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A biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–I

Dr GRAEME SKINNER (University of Sydney)

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To cite this:

Graeme Skinner (University of Sydney), "A biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–I", Australharmony (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia): https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php; accessed 21 November 2024

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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 completed in December 2019, and newly added documentation (including genealogical data) and Trove tagging now brings the page content up to the end of 1860 close to completion.

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

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

ICELY, Eliza (ELiza ICELY; Miss Eliza ICELY)

Musical amateur, ? pianist, dedicatee

Active Sydney, NSW, c. 1856

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#ICELY-Eliza (shareable link to this entry)

Dedication:

Caprice nocturne, composed for the pianoforte, respectfully dedicated to Miss Eliza Icely in Boulanger's musical keepsake for 1856 (Sydney: F. Mader, 1856)

7 pages of music (1-7), at foot of 7: "Engd. by A. W. Chapman"; page 1 pictured above; also later advertised for sale (c. 1857) under a new cover by J. R. Clarke

ONSITE PDF (FREELY DOWNLOADABLE)

ASSOCIATIONS: Edward Boulanger (composer); Frederick Mader (publisher); Abraham Western Chapman (engraver)

I'ERSON, Thomas William (Thomas William JERSON; I'ERSON; T. W. I'ERSON; l'ERSON; L'ERSON [sic])

Musician, professor of singing, singing class instructor, bass vocalist, school teacher, Baptist minister

Born London, England, 14 June 1812; baptised, St. George the martyr, Southwark, 26 July 182, son of Thomas Robert JERSON and Elizabeth HARVEY
Married Phoebe ABRAHAM (1813-1869), St. John, Horselydown, 1 January 1835
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 14 January 1855 (per Sussex, from London, 13 October 1854)
Died Rockhampton, QLD, 21 July 1902

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Thomas+William+I'Erson+1812-1902 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#I'ERSON-Thomas-William (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1624/31280_197997-00465?pid=2634923 (PAYWALL)

[1812, July] 26 Thomas William Son of Thomas Robert and Elizabeth Jerson [? Jorson]

Marriages solemnized in the Parish of St. John, Horselydoen, in the County of Sussex, in the Year 1834; register, 1798-1837, page 235; London Metropolitan archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_199089-00444 (PAYWALL)

Thomas William Jerson of this Parish Bachelor and Phoebe Abraham of this parish Spinster
were married in this Church by Banns . . . this [1 January 1835] . . .

England census, 30 March 1851; Islington West, Middlesex; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 1499

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/MDXHO107_1499_1499-0833 (PAYWALL)

1 Coles Terrace / Thomas W. I'erson / Head / 38 / Teacher of Music and Drawing / [born] Surrey St. George Southwark
Phebe [I'erson] / Wife / 27 / - / Essex Saffron Walden
Charlotte [I'erson] / Daur. / 14 / Scholar / [born] Surrey Newington . . .

"ISLINGTON MUSICAL SOCIETY", The musical times and singing class circular (1 May 1852), 378

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3369874 (DIGITISED)

Judas Maccabaeus was performed by this association on the 20th of April, under the direction of Mr. I'erson - Mr. Horder being the leader. The assembly was held in the British School-rooms, Denmark Terrace.

Passangers per Sussex for Port Phillip, from London 13 October 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3AF6D5EF-F96C-11E9-AE98-9DD57D8DEA70?image=215 (DIGITISED)

. . . Third Class . . .
Jerson Thomas / 42 / Gentleman // Phoebe / 41 // Charlotte / 16

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (10 January 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91866699

FREE Church School, La Trobe Terrace, Geelong. - This School will be re-opened on Monday the 7th instant. The routine consists of a sound knowledge of the elementary branches of English, &c. Music and drawing taught by Professors Sasse and I. Erson.

ASSOCIATIONS: Edmund Sasse (drawing master)

"THE SACRED CONCERT IN AID OF THE MECHIANICS' INSTITUTION", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (20 February 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91863856

The Oratorio given by the Geelong Sacred Harmonic Society last evening, was in every respect successful. The large chapel in McKillop-street was crowded, most of the elite of Geelong being present; His Worship the Mayor and the Lady Mayoress amongst the number. The overture was very creditably performed by the orchestra, and the various recitatives and choruses were all admirably executed. Mrs. Testar was in capital voice, and her recitative "There were Shepherds," and the air "How Beautiful" raised the enthusiasm of the audience to the highest pitch. The air "Come unto Him" was beautifully sung by Mrs. Goodlifle, from Melbourne, who also took one of the chief parts in the chorus "Lift up your heads" with great efficiency and eclat. "Behold! a virgin shall conceive," was sung by Miss Claxton (a member of the Society) with praiseworthy effect; and the recitative, "He was cut off out of the land of the living," together with the air "But Thou didst not leave," performed by another young lady member of the society, whose name did not appear, were exquisitely sung. Mr. Ewart, from Melbourne, took the recitatives, "Comfort ye," "All they that see Him," and two or three more parts, with great success; and Mr. Kawerau's singing the air "Thou art gone up on high," was very effective and pleasing. Mr. I'erson, the Conductor, sung the air in the second part "Why do the nations," and was much applauded. The audience indeed were frequently inclined to give audible expression to their applause at many parts of the performance, but every attempt to do so was inmediately suppressed, as it of course, interrupted the singing. Great credit is due to the conductor and all concerned for the efficiency at which the members of the society have arrived; and it is also pleasant to see the public evincing due appreciation of their efforts, as was instanced by the large attendance at their concert last evening. What was the exact sum derived by the Mechanics' Institute from the generous endeavours of the Sacred Harmonic Society we are not yet informed, but it must have been something considerable.

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Anne Goodliffe (vocalist); Catherine Ann Claxton (vocalist); Thomas Ewart (vocalist); Theodore Kawerau (vocalist); Geelong Sacred Harmonic Society (organisation)

"THE GEELONG SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT. To the Editor", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (27 February 1856) , 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91864649

. . . The public will be kind enough to remember that not more than two months and a half since, I had the honor of occupying the office of Conductor of the above Society, and that from the 1st October, 1855, the members have been practising the Messiah; you will, therefore, perceive that the "training" alluded to in Critic's letter, this morning, was performed by myself for a space of three months previous to Mr. l'erson taking office . . .
I remain, &c., JOHN ROGERS.
20, Ryrie-street, 22nd February, 1856.

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (28 February 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91867934

GEELONG SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
- Notice to the Public. - An elementary singing class will be formed (under the auspices of the above society), on Friday evening next, the 20th instant, at 8 'clock, in the Scotch School-room, Yarra-street, opposite the Court House.
Mr. I'erson (Conductor of the above Society), teacher.
Subscription, 5s per quarter, in advance. Ladies free.
Mr. I'erson will provide the books.
All who purpose joining are requested to attend.
G. W. BARKER, Hon. Sec.

"MEETING OF DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL TEACHERS", Geelong Advertiser (12 April 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150077264

. . . Mr. Wilson was voted to the chair. He opened the business by stating that he had been informed by Messrs. l'Erson and Sasse, that the allowance to drawing and singing masters, under the denominational Board was about to be discontinued. He should be very sorry to lose the services or the singing and drawing masters in his school, and he believed he did not stand alone in this matter . . .

"POLICE . . . NUISANCES", Geelong Advertiser (6 May 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150078001

Mr. I'erson, the professor of singing, was charged by the Town Inspector for the Newtown and Chilwell Municipality, with suffering a quantity of impure and noxious fluid to flow from his premises near the Baptist Chapel, in Aberdeen-street, on to the public thoroughfare, on the 26th April last . . .

"PRESENTATION", Geelong Advertiser (13 June 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150079259

A number of teachers and children from the various denominational schools of Geelong and suburbs, met in the Wesleyan school room, Ryrie-street, on Saturday, the 11th instant, for the purpose of presenting testimonials to Messrs. Sasse and L'Erson. The testimonials consisted of a number of handsome volumes, comprising the works of Burke, De Foe, Byron, Wordsworth and others. Mr. Wilson, on presenting the testimonials, said that on hearing of the proposed withdrawal by the government of the services of the singing and drawing masters, the teachers and children had adopted this mode among others of testifying their appreciation of those studies, and their desire that the lessons might be continued. He congratulated the teachers that the petitions and remonstrances forwarded to his Excellency the Governor and to the Board would probably produce the desired effect . . .

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser (25 July 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146565929

WEEKLY GRAND CONCERT FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
MONDAY EVENING, 25th JULY, 1859.
PROGRAMME. PART I. Overture - "Tancredi" - Band - Rossini.
Song - "Spirit of Good" - Mrs. Hancock.
Glee - "The Winds Whistle Cold" - Messrs. Badnall, Moore, and I'erson - Bishop . . .
PART II . . . Four Part Song- "Tears for To-morrow, but Kisses Today" - Messrs. Badnall, Moore, Field, and I'erson - Lorenz . . .
** NO ENCORES ALLOWED. Admission - One Shilling. Children, and Schools - Half price . . . W. S. JENKINS, Hon. Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ellen Hancock (vocalist); Charles Badnall (vocalist); Henry Byron Moore (vocalist); William Stitt Jenkins (secretary)

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser (25 October 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146566945

THE consecration of Christ Church, which if arranged to take place this morning, will not fail to awaken public interest . . . An attractive feature of the tea-meeting in the evening will be the performances of Mr. I'Erson's senior class of vocalists, carefully selected from no less a number than two thousand four hundred possessors of treble and alto voices . . .

"CURRENT TOPICS", Geelong Advertiser (6 March 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148696777

The musical entertainment at the Mechanics' institute yesterday evening was a performance in many respects of surprising excellence. Mr. I'Erson presented to a large audience between thirty and forty of his pupils, scarcely one of whom had ever before ventured to challenge public criticism, and we but simply do them justice in stating that the precision and delicacy with which they interpreted the conception of the several pieces rendered was in the highest degree satisfactory. Many of them to be sure lacked the confidence and easy abandon which characterises experienced professional singers, but there was a charming sweetness in their vocalization which atoned for this, and gave delight to every listener possessed of taste and feeling. It was easy to perceive that more than one of the fair debutantes possesses vocal acquirements of a high order, and the generally correct singing of the whole choir does honor to the teaching of their very able and painstaking conductor. The beautiful glee, "Here in Cool Grot," was exceedingly well sung, and this and one of Hullah's duetts, "Come with thy Lute," equally well given, met in each case with an enthusiastic encore. The whole of the ladies and gentlemen who assisted at this performance are members of the Mechanics' Institute Music Class, conducted by Mr. I'Erson, and given as the initiatory entertainment of a series of lectures for the season, nothing could have been imagined in better or more appropriate taste.

[News], The Argus (15 January 1870), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5810050

The music class, so long conducted by Mr. Person, had ceased to exist, owing to that gentleman's removal from Geelong.

"A ROCKHAMPTON NONAGENARIAN", Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (28 June 1902), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122547286

THE many friends of the Rev. Thomas W. I'Erson will join with us to-day (says the "Record" of the 14th instant) in congratulating him upon having attained his 90th birthday. The reverend gentleman, who is a native of London, came to Victoria in the early days, and for a long time resided in Geelong . . .

"DEATH OF REV. T. W. I'ERSON", The Capricornian [Rockhampton, QLD] (26 July 1902), 43

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68871948

A very old resident of Rockhampton in the person of the Rev. T. W. I'Erson passed away on Sunday morning. Mr. I'Erson had completed his ninetieth year on the 14th June last. Since that time he has been gradually growing weaker, and his death, which was not unexpected, took place at eight o'clock on Sunday morning at the residence of his granddaughter (Mrs. W. Broome), in West-street.

Mr. I'Erson arrived in Rockhampton in 1870, and when he attained his eightieth year he was presented by a number of friends with an address of congratulation. On that occasion he gave a short history of his life. He stated that he was born in England on the 14th of June, 1812. When he left school, his father intended that he should be trained for a lawyer, and made arrangements with a friend that he should be articled as a solicitor. At that time anyone going in for law had to give two years' trial. At the end of his two years Mr. I'Erson told his father he did not like being a lawyer. His father said he must as all the arrangements wore completed about the articles. He (Mr. I'Erson) replied, "Of course, if you order me I will go on with the articles, but when they are over I shall leave." He wanted to go to college to study for a missionary, but his father was strongly opposed to missionary work. His brother, however, went to college, and he (Mr. I'Erson) was left out in the cold. He then turned his attention to school work. He learned to teach, and taught, and was teaching for a good many years as a school master. He should have remained a school master, but the confinement did not suit his health. He had to give it up, much to his regret. At the time he left it off he had a nice boarding and day school. He next turned his attention to music-teaching; and as he knew something about music he became a teacher, varying his instructions with drawing. At that time when he learned drawing a new system had come into use, and a gentleman, a drawing master, requiring four assistants, as he had many classes to teach, he (Mr. I'Erson) was chosen as one, and be held that position till he left England for Victoria. That was in 1855. When he left England, his intention was to become a farmer in Victoria; but when he got to Melbourne, and saw what sort of place it was, his wife urged him to stop in the town, and not go into the bush. He did so, and after waiting four months he was engaged by the Government to teach singing in the schools at Geelong, and continued in the work until he left to come up here in 1879. His wife died while they were in Victoria. It was his wife's dying wish that he should come to Rockhampton.

Mr. I'Erson joined the Baptist Church on his arrival in Rockhampton and devoted himself to ministering to the Baptist denomination for nearly twenty years. He conducted a drawing class for many years on his own account and until a few months ago had a similar class at the Technical College. Mr. I'Erson was the conductor of the Philharmonic Society which existed in Rockhampton for some time, and he assisted nearly every denomination in town in musical matters. Mr. I'Erson was also chaplain to all the local Masonic lodges up till the time of his death. Throughout his long residence in Rockhampton Mr. I'Erson was held in universal respect, not only for his versatile talents and bright cheery manner, but also, and indeed mainly, because of his unfailing readiness to assist anyone by every means in his power.

"ESTATE OF THE REV. T. W. I'ERSON", The Capricornian (20 September 1902), 36

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68871446

. . . in the estate of Thomas William I'Erson, late of Rockhampton, minister of religion, but formerly of Geelong, Victoria, singing master . . .

Other sources:

[Performance wordbook] Handel's Oratorio, The Messiah: Tuesday evening, Feb. 19, 1856, in the McKillop Street Chapel, in aid of the funds of the Mechanics' Institution (Geelong: The Geelong Harmonic Society, 1856)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19634244

Bibliography and resources:

Thomas William Ireson [sic], Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160412624/thomas-william-ireson

IKIN, William (William IKIN)

Musician, soldier, drummer, bandsman Band of the New South Wales Corps

Born Nottinghamshire, England, 19 October 1785; baptised St. Mary, Nottingham, 31 March 1786; son of Obediah IKIN (1761-1812) and Sarah BUTTS (1758-1813)
Arrived (1) Sydney, NSW, 26 June 1790 (per Surprize, from Portsmouth, 19 January)
Enlisted Sydney, NSW, 4 December 1794 (drummer)
Married Mary LONGFORD (c. 1790-1875), St. Philip's, Sydney, NSW, 18 January 1807
Departed Sydney, NSW, 12 May 1810 (per Dromedary and Hindostan, for England)
Arrived (2) Sydney, NSW, 11 October 1816 (per Mariner)
Died Clarence Town, NSW, 11 December 1858, aged "73"

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

Documentation:

Alphabetical statement of service to 24 June 1806, New South Wales Corps (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1303986728 (DIGITISED)

[Private] Ikin Wm. / [enlisted in NSW Corps] 4 Dec. 1794 / [Date of birth, enlisted under 18] 19 Oct. 1785 . . .

Register of personnel, 1808-10, New South Wales Corps; (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1303814152 (DIGITISED)

[Private] Ikin Wm. / [enlisted in NSW Corps] 4 Dec. 1794 / Sydney / [aged] 22 years 10 months [sic] / [born] Nottingham . . .

"DEATHS", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (8 January 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18648716

At Clarence Town, William Ikin, late Quarter-Master Sergeant of the old 102nd Regiment, aged 73 years; 69 years in the colony, much respected.

Bibliography and resources:

Pamela Statham (ed.), A colonial regiment: new sources relating to the New South Wales Corps, 1789-1810 (Canberra: Privately published, 1992)

. . . Enlisted Sydney; 24-12-1794 Rank Drummer . . . 0-0-1808 Rank Band . . . 0-5-1810 to UK . . . discharged England 1815. Returned to Aust. 1816 . . .

B. & M. Chapman, "Private William Ikin", Australia's red coat settlers (archived NLA Pandora)

https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20200609041339/http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~garter1/history/ikin.htm (DIGITISED)

Robert Jordan, "Music and the military in New South Wales, 1788-1809", Journal of Australian colonial history 17 (2015), (1-22), 3 (and note 10), 10

http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=428841963923204;res=IELHSS (PAYWALL)

ILSEY, Robert (Robert William ILSEY; Robert ILSEY; Mr. HILLSEY; ILSAY; Robert William ILLSLEY)

Musician, bandsman Band of the 40th Regiment, orchestral musician, ? violinist, drummer, drum player, soldier, cook, baker

Born Winchester, England, c. 1832
Enlisted (40th Regiment), Winchester, England, 13 November 1846 (drummer, aged "14")
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 5 November 1852 (per Vulcan, from Cork)
Married (1) Margaret QUINLAN, Melbourne, VIC, 13 April 1853
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 8 July 1860 (per City of Hobart, for New Zealand)
Married (2) Jane McMANNIS (d. 1879), VIC, 1867
Died Yanac, via Nhill, VIC, 19 August 1909, aged "82" [sic] ("79" on gravestone, registrered as ILLSLEY)

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#ILSEY-Robert (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 40th Regiment (military band)

Documentation:

Nominal roll of the 40th Regiment; UK National Archives, WO67/15-20

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/4503:3383 (PAYWALL)

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/3877:3383 (PAYWALL)

[No.] 2482 / Robert Ilsey / [enlisted] 13 Nov. 46 / [attested] 14 Nov. 46 / Winchester / [age] 14 / 4 ft 6 1/2 in / [trade] None / [born] Winchester Hants. / [married] 13 April '53

[Advertisement], The Age (1 June 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154840273

THEATRE ROYAL, Sole Proprietor - Mr. G. V. Brooke.
The Public is respectfully informed this this establishment will re-open for the
NEW SEASON, and under NEW MANAGEMENT, On Thursday next, June 2nd . . .
THE ORCHESTRA Carefully selected, will comprise the following members: -
Leader - Herr Strebinger; Clarionet - Mr. Lundborg
1st Violin - Mr. F. Coppin; Cornet - Mr. Richardson
2nd Violin - Mr. Levy; Trombone - Mr. Bury [Berg]
Contra Basso - Mr. Chapman; Harp - Mr. Seabrooke
Flute - Mr. Julius Siede; Drums - Mr. Hillsey
Conductor - MR. JOHN WINTERBOTTOM. (His first appearance these four years) . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Theatre Royal (Melbourne); Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor, manager); John Winterbottom (conductor); Frederick Strebinger (leader); Fred Coppin (violin); Barnett Levy (violin); Samuel Chapmam (bass); John William Lundborg (clarinet); James William Richardson (cornet); Charles Berg (trombone); George Seabrook (harp); Julius Siede (flute)

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 June 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5683519

ELLEN MORTYN. To Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Esq.
Dear Sir, - We, the undersigned members of the dramatic company and orchestra of the Theatre Royal, anxious to mark our respect for the memory of the late Mrs. Charles George Mortyn (professionally known as Miss Ellen Mortyn) TENDER our gratuitous SERVICES for one night, the receipts of such night to be appropriated for the
BENEFIT of the late Mrs. MORTYN'S ORPHAN CHILDREN.
May we respectfully solicit your cooperation and assistance by granting us for the occasion the use of the Theatre Royal and the aid of your own professional services.
We are, dear Sir, Your obedient servants . . .
. . . J. Winterbottom, J. Strebinger [sic], S. Chapman, G. Seabrook, J. W. Lundburg, J. Field, B. Levy, J. Richardson, Robert Ilsey, C. R. Burg [sic] . . .

? "HANDELIAN CENTENARY. TO THE EDITOR OF . . .", The Argus (11 August 1859), 1 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5686043

[Advertisement], The Argus (21 December 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4826305

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Thom (actor)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser (2 June 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148791438

GRAND MILITARY CONCERT, GEELONG HARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, TUESDAY, 5TH JUNE, 1860 . . .
The Concert will commence with the First and Second Parts of
HAYDN'S, SEASONS, Never before performed in the Colonies . . .
MR. REED And several other Talented Instrumentalists have been engaged to strengthen the String Band;
And in addition by kind permission of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie, the entire -
BAND OF THE 40th REGIMENT.
Conductor - MR. I'ERSON. Leader - MR. GABB.
The Second Part will consist of
GRAND SELECTIONS By the MILITARY BAND IN UNIFORM. 33 PERFORMERS!
BAND MASTER - Mr. JOHNSON.
BASSOONS, Mr. McCoy, Wakefield; CORNET-A-PISTON, Stewart;
OPHICLEIDES, Weaver, Horton; SMALL DRUM, Willis;
B FLAT CLARIONETS, Murrell, Madden, Powell, Keating;
HORNS, Field, Kingston, FLUTE, Murrell; E FLAT CLARIONETS, Loton, Tiner; TROMBONES, McGrearty, McNamara, Tristrum;
B FLAT CLARIONETS, Stowe, Gore, Kinsella, Hifferman;
TRUMPETS, Cullen, De Maria; SAX-HORNS, Raker, Royane;
CORNET-A-PISTON, Llewellynn; BOMBARDONS, Shaw, Place;
BASS DRUM, Ilsey . . .

Names and descriptions of passengers per Merchant Prince from Melbourne, 14 June 1862, for Auckland; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/2394DA07-F7F0-11E9-AE98-2784EBF155BF?image=447 (DIGITISD)

Mrs. M. Ilsey / Adult // Mary A. / 7 5/12 // George / 6 // Robert / 2

Also on the voyage wives and children of several others of the 40th band

Description book, Deniliquin Gaol, 1871; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/822098:1783 (PAYWALL)

Robert Ilsey / Free / [Arrived] Vulcan Man of War Troop Ship / 1852 / [Born] Winchester England / Church of England / Cook & Baker / [Age] 42 / 5ft 7 1/2 in . . .

"ABOUT PEOPLE", The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (24 August 1909), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198482323

An old English army pensioner named Lllsley died at Nhill on Friday, aged 82. Illsley was one of the soldiers engaged at the Ballarat riots in the early days. He served in the Maori war in New Zealand, and was for a number of years in the orchestra at Coppin Brothers' theatre, in Melbourne.

"DEATHS", The Age (6 September 1909), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198470680

ILLSLEY. - On the 19th August, at his son-in-law's residence, Yanac, Robert Illsley, after a short but painful illness, at the age of 82. He was one of the 40th Regiment band. He was at the Ballarat Riot and at the Maori War, for which he received a medal. He played in the theatre for many years under Tyrrell, Coppin and several others. He was very active, and had all his faculties till his death. He has one daughter, Mrs. T. Randall, of Yanac-a-Yanac, and [one son] George Illsley, of Sydney, and seven grandchildren.

Bibliography and resources:

Robert William Illsley, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229096073/robert-william-illsley

IMBERG, Julius (Julius Samuel IMBERG; Herr IMBERG; Julius IMBERG; J. S. IMBERG)

Professor of music, pianist, composer

Born Berlin, Prussia (Germany), c. 1808 (or c. 1812); son of Samuel IMBERG (1788-1815) and Schönchen WOLFF (1786-1859)
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 22 January 1846 (per George Washington, from Bremen)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS) [to settle], 11 December 1847 (per John Bull, from Sydney, 5 December)
Married Janet Smith GRAHAM (1818-1889), St. George's Battery Point, Hobart, VDL (TAS), 2 September 1848
Arrived Melbourne, VIC [to settle], July 1856 (per Ant, from Launceston)
Died Melbourne, VIC, 14 February 1863, aged "55"

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#IMBERG-Julius-Samuel (shareable link to this entry)

And see also https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Janet+Imberg+d1889 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Summary:

According to his memorial of 27 March 1857 requesting the governor of Victoria to grant him papers of naturalisation, Imberg, was born in Berlin, Prussia. He claimed then to be aged 45 (? accordingly, born c.1811/12), though at his death in 1863 his age was given as 55 (? born c.1807/08). He himself claimed, at various times, to be a former pupil of Moscheles and Thalberg, and a "member" of the Paris Conservatoire and the Philharmonic Society of Berlin.

Imberg first arrived in Adelaide early in 1846, as a cabin passenger on the George Washington, an immigrant ship from Bremen. In mid April he teamed up with the violinist Leopold Ravac (see Leopold Rawack), who had just arrived from Singapore on the Caique. They continued with Ravac's ship on to Melbourne and Launceston. Reviewing their concert in Hobart in June 1846, the Courier wrote that the:

great merit of Mons. Imberg is as an accompanist. This part of his duty was discharged with superior judgment and taste. The task was not an easy one. No one but a person thoroughly accustomed to Mons. Ravac's style, could have accomplished it.

Imberg toured on with Ravac to Sydney in July. Ravac having meanwhile sailed for India with Stephen Marsh as his intended accompanist, Imberg announced in September his intention to stay on in Sydney and give instruction on the piano "according to the principles of Herz and Moscheles". In the ensuing year, there is no record of him appearing in any public concerts. However, his plan to present his own concert on 27 October 1847, in which he was to be assisted by five local vocalists including Maria Carandini and the Howson brothers, appears to have gone awry, perhaps, as he himself advertised, due to ill health.

A month later, in December 1847, Imberg sailed from Sydney for Hobart, intending to settle there. Advertising as a "pupil of Thalberg and Moscheles, and Member of the Conservatoire Royale at Paris", he took pupils and appeared in concert with Charles Packer, Maria Prout, and Henry Howson. At his concert in January 1848, the finale was a Tasmanian polka, played by the band of 96th Regiment, which though unattributed may have been his.

Imberg's "grand soiree" at the Royal Victoria Theatre a year later also included a Pas seul tableaux vivants danced by Jane Young in costume "with Music expressly composed for the occasion", which in the circumstances probably means that Imberg was responsible. Imberg was declared insolvent in August 1849.

In January 1851, the Colonial Times noted that it had received a copy of "Mr. Imberg's Quadrilles . . . highly spoken of by all the votaries of Terpsichore", and in April at a meeting of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, "a note was read from Herr Imberg presenting a copy of his Quadrilles, with a request to have it placed in the library of the Royal Society".

This was his The Tasmanian quadrilles, lithographed by Thomas Browne in Hobart, and dedicated to Lady Denison. Curiously, copies of neither the original print, nor the (? second) edition issued by Henry Marsh in Sydney in 1855 (if it was indeed different), seem to have survived. Imberg also advertised the set for sale on his arrival to settle in Melbourne in 1856, when the press there described them in review as being "of a light pleasing character . . . directed to the interests of beginners".

In July 1851, his Welcome to the spring polka was published. Notably, he was not among the contributors to either of Henry Stoney's Tasmanian anthologies in 1855. Perhaps he was not invited, or simply forgotten; in 1852, he'd left Hobart for Launceston, and in 1856 he and his Tasmanian wife Janet, and their young daughter, moved to Melbourne. There in 1861 he self-published The Victorian quadrilles (1 Melbourne; 2 Bendigo; 3 Ballarat; 4 Geelong; 5 Toorak).

Having in the meantime practised as a "professor of music and music seller", he had the management of "a first class band" for a fancy dress ball, in honour of the visiting British cricket team, on 14 January 1862. In an announcement of another ball the following January, he was described as "a very old member of the music profession in Melbourne". He died the following month, February 1863.

Documentation:

? "Amtliche Bekanntmachungen", Beilage zum Intelligenz-Blatt (2 August 1838), 2509-10

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ELtCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2509 (DIGITISED)

. . . 377. Herr Imberg, rentier aus Berlin . . .

Adelaide, SA (on tour, 22 January to 27 April 1846)

"ADELAIDE SHIPPING", South Australian Register (24 January 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27451856

Thursday, January 22nd - The ship George Washington, 675 tons, Matt. Probst, Master, from Bremen. Passengers - T. Clodius, E. Kunoth, I. Imberg, E. Schohl, Miss J. F. Burmester, M. Lange, Mrs Lange, four daughters and three sons; and A. Gericke, M. Müller, D. Herrgott, female missionaries, in the cabin . . . [210 German immigrants in steerage]

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (14 February 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73843052

A CARD. MR. J. IMBERG, a native of Berlin, and pupil of Moscheles, begs to announce to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Adelaide and its vicinity, that having just arrived by the George Washington, he will be happy to give lessons at their private residences on the Pianoforte. Personal application may be made any day between the hours of 9 and 11 in the morning at Mr. H. W. Rollason's, Hindley-street, opposite Mr. Robt. Sanders. February 13th, 1846.

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (15 April 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73841958

"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", South Australian Register (22 April 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27452680

"Local News", South Australian (24 April 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71604535

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Ravac gave his concert at the Freemason's Tavern, and we feel great pleasure in reporting that it even surpassed the expectations formed of it. Mr. Ravac (who, we understand, is voyaging for his health), is a violin player of very high ability. Indeed, connosseurs [sic] consider that he would be acknowledged in Europe as a first-rate performer. It is, therefore, needless to say that we enjoyed the entertainment. Each of his solos were listened to with breathless attention; and the "Carnival of Venice," with the extraordinary pizzicato passages, a la Paganini, was enthusiastically encored. Mr. Imberg played on the piano some brilliant variations by Hunter [Hunten], and two or three pleasing fantasies, with splendid execution. The audience departed well content with the concert, though by two person only. We are delighted to observe, from an advertisement in another column, that Mr. Ravac will favor the public with another entertainment this evening, in which he will be assisted with the valuable vocal services of Mrs. Murray.

ASSOCIATIONS: Georgiana Murray (vocalist, pianist)

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (25 April 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195933747

MUSIC FOR SALE, Hunter's [Hunten's] Variations on Ecco Ridente, Bergmuller's Variations on a Polish Air. Both of the above were played with great applause by Mr. Imberg, at Mr. Ravac's Concert PLATTS'S, Hindley-street, and Portico of the Auction Mart.

"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", South Australian Register (25 April 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27452691

. . . We cannot close this notice of Mr. Ravac's splendid performances on the violin, without congratulating the musical world of Adelaide on the acquisition of another talented performer on the piano-forte, Mr. Imberg, whose introduction to the public has been one feature in these concerts of Mr. Ravac. Mr. Imberg accompanied Mr. Ravac on the piano with much judgment, and his solo performances were listened to with great pleasure. He has considerable execution and taste. He also played two duetts with Mrs. Murray, one the overture to the Nozze de Figaro, the other, the overture to the Maid of Artois, which were both deservedly applauded . . .

Melbourne, Port Phillip District, NSW (VIC) (on tour, 11 to 21 May 1846)

"Shipping Intelligence", The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (12 May 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226353351

ARRIVED. May 11. - Cacique, barque, McKie, master, from Singapore via Adelaide the 27th April. Passengers, J. Almeida, jun. super cargo, Mr. and Mrs. Cobham, Mr. L. Ravac, and Mr. Imberg.

"MR. RAVAC'S ENTERTAINMENT", Port Phillip Gazette and Settler's Journal (16 May 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225063974

Launceston and Hobart Town, VDL (TAS) (on tour, 29 May to 18 July 1856)

"Shipping Intelligence", Colonial Times (2 June 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8758778

PORT OF LAUNCESTON . . . May 29. - Arrived the barque Cacique, McKee, master, from Melbourne. Passengers - Messrs. J. D. Almuda, S. Ravac, J. Imbergh, Mr. and Mrs. Cobham.

"MR. RAVAC'S MUSICAL SOIREE", Launceston Advertiser (4 June 1846), 2-3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84770949

. . . [3] . . . Mr. Imberg, who accompanied Mr. Ravac, on the pianoforte, and performed in a most beautiful manner a Fantasia by Thalberg, and Mr. J. H. Anderson, who was deservedly applauded in his performance of a fantasia by Hünten, will not feel that we neglect them in so slight a notice . . .

"THE CONCERT", The Courier (17 June 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2945453

Sydney, NSW (resident in Sydney, 27 July 1846 to 5 December 1847)

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 July 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12888739

July 27 - William, brig, 149 tons, Captain Thom, from Launceston, the 18th instant. Passengers - Major Wentworth, Mrs. Wentworth, Mr. Ravac, Mr. Imberg and servant, Mr. Lett, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Myers, and Mr. J. Donaldson . . .

"MR. RAVAC'S Concert", The Sydney Morning Herald (14 August 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12889156

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 September 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37157162

A CARD. MR. IMBERG has the honor to inform the residents of Sydney and its vicinity, that he Intends giving instructions on the Pianoforte, and will be happy in receive a limited number of pupils. MR. IMBERG's system of Instruction is according to the principles of Herz and Moscheles, and having had much experience in the most Musical Cities of Europe, he is confident he can impart to his pupils the most modern and improved style of performing on the Pianoforte. Communications addressed to Mr. Ellard, Music Saloon, and Messrs. Kern and Mailer, Stationers, Hunter-street, will be immediately attended to. Sydney, September 4. 1846.
ATTEST. MR. RAVAC has much pleasure in recommending, as a teacher of music, to his friends and the public of Sydney, MR. IMBERG, and feels confident in recommending him as being competent to give instructions on the Pianoforte in the most modern and improved style, as at present adopted in the principal Cities of Europe.
(Signed) LEOPOLD RAVAC. Sydney, September 3, 1846.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (12 October 1846), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12896712

MR. IMBERG, TEACHER ON THE PIANOFORTE. No. 3, O'Connell-street. MR. I. may be seen at his residence before ten o'clock, any morning.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 October 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12896432

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, WEDNESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER, GRAND MUSICAL SOIREE. Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir MAURICE O'CONNELL, Commander of the Forces, &c., &c. who has signified his intention of honoring Monsieur Imberg with his presence. MONSIEUR IMBERG most respectfully announces to the Inhabitants of Sydney and its environs, that he purposes giving a Grand Musical Soirée, under the above distinguished patronage, when he solicits their kind support. By the kind permission of Colonel Despard, the excellent band of the 99th Regiment will be in attendance. Concert to commence at eight o'clock precisely. Tickets, Lower and Upper Circle, 6s.; Pit, 2s.; Gallery, 1s.; to be had from Mr. Grocott, Music Saloon, George-street; Mr. Ford, Stationer, George-street; Mr. J. Miller, Chinese Bazaar, King-street; and Mr. Wyatt, at the Theatre. Application for Boxes to be made at Mr. Grocott's. Monsieur Imberg will be assisted by Madame Carandini, Mrs. Ximenes, Mr. F. Howson, Mr J. Howson, and Mr. Horncastle.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 October 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12891998

NOTICE. - The Public are respectfully informed that the Concert advertised by Mr. Imberg will not take place at the Royal Victoria Theatre. For the Proprietor, J. GORDON GRIFFITHS, Royal Victoria Theatre, October 23.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (26 October 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12901765

NOTICE. - Mons. Imberg's Musical Soiree will be postponed till further arrangements are made, after he will have recovered his health. Sydney, October 26.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 November 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12901043

NOTICE - MONS. IMBERG having recovered his health, begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen and the public in general of Sydney and its vicinity, that he is going to make further arrangements, and that he will give, in a few days, notice when and where his concert will take place. Sydney, November 2.

Hobart Town, VDL (TAS) (resident in Tasmania, 11 December 1847 to July 1856)

"SHIPPING NEWS", The Courier (15 December 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2970281

11 - Arrived the schooner John Bull, 70 tons, Clinch, from Sydney 5th December, with a general cargo. Cabin passengers - Dr. Graham and two children, and Mons. Imberg.

[Advertisement], The Courier (8 January 1848), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2970108

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (7 January 1848), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8762068

Marriages in the district of Hobart, 1848; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:836679; RGD37/1/7 no 1737

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/836679 (DIGITISED)

699/1737 / 2 Sept. 1848 St. George's / Julius S. Imberg, Music Master; Janet Smith Graham, Spinster . . .

[Advertisement], The Courier (10 January 1849), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2967098

"INSOLVENCY CASES", The Courier (8 August 1849), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2965345

Births in the district of Hobart, 1850; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:954370; RGD33/1/3/ no 2511

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/954370

2511 / June 19 / - / female / Julius Samuel Imberg / Jeanette Imberg family Smith / Professor of Music / Emma Jeanett

[Advertisement], Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (20 November 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173058428

To be Published Shortly. THE Tasmanian Quadrilles, composed by J. S. IMBERG, Professor of Music, Member of the Philharmonic Society at Berlin, and of the Conservatoire of Paris, and by permission most respectfully dedicated to LADY DENISON.

[Advertisement], Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (14 December 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173058589

Notice. IN Consequence of Mr. BROWN'S absence from Hobart Town, the publishing of The Tasmanian Quadrilles, By J. S. IMBERG, has been unavoidably postponed. Hobart, December 12th.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Browne (lithographer, printer)

[Advertisement], Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (11 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173058742

HERR IMBERG, BEGS to inform the Gentry of Hobart Town and the Public that THE TASMANIAN QUADRILLES, Dedicated bv kind permission TO LADY DENISON, is published this day, January 11th, and as there is but a very limitted number of copies printed, an early application will be necessary.

"MUSIC", The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (27 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225557138

We have received "The Tasmanian Quadrilles, composed for the pianoforte, and by kind permission respectfully dedicated to Lady Denison, by J. S. lmberg, Professor of Music, Member of the Conservatoire at Paris, and Hon. Member of the Philharmonic Society at Berlin," now of Murray-street, Hobart Town. All we can further say at the present on the subject, is, that the Quadrilles are lithographed by Mr. Thomas Brown, of Macquarie-street, in the best possible manner, and that we shall notice their value as compositions, when we have had an opportunity of ascertaining their merit.

"MR. IMBERG'S QUADRILLES", Colonial Times (28 January 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8768636

[Advertisement], Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (29 January 1851), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173058869

Just Published, PRICE 2s., THE TASMANIAN QUADRILLES . . . To be obtained only at Mr. Imberg's residence, Leicester Buildings, Murray Street . . .

"TASMANIAN QUADRILLES", The Courier (1 February 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961407

"ROYAL SOCIETY OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND", The Courier (16 April 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961046

. . . A note was read from Herr Imberg presenting a copy of his Quadrilles, with a request to have it placed in the library of the Royal Society . . .

"NEW POLKA", Colonial Times (29 July 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8769663

Herr Imberg, Professor of Music, encouraged by the kind support of the musical gentry of the colony by publishing his "Tasmanian Quadrilles", has composed a set of Polkas, under the title, "Welcome to the Spring," and dedicated to the Ladies of Tasmania. It is hoped that the fair sex, who are lovers of music, and know the talents of the composer, will evince their generosity and support colonial talent, as we understand that the composer has not spared any expences, to get them up in first rate style, and as cheap as houses, where there is more scope for any publication. [See Advertisement.]

[Advertisement], The Courier (30 July 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2960493

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (15 September 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36264010

"MUSIC", Launceston Examiner (18 September 1852), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36264034

"WEDNESDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 1853", The Courier (11 August 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2244497

THE DAY being the Fiftieth Anniversary of the foundation of the colony by Lieut. Bowen, in 1803 . . . a Public Holiday in the City of Hobart Town . . . In the evening a Grand Display of Fireworks took place in the enclosure facing the High School, commencing at 7 o'clock with the ascent of two Fire Balloons . . . The Band played at intervals during the Pyrotechnic display the "Tasmanian Quadrilles," "Jeannette and Jeannot," - and other popular airs, concluding with the National Anthem of our mother-country, the Northern Island Queen.

"TASMANIAN QUADRILLES", Launceston Examiner (19 April 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36292363

We have received a copy of the second edition of Mr. Imberg's Tasmanian Quadrilles. They were well spoken of when they first appeared, and the call for a second edition shows they have been appreciated by the musical public. The present edition is well got up - is printed by F. Cunninghame, and published by H. Marsh, of Sydney.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Marsh (music publisher, Sydney); Francis Cunninghame (printer, Sydney)

Melbourne, VIC (resident in Melbourne, July 1856 to 14 February 1863):

"THE TASMANIAN QUADRILLE", The Argus (1 August 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7134125

"THE TASMANIAN QUADRILLE. To the Editor", The Argus (6 August 1856), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7134395

Sir, - In your edition of Friday last you noticed, under Domestic Intelligence, "The Tasmanian Quadrille, composed by Herr Tonberg, republished in Melbourne;" instead of which it ought to be, "Herr Imberg, republished in Sydney by H. Marsh." By correcting the above you will oblige me, as a resident of Melbourne and a professional. Yours, most obediently, THE COMPOSER. 4th August, 1856.

Julius Samuel Imberg, memorial (27 March 1857, requesting papers of naturalization; National Archives of Australia, A712, 1857/Y2120

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1811239 (DIGITISED)

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=1811239&T=PDF (PDF)

. . . That your Memorialist is a Native of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia . . . is Forty Five years of age and is by profession a Professor of Music . . . arrived in the Colony of Victoria a Passenger by the Steamer "Ant" from Launceston in the Island of Tasmania in the month of July [1856] . . . that your petitioner is desirous of holding land by purchase . . .

NOTE: Musicseller Joseph Wilkie was one of four witnesses to the document

[News of the day], The Argus (10 May 1861), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5700073

[Advertisement], The Argus (11 January 1862), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5708324

[News], The Argus (22 January 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6482872

[Funeral notice], The Argus (16 February 1863), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6483450

"DEATHS", The Cornwall Chronicle (28 February 1863), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72195642

Extant musical works:

Welcome to the Spring polka, composed and dedicated to the ladies of Tasmania, by J. S. Imberg (Hobart Town: T. Isaacs, litho., [1851])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854839

https://stors.tas.gov.au/ILS/SD_ILS-573363 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Isaacs (lithographic printer)

The Victorian quadrilles, most respectfully dedicated by the kind permission of his excellency the governor general of the colony of Victoria to Lady Barkly, by J. S. Imberg, member of the Conservatoire at Paris, & hon. member of the Philharmonic Society at Berlin, composer of Lady Denison's quadrilles, &c. &c. (Melbourne: Published for the composer, 1861)

1. Melbourne; 2. Bendigo; 3. Ballarat; 4. Geelong; 5. Toorak

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/171611477

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER1108611

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/151844 (DIGITISED)

Bibliography and resources:

Betty Jones, "A modest but steady income", Tasmanian ancestry (March 2011), (209-212), 210-12

http://www.tasfhs.org/Volume%2031.pdf (DIGITISED)

Graeme Skinner, Toward a general history of Australian musical composition: first national music, 1788-c. 1860 (Ph.D thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, 2011), 254-55

http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7264 (DIGITISED)

IMHOFF

? Musician, band leader

Active Maitland, NSW, 1854

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#IMHOFF (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser [NSW] (26 August 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article692997

Great Attraction! VIEWS IN PANORAMA OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
Imhoff's Celebrated Brass Band.
WILL be Exhibited every Night during this and the Race Week, at the Waterloo Hotel, at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Door open at 7 o'clock, to commence at half past 7 precisely. Tickets 2s. each, Children half price,
to had at the bar of the Hotel, at Mr. W. Wilkinson's, Angel Inn, and of the undersigned.
JOHN SCHULTZ. Waterloo Hotel.

"RACE WEEK AMUSEMENT", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (2 September 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article693464

An ample choice of amusements for the evenings has been provided for the raoe visitors during the week. A panorama of Uncle Tom's Cabin, with the music of Imhoff's brass band, has been exhibiting at the Waterloo Hotel, and appears, by the well-filled houses, to have given great satisfaction . . .

INGLES, George (George INGLES; Mr. INGLES)

Musician, vocalist, comedian, professional singer

Active Forest Creek, VIC, 1858-59

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#INGLES-George (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"CHRISTMAS SPORTS ON FOREST CREEK", Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (5 January 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199048632

. . . The evening entertainments consisted of free concerts, etc., supported by Mrs. Byrne, so long a favorite on Forest Creek, Mr. Ingles, the comedian and comic singer, Mr. Smith, pianist, who sung some of Henry Russell's compositions very creditably, Mr. W. F. Charlton, local writer and singer, (this gentleraan convulsed his audience with three or four of his local compositions; his song on the late Bazaar is well worth a trip to Forest Creek to hear). Miss Burnett and Mr. J. Carroll diversified the entertainments with some really capital dancing, ably accompanied by Mr. W. Hunter, the violinist, who has recently joined the company, which, together with a ballet, played by the whole of the corps dramatique, forms a pleasing and rational evening's amusement, and it is to be hoped the public will support the proprietor for his endeavors to promote their gratification . . .

Inquest, W. F. Charleton, 5 February 1859; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/41EBF167-F1BF-11E9-AE98-F16AE1662A57?image=1 (DIGITISED)

. . . The Examination of Joseph Patrick of Forest Creek . . . I am a miner and reside at Forest Creek. Have known deceased for several months . . . He has been drinking hard of late . . .

. . . The Examination of George Ingles of Forest Creek . . . I am a professional singer and reside at Forest Creek. I have known deceased for two years . . . I don't know the age of decased but he may be about 36 years old . . .

INGRAM, James (James INGRAM)

Musicseller, bookseller, general stationer

Active Beechworth, VIC, 1859

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#INGRAM-James (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (27 July 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112904122

INKERSOLE, Hannah (Hannah DANIELL; Mrs. INKERSOLE; late Miss DANIELL)

Contralto vocalist

Born c. 1809
Arrived Hobart, 14 November 1833 (per Wave, from London, 29 July)
Married William INKERSOLE, Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 21 December 1833
Died ? London; buried St. George, Camberwell, Southwark, London, 20 July 1844, aged 35; ? before 1855

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Documentation:

"Arrived . . .", Colonial Times (19 November 1833), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647280

Arrived on the 14th November, the barque Wave, Captain Goldsmith, from London 29th July, with goods - Passengers, Mr. and Mrs Carter, 6 children, and 3 servants, Mr. and Mrs Coak, Miss Daniels, Mr. Scott, (lawyer), Mr. Inkersole, Mr. Smythe, and 28 others.

Hannah Daniels, marriage, 21 December 1833; Tasmanian Names Index; NAME_INDEXES:820410l; RGD36/1/2 no 2194

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/820410

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD36-1-2p91j2k

"MARRIED", The Hobart Town Courier (27 December 1833), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4188100

At Hobart town, on Saturday Dec. 20, Mr. William Inkersole to Miss Daniels.

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

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

Oratorio.
MR. DEANE respectfully informs the inhabitants of Hobart Town and its vicinity, that a Selection of Sacred Music will be performed at the Argyle Rooms, on Saturday, March 15th, 1834.
Principal Performers: Mrs. Inkersole, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Henson, Mr. Reichenberg, Mr. Russell, Mr. Peck, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Macleod.
Assisted (by permission) by the band of His Majesty's 21st Regiment.
Part I . . .
Song, Mrs. Inkersole, "Lord, remember David" - Handel . . .
Part II.
Song, Mrs. Inkersole, " Lord, to Thee, each night and day" - Handel . . .

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

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

. . . Mrs. Inkersole's "Lord remember David," was pleasing and excellent. This was this lady's first appearance before a Van Diemen's Land public; and as we pretend to be judges, we may he believed when we say, that a more perfect female singer there is not in the Colony. She accompanied herself on the piano forte with remarkable good taste. We like to be candid, and we cannot therefore allow Mrs. Inkersole to pass us without one observation, which may not please her, and that is, that she is made a deal too much off . . . Mrs. Inkersole's second song, "Lord to thee each night and day," was even more excellently sung than was her first piece. Kent's anthem of "Hear my prayer," is a difficult performance for ladies, and so it proved on Saturday - it was pretty correctly sung, and nothing more.

. . . Great fears were last week entertained that the Oratorio could not possibly take place, some offence it appears having been given to Mrs. Davis. On enquiring, the reason of all the hub-bub, we found it to be on account of Mrs. Davis's name having been placed after Mrs. Inkersole's, in the bills of the day. The Courier, makes an apology for this inadvertency, and moreover, adds, that it is at the request of Mr. Deane. With Mr. Deane or the Editor, we wish not to interfere, but we should vastly like to know what are Mrs. Davis's pretensions to be first on the list. Mrs. Davis, cannot compare her vocal knowledge, or her vocal powers to Mrs. Inkersole's, and in the opinion of many, Mrs. Henson's performance is far preferable to hers . . .

MUSIC: Lord remember David (Handel, arr. from Rendi'l sereno al ciglio, in Sosarme); Lord to thee each night and day (Handel, from Theodora)

"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

? Burial in the parish of St. George, Camberwell, London, England,

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1559/31280_198036-00090 (PAYWALL)

No, 1219 / Hannah Inkersole / Charles Street / [buried] July 20 [1844] / [aged] 35 years

? "MARRIAGE", The Courier (26 May 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2484336

On the 16th February, at St, John's Church, Notting-hill, by the Rev. John Philip Gell, Incumbent, WILLIAM INKERSOLE, Esq., of Sussex-street, St. George's-road, to FANNY, fourth daughter of Samuel Shergold, Esq., late of Brussels, and grand-daughter of the late Samuel Shergold, Esq., Banker, Brighton, Sussex.

INNES, John (John INNES)

Bookseller

Born c. 1806
Active Sydney, NSW, by 1834
Died Mackay, QLD, 28 April 1879, aged "73"

IRBY, Mr.

Cornet à piston player

Active Perth, WA, 1845

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#IRBY-Mr (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Perhaps A. H. Irby, lieutenant and later captain of the 51st Regiment.

Documentation:

"Performance of Sacred Music", Inquirer (14 May 1845), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65582935

Luther's Hymn, air, and chorus, with an obligato accompaniment on the cornet à piston, by Mr. Irby, was admirably performed.

[News], Inquirer (19 August 1840), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65581714

The music for which the company was indebted entirely to amateurs, was extremely good; we noticed especially the admirable performance of Mr. Irby on the cornet à piston, an instrument of great sweetness and power, and admirably adapted to a ball room.

IRONSIDE, Frederick James (Frederick James IRONSIDE; IRONSIDES; F. J. IRONSIDE)

Choirmaster, amateur musician, cricketer

Born Sydney, NSW, March 1836; son of James IRONSIDE (1803-1866) and Ellen OAKS (c. 1816-1854)
Died Darlinghurst, NSW, 24 December 1912, aged 76

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frederick+James+Ironside+1836-1912 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

"MARRIAGE", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 July 1861), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13065306

On Tuesday, the 2nd July, at St. Michael's Church, Surry Hills, by the Rev. Hulton Smythe King, Mr. F. J. Ironside (eldest son of James Ironside, Esq, money broker of this city), to Miss Martha Amelia Bird, eldest daughter of Mr. Richard Bird, of Surry Hills, formerly of Buckinghamshire, England.

"FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND", Empire (20 July 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64141396

. . . The church choir, under the direction of Mr. Ironsides, have continued their gratuitous services . . .

"ANNIVERSARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND", Empire (12 January 1866), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63242057

. . . It is one of the most pleasing parts of the duty of the committee to return their thanks to those who merit them in so marked a manner as do Mr. Ironsides and the members of the choir. From the first establishment of the church, Mr. Ironsides has given gratuitously his valuable services; and amongst the present choir are seen, with unfailing regularity, ladies and gentlemen who have given their services from the first day. The time, skill, and labour necessary to organise, train, and keep together so efficient and able a choir, needs no comment. You have heard the result: it is admitted that the choir is not inferior to any in Sydney, and the warmest thanks the committee can offer them, are indeed, no more than their due . . .

"CHURCH MUSIC", Sydney Mail (10 March 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166660094

A very interesting lecture on the subject of church music and church choirs was delivered in the Free Church of England, Bourke-street, on Tuesday evening, by Mr. F. J. Ironside, who gave practical illustrations of the subject, and also made a few remarks as to the formation of church choirs generally. The attendance was but limited; but the lecture was listened to with interest.

IRWIN, Mr. (Mr. IRWIN)

Musician

Active Hobart, TAS, 1850

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (22 March 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8766866

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, MURRAY STREET . . . will RE-OPEN on
MONDAY EVENING NEXT, the 25th instant, with an entirely New Company . . .
Stage Manager, Mr. Holloway; Acting Manager, Mr. Forrest; Prompter, Mr. Byron Young; Machinist, Mr. Abbott ; Scone Painter, Mr. Archer;
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr, Irwin. March 22, 1850.

IRWIN, John (John IRWIN)

Blind musician

Active VIC, 1890s

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

Documentation:

"BLIND MUSICIANS", Grey River Argus (23 August 1898), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA18980823.2.10

. . . John Irwin, who is the only member of the Company who has previously visited New Zealand, has been blind from infancy, and his musical ability is of a high order. He can play the piano, saxe-horn, viola, and several other instruments. The Auckland Star, referring to his playing of "The lost Chord" on the saxe-horn, said, "Some of the audience were moved to tears, and the playing was of a very remarkable character indeed." Mr. Irwin also possesses a good tenor voice, and is a certificated piano tuner.

IRWIN, William (William IRWIN; Wm. IRWIN)

Music hall and concert room proprietor, licensed victualler, hotel keeper

Born Ireland, c. 1831; son of Joseph IRWIN and Ann BAXTER
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 13 February 1830 (per Cornwall, aged "18")
Married (1) Bridget Margaret BYRNE (d. 1865), Ballarat, VIC, 1856
Married (2) Jane NORRIS (d. 1876), Ballarat, VIC, 10 September 1867
Married (3) Julia LAWRENCE (VIVIAN), VIC, 1879
Died Ballarat, VIC, 22 January 1893, aged "62/63"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Irwin+c1831-1893 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

Arrivals, Sydney, NSW, 13 February 1850, per Cornwall; State Records Authority of NSW, 5317/2461 [4/4916]

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1204/images/IMAUS1787_081420-0053?pId=285017 (PAYWALL)

Irwin William / 18 / Farm Labourer / Kildress Co Tyrone / [parents] Joseph & Ann living in Kildress / C. of E. . . .

[Advertisement], The Star [Ballarat, VIC] (3 October 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66044533

STAR CONCERT HALL. ENGAGEMENT of the celebrated Misses Creed Royal, Who will sing some, of their much admired Duets. Mr. Cassidy, The Australian Sam Cowell, in new charateristic Comic Songs. Madam Onn, The admired Mezzo Soprano. Mr. McDonald, The well known Scotch Vocalist. To-night, Saturday, Billy Barlow will communicate the result of the great intercolonial matches between "ALICE HAWTHORN" and "VENO," &c., &c.
Pianists: Creed Royal and Mons. Palin.
WILLIAM IRWIN.

ASSOCIATIONS: James W. Cassidy (vocalist); Sam Cowell (English vocalist); Constantia Onn (vocalist); Creed Royal and daughters (piannist and vocalists); Lawrence Frederick Palin (pianist); Star Concert Hall (Ballarat venue)

"Deaths", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (24 January 1893), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8506792

IRWIN. - On the 22nd inst., at his residence, the Provincial Hotel, Lydiard-street, William Irwin, aged 62 years. A resident of Ballarat for over 40 years.

ISAACS, Edward (Edward ISAACS)

Singer (Hobart Synagogue)

Born London, c.1821
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 1842 (free)

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Summary (after Levi):

Isaacs was a draper by trade; in 1872 he was living in Auckland NZ; Australian Israelite 1872 quoted Isaacs on his arrival in Hobart:

In the year 1842 I arrived in Hobart Town in company with a number of young Jewish men (the majority under twenty years of age) and all having been brought up rather orthodox. We were very much surprised on discovering there was no place of worship in connection with our faith. (Service was held on New Year at the "Rose and Crown Hotel" [owned by Israel Hyams in New Town] for want of better accommodation.) - Shortly after my arrival I was requested to call a meeting of all the Jewish young residents which I did . . . Subsequently Mr. Nathan convened a meeting which was attended, I believe, by every Jew in town. He told them what the boys had done and what they should do . . .

Thereafter he became involved in the building of the Hobart synagogue, and was a chorister at its consecration in 1845.

Documentation:

"OPENING AND DEDICATION OF THE JEWS' SYNAGOGUE", The Courier (9 July 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2947988

"THE SYNAGOGUE", Colonial Times (11 July 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8756924

In answer to numerous enquiries as to whether the gentlemen composing the choir at the opening of the Jewish Synagogue last Friday were professionals, we can inform our readers that the whole of them (consisting of Messrs. M. S. Simeon, treble; D. Allen, tenor; E. Isaacs, counter tenor; Isaac Solomon and H. Nathan, bass) were young men of the Hebrew religion, one of whom (Mr. Simeon) had assisted in a similar ceremony at home, and remembering the melodies, sung them to Mr. Reichenberg, who most felicitously melodized them. Mr. R attempted, and it must be admitted, accomplished the teaching five persons to sing in parts, and acquiring himself sufficient Hebrew to comprehend what he had to teach, in a manner which must increase the already high opinion entertained by the Tasmanian public of his professional superiority.

"THE SYNAGOGUE", The Observer (15 July 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62135058

In our last a paragraph was omitted in which we sought to do justice to some whose names were not mentioned with that praise which was due to them for the part they performed in the opening service at the Synagogue. The music we learn was brought to this colony by Mr. Simeon, whose melodious voice was so much admired in company with the voice of Messrs. Edward Isaacs, Henry Nathan, David Allen, and Isaac Solomons. The vocal attraction at the Synagogue is likely to draw many visitors from time to time, whose interest is not likely to stop with that gratification, or benefit be confined to the hearing of the ear.

Bibliography and resources:

John Levi, These are the names: Jewish lives in Australia, 1788-1850 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2013), 325

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QyJLDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PA1881 (PREVIEW)

ISAACS, George (George Samuel ISAACS; George ISAACS; alias "A. PENDRAGON"; "PENDRAGON")

Author, journalist, songwriter, lyricist, musical amateur

Born London, England, 5 January 1825; son of Samuel ISAACS (c. 1792-1877) and Ann LEVY (d. 1877)
Married (? common law) Marion LANE, England, by c. 1850
Arrived Adelaide, 15 March 1851 (per Mountstuart Elphinstone, from London, 29 November, and Plymouth, 6 December 1850)
Died Adelaide, SA, 14 February 1876

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=George+Isaacs+1825-1876 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-564574 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Isaacs_(author) (Wikipedia)

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Summary:

In November 1857, Isaacs was elected to the committee of the newly formed Gawler Institute, and "quickly established himself as the creative force behind many of the [Institute's] schemes" (Black 2016, 79). Black discovered evidence that it was Isaacs personally who proposed the "song of Australia" contest for the Institute's second anniversary in 1859. Specifically, the minutes of a special meeting of the committee held in the second week of September 1859 record (Black 2016, 88-89):

The meeting called by Mr. Isaacs was stated to be for the purpose of getting up an entertainment for the Anniversary. Mr. Isaacs brought forward a scheme comprising an amateur performance of a short drama or Burlesque, amateur [89] performance consisting of Instrumentalists & Vocalists, & a prize of Ten pounds each to the best song to be entitled the Song of Australia, and to the best composer of music suitable for it.

Though he was not himself a judge, Isaacs, as secretary, oversaw the process whereby the first prize for the poem was awarded to Caroline Carleton, and for the music to Carl Linger, as well as organising the first edition of words and music together as The song of Australia, lithographed and printed by Penman and Galbraith and published by the Institute in December 1859.

Isaacs would also have been behind the committee's attempt, as copyright owner of the lyrics, to try to prevent another contestant, the composer and pianist Cesare Cutolo performing his setting of Carleton's lyrics at a public concert in Adelaide on 8 November 1859.

In 1863, Isaacs wrote his theatrical extravaganza, The burlesque of Frankenstein; or, The man-gorilla, which included as musical numbers new songs lyrics he had devised for pre-existing tunes. According to Isaacs, he refused an offer of £20 from Barry Sullivan, lessee of Theatre Royal, Melbourne, for the rights to produced it for the 1863-64 Christmas season. He next offered it to William Hoskins and Henry Edwards for the 1864-65 Christmas season at the Haymarket Theatre, Melbourne. However, as he explained, "I had the misfortune to unconsciously offend" the actor and vocalist Emily Don, owing to a disagreement with her agent, Henry Dolan Wilton, and she refused to appear in it. It was never performed, but was published in Isaacs's Rhyme and prose and a burlesque in 1865.

In 1864 he wrote the scenario for a more modest musical entertainment for the visiting performers George Case and his wife Grace Edgerton, entitled "Our trip to the Rhine", first performed by them in November and December. No published or performance materials are known to survive.

In Melbourne in 1865, the concert vocalist Charlotte Stuttaford composed a setting of Isaacs's lyric The myrtle, which had first appeared in Adelaide in 1861 in his published collection Number one. Stuttaford's setting was published lithographically in September 1865. No copy of this first edition has been identified, nevertheless the music and words do survive together in a later Canadian edition.

Materials preserved in Isaacs's scrapbook (now in the State Library of South Australia), also show that he materially assisted musician George Loder in preparing the spoken text for a lecture entertainment with musical illustrations, entitled "The origin, rise & progress of British song". Though Loder duly delivered the lecture to a meeting of the South Australian Institute at Adelaide Town Hall, on 18 December 1866, Isaacs was "unavoidably absent . . . for in the preceding week he had been arrested for insolvency [and] imprisoned in the Adelaide Gaol" (Black 2016, 166)

With thanks (2022) to Isaacs's biographer Anne Black for kindly bringing him to my attention.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The South Australian Advertiser (25 November 1858), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article785812

JUST PUBLISHED, price 2d., COLONIAL LYRICS.
No. 1 - "The Song of the Bar," by A. Pendragon.
Gawler: W. BARNET. To be had of PLATTS, Adelaide.

Reprinted by Isaacs, "Song of the Bar," The Critic (27 December 1862), 10; see also Black 2016, 83

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1197703

A PRIZE of TEN GUINEAS open to South Australia is offered by the Gawler Institute for the
WORDS of a PATRIOTIC SONG, to be entitled "The Song of Australia."
Copyright of words to which the Prize may be awarded to become the property of the Gawler Institute.
Judges: John H. Barrow, Esq., M.P.; Hon. A. Forster, M.L.C.;
John Brown, Esq.; W. C. Wearing, Esq.; John Howard Clark, Esq.; E. J. Peake, Esq. M.P.
Competitors are free to adopt any treatment of subject or rhythmical measure, so long as the composition is in accordance with the title and suitable for musical expression.
Each competitor to write on the outside of the envelope covering the composition (which must not bear the name of the author, but a motto) the words "Poem for Prize;" and in a second envelope to enclose his name, written outside the motto corresponding with that attached to the composition.
Of those letters containing the names of the competitors, that alone will be opened which bears the motto of the successful composition.
All communications must be made by October 14, and addressed to George Isaacs, Gawler.

A PRIZE of TEN GUINEAS for Original MUSIC to "The Song of Australia" will be offered by the Gawler Institute, immediately after the Judges shall have awarded the prize for the Words, when, further particulars will be advertised.
Judges for the Music: G. W. Chinner, Esq.; A. Ewing, Esq., D.A.C.G.; F. S. Dutton, Esq., M.P.; W. Holden, Esq.
GEORGE ISAACS, Sec. Institute Committee.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Williams Chinner (music judge); Alexander Ewing (music judge); Francis Stacker Dutton (music judge); William Holden (music judge); Gawler Institute (association)

[2 advertisements], The South Australian Advertiser (21 October 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1198370

THE GAWLER PRIZE SONG.- AWARD OF THE JUDGES. Gawler Institute, October 20, 1859.
The Prize of Ten Guineas for the best words for a Patriotic Song has been awarded by the Judges to Mrs. C. J. Carleton, Adelaide. The Committee regret that their funds will not permit their distributing other prizes to various meritorious productions contributed, but in order to encourage native talent they intend publishing a careful selection from amongst them.
Any of the competitors objecting to their contribution being so published will please to signify the same, by letter, to Mr. George Isaacs, Gawler (subscribed with the motto previously used), on or before the 31st inst., otherwise their sanction will be inferred.
Any competitors desiring their names to be attached to their contributions will please give permission to the Committee to open the envelopes inscribed with their mottoes.

PRIZE FOR MUSIC. GAWLER INSTITUTE.
A TEN GUINEA PRIZE is offered by the Gawler Institute for the MUSIC to "The Song of Australia," by Mrs. C. J. Carleton, published in this day's paper, subject to the following conditions, viz.:-
That the air be written in the G clef, and in any key the composer may select; but not to range below lower C or above upper G.
The chorus (if any) to be written for three or four voices.
A pianoforte part to be added as an ad libitum accompaniment.
Each competitor to send in two copies. The music to bear a motto, but no name.
The cover to be inscribed " Music for Prize;"
and in a second envelope the competitor will enclose his name, writing outside the envelope the motto corresponding with that attached to the composition.
Judges. - G. W. Chinner, Esq.
F. S. Dutton, Esq., M.P.
A. Ewing, Esq., Com. Staff.
W. Holden, Esq.
All communications to be addressed to Mr. George Isaacs, Gawler, and forwarded not later than the 30th October, 1850.

ASSOCIATIONS: Caroline Carleton (winning lyricist)

[2 advertisements], South Australian Register (8 November 1859), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49826675

TO the JUDGES of the PRIZE MUSIC.
- Gentlemen - I am instructed by the Committee of the Gawler Institute publicly to tender you their thanks for the very kind manner in which you have carried out their views with regard to the Musical Compositions sent in to compete for the prize offered by them.
Yours respectfully,
GEORGE ISAACS.
Gawler, November 5, 1859.

GAWLER INSTITUTE. -
The Secretary of the Entertainment Committee of the Gawler Institute is obliged, in consequence of the numerous communications he has received on the subject of the Prize Poem', to reply to all enquiries by this one notice. He does not feel himself at liberty to return any of the MSS. upon which the Judges were invited to base their decision. He has no power to go beyond the conditions advertised by order of the Committee, though, had leisure permitted, he should certainly have felt pleased to have acknowledged by letter many kind suggestions. All the envelopes enclosing the names of the unsuccessful competitors have been destroyed, excepting such as have been authorised to be opened. Mrs. Carleton's Poem, with Music by Herr Carl Linger, is in course of publication, and a copy will be presented to each party attending the Anniversary Entertainment, to take place in about a fortnight, and of which full particulars will be shortly announced.
GEORGE ISAACS.
November 7, 1859.

ASSOCIATIONS: Carl Linger (winning composer); The song of Australia (first edition)

See also "SIGNOR CUTOLO'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (9 November 1859), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49830288

. . . We may here mention that Signor Cutolo, having set the prize "Song of Australia" to music, it was included in the programme, with Miss Bryan's name to it as the vocalist who was to have sung it. But the Committee of the Gawler Institute having claimed the copyright to the song, the Signor, on their remonstrating with him, had struck it out from the programme, and, as we are informed, had also given a written guarantee that it should not be sung. The audience, however, many of whom had probably purchased their tickets on account of the prize poem being included in the programme, and who were also uninformed of the reason of its omission, raised a general demand for its performance. This of course placed the Signor in a dilemma, but the audience were importunate, and the song was sung, encored, and repeated. In all probability, however, thii will only increase the desire of the public to hear the composition of Herr Linger, to whom the prize was awarded . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Cesare Cutolo (composer, pianist); Jane Elizabeth Bryan (vocalist); no copy of Cutolo's setting, never published, is known to have survived in manuscript

"MUSIC FOR THE PRIZE POEM", Adelaide Observer (12 November 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158130602

The Committee of the Gawler Institute have forwarded the music and poems which prizes have been awarded to Messrs. Penman & Galbraith, of Rundle-street, to be lithographed. We have heard that 1,000 copies are to be struck off.

ASSOCIATIONS: Penman and Galbraith (lithographers, printers)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (18 November 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5737772

ON MONDAY NEXT will be presented, for the first time,
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE CASE'S "TRIP TO THE RHINE" . . .
Written expressly for them by GEORGE ISAACS, Esq. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Case and his wife Grace Edgerton (performers)

[News], The Argus (22 November 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5734896

Mr. and Mrs. Case are sparing no pains to recommend themselves to the favour of the patrons of the Polytechnic Institute, and they have their reward in good houses nightly. After a very successful run, "Latest Intelligence," the second of their series of entertainments, has given place to "Our Trip to the Rhine" - an entertainment written expressly for them by a local author, Mr. George Isaacs. The outline, for it is little more, which Mr. Isaacs has sketched for Mr. and Mrs. Case, and which they fill up with the help of vocal and instrumental music, is of the slightest and most ordinary character, and affords little scope for effective display of any kind. Certainly, "Our Trip to the Rhine," is not likely to prove as acceptable as the previous entertainments. The best parts, which fall to the share of Mrs. Case, in the "Trip to the Rhine," are those of Mrs. Chowdler, the rather vulgar mamma; Miss Chowdler, the pretty daughter; Master Chowdler, the rich young scapegrace; and Count de Flambooze, the Frenchman; while Mr. Case has two pretty good parts, those of Giulio Augustus Mugg, amateur artist and musician, and Mr. Chowdler, ex-host of the Magpie and Stump, a worthy not much disposed to adapt himself to foreigners or foreign manners and customs. Mrs. Case, however, can hardly be complimented on her assumption of the character of Miss McDurk, a strong-minded Scotch lady, with a hatred of foreign music, and a decided partiality for the bagpipes. As in the case of most artistes, the Doric is the great stumbling-block to Mrs. Case's success. The new entertainment is a very brief one, occupying little more than an hour of time . . .

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (12 December 1864), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155017733

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Case have now entered upon the last week of their performances in Melbourne . . . and on Thursday Mr. Geo. Isaacs, the writer of "Our Trip to the Rhine," takes his benefit.

[News], The Argus (13 July 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5772056

Madame Stuttaford has just set a pleasing song, entitled "The Myrtle," by Mr. G. Isaacs, to music, which will not do discredit to our rising school of Australian composers. The melody is sweet and flowing.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charlotte Stuttaford (composer, vocalist)

[News], The Argus (10 August 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5780829

A pretty musical brochure, "The Myrtle," the manuscript of which was favourably noticed in The Argus a few weeks ago for the charming sweetness and simplicity of its composition, is now placed within easy reach of the music loving portion of the public at a very moderate price, having been lithographed in excellent style by Messrs. Ferguson and Mitchell, and being procurable at all music sellers." The piece is dedicated by the composer, Madame Stuttaford, to her pupils.

ASSOCIATIONS: James Fergusson and John Mitchell (lithographers, printers); no copy of this original print is known to survive; however, see the Toronto sheet music edition here

"REVIEW", The Adelaide Express (5 September 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207603808

Rhyme and Prose, and a Burlesque and its History, by George Isaacs; Melbourne, 1865.
The Myrtle. - A Song. Words by George Isaacs; music by Madame Stuttaford.

Mr. George Isaacs is not unknown in this colony as a writer, and under the signature of "A Pendragon" he has more than once published short poems and sketches of considerable merit. About four years and a half ago he edited a little magazine here called Number One which however, like all the efforts at magazines in Adelaide, had a very short life. He has also written for the stage, both here and in Melbourne . . . The last part of Mr. Isaacs's book is occupied with a burlesque entitled "Frankenstein," a novel and capital adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's celebrated sensational story. From the "history" of the burlesque we gather that owing to some disagreement with the theatrical managers in Melbourne it has not as yet been produced . . . With regard to the song, the words are pretty and the music tolerably good of its class. It is well and clearly printed.

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (5 December 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41031702

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE. SOIREE.
The next QUARTERLY SOIREE will take place on Tuesday, December 18, in the TOWN HALL.
The LECTURE will be delivered by Mr. GEO. LODER.
Subject - "The Origin, Rise, and Progress of English Song."
The Musical portion of the Evening's Entertainment will consist entirely of Vocal and Instrumental Pieces illustrative of the Lecture. These will include, among others, the earliest specimens of Anglo-Saxon Minstrelsy, the Music of the Troubadours and the Jongleurs, Ancient Dance Tunes, Jovial Glees, a Love Song composed by Henry VIII, Music of Shakspeare, "Barbara Allen," Tabor and Pipe Music, Maypole Dance, "Cease your Funning," the Ballads of the Present Day, &c., &c.
The Musical Illustrations will be given by Mrs. Geo. Loder and Messrs. Geo. Loder, J. E. Lake, J. S. Scotland, Pappin, Heydecke, F. Heydecke, and Schrader . . .
ROBT. KAY, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: George and Emma Loder (musicians, vocalists); James Stratton Scotland (vocalist); Thomas Green Pappin (vocalist); Theodor and Fritz Heydecke (musicians); Heinrich Schrader (musician); South Australian Institute (association)

"THE LATE MR. GEORGE ISAACS", South Australian Register (15 February 1876), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43012974

A man of ability, whose career, however, has been chequered and certainly not successful, has just passed away. Mr George Isaacs, long known in the literary world of South Australia as the writer of sketches, poems, tales, and satirical pieces with the signature of "A. Pendragon", died at the Union Inn, Waymouth-street, at 6 o'clock on Monday evening, the 14th inst, after a short illness. The deceased in 1858 published in parts, pamphlet form, his earliest work of any note, a colonial romance, styled "The Queen of the South", intended to picture Victorian life in the early days of the diggings. This was issued at Gawler, and in that town the author was for some time a leading spirit, taking a part we believe in the doings of the still celebrated Humbug Society. He was connected with the Critic, a satirical publication which appeared in Adelaide, and fugitive contributions in prose and verse from his pen found their way occasionally into the columns of the city and country Press. He wrote some clever papers about debt and debtors seven or eight years ago for the Observer, and he published by subscription a small volume of fancy sketches and poetry entitled "Not for Sale." Later Mr. Isaacs started and conducted a weekly in the interests of the licensed victuallers. He was born in London, where his father was collector and salesman of antiquarian curiosities, and Mr. Isaacs was himself a member of the Archeological Society. His fiction was pleasingly written, albeit at times somewhat overstrained; his verse was easy and flowing, while his ironical productions were often caustic and scathing. He was a thorough Bohemian with apparently no fixed object in life, and a want of application and lack of continuous energy that prevented the possibility of his prospering. To many, however, the announcement of his death will cause regret.

Relevant publications:

"The myrtle" [Twine tender blossoms round his brow . . .], in Number one, edited by A. Pendragon (Adelaide: Rigby, 1861), 31

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-457327816/view?partId=nla.obj-457335929#page/n32/mode/1up (DIGITISED)

The myrtle [words: George Isaacs; music: Charlotte Stuttaford] (Toronto: A. & S. Nordheimer, [n.d.])

https://archive.org/details/CSM_002344/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

"The myrtle" (reprinted, 38) and "The burlesque of Frankenstein" (99-128), in Rhyme and prose; and, A burlesque, and its history, by George Isaacs (Melbourne: Clarson, Shallard and Co., 1865)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/207050514

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/201734 (DIGITISED)

CONTENTS: The burlesque includes the following new lyrics for musical numbers to nominated pre-existing tunes:
"Break-down" [Adam was the first of men] (102);
"Oh when shall I be marri-ed" (Air: Buy a broom) (105);
"I'm blest if I know how I came here" (Air: Nix my dolly) (107-08);
"Take 'em all, both woman and man (air: Pop goes the weasel) (113);
"Now at my feet you're laying" (Duet, air, from Il puritani [Donizetti], Sound, sound the trumpet) (115);
Here's a health to ourselves, and a lasting peace (Air: Down among the dead men) (118);
"Though your mamma, and your papa" (Dance and song, air, Auld lang syne) (123);
"I'm a broken-hearted lover (Song, air: Poor Mary Ann) (125);
"We're all the way from Switzerland" ([Finale], air: We're all the way from Manchester) (127)

ASSOCIATIONS: Clarson, Shallard, and Co. (publishers)

Sources of the 1866 song lecture:

George Isaacs, scrapbook; State Library of South Australia, MS. D Piece (Archival), D 6668 (Misc)

https://catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2174706

Includes 2 letters, George Loder to George Isaacs, Adelaide, [10 November 1866]; and draft synopsis of part 1 of lecture entitled "The origin, rise & progress of British song, from the earliest Anglo Saxon period to the present time; illustrated by numerous vocal and instrumental examples . . .", delivered by Loder at the South Australian Institute on 18 December 1866

See main entry on Loder for copies and transcriptions of the relevant documentation

Other sources:

Samuel Gason (ed. George Isaacs), "The Dieyerie tribe of Australian Aborigines", in J. D. Woods (ed.), Native tribes of South Australia (Adelaide: E. S. Wigg & Son, 1874), 253–307; and repaginated offprint (Adelaide: W. C. Cox, 1874), 1-51

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/243635 (OFFPRINT DIGITISED)

INCLUDES: Specific information on song and dance of the Diyari people, collected by Samuel Gason (1845-1897), a police trooper, 1865-74; Isaacs' editor's note: "The part I have had in the production of this work is so very subordinate, that I would willingly have omitted my name to it . . . I did little more than arrange and classify the interesting papers confided to my charge."

Bibliography and resources:

Anne Elizabeth Black, The life and work of George Isaacs (Ph.D thesis, University of Adelaide, 2016)

https://hdl.handle.net/2440/129936 (DIGITISED)

In addition to materials mentioned above, notes letter (20 August 1845) from English composer George Alexander Macfarren concerning a song (18)

Anne Black, Pendragon: the life of George Isaacs, colonial wordsmith (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2020)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/239139431

ISAACS, Thomas (Thomas Isaac BETON, alias Thomas ISAACS)

Lithographer, printer

Born Mile End, London, England, 1813; baptised Christ Church, Spitalfields, 11 July 1813; son of Thomas BETON and Mary DUIE
Convicted theft, Old Bailey, London, 15 February 1832 (aged "17")
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 29 December 1832 (per York)
Active Hobart, TAS, 1851

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1487295 (NLA persistent identifier)

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Summary:

Isaacs received his certificate of freedom in 1842 while employed by William Gore Elliston, editor and publisher of the Hobart Town Courier.

A Thomas Isaacs, described as a laborer, aged 45, died in Launceston on 1 May 1853 of inflammatory lung disease.

Documentation:

THOMAS ISAACS, alias BETON, 16th February 1832; Old Bailey online

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18320216-59-defend560&div=t18320216-59

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=183202160028 (DIGITISED)

564. THOMAS ISAACS, alias BETON, was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of January, 140 yards of printed cotton, value 3l., the goods of Thomas Darke Allin and another . . .
GUILTY. Aged 17. - Transported for Seven Years.

Convict record, Thomas Isaacs, alias Thomas Isaacs Beton; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1372861; CON31-1-24 Image 14

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1372861

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-24$init=CON31-1-24P14 (DIGITISED)

Isaacs Thos. als. Thos. Isaacs Beton / York (2) 29 December 1832 / London 15th February 1833 / Transported for Larceny . . .

"GOVERNMENT NOTICE. No. 74. Colonial Secretary's Office, 5th March, 1842", The Courier (18 March 1842), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2954621

The periods for which the under-mentioned persons were transported expiring at the date placed after their respective names, Certificates of their Freedom may be obtained then . . .:
. . . York 2 - Thomas Isaacs, alias Thomas Isaacs Beton, 5th March . . .

[Advertisement], The Courier (26 March 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961150

THOMAS ISAACS, 3, OLD MARKET PLACE, LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTER,
(Late Workman to J. S. PROUT, Esq., and Messrs. T. BROWNE and R. V. HOOD),
BEGS to inform the Inhabitants of Hobart Town and Van Diemen's Land that, having just received a
LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS and appurtenances from England of the latest and most approved construction, and of larger dimensions than any hitherto in use in this Colony, (selected by J. S. Prout, Esq., from the celebrated establishment of Day & Sons), he is prepared to execute Landscapes, Drawings, and Portraits; also Commerical Lithography, Circulars, Labels, Plans of Estates, Maps, Engineering Works; together with Chromo-lithography, and every branch of the business, with punctuality and dispatch; and he trusts he may be honoured with a share of their patronage and support.
N.B. - Artists supplied with chalks and stones.
March 24.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Skinner Prout (artist); Thomas Browne (printer); Robin Vaughan Hood (printer)

Musical edition:

Welcome to the Spring polka, composed and dedicated to the ladies of Tasmania, by J. S. Imberg (Hobart Town: T. Isaacs, litho., [1851])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9854839

https://stors.tas.gov.au/ILS/SD_ILS-573363 (DIGITISED)

ASSOCIATIONS: Julius Imberg (composer)

Bibliography and resources:

Thomas Isaacs, Design & art Australia online (DAAO)

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/thomas-isaacs

ISSELL, Henri (Henry Walter ISSELL; Henri ISSELL; Harry ISSELL)

Bandmaster, conductor (The Curlew Orchestra), musicseller, composer

Born Prahran, VIC, 1862; son of Robert William ISSELL and Jane Augusta SHAW
Died Mornington, VIC, 17 April 1924

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-I.php#ISSELL-Henri (shareable link to this entry)

ISSELL, Louis Vernon (Louis Vernon ISSELL)

Amateur vocalist and orchestral player

Born Melbourne, VIC, 1887
Died Hobart, TAS, July 1947, aged 60

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

Documentation:

"MARRIED", The Argus (11 May 1886), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6095548

"THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION", The Argus (20 June 1888), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6134008

[Advertisement], The Mercury (15 October 1892), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13269473

"OBITUARY. MR. L. V. ISSELL", Examiner (31 July 1947), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52599467

IVEMAY, Mrs. (Mrs. IVEMAY)

Musician, pianist

Active Balmain, NSW, by 1859

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

Documentation:

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

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

SCHOOL OF ARTS, BALMAIN. -
Madame CLEMENTE (from the Italian Opera House and Hanover Square Concert Rooms, London).
This celebrated vocalist, who has given so much gratification to those before whom she has had the honour to appear, begs to acquaint the inhabitants of Balmain and Sydney, that she will give a grand
CONCERT, on THURSDAY EVENING, 24th instant, and will be assisted by several eminent artistes.
PROGRAMME. PART I.
Trio - The Wreath (Mazzinghi)
Song - The Slave Ship (Russell) - Mr. Lameroux
Ballad - Kathleen Mavourneen (Crouch) - Mde. Clemente
Aria - The heart bowed down (Balfe) - Mr. Levison
Solo, Violin - Fantasia on favourite airs (Peck) - Mr. Peck
Song - Beautiful Venice (Knight) - Mr. West
Duett - Singing Lessons (Barnett) - Mrs. Ivemay and Mr. Levison
Glee - The Red Cross Knight (Calcott).
PART II.
Glee - The Chough and Crow (Bishop)
Song - Trim the Lamp (T. Cooke) - Mr. Lameroux
Irish ballad - The Harp that once - Mr. West.
Scena - Casta Diva, Norma (Bellini) - Mde. Clemente
Cavatina - Hear me, gentle Maritana (Wallace), with violin obligato, Mr. Peck - Mr. Levison
Ballad - The Last Rose of Summer - Mde. Clemente
Song - The Wolf is out (T. Cooke) - Mr. Lameroux
Finale - National Anthem.
Mrs. Ivemay will preside at the Piano.
Solo Violin, Mr. Peck.
Front seats, 3s.; back seats, 1s. Doors open at half past 7, concert to commence at 8.
Steamer will run till 11 p.m.

ASSOCIATIONS: Monsieur Lamoureux = Henry Osborn Thompson (vocalist); John Leveson (vocalist); George Peck (violinist)

IVERSON, Louis (Ludwig IVERSON; Louis IVERSON)

Musician, professor of music, violinist, pupil of Ole Bull

Born Denmark, c. 1828/29
Active Melbourne, VIC, by April 1854
Died Albury, NSW, 15 January 1897, aged 69 years

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Louis+Iverson+d1897 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (22 April 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4806250

CRITERION HALL, Criterion Hotel, Great Collins-street, Melbourne.
Grand Concert Promenade (a la Gungl) THIS EVENING (Saturday), 22nd April, 1854.
Madame Maria Carandini, accompanied by Mons Lavenu, Ali-Ben Sou-Alle, Herr Strebinger, Mons. Iverson, Herr Harendorff, Mr. George Chapman, Mons. Frank Koehler, Mr. Johnson, and a full orchestra, carefully selected from the best talent of the Colony . . .
Leader of the Orchestra - Herr Strebinger.
Conductor - Mr George Chapman.

"MELBOURNE. CRITERION HALL", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 April 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1295690

WE have Melbourne and Geelong papers to the 24th instant. The following are extracts . . .

CRITERION HALL. - We were agreeably surprised on Saturday evening by the splendid performances of a new violinist, Herr Iverson, who bids fair to become a dangerous rival to Herr Strebinger. His execution is brilliant, as was shown in his playing "Yankee Doodle" of Vieuxtemps, which was rapturously encored. The tone of his instrument is very beautiful, and we listened to the "Tyrolienne" with great pleasure. Madame Carandini was in splendid voice; the Turk played beautifully, and with the exception of the orchestra, every performance was first-rate.

? [Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (10 June 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4809237

ROWE'S CIRCUS. Concert Extraordinary . . .
on Saturday evening, June 10th 1854 . . .
Ole Bull (a Nephew of the celebrated Violinist of that name, and equally talented) will perform a Solo on the Violin, "Home Sweet Home" . . .
A Solo by Ole Bull, Violinist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Rowe's American Circus (Melbourne venue)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (21 August 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91934771

MUSIC HALL, GEELONG HOTEL, MR. ALBERT'S first select Quadrille Assembly will take place on Thursday next, August 24th, entitled L'UNION DU BEAU MONDE.
The partakers will be surprised about the finest English Dancing music ever heard in the Colonies.
The most celebrated violinist, pupil of Ole Bull, Mr. L. Iverson, will play in the orchestra.
Tickets, 10s. Ladies five. To be had at the Gamekeepers, Victoria, British, Bellevue, and Geelong Hotels.

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 February 1855), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4804067

AUGUST EHRLICH, who came out in the vessel Undine, from Hamburgh, please communicate with L. Iverson, Post Office, Ballaarat. A letter for you at the Argus Hotel. 548 feb 12

"TARRANGOWER. German Concert", Mount Alexander Mail (23 October 1857), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197084195

The concert for the benefit of Professor Neuermeyer's magnetic observatory went off with great eclat on Wednesday evening. The stars of the evening were Herren Siede and Iverson, the former on the flute and the latter on the violin. Herr Julius Siede has been too long known as a first class performer to need any praise. Suffice it to say that on Tarrangower he proved that his reputation was well deserved. Herr Iverson, though an amateur, performed solos on the violin in a manner to he equalled, but not excelled, only by Miska Hauser, with whom he was a fellow pupil. Indeed many persons preferred his playing to that of his more celebrated confrere. Several English songs were excellently sung by Herr Emil Pohl, who arrived here from Ballarat expressly for the purpose of assisting (as an amateur) in this entertainment. Several first-rate songs were sung by Dr. Kupferbarg, among them the Marsellaise [sic], which was sung in a most spirited style. The full choruses were excellent. The entertainment, by far the most perfect we have yet had, terminated with "Rule Britannia," in full chorus. The room was then cleared for dancing, which continued till past 5 next morning, when the company separated, well pleased with the bill of fare presented to them.

"TARRANGOWER. GERMAN DINNER", Mount Alexander Mail (24 May 1858), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197085846

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (9 September 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199049881

PROSPECTUS OF THE PERSEVERANCE QUARTZ MINING ASSOCIATION, WATTLE GULLY, TARRANGOWER . . . MANAGING COMMITTEE . . . Treasurer, Mr. Ludwig Iverson . . .

[Advertisement], The McIvor Times and Rodney Advertiser (21 August 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93691775

L. IVERSON, Teacher of Music, Heathcote Hotel.

"MR. IVERSON'S FAREWELL BENEFIT", The McIvor Times and Rodney Advertiser (15 July 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90362196

It is seldom that we see such a crowded house for the benefit of an individual as that which assembled on Wednesday night as it were to bid farewell to Mr. Iverson, who is leaving the colony for South Australia. This mark of respect to an old resident, is creditable to the district, and plainly shows that talent, combined with the best qualities of our nature, are appreciated in our society . . . Mr. Iverson was compelled to apologise for not being able to redeem his promise to play a solo on the violin, in consequence of an accident, in which he cut his hand so as to disable it.

"TANUNDA", Adelaide Observer (9 September 1865), 2 supplement

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159497701

The Leichardt entertainments are over, and have turned out a complete success and far beyond our highest expectations. As an introduction to the grand concert on the 5th the Rev. Dr. Muecke delivered a lecture on Leichardt on the 1st September . . . No. 5, a solo on the violin "Elegie," by Ernst was performed by Mr. Iverson, a gentleman of high talent, I think it is the first time Mr. Iverson has made his appearance in public among us, and he has established himself at once as a favourite. The "Elegie," a difficult concert piece, was played with great taste, delicacy, and deep expression. Mr. Iverson may confidently be numbered among our first-class violinists in the colonies . . .

"OBITUARY", Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (22 January 1897), 23

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99417820

. . . We mentioned in our last issue that Mr. L. Iverson, professor of music, was in a very precarious condition, and it is now our painful duty to record his death, which took place on Friday. Mr. Iverson was a native of Denmark, and at a very early age evinced so decided a talent for music that his parents decided to train him for that profession. With this view he was sent to the Vienna Conservatoire, the training ground of so many high-class musicians. Early in the sixties [sic] he migrated to Australia, and like most of the early immigrants tried his luck at gold mining. He was not favored by fortune in his mining adventures, and he settled for some years in South Australia, afterwards coming to Albury where he practiced his profession, and was recognised as a musician of exceptional abilities. He was undoubtedly the best violinist ever resident in the town. At the time of the Centennial Exhibition he received special inducements to remove to Melbourne, where he remained until quite recently, and had a good connection. In the latter part of last year he decided to return to his old quarters, and he was just commencing to re-establish himself here, when attacked by the illness which unhappily proved fatal. Mr. Iverson, who was a widower, leaves a family of three sons and two daughters. The latter, like their father, are highly talented musicians, and with him, had just commenced the work of tuition in vocal and instrumental music.

[News], Wodonga and Towong Sentinel (22 January 1897), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69542288

IZARD, Henry John (Henry John IZARD; H. J. IZARD; Mr. IZARD)

Musician, vocalist, viola player, oboe player, bandmaster, piano tuner, organ repairer, shoemaker

Born London, England, 1 January 1822; baptised St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, 22 April 1822; son of Thomas IZARD and Julia WHITE
Married Isabella Hobden BOWLEY (1829-1888), St. Nicholas, Brighton, England, 5 February 1849
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 22 December 1852 (per Syria, from Plymouth, 12 September, "Isard", aged "30")
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 6 July 1903, "in his 83rd year"

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IZARD, Henry John William (Henry John William IZARD)

Music salesman

Born Collingwood, VIC, 1861; son of Henry John IZARD and Isabella Hobden BOWLEY
Died Fitzroy, VIC, 25 August 1936, aged 75

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Henry+John+William+Izard+1861-1936 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-P-2.php#IZARD-Henry-John-William (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

England census, 30 March 1851, Kemp Town, Brighton, Sussex; UK National Archives, HO 107/1644

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/SSXHO107_1643_1644-0247 (PAYWALL)

Thomas Izard / Head / 70 / . . . / [born] Westminster
Julia [Izard] / Wife / 56 / - / [born] Surrey
Henry John [Izard] / Son / 29 / Shoemaker / [born] Mid. Shoeditch
Isabella [Izard] / Daughter in law / 22 / - / [born] Surrey Brighton
Julia [Izard] / Gran. Daur. / 2 / - / [born Surrey Brighton]
Eleanor [Izard] / [Gran. Daur.] / 6 mths / - / [born Surrey Brighton]

[Advertisement], The Banner (16 September 1853), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article179481219

VOCAL MUSIC. COMPETENT AMATEURS are respectfully invited to assist in the formation of a GLEE AND MADRIGAL SOCIETY. Apply to J. Kenyon, Smith Street, and Mr. Izard, Oxford Street, Collingwood.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Kenyon

[Advertisement], The Argus (26 October 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799436

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION, Melbourne, 1854. This Evening, Thursday, October 26th.
The Philharmonic Society will perform a Selection from Handel's Grand Oratorio of JUDAS MACCABAEUS.
Principal Vocalists: Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Hancock, Miss Edwards, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. J. King.
Principal Instrumentalists: Violins - Messrs. Griffiths, King, Fleury, Strebinger, Wm. Radford, M. Radford, Ryder, Pietzker, Fischer, Newton, Lewis, and Hurst; Violas - Messrs. Thomas, King, Izard; Violoncellos - Messrs. Reed, Hailes, and Kent; Basso - Messrs. Hardman, Gover, and Harndorf; Flute - Mr. Cooze; Clarionets - Messrs. Johnson and King; Bassoon - Messrs. Biggs and McCay; Trumpet - Mr. Lewellyn; Trombones - Messrs. Phair, Macnamara, and Trystram; Ophecleide - Mr. Hartigan; Horns - Messrs. Kohler and Naughton;
Leader - Mr. Joseph Griffiths; Conductor - Mr. Jno. Russell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (conductor); Joseph Griffiths (leader); Edward King (violin); Herbert Thomas (viola); Alfred King (viola); Thomas King (clarinet); Melbourne Philharmonic Society

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

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

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION, Melbourne, 1854.
On Friday, November 3rd, The PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Will perform Handel's Grand Oratorio, THE MESSIAH . . .
Violas - Messrs. Thomas, King, Izard . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 November 1854), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4800073

VICTORIAN EXHIBITION . . . Friday Evening, November 10th.
The Philharmonic Society will perform a selection from Handel's Grand Oratorio of Judas Maccabaeus . . .
Violas - Messrs. Thomas, King, Izard . . .

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

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VICTORIAN EXHIBITION . . . THIS EVENING, November 24th, 1854,
The Philharmonic Society, assisted by the leading Professional Talent of the Colony, will perform a Grand Miscellaneous Vocal and Instrumental Concert . . .
Violas - Messrs. Thomas, King, Izard . . .

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

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VICTORIAN EXHIBITION . . . THIS EVENING,
The Philharmonic Society, assisted by the leading professional talent of the Colony, will perform a Grand Miscellaneous Vocal and Instrumental Concert . . .
Violas - Messrs. Thomas, King, Izard . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 February 1857), 8

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COLLINGWOOD MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
GRAND SOIREE MUSICALE SOIREE Will be given
On Monday Evening, 10th February, At the Collingwood Assembly Hall, Gertrude-street.
Programme - Part I.
Glee and Chorus - "Village Choristers," Master C. Cooke, assisted by the Company.
Reading from Serjeant Talfourd's Tragedy of Ion - Mr. Hayward.
Duet, flute and piano - Messrs. Hornidge and Montague.
Song - "Farewell my Country," Mr. Izard.
Song- "Little Nell," Mrs. Andrews.
Song - "The Pilot," Mr. Blanchard.
Song - "Excelsior," Mrs. Goodliffe.
Glee - "Life's a Bumper," Messrs. Allen, Izard, and Blanchard.
Rule Britannia - By the Company.
Interval of Ten Minutes.
Part II.
Glee - "Awake AEolian Harp," Mrs. Goodliffe, Messrs. Tate, Allen, and Blanchard.
Collins's Ode to the Passions, "Daniels v. Dishclout," recitations - Mr. Hayward.
Song and flute obllgato - Mrs. Goodliffe, flute, Mr. Hornidge.
Song - "Women or England," Mr. Izard.
Glee - "Poculum," Messrs. Tate, Hornidge, Izard, and Elliot.
Song- "Sweet Dream of Life," Mrs. Andrews.
The Witches' Glee - Messrs. Tate, Hornidge, and Blanchard.
Full Company - "Now Pray we for our Country."
God Save the Queen - By the Company.
Accompanist - Mr. Montague . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Anne Goodliffe (vocalist); Charles Cook (vocalist); Theresa Shirley Andrew (vocalist); John Pryce Hornidge (vocalist); Charles Blanchard (vocalist); Alfred Montague (piano)

[Advertisement], The Argus (12 December 1859), 8

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MR. OATES'S COLLINGWOOD GLEE COMPANY. - A miscellaneous CONCERT, under the patronage of G. M. Stephen, Esq, M.L.A.; C. J. Don, Esq., M.L.A., and the Municipal Council of East Collingwood, will be held in the National Hall, King William-street, THIS (Monday) EVENING, December 12. Principal soloists - Miss S. Mortley, Master Johnson, Mr. Izard, Mr. Amery, and Mr. Wilson. Pianist - Miss Smith. Doors open at 7 o'clock; to commence precisely at half-past. Tickets, 2s, each ; reserved scats, 3s. 6d.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Oates (singing class instructor); Sarah Mortley (vocalist); Master Johnson (vocalist); Edwin Amery (vocalist)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (7 July 1860), 4

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Last evening a miscellaneous concert was held at St. Mark's, School-room, George-street, Fitzroy, for the purpose of raising funds to assist in liquidating the debt on St. Mark's church. The concert, which was numerously attended, was given by Mr. T. Oates' singing class, assisted by Miss Mortley, the Misses Watson, and Messrs. Izard, Amery, and Wilson; Messrs. Ashton and Litolff presiding at the piano . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Litolff (piano)

[Advertisement], The Argus (22 May 1861), 8

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MUSICAL UNION.
GRAND CONCERT, in aid of the Fund for Relief of the Widows and orphans of the Soldiers of the 40th Regiment who have fallen in New Zealand, will be given in the
EXHIBITION BUILDING, THIS EVENING, MAY 22 . . .
Frincipal Violin - Mr. A. J. LESLIE.
Conductor - Mr. G. R. G. PRINGLE . . .
LIST of the ORCHESTRA . . . Violas - Messrs. Thomas, Cousins, Hines, Izard, Jolly . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Pringle (conductor); Alexander Leslie (leader, violin); Musical Union

[Advertisement], The Argus (8 July 1861), 1

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ORGANIST WANTED. Apply by letter Secretary, Saint Mark's, Mr. Izard's, Moor-street. Testimonials or character required.

[Advertisement], The Argus (27 February 1863), 1

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WANTED, a LEADING SOPRANO, for St. Mark's choir, Fitzroy. Applications to be addressed to the organist, care of Mr. Izard, 159, George-street, Fitzroy.

[Advertisement], The Argus (15 May 1863), 8

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FITZROY YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
A PUBLIC SOIREE Will be hold in St. Mark's Schoolrooms, George-street, Fitzroy, THIS EVENING, MAY 15 . . . Tickets, 1s, 6d. each, may be obtained of Mr. Izard, sexton of St. Mark's Church, George-stree, Fitzroy . . .

[News], The Argus (17 January 1865), 4

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The annual meeting of members of the East Collingwood Volunteer Rifle Company was held at the orderly-room, Victoria-parade, last evening . . . The following were the committee elected . . . and Mr. Izard re-elected bandmaster.

"BALLARAT HARMONIC SOCIETY", The Ballarat Star (26 October 1866), 2

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The production of Haydn's "Seasons" by the Ballarat Harmonic Society is one more addition to the triumphs of that body . . . Mr. Robson, as usual acted as conductor, Mr. T. King, as leader, and Miss Binder as harmoniumist . . . the band, which was fuller than usual, was reinforced by several instruments from the metropolis. The band was composed as follows: - First violins, - Mr. T. King, Mr. Thomas, principal violin, Melbourne Philharmonic Society . . . oboe - Mr. Izard . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Robson (conductor); Thomas King (violin); Herbert Thomas (violin)

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 June 1867), 8

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MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
Mendelssohn's ELIJAH, In the PRINCESS'S THEATRE, THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING, JUNE 4, 1867 . . .
Oboes - Mr. Schott; Mr. Izard . . .
Conductor, Mr. DAVID LEE . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: David Lee (conductor); James Arthur Schott (oboe)

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", The Argus (24 June 1868), 5

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. . . The oratorio was preluded by Handel's "Occasional Overture," which was well played by the orchestra, and in the third movement of which Mr. Izard's hautboy obligato may be honourably mentioned . . .

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (10 November 1868), 2

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A vocal and instrumental concert was given last night in the Princess's Theatre, under the patronage of the U.M.D. officers of the Ancient Order of Foresters . . . The singers were Mrs. Perraton, Misses Easdown and F. Bassett; Messrs W. H. Williams, W. Perraton, S. Angus and J. Wilson; and the instrumentalists were Mr. F. W. Towers, pianist, and Mr. H. J. Izard on the oboe, most of whom are well known in musical circles . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Towers (piano); William Henry Williams (vocalist); Silvanus Angus (vocalist); William and Mary Ann Perraton (vocalists); Florence Bassett (vocalist): Louisa or Percy Easdown (vocalist)

"A SENSATIONAL ROBBERY REPORTED", The Age (4 December 1886), 9

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An extraordinary robbery was reported yesterday to the police by Henry John William Izard, describing himself as a music salesman, residing at 153 Gore-street, Fitzroy . . .

"MR. G. B. ALLEN'S CONCERT", The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian (15 October 1870), 8

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The Prahran Town Hall was attended last Wednesday evening by about 150 of the creme de la creme of the elite of Toorak, South Yarra, and East St. Kilda . . . The post of honor in the music was occupied by Mr. Allen's Cantata, styled, "The Vintage of the Rhine," the libretto being by an author, who glories in the name or "nom" de gucerre of Wellington Guernsey . . . The orchestra consisted of piano, four hands (Mr. Allen and a well-known Amateur); flute (Mr. Hornidge), oboe (Mr. Izard), with Mr. S. Kaye as conductor . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Benjamin Allen (composer, piano); Samuel Kaye (conductor)

[Advertisement], The Argus (22 December 1879), 8

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INTERCOLONIAL JUVENILE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION . . .
PROGRAMME FOR WEEK ENDING 27th. Conductor - Mr. J. SUMMERS . . .
Exhibition Band - Principals - Messrs. Weston, Curtis, Wright, Levey, Sutch, Pethebridge, Montague, Weinberg, Wallenstein, Levey, Weideman sen;, Weideman jun;, Litolf, &c., Herman, Chapman, Brown, Peters, Wilson, Thorne, Scarborough, Hornidge, Hardman, Oxley, Izard, Brown, Wakefield, Leyden, King, Kohler, Verso, Hore, Lawson, Richardson, Deimling, White . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Summers (conductor)

[Advertisement], The Age (10 August 1880), 4

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COLLINGWOOD FIFE AND DRUM BAND.- NO PRACTICE this evening, POSTPONED till Friday. H. J. W. Izard, sec.

"DEATHS", The Argus (4 October 1888), 1

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IZARD. - On the 3rd inst., at George-street, Fitzroy (suddenly), Isabella Hobden, the dearly-beloved wife of Henry John Izard, aged 59, late of Brighton, Sussex, England. Deeply regretted by all who knew her. "Maternal love, thou word of bliss."

"DEATHS", The Argus (7 July 1903), 1

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IZARD. - On the 6th July, at his late residence, 257 George-street, Fitzroy, Henry John Izard, in his 83rd year. Formerly Brighton (Sussex), England. Colonist of 51 years. At rest.

"DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT", Fitzroy City Press (10 July 1903), 3

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Fifty-one years residence is some what of a record in a young country. Since the late Mr. Izard came to Fitzroy in the early fifties, not only this city but the metropolis and the State have undergone vast changes. He has just passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-three years, and his funeral was attended by many old identities. He was of a genial and kindly disposition, but had indifferent health for some time past.

Probate papers, Henry John Izard, late of Fitzroy . . . Pianoforte tuner, deceased; Public Record Office Victoria, VPRS 7591

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/61315/00028-p0002-000672-1060-00000 (PAYWALL)

"DEATHS", The Argus (29 August 1936), 7

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IZARD. - Henry John William (suddenly) 257 George Street, Fitzroy, eldest son of the late Henry and Isabella Izard, loved brother of Julia (Mrs. Bowley deceased), Eleanor (Mrs. Goodsell deceased), Emma (deceased), Henrietta (Mrs. Best), Rosa (Mrs. Richmond), Ada (Mrs. Whiting), Thomas, aged 75 (Privately Interred.)

Bibliography and resources:

E. N. Matthews, Colonial organs and organbuilders (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1969), 3, 134

[134] ST. MARK'S FITZROY . . . March 1855, second organ, of 14 stops with mahogany case, built by Forster & Andrews, Hull, erected by H. J. Izard for £14 . . . tuning and maintenance by Izard, the church sexton until 1857 when Jesse Biggs took over. 1858 organist [Thomas Oates] reported organ "was in a disgraceful state, both as regards pipes and action. Some notes will not speak at all; others say a good deal too much" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jesse Biggs (organ builder); Thomas Oates (organist)

The University of Sydney - Australharmony

A biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–I

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ICELY, Eliza (ELiza ICELY; Miss Eliza ICELY)

I'ERSON, Thomas William (Thomas William JERSON; I'ERSON; T. W. I'ERSON; l'ERSON; L'ERSON [sic])

IKIN, William (William IKIN)

ILSEY, Robert (Robert William ILSEY; Robert ILSEY; Mr. HILLSEY; ILSAY; Robert William ILLSLEY)

IMBERG, Julius (Julius Samuel IMBERG; Herr IMBERG; Julius IMBERG; J. S. IMBERG)

IMHOFF

INGLES, George (George INGLES; Mr. INGLES)

INGRAM, James (James INGRAM)

INKERSOLE, Hannah (Hannah DANIELL; Mrs. INKERSOLE; late Miss DANIELL)

INNES, John (John INNES)

IRBY, Mr.

IRONSIDE, Frederick James (Frederick James IRONSIDE; IRONSIDES; F. J. IRONSIDE)

IRWIN, Mr. (Mr. IRWIN)

IRWIN, John (John IRWIN)

IRWIN, William (William IRWIN; Wm. IRWIN)

ISAACS, Edward (Edward ISAACS)

ISAACS, George (George Samuel ISAACS; George ISAACS; alias "A. PENDRAGON"; "PENDRAGON")

ISAACS, Thomas (Thomas Isaac BETON, alias Thomas ISAACS)

ISSELL, Henri (Henry Walter ISSELL; Henri ISSELL; Harry ISSELL)

ISSELL, Louis Vernon (Louis Vernon ISSELL)

IVEMAY, Mrs. (Mrs. IVEMAY)

IVERSON, Louis (Ludwig IVERSON; Louis IVERSON)

IZARD, Henry John (Henry John IZARD; H. J. IZARD; Mr. IZARD)

IZARD, Henry John William (Henry John William IZARD)