Marylebone, England, 26 October 1831; baptised Christ Church, St. Marylebone, 10 November 1831; son of John Pike HEDGELAND and Harriet TAYLOR
Active Sydney, NSW, 1854
Died Prahran, VIC, 11 April 1911, aged "79"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=James+Frederick+Hedgeland+1831-1911 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in Christ Church in the parish of St. Marylebone . . . in the year [1831]; register 1827-36, page 82; London Metropolitan Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1558/images/31280_199054-00237 (PAYWALL)

No. 630 / [baptised] Nov'r 10 1831 / James Frederick Son of / John Pike & Harriet / Hedgeland / 2 Grove place / Architect / Born Oct'r 26 1831

ASSOCIATIONS: Also baptised in the same ceremony was his elder brother, Edward Charles, born 24 October 1828

England census, 30 March 1851, Christ Church, St. Marylebone; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 1490

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/MDXHO107_1490_1490-0979 (PAYWALL)

2 Grove Place / John P. Hedgeland / Head / Wid. / 59 / Architect / [born] Devon Exeter
William [Hedgeland] / Son / 20 / Organ Builder / Midx Marylebone
Frederick [Hedgeland] / Son / 19 / Organist / [Midx Marylebone]

ASSOCIATIONS: William Martin Hedgeland (1830-1911), organ builder

[Advertisement], Illustrated Sydney News (27 May 1854), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63614355

MR. FREDERICK HEDGELAND, late Organist of St. Matthew's District Church, Marylebone, London, and now of St. Mark's, Alexandria, will be happy to increase the number of his pupils for the Pianoforte. Terms may be known at Alpha Cottage, 4, William-street, or at Messrs. WOOLCOTT AND CLARKE'S, George-street.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 September 1854), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30941001

"MARRIAGE", The Cornwall Chronicle (4 April 1879), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66496982

"HULLAH SINGING", Launceston Examiner (31 July 1879), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47800362

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (1 August 1879), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47800414

INSTRUCTION IN CHORAL SINGING . . . on the Wilhem method, as taught by Mr. John Hullah, of London.
MR. J. F. HEDGELAND, Professor of Music, Launceston (formerly organist of St. Matthew's Church, Marylebone, London; St. Mark's, Darling Point, and St. James's Choral Society, Sydney; and late of St. John's Church, Toorak), will shortly commence singing classes on the above method, at the Town Hall . . . 

[News], Warragul Guardian (27 June 1893), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68732182

"DEATHS", The Argus (12 April 1911), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10894004

HEFFERNAN, William (William HEFFERNAN)

Hotel proprietor

Active Bendigo, VIC, by 1855
Died NZ, 1891

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Heffernan+d1891 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentaion:

"THE SHAMROCK HOTEL", Bendigo Advertiser (20 October 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88047750 

We understand that Mr. Heffernan has in contemplation the erection of a splendid concert room, superior to any on the Bendigo . . . Beyond question, the Shamrock Hotel has one of the best musical companies in the district, and the large support it receives is well deserved. The engagement of Miss Urie still continues, and her excellent singing meets with the same popularity as ever. Under most disadvantageous circumstances this lady acquits herself remarkably well. Mr. Gibson, the favorite Irish singer, is also engaged at the Shamrock, and his humorous and pleasant style of singing is no small attraction. Mr. Dixon, the tenor, and Mr. Leman, bass singer, are well deserving of notice. The latter gentleman has a very fine powerful voice, which enables him to sing certain songs with striking effect. The place of Mr. White, who ably presided at the pianoforte, and whose accompaniments in no small degree contributed to the success of the evening concerts, is at present filled by Mr. Salaman, the former gentleman being on a visit to town . . .

"DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HEFFERNAN", Bendigo Advertiser (23 March 1891), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88959590 

HEINE, Joseph (Joseph HINE; Joseph HEINE; ? HINIE)

Musician, violinist, "blind violinist"

Born ? London, England, c. 1838 (? 1840; 1844)
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, July 1864 (per Morning Light, from England, aged "26", "HINIE")
Departed after ? April 1866 (for San Francisco)
Died St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada, 30 April 1895

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

HEINE, Ada (Mrs. Joseph HEINE)

Musician, pianist

Born ? England, c. 1838
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, July 1864 (per Morning Light, from England, aged "26")
Departed after ? April 1866 (for San Francisco)

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

HEINE, Constance (Constance HEINE; Miss HEINE)

Joseph Heine (photo: Solomon and Bardwell, Ballarat, VIC, December 1864); courtesy of Shane Le Plastrier

ASSOCIATIONS: Saul Solomon and William Bardwell (photographers)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Morning Post (30 October 1857), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000174/18571030/011/0004 (PAYWALL)

MR. W. T. WRIGHTON'S FIRST BALLAD and MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT will take place at the Hanover-square Rooms, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, Nov. 11 . . . Also, a Youth of extraordinary musical genius, not yet 13 years of age, born blind, named Joseph Hine (a pupil of the eminent professor of the violin, M. Sainton, who has given the highest testimonials of the boy's remarkable talent), will make his first appearance in public. He will perform on the Violin, De Beriot's Sonata, No. 6; Fantaisie, "Lucrezia Borgia," arranged by Sainton, and also "Le Carnaval de Venise," Paganini's Variations upon the Pastoral Tibia, or common pipe. He will likewise exhibit his versatility of talent, by a Performance upon the Grand Organ . . .

"HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS', Morning Chronicle (12 November 1857), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18571112/019/0004 (PAYWALL)

Mr. Wrighton gave his first ballad and miscellaneous concert last night, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The great feature of novelty was the introduction to the public of Master Joseph Hine, a youth very correctly described as one of extraordinary musical genius, as evinced by his performance last night of the "Carnaval de Venice" upon the pastoral tibia, or common pipe, not unlike that upon which Picco is wont to astonish and enchant the public, as well as a fine solo from "Lucrezia Borgia" on the violin. The youth is not more than thirteen years of age, and is a pupil of M. Sainton. Both of his performances were justly rewarded with an encore, and on the first occasion the popular air of "Jenny Jones," with variations, was substituted, for the piece encored, and with the most unequivocal success. The performance of Master Hine was characterised by great taste, and such a knowledge of musical science as gives promise of a most successful future, and affords another illustration of the remarkable fact that when nature deprives a person of one sense she endeavours to compensate for the injury inflicted by increased powers of some other sense. The loss of sight which Joseph Hine has sustained is to some extent compensated by the correctness of his ear and the innate perception of harmony which he possesses . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Thomas Wrighton (vocalist, composer); Propser Sainton (violinist, teacher)

"ENGLISH EXTRACTS", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (21 August 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2463683

A CONCERT of a perfectly novel kind will take place on Saturday (to-day) at the Hanover-square Rooms, by upwards of one hundred blind musicians, pupils of the School for the Indigent Blind, St. George's-fields, Southwark. A complete orchestral band of thirty musicians has been organised at the Blind School ; which band, together with a fine choir of voices, under the direction of the well known musical professor of King's College, Mr. W. H. Monk, will perform a selection from the works of Handel, Mozart, and Mendelssohn. Other blind celebrities, such as Picco, the Sardinian piper, Master Hine, the blind violinist, and Sumners, the blind pianist, have albo lent their aid to this very novel experiment.- Illustrated London News, 12th June.

"London . . . CRYSTAL PALACE", Dwight's Journal of Music [Boston, USA] (5 January 1861), 328

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wRVOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328

. . . . . . Mr. Joseph Heine, a violinist, made his first appearance, and executed Ernst's Pirata fantasia with much applause . . .

"VOCAL ASSOCIATION", London Evening Standard (24 April 1862), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18620424/010/0003 (PAYWALL)

. . . Mr. Joseph Heine, the young blind violinist, who, we believe, has received instructions from Messrs. Sainton, Tolbecque, and other eminent professors of the instrument, also made his first appearance, and executed Ernst's solo on Pirata with great precision and brilliancy, and was applauded with rapture. We might criticise Mr. Heine's performance, indeed, by any standard, and it would stand the test. Unfortunately for him this is not the age for appreciating marvels, or, indeed, he would be followed with as much avidity as some of our most popular artists. That he, wanting sight, should play the most elaborate compositions of the masters, which we are informed he does, with so much skill and accuracy - taste and feeling depend not on the visual sense - does not seem to have made a profound impression, or we should have heard more of the performer. His execution is first-rate, and his expression intense. Altogether his performance was in the highest degree interesting, and terminated in a genuine recall from all parts of the room . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 July 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5751043

"SOCIAL", The Ballarat Star (24 January 1865), 1s

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66059609

"FRIENDS AT HOME", Launceston Examiner (21 February 1865), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38658128

"MR. AND MADAME HEINE", The Mercury (2 March 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8831416

"MR. AND MRS. HEINE'S CONCERTS", The Sydney Morning Herald (12 August 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13117386

"TO THE BLIND MUSICIAN, JOSEPH HEINE . . . J. LE GAY BRERETON", The Sydney Morning Herald (23 August 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13117919

TO THE BLIND MUSICIAN, JOSEPH HEINE.

Child-like Interpreter of Heaven,
While triflers win at folly's mart,
Yield thou to God what God hath given,
Who triumphs in triumphant art!

The common light which us surrounds
Is darkness to that light whose trace
We catch in those enchanted sounds,
And in the music of thy face.

And she who blends her notes with thine,
And hath, oh more! than eyes for thee,
Reflects a radiance more divine
Than aught our common eyes can see;

Echoes a music more than art,
Which yet a deeper spell controls,
The music of a loving heart,
The music of two married souls.

J. LE GAY BRERETON

ASSOCIATIONS: John Le Gay Brereton (poet)

[News], The Brisbane Courier (23 October 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1280794

We understand that the hon. John Hubert Plunkett, of Sydney, has presented to Mr. Joseph Heine a magnificent violin, nearly 250 years old, having been made in the year 1616, by Galpard Duippo [sic], an Italian. On the sides is a Latin inscription: "When I was alive I was silent; now I am dead I speak." The back of the violin is beautifully inlaid with choice woods, representing a township in Italy; and a carved head surmounts the scroll.

[News], The Brisbane Courier (24 October 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1280868 

Mr. and Mrs. Heine's performance, we are glad to say, was very well patronised last night. There was a very large and fashionable audience, including Lady Bowen and others of our notabilities. In addition to the usual programme, to which we have had occasion several times to refer, there were some glees very ably sung by gentlemen amateurs, and Mr. Heine played several popular airs on the violin presented to him by the Attorney-General of New South Wales (the hon. J. H. Plunkett) . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Hubert Plunkett (musical amateur, violinist); the violin "maker" named is probably rightly Gasparo Duiffopruggar (Italianised form of Tieffenbrucker) active in the mid-1500s as a viol maker. Most instruments bearing his "label" mid and late 19th-century Parisian reproductions.

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross (25 December 1865), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18651225.2.2.5

[Advertisement], Nelson Examiner (10 February 1866), 5

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18660210.2.15.4

[News], The Darling Downs Gazette (26 April 1866), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75516080

[News], Launceston Examiner (30 March 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36642832

HEINE, Constance

Blind pianist (daughter of the above)

Active Melbourne, VIC, by 1873

Documentation:

"VICTORIAN ASYLUM AND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND", The Argus (5 December 1873), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5876849

Constance Heine, aged 13, who was born blind, and who is a daughter of the deceased violinist of that name, showed very great proficiency on the pianoforte. She is a pretty girl, and was a great favourite with the audience.

"YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION", The Argus (23 May 1877), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5923025

The concert, which was given solely by the pupils of the Asylum and School for the Blind (under the direction of Mr. F. W. Harmer, teacher of music and singing at the asylum), was extremely enjoyable, some of the pianoforte selections (especially one by Miss Constance Heine, a blind girl only 14 years of age) being very excellently rendered.

"CONCERT AT THE BLIND ASYLUM", The Argus (29 November 1879), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5965108

At the end of the first part of the programme, the Rev. Wm. Moss, the secretary and superintendent, thanked the audience for the numerous attendance, he believed that numbers had not only come to hear the last concert of the season, but were also influenced by the fact that this was the last occasion on which they would hear Miss Constance Heine. It was with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that they parted from one who for the last eight years had been with them. During that time Miss Heine had won esteem both in and outside of the institution. She had not only won their affection and confidence, but had rendered herself very useful in the asylum, from being herself a pupil, she had latterly come to be a skilful teacher. If he could have done it nicely, he would have prevented her from leaving; but she was anxious to rejoin her parents, whom she had once seen (she became blind at four years of age), and the committee had acceded to her wish. He was glad to think that when she left the asylum she had developed talent that would enable her to take a fair position amongst musicians both in England and America . . . Miss Heine, who is a great credit to the institution, played Liszt's "Tarantelle Napolitaine" and Thalberg's "Home, Sweet Home," with admirable accuracy and finish, besides taking part with other concerted pieces for the piano.

"A WORLD WITHOUT LIGHT", The McIvor Times (26 April 1883), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90142960  

Miss Constance Heine is prospering in America. This young lady was blind from birth, her father, the well known violinist, being also blind. Miss Heine's parents went to America, and some time afterwards sent for their daughter. She went to them, and at latest report she was teaching music to the blind inmates of the Perkins Institute.

HEINICKE, Hermann (August Moritz Hermann HEINICKE; Herman HEINICKE; Herr H. HUNICKE)

Musician, violinist, teacher of violin, conductor

Born Dresden, Germany, (? 16) 21 July 1863
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 12 June 1890 (per Parramatta, from London, 2 May)
Died Adelaide, SA, 11 July 1949

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1478989 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

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

Documentation:

"LATEST SHIPPING", The Express and Telegraph (13 June 1890), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208545198 

"HERR HEINlCKE", Evening Journal (18 July 1896), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199912266 

Herr Hermann Heinicke was born July 16, 1863, and entered the Dresden Royal Conservatoire of Music in April, 1873. Showing great talent, he won a scholarship in 1877, which he held for five years. He studied the violin under the world-famed Professor Rappoldi, piano under Professor Braunroth, and theoretical subjects under Professor Dr. Wullner. He received very gratifying testimonials on leaving the above institution, and accepted engagements as leader in several of the foremost orchestras of Germany, and travelled in different countries. In April, 1890, Herr Heinicke accepted the post of teacher of solo violin, orchestral, and quartet playing at the Adelaide College of Music, and in these capacities he has gained a reputation far beyond the limits of our own province. Perceiving the abundance of talent in Adelaide for the organization of a large male chorus, Herr Heinicke several years ago established a Society the outcome of which is the Adelaide Liedertafel in its present state. Since his residence in Adelaide Herr Heinicke has acted as leader or conductor at all important orchestral engagements, and he is now also Musical Director of the Adelaide Harmonie Society, as well as conductor of the Liedertafel. He has also acted as leader at the Chamber Music Concerts for several seasons. But it is to his great success as organiser and conductor of the large orchestra which takes his name that Adelaideans are perhaps chiefly indebted to Herr Heinicke's enterprise and skill. The colony has never before possessed such a skilled body of instrumentalists, and the series of popular concerts now in their second season have given the orchestra high repute and wide popularity. Herr Heinicke possesses almost a magnetic influence over his players, and is no less popular with them than he is with the general public, whether British or Teutonic. Herr Heinicke may be said to favour the modern Romantic school in violin music, and his playing is characterized by great brilliancy and verve.

"Deaths", News (14 July 1949), 18

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130265949 

Resources:

Joyce Gibberd, "Heinicke, August Moritz Hermann (1863-1949)", Australian dictionary of biography 9 (1983)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/heinicke-august-moritz-hermann-6629/text11419 

Julja Szuster, "The injustice of the 1914 assault on Hermann Heinicke", Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia 43 (2015), 99-110

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/233491491 

HEIR, Robert (Robert HEIR; Mr. HEIR)

Actor

HEIR, Mary Fanny (Mrs. Robert HEIR; Mrs. HEIR) = Fanny CATHCART

Actor, vocalist

Documentation:

"THEATRE ROYAL. THE TEMPEST", The Argus (7 July 1857), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7134901 

. . . The tempest at the opening is equal to anything of the kind we remember in London, and the cave of Prospero is another triumph of scenic art, but fully as large a share of credit is due to Mr. Brooke as Prospero, and to Mr. Heir, as Caliban . . . Mrs. Heir made a very pleasing Ariel, and was encored in the well song, "Where the bee sucks." Miss Herbert as Miranda, and Mr. Webster as Ferdinand, well preserved the complexion of the play . . . The scene before the cave of Prospero introduced some dancing by Madame Strebinger Mrs. McGowan, and Miss Earl, which materially heightened the pleasure of the action . . .

HELY, Frederick Augustus (Frederick Augustus HELY; Frederick HELY; F. A. HELY)

Amateur ballad writer, public servant, superintendent of convicts

Born Tyrone, Ireland, 1794
Married Georgiana Lindsey BUCKNELL (c. 1795-1866), St. George's, Dublin, Ireland, 29 June 1817
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 16 December 1823 (per Isabella, from Cork, August)
Died Sydney, NSW, 8 September 1836

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frederick+Augustus+Hely+1794-1836 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464311 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Hely (Wikipedia)

HELY, Mary (Mary Joanna HELY; Mary HELY; Miss HELY; Mrs. Gother Kerr MANN; Mrs. G. K. MANN)

Amateur musician, pianist, composer

Born Ireland, 1819; daughter of the Frederick Augustus HELY and Georgiana Lindsey BUCKNELL
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 16 December 1823 (per Isabella, from Cork, August)
Married Gother Kerr MANN, St. James's, Sydney, NSW, 3 January 1838
Died Sydney, NSW, 30 August 1901, aged 82

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mary+Hely+Mann+1819-1901 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

ASSOCIATIONS: Gother Kerr Mann (husband)

Summary:

Having sailed from Cork in August 1823, Frederick Augustus Hely, recently appointed Principal Superintendent of Convicts for NSW, arrived in Sydney with his wife and four children (including the eldest surviving, Mary, four years old) as passengers on board the convict transport Isabella on 16 December.

By 1835, the Hely family had moved into their new residence, Engehurst, designed for them in 1829 by the architect John Verge, on a site in Rushcutter's Bay (the remnants of the original house now in Ormond Street, Paddington).

Sometime early in 1835, Francis Ellard, the Sydney music seller, arranged to have two musical publications prepared and printed for the Helys in Dublin by his father, Andrew Ellard, and brother William Ellard. The completed prints of both probably arrived in Sydney in a shipment Ellard received on 1 December, and were reviewed in the Sydney press later that month.

Of the two, only one survives The much admired Australian quadrilles, dedicated "to Miss Hely of Engehurst" (that is, Mary; according to custom, the eldest unmarried daughter of the family was identified as "Miss Hely", without a qualifying initial). Though the music was arranged by William Ellard in Dublin from popular operatic and other airs, each of the five quadrilles famously bears a localised colonial title, the fifth "La Engehurst" adapted to the melody of the troop song "The girl I left behind me."

But the other Dublin print, no copy of which has alas been identified, was an Australian composition, a ballad entitled The parting, "composed by a young lady", almost certainly Mary Hely herself, to words by her father, "F. A. H.", though the Herald was inclined to attribute some role in the music to Frederick also.

For all his enlightened interest in music for the parlours of the Sydney gentry, Hely was much less supportive of the musical activities of the under classes. When sitting on the bench, Hely was typical of Sydney magistrates in taking a dim view of disorderly houses wherein occurred "fuddling, fiddling, and dancing". On one occasion in February 1827 Hely sentenced a "Sydney Orpheus who kept the people capering at their midnight orgies to 5 days solitary confinement on bread and water".

In 1838, Mary married Gother Kerr Mann, who later joined Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition. Their daughter Minnie's diary for 22 November 1859 (see below) records a visit to their home on Cockatoo Island (where Gother Mann was superintendent) by officers from the visiting Austrian frigate Novarra, for music and dancing:

. . . After they had been here for some few minutes Papa pushed aside the tables and struck up a dance. While Mama played we were sadly in want of Ladies . . .

Mary died in Sydney in 1901, aged 82.

Engehurst, architectural drawing, by John Verge, c. 1829; "Design for a house on Capt. Rossi's allotment at Rush-cutter's Bay"; State Library of New South Wales, PXD 325

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJBQen/XzXrxoAjEyoVE (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: John Verge (architect); Francis Rossi (previous landowner)

Documentation:

Register of marriages, St. George's (CoI), Dublin, 1817; Irish Church Records

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-298-1-1-044 (DIGITISED)

[1817 June] 29th / Frederick Augustus Hely Capel Street to Georgiana Lindsey Bucknall of this Parish [by] Licence . . .

"Police Reports. SYDNEY. WEDNESDAY", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (24 February 1827), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187733 

Thos. Fellowes, prisoner, Catharine Boyle, free, and a ticket-of-leave man, whose name bears some affinity to leeks or garlick, were found by that gallant champion of the baton, Fitzpatrick, in what he said was a disorderly house; and it appeared also that the parties had been therein fuddling, fiddling, and dancing at the hour of 12 last night. Kitty's eloquent chops, in answer to some questions put by the Bench, were instantly in motion. She stated that her owld man was ill at home, and had been so for a considerable time back; that she had just come down the country with another man (heaven forbid that we should report him to be a fancy man, although there were some significant looks in the Court) and that she went in pursuit of Ned Tutty, and landed in the aforesaid house quite without her knowledge at all at all. Mr. Hely advised Kate to go home and attend to her sick husband, sentenced the Sydney Orpheus who kept the people capering at their midnight orgies to 5 days solitary confinement on bread and water, and Fellowes to the treadmill.

NSW census, 1828; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.paperturn-view.com/?pid=NDM43341&p=177&v=1.1 (DIGITISED)

Hely Fred'k Aug's / 35 / C[ame] F[ree] / [ship] Isabella / 1823 / [residence] Sydney . . .
Georgiana / 32 / Mary 9 // Georgiana / 7 // Hovenden / 5 / Mary Ann / 10 . . .

[News], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (2 July 1829), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2192804 

A magnificent stone house is just lifting up its head on the Woollomoolloo Hill, near the wind-mills. We understand it is being erected by F. A. HELY, Esq. our respectable Principal Superintendent of Convicts. It will certainly be a beautiful and conspicuous ornament to the town, and will command an extensive prospect of hill and dale, land and water, town and country.

"IMPORTS", Sydney General Trade List (5 December 1835), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166588728 

December 1. - RACHAEL (barque), 383 tons, Potter, master, from Liverpool via Hobart Town, John Lord & Co., agents . . .
6 packages musical instruments, F. Ellard . . .

"NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Monitor (12 December 1835), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32150302 

We have been favoured by Mr. Ellard with music for five Australian Quadrilles, to which we shall refer in our next.

ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Ellard (music seller, publisher)

[News], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (12 December 1835), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2201678

We have before us a beautiful ballad, (the music said to be by a lady), and "The much admired Australian Quadrilles," published in Dublin by our enterprising fellow-colonist, Mr. Ellard, of Hunter-street, Sydney. There is a simplicity and beauty in the former which we are sure will attract the attention of all young ladies studying the pianoforte, and will be a very good addition to their initiatory studies. With regard to the second, we are satisfied that they will afford many unhappy hour of amusement to the Australian daughters and sons of Terpsichore. We strongly recommend them to the attention of the public.

"AUSTRALIAN MUSIC", The Sydney Herald (24 December 1835), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28654531

We have received from Mr. Ellard, the music-seller of Hunter-street, copies of some Colonial music, harmonised in Sydney, and printed by Mr. Ellard's father, Dublin. The music consists of a Ballad entitled "The Parting, composed by a young lady, the words by F. A. H." - the initials of whom are easily recognisable as those of a gentleman in the Colony, whose production, both music and poetry are said to be. The ballad is in an appropriate and pretty key (flats), and its melody and arrangement display a pleasing simplicity of style, without much originality. The rest of the sheets contain a new set of Australian Quadrilles, under the names of "La Sydney, La Woolloomoolloo, L'Illawarra, La Bong Bong, and L'Engehurst," the airs of which are taken from some of the new Operas, and arranged in easy keys for the benefit of young pianists.

"ERRATUM", The Sydney Herald (28 December 1835), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12853687

The notice of Mr. Ellard's new music in our last number, an omission was made; instead of the Ballad of F. A. H. being in "flats," it should have been three flats.

"DEATH", The Sydney Times (10 September 1836), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252811043 

On Thursday evening, at his new residence, Darlinghurst, Augustus Frederick Hely, Esq., J. P., many years Principal Superintendent of Convicts; an office which he filled with honor to himself and advantage to the Colony.

"Death", The Sydney Herald (12 September 1836), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12855158 

At his residence, Engehurst, on Thursday, the 8th instant, Frederick Augustus Hely, Esq., for many years Principal Superintendent of Convicts in this Colony. Mr. Hely was a gentleman of correct deportment, and of highly honourable principles. In the discharge of his official duties he was influenced by none; and we have reason to believe that few gentlemen in the colony were more generally successful in acquiring the good opinion of the respectable classes of colonial society.

"MARRIED", The Sydney Herald (4 January 1838), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28653355

On Wednesday last, at St. James' Church, Sydney, by the Lord Bishop of Australia, Gother K. Mann, Esq., of the Bombay Horse Artillery, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late F. A. Hely, Esq., of Engehurst, Sydney.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Grant Broughton (bishop)

"BRISBANE WATER [FROM A CORRESPONDENT]", The Colonist (3 October 1838), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31721807 

. . . We should not have alluded to this subject at all, had we not learnt incidentally, a few days ago, when at Brisbane Water, that Bishop Broughton was expected in that district, to consecrate the ground in which the late F. A. Hely, Esq., Principal Superintendent of Convicts, lyes interred at the bottom of his garden, and over which his family have recently erected a tasteful and chaste monument . . .

Extracts from the diary of Mary Caroline ("Minnie") Mann (1842-1936, Mary's daughter), during the visit of the Austrian Imperial frigate Novara to Sydney, 18 May 1858 to 31 January 1859; State Library of New South Wales; and as transcribed and edited by Michael Organ

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvGJmn 

https://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/novara10.htm (TRANSCRIPTION)

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/37942/20071113-0010/www.michaelorgan.org.au/novara10.html (ARCHIVED AT NLA PANDORA)

[November 1858] . . . Friday 5th - The house has been topsy turvy all the day getting a thorough cleaning. I gave Kate her music lesson and then mended my dress . . .

Monday 15th - We are in a great state of preparations today for last Thursday the Austrian Man of War "Novara" went into Dock and this morning Papa invited some of the Officers over this evening . . . This morning we frantically sent off for the Mitchells so I hope they will come - and so they did. The Officers came at seven o'clock. They were "Count Kielmansegge", "Maurice Monfroni de Montfort", "Count Alexy Carlomau", Prince "Kaiwde", The Pole (I do not know his name). We had coffee and tea brought in and handed round. About 8 o'clock the Deloctles came and we pushed aside the tables and danced till eleven o'clock after which we had supper and the Officers went away. It was a most delightful evening. I had the honour of dancing with the Prince. It was very late when he went. Asking Blanche about the Pole who she had been talking to all the evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: Novarra (Austro-Hungarian frigate); Blanche Mitchell (musical amateur, friend)

Tuesday 16th - After breakfast Papa took us over to the Island to see the Novara in Dock. Really it is the most magnificent vessel. Some of the officers came and showed us over the ship . . . In it among others thing we discovered a beautiful little Gondola and the Captain very kindly offered to take us out in the evening in it. So about one o'clock over came Captain Baron Pock with a strange officer who was introduced to us as Baron Walterskirchen. So when they came early then Mama invited them over again in the evening. They came about six o'clock and nearly all different officers to what there were last night, namely Captain von Pock, Monfroni de Montfort, Baron Walterskerchen, Macheschano a little Midshipman, but best of all they brought their beautiful Germanic band. I danced with them all and they dance extremely well especially Walterskirchen and he dances most beautifully. He is very nice looking indeed - in fact none of them look like foreigners. When they all left we agreed that they were the nicest officers we had ever seen, so gentlemanly and polite in everything . . .

Monday 22nd - I woke up this morning with a very severe headache and was dreadfully frightened that I should not be able to dance tonight but when evening was come I was much better. We were all dressed at 7 o'clock ready to receive our visitors. We were afraid that they would not come but we were agreeably disappointed for presently we saw the glimmer of a lantern up the road, so we immediately ran see and set ourselves down very soberly and presently in they walked, Count Keilmansegge first followed by a number of strange officers . . . After they had been here for some few minutes Papa pushed aside the tables and struck up a dance. While Mama played we were sadly in want of Ladies. The officers said that if their best bandsmen had not been taken ill they would have brought them over with them. All went on merrily when [...] was asked to sing. They said no, so one little man called out it is always "Och ya! Och neine!" He has gone by that name ever since. Alice and I sang "Hearts and Flowers". We then went on dancing. Every one wanted to dance with Baron Walterskerchen because he dances so very beautifully. In all my life I never danced with any one that that danced so well. He is also very good looking. Captain Baron Pock dances beautifully also. They left at 1/2 past eleven and we all declared that we had never spent a pleasanter evening. They were all so jealous because I danced often with Baron Walterskirchen. We went to bed about twelve o'clock.

Tuesday 30th - I do not know what to do with myself today. It has turned out such a beautiful day too. We received a note from Alice Mitchell to say that she and Blanche would be down at Papa's office by seven o'clock . . . The Austrians had a large steamer to convey the guests backwards and forwards from the ship. So we went down to the steamer. The steamer waited a few moments and then moved off from shore. There was a band on board. This was Blanches and my first ball and we determined that we would not dance with a single civilian . . . When directly we came on deck we engaged band 8 deep. They had two bands to relieve each other and certainly they played to perfection. Le Baron Richard Walterskirchen asked me to dance and I was so very sorry that my card was full. The names of all my partners that night were Le Prince Eugene de Wrede, Marquie Marearchy, Herr Kaluear, Count Keilmansegge, Le Baron Francis Cordon, Herr Monfroni de Montfort, Herr Natti, Herr Seuisey de Seuise, Le Baron August de Serbaneck. I did not miss one dance that night. The supper was most magnificent. We were very sorry to go away. Mr. Woods of HMS Victoria took us in his large boat. We landed Doctor Lawrence and Doctor Browny on board HMS Iris then Mr. Cary on Dawes Point and then Herr Winward found when we came home the sun was up I did not go to bed. Some of the offices were coming tonight. The other girls lay down and I am commencing another day and putting it all in one.

"Deaths", The Sydney Morning Herald (31 August 1901), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14406770 

MANN - On Friday, August 30, at Greenwich, Mary, widow of the late Captain Gother Mann, in her 83rd year.

"Death of Mrs. Gother Mann", The Sydney Morning Herald (31 August 1901), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14406968 

The death took place yesterday of Mrs. Mann, relict of the late Captain Gother Kerr Mann, of the Royal Engineers. Mrs. Mann was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Frederick A. Hely, of Engehurst, and she was married on January 3, 1838, to Captain Mann. The diamond wedding was celebrated on January 3, 1898.

"TOPICS FOR THE BLOCK", The Australasian [Melbourne, VIC] (14 September 1901), 46

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139746230 

Mrs. Gother Mann, widow of Captain G. K. Mann, of the Royal Engineers, who died at Greenwich, Lane Cove River, recently, had lived in Sydney for more than half a century {writes "Marcia"). To her home on Cockatoo Island (where her husband was superintendent) the young officers of visiting war-ships in the early days were always welcomed . . . In 1898 Captain and Mrs. Mann celebrated their diamond wedding, at which were present their four sons and eight daughters. Next year Captain Mann died. Two days before Mrs. Mann's death the wedding of her grandson, Mr. B. Clarke, with Miss Nellie Harriott (second cousin of Sir Joseph Abbott) took place. Mrs. Mann, who was 82, was a kindly old lady. She remarked on the morning of the wedding (when very ill), "I do hope I won't die to-day and spoil everything" . . .

"NAPOLEON'S GUITAR", Sunday Times (16 September 1917), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122789496 

Mrs. John Fell, of Northwood, has had presented to her on behalf of War Chest Day, an absolutely authenticated Napoleon guitar, presented by the French Emperor to Mrs. Abel, who afterwards gave it to her favorite pupil, Mary Hely, who became later the wife of the late Captain Gother Kerr Mann. Mrs. Abel was formerly a Miss Balcomb, and lived while a child with her father at St. Helena, where Napoleon made a great pet of her, and gave her this special guitar which had been presented to him by his sister Pauline, and on which he himself always played. It was taken to Europe by the Stricklands, and came into the possession of Mrs. Swann, who recently returned it to the Misses Gother Mann, who have now presented it to War Chest Day.

ASSOCIATIONS: Betsy Balcombe (? musical amateur); see the Hely guitar, at Matthew Stephens, "Songs of Home: Napoleon Bonaparte's guitar", Sydney Living Museums, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOEg4mHLu0 (STREAMED VIDEO)

On the family provenance, see Andrew Messner, "The myth of the Napoleon guitar"; posted 14 November 2021

https://andrewmessner.net/2021/11/14/the-myth-of-the-napoleon-guitar 

Associated musical works:

The parting

The parting, a ballad, composed by a young lady, the words by F. A. H. ([Dublin: Ellard and Son, 1835])

NO COPY IDENTIFIED

The much admired Australian quadrilles

The much admired Australian quadrilles, containing La Sydney, La Wooloomooloo, La Illawarra, La Bong-Bong, and La Engehurst, dedicated by permission to Miss Hely of Engehurst, selected from the newest and most celebrated operas, and arranged for the piano forte or harp by Wm. Ellard (Dublin: [Ellard and Son], [1835])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Much+admired+Australian+quadrilles (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

See also checklist entry The much admired Australian quadrilles

Copy at University of Newcastle library, in Glennie family album, with titlepage, not digitised

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931406 

http://library.newcastle.edu.au/record=b2324154~S16 (CATALOGUE RECORD)

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Glennie (musical amateur)

Copy at State Library of New South Wales, lacks titlepage, digitised

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931406/version/51391578

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

Photocopy of University of Newcastle exemplar, with titlepage, at National Library of Australia, digitised (image above)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179509547 (DIGITISED)

Mary and Gother Mann, on their 60th wedding anniversary, 1898 (Crown Studios, Sydney); State Library of New South Wales

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVVD6Y (DIGITISED)

See also, "1838. Diamond Wedding. 1898. CAPTAIN AND MRS. GOTHER-KERR MANN", The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (22 January 1898), 182

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163805000 

Other family sources:

John Frederick Mann diary, October 1846 to 9 August 1847; State Library of New South Wales, DLMS 178/Item 1

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D20787/a8032.html (TRANSCRIPT)

[page 42] . . . Saturday 12th. Dec. [1846] . . . Had a visit today from some blacks five men and two boys - they could not speak English, but one boy said "by God" at the sight of some tobacco the Dr. gave to him, he probably had been to some of the stations . . . one of the blacks who came yesterday, lent Wammai 3 boomerangs to throw, the blacks are much troubled by the mosquitoes - [43] they commenced singing a song which W at once recognised . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: "the Dr. [doctor]" = Ludwig Leichhardt (explorer)

John Frederick Mann diary, 16 April 1857 to 10 September 1862; State Library of New South Wales, MLMSS 327/Box 1/Item 1

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D19663/a7302.html (TRANSCRIPT)

[page 167] [July 1859] . . . Wednesday 20. To University for oratoria Oration commenced at 1 pm. & very fine music - lasted till 4 pm - took Miss Husband with us - rain all day heavily - Fanny Mann still with us.

ASSOCIATIONS: Sydney University Musical Festival (July 1859)

[174] [September 1859] . . . Thursday 8 Alice married this day to Mr. Dauncey 77 Reg't – at St. John's Ch. by Mr. Croxton. Blanch. Minnie Mann. Alicia Mann. Miss James & Miss Hodgson bridesmaids - about 32 sat down to breakfast. To musical party - Govt House in Evening . . .

[178] [October 1859] . . . Thursday 6 Drawing. in evening to Govt House Musical party . . .

[183] [November 1859] . . . Wednesday 2 To Sydney to Lambs to enquire about house . . . recd invite to Govt House music . . .

[184] [November 1859] . . . Thursday 10. To Sydney in morning Musical party at Govt House . . .

[207] [February 1860] . . . Monday 5. In afternoon with Milly Blanche & Miss James, on board the Cassinni French Steamer, pleasant afternoon, they gave us a nice lunch and dancing & music etc then put us on shore at Darling Point. Alice & Minnie Mann went home today rain in morning. fine afternoon . . .

[255] [February 1861] . . . Thurs. 7. Milly to Sydney. music and Belasanis . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Frederick Mann (Mary's brother-in-law, younger brother of her husband)

Bibliography and resources:

C. Swancott, "Frederick Hely Among Bank Directors In 1834", The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (20 February 1953), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167233899 

A. F. Pike, "Hely, Frederick Augustus (1794-1836)", Australian dictionary of biography 1 (1966)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hely-frederick-augustus-2177

Graeme Skinner (University of Sydney), "The invention of Australian music", Musicology Australia 37/2 (2015), (289-306), 304-05

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2015.1076594 (PAYWALL)

ONSITE PDF (FREE DOWNLOAD)

"Engehurst", Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engehurst 

HELY, Terrence (Terrence HELY)

Musical instrument maker, convict

Arrived Sydney, NSW, 29 June 1834 (per James Laing, from Dublin)

Summary:

Terence Hely, aged 18, a "piano maker's boy", was convicted in Dublin on 1 December 1833 of robbing a till. Sentenced to 7 years, he arrived in NSW per James Laing on 29 June 1834. In 1837, he was assigned to the music seller Francis Ellard, also originally from Dublin.

Bibliography and resources:

Peter Mayberry, Irish Convicts to New South Wales 1788-1849

http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi

Marion Starr, Musical convicts, posted 5 May 2001

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2001-05/0989066261

Following convicts assigned to Francis ELLARD in the 1837 records:

MUSTARD, Mary arr. Caroline 1832; convicted Jan 1832; from Co Cavan Ireland; stolen goods in possession; 7 years; 39 years; dairymaid and all work. (probably gen. servant for Ellard Family)

FULLARD James Henry, arr. Waterloo 3 August 1833; convicted 10 March 1832 Notts Assizes; robbing employer; 14 years; aged 25; musical instrument maker; from Dublin.

HEALY, Terence arr. James Laing 29 June 1834; convicted Dublin 1 dec. 1833; robbing till; 7 years; aged 18; piano makers boy; from Dublin.

ROBERTSON / ROBINSON Charles, arr Susan 9 July 1834; convicted Edinburgh 17 July 1833; shopbreaking; 7 years; aged 18; a turner; from Edinburgh

HEMMING, Mr. (Mr. HEMMING; ? William HEMMING, d. 1888)

Musical amateur, member Sydney Choral Society and Sydney Philharmonic Society

Active Sydney, NSW, 1850s

Documentation:

"SYDNEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 May 1857), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12995572 

. . . Donations of music had been received from Mr. Gilbert Wright and Mr. Hemming . . .

HEMMINGS, Nathaniel ("Natty" HEMMINGS; HEMINGS)

Musician, violinist

Active Warwick, QLD, c. 1880s-90s

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

Documentation:

"ECHOES OF THE PAST", Warwick Daily News (13 March 1937), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177403101 

Nowadays Warwick has a number of bands - pipe, brass, mouthorgan, etc. - but in the days I am referring to the music for St. Patrick's processions was provided either by the late Bill Hemmings' father, "Natty" Hemmings, one of Warwick's best violinists; James Collins, better known perhaps as "Jim the Fiddler;" or a partly blind flute player by the name of Paddy Nolan. Can remember two of the "fiddler's" tunes - "Patrick's Day" and "Garry-owen."

HEMY, Henry (senior) (Henry HEMY; H. HEMY senior)

Pianoforte and harp tuner and repairer

Born Germany, 1780
Active Melbourne, VIC, November and December 1852
Died Newcastle, England, 17 June 1859, aged 79

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Henry+Hemy+senior+1780-1859 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HEMY, Henry Frederick (Henry Frederick HEMY; Henri F. HEMY)

Musician, pianist, tenor vocalist, composer

Born Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 12 November 1818
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 17 December 1850 (per Madewaska, from Liverpool, 16 September)
Departed Melbourne, VIC, April 1852 (per Blundell, for England)
Died Hartlepool, Cleveland, England, 10 June 1888

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Henry+Frederick+Hemy (TROVE tagged)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1497820 (NLA persistent identifier)

Summary:

A "Mr. Hemy, a German" was a prominent Newcastle-upon-Tyne musician in 1827. Henri Hemy (1780-1859) was born in Germany, volunteered for service as a military musician with the Duke of Buccleuch and came to England in 1797. In 1852, evidently prompted by favourable reports sent by his son, Hemy senior also came to to Melbourne for a short time, and advertised in November and December as a piano and harp tuner, and a teacher of flute and instructor of wind instrument bands.

Of greater musical interest is the somewhat longer visit of his son, Henry F. Hemy, best known later as author of the extraordinarily popular Royal modern tutor for the pianoforte; published in 1858, it reached it 20th edition by April 1859, and remained in print well into the next century, including in several Australian "editions" (see, for instance, those by E. W. Cole and W. H. Paling).

Hemy was also composer of some of the most commonly sung English Roman Catholic hymns, including the tune commonly used for Faber's hymn Faith of our Fathers; usually known as St. Catherine, it first appeared in his collection Crown of Jesus (London & Dublin, 1864). Another, the hymn tune "Stella", was later associated in Australia with a children's song My ship's home from China with a cargo of tea.

Henry's son, the artist Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) recorded in a manuscript memoir, Days of my youth, travels with his family as a ten-year-old to and from Australia, and his adventures in the Victorian goldfields in 1851.

Hemy first appeared for Thomas Reed and Elizabeth Testar in their Melbourne concert series on 9 January 1851, when he was featured as pianist (playing a fantasia by Dohler), vocalist, and composer, the band playing for the "first time in Melbourne" his Chimes polka and Birthday quadrilles. On 11 January, he advertised that he had "commenced giving instruction on the pianoforte" from his residence in Stephen-Street and that:

Drawing-room, Evening Parties, and Balls attended, either with Pianoforte Solo, Piano and Violin, or with Messrs. Hemy and Reed's Select Quadrille Band. Terms as above, or at Mr. Reed's Musical Repository, 34, Collins-street West, where also Mr. H. F. Hemy's Compositions are on Sale.

In March, "four of the principal vocalists of Melbourne" announced that, as the Melbourne Glee Club, with Hemy as conductor pianist and conductor, they were open to engagement. He also took over the direction of a Mechanics' Institution Music Class.

Hemy composed at least two local titles during his short stay in the colonies, in June The Victoria quadrilles ("composed and dedicated to His Excellency Sir Charles Joseph La Trobe . . . by Henry F. Hemy"). In November, he advertised copies for sale of Hemy's Melbourne polkas, price 3s:

also Manuscript Copies of all his other Favorite Waltzes, Quadrilles and Polkas. The whole of the printed editions being sold.

Having last appeared in a concert in late September, in the same advertisement he indicated that he was resuming his professional duties from his residence at No. 1, Great Brunswick-street, Collingwood, so it was probably during October that he and his family visited to goldfields.

Due to unexpectedly protracted arrangements for returning home to England, he gave two farewell concerts, in January and February 1852, and the family had still not finally left when his wife gave birth to a daughter on board ship but still in the bay in April.

Documentation:

E. Mackenzie, A descriptive and historical account of the town & county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, including the borough of Gateshead, volume 1 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent, 1827), 592

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1JvkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA592

"GATESHEAD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", Local collections; or, records of remarkable events connected with the Borough of Gateshead 1848 (Gateshead-on-Tyne: William Douglas, 1848), 34

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=awkIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34

[Advertisement], Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury [England] (22 June 1850), 1

DECIDED BARGAINS IN PIANOFORTES. MR. H. F. HEMY, RESPECTFULLY announces that in consequence of his intention to leave this country the latter part of the present year, he is selling off his stock of NEW and ELEGANT PIANOFORTES at less than Secondhand Prices; the Instruments are by the first London Makers, have all the most recent improvements, and are warranted. May be viewed at any time at his residence, 17, Eldon Street, Newcastle.
N.B. Mr. Hemy will resume his professional duties on the 22d July.

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 January 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4775518

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (10 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4775530

[Advertisement], The Argus (11 January 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4775541

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 February 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4776220

[Advertisement], The Argus (20 February 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4776286

"MECHANICS' INSTITUTION MUSIC CLASS", The Argus (12 June 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4778465

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 March 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4776881

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 April 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4777277

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION MUSIC CLASS", The Argus (12 June 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4778465

"THE CONCERT", The Argus (16 July 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4779139

"THE POPULAR CONCERTS", The Argus (23 July 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4779279

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 August 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4779520

[Advertisement], The Argus (25 September 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4780639

[2 advertisements], The Argus (13 November 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4781647

[Advertisement], The Argus (2 January 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4782543

[Advertisement], The Argus (16 February 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4783245

"BIRTHS", The Argus (13 April 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4784334

"HEMY'S LETTER ON AUSTRALIA. To the Editors", Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury [England] (24 July 1852), 6

Gentlemen, - Allow me to make a few comments upon the letter of H. F. inserted in your paper last week, respecting the calamitous Condition of Australian emigrants, as I think that going unexplained or unimpeached before world, it will be calculated unnecessarily to disturb the peace of thousands, whose friends are already upon the wave for that distant place, and probably to unsettle the matured plans of many who are about start.

First, then, let me remark that this letter in question is entirely liferent from his preceding ones, the latter having been so eulogistic as to induce his father, brother, and sisters to seize the earliest opportunity of joining him; and they are now upon their way to meet him. Another letter received since they sailed, says he was then at the diggings, and was making a great deal of money. I have not access those letters to quote his exact words, but I am pretty well assured of the truth of the statement, and it will be seen that they contain a direct contradiction of his present assertion, that he "has returned a third time from the diggings without success." One or the other of these letters must be wrong, and the natural deduction is that we must hesitate in receiving either.

Admitting his last letter, however, to be correct, let me ask was Mr. Hemy at all likely to be a successful digger? All who knew him personally in Newcastle will at once admit that his person, habits, and education fitted him for handling the keys of piano-forte much better than the implements of a miner, and therefore his non-success is no criterion whatever for well-directed enterprise.

He says - "J---- W---- is at the diggings, but doing nothing, and poor Mrs. W---- dressmaking at Melbourne". Now, without making any comment on the supposition this carries that Mrs. W. is at all degraded by dressmaking, I will simply say that a letter received from her short time ago, said that her husband was only making about £50 a-mouth (£600 a-year) at the diggings!

He lengthens his epistle by coloured accounts of events which every one acquainted with the subject sets down at their proper value, but which thus drawn together form a "chapter of calamities" that frighten the timid and uninitiated. For instance, he says "Scores have made fortunes - hundreds have done pretty well - thousands have done nothing, and many have found a grave." The last sentence gives a peculiar touch of the sombre to the description, but it is what every one who reflects a moment will expect - people will of course die at the diggings as well as at other places. Again he says - "Houses are not to be had for money, and thousands of persons were camped on the outskirts of the town, others lying about the bales of wool on the wharfs." This is quite natural - houses are not built in day. All guide books recommend tents to be taken out, and, if there are those improvident enough to neglect this advice, it is equally natural that they should have to lie on the wharfs. Even this, in the dry, warm, elastic air of Australia is attended with no inconvenience or danger. The "hot winds" everybody expects, but it could not be so very over-powering if Mr. Hemy could ride fifty miles in it. Consider a ride of fifty miles in one of our own warm days, and then it will not perhaps appear so extraordinary that Mr. H.'s tongue "stuck to the roof of his mouth."

That there would be great confusion in Melbourne, and that provisions would rise by the great numbers flowing in, were also to be expected, but the last mail from Sydney brought intelligence that flour had there fallen to [? by] £8 to £10 per ton, (1s to 1s3d per stone), and other things in proportion, and they could not, therefore, long remain at famine prices in Victoria. That "neither life nor property is safe," is an assertion of graver purport, though it will bear any rendering; for, considering the robberies and murders constantly taking place among ourselves, the same assertion may be made of this country, but that it is true in the sense of upsetting of authority or immunity from punishment, is what all other reports hitherto contradict.

Hemy gives a number of personal details which will, perhaps, explain the true sense in which his letter must be received, and that without impugning the honesty of his intentions - namely, that his vocation being upset, and being unqualified for the hard manual labour of the Diggings, he has become disappointed and dissatisfied, and under these feelings has written the letter and determined to come home. The letter, furthermore, has evidently never been intended for publication, and I understand that it was by a gross breach of personal confidence that it was made public, for which the delinquent deserves a punishment, which I fear he will not receive. G. USHER, Newcastle, July 15, 1852.

[The above was omitted last week for want of room, and this week we have received the following additional note.]

If there was wanting further evidence of the worthlessness of Mr. Hemy's letter as a guide to those seeking information respecting the prospects of Australia, it will found in the fact come to my knowledge since my last letter was written, that the Stata (the vessel in which he said he had secured a cabin passage) has arrived, but without any Hemy in her cabin list.

[Advertisement], Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury [England] (23 October 1852), 1

MUSICAL EDUCATION, &c. MR. HENRY F. HEMY HAS the honor to announce his return from Australia, and that he has resumed his Professional Duties in Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland, as usual . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (8 November 1852), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612565 

PIANO-FORTE AND HARP TUNING, &c. MR. H. HEMY, Senr., begs to announce that he has commenced to tune Pianofortes and Harps; also, to give instructions on the Flute and to Wind Instrument Bands. Orders may be left with the Seoretary of the Mechanics' Institution, or with Herr Mater, 21, Russell-street.

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 December 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788563 

MR. H. HEMY, SENR. Pianoforte and Harp Tuner and Repairer. Orders may be left with the Secretary of the Mechanics' Institution; or Herr Mater, 21, Russell-street.

"NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS", The Literary Gazette (9 April 1859), 473

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UJBGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA473

"DEATHS" Newcastle Journal (18 June 1859), 8

In Northumberland Street, at the residence of his son, on the 17th inst. aged 79, Mr. Henry Hemy, sen., Professor of Music. he was the oldest member of the musical profession in Newcastle, and was highly respected.

"THE LATE MR. HEMY", The Newcastle Evening Chronicle (21 June 1859)

A few days ago we recorded the death of Mr. Henry Hemy. Father of Mr. Hemy, the musician and composer. Mr. Hemy we are informed was born in Saxe Gotha in lower Saxony in the year 1780 and received his musical and general education at the Saxe Gotha College at the same time and under the same masters as the present reigning Duke, the father of Prince Albert. When he was only 17 years of age an application was made to the college for musicians for the English army bands and by the Duke of Buccleuch for the Dumfries militia. Mr. Hemy volunteered for service under the Duke, and came to England in 1797. He afterwards married and selected Newcastle for his permanent residence. Many of the leading merchants and tradesmen of the town will remember they received lessons on the Flute from the attentive German master, and his name will be familiarly remembered among the old members of West Moor, Blyth, Bedlington, Cramlington, Carrs Hill, Beamish, Tantobie, Tanfield and many other local bands. In 1852 at the age of 72 with part of his family he went to the Australian gold fields but was unsuccessful and he returned to Newcastle to spend the remainder of his days here.

Bibliography and resources:

Charles Napier Hemy (Peter D. McGann, ed.), Days of my youth (Black Rock: Viglione Press; Mulgrave: Pelleus Press, 2009)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/44718475 

HENDERSON, Mr. (Mr. HENDERSON)

Musician

Active Hackney, SA, 1855

Documentation:

"POLICE COURTS", South Australian Register (5 March 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49305368

Theophilus Henderson, a wild-looking boy, was charged by Mr. C. Chamberlain, of Hackney, with stealing almonds from his garden the day previous. The boy pleaded guilty, and added that he committed the theft being unable to procure anything else to eat. Mr. Chamberlain stated that he was unwilling to prosecute the boy; but thought it his duty to call attention to the gross neglect of the boy's father, who paid no attention whatever to him or his brother. Mrs. Henderson, with her eldest sons, had gone to the diggings, and the father turned the younger children adrift, doing nothing for their support, and they were in consequence often reduced to live by depredations on the gardens or other exposed property of people in the suburbs. It was further stated that this man Henderson is a musician, and lives on the Beulah road . . .

HENDERSON, Alexander (Alexander HENDERSON; Mr. A. HENDERSON; Mr. HENDERSON)

Actor, manager, lessee

Married (? common law) Marie NELSON, by c. 1857
Active Melbourne, VIC, by 1857
Died Cannes, France, 1 February 1886

Documentation:

"THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OPENING OF THE OPERA SEASON", The Age (23 April 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154824195 

Last evening, the Princess's Theatre, in Parliament-place, was opened with Bellini's sublime opera of "Norma," supported by the most powerful cast ever seen in these colonies - Norma, sustained by Madame Anna Bishop; Adalgisa, by Madame Sara Flower; Clotilda, by Madame Leon Naej; Pollio, by Mr. Walter Sherwin; Flavius, by Mr. Norton; Oroveso, by Mr. Farquharson, and the priests and priestesses, by about thirty well-trained voices. So closely did the hour of opening tread on the heels of building operations, that the workmen were scarcely out of the building when the public began to crowd within its walls. As it was, only a portion of the gaseliers were erected, and a lesser number lighted. So far as we could observe, no other ventilation is provided than the perforated centre piece in the roof, consequently, the heat soon became almost insufferable. This must be remedied. The house presented a most elegant appearance, and reflects the highest credit on the enterprise and taste of Mr. Alexander Henderson, the lessee, and the manager, Mr. John Black. We have them to thank for the production of the grand opera in a style worthy of the Victorian metropolis . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (vocalist); Madame Leon Naej (vocalist); Walter Sherwin (vocalist); Mr. Norton (vocalist); Robert Farquharson (vocalist); John Melton Black (manager); Princess Theatre (Melbourne venue)

"DEATH OF Mr. ALEXANDER HENDERSON", The Lorgnette [Melbourne, VIC] (13 April 1886), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208559931 

HENDERSON, Ella (Ella HENDERSON)

Soprano vocalist

Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 17 January 1862 (per Voltigern, from London, 4 October 1861)

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

Summary:

Ella Henderson arrived in Australia with Emma Neville and George Loder in January 1862, and appeared with them in Loder's The rival prima donnas in Ballarat in February 1862. In September, she made her first, and perhaps only, Melbourne appearance in a stage performance of Midsummer night's dream with Loder conducting Mendelssohn's music. She is perhaps the Mrs. Ella Henderson who gave a concert at London's Hanover-Square Rooms in June 1858.

Documentation:

"CONCERTS", The Musical World (6 June 1857), 365

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qYcPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA365

Morning Post (24 May 1858) and The Athenaeum (3 July 1858), 25

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z6IeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25

"ARRIVED, JAN.17", The Argus (18 January 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5708699

[Advertisement], The Star (10 February 1862), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331305

On Monday evening a numerous audience assembled within the walls of the Theatre Royal to do honor to the debut of Miss Emma Neville, Madame Ella Henderson, and Mr. George Loder, three aspirants for artistic fame, who happen to form the first instalment of novelties which Mr. Hoskins intends in succession to place before his Ballarat patrons, on resuming the managerial sway . . . After a short interval, the entertainment was followed by a soiree musicale, the stage being fitted up as a private apartment, and occupied by Miss Neville, Madame Ella Henderson, and Mr. Loder, who presided at the pianoforte. This was preceded by an overture founded on airs from "Ernani", in which Mr. Thomas King, as leader, performed solos on the clarionet. This portion of the entertainment afforded an opportunity of Madame Henderson to show her capabilities. These were exhibited both in solos and concerted music, and she was most deservedly applauded.

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Star (18 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331477

[News], The Star (21 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331560

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (25 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331652

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (27 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331711

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (28 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331728

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (3 March 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66331801

[Advertisement], The Argus (23 August 1862), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5720777

? "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Argus (26 May 1866), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5763540

HENHAM, Professor (Professor HENHAM)

Dancing master, professor of dancing

Active Ballarat, VIC, by 1858

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (27 April 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66047775 

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (4 May 1858), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7293895 

HENNIGS, Henry (Heinrich HENNIGS; Henry HENNIGS; Mr. H. HENNIGS)

Amateur musician, band leader, publican, hotelkeeper

Active Beechworth, VIC, by 1860

HENNINGS, John (Johann HENNINGS; John HENNINGS; J. HENNINGS)

Theatrical scene painter and designer, musical amateur

Active Melbourne, VIC, c. 1860

HENRY, Mons. (HENRI)

Baritone vocalist, actor

Active Sydney, NSW, March-June 1839

See also Joseph and Madame Gautrot

Summary:

With the Minards and Gautrots, Henry was the fifth member of the French operatic troupe that played at Wyatt's Royal Victoria in Sydney in March-April 1839. Henry may already have been settled in Sydney, for he neither arrived with the rest of the party from Batavia on 1 March, nor left with the Minards for London in April. Indeed, at Simes's benefit at the theatre in June 1839 it was advertised:

Mons. Henry, of the French Operatic Company, who has with great kindness volunteered his assistance, will appear and sing the celebrated bravura of 'NON PIU ANDRAI' from the popular Opera of The Barber of Seville.

Circumstantial evidence from their earlier stay in Batavia suggests that "M. Henry" was in fact the Gautrots's son.

Documentation:

"ARRIVALS", The Colonist (2 March 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31722657

[News], The Australian (7 March 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36860009

[Advertisement], The Australian (14 March 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863751

"THE FRENCH PERFORMERS", The Sydney Herald (18 March 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12862666

"THE THEATRE", The Sydney Monitor (18 March 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32163268

"THE FRENCH PERFORMERS", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (19 March 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2537815

"THE THEATRE", The Australian (19 March 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36861172

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Herald (22 March 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12857610

"THE THEATRE", The Australian (26 March 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36862689

M. Henry sang Largo al Factotum, from the French adaptation of the Barber of Seville. He excused [sic] it with much energy and vivacity, but his voice (a baritone) has not sufficient stamina for such a piece.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Herald (5 April 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12857931

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (12 April 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32163612

"SAILED", The Australian (25 April 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36863472

[Advertisement], The Sydney Monitor (17 June 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32164496

HENRY, Caroline Margaret (Caroline Margaret HENRY; Miss HENRY; Mrs. H. B. NICHOLLS)

Musician, organist (St. John's Church, Launceston)

Born Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 1 August 1836
Active Launceston, TAS, mid to late 1850s
Married Henry Berkley NICHOLLS (1828-1906), Launceston, 1858
Died Windsor, VIC, 30 March 1902, aged 65

Documentation:

"REMINISCENCES. [BY. B]", Launceston Examiner (12 November 1892), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39477627

. . . Some years later than this Mrs. Nairn became organist; at one time the post was occupied by Mr. Beckford, who, being unfortunate in farming pursuits, removed to town and entered into business . . . I believe Miss Henry, now Mrs. H. B. Nicholls, was at one time organist at St. John's, then Mr. William Snelling, afterwards Mr. Tom Sharp, who held the post for many years. He added as octave of pedals to the organ, which, though an instrument of exceptional sweetness and mellowness of tone, was without these necessary aids to modern playing . . .

"Deaths", The Mercury (31 March 1902), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9580520 

NICHOLLS. - On March 30, 1902, at her residence, Windsor, Victoria, Caroline Margaret, the wife of H. B. Nicholls, aged 65.

HENSLER, William L. (William L. HENSLER)

American composer

Musical work:

Australia polka (Baltimore: Miller and Beacham, 1854)

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1854.250880.0

HENSLOWE, Francis Hartwell (Francis Hartwell HENSLOWE; F. H. HENSLOWE)

Amateur musician, vocalist, composer, public servant

Born London, England 1811
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 25 July 1839 (per Strathfieldsay, from Plymouth, 8 April)
Departed Hobart, TAS, April 1864 (per Bombay via Melbourne, 26 April, for India)
Died Lee, Kent, England, 10 May 1878

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=F+H+Henslowe+1811-1878 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462668 (NLA persistent identifier)

Summary:

Henslowe has the makings of one of the more interestingly varied early colonial biographies, having been a fine and quite prolific amateur composer, and a leading civil servant, a clerk of Tasmania's Legislative Council from 1851 and of the elected Assembly from 1858. He also has a very interesting lineage.

He was born in London, three years after the death of his celebrated composer grandfather, François Hippolyte Barthélémon (1741-1808), Haydn's London friend and host. His mother, presumably also his music teacher, Celia Maria Barthélémon-Henslowe (1767-1859), was also a concert pianist and published composer before her marriage in 1797. She, in turn, received lessons from her family's house-guest, Haydn. Her published works include the cantata The Capture of the Cape of Good Hope (1795), and three piano sonatas, the third, Op.3 (1794), dedicated to Haydn. She, and perhaps Francis too, believed that an ancestor, Anthony Young, had composed the tune of God Save the King.

In July 1839, Henslowe and his wife arrived in Sydney, where her father Robert Allwood was a leading Episcopalian clergyman, intending to open a school. But they moved on to Hobart in 1841, where Henslowe was appointed private secretary to governor John Franklin.

In a letter (Jane and John Franklin to Mrs. Simpkinson, 23 February 1841), the Franklins wrote:

You will be glad to know that I find Mr. Henslowe a very good Secretary, he is gentlemanly and mild in his manners, and very assiduous in the performance of his duties. His wife is a lady-like person, both she and he keep very retired and have no desire to enter into any of the Society here.

When Franklin left Tasmania in 1842, he appointed Henslowe police magistrate of Campbell Town. Though Henslowe published a large number of musical works in Hobart, there is scant evidence of performances.

Henslowe left Australia for India in the mid-1860s, and died in England in 1878.  The English author and song composer Fanny Henslowe was his sister.

Documentation:

"ARRIVALS", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (27 July 1839), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2544474

[Advertisement], The Sydney Herald (1 November 1839), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12862209

"MECHANICS' SCHOOL OF ARTS. PNEUMATICS", The Colonist (1 July 1840), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31725199

"GOVERNMENT NOTICE. No.44", The Courier (5 February 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2957126

Diary entry, George Boyes, 18 August 1848, Hobart, VDL (TAS); diary, 30 August 1847 to 29 September 1848; University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection

https://eprints.utas.edu.au/9771 (DIGITISED - PDF)

(79) [1848] August 18 . . . Henslowe sent me a letter introducing the bearer as a lady who had resided at Campbell Town some years giving Lessons in Music to the Children but having completed their education is now out of work. He requests me to be civil to her and assist her [?] by recommendations & c. She is an Irishwoman and one of the liveliest if not most eccentric of Erin's daughters. Her whole form shook with nervous agitation and she really talked about pupils as though there was no doubt of her success and that a whole orchestra was just now waiting to receive their finishing touches of Harmony from her master hand . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Boyes (musical amateur, public servant, diarist); Marian Maria Chester (musician, vocalist, teacher)

Letter from Francis Hartwell Henslowe, Campbell Town, Van Diemen's Land, 17 August 1849, to the author Charles Dickens, sending copies of Songs of Zion nos. 1 and 2, and Where is thy home; in the Misses Dickens' bound volume of printed vocal sheet music, State Library of New South Wales

http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=FL9644845 (DIGITSED)

[1r] Campbell Town, Van Diemen's Land, 17 August 1849

Sir, Out of thousands of strangers whom your genius has attached to you with all the affection and more than the veneration of familiar friends I doubt not that there are many who imagine that their talents give them a right (or at least an excuse) to importune you, Charles Dickens Esq. & & & [with] [1v] with their productions, & thus you are therefore in the habit of looking at strange packets with suspicion and dread. Nevertheless as I venture to approach you in all humility of insignificance without a shadow of a claim in respect of talent, I trust that this natural dread will not cause you to reject an offering from "underneath the world" which has no claim upon your interest [2r] save the motives which have left to its taking its present form and the spirit in which this offering is made to you.

You may easily imagine that at the Antipodes, even tho' the privations may not be so great, the yearning for Home and Home appreciations are pretty easily as powerful as in your ideal of desolation, the Valley of Eden.

Driven into this banishment by the delicate health of my wife [2v] my chief relaxation from official duties has been music, and as but little sympathy in such pursuits is to be found in Antipodean society, I have been induced to note down occasionally (for communication to dear friends far away) ideas of melody which under other circumstances would not have been deemed worthy of being committed to paper. The motive which has induced me to publish in this Colony these crude [3r] productions has been a desire to encourage among the young people of the district committed to my charge the cultivation of more intellectual & refined tastes than are generally thought of in "the Bush."

But why trouble you with them? I am led to take this liberty because that desire to humanise, which in your case associated with transcendent forces has worked out such glorious results, has had a share in calling these productions into existence - and I have [3v] formed a hope that you would look upon Music composed & printed in Van Diemen's Land under such an influence, however deficient in merit on the score of beauty or originality with curiosity if not with interest. If this hope has been deceptive, pardon me.

If otherwise accept this offering as an humble tribute to a genius which I look up to as an instrument in the Hand of God for the best and highest ends, from one who has many and many a [4r] time felt its holy & softening affect not only in his own case but in that of those who are most dear to him. Your being the only individual (out of the immediate sphere of my relations & friends) upon whom I have obtained these things may I hope be an additional excuse for my presumption.

[4v] That you may long live to wield the power which has hitherto so successfully and so religiously been excited for the noblest purposes,
Sir, your most obedient Humble Servant
Fr. Hartwell Henslowe.

[PS] With reference to "Where is thy Home" it may be mentioned that I had the good fortune many years ago to be a pupil of Mr. Evans at Trinity College Cambridge.

"CLERKSHIP OF THE ASSEMBLY", The Mercury (6 April 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8825477

"MELBOURNE. CLEARED OUT", Empire (2 May 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60579973

"THE LATE MR. F. H. HENSLOWE", The Mercury (11 July 1878), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8965263

We have to record the death of another gentleman formerly resident in this colony, Mr. Francis Hartwell Henslowe, who died on the 10th May last, at his late residence, Lee, Kent, England. Deceased was son of the Rev. Mr. Henslowe (author of some beautiful sermons), and a brother of Miss Henslowe, the accomplished and celebrated poetess. He was also nephew of Professor Henslowe, who wrote on Botany, and also brother of Capt. Henslowe, R.N., a Knight of Windsor, still living in Hobart Town. Deceased originally went from his native county, Kent, to New South Wales with the view of starting an educational establishment; but his plans were altered and arriving in Tasmania in 1841, he became Private Secretary to Sir John Franklin, Lieut.-Governor of this colony. When His Excellency left in 1842, he appointed Mr. Henslowe, Police Magistrate of Campbell Town. After filling that situation for five or six years, he was appointed. Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils. On the establishment of Representative Government in 1856, he became Clerk to the House of Assembly, and in that capacity did good service in organizing the form of the Journals of Parliament, and from his amiable and obliging disposition, secured the esteem of the members of the House. He was recognised as an authority on constitutional points. He continued to hold the position until April, 1864, when he was permitted to retire on the ground of indifferent health and weak eyesight, the pension awarded him being £230, which by his death now of course falls in. . . . Soon afterwards Mr. Henslowe embarked for India, and the change of climate having, it is presumed, favourably influenced his health, he accepted the position of manager of one of the large Madras Irrigation Companies, which he held for ten years with a salary of £1,500 a year, when the Company broke up, and he went back to England, three or four years ago. Mr. Henslowe married a daughter of Canon Allwood, of the diocese of New South Wales, by whom he had two sons and two daughters . . . He had a great taste for music, and composed several songs, which were published in the colony. He was a member of the original Scientific Society, from which sprang the Royal Society of Tasmania . . . As Mr. Henslowe was said to be 58 years old when he was pensioned, he must have been in his 72nd year at the time of his death.

Musical works:

Song of Zion, nos. 1 to 4

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9855226 (State Library of Tasmania)

Songs of Zion no. 1, Psalm XIX, Thy glory, Lord, the heavens declare ("The Words by James Montgomery; The Music by Francis Hartwell Henslowe") (Hobart: Thomas Browne, [1849])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071675 

Songs of Zion no. 2, Psalm 39, Lord, let me know mine end (Words: James Montgomery) (Hobart: Thomas Browne, [1849])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071676 

Songs of Zion no. 3, Psalm 43, Judge me Lord in righteousness (Words: James Montgomery) (Hobart: Thomas Browne, [1849])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071677 

Songs of Zion no. 4, Psalm 130, Out of the depths of woe (Words: James Montgomery) (Hobart: Thomas Browne, [1849])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071678 

Where is thy home? (words: Robert Wilson Evans) (Hobart: Thomas Browne, [1849])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443080 

The Campbell-Town waltzes ("Dedicated to the ladies of the district") (Hobart: Thomas Browne, 1849) (State Library of Tasmania copy autographed by the composer, Nov. 1851)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854859 

The song of the fairies (new vocal trio, from Bulwer's Pilgrims of the Rhine) (performed at Lewis Lavenu's Hobart concert July 1854)

The Northdown bridal polka (Hobart: Huxtable & Deakin, [1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443109 

The wanderer's farewell (words: H. Butler Stoney) (Hobart: Huxtable & Deakin, [1855]; in The Tasmanian lyre)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/6842832 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166582464/view?partId=nla.obj-166583908#page/n13/mode/1up 

The song of the fair emigrant (words: John Abbott; view of Hobart Town on cover) (Hobart Town: R. V. Hood, 1854)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11444048 

The Louis Napoleon polka ("Exposition de 1855" [Paris]) (Hobarton: R. V. Hood, [1854])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443115 

The dying soldier's legacy (a song of the war) (words: John Abbott) ("Patriotic Fund, Tasmania") (Hobart: Huxtable & Deakin, [1855])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854454 

L'espérance (duet for two tenors) ([Hobart: Henslowe, 1855]); ("lithographed and printed in colours by Mr. Henslowe, junior")

The Charlie Parker polka ("Midland Grand Steeple Chase Waltzes. No. 3"; nos. 1 & 2 unidentified) (Hobart Town: R. V. Hood, [1855])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854459 

Lord keep my memory green ("dedicated to Charles Dickens"; "19th November, 1856") (Tasmania: F. B. Henslowe, Lith., 1856)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854442 

The amethyst polka and The Iris waltz ("Composed by F.H.H., Hobart Town, Tasmania, 15th January 1859") (London: J. H. Jewell, 1859)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443144 

Tomorrow: a farewell song (words: Mrs. C. Meredith) ("Addressed to Mrs. Alfred Wilkins") (Hobart: [?], 1862)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854430 

Flowers (words: P. V. De Montgomery) ("Hobart Town, 30th September 1862") (Hobart: [?], 1862)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443126 

Other sources:

Misses Dickens music album; State Library of New South Wales

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/189090299 

Contains various pieces of music with inscriptions dedicated to Mrs. Charles Dickens; also includes autograph letter from the composer Francis Hartwell Henslowe to Charles Dickens dated 17 August 1849, and copies of 2 of the Songs of Zion

Bibliography and resources:

G. T. Stilwell, "Henslowe, Francis Hartwell (1811-1878)", Australian dictionary of biography 1 (1966)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/henslowe-francis-hartwell-2178

Susan Wollenberg, "Barthélémon, Cecilia Maria (1767-1859)", Oxford dictionary of national biography (2004; online edn: 2006)

Skinner 2011, 291-94

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/81022028 

http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/7264 (DIGITISED)

HENSMAN, Alfred Peach (Alfred Peach HENSMAN; Mr. Justice HENSMAN)

Amateur musician, violinist, conductor, judge

Born England, 12 May 1834
Arrived WA, 11 May 1884 (per Ballarat, from London)
Died England, 5 October 1902

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469923 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

Documentation:

"THE TWO WORLDS. COMPOSER AND AUTHOR AT LAW. DR. SUMMERS V. REV. FATHER DUFF", The West Australian (20 August 1901), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24757540

"DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE HENSMAN", The West Australian (8 October 1902), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24845354

. . . Of Mr. Justice Hensman's services in stimulating a love for the art of music, much might be said. For years he was the conductor of the Perth Musical Union, which, under his direction, produced "The Messiah," "The Creation," "Elijah," and other great oratorios. An accomplished musician himself, playing the violin, almost with the magic charm of a master, and inspired with a classical taste which caused it to be said of him that he was "nothing, if not a purist in music." He devoted no small amount of his leisure, before he was raised to the Bench, in encouraging the people of the metropolitan centre to enter the higher realms of music. Around him he gathered a large circle of men and women, infected with his own enthusiasm, and the result of the efforts thus put forth to raise the tastes of the people gained for Perth and Fremantle the name of being one of the most musical communities in Australia. Among those who joined with him in this work, may fitly be mentioned Mrs. Hensman, their daughter, the late Mrs. Adam Jameson, Sir Alexander and Lady Onslow, Miss Kelsall, and Mr. Henry Wright. Mr. Hensman's violin was frequently heard at other concerts besides those of the Musical Union, and his playing was always heard with the keenest enjoyment.

"DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE HENSMAN", Western Mail (11 October 1902), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37545189

Bibliography and resources:

Wendy Birnam, "Hensman, Alfred Peach (1834-1902)", Australian dictionary of biography 4 (1972)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hensman-alfred-peach-3756

HENSON, Mrs. (Mrs. HENSON; ? Mrs. Charles HENSON)

Vocalist, actor

Active Hobart and Launceston, VDL (TAS), 1833-35

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mrs+Henson+c1833-35 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

Mrs. Henson appeared in both concerts and at the theatre for John Philip Deane from 1833 until she disappeared completely from record after August 1835. The Mr. Henson who also appeared at the theatre as an actor was presumably her husband. Was she perhaps the wife of Charles Henson, whose household effects (including a pianoforte) were auctioned off in March 1836?

Documentation:

[News], Colonial Times (30 July 1833), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647129

. . . The Duett "My Pretty Page", Mrs. Henson and Master Deane, was very fairly sung - we have heard it much better performed by the same singers, at Mr. Deane's private concerts - but the audience were satisfied; it was encored, and certainly the repetition was an improvement; perhaps this may be owing to a little want of confidence on the part of Mrs. Henson. That lady's voice is certainly very sweet, it is not powerful, neither is there the least energy in her singing; this is, however, a failing which two or three public appearances will entirely dissipate. There is no trifling contrast between the manner of appearance of the two ladies, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Henson; the first has all the little stage tricks, of such advantage to a public singer; nay, she has too much so; whereas Mrs. Henson, were she to copy a little from that lady, she would wonderfully improve, when presenting herself before an audience. 

"The Concert", The Colonist and Van Diemen's Land Commercial and Agricultural Advertiser (5 November 1833), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201158323 

The public expectation, which was so much excited on the occasion of Mr. Peck's first Concert, has not been disappointed; and, we may safely say, that the entertainments of Wednesday evening were superior to any which have preceded them in Hobart Town . . . On Mrs. HENSON making her appearance, she was received with the strongest marks of approbation, and was deservedly encored in Lee's favorite song, "Away to the Mountain's Brow," which she gave with her usual sweetness and precision.

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (11 March 1834), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647458

"The Oratorio . . .", Colonial Times (18 March 1834), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647473

Mrs. Henson's "He was despised" was just suited for her voice. There is a melancholy sweetness about her singing which beautifully corresponds with the plaintiff music of the song.

"To the Editor", The Hobart Town Courier (28 March 1834), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4185884

"To the Editor", Colonial Times (1 April 1834), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647503

[News], Colonial Times (6 May 1834), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647562

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (7 October 1834), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647846

[Advertisement], The Hobart Town Courier (29 May 1835), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4180621

[Advertisement], Launceston Advertiser (13 August 1835), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84776967

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (29 March 1836), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8648999

HENSON, Miss (Miss HENSON; ? The Misses HENSON)

Music teacher and dressmaker, soprano vocalist

Active SA, 1868-81

Documentation:

"WILLUNGA", South Australian Register (16 May 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39175217

"HENSON V. CRADOCK", South Australian Chronicle (5 November 1870), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92288559

"PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (22 December 1874), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39820235

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (4 June 1881), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43164475

HENWOOD, Francis

Musician, bandsman, Band of the 4th Regiment

HERBERT, C.

Musician, pianist, vocalist

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1857

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (25 May 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7132339 

PIANIST and VOCALIST, is DESIROUS of an immediate ENGAGEMENT, in town or country.
Address Mr. C. Herbert, at Chapman's, Swanston-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Chapman (musicseller)

HERBERT, Elizabeth Ann (Elizabeth Ann McGREGOR; alias Miss HERBERT; Mrs. John Lionel LEMON, alias SEFTON)

Actor

Born c. 1830
Active Bendigo, VIC, by January 1854
Married John Lionel LEMON (d. 1876), St. Peter's church, Melbourne, VIC, 6 March 1858
Died Inglewood, VIC, 9 June 1860, aged "30"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Elizabeth+Ann+Herbert+c1830-1860 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

"BENDIGO (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) Sandhurst, January 18th, 1854", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (23 January 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802312 

"MARRIAGES", The Argus (13 March 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7147988 

On the 6th inst., at St. Peter's Church, by licence, J. L. Lemon, to Elizabeth Ann MacGregor.

"DIED", Bendigo Advertiser [VIC] (11 June 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87944335 

On 9th June, at Inglewood, of exhaustion, consequent on a severe illness, Elizabeth Ann, the beloved wife of J. L. Lemon, of the Theatre Royal, Inglewood.

"DEATH OF MISS HERBERT", Bendigo Advertiser (11 June 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87944333 

It is with great regret that we have to call attention to the announcement in our obituary in to-day's issue of the death of Miss Herbert, the wife of Mr. Lemon, known by his theatrical cognomen of Mr. Sefton. Miss Herbert was long connected with the theatrical profession in this colony, and more particularly connected with the early days of theatres on Bendigo. Miss Herbert had been engaged with the company of the Messrs. Younge, at Inglewood, to which place she accompanied them about a fortnight since when the company left the Lyceum Theatre here. It appears that on Thursday week last Miss Herbert caught a very severe cold, which, despite every care and attention, gradually became worse, and ultimately caused congestion of the lungs, from which she expired on Saturday, about one o'clock in the day. She was attended by Dr. Candiottis and two other medical men, who used every available means for her recovery, but unfortunately without any beneficial result. The body of Miss Herbert was yesterday brought from Inglewood to Sandhurst, and deposited in the Sandhurst Hotel, whence it will be removed to-day to its last earthly resting place in the Back Creek Cemetery. Her death has caused a blank in the company of which she was a member, and the feeling of regret which they all experience at her death, will, we are sure, be very generally shared in by all who knew her on Bendigo. Miss Herbert was an actress of no ordinary ability. She was very unequal in her performances, but we have seen her on many occasions act with a truthfulness and force that would do credit to any stage.

HERBERT, James

Bagpiper, convict

Arrived Sydney, NSW, 12 December 1829 (convict per Larkins, from Cork)

Documentation:

[Absconded], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (12 April 1832), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2205988

Herbert[,] James, No. 29-3037, Larkins, 24, Bagpiper and Labourer, King's County, 5 feet 5, hazle eyes, light brown hair, ruddy freckled comp. from Hyde Park Barrack.

[Absconded], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (3 May 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206334 

Herbert James, No. 29-3037, Larkins, 23, Bagpiper, King's County, 5 feet 5, hazel eyes, light brown hair, ruddy freckled comp., lame of right leg, from No. 26 Road Gang. 2d time of running.

[Assignments], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (21 June 1832), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2207182 

509. Herbert James, Larkins, bagpiper, to Peter Howell, Sydney.

[Assignments], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (9 August 1832), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2207970 

1462. Herbert James, Larkins, bagpiper, to C. O'Brien, Illawarra.

HERRMANN, Frederick Zeugheer (Frederick Zeugheer HERRMANN; Zeughur; usually HERMANN)

Musician, violinist

Born Liverpool, England, 1845 (4th quarter); son of Jakob ZEUGHEER HERRMANN (1803-1865) and Anna BARRINGTON (c. 1812-1884)
Active Brisbane-Rockhampton, QLD, by 1863; Maitland, NSW, by 1865
Died West Perth, WA, 16 February 1925

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HERMANN, John Z.

Professor of Music

Active Sydney, NSW, 1881

HERMANN, T. Z.

Active Sydney, NSW, 1882

Documentation:

"SHIPPING", The Courier (7 July 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3164311

"MR. P. C. CUNNINGHAME", Rockhampton Bulletin (14 July 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51558595

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury (25 July 1865), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18696344

"OLYMPIC THEATRE", The Maitland Mercury (3 June 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18701153

"DR. CHAS. HORN'S AND MR. M. H. WILSON'S CONCERT", The Maitland Mercury (7 October 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18711372

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury (21 December 1872), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18769519

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 August 1881), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13492876

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 May 1882), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13510364

"CREMORNE GARDENS", The West Australian (9 November 1896), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3102093

"PERTH ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY", The Daily News (18 May 1908), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76522781

"DEATHS", The West Australian (17 February 1925), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31280216 

ZEUGHUR-HERRMANN. - On February 16, at his residence, 80 Colin-street, West Perth, Frederick, relict of the late Margaret Zeughur-Herrmann, fond lather of Linda, Verena, and Frederick, and the late Winnie Herrmann, grandfather of Dorothy Dullard, and uncle of Alice Patten, aged 80 years.

HERRMANN, William Zeugheer (William Zeugheer HERRMANN; usu. HERMANN)

Violinist, pianist

Born Liverpool, England, 1853 (2nd quarter); son of Jakob ZEUGHEER HERRMANN (1803-1865) and Anna BARRINGTON (c. 1812-1884)
Active Sydney, NSW, by 1863

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

Documentation:

"ORPHEONIST SOCIETY", Empire (22 December 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60553473

"PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 March 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13094833

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 April 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5748161

"CLEARANCES", The Sydney Morning Herald (21 June 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13114783

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (21 February 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13126815

"MUSIC AND DRAMA", Empire (22 March 1866), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60597050

"HERR HERRMANN'S CONCERT", Empire (21 February 1866), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63243847

The entertainment to be given at the Masonic hall tomorrow evening is one which cannot fail to attract the attention of those who really love music for the art itself. Herr Herrman, who, unfortunately for the cause of which he is so able an exponent, has been heard but too seldom in public, is acknowledged to be the best pianist now in Sydney, and a worthy successor to the lamented artist, Boulanger. He will on this occasion be assisted by Mr. John Hill, who will take part in this concert as violinist, pianist, and harmonium executant; by Mr. Deane, violoncellist, and two gentlemen amateurs as instrumentalists; whilst the vocal portion of the concert will be carried out by Mrs. Cordner and Mr. C. W. Rayner-the latter having attained a high position here as vocalist and teacher. The programme is peculiarly interesting, comprising classical music, which will, at the same time, be pleasing and varied, with several popular pieces. It will include Hummel's grand quintet, for piano and stringed instruments . . .

"MR. W. HERMANN'S CONCERT", Empire (23 February 1866), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63243910

"LAW. SUPREME COURT. - FRIDAY", Empire (25 August 1866), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60598803 

HERMANN V. DESSAUR AND ANOTHER. This was an action for the recovery of £300, money lent, and £11 6s. interest. The plaintiff was a music teacher, and the defendants had been in business in Sydney, ostensibly as merchants. The money was lent in April last, and was to have been returned in June with interest at 15 per cent.; but the defendants did not pay back the money, and hence the present action, since the commencement of the suit the defendants had absconded, to California. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, and his Honor [Alfred Stephen] granted immediate execution, as it was stated that the defendants had left some property behind them. Mr. Windeyer appeared for the plaintiff.

"INSOLVENCY COURT", Empire (13 September 1866), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60599628

"INSOLVENT COURT", Empire (28 September 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60600334

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (6 April 1881), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13476230

HERMES, Alfred (Alfred Jerome HERMES; Alfred HERMES)

Musician, professor of music, bandmaster, composer

Born Villeneuve sur Lot, France, 10 September 1848; son of Alfred Joseph HERMES and Louise FOURNIER
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 July 1872 (per Bruat, from New Caledonia)
Married Mary McGONIGAL, Home Rule (near Gulgong), NSW, 14 January 1875
Died Stanmore, NSW, 24 August 1917

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Alfred+Jerome+Hermes+1848-1917 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-H-2.php#HERMES-Alfred (shareable link to this entry)

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

Alfred Hermes, bandmaster, with the Volunteer Artillery Band, Sydney, c. 1880-82

Summary:

Alfred Hermes arrived in Sydney in July 1872 as timonier (helmsman and junior officer) on the French military steam aviso, the Bruat, and jumped ship. He married Mary McGonigal at Home Rule, NSW, in 1875, and in 1876-77 was working as an upholsterer in Mudgee, while also serving as bandmaster of the Mudgee Volunteer Band. By 1878, he was in Sydney, briefly as bandmaster of the Redfern Band and the Ashfield Brass band in 1879-80, as bandmaster of the Volunteer Artillery Band in 1881-82, and by 1883 of the Permanent Artillery Band. He was also music and singing instructor at St. Ignatius College.

As late as 1942, in Perth, WA, a Mrs. M. G. Mercer advanced the unlikely claim that her father, William Maxwell McEwen, was the rightful author of the words of Advance Australia fair, written at the request of Hermes, then conductor of the Ashfield Band, and that he (Hermes) had composed music for them. However, the original sheet music of Advance Australia fair was first advertised in December 1878.

NOTE: Hermes's grave inscription in the Catholic mortuary at Rookwood, has: "b. France, 11 Sep 1853", evidently the birthday (almost) correct, but the year wrong

With thanks to Simon Hermes, 2021, for kindly sharing information on Hermes's first arrival in Australia, and for the photo reproduced above

HERRGSTON, James (HIRRGSTON)

Musician, bandsman (band of the 40th Regiment)

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1859

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 40th Regiment (second tour)

Documentation:

"CORONER'S INQUESTS", The Age (29 November 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154878898 

. . . James Herrgston, sworn: I am in the band of the 40th Regiment. I was passing up Elizabeth street on Friday night last, between nine and ten o'clock with several of our band. I saw deceased lying upon the pavement . . .

"FATAL ACCIDENT, THROUGH INTEMPERANCE", The Argus (29 November 1859), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5692625 

. . . James Hirrgston, one of the band of the 40th, corroborated the previous evidence . . .

HERRING, Henry (Henry HERRING)

Dancing master

Active Adelaide, SA, 1840s

Documentation:

"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", South Australian Register (4 October 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27451029 

"BALL", Adelaide Times (27 November 1848), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206980036 

On Tuesday evening last, Mr. Herring's Quarterly Ball, according to advertisement, came off at the "Golden Fleece," Currie street, when, notwithstanding the roughness of the evening, the attendance was good. The pupils' proficiency in dancing, considering the short time they had been under training, did high credit to their teacher; and the refreshments provided by the host and hostess fully sustained their wonted good name, both in quality and quantity.

HERSEE, Rose (Madame Rose HERSÉE)

Soprano vocalist

Born England, 13 December 1845
Arrived Melbourne, March 1879
Departed Melbourne, 11 February 1881 (per Sobraon)
Died England, 26 November 1924

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

Image: Melbourne, April 1879: (page 9) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60623208 

Documentation:

"AN AUSTRALIAN'S OPINION", The Australasian (1 November 1873), 19

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137583474

[London] . . . Rose Hersee is now in this country, and liberal offers are, it is said, being made to her to take a trip to Melbourne. She pas just engaged with Madame Parepa Rosa till some time after Christmas, when she may probably accept a generous offer made her forces to join Mr. Lyster's forces in Melbourne . . .

"VICTORIA", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 January 1879), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13427275

A portion of Lyster's opera troupe leave London by the Lusitania. Mdlle. Rose Hersee comes by the Chimborazo.

[News], The Argus (17 March 1879), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5936020

"THE OPERA. MADAME ROSE HERSEE", The Argus (19 March 1879), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5936315

"THE OPERA", The Argus (24 March 1879), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5936913

LA SONNAMBULA. To record the commencement of a new season of opera under the experienced management of Mr. W. S. Lyster has always been with us an agreeable task. Opera in Melbourne has become such an institution that its periodical recurrence has always been treated as a notable event, and on no previous occasion has public curiosity been excited to a higher degree than it was at the opera-house on Saturday night . . . Concerning the new prima donna leggiera we can speak at once in terms of satisfaction. It is always gratifying to find a gifted artist who come to us using the language which we all understand as the medium for conveying the author's meaning from the lyric stage. It is true that we might have very much better English versions of the words of Bellini's, and indeed most other Italian operas of the same date than are in existence at the present time, but for the general audience even the stilted and cumbrous verbiage employed by the English adaptor is better than the original text, which, mellifluously vocable though it may be, is an unknown tongue to about ninety-nine out of every hundred people who listen to it in a Melbourne theatre. Madame Rose Hersee is petite in figure, and has a very pleasing face. She has that appearance about her which gives assurance of intelligence, and as soon as she speaks or sings or moves that assurance is confirmed in such a manner aa to put the audience at their ease with respect to all that may follow after. Her voice is a soprano of great sweetness, but not unusual power. It is of good but not extraordinarily high compass. It is characterised throughout by a perceptible vibrato, and in its lower tones it is rich and round and has in it a most touching quality of unforced sympathy. That she should have chosen a part like that of Amina wherein to make her first acquaintance with a strange audience is enough to show that she paid them the compliment of supposing them to be both experienced and critical. It is a great part to play, and none but the well trained and musically enlightened can hope for any success in the performance of it. We have now to note that she came through the ordeal with the full approval of the whole audience, and even something more than that, in the evidently friendly feeling which she had managed to establish on a first acquaintance. The applause which greeted the end of her first cavatina, "0 love for me thy power," was such as to assure her position from that moment, and when, at the end of the first act she was summoned before the curtain, she must have felt that she had made a success. The good culture and flexibility of her voice were displayed with fine artistic effect in the chromatic shakes and runs which abound in the cabaletta passage in the first act, commencing "When this heart its joy revealing," and the piquancy and charming naturalness of her acting were made fully apparent in the parting scene with Elvino with which the first act closes. The good qualities thus displayed in the first act were made amply manifest throughout the progress of the work. The scene in the bed chamber, wherein the poor little sleepwalker finds herself spurned by her lover and suspected by her friends, was full of pathos, and was well sung and played throughout, and followed by another hearty recall at the end of the act. The whole scene in the third act onward from the sad and melodious air, "Scarcely could I believe thee," fixed the hushed attention of the whole house and rewarded it with a genial display of warm hearted acting and singing, inspired by the true sentiment of the scene. The final passage, "Do not mingle," was brilliantly sung and served to introduce some staccato graces of vocalisation with very pretty effect. Both Madame Hersee and the audience have every reason to be pleased with the result of her first appearance in Melbourne . . .

"THE OPERA", The Australasian (29 March 1879), 19

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143006331

[Illustrations], The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (12 April 1879), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60623208

"MRS. HOWITZ'S FAREWELL CONCERT", The Argus (7 February 1881), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5974286

"The Theatres", The Australian Sketcher (26 February 1881), 74

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60622356

Bibliography and resources:

"Rose Hersee", Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hersee

Associations:

? teacher of Isabel Staff (Mrs. Horwitz)

HERTS, Mr. (Mr. HERTS; ? HERTZ)

Musician, double bass player (New Queen's Theatre)

Active Adelaide, SA, 1848

Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian (6 October 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71612600

HERTZ, Mr. (1) (Mr. HERTZ)

Musician, pianist, ? importer

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1853

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (27 April 1853), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792040 

SECOND GRAND CONCERT. MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, Protestant Hall, THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, 27th April. Principal Vocal Performers - Miss Graham (her second appearance); Mr. Moran. Leader - Mr. F. Fischer. Director - Mr. G. Chapman. THE Band will consist of the following talented performers: Violins - Mr. A. Fischer, Mr. Strebinger, Mr. Thomson; Viola - Mr. Thomas; Basso - Mr. C. Elza and Mr. Hardman; Cornet-a-Piston - Mr. G. Chapman; Clarionet and Oboe - Sig. Blume; Flute- Mr. Rosenstengel. Pianoforte - Mr. Hertz and Mr. Thomson . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (26 July 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794981 

To Drapers, Storekeepers, and Others. - On Sale at the Wholesale Stores of M. HERTZ and CO., Emerald-hill . . .

HERTZ, Mr. (2) (Mr. HERTZ)

Musician, violinist

Active Sydney, NSW, September 1859; ? Melbourne, VIC, 1868

Summary:

One or perhaps two theatre band violinists. At the Prince of Wales theatre in Sydney in September 1859, a Mr. Hertz took over as leader allowing Charles Eigenschenck to conduct. A Mr. Hertz was playing second violin under Thomas Zeplin at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, in December 1868. The latter is not to be confused with Julius Herz.

Documentation:

"PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE", Empire (5 September 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60402740

The lyric drama has been progressing favourably during the week. On Monday, "Ernani" was again given, and on Tuesday, the regular opera night, the established favourite "Il Trovatore," to a full house. The operatic drama of "Rob Roy" was played on Wednesday . . . On Thursday evening, Bellini's "Sonnambula" was performed, the audience being numerous and enthusiastic. The addition of Mr. Hertz, as first violin, increased the steadiness and efficiency of the orchestra, Mr. Eigenschenck being enabled to devote his entire attention to conducting the opera. The management has acted wisely, during the sort of interregnum occasioned by the decease of one conductor and the illness of his successor, in only producing such operas as, from being well known, required no great exercise of orchestral power . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (16 December 1868), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5834837

HERWYN, Henry (Henry HERWYN [sic, not Henri]; M. HERWYN; HERWIN; HERVYN; alias of Hyacinthe Henry Léopold HERMENEGILDE)

Musician, violinist, composer, arranger

Born Montreuil sur Mer, Pas de Calais, France, 8 October 1821; son of Pierre Joseph HERMENEGILDE, "dit HERWYN" (1796-1847) and Marie Thérèse Henriette DUREY (1787-1843)
Married (1) Julie MARTEL, St. James, Piccadilly, London, England, 6 February 1840 ("minor")
Married (2) Célestine Juliette GODFERNAUX, Lille, France, 9 June 1851
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 12 January 1854 (per Kent from London, 19 October 1853, and Portsmouth, 26 October)
Departed Sydney, NSW, 6 December 1855 (per Eliza, for London)
Died Paris, France, 6 July 1905

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

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Henry+Herwyn+1821-1905 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HERWYN, Celestine (Célestine Juliette GODFERNAUX; Madame Henry HERWYN; Madame HERWYN)

Musician, pianist

Born Lille, Nord, France, 15 April 1831; daughter of César Benjamin GODFERNAUX (1804-1844) and Henriette Thérèse BAAR
Married Hyacinthe Léopold HERMENEGILDE [Henry HERWYN], Lille, France, 9 June 1851
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 12 January 1854 (per Kent from London, 19 October 1853, and Portsmouth, 26 October)
Departed Sydney, NSW, 6 December 1855 (per Eliza, for London)
Died Paris, France, 18 May 1896

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

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Celestine+Herwyn+1831-1896 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

Henry Herwyn, as he was known in adulthood, was born at Montreuil sur Mer, Pas de Calais, France, on 8 October 1821. His birth name was Hyacinthe Henry Léopld Hermenegilde, son of a professional musician, Pierre Joseph Hermenegilde (1796-1847), "dit Herwyn", and his wife Marie Thérèse Henriette Durey (1787-1843), who had married at Dunkirk on 29 April 1816.

His elder brother Alphonse (1820-1892), "dit Herwyn, was also a professional musician.

According to Léon Escudier's 1856 biographical summary of Herwyn's early career, his musical predisposition was evident from childhood. He had barely reached his twelfth year when the Philharmonic Society of Saint-Omer presented him with an honorary bow. At the age of fourteen and a half, he came to Paris to receive lessons from the great masters. At fifteen, he was playing among the violins at the Theatre de l'opéra, where in 1839 he succeeded to the post previously held by Hubert Léonard. The chief conductor, François Habeneck, who did not lavish praise lightly, held Young Herwyn in very special esteem and affection.

Later Herwyn toured with Sigismond Thalberg and other leading artists. At St. James, Piccadilly, in London, on 6 February 1840, Herwyn, a "minor", married his first wife Julia Martel. Having returned home in 1847 when his father was dying, he took advantage of a professional hiatus to complete his studies and perfect his talent.

At Lille, on 9 June 1851, he married his second wife, Célestine Juliette Godfernaux, a native of Lille, born on 15 April 1831, a daughter of César Benjamin Godfernaux (1804-1844) and Henriette Thérèse Baar.

Having returned to in 1853, Herwyn gave his first concert there on 16 March, in the presence of a large audience and elite artists. Its brilliant success was confirmed by the unanimous and spontaneous votes of the Parisian press.

In 1854 the Philharmonic Society of Boulogne-sur-Mer engaged him for one of its musical festivals, and while there he was befriended by some English people who spoke to him enthusiastically about Australia, so much so that he was seduced by the lure of the unknown, so powerful on the imaginations of artists, and imagined a new source of poetic inspiration in a country still only partly explored by Europeans.

It was only a short step before Herwyn was dedicated to his antipodean project. Besides, his young wife, animated by a courage and resolution unusual for her sex, felt like him the keenest desire to undertake this long and perilous journey. They embarked London on 20 October 1854, and arrived at Port Phillip bay after a voyage of 75 days, during which terrible storms twice put their lives and those of all the crew in peril.

Melbourne was the first city they visited, arriving on 12 January 1854. It was the high summer. In this season the heat is unbearable, especially because of the winds that are called in English "brickfielders", whose impetuous gusts raises dense whirlwinds of dust that completely obscures the view of the houses. These winds is usually last for several days, during which those unfortunates forced to go out are literally toasted and blinded, in spite of the thick veils which the men tie to their hats. In such stifling heat, the Herwyns gave up all hope of giving concerts in Melbourne, and, after only three weeks, left for Sydney.

Sydney, where they arrived by coastal steamer in early February, is a large city with a population of 100,000. It is perfectly situated, with elegant and varied buildings and beautiful straight streets which give it the appearance of European cities. In this great centre of population, art has distinguished connoisseurs, and an artist of any value can perform there with great chance of success. The Herwyns were very graciously received by the amiable and worthy French consul, Louis Sentis. They were introduced to an elegant and polite society and salons which rivaled those of the first cities of Europe in luxury. Among the city's musical organisations is the very well organized Sydney Philharmonic Society which performs the music of the great masters, especially Handel's oratorios, with rare skill.

The Herwyns therefore found in Sydney all the elements for success. The first concert they gave was splendid. Among the warmest admirers was Charles Fitz-Roy, governor general of Australia. He came in person to invite the Herwyns to a dinner and party at Government House. This flattering distinction was appreciated by all those familiar with English manners, and the sometimes insurmountable difficulties facing foreigners seeking admission into aristocratic circles. Moreover, such testimonies of sympathy and esteem were repeated several times during their stay in Australia.

During the four months following their arrival in Sydney, the Herwyns gave four major concerts at the theatre and sixteen soirees musicales. Regarding these occasions, the local press exhausted all the formulas of praise. The Morning Herald, a Sydney newspaper, spoke in the following terms after one of the distinguished virtuoso's concerts:

In the great piece from the Huguenots, a splendid composition, Mons. Herwyn played delightfully. It is impossible to convey the poetic feeling, the verve and the dramatic accent which distinguish this artist's playing; he approached as close as possible to the perfection, and we write this with our hearts still full of memories of Paganini, Ole-Bull, Sivori and Ernst.

In mid September 1854, the Herwyns left Sydney to spend a little over 2 months in Van Diemen's Land, and in Hobart Town were given a magnificent reception. The governor's wife, Caroline Denison, placed the Government House ball room their disposal. In Geelong, Adelaide, and Paramatta, they were the objects of the same testimonies of esteem and enthusiasm. One of Geelong's papers, The Advertiser, characterized Herwyn's talent in these terms:

He has all the qualities which distinguish the most eminent artists. His bow stroke is firm, his notes are full and round. He has the faculty to give to the music he performs all the nuances demanded by the different genres of compositions.

In one of the main towns on the Diggings, or goldfields, the Herwyns received an ovation to which they had not been accustomed until then, and at their second concert received a storm of applause interspersed with whistles, unaware that in this country whistles are the most expressive mark of enthusiasm.

Their stay in Australia was also marked by curious incidents. One evening Madame Herwyn, returning home in the country, put her hand on a black snake wrapped around the key to her door. Imagine her fear! This unexpected encounter could have had serious consequences: the snakes, very common in the region, are so poisonous that people have sometimes been seen to expire within ten minutes of being bitten.

The Herwyns had wanted to leave on their return journey in October 1855, sailing via Java and Calcutta. But Celestine's health, cruelly tested by the hot climate of Australia, prevented their departure, and, bearing the most flattering marks of sympathy and regret on the part of the most distinguished figures of the colony, they finally embarked directly for Europe in December (only days after the arrival from San Francisco of the celebrity musicians Anna Bishop and Nicholas Bochsa). This trip was even less fortunate than the previous one, the ship almost sinking among the icebergs of the southern ocean. And after weathering several storms, they were wait for eight days off the English coast. Finally, it was only after immense difficulties and endlessly renewed perils that they saw France again.

With thanks to Christian Declerck (March 2021) for kindly sharing results of research towards his Dictionnaire des Musiciens à Dunkerque et Boulogne sur Mer

Documentation:

Record of the birth of Hyacinthe Henry Léopold HERMENEGILDE, Montreuil sur Mer, 8 October 1821; Archives Pas de Calais

http://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/v2/ark:/64297/f3b2b8417c263f2b71f917f3cb36de4a (DIGITISED)

[No.] 16.96 / Hyacinthe Henry Leopold Hermenegilde . . . . / [9 October 1821] . . . un enfrant du sex masculin, né heir à sept heures du matin . . . de marie Marie Thérèse Henriette Durey . . . le prénoms de Hyacinthe Henry Léopold . . . [signed] P. Hermenegilde . . .

1840, marriage solemnized at the Church in the Parish of St. James Westminster in the County of Middlesex; register 1840-41, page 11; City of Westminster Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61867/images/61865_324054000599_0288-00020 (PAYWALL)

No. 21 / February 6 / Henry Herwyn / Minor / Bachelot / Musician / rupert St. / [son of] Pierre Herwyn / Musician
Julie Martel / of full age / Spinster / - / [Rupert St.] / [daughter of] Marguerite Martel / Gentleman [sic] . . . in the presence of . . . Leon Pernet, Mary Pernet

Record of the death of Pierre Joseph HERMENEGILDE, "dit HERWYN", St. Omer, 31 March 1847; Archives Pas de Calais

http://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/v2/ark:/64297/11e6a1e4684d6d0a6e9ffcf576b18641 (DIGITISED)

61 / Hermenegilde [1847 1 April] cinq heures du soir en la maison commune de St. Omer . . . hier à neuf heures du soir est décédé pierre joseph Hermenegilde, dit Herwyn, professseur de musique, agé de cinquante ans, né à Dunkerque (Nord), le seize décembre [1796] . . .

"THÉATRES. LES CONCERTS DE LA SEMAINE-SAINTE", L'Athenaeum français (2 April 1853), 322

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5G-W6onQhFoC&pg=PA322

Nous sommes en retard avec les concerts; de fait, un revue quotidienne suffirait à peine à suivre et à signalier les centaines de solennités musicales qui convoquent soir et matin depuis un mois les fidéles de l'harmonie à des auditions de toute sorte. Aussi laisserons-nous de côté les concerts soit des pianistes, soit de violinistes, de M. Fumagalli, de M. Eirlich et de Mlle. Kastner, de M. Sivori at de M. Lecieux, de M. Herwyn, de M. Deloffre et de la famille Binfield's, une curieuse famille de musiciens anglais . . .

"CHRONIQUE DÉPARTMENTALE. Boulogne-sur-Mer, 11 août", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (14 August 1853), 288

https://dezede.org/sources/id/2968 

Hier la Société philharmonique a donné un brillant concert, où se sont fait entendre et chaudement applaudir deux chanteurs de grand mérite: M. et Mme. Marchesi, basse et contralto . . . M. Henry Herwyn, dont la presse parisienne s'est entretenue avec éloge l'hiver dernier, a prouvé dans ce concert qu'il avait son rang marqué parmi les grands violonistes de notre époque, comme compositeur et exécutant. Il a joué ses Souvenirs d'autrefois, avec orchestre, une fantaisie sur la Favorite, et a terminé par des variations burlesques, qui sont le digne pendant du Carnaval de Venise . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Salvatore and Mathilde Marchesi (vocalists)

"Miscellaneous", The musical world [London, England] (15 October 1853), 664

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sJQPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA664

M. HERWIN, a violinist of repute from Paris, has arrived in London, en route to Australia.

Australia (1854-55):

Melbourne, VIC (12 January to 2 February 1854):

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . CLEARED OUT", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (3 February 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4802762 

February 2 - Hellespont, steamer, 332 tons, R. F. Pockley, for Sydney, in ballast. Passengers - cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Herwyn . . .

Sydney, NSW (February to September 1854):

"MUSICAL", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 February 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12958460

Report speaks highly of the musical talent of M. and Madame Merwyn, recently arrived from Paris. M. Herwyn, we understand, is a first-rate violinist, and his wife an accomplished performer on the piano. Every accession to our musical circles will be hailed with satisfaction, and we hope soon to have an opportunity of speaking more positively as to the capabilities of the newly arrived artistes.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 February 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12958567

"M. AND MADAME HERWYN", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 February 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12959555

We drew attention yesterday to the soiree musicale which M. and Madame Herwyn are to give this evening, at their residence. The performance of these artists has already attracted the favorable opinion of connoisseurs, which is fully borne out by the subjoined extract from a late number of the Constitutionnel, written by the eminent critic M. Florentino :-

"How is it possible to describe our admiration of this charming couple of artists, Mons. et Madame Herwyn? They have talents that impassion the audience and force even the coldest of hearts to admiration; at their last concert applause and encores were lavished upon them, a sort of delicious giddiness overcame the public in listening to their heartmoving execution. Les souvenir d'autrefois (remembrance of former days), a grand fantaisie composed by the celebrated violinist excited such enthusiasm as we have rarely witnessed in our concert halls. But what originality what beautiful singing, and what taste? What enchantment in this work which denotes a new era! It would be impossible to describe the magnetic power which Mons. Herwyn exercises on his audience, whether it be to express the tenderness of love or the passion of sentiment, he ever elevates himself to a superior predominence and treats the greatest difficulties as mere trifles. Besides the Souvenirs d'autrefois the great artist executed his Fantasie from the Favourite, full of glittering melodies and proclaiming an artist initiated in all the delicacies of the art. His Hommage to Paganini has a different character, the composition having aimed at the fantastical and eccentric, he plunges into the very depths of fancy's regions and, at will, is as lively, as gay, as original, and as spiritual, as he is brilliant and sentimental.

Madame Herwyn is also an excellent and innate musician of rare intelligence and privileged nature; cultivated by a solid education and long studies, she is young, beautiful, and a descendant of a high family; Madame Herwyn hesitated a long time before she embraced her artistic career, well knowing its difficulties and reverses. But she yielded at last, and her debuts were resounded in all France and Germany, which countries she and her husband have travelled through since, amidst the most brilliant ovations. Madame Herwyn is, above all, a conscientious pianist; what she executes is always listened to with delight. Listen how she dreams, how she weeps, how she sings with sweetness and melancholy, how exquisitely she expresses the most tender and lofty sentiments amidst a profundity of poetry, how correctly she reproduces the classic works of Bach, Beethoven, Mendelsohn, and both ancient and modern masters. Most assuredly to attain so great a pitch, demanded an inflexible will, such as only exceptional intelligences are gifted with. It is a gift of heaven, and if we believed still in fairies we should believe that she was gifted in her cradle by one of those genii, whose power was formerly admitted by the credulous."

ASSOCIATIONS: Pier-Angelo Fiorentino (reviewer); Le constitutionnel (Parisian journal)

"M. AND MADAME HERWYN'S SOIREE MUSICALE", The Sydney Morning Herald (1 March 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12955778

On no former occasion have we had to record more complete success than was achieved last night by these talented artists. Rumour had spoken highly of them, but the expectations which had been raised were fully realised, and the élite of Sydney present at the soiree last evening pronounced it the greatest musical treat that had been afforded in Sydney. Madame Herwyn's brilliant and expressive playing - her perfect command of her instrument - her line and delicate perception of the lights and shades of every passage, and her free and correct execution of the most difficult and complicated combination of modern piano music, called forth repeated expressions of admiration . . . Of her husband we need only speak as of a violinist de premiere force; we should say that the peculiarity of his playing consists in the extreme softness of his touch; but again, in the Malbrouk (which was unanimously called for at the close) he displayed a vigour and nerve in the tours de force which quite equalled, if it did not surpass, the more subdued and expressive passages. We feel that in speaking thus in high praise of both these pleasing artists, we are but echoing the sentiments of every person present . . .

"M. AND MADAME HERWYN'S SOIREE MUSICALE", Empire (8 March 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60149955

"MUSICAL SOIREE", Illustrated Sydney News (25 March 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63614122

. . . The novelty of the evening was M. Hervyn's [sic] performance on an instrument which he denominates a monocorde, but which, to our uninstructed vision, was simply a violin with one string. On this instrument M. Hervyn played the Aria "Robert, toi que j'aime" with great effect, and elicited well deserved applause . . .

Hobart and Launceston, TAS (23 September to 29 November 1854):

"SHIPPING NEWS", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (23 September 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2238979 

September 23rd - City of Hobart, steamer, 362, Bentley, Melbourne. Cabin - Mr. Lenin, Monsieur and Madame Herwyn . . .

"M. HERWYN'S GRAND CONCERT", The Courier (6 October 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2240661

"THE HERWYN'S CONCERT", Colonial Times (7 October 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8777603

"THE HERWYN'S CONCERT", Launceston Examiner (18 November 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36290656

Melbourne and region, VIC (30 November 1854 to 16 June 1855):

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Argus (1 December 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801106 

November 30. - Lady Bird, S. S. S., 126 tons, Thos. Roberton, from Launceston 29th ult. Passengers - cabin . . . M. and Madame Herwynn . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 December 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801396

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

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

"THE CONCERT AT THE THEATRE", Geelong Advertiser (15 January 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91860727

[Advertisement], The Argus (12 February 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4804293

"M. AND MADAME HERWYN", Geelong Advertiser (28 February 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91860037

These accomplished musicians, we are happy to announce, have permanently established themselves in Geelong, as teachers of music . . .

Sydney and region, NSW (19 June to 6 December 1855):

"SHIPPING. ARRIVALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 June 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12970680 

JUNE 19. - Wonga Wonga (s.), 500 tons, Captain Gilmore, from Melbourne 16th instant. Passengers - Mr. and Mrs. Herwyn . . .

"CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (8 October 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12974623

The farewell concert of Monsieur and Madame Herwyn is advertised to take place to-night, at the Concert Hall, Royal Hotel, and will be under the patronage of the Governor General and Lady Denison. The sojourn of this accomplished lady and gentleman amongst us has been prolonged to a considerable extent, and though not often popularly before the public, we believe their musical réunions, private and public, have done much to improve and correct musical education in the colony. It is difficult to say that either Madame or Monsieur Herwyn are musicians for the multitude, but that they have great Artistic skill, toned and disciplined by the purest appreciation of the art itself, none whose judgment is worth having will dispute . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (8 October 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60166496 

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 October 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12984009 

PIANOFORTE. - One of unequalled character, namely, the instrument of Mons. Herwyn, acknowledged by all present at his concert last evening to be unsurpassed, in every respect, will be SOLD, at 12 o'clock THIS DAY, at the Concert Room, Royal Hotel. Any person who really is in search of something out of the ordinary way should avail themselves of this unusual opportunity. Mons. and Madame Herwyn, we regret to say, leave Sydney in a few days.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 October 1855), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12977248

Postponement of Sale YESTERDAY, in consequence of the Funeral of the late Sir Thomas Mitchell.
THIS DAY, positively, at 2 o'clock. Grand Piano, of unequalled tone and brilliancy, by Messrs. Pleyel and Co., Paris. For unreserved sale.
MR. ROBERT MURIEL has been favoured with instructions from Mons. Herwyn to sell by public auction,
THIS DAY, Wednesday, at 2 o'clock precisely, at the Concert-hall, Royal Hotel, without reserve
(in consequence of Mons. and Madame Herwyn's Immediate departure for Europe),
That splendid grand pinao, made by the celebrated makers, Messrs. Pleyel and Co., Paris.
This superb instrument is just imported by Mons. Herwyn, and has been acknowledged by competent judges to be the finest piano that has ever reached the colony.
It is truly elegant, and contains the repetitive action, with the most recent improvements.
Terms, cash.

"PLEYEL'S GRAND PIANOFORTE . . .", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 October 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12977260 

. . . the sale of which, yesterday, was unavoidably postponed, in consequence of the funeral of the late Sir Thomas Mitchell, until to-day, punctually at 2. o'clock. This instrument is the property of Monsieur Herwyn, and cannot be surpassed for brilliancy or sweetness of tone. At the last concert given by our esteemed friend, the audience were perfectly electrified. This unreserved sale will take place precisely at the hour specified; therefore, any person wishing to secure an instrument of which too much cannot possibly be expressed, should not neglect attending. Monsieur Boulanger has very kindly consented to be present, and will display, by his unprecedented talent, the unequalled powers of this instrument, second to none in the world. - Adv.

"DEPARTURES", The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (10 December 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161106226 

December 6. - Eliza, ship, 912 tons, Loutit, for London. Passengers - Mr. and Mrs. Herwyn . . .

After Australia (from 1856):

[Léon Escudier], [Profile], Le Pays: journal des volontés de la France (25 November 1856),

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46509459/f2 (DIGITISED)

Also, "HENRY HERWYN", La France musicale (7 December 1856), 293-94

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k696737/f395 (DIGITISED)

La saison musicale a commencé. Des essaims de virtuoses nous arrivent de toutes parts; de nombreux concerts s'organisent; les maîtres du piano préparent leurs compositions les mieux inspirées; les violonistes, et à leur tête Vieuxtemps et Sivori, sont prêts à entrer en lice.

Parmi les émules de ces exécutants supérieurs, il faut citer M. Henry Herwyn, un artiste sérieux, qui tente de frayer à l'art du violon des routes nouvelles. Ce virtuose est parmi nous et se propose de donner bientôt un concert dans la salle Herz. Quelques particularités sur sa carrière déjà si brillante seront peut-être lues avec intérèt.

Les dispositions musicales de M. Herwyn se révélèrent dès l'enfance. Il avait à peine atteint sa douzième année, quand la société philharmoninique de Saint-Omer lui offrit un archet d'honneur. A quatorze ans et demi il vint à Paris pour recevoir les leçons des grands maîtres. A quinze, il était violin à l'Opéra, où il remplaça Léonard en 1839. L'illustre Habeneck, qui ne prodiguait pas ses sympathies, lui avait voué une estime et une affection toutes particulières.

Plus tard, Henry Herwyn voyagea avec Thalberg et d'autres artistes de premier ordre - il reçut partout l'accueil le plus chaleureux. Rentré dans sa famille en 1847 pour y recevoir les derniers adieux de son père, il profita de ses instants de repos pour compléter ses études et perfectionner son talent.

De retour à Paris en 1853, il donna son premier il concert, le 16 mars, en présence d'un nombreux public et de l'élite de nos artistes. Son succès éclatant fut confirmé par les suffrages unanimes et spontanés de la presse parisienne.

La société philharmonique de Boulogne-sur-Mer l'ayant appelé l'année suivante pour concourir à l'éclat d'une de ses fêtes musicales, il se lia dans cette ville avec des Anglais qui lui parlèrent de l'Australie avec tarit d'enthousiasme, qu'il se laissa séduire par l'amour de l'inconnu, si puissant sur les imaginations d'artistes. Il voyait une source nouvelle de poétiques inspirations dans ce pays si imparfaitement exploré par les Européens. Du projet àution il n'y avait qu'un pas pour M. Henry Herwyn. D'ailleurs sa jeune femme, animée d'un courage et d'une résolution peu ordinaires dans les organisations de son sexe, éprouvait comme lui le plus vif désir d'entreprendre ce long et périlleux voyage. Ils s'embarquèLondres le 20 octobre 1854, et arrivèrent dans la baie de Panphilippe [sic, Port Phillip] traversée de soixante-quinze jours, troublée par deux terribles tempè mirent leurs jours et ceux de tout l'équipage en péril.

Melbourne, fut la première ville qu'ils visitèrent. On était en plein été. Dans cette saison la chaleur est insupportable, surtout quand règnent les vents qu'on nomme en anglais brickfilders, dont le souffle impétueux soulève d'épais tourbillons de poussière qui dérobent complètement la vue des maisons. La durée de ces vents est ordinairement de trois jours, pendant lesquels les malheureux, obligés de sortir sont littéralement grillés et aveuglés, malgré les voiles épais que les hommes eux-mêmes attachent à leurs chapeaux. Far cette chaleur étouffante, notre virtuose ne fut nullement lenté de donner des concerts à à Melbourne, il partit immédiatement pour Sydney. Sydney est une grande ville dont la population relève à cent mille âmes. Elle est parfaitement habitée, possÈde des constructions élégantes et variées de forme et de belles rues droites qui lui donnent la physionomie des cités européennes. Dans ce grand centre de population l'art compte des connaisseurs distingués, et un artiste de quelque valeur peut s'y produire avec de grandes chances de succès.

M. et Mme Herwyn furent très-gracieusement accueillis par le consul français, M. Sentis, qui joint à un mérite éminent les formes les plus aimables. Ils trouvèrent là une société élégante et polie et des salons qui rivalisent de luxe avec ceux des premières villes de l'Europe. Parmi les établissements que renferme Sydney, il faut citer une société philharmonique très-bien organisée qui exécute la musique des grands maîtres, notamment les oratorios de Haendel, avec une rare habileté.

M. Henry Herwyn trouva donc réunis à Sydney tous les éléments de succès désirables. Le premier concert qu'il donna fut splendide. Parmi les plus chauds admirateurs du brillant violoniste on remarqua sir Charles Fiiz-Roy, gouverneur général de l'Australie. Il alla en personne inviter M. et Mme. Herwyn à un dîner et à une soirée qu'il voulait donner pour eux au château du gouvernement. Cette flatteuse distinction fut appréciée par toutes les personnes qui connaissent les moeurs anglaises et les difficultés parfois insurmontables qui s'opposent à l'admission des étrangers dans les cercles de l'aristocratie. Au reste, il est bon de constater que ces témoignages de sympathie et d'estime se reproduisirent à plusieurs reprises durant le séjour de notre virtuose en Australie.

Pendant les quatre mois qui suivirent son arrivée à Sydney, M. Herwyn donna quatre grands concerts au théâtre et seize soirées musicales dans une salle qui porte son nom. A propos de ces solennités, la presse locale épuisa toutes les formules de l'éloge. Le Morning Herald, journal de Sydney, s'exprimait dans les termes suivants après un des concerts de l'éminent virtuose:

"Dans le grand morceau des Huguenots, splendide composition, M. Herwyn a joué à ravir. Il est impossible de rendre le sentiment poétique, la verve et l'accent dramatique qui distinguent le jeu de cet artiste; il approché le plus possible de la perfection, et nous écrivons ceci le coeur encore plein du souvenir de Paganini, d'Ole-Bull, de Sivori et de Ernst."

M. Herwyn partit de Sidney pour se rendre au pays de Van-Diémen. A Hobart-Town, on lui fit une réception magnifique. La femme du gouverneur, Lady Devison Affrie, mit à sa disposition la salle de liai du gouverneur.

A Geelong, Adelaïde, Parametta [sic], il fut l'objet des mêmes témoignages d'estime et d'enthousiasme. Une des feuilles de Geelong, l'Advertiser, caractérisait en ces termes le talent de M. Herwyn:

"Il a toutes les qualités qui distinguent les plus éminents artistes. Son coup d'archet est ferme, Ses notes sont pleines et rondes. Il a la faculté de donner à la musique qu'il exécute toutes les nuances exigées par les différents genres de compositions."

Dans la capitale des Diggins [sic] ou mines d'or, M. Herwyn reçut une ovation à laquelle on ne l'avait pas jusqu'alors accoutumé: il se vit assailli, à son second concert, par une tempête formidable d'applaudissements entremêlés de sifflets. Ce qu'il ne savait pas, c'est que dans ce pays les sifflets sont la marque la plus expressive de l'enthousiasme.

Son séjour en Australie fut marqué par de curieux incidents: un soir Mme. Herwyn, rentrant chez elle à la campagne, mit la main sur un serpent noir enroulé autour de la clef de sa porte. Jugez de sa frayeur! Cette rencontre inattendue aurait pu avoir de sérieuses conséquences: les serpents, très-communs dans la contrée, sont si venimeux, qu'on a vu quelquefois des personnes expirer dix minutes après leur terrible morsure.

M. Herwyn se proposait de revenir par les Indes. Mais la santé de sa femme, cruellement éprouvée par le climat brûlant de l'Australie, ne lui permit pas de réaliser ce projet. Le couple voyageur s'embarqua pour la France, emportant les marques les plus flatteuses de sympathie et de regret de la part des personnages les plus distingués de la colonie. Ce voyage fut moins heureux que le précédent. Le navire qui les portait faillit s'engloutir dans les montagnes de glace du pôle sud. Après avoir essuyé plusieurs tempêtes, ils furent encore obligés de stationner pendant huit jours en face des côtes d'Angleterre. Enfin, ce n'est qu'après d'immenses difficultés et des périls sans cesse renawants qu'ils revirent la France, où notre virtuose apportait des inspirations nouvelles et un talent plus souple et plus complet.

Nous avons eu l'occasion d'entendre, depuis son retour, M. Herwyn. Son exécution est distinguée, élégante, expressive, exempte de toute exagération et d'une pureté de son admirable. Il possède un sentiment vrai, qui pénètre doucement le coeur. C'est un violoniste, sérieux, formé à la bonne école. Chez lui, une justesse irréprochable s'allie à une verve entraînante. Initié à tous les secrets de l'art, il se joue avec une aisance merveilleuse de toutes les difficultés.

Exécutant de haute portée, M. Herwyn est aussi un compositeur fort remarquable. Parmi ses oeuvres, nous signalerons une grande fantaisie avec accompagnement d'orchestre, intitulée: Souvenirs d'autrefois, mise en scène imitative des vieux airs idylliens avee lesquels nous avons tous été bercés; l'Hommage à Paganini, composition burlesque sur l'air de Marlborough; une fantaisie sur la Favorite, morceau de concert qui joint au charme et à l'originalité de la mélodie le mérite des difficultés vaincues.

Les antécédents de M. Herwyn et son mérite incontestable comme compositeur et comme violoniste ne nous laissent aucun doute sur les succès qui l'attendent cet hiver à Paris.

- ESCUDIER.

[News], Neue Wiener Musik-Zeitung (8 January 1857), 8

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1BJDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8

Henry Herwyn, der vor nicht langer Seit aus Australien zurückgekehrt ist, wo er nach der gefohrt und abentevervollsten Ueberfahrt die größten Triumfe feierte, gab ein Konzert im Salon Herz. Man war von seinem kühnen, feurigen und gefühlvollen Vortrage auf der Violine entzückt; besonders erregten burleske Variazionen über das Lied von Marlborough Sensazion. Lacombe unterstützte ihn mit Vorträgen auf dem Pianoforte.

"AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 25 (3 January 1858), 5

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=aCEuv9i0sS8C&pg=PA5

M. Henry Herwyn, Anglais par le nom, mais qui est un de nos bons violonistes français, M. Henry Herwyn, après avoir visité l'Australie, Botany-Bay, est revenu à Paris . . .

"AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 25 (7 March 1858), 74

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2e4sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74

"CONCERTS ET AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (4 April 1858), 111

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2e4sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111

"AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 25 (2 May 1858), 146

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2e4sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA146

"AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (9 May 1858), 155

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2e4sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155

"AUDITIONS MUSICALES", Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (16 May 1858), 162

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2e4sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 February 1859), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13021430

MR. EDWARD SALAMON has received instructions from Monsieur L. Sentis, French Consul, who is about removing, to sell by auction, at his residence, Passy, Hunter's Hill, THIS DAY, February 4th, at 11 o'clock, All the excellent household furniture and effects, the principal portion or which was made to order for Monsieur Sentis, by eminent Parisien manufacturers, and consisting of . . .
Two fine toned cottage pianofortes, made to order in Paris, under the superintendence of Madame Herwyn, the celebrated pianist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Louis Sentis (French consul)

[Profile], Le mémorial artésien (19 October 1859)

L'Autorité de Dunkerque publie la note suivante sur notre concitoyen M. H. Herwyn. M. H. Herwyn, dont nous avons entretenu déjà nos lecteurs, se propose de venir cet hiver à Dunkerque, pour y donner un concert. Nous dirons à M. Herwyn qu'en notre ville il sera toujours le bienvenu, puisqu'il est précédé par une brillante renommée: M. Herwyn est un de ces noms jeunes encore par le petit nombre d'années que compte leur carrière musicale, mais rapidement vieillis par la valeur et la célébrité. Ses véritables débuts datent à peine de trois ou quatre année dans le monde parisien, et il tient déjà le rang de nos plus anciens virtuoses. Né à St. Omer, en 1824 [sic], M. Herwyn y étudia tout enfant la musique, et la Société Philarmonique de cette ville fit au violoniste de douze ans le don d'un archet d'honneur. Deux ans après, il venait à Paris fréquenter les maîtres, devenait l'un des favoris du difficile et méticuleux Habeneck, remplaçait Léonard, en 1839, comme violoniste à l'Académie impériale de Musique, et suivait Talberg [Thalberg] dans plusieurs de ses voyages. La mort de son père le rappela dans sa famille en 1847, et c'est alors qu'un loisir presque forcé de quelques années le mit à même de compléter ses études. Chaleureusement applaudit dans son premier concert donné à Paris en mars 1853, ainsi que dans le concours qu'il prêta aux fêtes musicales de Boulogne sur Mer, Dieppe, etc., il nous quitta toute fois pour visiter audacieusement des pays nouveaux, et partit en octobre 1853 de Londres pour l'Australie, Java, Calcutta, etc., etc., qui viennent de nous le rendre enfin complet, triomphant et regretté. Les aventures de M. Herwyn pendant ses voyages ont parfois touché du prodige. Assailli, au départ et au retour, de terribles tempêtes, entravé par les orages d'été ainsi que par les montagnes de glace, visité, dans sa villa lointaine, par ces terribles serpents noirs dont Atar-Gull dépeint les prouesses, il eut cependant comme compensation de ces accidents et de ces terreurs, les applaudissements frénétiques et soutenus de tous les pays par lui parcourus. L'accueil le plus empressé des différents gouverneurs, et l'admission la plus franche au sein des la rigide aristocratie anglaise. M. Herwyn s'est fait entendre le 10 décembre dernier, à la salle Herz. L'éminent violoniste y a trouvé les admirations et les sympathies d'outre-mer; son talent, en effet, maintenant mûri par l'exercice, et toujours sûr de lui-même, possède à un degré qui rappelle les tours de force habituels de Paganini, le sentiment, la force, la justesse, la verve, l'aisance et la facilité des maîtres : mais ce qui le caractérise surtout, c'est l'expression, le sentiment poétique, le style. Virtuose d'une inspiration soutenue, M. Herwyn est de plus un compositeur plein de verve et d'originalité; parmi ses oeuvres nous citerons ses Souvenirs d'Autrefois, sa fantaisie brillante sur La Favorite, ses Souvenirs de Mozart, ses Variations burlesques et fantastiques sur l'air de Malborough.

"HERWYN", The musical world (23 July 1864), 474

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mgoVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA474

M. Henry Herwyn, a French violinist of the highest order, now on a short visit to England, and who first made himself known in this country by playing several charming pieces of his own composition at the charitable fete given at the South Kensington Museum, presided over by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, has since been electrifying the musical world in several private concerts. His tone and mechanism of touch are marvellous, whilst the varieties of his expression are full of touching sympathy and exquisite sentiment. If ever M. Herwyn should appear in public, we predict for him an exalted position that must lead to a brilliant and well-merited celebrity.

Record of the death of Célestine Juliette Godfernaux [HERWYN}] Paris, 18 May 1896; Archives de Paris

[19 May 1896, 3 p.m.] note de décés de Célestine Juliette Godfernaux, agée de soixante cinq ans, née à Lille (Nord), décédée le [18 May] à quatre heures du soir, au domicile conjugal, rue de Siam 18, sans profession, fille de César Benjamin Godfernaux et de Thérèse Baar . . .

Record of the death of Hyacinte Henri [sic] Léopold Hermenégilde HERWYN, Paris, 6 July 1905; Archives de Paris

[6 July 1905, 2 p.m.] note de décés de Hyacinte Henri [sic] Léopold Hermenégilde HERWYN, agé de quarte-vingt-trois ans, sans profession, né à Montreuil sur Mer, Pas de Calais, décédé à son domicile, rue de la Pompe 8, ce matin à deus heures, fil des . . . *** Herwyn et *** Durey (prenoms inconnus) veuf de Célestine Juliette Godfernaux . . .

Musical works (Henry Herwyn):

Les souvenir d'autrefois grand fantaisie (by 1853)

"M. AND MADAME HERWYN", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 February 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12959555

. . . the subjoined extract from a late number of the Constitutionnel, written by the eminent critic M. Florentino: - . . . Les souvenir d'autrefois (remembrance of former days), a grand fantaisie composed by the celebrated violinist . . .

Grand fantasia on La favorite (by 1853; 1854)

Grand fantasia, on themes from Donizetti's opera La favorite

"Monsieur and Madame Herwyn's Concert", The Courier (8 November 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2238890

Hommage a Paganini (by 1853; 1854; publ. 1881)

Hommage à Paganini ("Variations burlesques for Violin", on "Milbrook" or Marlborough") (by 1853)

The Courier (13 October 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2240897

[Advertisement], The Argus (12 December 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801634

Variations à la Paganine sur l'air populaire de "Malbrough" pour violon avec accompagnement de piano . . . (Paris : [s.n.], [1881])

Copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43048821t 

Grand fantasia on God save the queen, Ye banks and braes, and Patrick's day (1854)

Grand fantasia for violin (with variations and finale for one string only, in which the favorite airs of God save the queen, Ye banks and braes, and Patrick's day)

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (5 October 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8777556

Fantaisie-caprice sur des motifs des Noces de Figaro (1858)

Fantaisie-caprice sur des motifs des "Noces de Figaro" de Mozart pour le violon avec accomp't de piano par Henry Herwyn, op. 5 (Paris: G. Brandus et S. Dufour, [1858])

Copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43169133q 

[Review], Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (9 January 1859), 12

https://archive.org/details/revueetgazettemu1859pari/page/12/mode/2up 

Fantaisie dramatique sur Faust (1860)

Fantaisie dramatique sur "Faust", opéra de Ch. Gounod, pour violon avec acc't de piano par H. Herwyn, op. 6 (Paris: Choudens, [1860])

Copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb430222517 

L'Attente de Schubert (arr. Herwyn, 1862)

L'Attente de François Schubert; transcrite pour violon avec acc't de piano par Henri Herwyn (Paris: G. Brandus et S. Dufour, [1862])

Copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb432634171 

Bibliography and resources:

Nicholas Sackman (transcribed and edited), The Jacques Francais Rare Violins Inc. . . . The sales ledgers, 1845-1938 (2017; rev. 2020), 182

https://themessiahviolin.uk/J_E_Francais.pdf 

NOTE: In 1881 Herwyn was documented by Gand & Bernardel frères, Paris, as (? new) owner of a 1717 Stradivarius violin; it was bought, after his death, by Hart [of London] in 1907.

Christian Declerck, "Hyacinthe (Henry) Léopold HERMENEGILDE", Geneanet

https://gw.geneanet.org/malo1_w?lang=fr&pz=eugene+auguste+felix&nz=gervais&p=hyacinthe+henry+leopold&n=hermenegilde 

HERZ, Julius (Julius HERZ)

Conductor, pianist, composer

Born Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 13 March 1841
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1866
Married Anna Margaretha FREYBERGER, All Saints', Windsor (East St. Kilda), VIC, 18 July 1867
Died Sandringham, Melbourne, VIC, 23 August 1898, aged 57

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462591 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

HERZ, Anna Margaretha (Anna Margaretha FREYBERGER; Mrs. Julius HERZ)

Vocalist

Married Julius HERZ, All Saints', Windsor (East St. Kilda), VIC, 18 July 1867
Died Mordialloc, VIC, 23 January 1919

Summary:

Julius Herz, "Professor of Music from the Conservatoire of Berlin", was on the staff of James Schott's Victorian Academy of Music in April 1866.

Two of his compositions were published by Charles Troedel in Melbourne in December, The mill (impromptu for pianoforte), and the Byron song When we two are parted, which had been composed for and premiered by Miss Liddle in July.

Herz conducted the first Australian performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on 27 December 1882.

His Silver chimes (Morceau Caractéristique) appeared in The Illustrated Australian News and Musical Times (1 August 1889), 12-13.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 April 1866), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5765651

[News], The Argus (3 July 1866), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5766818

[News], The Herald (5 December 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244422337 

The Musical Union gave their first concert of the season last evening, at the Town-hall, Prahran . . . The concert was the occasion of the debut of Miss Freyberger, a German lady, and a pupil of Mr. Herz. She has a mezzo-soprano voice of very good quality, and gave Kalliwoda's "Heimweh" - with horn obligato by Mr. Kohler - very sweetly, receiving a considerable amount of applause . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Franz Andreas Kohler (horn); Musical Union (organisation)

"NEW MUSIC", The Argus (20 December 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41022367

[News], The Argus (5 April 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5763634

"MARRIAGES", The Argus (20 July 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5772824 

"THE MELBOURNE MUSIC FESTIVAL", The Argus (28 December 1882), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11563707

"MR. JULIUS HERZ", Illustrated Australian News and Musical Times (1 August 1889), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60621579

"DEATHS", The Argus (24 August 1898), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9848296

"OBITUARY", Launceston Examiner (24 August 1898), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39775704

"DEATH OF MR. J. HERTZ", The Advertiser (24 August 1898), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29416390

[News], The Brisbane Courier (24 August 1898), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3677542

Bibliography and resources:

Thérèse Radic, "Herz, Julius (1841-1898)", Australian dictionary of biography 4 (1972)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/herz-julius-3760 

HERZ, Richard F. (Richard F. HERZ; R. F. HERZ)

Musician, pianist, violinist, composer

Active NZ, 1856-58
Active Sydney, NSW, 1859-61; Melbourne and Ballarat, VIC, 1864; Maitland NSW, 1865; central VIC, 1865-66

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Richard+F+Herz+musician+c1859-65 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

Herz was based in Auckland, New Zealand from 1856 to 1858. A concert he gave there in August 1857 included two of his own compositions for cornet and piano, Advance New Zealand (Parade March) and The darkies' Quadrille.

Herz was playing and teaching in Sydney in 1859 early 1860, but was back in New Zealand by mid year and until 1863.

He was in Victoria in 1864. On his first appearance in Ballarat in 1864, he was advertised as "The brilliant Pianist, nephew of the great Pianist, Henri Herz".

Three of his compositions appeared in The illustrated Melbourne post:

Riflemen's joy ("quick step composed for The Illustrated Post by Richard Herz")

Christmas quadrille (24 December 1864)

The Victoria galop (25 November 1865).

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross (21 October 1856), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18561021.2.2.4

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross (18 August 1857), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18570818.2.12

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross (26 February 1858), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18580226.2.2.4

[Advertisement], Empire (26 May 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60399309

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 July 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13027075

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 January 1860), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13035484

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross (4 September 1860), 2

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18600904.2.12.4

[Advertisement], Southland Times (30 November 1863), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18631130.2.17.4

[Advertisement], The Star (9 April 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66344064

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5750035

HESTER, John (John HESTER)

Musician, convict

Active NSW, 1832

Documentation:

[Convict notices], New South Wales Government Gazette (3 October 1832), 325

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230389114 

Hester John, No. 31-1426, Exmouth, 34, Musician and Labourer, Newbury, 5 feet 8, grey eyes, brown to grey hair, sallow comp. mermaid on right arm, woman on left, from No. 2 Iron Gang. 2d time of running.

[Convict notices], New South Wales Government Gazette (27 March 1833), 111

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230389928 

Hester John, 33, Exmouth, No. 31-1426, Musician, Newbury, 5 feet 8, brown to grey bair, grey eyes, sallow comp. mermaid on right arm, man and woman on left, from No. 2 Stockade, Cox's River, in irons, from Hospital.

HETHERINGTON, Frank (Frank HETHERINGTON)

Vocalist

Active Sydney, NSW, by 1860

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 November 1860), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13048506 

HETZER, William (William HETZER)

Photographer

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-502757 (NLA persistent identifier)

HETZER, Thekla (Madame HETZER; Mrs. William HETZER)

Musician, pianist, piano teacher

Arrived Sydney, NSW, 3 February 1850 (per Balmoral, from the Downs, 19 October 1849)
Departed Sydney, NSW, 1867

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1484087 (NLA persistent identifier)

Summary:

Wife of the photographer William Hetzer, and "pupil of one of the first masters in German", she first advertised as a teacher in October 1850, and first appeared public at Francesca Allen's concert in December. Thereafter, childbearing appears to have curtailed her public musical activities. Her husband was secretary of the German Club responsible for the organisation of the concert in aid of Leichhardt's mother in 1854. William died in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1891, aged 69.

Documentation:

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 February 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12915444

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 March 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12916164

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (12 October 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12921697

"MADAME ALLEN'S CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (23 December 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923560

[Advertisement], Empire (4 March 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60149831

Bericht die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main (1899), viii, xxix

https://archive.org/stream/berichtberdiese00unkngoog#page/n17/mode/2up/search/Hetzer 

https://archive.org/stream/berichtberdiese00unkngoog#page/n37/mode/2up/search/Hetzer 

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 September 1891), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13840567

Bibliography and resources:

"Thekla Hetzer", Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)

http://www.daao.org.au/bio/thekla-hetzer

"William Hetzer", Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)

http://www.daao.org.au/bio/william-hetzer

"Hetzer, William (fl. 1850 - )", NLA persistent identifier

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-502757 

HEUZENROEDER, Mauritz (Moritz)

Musician, professor of music, pianist, teacher of pianoforte and singing, composer

Born Otterberg, Germany, 15 July 1849
Active South Australia, by 1869
Died Angaston, SA, 9 November 1897, aged 48

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-680058 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

HEUZENROEDER, Theodore F. (Ted; Teddy)

Violinist, teacher of music

Born ? SA, c.1873
Died Gawler, SA, 30 March 1953, aged 80

HEUZENROEDER, Tilla

Vocalist

Active Tanunda, SA, by 1897
Died Antwerp, Belgium, 8 September 1906

Summary:

This is my preliminary attempt (2014) at resolving some inconsistencies in Heuzenroeder biography as given in other sources. There was at least one earlier Moritz Heuzenroeder in SA (died 1864). An M. Heunzenroeder performed at Tanunda in September 1869. According to Elizabeth Wood (Heuzenroeder, New Grove) Heuzenroeder was in Adelaide by 1865, returned to Stuttgart, and settled permanently in Australia in 1872. However he in fact returned in mid 1877 (see below). Heuzenroeder (? MH) was performing publicly in SA in 1871. A Miss Tilla Heuzenroeder, a vocalist, at Tanunda in April 1897 was MH's niece (she was the second daughter of MH's brother, Theodore Heuzenroeder, d.1893), and the violinist Theodore Heuzenroeder (? jun.) also played under MH (a nephew, or cousin?).

Documentation:

"ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT", South Australian Register (22 September 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41393363

The rest of the evening was passed by instrumental and vocal performances by Mademoiselle J. Sobels, Miss T, Fischer. Mr. G. Fischer, Mr. M. Heuzenroeder, and the Tanunda Quartette Verein.

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (24 December 1872), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39269734

"TOWN HALL ORGAN OPENING CONCERTS", South Australian Register (26 September 1877), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40786687

We are informed that M. Heuzenroeder has been engaged to assist at these concerts. M. Heuzenroeder has been studying as pianist at Stuttgart under Dr. Sebert for the last three or four years. He is a member of the Stuttgart Conservatory, and returned to South Australia by the mail with the intention of settling here.

"THE LATE MR. T. HEUZENROEDER", South Australian Chronicle (4 November 1893), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92798351

"TANUNDA", The Advertiser (6 April 1897), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35074995

TANUNDA, April 2. - The Tanunda Orchestral Society, under the conductorship of Herr Heuzenroeder, gave a concert here last night (Thursday) to a small house. The concert being the best that has been given here for a long time it deserved a better attendance. The orchestra have recently, under the able conductorship of Herr Heuzenroeder, made marked improvement. He was repaid for his gratuitous services by the evident success of his tuition. Herr Heuzenroeder has regained his health and strength of his hand after the injury sustained some time since.

"DEATH OF MR. M. HEUZENROEDER", The Advertiser (10 November 1897), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35096547

The news of the sudden death of Mr. Heuzenroeder was received in the city with profound regret. He was known best in the musical world, and he was a great favourite with all with whom he came in contact. Some years ago Mr. Heuzenroeder carried on business in Gawler as a jeweller, and his intense love for everything musical induced him to save sufficient money to take a trip to Stuttgart, Germany, in order that he might further pursue his studies in music and voice-production. He returned to South Australia after having gained the highest honors from some of the leading musicians in Germany. Overtures were made to him to practice his profession at Stuttgart, but he preferred to return to his adopted home. Ultimately he settled down in Adelaide and began to practise as a teacher of music. In Germany he paid close attention to voice production, and studied under some very eminent professors of the art, and upon his return he took a prominent position in the ranks of singing masters in the colony. The deceased gentleman was the first conductor of the Adelaide Harmonic Society, which produced two operettas of his composition. The first of them was entitled Faust and Gretchen, the libretto being translated from the German, and the work was received with such warmth by the music-loving public that it was followed by another opera from his pen. The music was extremely pretty, and the press criticisms were favourable. In 1893, in collaboration with Mr. H. C. Evans, of Quiz, he produced the Australian opera Immomeena, which was performed for the first time in the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, with great success on October 6, 1893. He also wrote music for a number of songs, some of which have enjoyed a large sale, while others, although they have not been published, have been sung on the concert platform from time to time. Perhaps the most popular was Australia, the words of which were composed by the late Mr. C. C. Presgrave; but Thou art my queen was equally popular for a long time . . .

"DEATHS", The Advertiser (10 November 1897), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35096575

"DEATHS", The Advertiser (1 November 1906), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5110311

"Out among the People. Veteran Violinist", Chronicle (17 March 1938), 70

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92472239

"Musician Passes On", Bunyip (2 April 1953), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96900952

Bibliography and resources:

Hooper Brewster-Jones: "South Australian pioneers and problems; South Australia's musical history", Australian Musical News 27/3 (1 October1936), 1-3, 28-33

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/33545435

Elizabeth Wood, "Moritz Heuzenroeder - a musical pioneer", LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) 3/1 (1974), 4-8 

HEWITT, Joseph (Joseph HEWITT; Mr. HEWITT; also Mr. HEWETT)

Musician, trombone player (New Queen's Theatre), convict, emancipist

Born Bermondsey, Surrey, England, c. 1816
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 28 April 1840 (convict per Mangles [8], from Portsmouth, 28 November 1839, aged "23")
Arrived Norfolk Island, NSW, 7 May 1840 (convict per Mangles [8], via Sydney)
Active Adelaide, SA, 1848-50; ? VIC, NSW, 1850s

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

Summary:

Hewitt arrived at Norfolk Island in 1840 as a convict per Mangles, along with fellow musicians Thomas Gatland and Charles Sandys Packer, all three probably serving as band musicians on the island under commandant Alexander Macononchie. In due course, Hewitt and Gatland arrived in Hobart, VDL (TAS) per Maitland in 1844 as probationers.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Gatland (musician)

Documentation:

Convict indents, per Mangles, arrived 27 April 1840; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/120457:2024 (PAYWALL)

40-1040 / 180 / Hewitt Joseph / [age] 23 / R & W / Protestant / Single /
[Native place] Bermondsey / Leather dresser /
[Offence] Obtaining money &c. / Surry Quarter Sessions / 4 Febuary, 1839 / 7 years / [former conviction] 3 months /
5 ft 6 3/4 in / [complexion] Dark sallow . . .

Convict record, Joseph Hewitt, per Mangles, 1840, and Maitland, 1844; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1401329

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1401329 

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON33-1-51/CON33-1-51p169 (DIGITISED)

12006 / Hewitt Joseph / Tried Surrey Q.S. 4 February 1839 / 7 yrs / . . . Single
Arr'd 3 March 1844 / Protestant Can read & Write / Trade - Tanner & Currier /
5 ft 7 in / Age - 27 . . . / Native place - Surrey . . .
Ticket of Leave [on arrival in VDL, 1844] . . .
Free Certificate . . . 4 Feb'y 1846 . . .

Marriage permissions, 1845-46; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1253585; CON52/1/2 Page 374

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1253585

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON52-1-2/CON52-1-2P194 (DIGITISED)

No. 364 / Hewitt Jos'h / free // Eliz'th West / per Hindostan / 17 Feb. / Appr'd

1846, marriages in the district of Hobart; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:833421; RGD37/1/4 no 2312

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/833421 

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-4/RGD37-1-4P399 (DIGITISED)

No. 2512 / St. George's / 14 March 1846 / Joseph Hewitt / 27 / Currier // Elizabeth West / 28 / Spinster . . .

[Advertisement], Colonial Times [Hobart, VDL (TAS)] (25 September 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8759312 

ROYAL PANTHEON THEATRE, COLLINS-STREET.
Mr. Young's Benefit. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1846 . . .
The Interlude will terminate with A COMIC SONG, BY MR. HEWITT, Who has kindly offered his services . . .
C. YOUNG, Manager

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Young (actor, manager); Pantheon Theatre (Hobart venue)

[Advertisement], The Courier (30 September 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2944789 

ROYAL PANTHEON THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30 . . .
The Interlude will consist of
THE KRACOVIAC (arranged by Mrs. Young) - Miss THOMSON.
Comic Song - "The Temptations of Good St. Anthony," Mr. Young.
JOCKEY HORNPIPE, taught by Mr. Young, Miss THOMSON.
Comic Song - Mr. Hewitt.
During the evening several splendid Overtures will be performed by the Orchestra, which has been considerably augmented . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jane Elizabeth Young (dancer, late Miss Thomson); Eliza Thomson (dancer)

Adelaide, SA (by early 1848):

[Advertisement], South Australian [Adelaide, SA] (18 February 1848), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71610541 

NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE.
THE public is most respectfully informed that this Theatre will be closed on Saturday evening next,
and re-opened on the following Monday, Feb. 21st, 1848,
under the management of MR. LAZAR, who will have the honor of making his first appearance in Adelaide these five years . . .
The Orchestral Department will be considerably augmented, and consist of -
Mr. Lee (leader), Mr. Richards (second yiolin), Mr. Thomson (violincello),
Mr. Poltridge (cornet-a-piston), Mr. Hewitt (tromhone), Mr. Swift (tenor),
Mr Kaebet (master of the German Band, flute) . . .
Mr. Lazar will sing the grand Buffo Scena "Tormentors, Wherefore Came Ye?"
from Rossini's Opera of "Cinderella" (with full orchestral accompaniments),
in which he will he assisted by Mesdames Oliffe and Stubbs . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Lazar (actor, vocalist, manager); Philip Lee (musician); Henry Augustus Richards (musician); John Charles Thompson (musician); Thomas Paltridge (musician); Thomas Swift (musician); Mr. Kaebet (musician); Harriet Oliffe (actor, vocalist); Hannah Stubbs (actor, vocalist); New Queen's Theatre (Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], South Australian (29 February 1848), 2 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71610635

NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE.
MISS LAZAR Begs leave most respectfully to acquaint the Public generally, that her first
GRAND EVENING CONCERT . . . WILL TAKE PLACE . . . ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1848 . . .
A choice selection of the most admired pieces from the Operas of
Maritana, Cinderella, Tancredi, La Gazza Ladra, &c., &c., will be performed . . .
INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS: Leader, Mr. Lee . . . Mr. Hewett (trombone) . . .
Mr. Bennett will preside at the Pianoforte.
PROGRAMME. PART I. Overture - "Il Barbierre di Saviglia" (Rossini) - Orchestra . . .
PART II. Overture - "Massaniello" (Auber), Orchestra . . .

ASSSOCIATIONS: Rachel Lazar (vocalist); George Bennett (pianist)

[Advertisement], South Australian (6 October 1848), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71612600

New Queen's Theatre, MISS LAZAR begs leave . . . to acquaint the Public generally that her
Grand Evening CONCERT . . . will take place on MONDAY NEXT, OCTOBER 9th, 1848 . . .
A Choice Selection of the most admired pieces from the Operas of
Cinderella, Bohemian Girl, Fairy Lake, Crusaders, La Somnambula, etc., etc. . . .
Instrumental Performers: - Leader - Mr. Lee . . . Mr. Hewitt (trombone) . . .
PROGRAMME: PART I. Overture - Bohemian Girl (Balfe), - Orchestra . . .
5. Overture - "Guy Mannering" (Bishop), Orchestra . . .
PART II. Overture - "Massiniello" ( Auber) - Orchestra . . .
4. Overture - Caliph Bagdad (Boildieu) - Orchestra . . .

"POLICE COURT . . . Tuesday [sic, Monday], 5th February", South Australian Register (7 February 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50246696 

Wm. Brodie was charged with stealing a silver watch, value £3; a silver chain, value £1; and a gold key, value 5s. - the property of Joseph Hewett, musician, on Saturday the 3rd instant, at the "Builder's Arms," Hindley-street . . .
The prosecutor's statement was, that he went into the "Builder's Arms," on last Saturday evening, with a friend. The prisoner was there, quarrelled with the friend, and had a scuffle; after which he went out, and returned with a whip having a brass hammer at the end. He struck the prosecutor with the weapon on the arm, knocking him down, and fell on him. At that moment the prosecutor felt some one pull at his watch-guard; and, on getting up, missed his watch and seized the prisoner, whom he held until a policeman who was passing took him in charge. There was nothing found upon the prisoner when searched . . .
The barman of the "Builder's Arms" then . . . detailed a combat in which the prosecutor worsted a big Irishman, although his (prosecutor's) memory failed in that particular, or his modesty constrained him not to name it. A number of gay young fellows who always lounge in the fashionable part of Hindley-street (their Burlington Arcade), attracted by the intellectual amusements of the "Builder's Arms," the science of the prize ring, and the eloquence of oaths, were present during the fight; but most unaccountably disappeared before the prosecutor missed his watch. When he did miss it, he seized the prisoner, and handed him over to the police.
The prisoner was discharged.

See also, "POLICE COURT . . . Monday, February 5", South Australian (6 February 1849), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71623045 

William Brodie, groom, was charged with stealing a watch from Joseph Hewitt, musician . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal (16 March 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195939595 

SIX GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS A LA JULIEN [sic, JULLIEN] -
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 [Jullien], Mozart, Labitzky, Rossini, Lanner, Weber, Strauss.
The evenings amusements will embrace Waltzes, Quadrilles, Gallopades, Polkas, and Overtures; also Solos both Vocal and Instrumental.
LIST OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PERFORMERS . . . Mr. Lee, Her Cranz, Mr. Cobbin . . .
Her Matter, Mr. Harwood, Her Huenerbiers, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Hewett . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Spencer Wellington Wallace (musical director); August Friedrich Cranz (musician); William Cobbin (musician); Charles Albert Frederic Mater (musician); William Harward (musician); August Christian Huenerbein (musician); William Chapman (musician); Exchange Rooms (Adelaide venue)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (10 April 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207115437 

NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE. Thursday, April the 11th . . .
BR0THER DOUGLASS' BENEFIT . . . Under the immediate Patronage of . . .
Officers and Brethren of the various Lodges . . .
Comic Song - "The Troublesome Wife," by desire, BROTHER HEWITT.
New Comic Medley Dance - Master F. DOUGLASS.
Comic Duet - "BALLAD SINGERS," MISS LAZAR AND MR. COPPIN.
Solo - Cornet a Piston - "LOVE NOT" - MR. CHAPMAN . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Augustus Douglass (actor); George Coppin (actor, vocalist)

"POLICE COURT . . . Tuesday, May 21st", Adelaide Times (22 May 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207116158 

James Augustus Douglas, comedian, was charged on the information of Samuel Newton, Port Adelaide, builder, with feloniously embezzling 12l. 9s 5 1/2d., the property of Edward Barnes, James Banister, and George Brock, Trustees of the Duke of York Lodge of Odd Fellows . . .
Samuel Newton, stated he was a builder, residing at Port Adelaide, and was Treasurer to the Duke of York Lodge of Odd Fellows . . . Witness continued - It was not arranged to pay Douglass for refreshments for the band. Never heard of a claim of Hewitt for 1l. 16s. The Noble Grand hired the band with the authority of the Lodge. Douglass said the charge of the band was 10s each. He did not say 15s. Never saw a demand of Hewitt's for 3l. 10s . . .

See also, "POLICE COURT. Tuesday, 21st May", South Australian Register (22 May 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38451183 

[Advertisement], South Australian (9 July 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71626661 

EXCHANGE, KING WILLIAM-STREET . . .
MONSTER CONCERT . . . IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE GERMAN AND BRITISH HOSPITAL . . .
Conductor - Mr. Wallace . . . Trombone, Mr. Hewett . . .
On Friday Evening, l9th of July, 1850.
PROGRAMME. PART I. OVERTURE, "The Siege of Rochelle," Balfe - THE BAND . . .
PART SECOND. OVERTURE, "La Straniera," - THE BAND . . .

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (29 August 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207118499 

A FREE AND EASY WILL be held at the "Clarendon" on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
The chair will be taken by Mr. Newson, at seven o'clock.
Music by Messrs Graham, Gatland, and Hewitt.
Singing to commence at half-past seven precisely.
F. DESENELOS.

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (30 September 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207119467 

A FREE AND EASY . . . at the "Clarendon" . . .
Music by Messrs. Graham, Gatland, and Hewitt . . .
MRS. GIUDICI.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Graham (musician); Francois Desenclos [sic] and Salvatore Guidici (landlords)

"ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS", Adelaide Times (4 November 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206987436 

THE Brothers of the "Cotter's Pride Court" of the Ancient Order of Foresters held their First Anniversary on Friday evening last, at Mr. Bayfield's O. G., Gilles plains . . . The rain . . . precluded many from attending, there being only between thirty and forty present at dinner . . . After . . . the cloth was removed, and the Chairman introduced the toasts of the evening by proposing "The Queen," which was drunk with enthusiasm, accompanied by "God save the Queen," by a portion of the "City Band," brought from Adelaide for the occasion . . .
The Band - "Muny musk." - Mr. Graham here electrified the company with his inimitable "Mama" and other amusing varieties on the violin. - The Band - "The Groves of Blarney" . . .
A laughable Comic Song by Mr. Hewitt . . .
F. C. R. Norris proposed the health of Mr. Graham and the City Band, and justly praised them for their willingness to contribute to those entertainments. Mr. Graham returned thanks, and assured the company that the Band would be always most happy to add to the attractions and harmony of the Anniversaries of Foresters. The Band, "Auld Lang Syne" . . .

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . CLEARED OUT", Adelaide Observer (31 May 1851), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165041964 

Monday, May 26 - The brig Louisa, 180 tons, Heslop, master, for Sydney. Passengers . . . Mr. J. Hewett, Mr. J. Gotland [sic, T. Gatland], Mrs. Gotland . . . J. Chappell, and Mrs. Hewitt.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mr. Chappell (circus performer); Hewitt and Gatland were probably hired by the circus manager Charles Axtelle to play in George Chittenden's band at Malcom's Amphitheatre, Sydney, were Chappell was first billed to appear on 9 June;
see [Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 June 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12927783 

Sydney, NSW (from June 1851 to January 1852):

"SHIPPING . . . CLEARANCES", Empire [Sydney, NSW] (22 January 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60127166 

January 21. - Scotia, ship, 778 tons, Captain Strickland, for Melbourne. Passengers - . . . 2 Gartlands, 2 Hewitts, Rodrigues Honorea, William Albray, Francisco, Olivans, Hermandez Schonne . . .

Melbourne, VIC (from February 1852):

Names and descriptions of passengers per Scotia, from Sydney, 23 January 1852, for Melbourne, 31 January 1852; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/63F36E90-FA01-11E9-AE98-7719AB5CD4F8?image=115 (DIGITISED)

. . . Gatland / 32 / Musician // [Mrs.] Gatland / 24 / 1 [infant]
Hewitt / 35 / [Musician] // [Mrs.] Hewitt / 25
Rodriguez Honora / 24 / Equestrian
William Albray / 24 / [Equestrian]
Francis Hirons / 10 / [Equestrian]
Hermandez Schonne / 14 / [Equestrian]
Mathew McGragh / 10 / [Equestrian]

ASSOCIATIONS: Company destined for Noble's Circus (Melbourne venue and troupe)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (23 April 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4784567 

OLYMPIC CIRCUS. Corner of Great Bourke and Spring-streets.
Grandest Night of the Season! MR. J. S. NOBLE . . .
intends giving a most brilliant Equestrian Entertainment, THIS EVENING, 23rd APRIL.
. . . The whole to conclude with a new pantomime entitled La Skilet,
which has won golden opinions from all who have witnessed it.
Characters - La Skilet, Signor Honora; Lady Guintosher, Mrs Noble;
Idiot, Mr Hewett; Doctor, Master Hermandez; Old Gentleman, Mr. W. Albray.

? [Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (26 May 1855), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113013468

MUSIC SALOON, El Dorado Hotel, High-street, Beechworth. Grand Concert Of Vocal and Instrumental Music, under the patronage of R. O'H. BURKE, ESQ., J.P., And the Stewards of the Races. On Monday, May 28th, 1855, For the benefit of Messrs. Peck and Saqui . . . THE following professionals and amaters have kindly offered their valuable services, and will during the evening sing and perform a choice collection of the most popular Overtures, Solos, Duets, Chorusses, Fantasias, &c., &c.:
Signor Rangoni . . . Mr. Ellar, Mr. Small . . . Mr. Peter Bruce, Mr. Hewitt . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert O'Hara Burke (patron); George Peck (musician); Austin Saqui (musician); Antonio Rangoni (musician); Julius Henry Eller (vocalist); Joe Small (vocalist); Peter Bruce (bagpiper)

Bibliography and resources:

Joseph Hewitt, Convict records

https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/hewitt/joseph/149353 

HEWITT, Thomas (Thomas HEWITT)

Musician, bandsman, clarionet (clarinet) player, "fifer, trombone player, fiddler, trumpeter, and hautboy player" Band of the 48th Regiment

Born Hingham, Norfolk, England, c. 1785
Married Mary Ann WELLINGTON (b. 18 April 1789), Gibraltar, 15 December 1805
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 3 August 1817 (per Matilda, from Cork, 28 March)
Departed NSW, c. 1823 [sic, not 1822 as in Cobbold) (unknown vessel, for Gravesend, England)
Discherged Chelsea, England, c. 1823
Died Norwich, England, 1844; buried St. Martin's parish

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 48th Regiment (military)

Portrait of Mary Ann Wellington (Hewitt), c. 1846, by Anthony Sands (1806-1883); Northampton Museums and Art Gallery

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mary-anne-wellington-b-1789-49983 (DIGITISED)

Summary:

In 1846, the English author Richard Cobbold, who had recently completed an account of the life of the NSW convict Margaret Catcpole, described how he came about publishing what he described as "Another narrative of female adventure":

. . . In August last, the Deputy Mayor of Norwich invited the attention of the Reverend Author to the peculiar circumstances in the History of Mary Ann Wellington, who was the daughter of John Wellington, one of the artillery-men at the famous siege of Gibraltar. She married a soldier in the gallant 48th, and accompanied him through all the Peninsular campaigns. Her fortitude in the hour of danger, and her attention to the wounded, were witnessed by many officers still living, who were also aware of the extraordinary adventures in which she distinguished herself. Her husband died in 1844. The widow has since fallen into distress. She is greatly respected by all who know her in the city of Norwich, where she still resides . . .

Mary's extraordinary account of life as wife of a soldier-bandsman appears mostly to have been reliably repeated by Cobbold. It includes a detailed chronicle of the voyage out to NSW on the convict transport Matilda, of life in Sydney, and of the Hewitt's special social and musical association with the governor's wife, Elizabeth Macquarie.

As a mature and long-serving clarinettist, Hewitt was probably the next most senior player former band master William Blizzard.

Their son, Thomas junior, was born at Sydney on 12 November 1822, and baptised at St. Philip's on 25 December 1822. Probably shortly thereafter, the family sailed with a detachment of the regiment for England. Hewitt probably took his discharge sometime in 1823.

Documentation:

Richard Cobbold, Mary Anne Wellington: the soldier's daughter, wife and widow (London: H. Colburn, 1846), 3 vols

https://archive.org/details/maryannewellingt01cobbuoft/page/73/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol, 1, 73] . . . My name is Thomas Hewitt, my native place is Hingham, in Norfolk . . .

https://archive.org/details/maryannewellingt01cobbuoft/page/77/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol, 1, 77] . . . I hear you have got a deserter, one Thomas Hewitt, clarionet player in my band! I was told your girl had run away with him, and carried off the man in the regimental drum-case . . .

https://archive.org/details/maryannewellingt01cobbuoft/page/146/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol, 1, 146] . . . "Upon my word", cried Dan, "betrothed! betrothed before me, Dan Long, drum-major of his Majesty's gallant 48th. Well, now I will make short work of it: I publish the banns of marriage between Thomas Hewitt, fifer, trombone player, fiddler, trumpeter, and hautboy player, or player of any kind, and Mary Anne Wellington, maid of the Rock of Gibraltar . . .

https://archive.org/details/maryannewellingt02cobbuoft/page/92/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 2, 92] . . . in the latter part of October, 1810 . . . [93] . . . "By the orders we have received to beat to arms, General Hill's division is ordered to move towards Badajos, and if our Commander has not some intention of playing a new game, I am mistaken. Up with you, master of the band, and you, Thomas Hewitt, drummer, fifer, and bugle-man. Up with you, and mind your wife follows us closely; for my belief is, we shall never fall back again upon these lines, when once our General has left them" . . .

https://archive.org/details/maryannewellingt02cobbuoft/page/116/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 2, 116] . . . Dan and his comrade sat, or rather reclined against their drums. The common soldier knows but little of the disposition of a battle. He has confidence in his Commander, and, obedient to his orders, he is ready to do the work appointed him. It is generally the duty of the band to be in the rear, and attend to the wounded, unless they volunteer for action, or are permitted to exchange places with a wounded or sick comrade. There are instances of men of the noblest courage being suddenly taken ill the night before a battle, and being quite unable to stand. Such was the case with one fine fellow of the 48th, who actually fainted away on that night, and was carried into the rear for dead. Dan, with the band of his regiment lay around him. Stewart, Ashby, Betts, Hewitt, Winter, Holmes, Davies, [117] Harbourg, Leonard, Johnson the cymbal-beater, a man of colour, Charles Thomas, Darby, Kenedy . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/28/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 28] . . . Her husband's musical abilities brought him into notice, and he enjoyed his stay in Ireland equally with his wife. But the 48th were ordered to New South Wales, to relieve the 47th, then in barracks at Sydney . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/33/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 33] . . . The regiment was ordered on board [the Matilda]. Colonel James Erskine, the commanding officer, was a man well adapted to keep all his junior officers and soldiers in good heart, through a long and tedious voyage. Remarkable for an intelligent mind and for literary pursuits, he encouraged in all beneath him the cultivation of letters, which tended greatly to lighten the burden of confinement on board. His society was always to be desired, and was always enjoyed by those who felt his superior attainments . . . [34] . . . Two hundred privates on board, besides the band and officers, women and children, and the crew of the ship, formed a great society assembled in a small compass . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/57/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 57] . . . "I told you I thought you would have no convicts to superintend and keep to work. I am sure Governor Macquarrie is very kind and condescending to us; his lady, too, is a warm friend to the soldier's wife." Thomas Hewitt was, in truth, made much of. He was so diligent in his application to the study and practice of his clarionet, that it obtained him frequent introductions into the most polite circles in Sydney, where music was much cherished by the Governor's lady, who was very partial to this elegant accomplishment. Frequently was he sent for, to accompany that lady in the best concerto music which could be procured, and in her fashionable and crowded drawing-room this brave man was treated with the respect due to his talents and his demeanour. Received, as at Gibraltar, into the best [58] society, he never threw off the manners of a truly humble and quiet man; was never puffed up with applause, nor even carried beyond the balance of propriety, by any of the attentions he received. He sought not to shine, but to give pleasure to others, by producing those harmonious sounds in which he so greatly delighted. Nor did he forget to appropriate all he received to the welfare of his wife and children.

He had children before he left Sydney. In 1817, his wife had a still-born child, and was very kindly treated by many ladies in Sydney, to whom her history was well known. In 1818, was born Absalom, the sixth son of our heroine. He grew up a fine, active boy, in the barracks at Sydney; and, with his elder brother Edward, attracted the notice of officers and men of the 48th. In the year 1821 [sic, 1822], Thomas was born; so that our heroine had to contend with all the troubles of an increasing family; still, she wanted nothing. Cares she had; but she was active, her husband fortunate; all things went on well with her, during the whole period of her stay at Sydney . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/76/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 76] . . . "I must make inquiry into this. Where is your regiment now?"
"Part of it, Sir, is returned to England to be discharged. I am one of the number, and being 2nd Sergeant of the band, I was within the list of reduction."
"How long have you been in the regiment?"
"Twenty-seven years in active service, Sir."
" Then you ought to have been promoted."
"Alas! Sir, promotion is but a slow march, in the band. We are too often overlooked in many things by the higher powers, and too often thought only fit for parade duty; but there are many who have found us most serviceable to them when they were unable to assist themselves. I have been in many battles, side by side with the bravest, and have not flinched from the duties of a soldier" . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/93/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 92] . . . Hewitt and his namesake entered into the Norfolk Militia and became active non-commissioned officers, under the command of Captain Guthrie, at Yarmouth . . . [93] . . . It was a change to our heroine again to see her husband in uniform, and to find that he was a peaceful soldier of the militia. She and her young family removed to Yarmouth, and took up their abode near the Apollo garden walk. Here they lived for fourteen years, not without many changes; for though the militia was for a time made strong, yet after a few years it was disbanded, and Hewitt had to return to teaching music again . . . [94] . . . Hewitt, in 1827, was engaged to play the third clarionet at the Norwich Festival, and here he was first introduced to Professor Edward Taylor, who was so pleased with his modest deportment and scientific industry in the cultivation of music, that he made him a handsome present of a bassoon and other instruments, which his widow still keeps as a memorial of the Professor's kindness . . .

http://www.archive.org/details/maryannewellingt03cobbuoft/page/176/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[vol. 3, 176] . . . MEMORIAL TO THE MARQUIS OF DOURO . . . [incomplete at end] . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Marquis de Douro = Arthur Wellesley (duke of Wellington); Edward Taylor (vocalist, musician)

Artefacts:

Regimental medal of the 48th (Northamptonshire) Foot, awarded to Thomas Hewit [sic], Sydney, 1819; Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney

https://ma.as/92667 (IMAGE DIGITISED)

Issued 1819, for service with the regiment in the Peninsula War; 10 actions engraved on reverse: Talavera, Albuera, Rodrigo [Ciudad], Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse.

Bibliography and resources:

D. J. [Note on the Saracen's Head], Notes and queries (14 August 1909), 132

http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/s10-XII/294/132-e

I have met the name of one real person who made use of the old "Saracen's Head" near St. Sepulchre's. This was the humble, but remarkable soldier's daughter and wife Many Anne Wellington, whose adventurous career was written by the Rev. R. Cobbold. She was the daughter of George Wellington, a private in the Royal Artillery at Gibraltar, where she was born in 1789. She there married Thomas Hewitt of Hingham (son, it is said, of a Norfolk squire), who was in the band of the 48th Regiment. In 1808, being ordered to Lisbon to take part in the war against France, Hewitt sent his wife to Portsmouth. Passing through London, on the way to her mother-in-law's in Colchester, she stayed at "The Saracen's Head" (p. 73). She afterwards returned to Portugal, and with her husband passed through many adventures during the Peninsular War, behaving with courage and ability in all. She died a widow, and aged, at Norwich.

Russell Gurney, History of the Northamptonshire regiment 1742-1934 (Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1935)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/15840258

[vol. 1, esp. 100-110, 188, 243]

Clem Sargent, The colonial garrison 1817-1824: the 48th Foot, the Northhamptonshire Regiment in the colony of New South Wales (Canberra: TCS Publications, 1996)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21422253

Clem Sargent, "The British garrison in Australia 1788-1841 - Part 3: Bands of the garrison regiments", Sabretache (December 1999), 34-38

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/IELAPA.200104863 (PAYWALL)

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+British+Garrison+in+Australia+1788--841--Part+3%3A+Bands+of+the...-a077400529 (DIGITISED)

HEWLINS, George (George HEWLINS)

Musician, bandmaster (Hobart Town Band; Hewlins' Band), theatre manager, dyer

Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 1834

Documentation:

"TRADE AND SHIPPING", The Hobart Town Courier (7 November 1834), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4182652

1840, marriages in the district of Hobart; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:827128; RGD37/1/2 no 611

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/827128 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-2$init=RGD37-1-2p6 

[No.] 611 / 10th November / Arthur Falcon Mills [sic] / 29 / Yeoman
Ann Davies / 28 / Spinster . . . Married in the Parish Church of Trinity . . .
This marriage solemnized between us - Arthur Falchon Mills [sic] Ann Davies
In the presence of us - Mary Hefford, G. Hewlins . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Arthur and Ann Falchon (actors)

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (25 July 1851), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8769643

G. HEWLINS'S QUADRILLE BAND. G. HEWLINS, Dyer, of Liverpool-street, has succeeded in organizing a most efficient QUADRILLE BAND, from two instruments to seven, according to the dimensions of the room where the ball takes place. A competent Pianist can be also obtained where required. The newest music introduced.

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (18 June 1852), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8771588

"KANGAROO POINT. THIRD ANNUAL REGATTA", Colonial Times (14 December 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8778408

[Advertisement], The Hobart Town Daily Mercury (8 June 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3248633

QUADRILLE BAND. GEORGE HEWLINS . . . his Quadrille Band, Composed of either Brass or Stringed Instruments, are ready at the shortest notice to attend Balls, Wedding Parties, Ploughing Matches, Pic-nics, and Water Parties, &c., on reasonable terms.

"SHIPPING NEWS", The Courier (3 February 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2466628

"TASMANIAN POULTRY SOCIETY", The Hobart Town Daily Mercury (29 July 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3256704

HEWSON, George (George HEWSON)

Bell-ringer (Trinity Church, Launceston)

Active Launceston, 1844

Documentation:

"SUPREME COURT", Launceston Examiner (9 October 1844), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36238076

(Before his Honor Mr. Justice Montagu.) TUESDAY OCTOBER 9 [recte 8] . . . William Nash and George Hewson were indicted for feloniously entering the house of George Drysdale, in Brisbane-street, and stealing there from some silver spoons, gold chain, two rings, a brooch, and other articles. The particulars of the case were recorded at the time. During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale at Church the house was broken into and plundered. After a great portion of the evidence had been taken, the prisoner Nash ad mitted his guilt, but solemnly declared that Hewson was not a party to the robbery . . . Mr. Braim was called for Hewson, who deposed that he (Hewson) was bell-ringer of Trinity church, and on the day in question was so employed in the morning, but could not say what became of him afterwards. His honor in summing up referred to the oath of the witness who identified Hewson, and pointed out the danger of such a precedent as acquitting one prisoner because another, when he finds his case hopeless, pleases to turn counsel, and take the whole responsibility upon himself. Verdict, guilty; sentence, 15 years transportation.

"CRIMINAL SITTINGS", Launceston Examiner (12 October 1844), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84769653

. . . Hewson merely protested his innocence, and called a Mr. Brain, clerk of Trinity Church, who suited that Hewson was bell-ringer to the Church, and he had that morning attended to his usual duties at 11 o'clock; had not seen him since . . . The jury after a few minutes' consultation, without retiring, found both prisoners guilty . . . His Honor then passed the sentence of 15 years' transportation on each of the prisoners. As Nash was being removed, he said - "Oh, never mind, we have got a 'bellowser,' meaning 'life,' to his companion.

HEWSON, Young (Mr. Young HEWSON; also Goring HEWSON)

Dancer

Active Sydney, NSW, 1837

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Times (11 February 1837), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252653416 

Theatre Royal, Sydney. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. LARRA . . . Monday, February the 13th, 1837 . . .
Between the Pieces a variety of Entertainments, viz.: -
Comic Song - "The Royal Visitors," by MR. LEVEY.
The Tullochgoram Reel, by Mr. Goring HEWSON [sic].
THE HIGHLAND FLING BY MR. FITZGERALD.
Comic Song - "What are you at? what are you arter?" by Mr. Buckingham . . .

HEYDE, Gustav von der = Gustav VON DER HEYDE

HEYDE, Henry Charles (Henry Charles HEYDE)

Amateur musician, flute owner and ? player

Active Ballarat, VIC, 1861

Documentation:

"EASTEEN POLICE COURT", The Star (14 September 1861), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66342034 

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Star (18 October 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66342849 

HEYDECKE, Theodor W. (Theodore HEYDECKE; Herr HEYDECKE; T. H. HEYDECKE; T. W. HEYDECKE; Theodor Andreas Heinrich Wilhelm HEYDECKE)

Musician, clarionet / clarinet player, clarinettist, bandmaster, composer

Born Germany, c. 1831; son of Wilhelm HEYDECKE
Arrived Port Adelaide, SA, 7 September 1857 (per Peter Godeffroy, from Hamburg, 11 May)
Married Caroline HEINDORF, Adelaide, SA, 1857
Died Melbourne, VIC, 29 January 1867, aged 35

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Theodor+Heydecke+d1867 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

HEYDECKE, Frederick (Carl Friedrich Wilhelm HEYDECKE; Carl Frederick Heinrich HEYDECKE; Friedrick, Fritz HEYDECKE)

Musician, clarionet / clarinet player, clarinettist, cornet and cornopean player

Born Hasselfelde, near Brunswick, Germany, 15 November 1832
Arrived Port Adelaide, SA, 7 September 1857 (per Peter Godeffroy, from Hamburg, 11 May)
Died St. Vincent's Gulf, SA, 23-28 June 1872 (drowned, body not recovered)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=F+Heydecke+d1872 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (18 September 1857), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49206084

"ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (1 April 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49772497

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (10 October 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article878470

"THE LATE HERR LINGER", South Australian Register (18 February 1862), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40469572

[News], The South Australian Advertiser (24 February 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31820485

"ADELAIDE REGIMENTAL BAND", South Australian Register (3 December 1863), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50169478

. . . The letter concluded by an intimation to the effect that Mr. Heydecke was ready to provide the old set of books, a new set of books for 16 members, and a complete set of marching books for a sum of £12. A calculation was hurriedly gone into, from which it appeared that the total expense to the regiment of purchasing the requisite instruments and books would be nearly £50, and several of those present offered to collect Burns which in the aggregate amounted to about £40 towards the purchase of those articles.

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 August 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41018722

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (31 January 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39187269

"DEATH OF HERR T. HEYDECKE", South Australian Register (31 January 1867), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39187261

"FUNERAL OF THE LATE HERR HEYDECKE", The South Australian Advertiser (13 February 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28795135

[News], The South Australian Advertiser (27 February 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28795401

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (13 December 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73057221

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 December 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39187939

Auctions. THIS DAY (Friday), December 13, at noon. AT THE SALEROOM. REMOVED FOR CONVENIENCE OF SALE. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MUSIC, &c. BY ORDER OF MRS. HEYDECKE. CHARLES TIDEMANN is instructed by Mrs. T. Heydecke (who is leaving the colony) to sell by auction, as above, at his Saleroom, This Day (Friday), December 13, at noon, without reserve- A Large Quantity of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and EFFECTS, Kitchen Utensils, &c, comprising - Horsehair Sofa, Chairs Washstand, Tables, Sewing-Table Bedsteads and Bedding, &c. 1 Sewing-Machine, by Grover & Baker, 1 small Pianoforte AND A Lot of Kitchen Utensils and Requisites. ALSO, 2 French Horns, 1 Violin, a set of Clarionets: AND A Large Lot of Miscellaneous Music and German Books. Without reserve.

"THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. G. LODER", The Mercury (28 July 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8853638

"THE FLOWER SHOW", The South Australian Advertiser (7 December 1870), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28597348

"THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The South Australian Advertiser (23 September 1871), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28606952

"LOSS OF A PLEASURE PARTY IN ST. VINCENT'S GULF", South Australian Register (15 July 1872), 7s

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39267328

"THE MISSING BOAT PARTY", The Express and Telegraph (15 July 1872), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207722337 

"THE MISSING BOAT PARTY", South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (20 July 1872), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92702622 

. . . Mr. F. Heydecke was born on 15th November, 1832, at Hasselfelde, near Brunswick, where his father was principal musician. He received his musical education from his father, and at the age of 19 years he became bandsman in the Black Brunswick Rifle Corps, which he served till the beginning of 1857. He then, with his elder brother, Mr. Schrader of Leigh-street, and other musicians, left for Adelaide as members of a band which was known for several years as the Brunswick Band. He was a proficient instrumentalist, both on string and brass instruments, and his loss will be severely felt by his brother musicians . . .

"ADELAIDE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", South Australian Register (26 August 1872), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39265115

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (15 January 1878), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73066747

"JUDAS MACCABEUS", The Register (21 April 1903), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56654088

"MR. CAWTHORNE'S REMINISCENCES", The Register (8 June 1912), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59077324

"AN HISTORIC PLAYHOUSE", The Register (29 January 1914), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57180715

P. A. Howells. "MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. REMINISCENCES FROM 1868. I", The Register (5 October 1918), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57542713

"OLD-TIME YACHTING TRAGEDY", The Register (7 July 1922), 11

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63926104

"BANDMASTER THEODORE W. HEYDECKE", The Register (8 July 1922), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63928816

"GLENELG DROWNING TRAGEDY OF 1872", The Register (1 May 1926), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56572477

Extant compositions:

Finnigan's wake polka [sic] [1866]

Finnigan's wake polka, composed by Th. Heydecke, arranged for the pianoforte by George Loder

(Adelaide: G. H. Egremont-Gee, [August 1866])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7578988 

Copy at the National Library of Australia, digitised

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-169228029 

Copy at the State Library of New South Wales, digitised

http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3731764 

Heydecke's polka is itself an arrangement of the tune Finnegan's wake, which had appeared as a song in England and Ireland in 1865, and whose earliest identified published source was Charles Glover's Finnigan's wake [sic], issued by Wm. A. Pond of New York, in 1864, thus pre-dating Heydecke's by only 2 years; for more on the mainly later history and sources of the tune, see:

http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Finnegan's_Wake 

Some documented compositions (all presumed lost)

March of Australia (Heydecke) [February 1860]

Dead march (played at Carl Linger's funeral) [February 1862]

Slow march (T. Heydecke] [December 1866]

Waltz, "Rosebud" (Heydecke) [January 1867]

Galop, "Volunteer" (Heydecke) [January 1867]

Waltz, "The cornet" (Heydecke) [January 1867]

March "My angel" (Heydecke) [January 1867]

God bless the prince of Wales (Heydecke) [January 1867]

Parade march (Heydecke) [January 1867]

Posthumous notices:

Dirge composed by the late Theodore Heydecke" [July 1868]

Waltz, "The Adelaide" (Heydecke) [December 1870]

March, "Song of Australia" (Heydecke) [January 1878]

Bibliography and resources:

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/petergoddefroy1857.shtml 

HEYDON, Jabez King (J. K. HEYDON)

Auctioneer, seller of imported music

Born c. 1816
Active Sydney, NSW, 1843
Died Sydney, NSW, 10 June 1885, in his 70th year

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Australasian Chronicle (1 June 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31740027

AN INVOICE OF NEW MUSIC, imported direct from the publisher's, comprising the works of all the most celebrated composers of the present day. Catalogues will be ready for distribution on Wednesday morning, when the music may be seen. In the mean time, the Auctioneer begs to annex the following brief outline: Instruction books for the pianoforte, violin, violon-cello, flute, bassoon, key bugle, trumpet, French horn, accordion, clarionet, and harp, by Bochsa, Jousse, Willman, Kalkbrenner,, and other celebrated masters; Pianoforte music; consisting of brilliant fantasias, rondos, overtures, duets, &c., and a very large selection from the most popular operas Sacred music, comprising the works of Handel, Haydn, Bishop, Loder, and others Concerted music, for the pianoforte, harp, flute, violoncello, &c. Quadrilles, waltzes, mazourkas, cachouchas, galops, contre dances, &c. WITH, A great variety of: songs, ballads, duets, &c. ALSO, A good seraphine. Terms, cash.

"DEATH OF MR. J. K. HEYDON", Freeman's Journal (14 February 1885), 16

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115463812 

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