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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 May 2021, 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.

RAAKE, Gotthard (Gotthard RAAKE; also Gothard, Godard; Francis Gotthard Richard RAAKE)

Teacher of music, professor of languages, convict, forger, larcenist

Born Warsaw, Poland, 1806 (? 1807)
Convicted Central Criminal Court, London, England, 9 July 1838; transportation for life
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 1 September 1839 (convict, per Parkfield)
Convicted Campbelltown, NSW, 18 November 1840; (secondary) transportation for life
Arrived Norfolk Island, c. late 1840
Arrived Hobart Town, TAS, 12 October 1845 (per Lady Franklin, from Norfolk Island)
Married Maria LAMBERD (1832-1932), St. Thomas's church, Avoca, TAS, 14 October 1852
Died Avoca, TAS, 23 September 1883, "aged 76 yrs & 7 months" (headstone)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Gotthard+Raake+d1883 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAAKE-Gotthard (shareable link to this entry)

RAAKE, Elsie (Regina Elsie Alice RAAKE; Elsie RAAKE)

Organist

Born Fingal, TAS, 1 May 1871
Died Launceston, TAS, 29 October 1940

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAAKE-Elsie (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

England (1837-38):

"COUNTY PUBLIC OFFICE, SATURDAY, April 22 . . . SUSPICIOUS CASE", Leicestershire Mercury (29 April 1837), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000298/18370429/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

In our last week's Mercury we noticed that two silver table-spoons had been detained by a pawnbroker, and that they were lying the Station-house to be owned: since then the following circumstances have come to light in connection with them: - On Friday evening a countryman came to the Station-house and informed Mr. Goodyer that, while digging by the side the Knighton-road, he had found four silver table-spoons, a quantity of tea-spoons, and some eyeglasses, wrapped up in an old stocking, marked P. S. To Mr. Goodyer's surprise the four table-spoons precisely corresponded with the two already his possession, some of them having the name of "Lisseter" engraved on them, while on the others had been filed off. Learning that the spoons which had been detained at Mr. Watson's were brought by a Mrs. Knight, of Colton-street, Mr. Goodyer next inquired how they came into her possession, and she informed him that a German who was courting one of her lodgers (Ann Sherrin) asked her to pawn them for him, but that he left her house abruptly on hearing that the spoons were detained, and had not been seen since. Subsequently it was discovered that a German named FELIZ MYERS had been lodging at Mr. Mason's, Dover-street, in company with a young man of the name of Joseph Brant, gun-maker, who had recently come from the Edgeware-road, London, and the two prisoners were apprehended on Sunday night . . . Among documents in his [Myers'] possession was a begging letter, in which he was recommended by Mr. Raake, teacher German at the Collegiate School, to the notice of the Magistrates and other influential gentlemen, many whom had contributed their half crowns and crowns . . . Myers, in his defence, said that he had been in England thirteen months, and that got his living by teaching languages. He was acquainted with Mr. Raake in Belgium, and on his meeting with him again in Leicester, he asked him to recommend him to some gentlemen, to enable him to go to Manchester and Glasgow . . . the Mayor decided that both the prisoners should be remanded till Friday, by which time it is expected that Mr. Raake (who is at present on a journey) will be enabled to throw some light on Myers's former character.

"HEARTLESS ROBBERY", Leicester Journal (2 February 1838), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000205/18380202/013/0003 (PAYWALL)

Mr. Thomas Bell, late a townsman of ours, now residing at 35, Margaret-street East, Wilmington-square, London, has been the victim of one the most heartless and cold blooded thefts we have ever had to record. Mr. Raake, a German, teacher of the German language, formerly residing at Cambridge, but for some time latterly, living in the New Walk in this town, about a fortnight-since visited the Metropolis, and was then in constant and friendly intercourse with Mr. Bell. On Friday evening last he requested Mr. Bell to accompany him to a place of public amusement; and, on Mr. B. doing so, he desired Mr. B. to place ten £10 notes in his desk during their absence, not choosing to carry large a sum about with him. With that sum this pretended friend has absconded, and no clue has yet been obtained. Mr. Bell has offered a £10 reward on his conviction, and has described him about five feet seven inches; of light complexion; not possessing a correct knowledge of the English language; but of gentlemanly and prepossessing, though somewhat unassuming, appearance . . .

"POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE", Sun [London] (6 June 1838), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002194/18380606/022/0004 (PAYWALL)

Yesterday a man of very respectable exterior, named Gottherd Raake, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, charged with having forged a letter of credit upon Messrs. Rothschild, and also with having stolen 100l. from Mr. Bell, clerk to Mr. Wilke, the solicitor. - Remanded for a fortnight.

"To the EDITOR of the . . .", Morning Advertiser (8 June 1838), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18380608/018/0004 (PAYWALL)

SIR, - As the report in your paper of yesterday of the examination of Mr. G. Raake, on charges preferred by Messrs. Rothschild and myself, is calculated to induce the impression that I was grossly imprudent in so far trusting a mere stranger, I am most anxious, through your columns, to observe, that I had for some years known Mr. Raake as a man of respectability in Leicester, where I formerly resided, and that I had every reason to treat him as an honest and honorable man. -
I am, Sir, your obedient, THOMAS BELL. No. 55, Margaret-street East, Wilmington-square, June 7.

GOTTHARD RAAKE, Deception - forgery, 9 July 1838; Proceedings of the Old Bailey online

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18380709-1744&div=t18380709-1744

1744. GOTTHARD RAAKE was indicted for feloniously forging, on the 23rd of May, at St. Marylebone, an order for the payment of £60, with street to defraud Lionel Nathan Rothschild, and others.-
2nd COUNT, for uttering the same.-3rd and 4th COUNTS, like the 1st and 2nd, only calling it a warrant, instead of an order . . . GUILTY on the 2nd and 4th Counts. - Judgment Respited.

GOTTHARD RAAKE, Theft - simple larceny, 9th July 1838, Proceedings of the Old Bailey online

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18380709-1745&div=t18380709-1745

1745. GOTTHARD RAAKE was again indicted for stealing, on the 18th of January, 20 spoons, value 5l.; 4 forks, value 1l.; 2 ladles, value 2l.; and 1 pair of sugar-tongs, value 5s.; the goods of William Tyrrell, clerk . . . GUILTY. Aged 30. - Judgment Respited.

New South Wales and Norfolk Island (1839-45):

List of 240 male convicts, by the ship Parkfield . . . arrived from England, 1st September 1839; printed convict indentures, 1839; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2024/images/32082_223782__0002-00042 (PAYWALL)

39 / 787 / 16 / Raake, Gotthard / [age] 30 / R & W / Protestant / Single / [born] Warsaw / Professor of languages / Forgery / Central Criminal Court / 9 July, 1838 / Life . . .

Entrance books, Parramatta Gaol, NSW, 1840; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1783/images/41491_329448-00376 (PAYWALL)

2382 / Gothard Raake / [per] Parkfield / 1839 / [born] 1804 [sic] / 5' 7" Stout / . . . / Life . . .

Transportation entrance book, Phoenix hulk, Sydney, NSW, week of 23 to 29 November 1840; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8992/images/41787_329458-00322 (PAYWALL)

[No.] 2264 / Gotthard Raake / [per] Parkfield / 1839 / London / July 1838 / Forgery / Life / [colonial conviction] Campbelltown / Nov. 18 [1840] / Robbery / Life / Norfolk Island . . .

Tasmania (from 1845):

Convict record, Gothard Raake, per Lady Franklin, 12 October 1845; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1427729

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1427729 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-71$init=CON33-1-71P50 (DIGITISED)

[No.] 16659 / Raake Gothard / Tried at Campbell Town [NSW] 18 Nov'r 1840 / Arrived 12th Oct'r 1845 / Life / Professor of Languages & Music / 5' 8" / [age] 38 / . . .

"CONVICT DEPARTMENT. Comptroller General's Office, 20th Sept,", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (22 September 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173062652 

IN accordance with the Act of Council 6th Victoria, No. 18, I hereby give notice, for the first time, that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to approve of the solemnization of Matrimony between the under-mentioned parties . . .
Gothard Raake, T. L., "Lady Kenaway," [sic] and Maria Lambert [sic], free, both residing at Avoca . . .

1852, marriages in the district of Fingal, 1852; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:841951; RGD37/1/11 no 92

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/841951 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-11$init=RGD37-1-11P38 (DIGITISED)

[No.] 104 / October 14th 1852, Parish Church Avoca / Gothard Raake / 39 [sic] / Music Teacher / . . .
Maria Lamberd / 21 / . . .

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (9 April 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36268731

MR. G. RAAKE is prepared to receive a limited number of pupils to instruct them in Pianoforte, Guitar, Flutina, and English Singing.
Cards of terms, can be had of Mr. C. F. Wilson, Launceston Academy, York-street.
N.B. Pianofortes tuned and repaired.

"TRIAL OF DALTON AND KELLY, AT LAUNCESTON APRIL 7", The Tasmanian Colonist (14 April 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226527276 

. . . Godard Raake, sworn. - Was overseer to Mr. Simeon Lord on the 6th January. About nine o'clock that morning, finding that the shearers whom I was superintending were not at work, I proceeded to the house. On the way I met a shepherd with a double-barrelled gun. I received the gun from the shepherd. Don't know whether it was loaded. Did not examine it. It was a percussion gun, and had no cap on. I went to the back door of the house, and knocked. The door was opened by the prisoner James Dalton, who presented a pistol at my breast, and requested me to be quiet and hand over the gun. I refused for a time, but afterwards did so, saying - "I suppose I may return now, James Dalton." He said I must go into the house with him, and I would find some company. I refused and turned round. After going two or three yards, I heard a voice crying - "Don't shoot him," which I supposed to be that of a female. I turned round, and saw Dalton taking aim at me, saying he would blow my brains out if I did not stop. We then went into the dining-room, and I saw persons there, some tied, and some untied, sitting down . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Simeon Lord junior (1810-1892), son of Simeon Lord

"LAUNCESTON", Colonial Times (11 September 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8787742

A man named Godard Raake, formerly a teacher of music in this town, is in custody on charge of uttering a forged cheque for £64 at the shop of Mr. Upton, grocer, in Charles-street. The cheque purported to be drawn by Mr. J. Storey of Avoca. The case is remanded for the attendance of witnesses from the country. Raake was formerly in the service of Mr. S. Lord, of Avoca, and gave evidence at the trial of Dalton and Kelly. He was then a ticket holder. - Examiner.

"THE FORGERY CASE", The People's Advocate or True Friend of Tasmania (20 September 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232750479 

Gothard Raake was again brought up on remand, on Tuesday last, on a charge of uttering a forged cheque . . . the prisoner was further remanded till Friday next.

"MORE FORGERIES BY GOTTHARD RAAKE", The Cornwall Chronicle (22 September 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65719116

Mr. Evans, manager of the Bank of Tasmania, discovered to his horror on Monday, that he had also been victimised, by this accomplished scoundrel . . . It is very probable, that other forgeries perpetrated by Raake, remain yet undiscovered.

"SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SITTINGS . . . SATURDAY, October 6", Launceston Examiner (9 October 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36294522

Gotthard Raake was placed at the bar charged with uttering a forgery . . . His Honor summed up, and the jury retired; and on returning into court found the prisoner guilty. His Honor, on referring to the prisoner's character, found that he had been originally transported for a daring forgery of £10,000 [sic] on the house of Rothschilds, for which he was sent to Norfolk Island [sic]; he had also committed two robberies and a forgery, and he had only received his conditional pardon a few weeks before the commission of the present offence. His Honor said that to let such a man loose on society would be to let loose a moral tiger, who would prey on all who could be imposed on. The prisoner here handed in a note, which he had received from his wife since he had been in gaol. It referred to the prisoner's family. His Honor continued, and said that he could make no difference in favour of the prisoner. It was said that a man who had children gave "hostages to the state" for his good conduct. His Honor then sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for life.

[Notice], Tasmania, reports of crime (20 February 1863), 31

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60883/images/44407_b219508-00043 (PAYWALL)

The under-mentioned Prisoners and Invalids were discharged from Port Arthur on the 15th instant: - . . .
Gothard Raake, C. P., per Fortitude, tried S. C. Launceston, 6 October 1855, uttering, life, commuted to 10 years.

"SWANSEA (From our own Correspondent)", The Tasmanian (31 January 1874), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198923109 

Mr. Hacket Coulthurst, the well known negro "elocutionist, vocalist, and characteristic delineator," gave two entertainments at the Council Chamber, the one on Friday and thee other on Saturday nights last . . . The second part consisted of songs, Mr. G. Raake accompanying at the piano . . .

RECORDER'S COURT . . . FRIDAY, MARCH 19 . . . STEALING MONEY", Launceston Examiner (20 March 1875), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52898288 

Gotthard Raake, (a respectable looking elderly man) surrendered in discharge of his bail and was charged with stealing on the 27th Feb. a purse and certain moneys the property of Joseph Cocker. Plea, not guilty . . .
Sub-Inspector Willis stationed at Avoca, deposed . . . Prisoner is a music teacher. I never told Dr. Lever that I would give Raake twelve years, if I could . . . Frederick Miller, storekeeper, Avoca, married to the prisoner's daughter, proved that the Sub-Inspector came to his store on the morning of the alleged robbery . . . He told him that Raake had stolen the money, and suggested that it should be settled or squared, and from the way he spoke, he seemed to say the money should be restored . . . His Honor observed to the jury that it was a remarkable case. He noticed the evidence, and the difficult points that had been urged, leaving it to the jury to say whether there had been mistake or whether the prisoner was guilty of the charge. The question was one of design. The jury returned a verdict of guilty.

"RELEASE OF GOTTHARD RAAKE", Launceston Examiner (108 July 1875), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52900245

The Executive Council having had under consideration the memorial sent in, with reference to Gotthard Raake, who was by the Recorder of Launceston sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, at the sitting of the Court, March, 19th last, at the meeting on Monday last, decided favorably, and Mr. Raake was released from H.M. Gaol here, yesterday morning, by order of the Attorney General . . . It will be remembered that Raake, having surrendered in discharge of his bail, was tried for stealing a purse and certain moneys, the property of a man at Avoca, named Joseph Cocker. He was defended by Mr. R. B. Miller, who called evidence to show that Sub-Inspector Willis, the principal witness against the accused, had been guilty of lying and subornation of perjury, and he asked the jury in fervent terms to do their duty by finding a verdict of not guilty, and restoring the old man to the position of respectability he has sustained. The jury, however, did not see their way clear to acquit the accused; of course giving credit to Willis's truthfulness. Since then, circumstances have transpired in the Fingal district to raise strong doubts of Raake's guilt, and Sub-Inspector Willis has been dismissed from the municipal police for gross misconduct, his veracity having been strongly impeached. Under the circumstances the action of the Executive cannot but meet with general approval in the district to which Mr. Raake, who is very respectably connected, belongs.

"CASE OF GOTTHARD RAAKE. To the Editor of . . .", The Cornwall Chronicle (14 July 1875), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72524835

SIR, - Will you allow me a comment on the notice in your issue of the 9th instant on the release of Gotthard Raake? In the first place, I maintain that it was not proved at his trial that Sub-Inspector Willes "induced" Raake to repay the money lost by Cocker . . . As to Willes, he either merited a criminal prosecution or to have retained his office, and it is held by a large number of residents in this district that he was dismissed on totally insufficient grounds, and the opinion is shared even by some members of the Municipal Council. Finally, with regard to a paragraph in the Examiner of the 8th instant on the same subject I may state that no "circumstances have transpired in the Fingal district to raise strong doubts of Raake's guilt" - or any doubts; and the general impression is, that by some influence there has been effected a gross miscarriage of justice.
Yours, TRUTH. Fingal, July 10th, 1873.

1883, deaths in the district of Fingal; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1165855; RGD35/1/52 no 270

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1165855

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-52$init=RGD35-1-52P87 (DIGITISED)

415 / September 23rd 1883 / Gothard Raake / 77 Years / Music Teacher / Lung Disease . . .

"EARLY DAYS RECALLED. MRS. RAAKE'S GREAT AGE. AVOCA, Sunday", Examiner (15 February 1926), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91604786 

Mrs. Maria Raake celebrated her 94th birthday on Friday, February 12 . . . After her marriage Mrs. Raake resided for a short time in Launceston in premises now occupied by the Princess Theatre, Brisbane-street . . . Mrs. Raake has resided on the Benham estate for 67 years . . .

"MRS. M. RAAKE. Attains the Century To-day. Pioneer Reminisces", Examiner (12 February 1932), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51725561

. . . In 1852 she married Mr. G. Raake, tutor and music master to Mr. Lord's children, and had a family of six daughters, two of whom are deceased.

"DEATHS", Examiner (12 June 1932), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51744474

RAAKE - On June 11, 1932, at her residence, Avoca, Maria, relict of the late Gotthard Raake, in her 101st year. No mourning, by request. Interment took place at Avoca on Sunday, June 12, 1932.

"DEATHS", Examiner (30 October 1940), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52387116 

RAAKE. - On October 29, 1940, at her residence Avoca, Elsie, youngest daughter of the late Gothard and Maria Raake.

"OBITUARY", Examiner (2 November 1940), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52387655

The funeral of Miss Elsie Raake, of Avoca, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. Raake, took place at the Church of England cemetery, Avoca, on Thursday. Rev. A. C. Dence conducted the service at the church. Miss Raake was born at Avoca, and was organist and Sunday school teacher at St. Thomas' Church for nearly 50 years. She will be greatly missed also at social functions . . .

Bibliography and resources:

Francis Gotthard Richard Raake, WikiTree

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Raake-2

Richard Raake, Convict records

https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/raake/richard/12941 

Headstone of Francis Gotthard Richard RAAKE

http://eheritage.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/resources/detail53cf.html?ID=LFH_05970

Elena Gover, Russian convicts in Australia (2006)

http://australiarussia.com/RussianconvictsENFIN.htm

Tim Causer, "'The worst types of sub-human beings'? The myth and reality of the convicts of the Norfolk Island penal settlement, 1825-1855"

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1895465.pdf

. . . Clerks comprised the largest portion of professionals though there were a few teachers, notably the Polish military officer [sic] Gotthard Raake, who claimed to be a professor of languages and music, and who was transported for forgery and attempting to defraud Nathaniel Rothschild . . .

RABLIN, Henry (Henry Richard RABLIN; Sergeant Henry RABLIN)

Drum-major (former), ? musician

Born Cornwall, England, 1807; baptised Lostwithiel, 30 August 1807; son of Henry RABLING [sic]; ? cousin of the below
Enlisted 51st Regiment, Sheerness, Kent, 25 November 1819 (aged "14")
Married Mary Ann BURKE, Corfu (with regiment), 15 June 1831
Arrived (with regiment) Sydney, NSW, 21 November 1838 (per Earl Grey, from Plymouth and Portsmouth, 8th and 13th August)
Arrived (with regiment) Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), January-February 1839 (from Sydney)
Departed Hobart, VDL (TAS), March 1846 (invalided to England, discharged, aged "41")
Died Limerick, Ireland, 25 February 1857, aged "50"

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RABLIN-Henry (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: His son Henry Richard Rablin was born in Chatham in 1838 (d. 1918), and his grandson Henry Richard Rablin (1872-1918)

RABLIN, John (John RABLIN, Sergeant RABLIN; Sergeant RAVELIN; RABELIN; RAVELYN)

Musician, clarinet player, drum major, band sergeant, master of the band of the 51st Regiment

Born ("in the army"), c. 1809
Enlisted Corfu, 15 October 1823 (aged "14")
Arrived (with regiment) Sydney, NSW, 21 November 1838 (per Earl Grey, from Plymouth and Portsmouth, 8th and 13th August)
Arrived (with regiment) Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), January-February 1839 (from Sydney)
Appointed master of the band, in the place of A. P. Duly (resigned), by mid 1845
Married Ann SAWYER (d. 1858), St. Joseph's Church, Hobart Town, 20 February 1845
Departed (with regiment) Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 8 August 1846 (per Agincourt, for India) Discharged Madras, India, 27 (or 22) July 1852, aged "43"
Died England, 4 November 1857, aged "48"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Rablin+c1809-1857 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RABLIN-John (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 51st Regiment

Summary:

In the summer of 1809, when according to his discharge record John Rablin was born "in the army", the 51st regiment embarked for the Netherlands. Although according to the paylists, John Rablin was still only a corporal at the time, he was regularly referred to as Sargeant Rablin from as early as 1840, presumably in deference to his position as second-in-charge of the band under the master, (sergeant) Abraham Duly. According to his discharge records, he was promoted to sergeant on 1 July 1841.

Documentation:

Membership register, Minden Lodge, 51st Regiment, 1836; Library and Museum of Freemasonry

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/60620/43970_ugl%5Ecf%5Ef%5E1813-00134 (PAYWALL)

1836 Oct. 4 / [Age] 29 / Rablin Henry Rich'd / Serjeant / with 51st Regiment . . .

Pay-list of the 51st (or the King's own) Regiment of Light Infantry from the 1st of April to the 31st of May 1837; Records of the UK War Office; Australian Joint Copying Project

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1652025952 (DIGITISED)

[No.] 288 / Drum Major as Serjeant / Rablin Henry . . .

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1649209784 (DIGITISED)

[Privates] [No.] 337 / Rablin John . . . Band

Pay-list of the 51st (or the King's own) Regiment of Light Infantry from the 1st of April to the 30th June 1840; Records of the UK War Office; Australian Joint Copying Project

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1649841170 (DIGITISED)

[Corporals] [No.] 337 / Rablin John . . . Band

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (9 June 1840), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8750806

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, CAMPBELL-STREET. Grand Concert, FRIDAY, 12th JUNE.
MRS. CLARKE begs most respectfully to announce to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Hobart Town and its Vicinity, that her
CONCERT of Vocal and Instrumental Music will take place on the above Evening, in which, by the kind permission of COLONEL ELLIOTT, she will, be assisted by the valuable services of THE BAND OF THE 51st REGIMENT.
PROGRAMME. PART 1. OVERTURE - Military Band. - Margarette d'Anjou - Mayerbeer [sic] . . .
MILITARY BAND. - Aria Lascia amai chi nel mio core.
PART 2. OVERTURE - From the National Drama of The Fair Maid of Corinth [sic] - Waddell . . .
CLARIONET SOLO - SERGT. RAVELIN, 51st Regiment . . .
MILITARY BAND - Aria tutto, from the Opera of Somnambula - Bellini . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Elliott (commander); Anne Remens Clarke (vocalist, theatre proprietor)

MUSIC: Overture to The fair maid of Perth (James Waddell)

[Playbill] 27 July 1840, Royal Victoria Theatre, Hobart, VDL (TAS); State Library of New South Wales

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/93QVXBW1/pmgLmDMW2wD4o (DIGITISED)

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, CAMPBELL STREET.
GRAND AMATEUR PERFORMANCE . . . FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. JONES.
ON MONDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1840, Will be produced th Grand Historical Drama, entitled
CHARLES XII, OR, THE EXILE OF SWEDEN . . .
AFTER WHICH: - Clarionet Solo, Serjeant Rablin, 51st Regiment . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Edward Jones (actor)

[Advertisement], The Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser (4 August 1840), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232478336 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, CAMPBELL-STREET.
GRAND AMATEUR PERFORMANCE. POSITIVELY FOR THE LAST NIGHT. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. THOMSON, On Monday, August 10, 1840 . . .
Clarionet Solo, Serjeant Rablin 51st Regt. . . .

"Concert at the Assembly Rooms, Campbelton", Launceston Advertiser (6 May 1841), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84754069 

On Wednesday week last these rooms were filled with company to enjoy a Morning Concert . . . Such was the universal satisfaction with which both Ball and Concert came off, that the lists for the two coming meetings for October and March were numerously signed, so that these elegant periodical amusements may now he fairly considered and established. The Quadrille Band (at the Ball) gave entire satisfaction; their most attractive performance was, some entirely new sets of quadrilles, from the latest French operas, arranged by Musard for the piano forte, &c. These wore gone through with the greatest precision and spirit (as under).
First Violin - Mr. Kowarzik; Second ditto - Mr. Clair;
Tenor - John McLeod. Esq.; Double Bass - Mr. Russel;
Piano Forte - Dr. Hanchette; Clarionet - Mr. Rabelin; Cornupia [sic] - McDonald.

ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Kowarzik (violin); John McLeod (viola); William Wilkins Russell (double bass); John Hanchette (piano)

"MR. BUSHELLE'S CONCERT", The Courier (24 February 1843), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2953122

At an early hour on Friday evening last, the continued rolling of carriages towards the Victoria Theatre bespoke that the enticing programme - the merits of which had been so liberally discussed during the day - had produced the wanted effect, and at about eight o'clock the interior of the building presented a scene of profitable animation, beyond what could have been anticipated even by Mr. Bushelle's most sanguine well-wishers. So crowded were the boxes, that many of the gentlemen were under the necessity of taking seats in the pit, which was more select on this than on most other occasions. With the overture to "La Gazza Ladra" began the first division of the entertainment. The addition to the theatrical orchestra of several musicians from the 51st band had, it appeared to us, an effect rather prejudicial than otherwise, for though each performer undoubtedly possessed his individual merits, yet, as the augmentation lay principally in the wind instruments, the sounds from which are the most penetrating, it was at times somewhat difficult to trace the leading violin through its various themes. Mr. Deane certainly exerted himself to the utmost, but it is too much to expect a single performer, however great his talent, to resist the drowning of some fifteen others. An equipoise of instruments is one of the main desiderata in this kind of music, though but too often lost sight of when reduced to practice: for instance, in those numerous passages in which the clarionet is made to follow the flute in lower thirds, Serjeant Ravelyn completely overpowers the latter instrument by his unblended strength of tone, whilst Mt. Duly, junior, in each flute solo which falls to his share, exhibits his impression that the more the speed the greater the effect, at times almost transforming an intended andante into an allegro, notwithstanding the numerous checks which we have observed him to receive at the hands of the leader . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John and Eliza Bushelle (vocalists); John Deane (violin, leader of the theatre band); George Frederick Duly (flute)

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (1 August 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8753787 

Royal Victoria THEATRE, Campbell Street.
LAST BENEFIT. FRIDAY AUGUST 4, 1843. MR. J. DEANE (Leader of the Orchestra) . . .
Grand Entertainment of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, consisting of the following Songs, Duets, Solos, &c. . . .
Solo, Clarionet (with full orchestral accompaniments) - Mr. Rablin . . .

[Advertisement], The Courier (18 August 1843), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2952290 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, Campbell Street.
MRS. BUSHELLE'S BENEFIT, MONDAY, AUGUST 21 . . . a MUSICAL MELANGE . . .
Clarionet Solo - Mr. Rablin . . .

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (16 November 1844), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8755645

GRAND CONCERT . . . AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, MELVILLE STREET,
ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 1844. MONSIEUR AND MADAME GAUTROT . . .
ORCHESTRA - 1st Violin - Mr. Russell; Mr. H. Howson.
2nd Violin - Mr. Singer; Master A. Howson. Tenor - Mr. Reichenberg; Mr. Duly.
Violincello - Mr. Curtis; Amateur. Contra Bass - Mr. Pyecroft; Amateur.
Flute - Mr. G. F. Duly. Clarionette - Mr. Rablin; Mr. W. Howson . . .
LEADER - Monsieur Gautrot . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph and Madame Gautrot (violinist and vocalist); Henry Howson (violin); John Singer (violin); Alfred Howson (violin); Joseph Reichenberg (viola); Abraham Duly (viola); Richard Curtis (cello); Joseph Pycroft (double bass); William Howson (clarinet)

1845, Marriages in the district of Hobart; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:832339; RGD37/1/4 no 1766

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-4p200j2k 

[No] 1766 / February 20th, St. Joseph's Church
John Rablin / full age / Sergeant 51st Regiment
Anne Sawyer / full age / [celebrant] Very Rev'd Wm. Hall / [witnesses] John Burke, Jane Sawyer . . .

"THE THEATRE", Colonial Times (29 March 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8756447

On Wednesday Evening, Mr. Green, the Tight Rope Dancer, performed some clever feats in his line of business; he was much applauded. The performances, necessarily at present, confined to Vaudevilles and Farces, went off well, but to a very poor house. We cannot but notice the great improvement in the Orchestra; it was good before, it is now excellent. The admirable leading of Mons. Gautrot, and his excellent performance, greatly enhance the force and beauty of the music, which is selected with much taste, and arranged withe great skill and judgment. In addition to Mons. Gautrot, we have got back Mr. Duly, Junior, whose flute-performances are so excellent; we have also Sergeant Rablin, with his beautiful clarionet, a serpent player, and one on the Cornet-a-Piston, an instrument which claims especial favouritism at our hands. The extract from Mozart's splendid Overture to Don Giovanni, with which we were favoured on Wednesday, was given in a style and spirit which plainly proved that every player was a proficient. There is a distinctness - a crispness in Mons. Gautrot's bowing, which is well adapted to leading, while his time-keeping is correct. When required, too, this veteran Violinist can produce tones of "silvery sweetness" from his strings, which appear almost inconsistent with the very nature of the instrument. When Mrs. Clarke's expected auxiliaries arrive, we anticipate much entertainment.

[Advertisement], The Courier (15 April 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2948912 

Mr. F. Howson's Grand Farewell Concert, Thursday, April 17 . . . Mechanics' Institute, Melville-street . . .
PROGRAMME: PART FIRST. Overture, "Don Giovanni," Mozart . . .
PART SECOND. Overture, "Don Pasquale" (2nd time in this colony) Donizetti . . .
Violins- Mr. Gautrot, Mr. Leffler, Mr. H. Howson, Mr. Russell, Mr. Singer.
Tenors - Mr. Reichenberg, Mr. Duly, sen. Violoncellos - Mr. F. Howson, Mr. -.
Contra Basso - Mr. Pyecroft. Flute - Mr. G. F. Duly.
Clarinette - Mr. Rablin . . .
Conductor and Pianist - Mr. J. Howson . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frank Howson (vocalist, cello); Edmund Leffler (violin); John Howson (piano)

[Advertisement], The Courier (26b June 1845), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2948102

MONSIEUR and MADAME GAUTROT'S GRAND CONCERT . . . Mechanics' Institute, Melville-street, on Tuesday, 24th June instant.
PROGRAMME . . . PART II . . . Solo, Clarionet - Mr. Rablin . . .
ORCHESTRA. 1st Violin - Mr. H. Howson . . . 2nd Violin - Mr. Singer . . . Tenor - Mr. Reichenberg, Mr. Duly.
Violincello . . . Mr. Pyecroft. Flute - Mr. G. Duly.
Clarionet - Mr. Rablin . . . Mrs. Curtis will preside at the Piano.
Leader, Monsieur Gautrot . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Emma Curtis (piano)

"MONS. GAUTROT'S CONCERT", The Courier (5 July 1845), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2948041 

As far as regards attendance, the concert on Tuesday evening was eminently successful. In almost every other respect we regret to say it was a failure. It is seldom that we have the gratification of witnessing in Van Diemen's Land such an assemblage of respectability, fashion, and intelligence as was collected on that occasion within the walls of the Mechanics' Institution. But the musical arrangements of the evening exhibited a series of casualties which, to a considerable extent, deprived an audience, numerous and gay, of the rich treat they were led to expect. The indisposition of Mrs. Stirling created a void which, in the paucity of vocal talent in this colony, could not be supplied, and the unexplained absence of other performers, whose assistance had been volunteered or engaged, reduced the orchestra in numerical strength, until, in spite of individual skill and exertion, it was rendered feeble and ineffective. It was in vain that Madame Gautrot put forth all her powers - it was in vain that Mrs. Curtis, who presided at the piano, combined delicacy of touch with brilliance of execution - that Mr. Rablin rendered all the relief that a fine clarionet solo could impart - that a young aspirant for fame, belonging to the military band, gave promise of future excellence on the piston - and that the veteran son of Apollo himself united the spirit and fire of vigorous youth with the confident skill and practised perfection of seventy years. A damp was cast over the whole performance that nothing could remove . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Theodosia Stirling (vocalist)

"TO THE EDITOR OF . . .", The Courier (12 July 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2947968 

. . . I am beholden to Messrs. Reichenberg, Rablin, Duly, sen., and the performer of the solo on the Piston . . . M. GAUTROT.

"THE 51ST REGIMENT", Colonial Times (23 September 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8757371

This fine corps is mustering strongly at head quarters, preparatory to its embarkation for India in January next, and frequent parades will take place in the Domain in the meantime. On Friday last the soldiers in garrison, amounting to eight companies, were exercised under the surveillance of Major St. Maur, a clever officer, who appears to take, as a good officer should, great pains with his men. After executing a variety of manoeuvres, the regiment marched to the barracks, preceded by its fine band, now under the able mastership of Mr. Rablin, the talented successor of Mr. Duly. We were in error when we formerly mentioned that Mr. Rablin was a pupil of Mr. Duly: his preceptor was Mr. Williams, well known amongst military men as a very talented musician, and truly his pupil does him infinite credit. Many persons, especially with children, are deterred from walking in the Domain for fear of molestation by wild cattle. Their fears, however, may be allayed, as arrangements have been made to prevent a continuance of that dangerous nuisance; and we can assure them much gratification from a visit while the soldiers are exercising, no less from the beautiful performances of the band, than the manoeuvring of the regiment.

"THE 51ST REGIMENT", Colonial Times (3 October 1845), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8757429 

The men belonging to this fine Regiment having now arrived at headquarters, a succession of field-day parades will take place, till their embarkation to India, either at the latter end of February or the beginning of March, so that those who can spare time during the afternoon, for a stroll to the Domain, will be much gratified with the jaunt, the Band, under the direction of Mr. Rablin, "discoursing most eloquent music," and the men, under the able and experienced soldiership of Major St. Maur, performing their evolutions in a manner most pleasant to behold. The parades will commence, we understand, about 2 o'clock, a convenient hour for those who have dined, and those who have not.

"MILITARY MUSIC", Colonial Times (3 March 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8758188 

Our townspeople, and especially the fairer portion thereof, are not aware perhaps, that on Wednesday and Friday afternoons from four to six o'clock, the fine bands of the 51st Regiment perform alternately in the Barrack-square. The music of the chamber band under the able direction of Mr. Rablin, is no less choice of selection than excellent in performance, every attention being paid to its excellence as well as to its novelty. On Wednesday last a new overture from the French and fertile brain of Auber, was given in a most spirited style, the bass parts particularly; this was the opening overture to the performances at the Theatre when Mrs. Clarke took her Benefit; it is a smart, spirited Auberian overture, but as usual devoid of any melodious movement, such as at once takes hold upon the mind, and lingers for ever in the recesses of our memory, as that beautiful air which so sweetly predominates in one of the finest overtures which was ever composed, we mean the overture to Der Freischutz. Auber is truly a noisy composer, from his Masaniello to the present moment; drums, trumpets, trombones, cymbols, and the rest, make up for that pure and appropriate harmony which so strikingly characterizes the works of our great classic composers, of Handel, Haydn, and Mozart, of Pergolosi, Winter, Beethoven, and the rest, by no means omitting our lively favourite Rossini, who is always although an idle copyist of himself, sprightly, sparkling, and melodious. Passing by this, we have to notice the other pieces performed by the band on Wednesday, the selection, as already intimated, being extremely tasteful. From the new Opera of Ernani, composed by Verdi (quere, George Green?) three cavatinas were performed, and beautiful indeed they were. Ernani must be a fine opera, and if the production of an Englishman, a credit to his country. One of these cavatinas has been arranged by Mr. Rablin with a duet movement for the trombone, and the cornet a piston, the effect of which is extremely fine, those two instruments blending together in most beautiful harmony. Another fine cavatina, "Quando il Core," from the Ines de Castro of that very sweet composer Persiani, was well executed, and proved very effective; we only wish that there were more lovers of good music on the spot to enjoy the feast provided for them. The Brass Band under the direction of Mr. Hayne, is extremely well conducted, and its performance while marching from the Domain after the morning's parade, is enjoyed by many; wafted on the morning breeze, the fine, full, and clear notes of the bugles sound most melodiously, and must, we think, enliven the spirits of the soldiers after a hard-two hours' drilling.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mr. Hayne (? Hains; ? Henns)

"PROCEEDINGS OF A REGIMENTAL BOARD . . .", Henry Rablin, 51st Regiment, Hobart (9 May 1846); UK National Archives; WO 97/650/78

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8763866 

. . . discharge of N. 288 Color Serg't Henry Rablin . . . by trade a labourer was born in the Parish of Lostwithiel . . . in the County of Cornwall and was attested for the 51st Regiment of Light Infantry at Sheerness in the County of Kent on the 25 November 1819 at the age of 14 years . . . [service] of 22 years 127 days [overseas] 20 years in The Ionian Islands 13 years / in Van Diemen's Land 7 years / [discharge] being unfit for further service abroad . . .

Pay-list of the 51st (or the King's own) Regiment of Light Infantry from the 1st of July to the 7th August 1836; Records of the UK War Office; Australian Joint Copying Project

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1651893412 (DIGITISED)

SERGEANTS . . . 337 / Rablin John / . . . Band Master . . .

"DEPARTURE OF THE 51ST REGIMENT", Launceston Examiner (8 August 1846), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36245873

About 500 of the troops, 63 women, and 90 children; in all 649 souls were to embark today, at Hobart Town in the Agincourt and China . . .

"PROCEEDINGS OF A REGIMENTAL BOARD . . .", John Rablin, 51st Regiment, Fort St. George, Madras (17 January 1852); UK National Archives; WO 97/650/79

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8763867 

. . . discharge of No. 337 John Rablin, serjeant . . . by trade a labourer was born in the army and was attested for the 51st Regiment of Light Infantry at Corfu in the Ionian Islands on the 15th October 1823 at the age of Fourteen Years . . . [service] 24 years 110 days [abroad] 20 1/12 years, in the Ionian Islands 6 8/12 years, Van Diemen's Land 8 3/12 years; in the East Indies Five 3/12 years; [discharge] of Disability and length of service . . . his character has been indifferent . . .
Promoted Corporal 18 June 1837 / Embarked for New South Wales Corpoarl 16 July 1838 / Promoted Serjeant 1 July 1841 . . .
Appointed Bugle Major 18th September 1848 . . .

Pensions ceased by death; UK National Archives, Chelsea returns of payments, WO22/31/102

51st ft / [rate of pension] 2/- / [admission] 22 July 1852 / Serj. / John Rablin / Life / [died] 4th Nov'r '57 / [age] 48

RADCLIFF, John (John RADCLIFF)

Flautist, lecturer, musical instrument designer

Born Liverpool, England, 6 December 1842
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, December 1883 (per Glendower)
Married Pauline RITA, Melbourne, VIC, 23 January 1884
Departed Sydney, NSW, March/April 1885 (for New Zealand)
Died London, England, 3 March 1917, aged 75

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADCLIFF-John (shareable link to this entry)

RADCLIFFE, Pauline (Pauline RITA; Mrs. John RADCLIFF; Miss Pauline RITA)

Soprano vocalist, teacher of singing

Born England, c. 1842
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 7 December 1881 (per Orient, from London, 27 October)
Married John RADCLIFF, Melbourne, VIC, 23 January 1884
Departed Sydney, NSW, March/April 1885 (for New Zealand)
Died London, England, 28 June 1920

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Rita (Wikipedia)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADCLIFF-Pauline-RITA (shareable link to this entry)

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

John Radcliff, c.1880s

Pauline Rita, c. 1870s

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw159701/Pauline-Rita 

Documentation:

"COLONIAL ITEMS", The Argus (15 November 1881), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11523987

FROM THE EUROPEAN MAIL, OCT. 7 . . . Madame Pauline Rita sails for Melbourne on October 26, whither she is going to fulfil professional engagements.

"ARRIVED", The Australasian (10 December 1881), 23

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138073744

"LATE TELEGRAMS", Bendigo Advertiser (24 January 1884), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88525717

LATE TELEGRAMS . . . Melbourne, 23rd January. Mr. John Radcliife, the world-renowned flautist, who is on a visit to Victoria, was married to-day to Madame Pauline Rita, the celebrated prima donna.

"Miscellaneous", Evening News (24 March 1884), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109868427

"PAN TO PINAFORE", Geelong Advertiser (24 May 1884), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149143846

"AMUSEMENTS", The Sydney Morning Herald (5 September 1884), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13565612

"AMUSEMENTS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 February 1885), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13580441

[Advertisement], Oamaru Mail (16 April 1885), 3

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OAM18850416.2.20.4

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier (23 November 1885), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3453084

"RADCLIFF, THE FLAUTIST", Sunday Times (30 March 1913), 26

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126455541

Mr. John Radcliff, who has a world-wide reputation as a flautist, and his wife, who before her marriage was Pauline Rita, a successful singer, have for some time past been in failing health and in very necessitous circumstances. Mr. Radcliff is seventy-one years of age, and his wife, who is now almost blind, is seventy. Their investments have proved unfortunate, and they are totally unprovided for. A fund for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Radcliff has been opened in London. Mr. Radcliff visited Australia with his wife, in 1884. The flautist and the soprano gave their Sydney concerts at the old Masonic Hall in York-street. At each concert Mr. Radcliff in a little lecture described the development of the flute, and introduced instruments of several periods before playing his own show pieces. During his fairly long stay in this city the genial artist was an honorary member of the Athenaeum Club. Mr. Radcliff helped to make many evenings pass pleasantly while telling stories of the Savage Club in London and its celebrities.

"Obituaries", Observer (12 May 1917), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168286371

"MUSIC AND MUSICIANS", Evening News (16 October 1920), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117700394 

Obituary notices in the English musical journals give details of the career of Madame Pauline Rita, who died recently at West Kensington. She was 78 years of age, and blind, at the time of her death. Before she entered upon her on the concert platform with Lablache, Patey, Santley, Celli, and other stars. She married Mr. John Radcliff, the celebrated flautist, and toured Australia and New Zealand.

Works:

John Radcliff, School for the flute (London: [s.n.], 1894)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/44427660 

Bibliography and resources:

Adrian Duncan, "The genesis of the Radcliff model flute", webpage created 2007

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24785/20090616-0004/www.mcgee-flutes.com/Radcliff-genesis.html 

Radcliff remained with the Italian Opera for years, and did not miss a single performance there during the fifteen years following his initial appointment. When he finally did so, it was as a result of a romance with the celebrated singer Pauline Rita. Radcliff fell passionately in love with her, and the two became engaged. But his lady love was forced to seek a warmer climate for health reasons, and chose Australia as her haven. After an 18-month hiatus, the apparently love-sick Radcliff tired of waiting for her return and, immediately after fulfilling a final engagement at the Leeds Festival of 1883, he left for Australia himself, arriving in Melbourne in December of 1883. He and Pauline were married there in the next month.

RADCLIFF, W. (W. RADCLIFF)

Violinist, ? pianist

Active VIC, 1856-58

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADCLIFF-W (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser (29 November 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87995794 

VIOLINIST is open to any Engagement on the following nights: - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. W. Radcliff, Manchester Arms, Long Gully.

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 June 1858), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7295857 

QUADRILLES and EVENING PARTIES ATTENDED by first-rate violinist and pianist. W. Radcliff, 210 Lonsdale-street east.

? "THE EXHIBITION", Bendigo Advertiser (5 March 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88926275 

RADCLIFFE, Charles (Charles RADCLIFFE; Mr. C. RADCLIFFE)

Musician, professor of music, vocalist, choral singer, singing master, choir master, chorus master

Born Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, 1815; baptised All Hallows, Almondbury, 9 April 1815; son of Amos RADCLIFFE and Olive JEPSON
Married Jane GRISEDALE (c. 1816-1895), Huddersfield, England, 6 February 1840
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 3 March 1853 (per Edmond, from Liverpool, 15 November 1852)
Died Creswick, VIC, 20 July 1891

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Charles+Radcliffe+1815-1891 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Summary:

Charles Radcliffe was born in Almondbury, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1815, the second child and eldest son of Amos Radcliffe, a clothier, and Olive Jepson, who had married at All Hallows, Almondbury, on 28 February 1813. Charles's younger brothers Thomas (1825-1888) and Amos (1828-1909), and sister Hannah (1832-1811, Mrs. George Clissold) also emigrated to Australia.

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish of Almondbury in the county of York in the year 1815; register, 1815, page 46; West Yorkshire Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2252/images/32355_248864-00794 (PAYWALL)

[No.] 363 / 1815 9th Ap'l / Charles Son of / Amos Racliffe [and] Olive Jepson / Longely / Clothier . . .

1840, marriage solemnized in the parish church in the parish of Huddersfield in the county of York; register 1840, page 42; West Yorkshire Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2253/images/32355_248915-01229 (PAYWALL)

[No.] 84 / 6th February 1840 / Charles Radcliffe / 24 / Bachelor / Clothier / Netherton, Parish of Almondbury / [father] Amos Radcliffe / Clothier
Jane Grisedale / 24 / Spinster / - / Kirkgate / [father] Richard Grisedale / Miner . . .

"Marriages", Leeds Intelligencer (8 February 1840), 8

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000193/18400208/036/0008 (PAYWALL)

On Thursday last, at Huddersfield parish church, Mr. Charles Radcliffe, clothier, of Netherton, to Miss Ann [sic] Grisedale, of Huddersfield.

England census, 30 March 1851, St. George, Liverpool, Lancashire; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 2180

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/LANHO107_2180_2180-0574 (PAYWALL)

5 Bridson's Building / Charles Radcliffe / Head / 36 / Musician / [born] Huddersfield
Jane [Radcliffe] / Wife / 35 / - / Yorkshire
Elizabeth [Radcliffe] / Dau'r / 5 / Scholar / born] Liverpool Lancashire
Mary Ellen [Radcliffe] / Dau'r / 2 / - / [born Liverpool Lancashire] . . .

Melbourne, VIC (from March 1853):

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 April 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4791619 

AMOS RADCLIFFE, who arrived per ship Lady Head, last October, will hear of his brother Charles, at William Clarke's, gold broker, 67, Collins-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Clarke (gold broker, musician)

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7294895 

PRAHRAN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. FRIDAY, MAY 21st, 1858.
Patron: HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY BARKLY.
Haydn's Grand Oratorio "THE CREATION" Will be performed by the above Society, Assisted by several leading Members of the Melbourne Philharmonic and the Collingwood Harmonic Societies.
The Band and Chorus will consist of UPWARDS OF 100 PERFORMERS.
Principals: Miss Octavia Hamilton, Mrs. Fox, Mr. Ewart, Mr. W. H. Williams, Mr. Angus, Mons. Coulon.
Leader - Mr. Leslie. Organist - Mr. G. Tolhurst.
Conductor - Mr. Radcliffe.
Reserved Seats, 6s.; Unreserved Seats, 2s. 6d.
Tickets to be had at Mr. J. Wilkie's, Collins-street, Melbourne.
J. STOKES, Honorary Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Barkly (governor, patron); Octavia Hamilton (vocalist); Sarah Fox (vocalist); Thomas Ewart (vocalist); William Henry Williams (vocalist); Silvanus Angus (vocalist); Emile Coulon (vocalist); Alexander Leslie (violin, leader); George Tolhurst (organist); Prahran Philharmonic Society (organisation)

"DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL", The Age (15 June 1858), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154856430 

. . . To the Geelong Philharmonic Society belongs the honor of having been the first to produce Mendelssohn's "St. Paul" in the Australian colonies. Considering the great difficulty of the work, the performance was eminently successful. The conductor on the occasion was Mr. Charles Radcliffe . . .

NOTE: There is no record of a public or private performance of Mendelssohn's St. Paul in Geelong around this time, nor of Radcliffe being associated with the Geelong Philharmonic Society

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 October 1858), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7302811 

PRAHRAN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . . SECOND QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE
Will be held in the CHURCH of ENGLAND SCHOOLROOMS, On FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1858,
When Handel's Oratorio "JUDAS MACCABAEUS" Will be performed by the above Society,
assisted by the Leading Members of the Melbourne and Collingwood Societies.
Principal Vocalists: MISS OCTAVIA HAMILTON. Mrs. Goodliffe. Mr. Ewart. Mr. W. H. Williams. MR. FARQUHARSON.
Leader - Mr. Leslie. Pianist - Mrs. Lynch.
Conductor - Mr. Radcliffe . . .
J. STOKES, Hon. Sec.

ASSOCIATIONS: Anne Goodliffe (vocalist); Robert Farquharson (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (30 December 1858), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7307155 

PRAHRAN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . .
A Christmas Performance Will be held in the Church of England School-rooms, Chapel-street
On THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1858, When Handel's Oratorio,
THE MESSIAH, Will be performed by the above Society, assisted by the leading members of The Melbourne and Collingwood Societies.
Band and Chorus will consist of upwards of 100 Performers.
Principal vocalists: Mrs. GOODLIFFE, Master Johnson, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Blanchard.
Leader, Mr. Leslie. Pianist, Mrs. Lynch.
Conductor, Mr. Radcliffe . . .
R. P. LANGMORE, Hon. Sec.

ASSOCIATIONS: Master Johnson (vocalist); Charles Blanchard (vocalist)

"RICHMOND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", The Argus (8 January 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7307669 

A tea meeting was held last evening, in St. Stephen's School-room, Richmond, for the purpose of bringing together persons favorable to the formation of a Mechanics' Institute in that suburb . . . The proceedings were varied, and the interest increased, by a number of concerted pieces of music being sung at intervals. The principal vocalists were Mrs. Goodliffe, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Radcliffe, and Mr. Blandford [sic] - Mr. Russell presiding at the piano.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (piano)

[Advertisement], The Argus (19 May 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5681365 

PRAHRAN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. Complimentary BENEFIT to the CONDUCTOR.
Handel's celebrated DETTINGEN TE DEUM, And a selection from the Oratorio SAMSON,
Will be performed THIIS EVENING, THURSDAY, MAY 19, By the above Society, assisted by the leading members of the Melbourne Society.
Principal Vocalists: MISS OCTAVIA HAMILTON, Mrs. Goodliffe, Mr. Angus, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Ewart.
Band and Chorus of 100 Performers.
Conductor, Mr. RADCLIFFE,
Organist, Mr. G. R. G. Pringle; Leader, Mr. Leslie; Pianist, Mrs. Lynch . . .
R. P. LANGMORE, Hon. Sec.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Pringle (organist)

[News], The Argus (20 May 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5681446 

The members of the Prahran Philharmonic Society gave a concert yesterday evening in the Church of England School-room, Chapel-street. The object of the concert was a complimentary benefit to Mr. Radcliffe, the conductor of the society. In addition to the members of the Prahran Philharmonic, there were present Miss Octavia Hamilton, Mrs. Goodliffe, and Messrs. Ewart, Blanchard, and Angus. Mr. G. R. Pringle presided at an organ erected expressly for the occasion. The programme consisted of Handel's Dettingen "Te Deum" and a selection from the oratorio "Samson," by the same composer. The execution of each portion of the programme was exceedingly creditable to the members of the society, and the concert may in every respect be pronounced a successful one. The room was entirely filled with an audience chiefly composed of residents in the immediate locality and of St. Kilda.

"PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Argus (18 January 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5695579 

The annual meeting of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society took place last evening at the Mechanics' Institute . . . The Secretary read the sixth annual report and balance-sheet, the important portions of which were as follows: . . . The principal vocalists who appeared at the Society's concerts during the year were: - Miss Octavia Hamilton, Mrs. Edward Hancock, Mrs. Goodliffe, Mrs. Ellis, Miss Macarthy, Madame Sara Flower, Miss Georgina Macarthy, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Ewart, Mr. W. H. Williams, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Farquharson, Monsieur Coulon, Mr. Angus, Mr. Blanchard . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Melbourne Philharmonic Society)

[Advertisement], The Argus (6 April 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5747047 

MR. CHARLES RADCLIFFE (formerly conductor of the Prahran Philharmonic Society) is prepared to give LESSONS in VOCAL MUSIC to schools, classes, or choirs. Address High-street east, Prahran.

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 April 1865), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5734425 

MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY . . . Conductor, Mr. C. E. HORSLEY.
THE FIRST SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT For the year will be held In the
EXHIBITION BUILDING, On TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1865, On which occasion will be performed
MOZART'S "REQUIEM," Selected by the Committee as a tribute of respect to the memory of their valued coadjutor and Honorary Secretary, the late MR. W. G. DREDGE.
And For the second part, For the first time in Australia, MENDELSSOHN'S "ATHALIE,"
PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS. - Miss WATSON. Miss SARAH MORTLEY. Miss M. A. LIDDLE. Mr. EDWIN EXON. Mr. SILVANUS ANGUS.
Band and Chorus of 200 Performers.
Organist - Mr. G. R. G. PRINGLE.
Principal Violin, Mr. W. C. FISHER . . .
Choir Master, Mr. CHARLES RADCLIFFE . . .
W. CHARLES FISHER, Acting Hon. Sec.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Gilpin Dredge (late secretary); Wilhelm Carl Fischer (violin, leader, secretary); Bertha Watson (vocalist); Sarah Mortley (vocalist); Maggie Liddle (vocalist); Edwin Exon (vocalist)

[News], The Argus (13 September 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5769164 

A sacred concert, in aid of the organ fund of the Wesleyan Church, Punt-road, Prahran, was given last night by the choir, who received the valuable assistance of Mrs. Fox, Mr. Angus, and Mr. Ewart, of the Melbourne Philharmonic Society. The music, which consisted almost exclusively of selections from the "Messiah" and the "Creation," was fairly rendered by the choir, although the voices were scarcely numerous enough to give proper effect to the sublime choruses of Handel and Haydn. The representatives of the Melbourne society amply sustained their reputation; and Miss McPherson, a member of the local choir, was also very successful in Handel's beautiful aria, "But Thou didst not leave." Mr. David Lee, of St. Luke's Church, ably discharged the arduous duties of organist; and Mr. Charles Radcliffe, as conductor, gave perfect satisfaction. The audience was very numerous.

ASSOCIATIONS: David Lee (organist)

[Advertisement], The Age (3 September 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160219408 

INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION, 1866. - NOTICE to CHORUS. -
Ladies and Gentlemen who have enrolled their names as willing to take part in the CHORUS at the forthcoming CONCERTS, are hereby informed that on MONDAY NEXT, the 3rd inst., PASS-TICKETS will be ISSUED . . . After Monday, no lady or gentleman can be admitted to a rehearsal without producing his or her ticket.
CHARLES EDWARD HORSLEY, Conductor.
CHARLES RADCLIFFE, Chorus Master.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Edward Horsley (conductor)

[News], The Herald (7 December 1866), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244425713 

A meeting of the members of the Intercolonial Exhibition chorus look place after the rehearsal at Hockin's hotel, last night. Mr. G. O. Rutter was in the chair, and it was resolved that a deputation consisting of Messrs. Rutter, Kennedy, Dunning, Harvie, and Radcliffe, be appointed to wait on the Commissioners respecting the future employment of the chorus during the continuance of the Exhibition.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Oswald Rutter (musician); Montague Harvie (musician)

"THE MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. No. III", The Argus (15 January 1879), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5928434 

. . . The committee of resolved their respect to his memory by selecting the Requiem for performance at the first concert, the second part being Mendelssohn's "Athalie" for the first time in Victoria. On the programme appeared the name of Mr. Charles Radcliffe as choirmaster. This gentleman had been from the earliest days of the society one of the most prominent choral members. . . .

NOTE: Refers to the Dredge memorial, see 1865 above

"Deaths", The Age (25 July 1891), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190620781 

RADCLIFFE. - On the 20th July, at Creswick, Charles, the dearly beloved husband of Jane Radcliffe, professor of music, in the 77th year of his age, father of Mrs. J. Hawley, Prahran; Mrs. Giles, Mirboo; Mrs. C. T. Radcliff, Moonee Ponds; and Mrs. Lockwood, of Tatura; also brother of Mrs. H. Clissold, Moonee Ponds; Mr. Amos Radcliffe, Queensland; and Sir David Radcliffe, of Liverpool, England. Liverpool papers please copy.

Bibliography and resources:

Charles Radcliffe, WikiTree

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Radcliffe-654 

Charles Radcliffe, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174828316/charles-radcliffe 

RADFORD BROTHERS

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADFORD-Brothers (shareable link to this entry)

RADFORD, Mark (Mark RADFORD; Mr. M. RADFORD; "Mack. RADFORD"; Mark Underhill RADFORD)

Musician, violinist, composer

Born Exeter, Devon, England; baptised Holy Trinity, Exeter, 3 August 1825, son of William RADFORD and Elizabeth UNDERHILL
Active Melbourne, VIC, by August 1853
Died Ballarat, VIC, 1 July 1880, aged "50"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Mark+Radford+1825-1880 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADFORD-Mark (shareable link to this entry)

RADFORD, William (William Henry RADFORD; Mr. W. RADFORD; Mr. W. H. RADFORD)

Musician, violinist, viola player

Born Exeter, Devon, England; baptised Holy Trinity, Exeter, 30 August 1829, son of son of William RADFORD and Elizabeth UNDERHILL
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 13 June 1854 (per Golden Era, from Liverpool, 17 March, "Samuel Radford", age "25")
Married Milbrew Jannetta LLOYD (c. 1835-1889), VIC, 1857
Died Spring Creek, via Beechworth, VIC, 28 March 1861, aged "32"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Radford+1829-1861 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

RADFORD, Sidney (Sidney RADFORD; Mr. S. RADFORD; Sydney RADFORD)

Musician, violinist, band leader

Born Exeter, Devon, England; baptised Holy Trinity, Exeter, 1 July 1832, son of William RADFORD and Elizabeth UNDERHILL
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 13 June 1854 (per Golden Era, from Liverpool, 17 March, age "22")
Married Sarah YOUNG (c. 1837-1913), VIC, 1856
Died Bendigo, VIC, 11 November 1870, aged "42"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Sidney+Radford+1832-1870 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Radford's+band+VIC+1855-71 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADFORD-Sidney (shareable link to this entry)

William Radford, ? c. 1860 (family photograph kindly supplied by Duncan Taggart)

Summary:

The brothers Mark, William, and Sydney Radford, were sons of William Radford, musician, of Exeter, and his wife Elizabeth Underhill.

The eldest of William senior's sons, Walter Underhill Radford, was born in 1823 (baptised Holy Trinity, Exeter, 25 March 1823), and was working in Manchester as a musician at the time of his marriage there on 8 February 1841.

Mark was evidently the first to arrive in Melbourne, sometime before August 1853, when "new music composed by Radford" was billed at John and Charles Braids' assembly rooms.

Sydney and William duly arrived in Melbourne, on the Golden Era, in June 1854, and the three brothers first appeared billed together one of John Winterbottom's concerts in July 1854, as:

M. Radford, S. Radford, W. Radford, from the Manchester and Liverpool Philharmonic.

Sidney had settled in Bendigo by 1855, where he became well known as the leader of "Radford's celebrated band" (Radford's Quadrille Band). He died there in 1870.

William settled in Beechworth by around the same time, and died there in 1861. He and his wife had two daughters, Emily Jannetta (1857-1861), and Alice Milbrew (Mrs. John Poole, 1860-1898). His widow resettled in New Zealand, where in Dunedin in 1864 she married William Hugh Taggart.

Mark also gravitated toward the goldfields, and is documented in Beechworth, Ballarat, Castlemaine, and Hamilton. He died in Ballarat in 1880.

My thanks to Duncan Taggart (NZ), a Radford family descendent, for kindly sharing his research findings, 2020-21

Documentation:

England (to 1854):

England census, 6 June 1841; Warwickshire, St. Martin; UK National Archives, HO 107/1142/9

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8978/WARHO107_1142_1143-0220 (PAYWALL)

Thomas Allwood / 20 / Professor of Music
John [Allwood] / 15 / [Professor of Music]
Mark Radford / 15 / [Professor of Music]

"STEALING APRICOTS", Exeter and Plymouth Gazette [Devon] (21 August 1847), 7

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000267/18470821/041/0007 (PAYWALL)

Sidney Radford and John Bray, two respectably-dressed lads, were charged by Mr. Trace with stealing a number of apricots from the garden contiguous to the Lepers' Almshouses in the parish of Trinity.

Mary Lightfoot, an intelligent little girl, stated that on Saturday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, as she was doing an errand, on Magdalen Bridge, she saw the prisoners going through Barrett's-lane. They then went around Trace's garden, and Bray helped Radford over the wall. Radford stayed in the garden about ten minutes, when he came back over the wall to Bray, who had remained outside, and she noticed that an apricot fell out of his pocket, and was picked up by Bray.

Cross-examined: - She was distant from the boys about as far as the Guildhall was from the Civet Cat; but she knew them very well. They had not the same clothes on then as now, and Radford had no jacket.

Mr. Trace said, early on Sunday morning he discovered that he had lost about sixty apricots. The garden was occupied Mr. Western, of whom he had bought the fruit on the trees. He had the garden key.

Mr. Laidman, for the prisoners, said he should be able to show that the little girl was mistaken in their identity.

John Hutchings, a hot-presser. said that on Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, he went to the King's Arms, St. Sidwell's, to have some malt measured. He was accompanied by the prisoners. It was 5 o'clock when they returned. On such occasions there was always a quantity of beer to drink, and at the King's Arms they were furnished with five quarts and a pint. The beer made the prisoners tipsy, and when they came back he believed they went to bed.

The Mayor. - What clothes had the boys on?

Witness. - They had-jackets when they went away. I believe Radford's jacket was a brown one.

The Mayor. - What is their occupation? Witness. I don't know. I think one of them is a musician.

The Mayor. - What do you mean by a musician?

Witness. - He plays fiddle.

Elizabeth Radford, mother of one of the prisoners, stated, that her husband was a gardener. Her son wore no jacket on Saturday afternoon. Her husband had given the prisoner a severe thrashing at dinner-time, and told him he was not to go with the last witness; but he ran away without his jacket, and came home about five o'clock, tipsey. She said to him - You young villain, you have been drinking. He lay down on the bed, where he remained until nine the next morning, and she could scarcely undress him.

Mr. Laidman objected to the information, as being incorrect; it laid the stolen property in the name of Trace; but it had never been reduced into possession by him, not having been severed from the freehold.

The Mayor said this did not seem to him to be important. The Act applied to cases of "stealing" fruit from "any garden."

After the bench had consulted together, the Mayor stated that the Magistrates were of the opinion that the prisoners took the Apricots.

Mr. Laidman suggested that the boys were very respectable.

Mr. S. Kingdon.- Your own witness proves their respectability. The father of one of them whipt him, and he ran away without his jacket. It is ridiculous to talk such nonsense to the Bench.

The Mayor. - Respectable boys should not commit larcenies.

The prisoners were fined 10s. each and expenses, which the parents paid.

England census, 30 March 1851, Devon, Exeter; UK National Archives, HO 107/1868

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/DEVHO107_1868_1869-0047 <(PAYWALL)/p>

69 Magdalene St. / William Radford / Head / 48 / Musician / [born] Exeter
Elizabeth [Radford] / Wife / 48 / Tedham St Mary
Emily / Dau. / 7 / Exeter Devon . . .

England census, 30 March 1851, Lancashire, Bury; UK National Archives, HO 107/2214

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/LANHO107_2214_2214-0403 (PAYWALL)

59 Market Street / George Hamilton / Head / 50 / Publican . . .
Sidney Radford / [Lodger] / 20 / Musician / [born] Exeter . . .

England census, 30 March 1851, Yorkshire, Sheffield; UK National Archives, HO 107/2338

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/8860/YRKHO107_2338_2339-0299 (PAYWALL)

30 Eldon Street / Mary Burke / Head / Licensed Victualler . . .
Mark Radford / Visitor / 25 / Professor of Music / [born] Devon Exeter

"SHEFFIELD - Royal Adelphi Concert Hall (Proprietor, Mr. J. Scott)", The era [London] (17 August 1851), 12

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/18510817/033/0012 (PAYWALL)

The selections from the pantomime of Don Juan continue to run successfully. Paddy Farren, the Irish vocalist, has appeared, and nightly creates roars of laughter. There is also a fresh arrival of rope dancers from London . . . There is also an extensive band, ably led by Mr. Mark Radford.

[Advertisement], Liverpool Mail (10 July 1852), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001300/18520710/069/0004 (PAYWALL)

PARTHENON CONCERT-HALL, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET . . .
WALHALLA CLASSIC ENTERTAINMENT with an entire change of Tableaux.
Living embodiment of the Works of Genius, Painting, Sculpture, Music and Poetry . . .
THIS EVENING (Saturday), and during the next week, will be produced
TWELVE BEAUTIFUL TABLEAUX . . .
First appearance of Miss CLARA KENSH, the much-admired sentimental and Comic Vocalist, from the Theatre-Royal, Manchester.
Miss ANGELETTA QUIN, the celebrated Bravura and Ballad Singer from the Nobility's Concerts, London.
Mr. W. H. RADFORD, the Modern Paganini.
Mr. W. STUART, The old favourite Characteristic Comic Vocalist.
Leader of the Band, Mr. W. H. RADFORD . . .

[Advertisement], Liverpool Mercury (3 February 1854), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000081/18540203/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

CRAVEN-ROOMS, BIRKENHEAD.
THE MISSES ROBSON respectfully inform their friends and the public that they will give a
CONCERT in the above Rooms, on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 8th instant.
Mrs. McDOUGAL, Miss ROBSON, Miss M. A. ROBSON, Mr. RYALLS, Mr. ARMSTRONG.
Violin, Mr. W. H. RADFORD. Piano-forte, Mr. H. P. SORGE . . .

Victoria, Australia (from 1853):

? [Advertisement], The Argus (1 June 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255611595 

BARQUE CIRCASSIA, From London. MR. RADFORD, carpenter, of the above vessel, is requested to return to his duty immediately, as the ship will sail in a few days, MATTHEW CREAK, Master.

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 August 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4795273 

BRAID'S Melbourne Assembly Rooms, Russell-street, corner of Little Collins-street.
The Proprietors beg to inform their friends and the public that their second grand monthly Subscription Ball will take place this evening, August 3rd, at the above Rooms.
The following is the Programme, which contains some new and elegant dance music, composed expressly for these Rooms: -
PART FIRST.
1 Quadrille - Hungarian - Jullien
2 Polka - Bridesmaids - Jolly
3 Spanish Valse
4 Lancers
5 Schottische - Original
6 Valse - Wild Flowers - Jullien
7 Polka - Braid's Assembly - Radford
8 Quadrille - Canotier Parisienne - Bosisio
9 Schottische - Atherton
10 Galope - Flight of Haynau from Barclay and Perkins' draymen.
An interval of fifteen minutes.
PART SECOND.
11 Quadrille - Polka - Les dames de Varsovie
12 Valse a deux temps - Jullien
13 Polka - Abbotsford - Jones
14 Quadrille - Caledonian
15 Schottische - Hungarian - D'Albert
16 Valse - Lucrezia Borgia - Jullien
17 Quadrille - New - Radford
18 Polka - Argus - Ditto
19 Country Dance
20 Galope - Spirit of the Ball - D'Albert
21 National Anthem.
CHARLES & JOHN BRAID, Proprietors.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles and John Braid (dancing masters)

[Advertisement], The Argus (19 August 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4795870

NEW Music, composed by Radford, expressly for Braids' Rooms. "The Argus Polka," "Braid's Assembly Polka," "Herald of Hope Valses," "Express Galope," every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening.

[Advertisement], The Argus (25 August 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4796110 

TO-Night. - Melbourne Thursday Concerts. - Mechanics' Institute. - Thursday Evening, 26th inst.
Vocalists. - Second appearance of Miss Meabella Smith and Mr. John Gregg.
Solo Instrumentalists. - M. Durant (cornet-a-piston), M. Cooze, M. Radford, M. Tucker, M. Winterbottom, &c. &c.
Part 1. Overture, Coriolan (second time this season) - Beethoven
Quadrille, La Guerre des Femmes - Boccio . . .
Valse, Faust (first time) - D'Albert . . .
Polka, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Montgomery.
Part II. Overture, Fidelio - Beethoven.
Valse, Primo Donna - Carl Bulla . . .
Polka Blue Bell - Koenig.
Solo Bassoon, Carnival de Cuba, M. Winterbottom - Winterbottom.
Galop, Duke of Cambridge, with cornet-a-piston obligato, M. Henri Durant - Ernesto.
Pianist, Mr. Salamon.
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. Tucker.
Conductor, M. Winterbottom . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Winterbottom (conductor); Edward Tucker (violin); Henri Durant (cornet); Edward Salamon (piano); Meabella Smith (vocalist); John Gregg (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 September 1853), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612057 

ROWE'S CIRCUS. - Winterbottom's Benefit Saturday next, September 10th.
Jullien's Exhibition Quadrille. Jullien's Drum Polka! Laughing Jackass Galop!
Vocalists: Miss Lewis, who will sing Shells of the ocean.
Mr. John Gregg, the renowned basso, who will sing The Slave Sale . . .
Solo Instrumentalists: M. Tucker, M. Edwards, Radford, Louthusl, Webb, Burgess, Chate, Boullemer, Tranter, S. Chapman, Wigney, Holt, Hore, Simpson, Wheeler, Oakey, Marks, Thatcher, &c.
Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Chapman.
Leader, M. Tucker.
Conductor, M. Winterbottom . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Andrew Rowe (proprietor); Alfred Chate (musician); William Tranter (musician); Samuel Chapman (musician); Charles Thatcher (musician); Stephen Wheeler (musician); George Chapman (cornet)

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 December 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4800538 

ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS . . The Fifth of a series of GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS will be given at the above place of amusement on
SATURDAY EVENING, December 10th, 1853. Mr. Alfred Oakey's celebrated Monster Orchestra . . .
Pianoforte, Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Violino primo - Mr. Radford and Mr. Peck . . .
Leader, Mr. M. Radford.
Conductor and composer, Mr. Alfred Oakey . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Alfred Oakey (pianist, conductor); George Peck (violinist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 December 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612483 

ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS, Corner of Stephen and Lonsdale streets.
The sixth of a Series of Grand PROMENADE CONCERTS will take place at the above place of amusement on
Saturday Evening, December 7th, 1853.
Mr. Alfred Oakey's Monster Orchestra, aided by several members of the band of the 40th Regiment, including Mr. Hartigan, the celebrated performer on the Ophicleide (by permission of Lieut. Colonel Valiant).
First night of a new descriptive Polka, entitled "The Morris Dancer," by Alfred Oakey.
Dawn of the Morning, The Lark, The Cuckoo Solo, Mr. Murrill; Home sweet home, duet - clarionets, Mr. Murrill and Mr. Colman; the Church Bell, the Ploughboy, the Shepherd's Pipe and Tabor, the Morris Dance, Sticks and Bells, Evening, the Church Bell.
Second performance of Oakey's New Grand Comic Medley Overture, which was honored with the most enthusiastic reception on last Saturday evening.
Second performance of the Adonis Galop with Solos - Flute, Mr. Murrill; Ophicleide, Mr. Hartigan. Dedicated to J. A. Rowe, Esq., by Alfred Oakey.
First night of the Matilda Polka, by J. W. Hartigan. Introduction, Clarionet solo, Mr. F. Colman.
Vocalists: Madame Sara Flower (the Australian Nightingale),
Miss Harland [sic], who will sing a new Irish Ballad entitled The Poor Irish Boy. Music by Alfred Oakey.
Mr. Walsh (the favorite buffo vocalist), and Mr. Riley.
Instrumentalists.
Pianoforte - Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Violino primo - Mr. Bedford [sic, Radford] and Mr. Peck.
Vlolino Second - Mr. Mather and Mr. Burgess.
Viola - Mr. Telhurst [Tolhurst].
Violincello - Mr. S. Chapman and Mr. Minton.
Contra Basso - Mr. West and Mr. Chate.
Clarionetti - Mr. Colman and Mr. Murrill.
Flauto - Mr. S. Murrill.
Cornetti - Mr. P. C. Burke and Mr. Wood.
Saxe Horns - Mr. Hore and Sons.
Ophicleide - Mr. J. W. C. Hartigan and Mr. Wigney.
Trombones - Mr. McNamara and Mr. Clansea.
Tambour - Mr. -
Gran Cassa of Cymbals - Mr. Cottiss.
Leader - Mr. M. Radford.
Conductor and Composer - Mr. Alfred Oakey.
For further particulars see the Programmes for the evening.
In Preparation:
Grand Indian Quadrille, by Jullien, the Band arrangement by Alfred Oakey.
In this composition the different styles of Music in India are introduced. The Rokatahs, Teranahs, Tuppahs, and Rasgniss. The Palankin March, the celebrated air Taza bu Tast, the Rohillahs or Warrior's March, and the Brahmin Hymn, as played in the procession which precedes the car of Juggernaut . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Hore family (musicians); Peter Constantine Burke (cornet); Joseph Hartigan (ophicleide)

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 December 1853), 8

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ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS . . . Grand Promenade Concert . . . Saturday Evening, December 24th, 1853, (Christmas Eve)
Mr. Alfred Oakey's Celebrated Monster Orchestra, augmented by the addition of several members of the band of the 40th regiment including Mr. Hartigan, the celebrated performer on the Ophicleide . . .
Grand Christmas Festival. Vocalists.
Madame Sara Flower - (The Australian Nightingale) will sing the Scena from Bellini's Opera of Norma . . .
Miss Hartland - "The Irish Boy" and a "Carol for Christmas Eve," written and composed by Alfred Oakey . . .
The First Night of Jullien's Grand Indian Quadrille, The Band arrangement by Alfred Oakey . . .
Second night of the new descriptive polka entitled The Morris Dancers by Alfred Oakey . . .
Last night of Oakey's Comic Medley Overture . . .
Conductor and composer, Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Leader, Mr. M. Radford . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sara Flower (vocalist); Band of the 40th Regiment

[Advertisement], The Argus (31 December 1853), 8

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ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS . . . The Eighth of a Series of Grand Promenade Concerts will take place on Saturday, December 31st, 1853.
The Band will be under the direction of Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Vocalists, Madame Sara Flower - Miss Hartland - Mrs. Moore and Mr. Riley.
Conductor - Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Leader - Mr. M. Radford.

[Advertisement], The Argus (21 January 1854), 8

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ROWE'S CIRCUS. - Further augmentation of Orchestra.
The Eleventh of a series of Promenade Concerts will take place on Saturday evening, Jan. 21, 1854 . . .
Second night of the Chinese polka Tchong Kous, or the Middle Kingdom.
In consequence of the great applause bestowed upon the clever performance of Mr. Paltzer (late Violino Primo in the King of Belgium's Orchestra) he has been re-engaged, and will appear to-night.
Full night of Jullien's American Quadrilles. Solo, Saxe Clavicor, Mr. P. C. Burke.
Vocalists: Madame Sara Flower, (The Queen of Song), Mrs. Moore, Miss Hartland, and Mr. Riley.
Conductor - Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Leader - Mr. M. Radford . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Jacques Paltzer (violin); Rachel Lazar Moore (vocalist); John Riley (vocalist)

List of passengers per Golden Era, from Liverpool, Melbourne, June 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1635/images/30796_125449__067-00323 (PAYWALL)

1265 / Samuel [sic] Radford / 25 / Farmer
Sydney [Radford] / 22 / [Farmer]

[Advertisement], The Argus (29 July 1854), 8

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WEEKLY MUSICAL PROMENADES, a la Jullien, at Rowe's Circus.
M. Winterbottom, in announcing his third Promenade Concert, a la Jullien, To take place on Saturday, the 5th of August, 1854 . . .
Herr Strebinger, (whose performances on the violin have met with such unbounded success at these concerts) . . . has likewise been engaged as Leader of M. Winterbottom's Monstre Band, among which may be mentioned . . .
M. Radford, S. Radford, W. Radford, from the Manchester and Liverpool Philharmonic. Herr Handoff, Herr Kohler, Signor Reichart, &c., &c., &c. . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Strebinger (violin); Franz Kohler (horn)

[Advertisement], The Argus (2 October 1854), 8

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MASQUERADE to-night. Casino, Victoria-street. Dancing to commence at nine. Admission, 5s.
MASQUERADE to-night. The Musical arrangements under the superintendence of Mr. S. Radford . . .
MASQUERADE to-night. - The Koenig of the Colonies, (Mr. P. Burke) will assist Mr. S. Radford . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Peter Constantine Burke (cornet)

[Advertisements], The Argus (9 October 1854), 8

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ALL the most popular Quadrille Music by Mr. Sydney Radford's Band to-night, at the Casino, Victoria-street, opposite the north end of Stephen-street . . .

MELBOURNE CASINO. All the new Music at the Grand Ball to-night. Mr. S. Radford, leader.

[Advertisement], The Argus (13 October 1854), 8

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QUADRILLES. - The best attendance is at the Melbourne Casino, where Sydney Radford and P. Burke's Band nightly enchant the million. Admission 2s. 6d.

[Advertisement], The Argus (19 October 1854), 8

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TO-NIGHT! Melbourne Casino to-night.
The great night of the season.
For the Benefit of the Band.
On this occasion the following eminent Artists, among many other professional friends, have kindly volunteered their services:
First violins - W. and S. Radford.
Second violins - Chate, Edwards, and Griffiths.
Tenor - J. Baker.
Double basses - W. Tranter and Herr Plock.
Cornet-a-Pistons - P. C. Burke and W. Carey.
French Horn - Herr Khoeler.
Clarionett - G. Wilson.
Harp - T. King.
Principle Clavicore - C. Roe.
Trombone - J. Hawkes.
Oboe - H. Sorge.
Drums - Fred. Sharpe.
Piano - ?. Owen.
To commence with a Grand Concert in which Messrs. William and Sydney Radford will play a duet on one violin, first time in Australia; and the celebrated duet from Les Huguenots, for the cornet and violin, by P. Burke, and W. Radford.
To conclude with a Fancy Dress Ball. Admission, 5s.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Griffiths (violin); G. Edwards (violin); Adam Plock (double bass); Frederick Sharp (drums)

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 November 1854), 8

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VICTORIAN EXHIBITION. Melbourne, 1854.
On Friday, November 3rd, The Philharmonic Society will perform Handel's Oratorio of The Messiah . . . Instrumentalists: Violin - Messrs. Griffiths, King, Fleury, Strebinger, W. Radford, M. Radford, Ryder, Pietzker, Fischer, Newton, Lewis, and Hurst . . .
Leader - Mr. Jos. Griffiths
Conductor - Mr. Jno. Russell . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Russell (conductor); Edward King (violin, leaser); Achille Fleury (violin); Melbourne Philharmonic Society

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

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MELBOURNE CASINO.-The Criterion Band under the direction of Mr. Radford, at the Casino to-night.

[Advertisement], The Argus (15 February 1855), 8

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CASINO - Open to-night under new management, Mark Radford's Band in attendance. Admission, Half-a-Crown, RE-OPENING of the Casino in superb style, to-night. Radford's celebrated Band and new Music.

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 March 1855), 8

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SALLE DE VALENTINO. - This Night. Great Attraction. Concert and Ball. Admission One shilling.
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS . . . In the magnificent Concert Hall of the New Theatre Royal . . .
First appearance of Madame CARANDINI . . .
Band of Twenty Solo Performers. Director - Mr. Callen.
Mr. Johnson; Mr. Hartigan; Mr. Cooze; Mr. Radford;
Mr. Ryder; Mr. Prince; Mr. Luppe; Mons. Taulen; Mr. Grice; Mr. Thomas; Mr. Williams
Mons. Bial, pianist and accompaniment.
Programme of the evening: Part 1. Overture: "Le Cheval de Bronze" - Auber . . .
Part II. Overture - Figaro - Mozart . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Maria Carandini (vocalist); George Douglas Callen (conductor, master of the Band of the 12th Regiment); Henry Johnson (musician, master of the Band of the 40th Regiment); William Cooze (flute); George Ryder (musician); Henry Prince (musician); Charles Bial (piano)

"Local and Domestic", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (14 April 1855), 4

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. . . The next that comes under notice is a ball that was given at the Freemasons' Arms on Thursday evening last . . . This ball was for the benefit of the musicians, Messrs. Radford and Edwards, whose exquisite performances on their respective instruments added considerably to the pleasures of the evening . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: ? G. Edwards

[Advertisement], The Argus (9 July 1855), 8

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THEATRE ROYAL, Melbourne. Grand Opening of THE THEATRE ROYAL, Bourke-street.
ON MONDAY NEXT, JULY 10th. Under the Sole Management of MR. JOHN BLACK . . .
Orchestra - Mr. B. Thom - Conductor; Herr Strebinger - Leader; Messrs. King and Radford - 1st violins . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Melton Black (proprietor); Bream Thom (conductor)

"PATRIOTIC FUND", Bendigo Advertiser (1 September 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88047367 

. . . Mr. Pitman stated that Mr. S. Radford had promised that his excellent band would be at their service . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (15 February 1856), 8

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SALLE DE VALENTINO. Increased Attraction.
Re-engagement of MR. FRANK MORAN, The Renowned Negro Delineator, Singer, Banjoist, and Dancer, Who will appear for a limited number of nights at the above popular place of amusement.
MESSRS. WHITE AND MORAN Will present some of their most admired Duets, Dialogues, &c., Every Evening.
Comic Singing by Mr. BRENNAN.
Lucy Long and Fancy Dances in Character by MR. F. GEORGE,
New Songs, Glees, Concertina Solos, &c. by MESSRS. STANLEY, SEYMOUR, and REEVE.
Dancing as usual. Leader of the Band, Mr. Radford.
Admission, One Shilling.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frank Moran (serenader)

[Advertement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser [Beechworth, VIC] (12 March 1857), 4

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RE-OPENING OF THE STAR THEATRE, THIS EVENING. GRAND CONCERT IN WHICH MISS OCTAVIA HAMILTON, MR. EMILE COULON, MR. J. O. PIERCE, MR. W. H. HAMMOND, MR. MACK. RADFORD [sic], MR. S. BRENNER Will appear . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Octavia Hamilton (vocalist); James Ellis (proprietor); John Ottis Pierce (minstrel, vocalist); W. H. Hammond (vocalist); S. Brenner (? vocalist, pianist)

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser (5 March 1858), 3

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CAMP HOTEL, EAGLE HAWK.
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5th, 1858.
BENEFIT and last appearance but one of MR. W. WHITE, (Formerly of Rainer's Serenaders.)
The following Gentlemen have kindly volunteered their valuable services :-
INSTRUMENTALISTS:
Mr. S. Radford - Violin (primo.)
Mr. James McEwan - Violin (secundo.)
Mr. R. McEwin [sic] - Cornet.
Mr. Andrew Kerr - Flauto.
Mr. John McEwan - Basso.
Mr. Hunter - Piano.
Mr. M. W. White - Banjo.
VOCALISTS: Mr. J. Small, the celebrated characteristic and local Singer . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James and John McEwan; Joe Small; M. W. White (serenader, banjo)

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (17 March 1858), 3

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THIS DAY. ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, BEECHWORTH.
GRAND HIGH MASS, With Orchestral Accompaniments.
AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
ORCHESTRE.
Mr. G. Griffiths, First Violin
" Weichman Second Violin
" J. P. Hurley, Flute
" W. Radford, Viola
" Mr. Barlow, Cornet
" Jenkins, Sax Tuba
" Wright, Violincello
Herr Esther, Double Bass.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Griffith (violin); Heinrick Weichmann (violin); J. P. Hurley (flute); Mr. Barlow (cornet); Carl Esther (double bass)

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (23 June 1858), 3

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Star Theatre. Lessee. Mr. JAMES ELLIS. IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE PROMENADE CONCERTS A LA JULLIEN, THIS EVENING, Wednesday 23rd June . . .
DUO CONCERTANTE - Violin and Piano - sur des themes, Lucia di Lammermoor - Radford and Saqui . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Austin Saqui (piano)

"THE STAR THEATRE", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (9 February 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117925749

John Black still holds his place on the boards of the Star, and nightly he develops those vocal resources of which he is possessed, and which have captivated numerous and critical audiences. John seems to improve as he grows older. He gets more of life and power into him, and the voice, naturally strong, has more of volume infused into it. In some of the Irish songs, he is great! but, not being a native of that country, he lacks the smack of the brogue which gives a raciness to the style. He is supported by Percy, a sentimental singer of slight pretensions; but he is very ably upheld by Radford, on the violin, and Saqui, on the piano. Indeed, the overtures played by Radford and Saqui are nightly, and very deservedly, encored. We say, deservedly, because the instrumentalism of Radford is the best we have heard for years.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Reddie Black (vocalist); Percy = ? Charles Percival (vocalist)

"THE LATE MR. W. RADFORD", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (30 March 1861), 2

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It took many of the residents of this district by surprise on Thursday to be informed that this skilful musician had ceased to be. Mr. Radford had been a resident of this district for the last six years, and was held in high esteem by all who had the pleasure of knowing him. He was a great favourite in the musical circle in the Metropolis previous to his coming to Beechworth, and liberal inducements were held out to him by many in the hope of retaining him in the City. As a musician he possessed talents that cannot be found in every day walk, and his services were always sought after on occasions of great gatherings for amusement. His name was well known throughout the whole district, and deservedly appreciated. The news of his demise will draw forth from all classes the sad expression of regret, and his memory will be respected in all time to come. Mr. Radford had been unwell for some time from an attack of colonial fever, but nothing serious was entertained that his illness was to fold him in the cold arms of death. The remains of the deceased gentleman were conveyed from his late residence, Spring Creek, to the Beechworth cemetery at three o'clock on yesterday afternoon, followed by a large concourse of our townsmen. The profession of which Mr. Radford was a member were also present and the band played that, solemn dirge - the Dead March. Mr. Radford leaves a bereaved widow and three children to deplore his untimely death.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (12 April 1861), 1

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MR. MARK RADFORD, Violinist, send your address to your brother, Sydney, immediately, Family matters of importance.

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 September 1869), 1

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MR. MARK RADFORD, violinist, please send your address to ship Hotel, Sandridge.

[Advertisement], Hamilton Spectator and Grange District Advertiser (8 December 1869), 3

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DUNDAS CONCERT-HALL, HAMILTON . . . Mr. MARK RADFORD, Musical Director; M. J. POWER, Stage Manager; Mr. J. THORN, Proprietor.

"IN MEMORIAM - SYDNEY RADFORD. To the Editor", Bendigo Advertiser (16 November 1870), 3

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Although now living at a distance from Bendigo I am a constant reader of the ADVERTISER, and saw in this Saturday's issue the simple announcement of the death, at the hospital, of consumption, of Sydney Radford, a musician. Now I thought some old Bendigonian would have informed one of your staff that poor kind-hearted "Syd" was amongst you in former days. What old Bendigonian of fifteen or sixteen years ago does not remember listening to the strains of Sydney Radford's band? It was an institution in Bendigo at that period. Thousands of diggers could say that they "many a time and oft heard the band discourse most eloquent music." Sydney Radford came up with his band to Bendigo in the latter part of the year 1854, and played at the principal places of amusement in Sandhurst, then entered into an engagement at the Manchester Arms, Long Gully, for twelve months, obtained very great popularity there amongst the diggers, and afterwards played with considerable success at Eaglehawk. Sydney Radford was a good musician and a first-rate violinist. He was a kind-hearted creature, and an excellent friend to brother professionals. He left Bendigo and resided in the northern districts of the colony for some years. Alas! what changes come "o'er the spirit of our dreams." Poor "Syd" comes back again after an absence of years to the scene of his former triumphs, friendless and alone, dying of consumption, to end his days in the Bendigo District Hospital. What a strange coincidence that two such excellent violinists as Monaghan and "Syd" Radford should die at Sandhurst on the same day one at the height of fame, surrounded by troops of friends, the other unhonoured and unknown.
FELIX. Melbourne, 12th November.

"DEATHS", Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers (5 December 1870), 215

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RADFORD. - In the Bendigo Hospital, on Friday, 11th November, of consumption, Mr. Sidney Radford, musician, of Radford's band, aged forty-two, deeply regretted.

"DEATHS", Western Times [Exeter, Devon, England] (28 March 1871), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000265/18710328/063/0005 (PAYWALL)

Radford. - Dec. 11, at Bendigo, of consumption, Mr. Sidney Radford, aged 38, youngest son of Mr. William Radford, of this city.

"TOWN POLICE COURT . . . A DANCING DEN IN THE EAST", The Ballarat Courier (13 August 1875), 3

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John Pasco Sims was charged with being the occupier of a house frequented by persons having no lawful visible means of support . . . Senior-constable Irwin stated that he visited the house in Main street after twelve on Sunday morning last, when he found seven prostitutes and about two dozen larrikins there. He could not say whether defendant was the occupier of the house or engaged as a musician . . . Mark Radford said he was in occupation of the house; he had been put into it by Sims' son. Sims had a share of the proceeds for the use of his musical instruments . . .

Inquest in death of Mark Radford, Ballarat, 1 to 3 July 1880; Public Record Office Victoria, VRPS 24/P/407 (transcribed by Duncan Taggart)

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Mark Radford / At Ballarat / Verdict / Died by syncope caused by failure of the hearts action consequent on inflammation of the heart.
At a Magisterial Enquiry held at Ballarat this third day of July 1880 by Mr. David B. Macaw Esquire, one of Her Majesty's Justice of the Peace in and for the Southern Bailiwick upon the body of one Mark Radford Deceased.
I find that on the 1st day of July 1880 at Ballarat deceased died from syncope resulting from failure of the heart's action consequent on inflammation of the heart.
Dated at Ballarat this 3rd day of July 1880.
D. B. Macaw, J.P. . . .

City Police Court, Ballarat 7th July 1880.
The enclosed report from the Police re death of Mark Radford, regarding which a Magisterial Enquiry was held on Saturday last, should have been sent with the Depositions but was inadvertently omitted . . .

1st July 1880. I beg to report from the information of J. L. Thopmson, Esq. that a dead body now lyes at the Eglinton Hotel Park street Redan. Found this afternoon in an old hut in a paddock at the top of Darling street Redan. He was a stranger in this neighbourhood, and known only by the name of Mark.
Constable 735, J. L. Thompson Esq., Ballarat.

Margaret Hansen sworn saith - I am the wife of John Hansen who keeps an Hotel in Market Street . . . on Tuesday last deceased left my house at half past six. He was complaining of having a bad cold when he was here. He told me he was going to an unoccupied hut at Mr. Laurie's to pass the night. The next day I saw him was on Thursday at the hut lying on the ground with his head resting on two bricks quite dead. I went there to see how he was. I have known him previously, he has been at my house five or six times. He was a violinist, he earned his living by that means, I never saw deceased the worse for liquor. When he left my hotel on Thursday he was capable to taking care of himself quite sober . . .

Patrick Longhran sworn saith - I am a Constable at Redan . . . He was quite dead. I search him & found on him one shilling sixpence in cash two purses one knife and a pipe and some laces, and matches and a fiddle and bow . . .

Edward Martin sworn saith - I keep the Royal hotel Bridge Street. I knew deceased his name was Mark Radford. I have known him for 15 or 16 years. He was a fiddler & lived nearly always in Ballarat . . . I never saw him the worse for liquor but he drank a lot of beer.

. . . Richard Bruce . . . I made the post mortem . . . yesterday . . . the body was well nourished . . .

"OLD IDENTITIES OF BEECHWORTH [by] BEN. EAGLETON", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (24 July 1909), 12

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. . . I have spoken of the number of excellent musicians who made Melbourne their temporary home. Among these were some who, finding too much competition in the city, made their way to the goldfields with varying fortune. The only ones I became acquainted with were settled at Beechworth when I arrived there some years afterwards, towards the end of my seven years' practical experience of mining. These were Burke, a fine performer on the cornet; Radford and Griffiths, violinists; and Ruxton, a pianist. Of these, I became acquainted with Radford, who at the time was playing for the dances at the Clarence Hotel at Yackandandah, and who expressed to me the bitter disappointment to his early ambition, which many more had suffered. In converse with me one evening he said with a sigh - "I thought when I came to Australia I was going to make a name, perhaps a fortune, but I soon found there were plenty as good as me; and here I am now, a fiddler in a pot-house." Griffiths was a married man, with a family, and was reduced to dire straits. He ultimately went to New Zealand, and I never heard of him again . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Benjamin Eagleton (memoirist); George Griffith (violin); Henri Ruxton (piano); Peter Constantine Burke (cornet)

RADFORD, Robert Avis (Robert Avis RADFORD; MR. RADFORD)

Circus performer, manager, circus proprietor, horse trainer

Born Exeter, Devon, 1817; baptised Exeter Cathedral, 2 July 1817; son of George RADFORD and Elizabeth AVIS
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 3 March 1842 (per Corsair, from England)
Married Amelia CARMAN, Launceston, VDL (TAS), 19 July 1845
Died Waterloo Plains, SA, 30 March 1865, aged "48"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Robert+Avis+Radford+1817-1865 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RADFORD-Robert-Avis (shareable link to this entry)

Bibliography and resources:

Mark St. Leon, "Robert Avis Radford: 'The Tasmanian Astley'", Australasian drama studies 24 (April 1994), 156-81

https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.940908961 

RADWELL, William (William RADWELL)

Musician, agricultural labourer, gardener, convict

Born Hertfordshire, England, c. 1806
Trial King's County, Ireland, March 1825 (7 years)
Certificate of freedom, NSW, 1 June 1832
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 3 December 1825 (convict per Henry Porcher, from England, 5 August)
Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 28 October 1843 (convict per Sir John Byng, from Sydney, 14 October)
Certificate of freedom, TAS, 4 June 1852
Departed launceston, TAS, 28 September 1852 (per Yarra Yarra, for Melbourne)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Radwell+per+Henry+Porcher+1825 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Documentation:

"SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SIDE . . . TUESDAY, 11 MAY", Free Press and Commercial Journal [Sydney, NSW] (12 May 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228246179 

Before Mr. Justice Burton . . . Hugh Gilfeather, William Radwell, Robert Lewis, and John Brown, were indicted for break ing into the dwelling-house of Jonah Barker, at Woolongong, on the 3rd of February last, and stealing therefrom, various articles of clothing, bedding, &c., also three sides of bacon, three bags of flour and other property . . . Nothing was heard for about a month after, when sundry portions of the property were discovered on the premises of Mr. Mackay, brewer, of Wolongong, to whom Gilfeather was assigned; Brown was assigned to Mr. Kennedy; the other two prisoners called themselves musicians, and lived together, and a portion of the property was found on their premises . . . His Honor summed up the evidence, and the jury found the prisoners all guilty except Brown. His Honor sentenced them to be transported for ten years and Brown was ordered to be remanded on another charge. His Honor desired a note to be made, that they were to be employed at labor and not as musicians as they had of late. His Honor had heard that musicians were in request at Norfolk Island.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Westbrooke Burton (judge); "His honour had heard" - snide reference to regime of Alaxander Maconochie (commandant)

Entrance book, Sydney Gaol, 1841; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/94173:1783 (PAYWALL)

Hugh Gilfeather / [arrived] C. Cook / 1836 / bond / [on entertaing gaol] bond / [native place] Belfast / Chandler . . . [as for 2 below]
Rob't Lewis / [arrived] Surry / 1831 / bond / [on entertaing gaol] free / [native place] Hampshire / Protestant / Labourer / Admitted March 19 / from Wollongong / for trial / Tranportation to Cockatoo Island October 25, 1841
Wm. Radwell / [arrived] H[enry] Porcher / 1825 / bond / [on entertaing gaol] bond / [native place] Hertfordshire / Protestant / Labourer / Admitted March 19 / from Wollongong / for trial / Tranportation to Cockatoo Island October 25, 1841
Jno. Brown / [arrived] H[enry] Tanner / 1825 / bond / [on entertaing gaol] bond . . . Trial acquitted to Hyde Park Barrack May 11 1841

Entrance book, Phoenix Hulk, 1841; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/453013:1783 (PAYWALL)

Hugh Gilfeather . . .
Rob't Lewis / [arrived] Surry / 1831 / [original conviction] Kingston / Spring 1831 / Stealing / 7 years / [colonial conviction] Sydney / May 11 . . .
Wm. Radwell / H'y Porcher / 1825 / [original conviction] King's Co. / March 1825 / Robbery / 7 years / [colonial conviction] Sydney / May 11 . . .

Convict record, William Radwell, per Sir John Byng; Tasmanian names index;

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1427780 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON35-1-2$init=CON35-1-2P55 (DIGITISED)

List of passengers by the Yarra Yarra for Melbourne, 28 September 1852; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:598219; POL220/1/2 p179

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/598219 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/POL220-1-2$init=POL220-1-2P090 (DIGITISED)

Wm. Radwell . . . [arrived by] Sir John Byng . . .

Bibliography and resources:

William Radwell, Convict records

https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/radwell/william/134795 

RAE, Benjamin (Benjamin RAE; ? alias of Benjamin RICKARDS)

Actor

Active Launceston, VDL (TAS) and Melbourne, NSW (VIC), 1845

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAE-Benjamin (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"A DRAMATIC FAILURE", Port Phillip Gazette and Settler's Journal [Melbourne, NSW (VIC)] (7 January 1846), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225064682 

On Saturday last, B. Richards, alias Mr. Ray, one of Mr. Coppin's Launceston Company, appeared at the Melbourne Police Office, charged by Mr. Douglass F. Kilburne, with negligently and carelessly losing fifty-nine sheep from his flock. The defendant, it would appear, becoming disgusted with a theatrical life, turned his attention to pastoral pursuits, and taking up his "pipe and crook," hired himself to the complainant as shepherd, and did his duty well in that capacity for some time; when lo! "a change came o'er the spirit of his dream," he sighed once more for the "rounds of applause" - the exhilarating influence of the "orchestra" - combats - Turkish dresses - blue fire, and the "Foot-Lights," and secretly resolved to be "a man again" and astonish the visitors of the "Queen's" by his thrilling representation of "The Blood-red Bandit," in the domestic melo-drama, called "The Abduction of a Turtle, or the Pauper's Banquet," to do which - taking advantage "of the wood-crown'd height" - he commenced rehearsing the part, and as the sun went down discovered that his "flock," the "partners of his toils, his feelings and his fame" had basely deserted him; he, hastily resuming his 'crook" went in quest of the "stray sheep;" nor glen nor thicket did he pass unexplored, but without success, and returned to "The Hut on the Red Mountain," where he his sad disaster related. On the following day, search was made for the lost sheep, and all with the exception of fifty-nine were recovered, the native dogs having made a good meal of the delicate portions of about thirty. The defendant was now required to account for his neglect, - and throwing himself into a melo-dramatic attitude, commenced the famous Shakespearian soliloquy: - "Most potent, grave, and revered seignors" - when he was cut short by the discovery that the principal witness was absent, and the case was therefore adjourned for three weeks.

RAE, John (John RAE)

Poet, lyricist, artist, public servant

Active Sydney, NSW, 1840s

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAE-John (shareable link to this entry)

RAFFAELLO, Charles = Raffaello CARBONI

Amateur vocalist

Active Ballarat, VIC, 1854-55

RAHM, Veit (Veit RAHM; Herr RAHM)

Musician, zither player, guitarist, vocalist, "Tyrolese minstrel", composer

Born Laimach bei Hippach, Zillertal, Austria, 14 June 1825
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 28 April 1853 (per James L. Bogert, from London, 27 January, via the Cape)
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 11 January 1857 (per White Star, for Liverpool)
Married Amalia KATSCHTHALER (1822-1873), 16 November 1863
Died Hippach, Austria, 9 October 1904, aged 79

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAHM-Veit (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Veit Rahm was born on 14 June 14 1825 in Laimach, near Hippach, in the Zillertal of Tyrol, Austria. On 16 November 1863 he married Amalia Katschthaler, a sister of the future archbishop of Salzburg, Johannes Katschthaler. According to family tradition, Rahm invested the profits made during his English and Australian tours with a London bank, but to have lost most of his savings in a stock-market crash. He died at Hippach on 9 October 1904.

In mid 1851, Rahm first appeared in England as a junior member and zither player of a quintet of Tyrolese singers, led by Ludwig Rainer (1821-1893) and Simon Holaus, who had recently returned from a tour of north America, and had now come to England for the Great Exhibition. The group, which also included Fanny Marggreiter and an otherwise unidentified singer called Klier, gave a command performance for queen Victoria, before being engaged for the winter season at St. James's Theatre, London.

After an extensive tour of the provinces and to Scotland, the group reappeared in London in December 1852 before disbanding.

In January 1853, Rahm was one of a party of 8 Tyrolese emigrants (including Felix Rahm, aged 23, perhaps his younger brother) who sailed from London for Victoria on the James L. Bogert via the Cape of Good Hope. They landed in Melbourne on 28 April 1853, and a few days later, according to his own account, Rahm presented testimonials of his recent performances before queen Victoria to the governor, Charles La Trobe, and sought and gained his patronage for his forthcoming concerts.

Initially, in Melbourne and Geelong in May and June, Rahm appeared as leader of a company of five singers, including four of his Tyrolese fellow travellers, all of whose identities remain somewhat uncertain - Alois Holaus (probably a younger relative of Simon Holaus, Rahm's co-performer in England), Andreas Gredler, Johann Dreml, and Johann Einhauser. The four came together again with Rahm as a performing company only once more, in Victoria in May to July 1854, and nothing else is known of their activities or wherabouts thereafter, though it is perhaps likely that, while Rahm pursued his musical activities, some or all of them tried their luck as prospectors on the Victoria goldfields.

Rahm left a charming, though not very informative manuscript account of his voyage and Australian tour, mainly later recollections of his early impressions of Victoria and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Unfortunately, he gives little useful information about his Tyrolese colleagues, and little otherwise of musical interest. Moreover, several of the associates he does mention are not readily identifiable, notably, the pianist he calls "C. Kohling"; and a "Herr Seeder", too early however to be Julius Siede.

In Australia Rahm's programs included several of his own works, including "aria The evening bells with variations (hand fantasia; zither)" The Tyrolese postilion (national song; in imitation of the trumpet; zither), and The crying peasant (comic song).

Documentation:

Britain (1851-52):

[News], Münchner Tagblatt (25 June 1851), 762

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j-UyiRKTCuIC&pg=PA762 (DIGITISED)

Aus Tirol hat, eine Deputation eigener Art sich nach London and den Weg gemacht, die dort in unde ausser dem Glaspallast willkommen sein wird - eine Sängergesellschaft aus dem Zillerthale, dem einzigen Thal Tirols . . . Ludwig Rainer und Simon Holaus, die vor mehreren Jahren schon mit einigen Benoffen das Lied aus den tirolischen und steierischen Bergen die Amerikaner haben hören lassen von Canada bis New-Orleans. Veit Rain [sic] und Fanny Marggreiter, die jüngsten der Gesellschaft, sind die frischesten Stimmen in derselben, über welche Simon Holaus eine Art musickalischer Zeitung führt . . .

[Advertisement], Morning Post [London, England] (25 November 1851), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18511125/002/0001 (PAYWALL)

MUSIC OF THE TYROL. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE -
Under the distinguished Patronage of her Grace the Duchess of SOMERSET. - Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated TROUPE of TYROLESE MINSTRELS, Simon Holaus, Viet and Ludwig Rainer, Klier, and Madlle. Margreiter, whose recent performances at Windsor Castle and Frogmore House, in the presence of Her Majesty, H.R.H. Prince Albert, and H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, were honoured by the most exalted approbation, are engaged for a MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT comprising numerous national melodies, and concerted pieces at the above Theatre, which will take place on FRIDAY EVENING next Nov. 28th, commencing at half-past eight o'clock. The Minstrels will appear in their national costume . . .

"St. JAMES'S THEATRE", Morning Post (29 November 1851), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18511129/022/0005 (PAYWALL)

Last evening, a novel entertainment was given at the above theatre, under the title of "Music of the Tyrol." It consisted of national Tyrolese airs harmonised for five voices, and executed by Herren Simon Holaus, Veit, Ludwig Rainer, Klier, and Madlle. Margretier - vocalists who have had the honour of eliciting most flattering demonstrations of approval from the most exalted personages in the realm, as the following testimonials will show . . . The Tyrolese minstrels have also testimonials from the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Bavaria, the King of Saxony, the King of Wurtemburg, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, &c., &c. The music of these minstrels (who appeared in the quaint costume of their country) must be admired chiefly for its thoroughly national character. It brings the snow-clad mountains, the bounding chamois, the Alpine hunter's call, the goat-herd's pipe, and the rude but joyous festival of the Tyrolese village clearly to our mental vision. It comes freshly on the spirit as everything in this artificial age must do which bears the unalloyed impress of Nature's hand. These Tyrolese minstrels assuredly sing their national airs very delightfully. Their voices are, for the most part, good, and their ensemble excellent. Yet it is not for these qualities that we claim for them a marked superiority over all other vocalists of the kind whom we have heard. Such merits, most praiseworthy though they be, are by no means so uncommon, as to call for any special eulogy. It is rather the point and humour with which these performers deliver the words of their songs; their admirable acting, and the perfect originality of their general style, which induce us to rank them far above the herd of mere "jodlers" and glee-singers who have courted and received public patronage . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: St. James's Theatre (London); John Mitchell, proprietor

The Tyrolese Minstrels, from a photograph taken by Richard Beard, by desire of H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The illustrated London news (6 December 1851), 13 (illustration above)

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/18511206/048/0013 (PAYWALL)

The company of artistes who sing the music of the Tyrol comprise Mdlle. Margreiter, Simon, Holaus, Veit, Ludwig Rainer, and Kleir. Their performances commenced on the 28th ult. at the St. James's Theatre, under the patronage of the Duchess of Somerset. The Tyrolese Minstrels have sung at Windsor Castle and Frogmore House, in the presence of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent; and recently at the Pavilion, Brighton, before the Duchess of Gloucester. Testimonials of the Master and Comptroller of the Royal Households, expressive of the gratification of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, have been granted to the singers, and they are also bearers of testimonials from the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the Kings of Bavaria, Saxony, and Wirtemberg, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, &c. Nothing can be more picturesque than the costumes of the Tyrolese Minstrels, and nothing can be more curious and original than the harmonised melodies which they interpret; amateurs who are curious in studying musical nationalities, will find suggestive matter in listening to the music of the Tyrol.

This singing troupe are natives of the valley of Tullerthal [sic]; they came to England to see the Great Exhibition. Two of this company belong to the Rifleman corps of the Tyrol, and are decorated with silver medals from the Emperor of Austria. The bass singer, Herr Holaus, has travelled with the celebrated Rainer family through the United States of America, where they have met with the greatest success. M. Rainer, the son of the celebrated Rainer family, is in possession of a Tyrolean belt presented from George IV to his father. The belt has in front the Royal arms, and is of the most handsome workmanship.

ASSOCIATES: Richard Beard (photographer); Duchess of Kent

[Playbill], St. James's Theatre, Piccadilly, Music of the Tyrol. LAST DAY PERFORMANCE . . . FRIDAY, JULY 9th [1852]

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/evanion/Record.aspx?EvanID=024-000000437&ImageIndex=0 (DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette (27 September 1852), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002214/18520927/026/0003 (PAYWALL)

Assembly Rooms, Cheltenham.
MUSIC OF THE TYROL. MR. ANDREWS respectfully announces that in consequence of the very flattering patronage which is still bestowed on their CONCERTS,
The Tyrolese Minstrels, SIMON HOLAUS, VEIT RAHN [sic], LUDWIG RAINER,
KLIER, and MADLLE. MARGREITER. will have the honor of giving their
FAREWELL ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Rooms, THIS PRESENT MONDAY, and TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY EVENINGS NEXT, Sept. 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, at Eight o'Clock; and on WEDNESDAY MORNING NEXT, September 29th, at Half-past Two, previous to their Departure for their Native Home, Zillerthal, in the Tyrol . . .

[Advertisement], Edinburgh Evening Courant [Scotland] (14 December 1852), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001060/18521214/006/0001 (PAYWALL)

QUEEN STREET HALL . . . the TYROLESE SINGERS . . . the FIRST CONCERT . . . on THURSDAY EVENING; And the Last on SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18 . . .

"CONCERT", Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner (24 December 1852), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001489/18521224/051/0005 (PAYWALL)

On Wednesday evening the Tyrolese Singers gave one of their entertaining concerts in the Philosophical Hall, to a select, although (owing to the very unfavourable state of the weather) not very numerous audience . . . The aria, by Veit Rahm, on the zither, a national instrument of Tyrol, was remarkable, equally for the delicate beauty of some passages, and the harmonious fulness of others . . .

"THE TYROLESE SINGERS", The weekly review, and dramatic critic (3 December 1852), 24

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tZ4eAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA24 (DIGITISED)

On Monday night the Queen Street Hall was filled with a crowded audience to witness the performances of the Tyrolese Singers. The party consists of five persons - Mlle. Maghreiter (soprano), and Simon Holaus, Veit Rahm, Ludwig Rainer, and Klier (tenors and basses) - whose voices blend harmoniously together, and produce a very pleasing and successful whole. The numerous and varied pieces executed in the course of the evening, were all performed with animation and effect. The performances have been repeated during the week.

Australia (1853-56):

Names and descriptions of passengers, per James L. Bogert, from London, 14 January 1853, for Hobson's Bay, 26 April 1853; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/3402227A-F96C-11E9-AE98-FF6251ADC8F4?image=152 (DIGITISED)

. . . Dremble [Dreml] Johan / 29 / Tyrolese . . .
Einhauser Johan / 29 / Tyrolese . . .
Gredler Andre / 30 / Tyrolese . . .
Holons [Holaus] Alois / 31 / Tyrolese . . .
Larch Walhauser [Balthasar] / 29 / Tyrolese . . .
Margnuten [Margreiter] Anton / 32 / Tyrolese . . .
Rahm Veit / 28 / Tyrolese
Rahm Felix / 23 / [Tyrolese]

ASSOCIATIONS: Johann Einhauser (minstrel); Alois Holaus (minstrel); Johann Dremel (minstrel); Andreas Gredler (minstrel);
it is unclear whether Felix Rahm, Balthasar Larch, and Anton Margreiter also performed, as none were specifically billed doing so in Australia

"MUSICAL", The Argus (4 May 1853), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792247

We hear great things of a party of new musical performers which has arrived in the James L. Bogart [sic]. It consists of a number of Tyrolean chorus singers who have had the honor of appearing, with distinguished success, before Her Majesty at Windsor, and at many of the seats of the English nobility. The leader is named Herr Veit Rahm, and in addition to their vocal accomplishments, they perform on a peculiar national instrument, equal in antiquity (we perceive by their programme), with the bagpipe, but we trust resembling that most abominable of instruments in no other particular. We believe that arrangements are in progress for introducing their performances to a Melbourne public, but at present we can give no information as to the "when" or the "where".

"THE TYROLESE", The Argus (10 May 1853), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792444 

Many of our readers lost a novel and interesting treat last evening, in the first entertainment of the Tyrolese singers, of whom we recently made mention. The performances had not indeed been announced in the usual way; the inhabitants of the Tyrol not yet being impressed, we presume, with the advantages of that highest privilege of intellectual man, the power of appealing to his fellows through the agency of an advertisement. The attendance was consequently not so numerous as it would have been, or as the performers deserved. The party consists of five male singers, and they perform quintettes, duets, with chorus and other pieces, in a very pleasing and original style, approaching the German quartettes more than any other musical performances which have been offered to a Melbourne audience. The alto and basses are particularly good, and long practice together gives the whole party great precision and correctness in their chorusses. They appear in their national dress, which is handsome but peculiar, with wide-brimmed peaked hats, decked with feathers, ribbons, and artificial flowers; scarlet waistcoats, gaily decorated black knee breeches, white stockings, and highlows, with belts of astonishing width, decorated in a style reminding one precisely of the Government stamp on a pill box. The whole group imparted so thoroughly a Tyrolean air to the large room at the Mechanics', that one could almost fancy a bust of Shakspeare hardening into an iceberg, wild strawberries clustering round the dusty waratah, and a living chamois perched upon the piano usually sacred to the genius of Buddee. The performance was varied by a a couple of fantasias on the national instrument called the "zitter," which is a species of guitar, but lying flat upon the table in stead of being held guitar fashion. It is a pretty little tinkling instrument, and the effects produced were pleasing enough to elicit an encore in both instances. It is the zitter which was lately spoken of as equalling in antiquity that pride of a Scotsman's heart, the bagpipe. In all other respects we confess we prefer it to that most execrable of noise producers. His Excellency was present, and although the room was not filled, we trust that the encouragement received would be sufficient to induce a repetition of the performance on an early day, of which we will endeavor duly to advise our readers.

ASSOCIATIONS: His excellency Charles La Trobe (governor)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (12 May 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94360112 

THEATRE ROYAL. MR. COPPIN begs to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has engaged, at an enormous expense, for THREE NIGHTS ONLY,
Viz: - Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 12th, 13th and 14th instant, those celebrated
TYROLESE MINSTRELS, HERR BAHON [RAHM], HERR HOLAUS, HERR GREDLER, HERR DREME [sic] & HERR EINHUSER
Who had the honor of giving their celebrated entertainment, BY COMMAND, and in the presence of her most gracious Majesty,
QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE ALBERT, AND ALL THE ROYAL FAMILY, AT THE PALACE.
Her Majesty's pleasure was expressed, through the Master of the Royal Household, at both their
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, Which Letter, bearing the Seal of State, they now have in their possession . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Coppin (proprietor)

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 May 1853), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792603\ 

GRAND CONCERT, THURSDAY [sic TUESDAY] EVENING, MAY 17th,
(Under the Patronage of His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor),
HERR RAHM and Company, Tyrolese National Mountain Singers, who have been performing with immense success at St. James' Theatres, London, before Her Majesty the Queen, at Windsor Castle, and on several occasions before Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, will have the honor to give a grand vocal and National Concert, at the Protestant Hall, Melbourne.
The company, who are five in number, will sing in their National Costumes . . .

"TYROLESE SINGERS", The Argus (18 May 1853), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792711 

These astonishing vocalists gave their second entertainment in Melbourne last evening. The weather was most unfavorable, and the attendance consequently not numerous. The national instrument, the zitter, on which two arias were skilfully executed by Herr Rahm, has a tone not unlike the concertina, though somewhat more sonorous, its lower notes reminding the hearer of the bassoon or oboe. The melody and accompaniment were sustained with accuracy by the performer, and he was loudly applauded at the close. The whole of the five voices were heard with good effect in the Tyrolese national song, a quintette, displaying in an admirable manner that peculiar style of melody for which the inhabitants of the Tyrol are so justly celebrated. The comic chorus, interspersed with orchestral imitations, after the fashion of the old English melody, King Cole, excited much laughter. There is a degree of perfection in the singing of the melodies, which has rarely been attained by any except companies long in the habit of performing with one another. The author of a popular treatise on the art has termed this quality "togetherness," which imparts a charm to their pieces, rarely heard except in the performances of families of musicians, such as the Hutchisons and the Distins. God save the Queen closed the performance.

ASSOCIATIONS: Hutchinson family (singers); Distin family (brass players)

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 June 1853), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4793292 

GRAND CONCERT. Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor.
HERR RAHM, and Company, Tyrolese National Mountain Singers . . . will give a Grand Vocal and National Concert,
at the Mechanics' Institution, Wednesday Evening June 8th,
Friday Evening, June 10th, at the Protestant Hall,
Saturday Evening, June 11th, at the Protestant Hall . . .

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (22 June 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61325399 

MR. RAHM, the celebrated Zither Player and Singer, has arrived in Sydney. He has had the honour to perform before her Majesty the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, and other members of the Royal family, several times. He was engaged fourteen mouths at St. James's Theatre, London, by Mr. Mitchel, the lessee. Mr. R. will be happy to enter into any engagement of a public or private character in connexion with his profession of the National Tyrolese Music. As he has heretofore done, he will sing in the Nation Costume.
The Zither is an instrument entirely new and original in England and Australia. It has twenty-eight strings. It has a tone sweeter than a pianoforte, but of much greater power and compass.
Mr. Rahm may be seen at Petty's Hotel, near the Scots' Chapel.

"MR. COLEMAN JACOBS' CONCERT", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (2 July 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251545290 

When expectation is highly raised, we too often find by sad experience that it is doomed to be disappointed, but we are gratified to state that the Concert given by Mr. Jacobs, at the Theatre, on last Thursday evening, presented an exception to this remark . . . Mr. Winterbottom made, it is said, his last appearance here, previously to his return to Melbourne, where his popularity is not attended as in Sydney, with "molto onore e poco cotante," plenty of praise, but very little pudding; his performance of an air from Sonnambula called forth an enthusiastic encore . . . Among the chief attractions of the evening was the appearance of a new arrival from Europe Veit Rahm, in the picturesque Tyrolese costume: he sang, accompanying himself, on a small instrument resembling in its effects the guitar, and his exertions were at the outset very cordially greeted, but after the charm of novelty has worn off, we fear are little calculated to earn a durable popularity . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Coleman Jacobs (pianist); John Winterbottom (musician)

[Advertisement], Empire (5 July 1853), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61325764 

ROYAL HOTEL. Second Night of the celebrated ZEITER Performer,
V. RAHM, who was received with shouts of acclamation on his first appearance.
RAINERS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS! THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, July 5th, 1853.
MESSRS. RAINER, WHITE, BROWER, BRYANT, FOANS, and MORAN . . .
PROGRAMME . . . PART II. MISCELLANEOUS OLIO . . .
Grand Performance upon the National Instrument of Tyrol, the ZEITER, in full National Costume, as played before her Majesty Queen Victoria, August 7, 1852 - M. RHAM . . .
The next Concert will take place TO-MORROW (Wednesday) Evening.
E. TOTTEN, Agent.

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (23 July 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59757454 

This talented and amusing company still continue to entertain crowded audiences at their concerts at the Royal Hotel . . . Herr Rahm's performance on his novel and sweet-toned instrument, the Zeiter, is well worth not only the first hearing, but a repented attendance.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Cragin Rainer (minstrel); Elbert Totten (manager); Rainer's Serenaders

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (23 July 1853), 3 (with illustration above)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59757434 

. . . ROYAL HOTEL. RAINER'S SERENADERS. FROM AMERICA . . .
14th Night of the celebrated vocalist and ZEITER performer, HERR RAHM . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (1 September 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61327482 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. RAINER'S SERENADERS. THIS EVENING, Thursday, Septemtber 1st, 1853.
Benefit of MR. FRANK MORAN, alias Brudder Bones; and positively the Last Night.
Programme . . . Part II . . . Duet, Herr Rahm and J. M. Foans . . .
Solo, "Postillion," Herr Rahm . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frank Moran (minstrel); James Milton Foans (minstrel)

[Advertisement], The Argus (6 September 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4796637 

NOTICE. - Rainer's Original Ethiopian Serenaders, composed of Messrs. Rainer, White, Brower, Bryant, Foans, and Moran, will arrive here from Sydney on Tuesday, and proceed to Geelong, and give Two Grand Concerts, namely, on Friday and Saturday, 9th and 10th. In addition to the talented and celebrated Band, they have secured the services of Herr Rahm, who performs on the Tyrolese native instrument, the Zeiter: it is a very pleasing instrument, with a tone resembling that of a very thin guitar, while the lower notes resemble those of a large musical snuff-box, and, we imagine, are produced by plates of metal. Herr Rahm sings, also, a native Tyrolean Melody, in very tasteful style. The entertainment offered by this talented and celebrated company of musicians and Ethiopian delineators, cannot be equalled by any other Band in the Colonies. - E. TOTTEN, agent.

"THE ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", The Argus (12 September 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4796852 

These sable performers will give an entertainment at Rowe's Circus this evening, when it is anticipated that the talent of Messrs. Rainer, White, Brower, Bryant, Foans, Moran, and Herr Rahm, will draw around them an overflowing attendance.

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", The Argus (29 October 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4798779 

We perceive that these favorite minstrels commence a series of entertainments this evening, at the ball-room of the Criterion Hotel . . . Herr Rahm is also announced to appear . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (12 November 1853), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799383 

ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS. Grand Promenade Concert. Saturday Evening, 12th November, 1853.
Under the direction of Mr. Alfred Oakey.
In announcing he the inhabitants of Melbourne the first of a Series of Saturday Evening Promenade Concerts, Mr. Rowe begs to state that he feels great confidence in submitting the Evening's Entertainments to his patrons . . .
The Monster Band Will embrace all the available talent in Melbourne, assisted by several members of the band of the 99th regiment.
Vocalists, Miss Hartland, her first appearances, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Foster, (his first appearance)
Herr Rahm and Herr Gross . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (14 January 1854), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801997 

ROWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS . . . The tenth of a series of Grand Promenade Concerts . . . January 14th . . .
Mr. Rowe has also engaged the eminent violinist, Mr. J. Paltzer, late Violino Primo in the King of Belgium's orchestra . . .
Reappearance of Herr Rahm, the celebrated Tyrolean vocalist and performer on the Zeither . . .
Conductor - Mr. Alfred Oakey.
Leader - Mr. M. Radford . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Andrew Rowe (proprietor); Alfred Oakey (conductor); Jacques Paltzer (violin); Mark Radford (violin, leader); Band of the 99th Regiment

[Advertisement], The Argus (3 March 1854), 8

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EUREKA. Opening of the Royal Victoria Concert Hall, Monday, 6th March. Performers - Miss Miabella Smith, Herr Rahm, Mons. Paltzer, Herr Collins, and the celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders. Managers - Rahm and Paltzer.

ASSOCIATIONS: Meabella Smith (vocalist, pianist); Leopold Collin (musician); Ethiopian Serenaders (probably Rainer's Serenaders)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (27 May 1854), 3

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GRAND CONCERT given by Herr Rahm's celebrated Tyrolese Singers, Herr Rahm, Holaus, Gredler, Dreml, and Einhauser, at "The Hall of Castlemaine," On Saturday the 27th of May, and Monday the 29th of May, the above Minstrels will perform in full national costume, as played before Her Majesty Queen Victoria, August 7th, 1852, and will sing Quintetts, Quartetts, Trios, Duetts, Solos, and Comic and Sentimental songs. - Herr Rahm will perform on the celebrated national Instrument the Zitter. Doors open at Half-past Seven, to commence at Eight. Reserved seats 7s. 6d.; Back seats 5s.

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (13 July 1854), 4

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GRAND CONCERT. HERR RAHM'S celebrated Tyrolese Singers, HERR RAHM, HOLAUS, GREDLER, DREML, and EIYHAUSER [sic] . . . at the Music Hall, Geelong Hotel, on THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, the 13th, 14th, and 15th of July . . .

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 July 1854), 10

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CRITERION HALL. Great Collins-street. This (Friday) Evening, July 28th, 1854.
Last Night but One of Herr Rahm's Company of Singers.
Only Six Nights more of Fakir of Ava . . . E. TOTTEN, Manager.

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (7 August 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2243391 

Herr Rahm and his talented companions are so far successful that they obtain most abundant and unmistakeable applause from large audiences that understand not a word of the songs sung. The harmony of voices is so charming that a subject is unnecessary. Rainer's Serenades have been praised, and deservedly, for the skill with which they sing together. The Tyrolese Minstrels have the advantage of their national cultivation of a style of vocal music that admits of beautiful harmonic effects. Their performance too is novel, and is of a very refined kind, calculated to attract and please those who love music for itself. That it does so here is evidenced by the character of the audiences. It is to be wished that people who go merely pour passer le temps would less interrupt by their talking and noisy demeanour the enjoyment of those who can enter fully into the loftier enjoyment of music. Geese, it is true, have earned historic renown by saving the Capitol, but their performance is fatal to both melody, and harmony. Herr Rahm's solos on the Zither are delightful. The tuneful chime of the "Evening Bells" would never tire the weary sense. Both he and his associates deserve well of the public for their introduction of a new entertainment of a really superior character. There can be little doubt that they will become highly popular, and that their present short engagement will have to be prolonged to an indefinite period before the public will cry "Hold, enough!"
- Melbourne Herald, July 27.

"LAUNCESTON", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (18 September 1854), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2244166 

The Launceston papers contain nothing of importance. Herr V. Rahm, the celebrated Tyrolese minstrel, and grand performer on the national instrument the Zither, has arrived.

"HERR VEIT RAHM", The Courier (19 October 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2239781

This talented performer takes his farewell benefit this evening, and is sure to be honoured with a bumper house, as, indeed his extraordinary performances on the Zither, and the praiseworthy courtesy he has evinced since following his professional career in Launceston entitled him to. M. Rahm has performed before His Excellency Sir William Denison since his arrival in Launceston, and Sir William highly complimented him on the wonderful skill he displayed on this almost unknown and extraordinary instrument.-
Ibid. [Cornwall Chronicle, Oct. 18]

ASSOCIATIONS: William Denison (governor)

"To the Editor of the Cornwall Chronicle. CAN IT BE TRUE?", The Cornwall Chronicle (21 October 1854), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65712738 

MR. EDITOR, - A paragraph appears in the last issue of your journal stating that Herr Veit Rahm, the Tyrolese minstrel, was shot at on the George Town Road, while returning from Mr. Gardner's residence at Newnham on Monday night last. A report prevails in the town that the firearm was discharged by the agent of an assassin - Jesuitical - clique, notorious for its rancorous hatred to Sir William Denison, - who in the darkness of the night mistook the carriage of the musician for that of His Excellency, and nearly put an end of the existence of a Zither player, instead of that of an administrator of government . . .

[Advertisement], The Courier (13 November 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2242514

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
HERR VEIT RAHM'S GRAND CONCERT, Under the Distinguished Patronage of COLONEL JACKSON, the Officer commanding the Troops.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY IN HOBART TOWN, THURSDAY, 16th NOVEMBER.
HERR VEIT RAHM will perform in full Tyrolese National Costume, as played before Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 7th August, 1852, at Windsor Castle and Frogmore House.
PART I.
1. Overture - Le Brasseur de Preston - Military Band.
2. Song - Dermot Astore - Mrs. Dawson - CROUCH.
3. Solo on the Piano, Fantasia - Mr. Buddee.
4. Duetto qual mare qual terra - Military Band.
5. Aria on the ZITHER - "The Evening Bells," with variations, composed by - HERR VEIT RAHM.
Song - Dearest Companions - - Mrs. Dawson. - BELLINI.
7. Waltz Nightingale - Military Band - JULLIEN.
An Interval of Eight Minutes.
PART II.
1. Finale 1st Act Op. Lucia di Lammermoor. - DONIZETTI.
2. National Song "The Tyrolese Postilion," with accompaniment on the ZITHER - HERR VEIT RAHM.
3. Solo on the Piano - Avis il alienne - Mr. Buddee.
4. Polka Friederichen Ruhner - Military Band.
5. Song, Ballad - Under the Walnut Tree - Mrs. Dawson.
6. Comic Song - "The Crying Peasant who was robbed of his Sweetheart," with accompaniment on the Guitar - HERR VEIT RAHM.
7. Finale - God save the Queen. - Military Band . . .

"HERR VEIT RAHM'S CONCERT", The Courier (18 November 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2238519

Herr Veit Rahm's concert at the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday was pretty well attended, although by no means so full as we might have expected from the novelty the entertainment presented, in the first appearance of a real live Tyrolean Minstrel, in full native costume. The Zither, which, we believe, is an instrument common enough amongst the Tyrolean peasantry, is so far of the guitar family that it possesses strings, but the strains it produces are very different. To our ears they were more curious than pleasing. The Herr sang two or three songs, one of which he obligingly informed the audience was the lamentation of a mistress in losing her sweetheart. Not understanding German, we could not of course enter into the full spirit of it. The audience were pleased, and laughed at it heartily. The fine band of the 99th was in attendance, and Mrs. Dawson sung three songs with her usual taste. Mr. Buddee's performances on the piano were the gems of the evening, and called forth rapturous encores. Altogether the entertainment was successful.

ASSOCIATIONS: Sarah Dawson (vocalist); d Julius Buddee (pianist); Band of the 99th Regiment

[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (25 November 1854), 5

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. . . Herr Veit Rahm will give a grand Concert at Evandale, on Monday, November 27, at the "Patriot King" . . . Herr Veit Rahm will give a Concert at Longford, the next week.

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC], (9 December 1854), 8

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CREMORNE GARDENS. - Grand Gala and Nocturnal Fete. To-night, Saturday, entire change of Entertainments. Engagement of the Celebrated Herr Veit Rahm, the Tyrolese Singer and performer on the New Instrument, the Zither, in his national costume, as performed before Her Majesty, Mr. J. O. Pierce, the Renowned soloist on the Concertino and Flutina, will also have the honor of appearing, Mr. James Shaw, the admired Comic Vocalist, from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, is also engaged . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Ellis (proprietor); John Ottis Pierce (minstrel, musician); James Shaw (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (7 February 1855), 1

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HERR VEIT RAHM'S Entertainment, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC, THIS EVENING.
This celebrated Tyrolese singer, and Zither performer, will be assisted by Mrs. St. John Adcock and Mr. John Howson.
The performance will commence at eight o'clock.
PROGRAMME.
Song - Shells of Ocean - Mr. John Howson.
Duet - When thy Bosom heaves a Sigh - Mrs. Adcock and Mr. Howson.
Hand Fantasia on the Zither, with imitation of the Bel1s, by Herr Veit Rahm.
Song - "Search thro' the Wide World," from La Figlia del Regimento - Mrs. Adcock.
Song - The Horn of Chase - Mr. J. Howson.
Song - The Tyrolese Postilion, with imitation of the Trumpet and accompaniment on the Zither by Herr Veit Rham [sic]
Song - A Young Lady's No! - Mrs. Adcock.
Song - The Irish Emigrant - Mr. J. Howson.
Comic Song - The Peasant who was robbed of his Sweetheart, accompaniment on the Guitar, by Herr Veit Rham.
During the evening Mr. Howson will preside at the Pianoforte, and will play some choice music.
The entertainment will conclude with a brilliant display of Chromatropes, and music on the Apollonicon.
Admission, 3s.; children, half-price . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Marianne Adcock (vocalist); John Howson (vocalist, pianist); Royal Polytechnic Institution (Sydney); James Smith Norrie (chemist, proprietor)

[Advertisement], The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (28 April 1855), 8

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THEATRE-ROYAL. Bourke-street. Grand Promenade Concert Every Night.
Vocalists - Miss Swannell, Mrs. D'Alton, Herr Veit Rahm, the Tyrolese Minstrel.
Band of Twenty Solo Performers, acknowledged to be the best and most efficient ever heard in Melbourne . . .
Conductor - Mr. Callen. Promenade, 1s.; Upper Saloons, 2s, 6d.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Melton Black (proprietor, Theatre Royal, Melbourne); Louisa Swannell (vocalist); Mrs. D'Alton (vocalist); George Douglas Callen (conductor, master of the Band of the 12th Regiment)

"BALLAARAT (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) . . . 11th June, 1855", The Argus (16 June 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4809671 

The diggers find amusing and delightful recreation at the "Charlie Napier," nightly. Mrs. Hancock's sweet and thrilling ballads, Mr. Thatcher's inimitable local travesties, and Herr Rahm's singular but musical notes on the zitter, form a tout ensemble rarely to be met with. Mr. Underwood, the proprietor, enforces the greatest order and decorum . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ellen Hancock (vocalist); Charles Thatcher (vocalist); Robert Underwood (proprietor, d. 1861)

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", The Argus (13 October 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4820776 

These popular vocalists gave a musical entertainment yesterday evening, at the Mechanics' Institution; and, although the audience was not so large as was to be wished, it was very select. The music chosen consisted chiefly of Tyrolese national airs, which were rendered with considerable effect by Mdme. and Mdlle. Kramer and Herr Rahm. The entertainment, although a very harmonious and interesting one, might not offer to the high art musician any great attraction. But it must not be understood that last evening's amusement is to be disparaged upon that account, for the national airs of every nation are interesting; and, when well rendered, always musical. "My Rifle Gun" was very well given by Mdme. Kramer; and the "Nightingale Solo," by Herr Rahm, drew down a good deal of applause. A fantasia on the violin by Herr Haimberger was well executed, the more rapid passages being given with marvellous precision. We would also especially notice Herr Rahm's performance on his national instrument, the "zither." This instrument resembles a small lyre, and is stringed with steel wire. It is laid flat upon a table, in order to cause the vibrations of the strings to reverberate, the table acting to the zither as the case to the piano. Its tone is harder than that of the guitar, but for musical effect the zither is preferable. Herr Rahm gave "The Mountain Bells" on this instrument in a masterly manner - the effect of the bells being produced by what are popularly known as the "harmonics" on stringed instruments; and these tones the zither produced with unusual clearness. The audience seemed highly pleased with their evening's entertainment. Sir Wm. A'Beckett and his lady were present.

ASSOCIATIONS: Margaretha and Marie Kramer (vocalists); Julius Haimberger (violin); William A'Beckett (chief justice)

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times [SA] (23 October 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207074603 

Grand concert, Under the Patronage of HIS EXCELLENCY SIR R. G. AND LADY MACDONNELL, Will be given by the CELEBRATED TYROLESE MINSTRELS - MADAM KRAMER, MADEMOISELLE MARIE KRAMER, HERR VEIT RAHM, AND MR. HAIMBERGER, Violin Solo Player, AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE, ON THURSDAY, THE 25th OCTOBER.
The Tyrolese Minstrels frill perform, in Full Tyrolese National Costume, and will give a selection of National Songs, as given before Her Majesty the Queen and the principal Nobility of England.
Her Vert Rahm will introduce some of his compositions on the new instrument, the Zeither.
The Concert will commence at 8 o'clock. October 22, 1855.

"THE TYROLESE MINSTRELS", Adelaide Times (31 October 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207074922 

A select, though not very numerous assemblage, comprising many of the quality of Adelaide, amongst whom were his Excellency the Governor and Lady Macdonnell, attended at the Theatre last evening, to hear the first concert given by the Tyrolese Minstrels . . . The greatest novelty of the evening was the performance of Herr Rahm upon the zither, an instrument of great sweetness, although, rather deficient in power for so large a place; the peculiar capabilities would be better developed in a drawing-room. Herr Rahm displayed much ability in his manipulation of the instrument which, under his guidance "discoursed most eloquent music." The solo, "Mountain Bells," elicited a unanimous encore; and the "Last Rose of Summer" was substituted, and narrowly escaped the same fate. He also sang an original composition of great sweet ness and melody, with much taste, with imitations of the nightingale and horn; and, although Herr Rahm's voice is not very powerful, and resorts frequently to the falsetto, which is rich in quality, he fully makes up for the physical defect by the energy and vigour of his style . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard and Blanche Macdonnell (governor and wife)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (14 December 1855), 1

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HERR VEIT RAHM, the celebrated TYROLESE MINSTREL, who has been so successful in his provincial tour, will return to Adelaide this day, and will have the honour to give his FAREWELL BENEFIT in a few days.

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . . . CLEARED OUT", Adelaide Times (29 December 1855), 2

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Thursday. December 27 - The screw-steamer Havilah, 387 tons, Lowrie, for Melbourne. Passengers . . . Herr Veit Rahm . . .

"KILMORE (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) January 15th . . .", The Argus (18 January 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4828576

We have been favored a second time during the past week with a visit from the celebrated German musician, Herr Veit Rahm, and we are only sorry the unfavorable state of the weather prevented a larger attendance at his concerts. Those who did attend, however, were amply repaid for their unpleasant walk through the rain and darkness. We seldom remember to have heard more pleasing and soothing music than his solo on the zither, - an instrument, we believe, peculiar to the Continent. His Tyrolean national song, "The Happy Alps," accompanied with the guitar, also told with pleasing effect . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (18 February 1856), 1

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HERR VEIT RAHM, the celebrated Tyrolese singer and composer on the ZITHER, will give his first Musical Soirée, at the Royal Polytechnic, Pitt-street, THIS EVENING, Monday . . . Miss STEWART, the renowned Mezzo-Soprano singer, will sing some selections from the Italian, English, and Scotch repertoires . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Stewart (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 February 1856), 1

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THE DOMAIN. THIS EVENING, (MONDAY) the 25th instant (by the kind permission of his Excellency the Governor-General). The public will once more have an opportunity of attending most positively the LAST GRAND ENTERTAINMENT in the DOMAIN that can possibly take place. The amusements on this occasion will exceed anything hitherto attempted in these colonies.
Among other attractions, the BAND of H.M.'s XI. Regiment will, with the kind permission of Colonel Bloomfield, make their last appearance at a public concert;
the celebrated GERMAN BAND will on this occasion perform in their new and magnificent costume;
the HUNGARIAN BAND will also appear in their new and splendid costume.
HERR VIET RAHM, the renowned Tyrolean singer, will, in conjunction with Miss ELIZA STEWART, the celebrated vocalist, have the honour of making their first and only appearance. In course of the evening, a gorgeous and magnificent display of FIREWORKS . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 11th Regiment

"FETE IN THE DOMAIN", Empire (26 February 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60174321 

The grand entertainment, so long advertised, came off in the Domain, last evening, and drew together a large concourse of people. The attendance was as numerous, if not considerably more so, than on any previous occasion, there being about five thousand persons present. Everything was favourable:- the night was beautifully fine, which was a great inducement for the promenade - and the programme promised much; but, as usual, a fatal something unexpectedly interposed to prevent the fulfilment of its promises. There were three bands of music present the Military, the German, and the Hungarian - all of which performed their allotted parts to the entire satisfaction of the vast multitude assembled - judging from the plaudits that followed the conclusion of some of the favourite selections. The vocal performance there was but one - was a decided failure, open air agreeing with neither the ability nor the compass of Herr Veit Rahm, whatever that gentleman's abilities may be otherwise. An apology was made for Miss Eliza Stewart and the "grand chorus of thirty performers," the non-appearance of the former being excused on the plea of illness. There was considerable hubbub created by the announcement of this fact, and in the crush that ensued many persons crowded on one of the platforms erected for the accommodation of the musicians; the interference of the police, however, soon put matters right. The exhibition of fireworks was certainly gorgeous . . .

"DOMAIN GALA", The Sydney Morning Herald (26 February 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12973903 

. . . Herr Veit Rahm took his seat at a table on the platform upon which the German band was stationed, having played a short symphony on his zither, he commenced singing the beautiful air "Fatherland;" but, scarcely had he sung twenty bars, which were not heard by a hundred of those present, than those who could not hear commenced creating a disturbance, by shouting and pushing violently towards the place where H. Rahm was sitting. As it became impossible to restore order, H. R. retired, it being obviously hopeless for him to attempt to get a hearing. Under these circumstances, Miss E. Stewart adopted the judicious course of not attempting to sing, and also immediately retired . . .

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (8 March 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048181 

Royal Victoria Theatre, Saturday, March 8, 1856. Herr Veit Rahm AND Miss Eliza Stewart . . . Miss Eliza Stewart, the celebrated Vocalist and Pianist, from the London Concerts and Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and the most powerful company in the colony, at White's, Royal Victoria Theatre, on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday Evenings . . .

"CAMDEN", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 May 1856), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12978942 

On Saturday, the 3rd instant, Herr Veit Rahm, the celebrated Tyrolese vocalist and performer, gave a musical soiree, at the Woolpack Inn, but, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, we were sorry to see so small an attendance . . . We understand that it is his intention to proceed to Goulburn tomorrow, staying at any place on the road where he is likely to get an audience . . .

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

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

This talented artiste took his farewell benefit yesterday evening, at the Prince of Wales Theatre. He appeared in the costume of his native land (Tyrol), in which he had the honor of performing before her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, in 1852. The programme contained, besides concerted music, choice selections from popular composers, which were executed with considerable taste and skill, by Mrs. Guerin, Madame Cramer [sic, Kramer], and Mr. J. Howson. Mr. Packer presided at the pianoforte. The chief attraction was the vocalization and instrumental performance of Mr. Rahm on the zither, a stringed instrument of his own invention. The songs sung by the Tyrolese minstrel were selected from his own compositions. They were meritorious productions, but they defy the efforts of every one not possessing a voice of very great compass. In the "Tyrolese Minstrel", Mr. Rahm gives an excellent imitation of the sound of the trumpet, only surpassed by his performance of the "Nightingale", with imitations. The grand aria on the zither, the "Mountain Bells", and the "Last Rose of Summer", with variations, were exquisite performances, requiring delicate and yet brilliant manipulation. The comic song, the "Crying Peasant", produced the usual exhilirating effects. Mr. Rahm proved himself deserving of the encores and applause he received.

ASSOCIATIONS: Theodosia Guerin (vocalist); Charles Sandys Packer (piano)

[Advertisement], The Argus (1 July 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7132363 

IMMENSE ATTRACTION. - National Music-Hall, Bourke-street east. Engagement of Herr Veit Rahm, the celebrated Tyrolese Minstrel, whose performance on zither and guitar before the Queen met with her most gracious approval.

[Advertisement], The Argus (8 August 1856), 8

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NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, BOURKE-STREET, EAST . . .
The following Artists will appear Nightly:
MADAME BUTLER (The talented Soprano.)
MRS. G. WILLIAMSON (The celebrated comic vocalist.)
MR. G. WILLIAMSON (Who is acknowledged the most talented comic vocalist in the colony.)
M. BARDINI (The admired baritone.)
HERR VEIT RAHM (The celebrated Tyrolese minstrel.)
Pianoforte - Mr. E. J. PIPER.
Proprietor - W. HUTCHINSON. Admission Free.

ASSOCIATIONS: Emily Butler (vocalist); George Wilkinson (vocalist); Edward John Piper (piano)

[Advertisement], Williamstown Trade Circular [Melbourne, VIC] (6 September 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69667112 

NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Bourke-street. - Mr. Power, the admired baritone, and Herr Veit Rahm . . .
Madame Butler, the admired and popular vocalist, Every Evening.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Pierce Power (vocalist)

"THE DUNOLLY GAZETTE", Bendigo Advertiser [VIC] (10 October 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87994770 

We have been favored with a copy of this journal . . . The following remarks, about amusements at Dunolly, will be found interesting: . . . There are the concert rooms of Dunolly, from several of which, immediately contiguous to each other, there may, at the moment of your passing by jointly issue a comingling of anything but harmonious sounds. Thus, from "Pearson's Harmonic Hall" may be heard the sounds of a lady's treble voice warbling a plaintive ballad, while from the "London Hotel," a few doors distant, may be heard the Tyrolese Song of Herr Viet Rham. Meantime, from the houses directly opposite sounds more stentatorian than musical are issuing from the throats of two rival comedians who are chaunting the productions of Thatcher. The lovers of music can, however, spend a really pleasant evening in listening to Rainer's far-famed Serenaders . . .

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

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NATIONAL HOTEL MUSIC HALL. Bourke-street east, Near the Parliament Houses.
Great Attraction! Crowded Houses Every Night! The following Perforators will appear:
HERR VEIT RAHM, The Celebrated Tyrolose Minstrel.
MR. G. ELLIS, The Popular Comic Vocalist.
MR. BENJAMIN, Tenor.
MR. KITTS, Basso, from the Theatre Royal.
MR. E. J. PIPER, Pianist and Conductor . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Ellis (vocalist); James Edward Kitts (vocalist)

London, England (by June 1857):

"THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION", London Evening Standard (2 June 1857), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18570602/010/0001 (PAYWALL)

That this institution deservedly maintains its popularity is a fact which was practically shown last evening by the immense number of visitors. The building was crowded in every part, and the varied amusements provided for the holiday folks were well selected . . . The novelty was the appearance of Herr Veit Rahm, who had also performed in the morning, and who played some airs on the "cither," and afterwards sang and accompanied himself on the guitar, giving at the same time imitations of the horn, &c. Herr Rahm is a Tyrolean vocalist, and he sang a national air very pleasingly. The "cither" is an instrument which does not admit of much artistic display, though the performance was perhaps surprising. The Hungarian Band, conducted by Herr Kalozdy, executed four pieces with that exquisite precision and expression which characterise all their performances . . .

Musical works:

Music of the Tyrol, dance melodies; No. 1 Evening bells; No. 2 A Tyrolese air; arranged for the pianoforte by J. O. Smith (London: Mitchell, [1852])

Copy at the British Library

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/498764540 

"NEW MUSIC", Lady's Own Paper (25 December 1852), 11

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002254/18521225/085/0011 (PAYWALL)

Music of the Tyrol. Dance Melodies. 1. Evening Bells. 2. A Tyrolese Air. Mitchell, Old Bond Street.

These sparkling productions of the composer, Herr Veit Rahm, originally performed on the "Zither," have been admirably arranged for pianoforte and harp by Mr. J. O. Smith, of Cheltenham, and will, no doubt, become special favorites. We shall be glad to see more of them.

ASSOCIATIONS: Jeremiah Oakwell Smith

Bibliography and resources:

Martin Reiter, Die Zillertaler Nationalsänger im 19. Jahrhundert (Egger-Rieser, Fiechtl, Gänsluckner, Hauser, Holaus, Leo, Rainer, Scheiring, Stiegler, Strasser und andere . . .) ([?, Austria]: Artina-Verlag, 1989)

Toni Rieser and Helmut Eberharter (eds), Die Abenteuer des Veit Rahm: Unterhaltung, Abenteuer u. Reisebeschreibung des wirklichen weltbereisten Tiroler Sängers und Zitherkünstlers Veit Rahm aus dem Zillertal vom Jahre 1851 bis 1857 Umfasst die Reise von Australien nach Vandiemensland der englischen Strafkolonie ([Austria]: Hemut Eberharter, 2008)

https://henry78.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Die-Abenteuer-des-Veit-Rahm.lowres.pdf (DIGITISED)

A partial facsimile and transcription of Rahm's manuscript Australian memoir

RAINE, Elizabeth (Elizabeth AZIRE; Mrs. John FULLOON; Mrs. Robert RAINE; Mrs. William John SPEED)

School teacher, ? teacher of dancing

Born London, England, 8 February 1781; baptised St. James's church, Clerkenwell, 18 March 1871; daughter of Robert and Pheby AZIRE
Married (1) John FULLOON (1780-1824), St. Mary's, Whitechapel, 11 April 1802
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 May 1824 (per Brothers, from England, via Hobart Town)
Married (2) Robert RAINE , St. Philip's church, Sydney, 13 November 1826
Married (3) William SPEED, St. James's church, Sydney, 12 March 1832
Died Sydney, NSW, 12 June 1842, in her "63rd" year [sic]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Elizabeth+Azire+Fulloon+Raine+Speed+1781-1842 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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FULLOON, Maria (Maria FULLOON; Mrs. John Hunter CORMACK)

? School teacher, teacher of dancing

Born London, England, 19 November 1806; baptised, Christ church, Spitalfields, 1 January 1807; daughter of John FULLOON and Elizabeth AZIRE
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 May 1824 (per Brothers, from England, via Hobart Town)
Married John Hunter CORMACK (1800-1860), Scots church, Sydney, NSW, 5 March 1832
Died Redfern, NSW, 24 January 1869

FULLOON, Eliza Susanna (Eliza Susanna FULLOON; Mrs. Josiah GARNSEY)

School teacher, teacher of dancing

Born London, England, 3 April 1809; baptised, Christ church, Spitalfields, 18 June 1809; daughter of John FULLOON and Elizabeth AZIRE
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 May 1824 (per Brothers, from England, via Hobart Town)
Married Josiah GARNSEY (1800-1853), St. James's church, Sydney, NSW, 10 December 1836
Died Dubbo, NSW, 4 April 1873

FULLOON, Matilda Ann (Matilda Ann FULLOON; Mrs. Robert Charles ORMISTON)

School teacher, teacher of dancing

Born London, England, 3 May 1811; baptised, St. Mary's, Lambeth, 5 September 1813 [sic]; daughter of John FULLOON and Elizabeth AZIRE
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 May 1824 (per Brothers, from England, via Hobart Town)
Married Robert Charles ORMISTON (1806-1875), St. James's church, Sydney, NSW, 11 April 1832
Died Sydney, NSW, 17 December 1877

Summary:

Elizabeth Fulloon, in company with her husband John and their children, served as superintendent of the female convict shipment per Brothers in 1824. John having died on the vovage, on arrival in Sydney in May Elizabeth was appointed superintendent of the Female Factory in Parramatta.

On completing her term, Elizabeth opened a girls school in Sydney with the assistance of at least two of her three daughters.

Documentation:

"GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (20 May 1824), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182904 

MRS. FULLOON, having been appointed by HIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES, Superintendent of the Female Factory at Parramatta, she is to enter upon the Duties of her Office immediately.

"MARRIED", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (15 November 1826), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2186902 

By Special License, at St. Phillip's Church, on Monday last, by the Rev. W. COWPER, ROBERT RAINE, Esq. to Mrs. E. FULLOON of Parramatta.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (18 June 1828), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2190585 

MISS MATILDA FULLOON, announces to her Friends and the Public of Sydney, that she has Opened a DAY SCHOOL, at No. 12, O'Connell-street . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (9 January 1830), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2194257 

Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies. No. 12, O'Connel-street, Sydney. MRS. ELIZABETH RAINE and Miss M. A. FULLOON, in returning thanks to their numerous Friends and the Public for the very liberal support they have received since the commencement of their Establishment, beg to announce, they have taken the whole of the premises above named, and fitted up the house for the reception of Boarders . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (13 April 1830), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2194895 

A CARD. MRS. RAINE begs to apprise the inhabitants of Sydney, that having consulted lier friends, she is determined, in consequence of the death of Mr. Brunton, to open a select DANCING SCHOOL; And has engaged Mr. SAUNDERSON, a gentleman who teaches in the French, English, and Italian style, to give two Lessons weekly, and two Lessons will also be given by the two Miss Fulloon's. As it is unpleasant for young Ladies to go home after dark, the Master will, attend on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, from 3 till 5 o'clock. Terms Two Guineas per Quarter. Mrs. R. also begs to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen who may be pleased to honour her with their patronage, that any Pupil entering on the Quarter, must pay for the same whether they attend or not.
No. 12, O'Connel-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Brunton (dancing master); William Saunderson (dancing master)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (10 July 1830), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2195519

BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, 12, O'CONNELL-STREET, SYDNEY.
MRS. R. RAINE [sic] and the Miss FULLOON's, in returning thanks to their numerous Friends and the Public in general, for the patronage hitherto shewn them, beg most respectfully to inform them that their HALF-YEARLY VACATION terminates on Monday, the 12th Instant, when they trust, by their unremitting attention to the moral as well as intellectual improvement of their Pupils, still to merit the good opinion of a discerning Public.
N.B. - Mrs. R. also returns her sincere thanks for the liberal support experienced since the commencement of her Dancing Academy, and begs to announce to her Friends, that the hours are from 4 until 6 on the afternoons of Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, instead of as heretofore.

"MARRIED", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (13 March 1832), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2205511 

At the Scots Church, on Monday last, the 5th instant, by the Rev. JOHN McGARVIE, A.M., Mr. JOHN HUNTER CORMACK, nephew of Dr. HUNTER, to Miss MARIA FULLOON, eldest daughter of Mrs. RAINE, of O'Connell-street, Sydney.

Yesterday, at St. James's Church, by the Rev. RICHARD HILL, WILLIAM JOHN JOHN SPEED, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the late St. Vincent Rangers, and late an Officer in the Commissariat at Van Diemen's Land, widower, to Mrs. ELIZABETH RAINE, widow.

"MARRIED", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (14 April 1832), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2206027 

On Wednesday last, at St. James's Church, by the Rev. R. HILL, Mr. ROBERT ORMISTON, of South Creek (son of JAMES ORMISTON, Esq., Agent to the original Bristol Brass and Copper Company), to Miss MATILDA ANN FULLOON, youngest daughter of Mrs. Speed, of O'Connel-street, Sydney.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Herald (14 June 1842), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12875648 

At her residence, O'Connell-street, on the 12th instant, Mrs. Speed, in her 63rd year, after a lingering illness, which she bore with Christian resignation.

RAINER, John Cragin (John Cragin RAINER; Cregin [sic]; J. C. RAINER; John C. RAINER)

Musician, bass vocalist, banjo player, musical director, arranger, theatrical agent and manager

Born New York, USA, c. 1820; son of George RAINER and Harriet DE BOWEN
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 19 September 1852 (per Speed, from San Francisco, 28 July)
Married Sarah MOUBRAY (c. 1831-1891), Rushworth, VIC, 20 August 1859
Died Coburg, VIC, 27 November 1889, aged 69

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Summary:

John Cragin Rainer was born in New York in 1820, a son of George Rainer and Harriet De Bowen. According to his obituary he took to the stage at age 21 (1841), and first came to notice outside the United States in England.

Aged 26, he sailed from New Orleans for Liverpool in December 1846 on board the John P. Harward, in company with Samuel Sanford (1821-1905), and three members of the Buckley family, James Buckley (billed as James Burke), George Swaine Buckley (who appeared as George B. Swaine), and the juvenile violinist Frederick Buckley ("Master Ole Bull"). Having landed in Liverpool on 23 January 1847, the troupe spent the next year and a half based in Britain, touring as the New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders. By August 1848 they were back in the United States, appearing first in New York (Lawrence 1988, 555; for more on these early associates see References below).

In Australia Rainer later claimed that, while in England, he (with the Buckley troupe) had performed for Queen Victoria, which is not improbable, though the year must have been 1847 or 1848.

Later accounts of the Buckley troupe's English tour (from Edward Rice onwards) usually assumed that Rainer was an alias for a fourth member of the Buckley family, and adding to this confusion another Rainer (possibly indeed by then an alias) was later billed with the Buckleys on the east coast of the United States in 1852-53.

By March 1852, however, John Cragin Rainer was in San Francisco, performing with William B. Donaldson (1822-1873), as Rainer and Donaldson's Serenaders, the company already including two of the musicians (Brower and White) who in July would sail with him for Australia.

The "original" Rainer's Serenaders troupe arrived in Sydney on 19 September 1852, on board the Speed from San Francisco. It consisted of Rainer (musical director), Thomas P. Brower (minstrel), M. W. (Bill) White (minstrel), Neil Bryant (minstrel), James Milton Foans (minstrel), Frank Moran (minstrel), and Elbert Totten (agent).

In Australia, the group remained remarkably stable for almost three years, with only a couple of outside additions to the regular lineup. The Tyrolean zither player Veit Rahm appeared with them in Sydney and Melbourne in 1853, and in mid 1854, J. P. Nash, formerly of the New York Serenaders, joined the troupe as agent and later also as a performer.

Following a regional tour of NSW in mid 1855, the "original" troupe finally disbanded in Sydney after the last performance of a short season for Frank Howson at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 3 September 1855.

Rainer had settled at Castlemaine in central Victoria by mid 1856, and reformed Rainer's Serenaders with several local men, Davis, Martin, and Hull as vocalists (about these three nothing else is known), and Andrew Moore as violinist, rejoined around the end of the year by M. W. (Bill) White from the original lineup. In this combination they continued to perform around central Victoria until mid 1857.

Documentation:

England (January 1847 to July 1848):

"THE SOUTHERN ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser (26 January 1847), 23

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002088/18470126/377/0023 (PAYWALL)

A company of serenaders under the direction of Mr. B. Frankland Fuller, arrived here on Saturday last in the ship John P. Harward, from New Orleans. Amongst them is Mr. Rainer, a member of a family of vocalists known and celebrated as the Rainer Family; Mr. G. B. Swaine; a youth designated in the New World, from his Peculiar and unapproached talent on the violin, the "American Ole Bull;" Mr. Sandford, and Mr. Burke, both acknowledged superior vocalists. In the Southern States of America, the truly Ethiopian settlements, their success has exceeded that of any of their predecessors, and that they may here be distinguished from others they take the title of Southern Serenaders. Their songs are new to English audiences; and their ability has been so lauded that we cannot forbear giving insertion to the following from the Daily Cincinnati Commercial: -

"We have long since discarded the practice of speaking in high terms of praise of any and all performances gotten up to attract the multitude and make money. If we cannot praise where merit is, and censure where it is not, our remarks are utterly worthless or worse. In view of this position, which alone makes praise valuable, we feel warranted in speaking of the Ethiopian Serenaders. We have attended three times at Masonic Hall, and on each night was delighted by hearing the melodies, which this band have the exclusive right and title to sing and play. For originality, harmony, and melody, the vocal and instrumental powers of this band are not excelled in this country, as far as our knowledge extends, and we fancy we have seen all the negro delineators who have attained any considerable notoriety. It is not necessary for us to speak of the separate parts necessary to make a full and efficient band, because every intelligent person knows the parts of music necessary. We have only to say, that from the unapproachable bass of Rainer to the alto of Little Ole Bull, a harmony and beauty exist quite enchanting . . .

"SOUTHERN ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Liverpool Mail (6 February 1847)

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This recent but superior importation of imitative sable minstrels have, as if by magic, at once attained an exalted position in public estimation. On Monday evening, their first public performance in England took place at the Assembly Rooms, Great George-street. The attendance was very numerous and fashionable. Their bill of fare was unusually racy, comprising many melodies of a truly delightful and original character. Unlike the minstrels who have heretofore fretted their hour before the public, amid extensive patronage, these performers introduce many popular overtures which are rendered with exquisite precision and fidelity. Some of the airs are perfectly new to us - from the touching native melody to the outre extravaganzas of [REDACTED] improvisitation. The harmonised songs are sweetly sung, the soft blending of the silvery voices enchanting all hearers. The youthful Ole Bull, besides possessing an alto voice of lute-like sweetness, performs upon the violin in a style not a whit inferior to the great artiste whose patronymic he has adopted. Mr. Rainer, the primo basso, is endowed with a fine bell-toned voice, of good depth, which gives a sterling solidity to the glees . . . The entire entertainment - comprising buffo and sentimental singing, negro converzaciones and witticisms, and burlesque imitations of scenes from the Italian opera - is of so unique and recherche a character that we advisedly request all lovers of music not to suffer the present opportunity to pass without spending an evening with these incomparable strangers. On Monday next, they will appear at the Adelphi Theatre - Mr. W. J. Hammond, with his usual tact and discrimination, having engaged them for a short period.

ASSOCIATIONS: William John Hammond (actor, manager)

[Advertisement], Liverpool Mail (6 February 1847), 1

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NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, CHRISTAIN-STREET, ISLINGTON. LESSEE AND MANAGER, MR. W. J. HAMMOND . . .
ENGAGEMENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, comprising the following members: -
THE AMERICAN OLE BULL - Alto (12 years of age;)
G. SWAINE - Tenore; J. BURKE - Contra Alto; S. SANFORD - Second Tenore;
J. C. RAINER - Primo Basso, for a limited number of nights.
ON MONDAY next, the 8th . . .

[Playbill] Princess's Theatre . . . Portland Place [London] Fourteenth appearance in this country of the celebrated New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders . . . This evening, Tuesday, March 16th, 1847; Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014635580 (DIGITISED)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/community.14664437 (PAYWALL)

[Advertisement], Morning Post [London] (24 March 1847), 4

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PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. TO-MORROW EVENING will be presented the Opera of NORMA . . . After which a Concert by the New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders. Messrs. Sandford, Burk, Ole Bull, jun., J. C. Rainer, and Swaine . . .

[News], Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser (31 August 1847), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000950/18470831/043/0002 (PAYWALL)

The New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders, conducted by Mr. Rainer, gave one of their musical entertainments at the Globe Hotel Assembly Room, Cockermouth, on Thursday evening last, which was very superior to any similar entertainment previously given in that town. They sang remarkably well, and their instruments harmonised most pleasingly. Where all is good it difficult to particularize, but the song of "Mary Blane," "The Overture to the Second Part," "The Solo upon the Violin, by Ole Bull, jun.," and the "Banjo Solo, by Mr. Swaine," called for the warmest applause. They are a party of really clever and gentlemanly artistes, and their surpassing talent will be sure to earn for them a patronage unknown the shoals of "Ethiopian Serenaders" who for some time past have been perambulating the country from one extremity another. The musical entertainment given by the New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders, at Keswick, on Friday evening last, was attended by a numerous and fashionable auditory, and their inimitable performances went off with great eclat, and gave general satisfaction.

"THE NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Liverpool Mail (6 May 1848), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001300/18480506/047/0003 (PAYWALL)

These humourous caricaturists of the "ways and means" peculiar to the negro population of the southern states of America, have again, during the past week, been in possession of our Theatre-Royal, where they have performed before very fair audiences, (notwithstanding the attraction held out at some of the other theatres,) and been received with unequivocal evidences of satisfaction. In addition to their numerous songs, overtures, &c., a new song by Mr. Rainer, the basso of the company, entitled "The [REDACTED] Funeral," has been introduced, and, from the serio-comic style of its execution and the plaudits which have greeted it, we have no hesitation in pronouncing one of the best of their dark gems. That universal favourite, the burlesque Italian Opera, still holds its place among the encores. After to-night, we understand, the serenaders proceed to fulfil professional engagements in the fashionable town of Cheltenham and the city of Oxford. We wish these gentlemen every success.

"NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Liverpool Mail (26 August 1848), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001300/18480826/036/0002 (PAYWALL)

During the last week, this talented group of artistes have had possession of the Concert Hall, and nightly delighted numerous and respectable audiences. Since their previous visit, they have made a tour of the adjoining counties, and have met, we are glad to learn, with very general success . . .

NOTE: See partial reprint from this original review in Hobart press, below, 15 February 1853

United States (1848-52):

[Advertisement], Daily Alta California [San Francisco, CA] (2 March 1852), 3

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18520302.2.17.1 

JENNY LIND THEATER.
RAINER & DONALDSON'S SERENADERS, Whose Concerts in England and America, for the last eight years, have been attended by the most fashionable audiences, respectfully inform the ladies and gentlemen of San Francisco that they will have the honor of giving a series of their INIMITABLE ENTERTAINMENTS at this Theatre, commencing MONDAY EVENING, March 1st.
The Concerts will be interspersed with selections from the best Operas, also the most admired and fashionable pieces now so popular in the States, accompanied by the Violin, Banjoes, Bones, Castanetts, Tamborine, &c., &c., &c.
The Company is composed of the following gentlemen: -
F. SOLOMON - Violin.
M. W. WHITE - First Tenor.
T. BROWER - Second Tenor.
W. B. DONALDSON - Tenor.
J. C. RAINER - Basso. . . .

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", Daily Alta California (25 July 1852)

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18520725.2.9

This evening this excellent and popular band of Minstrels make their last appearance in California prior to the departure for the Australian colonies. Mr. J. C. Rainer, the leader of this famed troupe of serenaders, takes a benefit, and for which an unusually interesting programme is announced.

Australia (from 1852):

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 September 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940143 

September 19 - Speed, barque, 365 tons, Capt. Cannell from San Francisco the 28th July, in ballast. - Passengers . . . Messrs. J. C. Rainer. J. P. Brower [sic], M. W. White, N. Bryant, G. M. Jones [sic, J. M. Foans], F. Moran . . .

"THE ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (20 September 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940138 

Amongst the passengers arrived yesterday by the Speed, from California, are a number of gentlemen who under the above title, had the honour of appearing before the courts of Europe. Report speaks very highly of this talented company, and it is to be hoped their exertions will meet with an adequate reward.

"MUSICAL ARRIVALS", Empire (21 September 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60132483 

Among the passengers by the Speed, from San Francisco, a company of serenaders, whose musical talents are of a high order, arrived in Sydney. These gentlemen - six in number - have heen favourably known for some years past in the other hemisphere as Rainer's Company. In 1846 they were honoured by performing before the Queen and Prince Albert, and before other distinguished audiences, in England, on which occasions their merits were flatteringly acknowledged by the Press. We believe it is their intention, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, to give the inhabitants of Sydney an opportunity of judging of their accomplishments.

[Advertisement], Empire (22 September 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60136808 

ROYAL HOTEL. FIRST GRAND CONCERT OF RAINER'S ORIGINAL ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.
Messrs. Rainer, White, Bower, Bryant, Foans, and Moran.
TO-MORROW EVENING, Thursday, Sept. 23, At the Saloon of the Royal Hotel.
THIS Company (the first to harmonise Negro Melodies, and originators of the present popular style of Ethiopian Entertainments, and whose success during the past ten years in the United States is without precedent in the annals of public amusement, and who, on their visit to England, had the distinguished honour of appearing before her Majesty Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Court), respectfully announce to the musical public of Sydney, that they will commence a series of their inimitable entertainments as above.
For programme see small bills . . .

"THE NEW SERENADERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (24 September 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940264 

The company of Ethiopian Serenaders, who have recently arrived in the colony, made their first appearance last night to a most crowded audience; indeed, before the performance commenced the room was so crowded that the doors were closed and further admission refused. They are exceedingly clever and amusing, and gave the utmost satisfaction, several encores taking place in the course of the evening.

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (25 September 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59775363 

ROYAL HOTEL. SECOND GRAND CONCERT of Rainer's original Ethiopian Serenaders - Messrs. Rainer, White, Brown, Bryant, Foams, and Moran. On this EVENING (SATURDAY), September 25th, at the Saloon of the Royal Hotel.
This company, the first to harmonise Negro Melodies, and originators of the present popular style of Ethiopian Entertainments, and their success during the past ten years in the United States is without precedent in the annals of public amusement, and who in their visit to England had the distinguished honour of appearing before her Majesty, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Court, respectfully announce to the musical public of Sydney that they will commence a series of their inimitable entertainments as above.
For programme see small bills . . . E. TOTTEN, Agent.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (8 October 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940594

RAINER'S ORIGINAL ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.
Messrs. Rainer, White, Brower, Bryant, Foans, and Moran, will give another of their inimitable Entertainments, illustrative of Negro Life and Character, this (Friday) evening, 8th October, in the Saloon of the Royal Hotel.
PROGRAMME. - PART I.
Grand Introductory Overture - Full Band
Opening Chorus - Dinah's Wedding Day - Company
I'm off for Baltimore - Foans
Dolly Day - Moran
Old Folks at Home, (by desire) - Brower
Crows in the Corn Field, (first time.) - Rainer
Malinda May - White
The Drapers' Races, (2 miles long,) - Moran
Sweep's Refrain - (with Tyrolean imitations) - Brower
Carry me 'long - White
The [REDACTED]'s Barcarole - Rainer
Grand Finale to Part I. - The Phantom Chorus from Somnambula - Company
PART II. - MISCELLANEOUS OLIO.
Solo - Flutina - Bryant
Ballad - White
Banjo Solo, by that Son of Momus - Moran
Solo - Banjo - The Soldier Boy
Quicksteps - White
Characteristic Banjo Trio - Brower, Moran, and White
PART III.
Overture - Full Band
Let's be gay - Company
Sleigh Ride - White and Company
Nancy Tease - Moran
Negro Refrain - Company
To conclude with the laughable burlesque of The Blackshakers.
Musical Director - Mr. J. C. Rainer.
Cards of admission - Reserved seats, 4s.; middle seats, 3s.; back seats, 2s.; to be had of H. Marsh and Co., Music Sellers, 490, George-street, and at the Royal Hotel . . .
E. TOTTEN, Agent.

RAINER'S ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (30 October 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59775503 

This company have announced the first of their last six concerts to take place on Monday evening next, at the Royal Hotel; and their departure being fixed for Melbourne after Friday the 12th proximo, their patrons will do well to avail themselves of the few remaining opportunities of enjoying their unrivalled entertainments. We may also venture the expression of a hope, that His Excellency the Governor-General may be induced to countenance the "[REDACTED] band" before their flight to the southward; for numerous as have been the companies, laying claim to the designation of "The Original Serenaders," we believe that Mr. Rainer's possesses the only legitimate claim to the distinction, and, as such, has been recognised by every country and state through which they have passed on their present tour around the world.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (19 November 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12941687 

ROYAL HOTEL. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19.
BENEFIT of Mr. J. C. RAINER. Most positively the last night of Rainer's Serenaders.
Rich Comic Stories, Fun, Frolic, Wit, Wisdom, Joy, Jokes, Repartee, Rigs, Whims, Waggeries, Bon Mots, Play upon Words, in fact, the Company will play on anything, except the feelings of the audience.
Mr. J. C. R. would respectfully announce to the ladies and gentlemen of Sydney, that his Benefit will take place as above, and flatters himself that the Entertainments will surpass anything of the kind yet given to the public.
For this occasion he has arranged a new Programme (introducing a few of the old favourites), also a Burlesque Scene of
THE ITALIAN OPERA!
And confidently expects that a refined community will approve the effort to join elevated and classical music with truly chaste and healthy humour.
PART I.
PROGRAMME, PART I.
1. - Overture - De fried sheep - Full Band
2. - Opening Chorus - From the Enchantress, hither we come (first time) - Company
3. - How is you White Folks? - Moran
4. - Open the Window, love one, do - White
5. - As I view now, (from La Sonnambula) - Rainer
6. - Come love, come, you need not fear - Foans
7. - The Ethiopian Dirge - Rainer
8. - We hear the hoofs, (from the Bronze Horse) - White
9. - I've a boat, I've a boat, and can give you a ride, New Orleans is my home, and Miss Dinah's my Bride, (first time) - Rainer
10. - The Old Folks at home - Brower
11. - The Hot Corn Maid, (first time), There lives in the place I forgot, a girl the colour of soot - Rainer
12. - I'm off for Melbourne - Moran
13. - Grand Finale to part first - Operatic Chorus - Company
Intermission of ten minutes.
Solo - Flutina, with variations - Bryant
Part II.
Burlesque on THE ITALIAN OPERA!
Arranged by J. C. Rainer.
Mad. Jenny Lindo, Tambo, J. M. Foans; Signor Lablache Rainorinio, J. C. Rainer; Signor Mario Banjo, M. W. White; Signor Bono Cavetino, F. Moran; Signor De-Big-Nees, T. P. Brower.
Leader of the Orchestra, of something less than 100 strong, C. Bryant.
Coloured Mutes, &c, by the whole of the Company.
Scene, First and Last. - Enter Signor Banjo Mario. He summons his lady-love, the Prima Donna, but she being (like most Prima Donnas when wanted) very sick, sends her faithful Page, Mad. Jenny Tambo, who delivers, as most Pages generally do, a Billy-do. At this critical moment, the infuriated Papa, Signor Lablache Rainorinio, (who, like all infuriated Papas, opposes the union of his daughter with any person who was ever known to sing) enters, seizes the latter, and upbraids them for their clandestine proceedings. Banjo entreats, Papa scorns, Tambo intercedes. Papa swears (N. B. in Italian,) and vows eternal separation and revenge. They quarrel - and of course words are exchanged - a blow is given, a challenge accepted - they fight, and alas, oh dreadful to relate, Banjo falls. Tambo weeps and prays - Rainorinio is struck with remorse and snivels. Banjo, oh terror, sings first, dies next, and afterwards - kicks the bucket. DEAD MARCH, enter Coloured Mutes, Moranio Bono et De-big-nees Browero, with appropriate banners and instruments. They remove the illustrious remains of Banjo to solemn and pathetic music, after which the audience is supposed to imagine that the curtain falls amidst showers of bouquets and bursts of applause. The call for the talented Artistes, by a delighted and enthusiastic audience, forming a grand, brilliant, and imposing finale.
MUSIC IN THE OPERA.
Opening Recitative - Fatal Friday, Mario Banjo. Aria - Prendare un Drinko, Prima Donna la Toothacheo cannot performo, Lindo Tambo, Lucaexi Borgia, Recitative - Malledetteo influenza, non playo stop salarino, per Opera Paddy Whack in Italian Labach, Rainorinio. Duett - Tetzam in same way, leg off, Banjo Mario et Lablache Rainorinio. Aria Lindo Tambo, Sonnambula. Tezetto - Banjo, Tambo, Rainorinio. Aria - Banjo. Aria - Tambo Lindo. Grand Aria - Et Due Challengo, Puritana, Lablache il Bobblini look upo, Rainorinio et Banjo Mario, Grand Dying Scena - Fra Foker, I'm a Croker.
N. B. - Books of the Words in English, Low Dutch, and Half Spanish, can be procured at the Office, price £ 1s.
PART III.
Banjo Solo, by that son of Momus, Moran
Ballad, Ben Bolt, (to be had at Marsh's Music Warehouse), White
LUCY LONG, in Bloomer costume, Foans
Banjo Trio - Hop Light Loo, Moran, Brower, and White
GRAND FINALE.
MUSICAL PA-NOR-A-MA.
An Original Burlesque on Julien's Grand Promenade Concerts.
Solo on the Monster Tin Horn, J. C. Rainer
Solo on a pair of Kitchen Bellows, F. Moran, executed by the 6 Faint Orpheans on their Rush-ing Horn, Ex-tin-guishing all the Dis-tinguished performers of the age, and sufficiently seasoned without the aid of mustard.
This piece is supposed to commence in the Domain and proceed up George-street to the Royal Hotel, and thence to Port Adelaide, illuminated by a Drum and Light . . .
E. TOTTEN. Agent.

"A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (20 November 1852), 2

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The departure of Rainer's accomplished company from this for the sister colony, cannot be suffered by us to pass by without a farewell word. To them we have been indebted for many an evening's sterling entertainment, and that of a character vastly superior to any of similar description previously introduced by illegitimate assumers of the name and fame exclusively belonging to "The Original Serenaders." Last evening Mr. Rainer made his parting bow to an over-crowded house, and on behalf of himself and brother professionals, gracefully acknowledged the liberal favours of the Sydney public, and expressed a sanguine expectation of repeating his visit, if his future arrangements would admit of the same. Our Melbourne contemporaries will, we trust, honour this brief note of introduction, and give these clever artistes a cordial welcome to Victoria's metropolis.

"SERENADERS", Colonial Times (15 February 1853), 2

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Rainer's Company of Southern Serenaders have arrived, and the citizens may expect some amusement. Judging from the testimonials given in America, England, and the adjacent colonies, their talent is beyond doubt. They have performed before the Queen, and many of the nobility, at home; and before the President of the United States; and the celebrated vocalist, Henry Russell, has borne testimony to their powers of harmony. We take the following from an English paper: -
"The performances of Swaine on the banjo and "bones" are still as exciting as ever, while his imitation of the drum, horse race, &c., evoked loud plaudits. The violin playing of young Ole Bull was, if possible, more effective, and the humorous eccentricities of Sandford, alias Tamburini, heightened the evenings' enjoyments; they were created of mirth and drollery. Among the new pieces lately introduced in the vocal department, we were much pleased by a song from Mr. Rainer, entitled "Carry me back to old Virginny," which with the "[REDACTED]'s funeral," by the same gentleman, constituted no ordinary treat; they are gems, to which he imparted a lustre, as well as that decided favorite, "The Italian Opera Burlesqued." His voice is a bass of exquisite sweetness and power, and on each occasion he received unequivocal proofs of public approbation. The Serenaders appear in the fancy dresses in which they performed before the President of the United States, which admirably pourtray the extraordinary love of gaudy articles so inherent in the nature of the negro, and produce an effect quite apropos to the character of the entertainment.

For original see: "NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Liverpool Mail (26 August 1848), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001300/18480826/036/0002 (PAYWALL)

"The Serenaders", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (19 February 1853), 140

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On Thursday last, the people of Launceston were on the qui vive from the fact of it having been announced during the week, that Rainer's celebrated band of serenaders would perform at the Cornwall Assembly Rooms in the evening, and long before the time appointed for the entertainment to commence, crowds of persons were to be seen wending their way thither. On bowing to the audience, the serenaders were loudly applauded, and the remark was buzzed about the room that six finer "colored gemmen" never came from Ole Virginia. The first piece, "Grand Introductory Chorus" was rendered with great spirit and precision, followed by an "Operatic Chorus," and "sounds of pleasure" also given con brio, and in true musical breathing. The gem of the evening, however, was most decidedly, "See, Sir See!" from the opera of La Sonnambula, by Bellini. In this piece the fine bass voice of Mr. Rainer told with most electrifying effect upon the audience. He is evidently quite at home in such scenes, and leads us to infer that we have a real colonial Lablache among us. He is affirmed by the elite musicale who were present to be the best singer who has ever made his debut before a Tasmanian audience. Taken as a whole, the efforts of the serenaders have produced a most unequivocal and agreeable impression upon those who have had the pleasure of hearing them. Purity of taste, comic and dramatic effect, essentials in their peculiar school of performance, are most conspicuous . . .

"The Serenaders", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (23 February 1853), 148

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The increased attendance at Rainers' fashionable evening entertainments, demonstrates the popularity the Serenaders are acquiring among the people of Launceston. On Monday and Tuesday evenings last, the house was filled to overflowing with gratified audiences, who shared their adpreciation of the merits of the performances, by loudly applauding them. The opening chorus of "Hither we come," is a beautiful composition, and was given with telling effect by the company, as also were the songs of Rosa Lee, by White, Juliana Brown, by Brower, Dinah Crow, by Fowns [sic]. In the Ethiopean dirge on Monday evening, Mr. Rainer's rich bass voice told with admirable effect, and on either evening it was worth the admission money, to see Fowns attired in full bloomer costume as Lucy Long. The Serenaders perform this evening, tomorrow, and Thursday evenings.

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Courier (14 April 1853), 2

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There was a monster house last night at the benefit of "Bones," and the performances went off with much spirit and eclat. With respect to the "Bellows Solo," it is a complete take in, a dodge which ought to be beneath Moran, whose comicalities and eccentricities would always enrich a bona fide bill of fare. The musical conductor of the company, Mr. J. C. Rainer, takes his benefit to-morrow evening. Having secured the patronage of His Excellency, all that we could say cannot possibly induce any addition to the visitors; but we have a hope to report in this, as in all the other cases, that Mr. Rainer has reaped a good benefit.

"VICTORIA . . . RAINER'S SERENADERS", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (25 March 1854), 3

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After delighting hundreds nightly for the last nine months, this talented and successful company have closed their performance in this city [Melbourne], and will shortly make their debut before the diggers of Bryant's Ranges, where it is their intention to remain for a time, and then visit the other gold-fields. We understand that Mr. Rainer, the spirited manager, has expended a large sum on the reqniste outfit for such an enterprise - and we hope and doubt not he will - nightly draw a densely crowded audience. All who enjoy a hearty laugh will not be disappointed on paying them a visit.

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 May 1854), 8

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SALLE DE VALENTINO. - Rainer's Original Ethiopean Serenaders. - Messrs. Rainer, White, Bower, Bryant, Foans, and Moran . . . J. P. NASH, Agent.

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (13 July 1854), 3

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Next week the laughter-exciting witticisms, and the sweet, pleasant voices of that highly popular company, Rainer's Serenaders, will supply the dearth which would otherwise have been felt in the world of amusement, owing to the closing of the theatrical season. Their programme will be changed every evening, and the first bill of fare is an attractive one. The agency of the company is now transacted by Mr. J. P. Nash, the popular vocalist of the New York Serenaders. The company have been very successful at Launceston during the week.

ASSOCIATIONS: J. P. Nash (minstrel serenader, agent), formerly of the New York Serenaders

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", The Argus (11 October 1854), 5

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Mr. Rainer and his clever band leave town to-day en route for the diggings. They are to perform on Thursday and the following evening at Castlemaine, and then proceed to Maryborough (Simson's Ranges), where they remain a week. Thence they pay a visit to Ballaarat.

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", Adelaide Times [Adelaide, SA] (26 January 1855), 3

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The dulness of the town was last night relieved by Rainer's well-known band of Serenaders, whose appearance before the curtain of the Victoria Theatre was greeted by a large and respectable audience. Although, to us, it was "the old thing over again," exciting comparisons sometimes favourable and occasionally the reverse, we are bound to say that we have frequently seen worse, and seldom better performances in Adelaide. Among the chief attractions of the evening must be mentioned Rainer's "Uncle Tom's Farewell," which was rendered with an amount of taste and expression that would have given as much pleasure to Harriet Beecher Stowe as it unmistakably afforded to the audience. Mr. Rainer adopts the subdued style, and seeks to win, rather than to startle. He sings to, and not at you. Hence his success . . .

"MR. RAINER'S FAREWELL BENEFIT", Adelaide Times (23 February 1855), 2

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As predicted in our notice of yesterday, Mr. Rainer's last appeal to the suffrages of the Adelaide public was responded to by one of the most crowded and respectable audiences we have for a long time seen assembled within the walls of the Victoria Theatre. "They Stole my Child Away," sung by Rainer with much taste and considerable expression - the grotesque rigmarole of "Walk in Joe," which Bones, with that twisty-ogling, comic eye, and here, there, and everywhere turn-about funny mouth of his, managed to render, with even more than his usual unction - the solo on the flutina by Bryant, whose performance was greeted with general applause - Nash's quiet but effective rendering of the air from the opera of "Don Pasquale" - and last, though not least, the singing and dancing of Foans, which perfectly victimised the audience into the belief that one of the "opposite sex" was before them - constituted the chief attractions of the evening. The burlesque scene on the Italian Opera was very good up to a certain stage; but, when the one-two-three-and-an-under business commenced, a mistake about as long as the fight was made, which almost proved fatal to the piece. A little judicious curtailment will, on another occasion, enable the serenaders to produce this part of the entertainment in a manner calculated to prevent a repetition of the objection specified. We must not close this necessarily hurried notice without bearing testimony to the exertions of Mr. Totten, who, as "Master of the Ceremonies" for the night, mainly contributed to the ease and comfort which every lady and gentleman in the house appeared to enjoy.

"Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVALS", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator [Sydney, NSW] (14 April 1855), 2

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April 9. - Wonga Wonga, steamship Gilmore, from Melbourne the 7th inst. Passengers - Mr. and Mrs. Foans, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and family (4), Messrs. J. C. Rainer, Bryant . . .

"RAINER'S ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (21 April 1855), 2

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. . . This week Rainer's Ethiopian Serenaders, of American and Australian fame, arrived among us, and made their debut on Thursday evening last, at Woodward's Commercial Hotel, before a crowded and delighted audience. Of all the serenaders we have hitherto heard, and they are many, Mr. Rainer's company take the precedence. There is an elegance and purity about their performances which we have often found wanting in other delineators of [REDACTED] life, and their thorough knowledge of the class they profess to imitate, gives them a decided advantage over most of their competitors at present in the field, and a feeling of self sufficient accuracy which prevents their either running into exaggeration or failing to carry out the imitation. The bye-play was first-rate, and exhibited to a nicety the droll conceits, and antic grimaces, which cannot and do not fail to bring on roars of laughter. Mr. Rainer's voice is a very deep bass, and was heard to very great advantage in "Uncle Tom's Farewell" and the "Virginia Rose-bud," both songs calculated to bring out his deep and rather melancholy voice . . .

"RAINER'S SERENADERS", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (30 June 1855), 2

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Public amusements have for some time past been at a low ebb in Bathurst, and the arrival of Mr. Rainer's company of serenaders was therefore gladly hailed by that portion of our community who happen to be blessed with a musical taste and appreciation . . . On Saturday night last the first concert took place at the Royal Prince of Wales Theatre before a respectable and tolerably numerous audience, when the impression went forth which has since supplied bumping houses every evening in the course of the past week . . . Mr. Rainer is fortunate in the possession of a rich, round bass voice, which in its very lowest notes possesses a softness and flexibility of intonation which are most grateful to the ear. His higher notes are also soft and melodious. As the basis or foundation of a chorus its power manifests itself with excellent effect. On Wednesday evening the performances terminated with a burlesque opera entitled "the lost child," which afforded abundance of scope for the display of [REDACTED] peculiarities not less than the beauties of [REDACTED] melody, but our space does not permit a detailed criticism of particulars. By advertisements in to-day's issue we perceive that Mr. Rainer purposes paying a professional visit to Orange and Carcoar with his company where we doubt not they will be gladly welcomed.

[Advertisement], The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (1 September 1855), 15

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PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. Castlereagh-street. Last Night of the Engagement of Rainer's Serenaders!
ON SATURDAY EVENING, September 1st . . . a very successful Drama, entitled SUNSHINE THROUGH THE CLOUDS . . .
To be followed by the celebrated Performance of RAINER'S SERENADERS!
Programme - Part First.
Overture, Full Band Opening Chorus - Dinah's Wedding Day - Company.
I'm off for Baltimore, Foams. Dolcey Jones, Moran. Strike boys, strike, Brower.
The Virginia Rose Bud, Rainer. My old Aunt Sally, Moran. Lilly Dale, Foans.
Part First to conclude with, She's gone to Alabama State, Moran.
Programme - Part Second.
Solo - Flutina, Bryant. Solo - Banjo, Moran.
Fancy Dance, (attired in the Bloomer Costume), Foans.
Characteristic Banjo Trio. Billy Biley, a great traveller, Moran.
Bob Williams, his friend, Brower. George Gretson, Bryant.
After which, Moran will appear in his celebrated Plantation Jig . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (3 September 1855), 1

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PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. - To-night, Benefit and last appearance of RAINER'S SERENADERS . . . FOR THE BENEFIT OF RAINER'S SERENADERS . . . the celebrated drama, entitled LORD DARNLEY, in which Mr. J. MUNGALL will sustain his favourite character of SANDY MACSCREW . . . GRAND [REDACTED] FESTIVAL! GRAND CONCERT. DANCE, BY MISS LUCY LONG. VAGARIES OF BRUDDER BONES. Concluding with the BURLESQUE OPERA, entitled THE LOST CHILD of ST. DOMINGO.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Mungall (actor); Frank Howson (proprietor)

"CLEARANCES", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 September 1855), 4

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September 5. - City of Sydney (s.), 709 tons, Captain R. T. Moodie, for Melbourne. Passengers . . . J. C. Rainer . . .

"Rainer's Serenaders", Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (22 July 1856), 3

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This company of vocalists and instrumentalists on Monday evening, gave the first of a series of concerts at the Theatre Royal. The performance was highly attractive, and a full house attended to greet the efforts of the company. The old favorite songs were received warmly. Mr. Martin's solos were well done, and elicited merited applause, as did Mr. Rainer's. The entertainment comprised a solo on the violin by Mr. Moore, who was deservedly encored. The company play to-night, and to-morrow at the Theatre, on, Thursday at the Manchester Hotel, Forest Creek, and on Friday at Tarrangower, at Edwards's Hotel.

"Rainer's Serenaders", Mount Alexander Mail (25 July 1856), 5

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These talented vocalists gave their' third and last entertainment at the Castlemaine Theatre, on Wednesday last, when a very good audience testified their appreciation of the company's merits. Rainer's Serenaders are now become a household word in this and the neighboring colonies, and many a one looks back with pleasure to the old entertainments provided by Mr. Rainer some two or three years ago. Then anything like merit was the exception, and how to extort the most money by the least possible exertion was on aim of the majority of the caterers for public amusement. Rainer proved an honorable exception, and we are glad to see that both here and at Ballarat he has received solid proofs of public esteem. On Wednesday night there was only one thing to complain of, and that was Mr. Rainer giving us Uncle Tom's Cabin instead of the well known and appreciated Ethiopian dirge, as announced in the bills, and upon which Mr. Rainer first founded his fame, both in New South Wales, Victoria, and at home. Many were greatly disappointed at not hearing this song, and we hope the omission will be repaired at the first opportunity; however good Uncle Tom's Cabin may be, the public prefer the Dirge. Mr. Davis's Rights of Woman was an admirable parody, and elicited a hearty encore. Mr. Morris' [sic, Moore's] violin solo obtained a similar compliment, and Messrs. White and Martin were called on to repeat their performance during the evening. We understand that Mr. Rainer intends giving an entertainment on Saturday next, prior, to proceeding to Bendigo, and we can cordially recommend the votaries of pleasure; and the lovers of negro melody, to pay him a visit, when they will obtain an amply sufficient quid pro quo for their money.

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew Moore (violin)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (25 July 1856), 1

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THEATRE ROYAL. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1856.
LAST NIGHT! OF RAINER'S SERENADERS.
First night of the GRAND TRIAL DANCE.
First Night of the [REDACTED] POSTMAN:
Gumbo Cuff, a love sick Mail Boy - Davis
Chas Grotson, esq. a retired Master Boot Black - Hull
Pete Williams, friend and second to Cuff - Rainer
Jos Silsby, professional adviser to Gretson, esq. - Moore
Bob Ridley, time-keeper and referee - Martin
Miss Fnnny, a pretty black bustling Coquette, very fond of having two strings to her bow - White . . .
The whole under the immediate direction of MR. J. C. RAINER.
E. Totten, Agent.

[Advertisement], Bendigo Advertiser (8 September 1856), 3

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CRITERION THEATRE, This (Monday) evening, SEPTEMBER 8th,
J. C. RAINER'S FAREWELL BENEFIT and LAST NIGHT OF THE SERENADERS.
Mr. Leman, the celebrated basso, and Mr. Gibson, the Irish comic singer, late of the Shamrock concerts, have kindly volunteered their services. LOLA MONTES, A BURLESQUE on the SPIDER DANCE will be performed To-Night by RAINER'S SERENADERS, being for the BENKFIT of J. C. RAINER. Remember this is the Last Night.
WHITE HORSE HOTEL, California Gully. RAINER'S SERENADERS will appear as above on Tuesday Evening, September 9th. See bills of day.
AMUSEMENTS at the MANCHESTER ARMS, Long Gully, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, RAINER'S SERENADERS will appear as above . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Leeman (vocalist)

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

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At Dunolly, says the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser, our old friends, the Ethiopian Serenaders, under the able direction of Mr. Rainer, gave three of their highly popular entertainments at the United States Hotel last week, and notwithstanding the disadvantage of having to contend with innumerable free concert rooms, in some of which talent of a high order is to be met, drew crowded houses. On Saturday night Mr. Rainer took his farewell benefit, and the house was a "bumper," being literally crammed to suffocation.

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (9 January 1857), 1

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FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 9,
MOORE'S FRYER'S TOWN HOTEL, RAINER'S SERENADERS, In their Unrivalled Entertainments.
FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY! AT BLAIR'S MANCHESTER HOTEL, FOREST CREEK,
ON SATURDAY & MONDAY EVENINGS, January 10 th and 12th, 1857.
RAINER'S SERENADERS Will appear as above, in their Unrivalled Entertainments.
MOONLIGHT NIGHTS! Come and see WHITE, the Champion Dancer, who is open to dance any man in Australia for from £5 to £500.
Come and hear MARTIN in his favorite Ballads; DAVIS in his Budget of Comicalities; HULL and DAVIS in their laughable Banjo Duets.
Screaming Ethiopian Farce, entitled VIRGINIA CUPID.
Programme - Part I.
Overture - Band.
Opening Chorus " Sounds of Pleasure" - Company.
Song - "It Suits this Child" - Hull.
Ballad - "The Old Gum Tree" (original) - Martin.
Song - "Doley Jones" - Davis.
Ethiopian Dirge (aa sung before her Majesty Queen Victoria) - Rainer.
Swasha - White.
Ballad - "Ellen Bayne" - Martin.
Song - "Brudder Gum" - Davis.
Song - "The Blighted Flower" - Rainer.
Song - "Yo, Yah, Yo" - Hull.
To concluded with the celebrated PHANTOM CHORUS, From the Opera of La Sonnambula.
An Interval of Ten Minutes.
Part II.
WHITE, THE CHAMPION DANCER Will appear, and dance his celebrated Juba Dance.
Vocal Duet - "If I had but a £1000 a year."
Robin Ruff - Rainer. Gaffer Green - Martin
Concertina Solo - Richardson Favorite Ballad - Martin
Laughable Banjo Duet.
Bill Biley (a great traveller) - Davis
Bob Gravier (a distressed manager in search of performers) - Hull
An interval of Five Minutes.
Part III.
Screaming Ethiopian Afterpiece, entitled
THE VIRGINIA CUPID!
Gumbo Cuff, a love-sick Mail Boy - Davis.
Charles Gretson, Esq., a retired Master Boot black - Hull.
Pete Williams, a friend and second to Cuff - Rainer.
Bob Ridley, time keeper and referee - Martin.
Miss Fanny, a pretty, black, bustling coquette, very fond of having two strings to her bow - White.
The Performance will conclude with a Fancy Dance by Fanny.
Doors open at half-past 7 o'clock. Commence at 8 o'clock.
The whole under the direction of Mr. J. C Rainer.

"Rainer's Serenaders at Tarransower", Mount Alexander Mail (10 July 1857), 4

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This clever company will perform to-night and tomorrow night at the Kangaroo Hotel, Tarrangower . . .

"Concert at the Theatre Royal", Mount Alexander Mail (16 October 1857), 4

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Messrs. Woodin and Wallerstein gave a concert on Wednesday evening to a numerous and fashionable assembly at the Theatre Royal. The suitable audience gave unusual spirit to the performance. Mr. Wallerstein's fantasias were played with extra brilliancy, and Mr. Woodin's pleasantries were additionally piquant. Mr. Rainer and Mr. Martin were most valuable auxiliaries, and their songs received the honor of an encore. The universally favorite duet "If I had a thousand a year" was the gem of the performance, but indeed the "Life boat" and "the Maniac," sung by Mr. Rainer, were only less enthusiastically received.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Woodin (musician); Henri Wallerstein (musician)

"DESTRUCTIVE FIRE", Mount Alexander Mail (13 November 1857), 5

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Castlemaine, for the first time since its foundation, has been visited by one of those destructive conflagrations which so frequently occur where human habitations are composed principally of wood and canvas. It has resulted in the total destruction ol the Royal Hotel and Theatre, with all the scenery and properties of that establishment, and much other property. The fire broke out about 1/4 past 11 on Wednesday night, in the boot and shoe store of Mr. Forster, a wood and canvass structure, separated from the Theatre only by a narrow right of way . . . The damage done by this fire amounts to several thousand pounds - not less than seven. Messrs. Rainer and Gingell of the Royal Hotel and Theatre, are the greatest sufferers. The building, which belonged to the late B. Cohen, Esq., is insured for £1000, but Messrs. Rainer and Gingell were totally uninsured. Much sympathy is felt for them in their misfortune, - a feeling that will be shared in by the members of the theatrical world to whom they are so well known . . . No accidents of any kind happened to persons, though Mr. Rainer had a very narrow escape from the hotel. Mr. Hoskins and his company have been severe sufferers by the event. The fire broke out almost immediately after the performance of the evening had concluded, and much of his property and dresses was lying in the Theatre. The whole of it is consumed . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Gingell (proprietor, d. Bairnsdale, VIC, 17 October 1880); William Hoskins (actor, manager, English Opera Company)

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail (16 November 1857), 3

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ASHTON'S ROYAL OLYMPIAN CIRCUS, Market Square, Castlemaine.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT TO MR. J. C. RAINER.
Mr. J. Ashton, deeply sympathising with Mr. Rainer in the severe loss he has sustained, begs respectfully to solicit the favors of the Castlemaine Public and environs for Mr. J. C. Rainer, he being one of the oldest and most respected caterers for the public amusement in these colonies . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Henry Ashton (circus proprietor)

"CASTLEMAINE (From our own Correspondent)", The Kyneton Observer (15 June 1858), 2

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You must not expect anything very voluminous from me to day, in fact it is the old story, "we are very dull here at present." I am glad, however, to tell you that, owing to the praiseworthy and go-ahead principles of Messrs. Rainer and Gingell, we are certain to have our new Theatre built, and that very shortly. All that is, required is £2,000, and of that upwards of £1,700 has been taken up in shares of £5 each.

"CORRESPONDENCE, THE THEATRE", Mount Alexander Mail (1 April 1859), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199049583 

Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, 30th March, 1859.
Sir, - I was somewhat surprised at perusing a letter signed ROBERT OTTERY, published in your journal of this date, and reflecting upon the deficiency of theatrical performances in this town, whilst in Ballarat "operatic and dramatic performances" are presented in several places at once! I believe if that gentleman would take the trouble of making inquiries into the subject, he would find that theatrical speculations in his "model township" have resulted in considerable losses to the parties engaged therein, notwithstanding the much greater, because more compact, population of the township of Ballarat. For my own part, I can say that during a period of 14 years in America, Britain and the Colonies, that I have been engaged in catering for the amusement of the public, a want of liberality has never been laid to my charge; but I can scarcely be expected to offer in my own person a practical illustration of the Road to Ruin, and I can only state that by the engagement of that popular artiste, Miss MARY PROVOST, with whom, aided by an efficient corps dramatique, this Theatre was re-opened, I sustained a heavy pecuniary loss. This did not, however, prevent me from entering into an engagement with the Operatic Company - by whom your correspondent was so fascinated - but I regret to say that again a considerable loss was sustained by all parties concerned. Nothing daunted by these failures, I secured the services of the Serenaders, and again found the balance on the wrong side of the ledger. Once more I made the essay, by bringing under the notice of the public the Ballarat Company, the most efficient which had yet appeared in Castlemaine. The splendid burlesque of the "Sleeping Beauty" was produced at immense expense, and in the most unique style ever attempted in this town. By the new scenery above I was placed at an expense of £80 - and to the frequenters of the theatre, the "beggarly account of empty boxes" which the house too often exhibited, it must have been evident that loss not profit was the result of the enterprise. I have not, however, yielded to despair, the proof of which is that I have completed arrangements with Miss EMMA STANLEY, whose unique and wonderful entertainment has been presented for upwards of two hundred nights in these colonies, to the most crowded and delighted audiences, and who will make her first appearance on Tuesday evening next; an engagement which will be followed by that of Mr. G. V. BROOKS, Miss MORTYN, and a powerful company for six nights. This has not been a bad effort upon my part to allure to our "loved vicinity" all the available dramatic talent.
"Tis not for mortals to command success,"
but from the opening of the theatre in November, to the present time, a period of five months, I have
"Endeavored to deserve it."
I trust this statement will satisfy Mr. Robert Ottery, and the public of Castlemaine, of my anxious desire to cater for their amusement, and that their extensive patronage of the engagements, I have now the honor to announce, will prove their appreciation of my humble efforts.
I am, sir, yours obediently,
J. C. RAINER,
For GINGELL & RAINER.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Provost (actor); Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); Emma Stanley (actor)

"MARRIAGE", The Argus (23 August 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5686746 

On the 20th inst., at Rushbrook [Rushworth], near Woodend, the residence of the bride's brother, by the Rev. Mr. Barlow, Mr. John Cregin Rainer, to Sarah, third daughter of the late William Moubray, Esq., of the River Tamar, Tasmania.

"CASTLEMAINE POLICE COURT. Wednesday, September 14 . . . PUBLICAN'S LICENSE", Mount Alexander Mail (16 September 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199046915 

The license of the Royal Hotel was transferred from Frederick Gingell to John C. Rainer.

"THEATRICALS AND MUSIC . . . CASTLEMAINE", Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (4 February 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201375047 

On Monday evening, at the Royal, the performance being for the benefit of Mr. J. C. Rainer, there was an unusually large attendance, and many persons were present who are by no means common frequenters. The attraction was "Rob Roy," in which the principal parts were filled by Messrs. J. Mungall, D. Murray, Graham, and Musgrave, Miss Marie Nelson, and Miss Josephine Fiddes. The drama was followed by a song and duet, in both of which Mr. Rainer exerted his vocal powers; and the "Irish Lion," with Mr. D. Murray as Tim Moore, brought a very pleasant evening's amusement to an end. On Tuesday "Guy Mannering" was performed; on Wednesday, "Gilderoy;" on Thursday, "Love's Fetters;" last evening "Cramond Brig," and to-night the "Dumb Man of Manchester," and "The Happy Man" are to be played.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Mungall (actor); Dominick Murray (actor); Marie Nelson (actor); Josephine Fiddes (actor)

"CASTLEMAINE DISTRICT ANNUAL LICENSING MEETING", Mount Alexander Mail (15 June 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199603374 

J. C. Rainer, Royal Hotel, Castlemaine. The license was granted, but the Bench remarked that the entrance to the Theatre greatly needed alterations and improvements.

[Advertisement], The Argus (27 October 1860), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5692351 

IN the INSOLVENT ESTATE of JOHN CRAGIN RAINER, of Castlemaine, in the Colony of Victoria, Licensed Victualler - Whereas . . . the ESTATE of John Cragin Rainer, the abovenamed insolvent, was on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty . . . PLACED UNDER SEQUESTRATION . . .

"MELBOURNE (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) Monday, 10th June", Bendigo Advertiser (11 June 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87952785

I see that Mr. J. C. Rainer, the original proprietor of Rainer's Christy Minstrels, has, after a life of comparative inaction as a licensed victualler at Daylesford, again taken the field, or rather the boards, this time as conductor of the Campbell troupe. Any one who knew Mr. Rainer's vocal ability in former years, and hears how little time has impaired his really fine voice, will be glad to learn that he has again resumed his profession.

"ITEMS OF NEWS", Mount Alexander Mail (13 June 1867), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197542052 

The Campbell Minstrels, under the direction of Mr. J. C. Rainer, made a second appearance in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute last evening. The attendance was better than the previous night, but still below what it ought to be if there be any desire to encourage professionals to provide an entertainment in the town. The programme was of the usual grotesque description, with some fine melodies, which were received applaudingly. Mr. Rainer, according to announcement, came forward to sing "The Blighted Flower," and he met with that cordial reception which might have been expected from so old and deserved a favourite. He sang with his usual precision, and as his fine bass voice is unimpaired in its tone, the applause was the more enthusiastic. To-night the Minstrels play at Guildford, where it is to be hoped they will meet with good encouragement.

"NEWS AND NOTES", The Ballarat Star (5 January 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112882331

The Daylesford paper says: - On Saturday evening, a rather severe accident happened to Mr. J. C. Rainer, of the Theatre Royal, manager of Mr. W. Montgomery's entertainments. Mr. Rainer left Castlemaine on Saturday evening on his way to Daylesford, in a buggy and pair, driven by a man engaged in the former place. When they had nearly reached the Half-Way House, the wheels came against a stump that was covered with dust and pitched the driver out. By the fall he received so severe a sprain of the wrist that he could not retain the reins, and the horses bolted. Mr. Rainer then either jumped from the vehicle, or was thrown from it, and fell on his head. After an interval he was taken to the Half-Way House, apparently not much the worse for the shock, and went to bed. The pole having been broken, a messenger was despatched to Daylesford for a new one, but on his return Mr. Rainer was unable to leave. Attempting to get up from his bed, he staggered so that he was obliged to return to it. At nine p.m. on Sunday evening, Mrs. Rainer, accompanied by Dr. McNicoll, left for the scene of the accident, but we were unable to learn the exact nature of the injuries received by the sufferer. Mr. Rainer was on his way hither to make arrangements for the recitals of Mr. Montgomery on Tuesday and Wednesday.

"MR.RAINER'S CONCERT COMPANY", The Cornwall Chronicle (15 November 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65988081 

By the s.s. Tamar on Saturday arrived Mr. J. C. Rainer who visits Tasmania with a concert company, embracing some of the best instrumental and vocal talent of which Victoria can boast. Mr. Rainer is one of the oldest managers in the Australian colonies, and last visited Tasmania about fourteen or fifteen years ago at the bead of one of the best companies of serenaders who have ever appeared in Australia. He now brings us one old favorite - Mr. Charles Lascelles - and a lady and gentleman, both of whom will, we believe, to-night fully substantiate their claims to stand in the same rank with Tasmanians. Miss Percy Easedown is a young lady who, with her sister, has made quite a reputation in Victoria, in connection with the concerts of the philharmonic, and amateur musical society's [sic], and since she has entered the professional world has won golden opinions. Of Barry O'Neil everyone has heard . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Lascelles (pianist, vocalist); Percy Easdown (vocalist); Barry O'Neill (actor)

[Advertisement], Daily Southern Cross ([Auckland, NZ] (3 March 1870), 1

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18700303.2.2.7

OPENING OF THE NEW CITY HALL, QUEEN STREET . . . MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, and Every Night during the week. RAINER, CHRISTY, AND WESTERN'S MINSTRELS (twelve in number).
Mr. J. C. RAINER, the Manager of this Company, well known in England, the Continental Cities, and America, who also had the honour of introducing to the Australian Colonies the famous Rainer's Serenaders, begs respectfully to inform his numerous friends and former patrons, that the members of this troupe have all been selected for some special excellence, and that they rank as Stars in their Profession.
The following wellknown names, he hopes, will be a sufficient guarantee: -
Mr. THOMAS RAINFORD, the famous Christy Basso; Mr. Louis Braham, the Christy's Peerles Tenor;
Mr. WILLIAM ROBSON, Ethiopian Comedian, and Prize American Jig Dancer;
Mr. GEORGE CHITTENDEN, formerly Leader San Francisco Minstrels;
Mr. W. F. SAYERS, Vocalist and Violinist from Lyster's Opera Company;
Mr. ALF. PETERS, Double Bass, from Weston's Opera House;
Mr. A. COLLINS and Mr. J. COLLINS, the Champion Dancers;
Mr. W. H. BENT, the Ethiopian Comedian; Mr. SINGER, Pianist;
and the Eminently Popular Comedian, Mr. JOHN COWAN . . .
the whole under the direction of Mr. J. C. RAINER . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Rainford (minstrel); William Robson (minstrel); George Chittenden (minstrel); W. F. Sayer [sic] (minstrel)

"DEATHS", The Argus (28 November 1889), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8575147

RAINER. - On the 27th inst., at his son's residence, Coburg, John Cragin Rainer, aged 69 years.

"ANOTHER OLD IDENTITY GONE", The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (29 November 1889), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241347952 

An old Australian theatrical identity joined the great majority on Thursday last, in the person of Mr. Jno. C. Rainer. The deceased gentleman was born in America in 1820, and adopted the stage as a profession at the age of 21. Possessed of a tenor voice [sic] of exceptional quality, Mr. Rainer proceeded to England in 1846, and, among other successes, sang before Her Majesty the Queen, by command, at St. James's Theatre, London. Returning to America he narrowly escaped death when travelling in Mexico, he being the only survivor of a camp of twenty-eight persons attacked by Indians. In 1852 he arrived in Melbourne, at the head of the combination known as Rainer's Ethiopian Serenaders, which will be remembered by old identities as one of the best singing companies that had been heard here. The deceased built theatres at Castlemaine and Daylesford, and was associated as manager with G. V. Brooke, Anna Bishop and Jefferson, and later on, with Walter Montgomery. While driving with the latter, Mr. Rainer met with an accident which caused almost complete deafness, and prevented further public appearance as a vocalist. In 1870 he became the proprietor of the Panorama of the American War, in association with which his name will be best remembered by the younger generations, and he retired upon a competency some eight years ago. Mr. Rainer married a sister of Alderman Mowbray [sic] in 1859, and leaves a grown-up family of five, all of whom are well provided for. The remains of the deceased were interred in the Melbourne Cemetery this morning, in close proximity to those of his old friend, W. S. Lyster.

"DEATH OF MR. JOHN C. RAINER", The Lorgnette [Melbourne, VIC] (30 November 1889), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212727782 

We regret to have to record the death of the well known veteran manager, John Cragin Rainer, who was at the time of his decease perhaps the oldest living interpreter of negro minstrelsy in the world. He died on Wednesday, the 27th inst., at the residence of his son at the Commercial Bank, Coburg, in the 70th year of his age. Mr. Rainer, who in 1845 [sic, 1847/48] had the honor to appear before Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in his special performances, had for years been an institution in Australia, and until recently, had been for many years hardly absent a day from the Rialto, the haunt of his brother professionals, although he had for a long time seceded from active participation. He came from America to Australia in the early fifties, at the head of the then famous "Rainer's Serenaders," a minstrel troupe that achieved considerable in their day, and on their leaving the colonies, elected to remain behind, and share the fortunes of the new land of his adoption. For some time he was hotel keeping in Daylesford, but was best known of late years as the proprietor of the great panorama of of the American War, which achieved so marked a success, not only throughout Australasia, but also, under the management of his able lieutenant, Harry Stanley, in various other parts of the world. He was also proprietor of the panorama of the Turko-Russian War, and was for a time lessee of St. George's Hall in this city. For many years past Mr. Rainer had, however, retired, as we have said, from theatrical life, and lived as a private gentleman, finding his pleasure in visiting. the scenes of his former triumphs, and talking over, and thinking over, the memories of the past: Requiescat in Pace.

Musical works and related prints:

"WHO'S DAT KNOCKING AT DE DOOR? Sung by the New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders", Lloyd's song book . . . third series (London: E. Lloyd, 1847), 73

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dyxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA73 (DIGITISED)

Ben Bolt (arr. Rainer)

Ben Bolt, as sung by M. W. White of Rainer's Minstrels, arranged by J. C. Rainer (Sydney: H. Marsh and Co., [first published October 1852])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19204021 

Copies at the National Library of Australia (3) and Sydney Living Museums (1)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165667288 (DIGITISED)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-176587142 (DIGITISED)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-689371319 (DIGITISED)

https://archive.org/details/Gittins46256/page/n199/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (28 September 1852), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12940303 

RAINER'S SERENADERS. THE undersigned beg to inform the musical public that they have made arrangements with the above Company of original Serenaders for the publishing of the whole of their most favourite NEGRO MELODIES, the first of which (BEN BOLT) will appear in a few days. HENRY MARSH AND Co., Wholesale Music Sellers and Publishers, 490, George-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Marsh (music publisher)

Old folks at home (arr. Rainer)

Old folks at home, as sung by by T. Brower of Rainer's Minstrels, as arranged by J. C. Rainer (Sydney: For the author by H. Marsh, [? 1853])

Copy at the National Library of Australia

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5596124/version/19986179 

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166227232 (DIGITISED)

Old folks at home arranged by J. C. Rainer (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, [after 1857])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9855525 

Copy at Libraries Tasmania

https://stors.tas.gov.au/ILS/SD_ILS-704754 (DIGITISED)

Also:

H. Marsh & Co.'s Ethiopian Melodies, as sung by the New York & Rainer's Serenaders (Sydney: H. Marsh & Co., [1852-53])

Series of 12 titles listed; earlier editions of several numbers, under different covers, predated the arrival of Rainer's Serenaders

1. O, would I were a boy again; 2. Jenny Lane; 3. Virginia Rose Bud; 4. Rosa Lee; 5. Phoebe Morel; 6. Mary Blane; 7. Ben Bolt; 8. Old folks at home; 9. Nelly was a lady; 10. Dearest Bellusa; 11. Juliana Phoebiana; 12. The slave mother

[1] O would I were a boy again

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23389800 

https://archive.org/details/Gittins46256/page/n205/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

[9] Nelly was a lady

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32345834 

Bibliography and resources:

Benjamin Miller, The fantasy of whiteness: blackness and Aboriginality in American and Australian culture (Ph.D thesis, University of New South Wales, 2009), 128-29

http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44584 (DIGITISED)

John Cragin Rainer, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188636020/john-cragin-rainer 

Other references (New Orleans Ehtiopian Serenaders):

Buckley's Ethiopian melodies (New York: [for] James Buckely and Sons, [1853])

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ODVYAAAAcAAJ (DIGITISED)

"AMERICA'S SONG COMPOSERS, BY GEORGE BIRDSEYE. IX - FREDERICK BUCKLEY", Potter's American monthly (January 1880), 23-24

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kVU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA23 (DIGITISED)

"SAMUEL S. SANFORD", New York Clipper (18 February 1893), 1-2

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC18930218.2.2 (DIGITISED)

"LETTER FROM A VICTORIAN", Advocate (9 October 1909), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170911667 

Edward Le Roy Rice, Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date (New York: Kenny Publishing Company, 1911), 15-16, 34, 36

https://archive.org/details/monarchsofminstr00rice/page/15/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

"THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MINSTRELSY. THE MUSINGS OF AN OLD TIME (BY FRANK DUMONT)", New York Clipper (19 December 1914), 6

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19141219.2.8 (DIGITISED)

. . . From 1843 to 1850 the minstrel bands multiplied . . . The Christy's claimed they were organized in 1842 but their earliest program is in August, 1843, and then they were called The Virginia Minstrels. The Buckleys, as the Congo Melodists, claimed to have organized in 1841 but their earliest bills are about 1843 . . . This latter troupe was composed of the Buckley Family (right name Burke), James, the father; Swaine Buckley, R. Bishop Buckley and little Fred Buckley, called Master Ole Bull Buckley. Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist, was in America at the time and almost anyone who could perform upon a violin added the name of "Ole" to his name. The Buckleys were a grand troupe of skilled musicians and singers. One of their comedians was billed as S. Samuels, who afterwards adopted the name of Sanford, and then his name on the bills appears as S. Samuel Sanford. He gave many good songs and innovations to this company . . .

Vera Brodsky Lawrence, Strong on music: resonances, 1836-1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 555, 590

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xU62vWM6Wr0C&pg=PA555 (PREVIEW)

[555] . . . The New Orleans Serenaders . . . returned [to New York] in August [1848] after two years in England. Appearing at first during intermission at the Bowery Theatre, they later moved into the Stuyvesant Institute, where for a period they appeared nightly . . .

Robert B. Winans, "Buckley family", Oxford music online

https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2234604 (PAYWALL)

New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders, JUBA project

https://minstrels.library.utoronto.ca/content/new-orleans-ethiopian-serenaders 

RAINFORD, Thomas Harris (Thomas HARRIS; alias Thomas Harris RAINFORD and Thomas Henry RAINFORD; Mr. T. H. RAINFORD; Tom RAINFORD)

Basso vocalist, composer, songwriter

Born ? England, c. 1831
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 23 January 1863 (per Coonanbara, from London via the Cape of Good Hope)
Married Jane WHEELER, NZ, 1863
Died Glebe, NSW, 9 November 1906, aged "75"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Thomas+Henry+Rainford+d1906 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAINFORD-Thomas-Henry (shareable link to this entry)

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

Summary:

Thomas Harris, alias Rainford, arrived in Melbourne on the Coonanbara, from London via the Cape of Good Hope, on 23 January 1863, a member of Anthony Nish's Christy's Minstrels company.

Documentation:

"SHIPPING. HOBSON'S BAY. ARRIVED", The Age (24 January 1863), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154969698 

JANUARY 23 . . . Coonanbara, A.S.N. Co.'s steamship, 700 tons, E. Fittock, Trom London, via Falmouth, St. Vincent, Table Bay, and King George's Sound 15th. Passengers - cabin: Miss Fennelley, Messrs. Nish, Norton, Melvyn, Steele, J. Brown. Rainsford, Stewart, Brown, and Sinclair. W. P. White and Co., agents.

[Advertisement], The Argus (10 February 1863), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6483343

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (23 September 1867), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13159608

"Music at the Great National Fair", The Sydney Mail (5 September 1891), 9

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162175531

"CHRISTY MINSTRELS. REMINISCENCES BY T. H. RAINFORD. SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE FIRST TROUPE IN AUSTRALIA", The Daily Telegraph (26 May 1896), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238609825

The last and now the sole survivor of the first Christy minstrel troupe that visited Australia - the company that used often to be styled, erroneously, of course, the "Original Christy Minstrel company, though it was only original as far as Australia was concerned - is Mr. T. H. Rainford, the well-known basso singer and teacher of singing and music, for many yearn permanently settled in Sydney. The company was organised in London in 1862, and consisted of the following: - T. H. Rainford, basso and middle man; Charles Stewart, first tenor and guitarist; Tony Wish [Nish], first violinist, baritone, and composer; Joe Brown, corner man and silver belt; Jigger Steele, 'cellist, pianist, and alto; Wash Norton, corner man and female Impersonator; James Melvyn, second tenor and second violin. The organisers were Rainford and Melvyn, both of whom were connected with the original Christy Minstrel Company in London, and were at the time playing at Her Majesty's Bijou Theatre, in the Haymarket. They were no less than two years getting the company together, the difficulty being to get "double-handed" men, that is, men who were artists in two or more lines. Their original tenor was Vernon Rigby, but though he agreed to join the company, his father objected, and his engagement was cancelled, and his passage money forfeited. But it will be better to let Mr. Rainford tell his own story, as he did the other day at his room in the Strand-arcade, Sydney, to one who had long known him, and who had seen and heard him in his prime.

MR. RAINFORD'S STORY.

"We got shipwrecked on our way to Australia, on the West Coast of Africa, after leaving Port Elizabeth. We were coming to Table Bay in the Waldensian, Captain Goss. There were 131 passengers on board, but no lives were lost; 31 of the passengers were clergymen, who were coming to some Church Conference. I was landed with only a shirt and pair of trousers, and we slept three nights on the beach, men, women, and children huddled together, with sand and soil for pillows. Our company lost all their properties and luggage. Melvyn, who was our treasurer, had £1850 in his possession, which we had received for an engagement of seven nights at Port Elizabeth and two nights at Grahamstown. The money was to be equally divided among us when we arrived in Capetown. Melvyn landed safely with the money. It was 11 o'clock at night when the ship struck, but we managed all to get ashore. The money was duly divided at Capetown. We subscribed £200 among us for Joe Brown, who had lost his trunk and his silver belt, and was at the time a heavier loser than any of us, and it was a strange thing that the only trunk of the company's that was afterwards recovered was Joe Brown's. It contained 200 sovs. besides the belt, and had never been opened; but he never returned the £200 to us. Joe thought he was worth more than any other member of the company, and he was not a good one to get along with, so we did what we thought was best, and gave him two shares.

"We left Africa in the old Coonamburra, then a new boat, bound for Australia, and a nice time we had in her; she lost her rudder for the second time, and we were nine weeks getting to Melbourne."

A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS.

"Our first appearance in Australia was at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, in February, 1863. We played for a month to crowded houses. The season was a tremendous success. Barry Sullivan was then lessee of the theatre, and W. S. Lyster sub-lessee. We followed his opera company, which included Lucy Escott, Squires, Wharton, Farquharson, Mme. Durand, Armes Beaumont, Kitts, Baker, and King. We all went and heard the last night of that splendid company. The opera was "The Huguenotts." We were almost disheartened at the prospect before us in having to follow on after such magnificent performances. It was Saturday night, and we had to appear on the Monday. But our show was an immense success. Lyster afterwards told Sam Lazaar that he made more money out of us seven minstrels than out of all the opera companies he was ever connected with in his life. He took half the gross receipts, and we the other half. We had to cut ours up into eight shares. You see, Joe Brown, as I said, valued himself at twice any of us, for his silver belt jigging and corner man work, and refused to play at all unless he got two shares of the profits, and we had to agree to it. Well, with eight shares, and the sub-lessee taking half the receipts, my first week's share was £96 5s. That will tell you the sort of business we did. Lyster said he cleared £2000 out of the season - one month of negro minstrelsy. But our minstrelsy was quite a new thing.

"Well, we came on to Sydney next, and opened at the School of Arts in March. We played three months to crowded houses. Joe Brown left us in Sydney, and went back to London, and organised a second company, with John Smith, since deceased, which was the second company that visited Australia.

"By the bye, I saw it stated recently in a Sydney paper that a singer named Coward was one of the first Christy minstrel company that came out here, and the writer mentioned that I could throw some light on his fate. This is not all quite correct. Coward was one of the company that Joe Brown brought out - the second minstrel company - and he poisoned himself. Coward had a beautiful baritone voice. I knew him well, for it was I who induced him to join the original Christies in London. His real name was Henry Castor. He had taken the name of Murray, and why he ever took the name of Coward I never knew. He was a pupil of the celebrated baritone, Jack Farmer, of Nottingham, of which place he was a native.

"Jow Brown's place was filled by taking Harry Leslie on. We left Sydney after our engagement was up, and started for Hobart, en route to New Zealand, under engagement to Shadrick Jones, who gave us £1600 for a month's playing. We opened in Dunedin, and played to crowded houses. Clarance Holt, father of Bland Holt, was lessee of the theatre during our season at Dunedin. From Dunedin we went to Christchurch "on our own," and then to Wellington, but the Maori war was then raging, and stalwart young men were in such demand that we thought it good enough to get back to Australia. We went to Melbourne, and opened at St. George's-hall, "on our own," and did very well.

BURLESQUED OPERAS.

"Ours was not, of course, the first black face entertainment in Australia. John Rainer's Serenaders and some other small companies had burnt cork before us, but ours was the first Christy minstrel company, and all our people were artists, and in its way it was far beyond anything ever seen before in this part of the world. In addition to the ordinary black face business, we burlesqued operas. The first opera we burlesqued was "The Bohemian Girl." The burlesque was written by Brough, father of Mr. Robert Brough, of the celebrated B. and B. Company, and the author of the burlesque was present at the first performance, which took place originally (?) in London in 1862. We also burlesqued "Maritana," "Sonambula," "Lucretia Borgia," and "Lucia di Lammermoor." These, or most of them, were first produced in the old Prince of Wales Theatre in Castlereagh-street, Sydney, Mr. Dind being the lessee. The black opera season lasted two months, and we afterwards visited Newcastle, Maitland, Singleton, Bathurst, Parramatta, and other places."

A BATHURST INCIDENT.

"I can tell you a peculiar incident that happened in connection with our trip to Bathurst. We were billed to appear on a particular night. The train then only ran as far as Parramatta. Our company left Sydney on Sunday, at 8 a.m. I missed the train by a second or two; it moved off as I got on to the platform, and I could have jumped in at the window, only the guard stopped me. I at once ordered my old mare to he saddled, and I rode for bare life to catch the coach at Penrith. The journey killed the poor beast, and I got to Penrith in time to learn that the coach had just left. I got another horse, and rode as hard as the roads would allow to Hartley, only to find the coach just left again. There I was with the second horse knocked up. I got a "third" nag, and galloped on to Bathurst, arriving there at 20 minutes past 7 o'clock. on the night of our first performance, and one of the first things that caught my eye was the handbills announcing "that in consequence of Mr. Rainford missing the train" the opening performance was postponed until the following night. But the performance went on, and there was a crowded house. We gave the burlesque of "The Bohemian Girl," and I played the Count, and a sorer Count you never "saw" in your life, I can tell you. I was as glad when the performance was over as the boys were to see me.

"During our stay in Bathurst I was present at the trial of young Dunn, the bushranger, who was found guilty, and afterwards hanged. After we came back to Sydney we took Lee Braham on instead of Stewart, who left us; and Linley Norman took the place of Steel, pianist. Wash Norton was the next to go, and in his place we took Tommy Peel, so the original company gradually broke up. Melvyn and I, the originators, stuck together, and formed a burlesque, glee, and madrigal company. Melvyn afterwards settled in Hobart, and I took to English opera as prlmo basso under engagement to Mr. W. S. Lyster, for whom I played for several years; afterwards joining Alice May's English opera company."

Mr. Rainford has appeared in very many operatic characters besides those he has mentioned, one of his latest being Dick Deadeye in "Pinafore." His voice retains much of its power and quality. He has in his rooms, in the Strand Arcade, Sydney, a large number of portraits of the characters he has sung in, besides a fine group showing the first Christy Minstrel company that he and Melvyn brought to Australia. He frequently sings now at concerts for religious and charitable purposes, and is full of anecdotes and reminiscences.

"SERIOUS ILLNESS OF MR. RAINFORD", Singleton Argus (7 July 1903), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79376896

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 November 1906), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14800132

RAINFORD. - November 9, at his residence, Dareen, 204 Glebe Point-road, Glebe Point, Tom H. Rainford, aged 75 years.

"THE LATE TOM RAINFORD", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 November 1906), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14793684

For six years Mr. Rainford was principal basso with Lyster's famous opera companies, appearing in 15 different operas. His repertoire ranged from Mephisto, Count Arnheim, Don Jose ("Maritana"), and parts in "La Sonnambula", "Daughter of the Regiment", "Der Freischutz", "Martha" and "Satanella", to the lightest opera bouffes by Offenbach and others, one of his famous characters being General Boom in "The Grand Duchess". Besides singing in the "Elijah" with the Melbourne Philharmonic Society in 1870, Mr. Rainford toured for six months with Mme. Arabella Goddard in 1874, with Mme. Christian in 1875, and Mme. Ilma de Murska in 1876 - a record which shows that his talents were freely recognised in what may be termed classic circles. The late Tom Rainford lived to such a ripe old age (75 years) that the various accounts of his career dealt chiefly with the latter part of it, prominence being given to the connection of the basso with the original Christy Minstrels in London, and with various comic opera companies in Australia. Miss Eva Rainford, who attended her father to the last, reminds us that he was an accomplished musician and "theorist", who could score for full band from a pianoforte setting. In his earlier years the basso appeared five times before Queen Victoria, and, arriving in Australia in 1863 he sang at the concert to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868, and at Calcutta before the present King during his visit to India as Prince of Wales in 1870.

"Our London Letter", Advocate (5 April 1913), 14

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171235308 

Musical works and related prints:

Beneath the Southern Cross (patriotic song; words by E. Mullarkey; music by Thos. H. Rainford ("Sung by Mr. Warwick Gainor with great success") (Sydney: Troedel, [1888])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37678315 

Christmas bells by Thos. H. Rainford, in Violet's musical album (Sydney: H. J. Samuell, 1894)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30766951 

As sung by Rainford:

Oh! boyhood's days ("words by Frank Younge; music by George Loder; As sung by T. H. Rainford" (Melbourne: W. H. Glen & Co., [1877])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21931019 

Ring the bell watchman ("composed by H.C. Work; Sung by T. Rainford of Weston & Hussey's Minstrels") (Melbourne: W. H. Glen, [? 1870s])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191700732 

Sons of new Britannia ("Australian patriotic song; words by W. T. Goodge; music by Nicholas J. Gehde (Sydney: Nicholson & Co., [1899])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10636027 

RAINSFORD, Joseph (Joseph RAINSFORD; Mr. J. RAINSFORD; ? also RAINSFORTH)

Musical amateur, member Adelaide Choral Society, crier of the supreme court

Born Southwark, Surrey, England, 11 January 1812; registered Long Lane Wesleyan chapel, Southwark, 2 February 1812; son of William RAINSFORD (d. 1824) and Dinah GAMMON
Married Joseph RAINSFORD (1812-1887), St. Mary's, Lambeth, 12 December 1835
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 16 October 1837 (per Katherine Stewart Forbes, from London, 26 June)
Died Adelaide, SA, 17 July 1887, aged "75"

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RAINSFORD, Jane (Jane BROWN; Mrs. Joseph RAINSFORD)

Actor, vocalist

Born England, c. 1819
Married Joseph RAINSFORD (1812-1887), St. Mary's, Lambeth, 12 December 1835
Arrived Adelaide, SA, 16 October 1837 (per Katherine Stewart Forbes, from London, 26 June)
Died Adelaide, 4 May 1876, aged 57, a colonist of 39 years

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Documentation:

Register of births, 1812, Long Lane Wesleyan chapel, Southwark, Bermondsey; UK National Archives, RG 4/4373

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No. 55 / Joseph son of William and Dinah Rainsford was born on the [11 January 1812] in the parish of St. George, Southwark in the county of Surrey, registered this [2 February 1812] . . .

Marriages solemnized in the parish of St. Mary Lamberth in the county of Surrey in the year 1835; register, 1831-35, page 294; London Metropolitan Archives

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No. 882 / Joseph Rainsford of this parish bachelor and Jane Brown of this parish spinster a minor were married in this church by banns this twelfth day of December [1835] . . .

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (19 May 1838), 2

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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE.
Stage and Acting Manager, Mr. BONNAR.
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. LEE . . .
The Public is respectfully informed that a small, unique, and commodious Theatre has been fitted up above the Adelaide Tavern, Franklin-street, the audience part of which comprises nine dress boxes and a comfortable pit, and will open on Monday Evening, May 28th . . .
Comic Song - Mr. Bailes. "The British Oak" - Mr. Bonnar. Song, "Logie o'Buchan" - Mr. Elphinstone . . .
Tickets for the Pit may be had at . . . Mr. Rainsford's, baker, back of Forbes-square . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Fawcett Bonnar (actor); Philip Lee (musician); Mr. Elphinstone (vocalist)

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (16 June 1838), 1

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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE.
Stage and Acting Manager, Mr. EASTHER.
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. PORTBURY . . .
On Monday next will be performed, for the first time in this Colony, an admired Domestic Drama entitled
WORDOCK KENNILSON . . . Farmer Lister, Mr. Rainsford . . . Alice, Mrs. Rainsford . . .
Comic Song - Mr. Bailes. Favorite Song - Mrs. Rainsford. Song - Mr. W. H. Deane . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Benjamin Portbury (musician)

"ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENTS", South Australian Record (12 December 1838), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245932178 

[Advertisement], Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Advertiser (24 March 1840), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195859729 

VICTORIA THEATRE. For the Benefit of Mrs. Cameron . . .
TOMORROW EVENING (Wednesday) . . . 25th MARCH, 1840,
Will be produced, with New Music, Scenery, Dresses, Decorations, Machinery, &c.,
the celebrated Musical Play taken from Sir Walter Scott's Novel of the same name, called
GUY MANNERING; Or, The Gipsy's Prophecy . . .
Baillie Mucklethrift - Mr. Rainsford . . .
Julia Mannering - Mrs. Rainsford . . .
In the course of the piece the following Glees, Songs, Choruses, &c.:-
Glee - The winds whistle cold, Mrs. Mansfield, Mr. Gates, Mrs. Rainsford, and amateurs . . .
Finale to Act I. - The Fox jumped over the Parson's gate, Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. Rainsford, Mr. Buckingham, and amateurs.
Act II . . . Song - Mrs. Rainford.
Gipsy Glee and Chorus - The Chough and Crow to roost are gone, Mrs. Rainsford, Mrs. Mansfield, Mr. Gates, and amateurs . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Cordelia and Samson Cameron (actors, manager); Mr. Gates (actor, vocalist); George Buckingham (actor, vocalist); Mrs. Mansfield (actor, vocalist)

MUSIC: The winds whistle cold (glee), The Fox jumped over the Parson's gate (glee), song (perhaps Sir Guy was a bold and hardy knight, or else an insertion song), and The chough and crow (Bishop, from Guy Mannering)

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (2 January 1841), 2

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QUEEN'S THEATRE, GILLES ARCADE, CURRIE STREET.
THE Gentry and Public of Adelaide and its vicinity are most respectfully informed that the above elegant Theatre being now completed will open for the season, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1841, Under the exclusive Direction of Mr. Lazar (late Manager of the Victoria, and Theatre Royal, Sydney) . . .
The Company will consist of . . . Mrs. Rainsford . . . Leader of the Orchestra - Mr. Bennett . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Lazar (manager); George Bennett (musician)

"THE CHORAL SOCIETY", South Australian Register (30 January 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49301733 

The annual meeting of the Adelaide Choral Society was held last evening at Green's Exchange, Mr. T. P. Addison in the chair. The report of the Committee for the past year detailed the progress of the Society during that period. It was a very satisfactory document, showing as it did the very extraordinary progress the Society has made since its resuscitation at the commencement of the year 1S54. A financial statement was also read, from which it appeared that the total receipts during the past year amounted to £189 3s. 1d., including a trifling balance in the treasurer's hands from the previous accounts, £150 received from subscribers, and donations amounting to £8 5s. The present balauce in the hands of the treasurer was stated to be £37 6s. 2d., the liabilities being under £10. The property in the hands of the Society, consisting of a valuable pianoforte and various other musical instruments, and a considerable quantity of printed and manuscript music, was calculated at 95 guineas.

The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: -
President, Dr. Wyatt; Vice-President, C. Mann, Esq.; Treasurer, Mr. Smyth; Librarian, Mr. Mitchell; Secretary, Mr. Snaith; Auditors, Messrs. Whitington and Thomas;
Committee, Messrs. Addison, Rodemann, Rainsford, Spiller, Dr. Cotter, Dr. Sholl, Messrs. Thompson, Lower, and C. Mitchell.
A discussion followed as to the propriety of admitting residents in the country who are not subscribers to the Society's concerts; but as the evening was far advanced, and it was suggested that there wore other rules which it would be desirable to revise, the meeting was adjourned for a week.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Plummer Addison (chair); William Wyatt (president); John Snaith (secretary); Emanuel Spiller (member); Maximillian Louis Rodemann (member); Adelaide Choral Society (organisation)

"DEATHS", Evening Journal (4 May 1876), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197690317 

RAINSFORD. - On the 4th May, at Supreme Court, King William-street, Jane, the beloved wife of Joseph Rainsford, aged 57 years. A colonist of 39 years.

"DEATHS", The Express and Telegraph (18 July 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207694956 

RAINSFORD. - On the 17th July, at his residence, South-terrace east, Joseph Rainsford, aged 75. Arrived in Katherine Stewart Forbes, 1837. A colonist of 50 years.

"DEATH OF A PIONEER COLONIST", Evening Journal (18 July 1887), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199842862 

Our obituary column records the death, at South-terrace east, on July 17, of Mr. Joseph Rainsford, formerly messenger and crier at the Supreme Court, Adelaide. Deceased was a colonist of fifty years, having arrived from England in the Katherine Stewart Forbes in 1837. He was in the Government service for along period, and retired through ill-health about ten yearo ago, since which he has lived in retirement. The deceased, who was much respected, leaves a family.

RAMAGE, Mr. (Mr. RAMAGE)

Precentor, singing leader

Active Melbourne, VIC, 1858

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Documentation:

"UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, COLLINS STREET", The Argus (8 January 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7144727

On Tuesday evening last a congregational soiree was held in this church. The Pastor, the Rev. A. M. Ramsay, occupied the chair. The Hon. Charles Vaughan, J. P., John Dinwoodie, Esq., J. P., and other gentlemen, together with the Rev. Messrs. Taylor, Hamilton, Fletcher, Odell, Sunderland, McNicol, Mirams, and Young, were present . . . During the evening, Mr. Ramage, who until lately has very kindly given his gratuitous services as Precentor, was presented with a handsome mahogany writing-desk and a bible . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Andrew Mitchell Ramsay (Presbyterian minister); Charles Vaughan (musical amateur)

RAMSDEN, Richard (Richard RAMSDEN)

Musician, vocalist

Born Leeds, Yorkshire, 30 December 1836; baptised St. Peter, Leeds, 24 July 1837; son of John RAMSDEN (d. 1858) and Mary STEEL (d. 1882)
Married Elizabeth Johnson HIRONS (1829-1899), Handsworth (near Birmingham), England, 6 March 1860
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1860
Died Melbourne, VIC, 6 January 1894, aged "58"

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

Documentation:

Baptisms solemnized in the parish church of Leeds in the county of York in the year 1837; register 1837, page 183; West Yorkshire Archive Service, RDP68/3A/11

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2252/images/32355_249396-00177 (PAYWALL)

No. 2225 / Born 30 Dec'r 1836 / [baptised] 24 July 1837 / Richard Son of John & Mary / Ramsden / Rockingham Street / Cloth Drawer . . .

England census, 30 March 1851, Leeds Parish, Leeds; UK National Archives, HO107/2320/421/2

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/YRKHO107_2320_2320-0754 (PAYWALL)

98 North Street / John Ramsden / Jead / Mar. / 42 / Victualler Lic'd / [Leeds Yorkshire]
Mary [Ramsden / Wife / Mar. / 42 // Charles Thompson / Son / 18 / Coach Builder's App. // John William / 16 / Bookseller's app. // Edward Archibald / 15 / Music seller's app. / [all born Leeds Yorkshire]
Richard [Ramsden] / Son / 14 / Scholar / [born Leeds Yorkshire] . . .

[Advertisement], Leeds Intelligencer (5 March 1859), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000193/18590305/002/0001 (PAYWALL)

LEEDS TOWN HALL CONCERT SOCIETY. THIS EVENING. IN THE VICTORIA HALL. -
Grand Operatic Performance of "LA SONNAMBULA." Vocalists: Miss SARA DOBSON, Miss ALICE RICHARDSON, Miss PILLING, Mr. GEORGE PERREN, Mr. RICHARD RAMSDEN, Mr. HENRI WHARTON, together with the Members of the LEEDS FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.
CONDUCTOR, Mr. R. S BURTON. PIANOFORE, Mrs. WOOD (who has kindly consented to Preside on this occasion), assisted by Mr. JOHN BURTON . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Wharton (vocalist)

"MARRIAGES", Coventry Standard (9 March 1860),

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000683/18600309/098/0004 (PAYWALL)

On the 6th inst., at the Parish Church, Handsworth, (by the Rev. E. S. Loundes, M.A., curate,) Mr. Richard Ramsden, of Leeds, to Elizabeth JohnsoN, second daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Hirons, of the City of Coventry.

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle [Sydney, NSW] (19 July 1862), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59791514 

LYSTER'S ROYAL ITALIAN AND ENGLISH OPERA SEASON. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . . .
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19th, 1862, Will be given (for the last time)
Donizetti's Grand Opera of LUCREZIA BORGIA.
Duko Alfonso - Mr. Farquharson.
Gennaro - Mr. Henry Squires.
Matteo Orsini - Miss Georgia Hodson.
Vitelozzo - Mr. Frank Trevor.
Rustighello - Mr R. Ramsden.
Gubetta - Mr. J. E. Kitts.
Lucrezia Borgia - Madame Lucy Escott . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Farquharson (vocalist); Henry Squires (vocalist); Georgia Hodson (vocalist); Frank Trevor (vocalist); James Edward Kitts (vocalist); Lucy Escott (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (21 October 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154968610 

LYSTER'S ROYAL ITALIAN AND ENGLISH OPERA. SUBSCRIPTION SEASON. THEATRE ROYAL . . .
TUESDAY EVENING, 21st OCTOBER, Will be given, By Particular Request,
Wallace's Romantic Opera of MARITANA
King of Spain - Mr. J. E Kitts.
Don Jose de Santarem - Mr. Henry Wharton.
Don Caesar de Bazan - Mr. Henry Squires.
Lazarillo - Miss Georgia Hudson.
Captain of the Guard - Mr. Ramsden.
Marchioness - Madame Ada King.
Maritana - Madame Lucy Escott . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Ada King (vocalist)

[News], The Argus (16 January 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6482711 

The "Royal Italian and English Opera Glee Company," formed of the minor members bers of Mr. Lyster's opera troupe, gave a concert at the Prahran Town-hall last evening. Although the audience was not so numerous as could have been wished, there was a good deal of merit in the performance. None of the performers excepting Mr. T. Ewart appeared to be familiar with a concert-room, but this did not affect their singing, which was marked throughout by well-sustained precision. The majority of the pieces were selections from operas, the soloists being Messrs. T. Ewart, Herr Sprinckhorn, and Messrs. Baker, Nathanson, and Ramsden. The pianist, Herr Stockmeyer, obliged the company with two fantasias upon popular opera airs, admirably played. The company perform to-night at the St. Kilda Town hall, when they may experience a more liberal and discerning patronage.

ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Ewart (vocalist); Johann Sprinkhorn (vocalist); Gottfried Nathanson (vocalist); Adolphus Stockmeyer (pianist)

"Deaths. LEEDS AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD", Leeds Times [England] (21 March 1863), 8

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On the 27th of December last, at 82, Cardigan-street, Melbourne, Australia, aged 20 months, John Archibald, only son of Mr. Richard Ramsden, formerly a chorister in the parish church, Leeds.

Scottish census, 1871, Dundee; Scottish Archives

32 Union St / Union Hotel / Richard Ramsden / Boarder / 35 / Vocalist / [born] Leeds, Yorkshire

"A FATAL FALL", The Argus (8 January 1894), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8722684 

Richard Ramsden, 60 years of age, a vocalist by profession, sustained injuries on the 13th inst, at his lodgings in 13 Flinders lane, which led to his death at the Melbourne Hospital yesterday. He went home at half-past 9 o'clock on the night of the 3rd inst., and, being under the influence of liquor, was assisted to his bedroom upstairs by one of the other lodgers. While his friend was opening the door of his bedroom, he fell over the bannister of the stairs, a distance of 10ft. In the fall he injured his spine, and the injury led to his death. Ramsden was a married man, living apart from his wife. An inquest will be held.

Inquest, Richard Ramsden, January 1894; Public Record Office Victoria

https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/28DE100B-F1BF-11E9-AE98-736703A30D76?image=1 (DIGITISED)

[2] Victoria Police / Russell St. Station, Melbourne, 6th Januray 1894
Report of S C. Davidson . . . relative to death of a man in Melbourne Hospital.
I beg to report that a man named Richard Ramsden, aged 60 years, a vocalist, died in the Melbourne Hospital early this morning . . .

"DEATHS", Leader (13 January 1894), 42

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196852737 

RAMSDEN. - On the 6th January, Richard Ramsden, the dearly beloved husband of E. J. Ramsden, father of Mrs. L. Marks and B. Ramsden, aged 58 years.

"THE LATE RICHARD RAMSDEN [FROM A CORRESPONDENT]", The Age (10 February 1894), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192194662 

In The Age of the 9th ult. was briefly recorded the death, at the Melbourne Hospital, of "Richard Ramsden, a vocalist," 58 years of age. The announcement escaped my attention at the time, and it is only within the last few days that I heard of Ramsden's death. As one who knew the deceased for well nigh half a century, I desire to state a few facts connected with his career, which may interest some of your numerous readers who were acquainted with him either in Victoria or in one or the other of the adjacent colonies. Richard Ramsden was a native of Leeds, in the west riding of Yorkshire, and first came to Melbourne about 34 years ago. From that time up to his death, with the exception, I believe, of one short visit to England, he resided in Australia, and chiefly in Victoria. As a vocalist, his powers were never of a very high order after he reached man's estate, but he may be remembered by many persons as creditably taking small parts on the operatic stage, such as the captain of the guard in Maritana, in the early days of the Lyster Opera Company. I have known him, too, sustain a minor character in Lucrezia Borgia, when Squires and Madame Escott were the principals. He was also one of the troupe brought out by Harry Rickards, the well known comique, on his first visit to Australia. His vocal qualifications, however, failed all together long ago, and of late years he earned a precarious livelihood by such ocoupations as copying music and acting as attendant at theatres and place of public amusement. Those who knew Riohard Ramsden only within the last decade could scarcely believe that once he was a handsome youth with a magnificent voice which enthralled audiences numbering thousands of persons. Yet this was undoubtedly the case without any tinge of exaggeration. For many years he was the leading choir boy in the choir of the parish church of Leeds, and frequently sang in the concert room, both in secular and sacred music. Forty years or more ago an announcement that "Master Ramsden" was to appear at a concert in Leeds, or any other town in the west riding of Yorkshire, would be quite sufficient to ensure the pecuniary success of the entertainment. His fame, however, was not limited to his native county. He often sang elsewhere, and on more than one occasion was specially invited to take solo parts at the Purcell Festival in Westminster Abbey. During these earlier years of his life he received many tributes of appreciation both publicly and privately. As I write I have before me a beautifully bound copy of Hook's Church Dictionary, presented to him by the choir committee of the Leeds pariah church on the 1st January, 1854. The fly leaf contains an inncription written and signed on behalf of the committee by the author of the work - the Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D., then vicar of Leeds, and subsequently Dean of Chichester. It refers to Ramaden's "long and valuable services "as a member of the church choir, and expresses a hope "that his future life will be guided by the same high principles which appear to have actuated him hitherto." Amidst the many vicisitudes of a chequered career, Richard Ramsden highly treasured this gift, which no doubt often reminded him of the best and happiest days of his life.

"DEATHS", The Age (15 December 1899), 1

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RAMSDEN - On the 14th December, at the Old Actors' Homes, Rushall-crescent, North Fitzroy, Elizabeth Ramsden, widow of the late Richard Ramsden, beloved mother of Mrs. L. Marks and Mrs. B. Morris.

RAMSAY, Mr. (Mr. RAMSAY; ? Mr. N. RAMSAY; ? RAMSEY)

Actor, comedian, polyphonist

Active VIC, by 1855

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (13 July 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202633927 

CASTLEMAINE. SHORTLY WILL BE PRODUCED -
MR. FAWCETT'S HIGH PRESSURE TRIP From England to the Australian colonies; illustrated by his
DIORAMIC & VOCAL SKETCH BOOK and
MR. RAMSAY'S GALLERY OF POLYPHONIC PORTRAITS.
This Entertainment is Colonial, and has been universally greeted by crowded houses and thunders of applause.
The Diorama and Decorations are painted by Mr. Fawcett, of Her Majesty's Theatre, London, and are pronounced hitherto unequalled in the Colonies.
The Music arranged by M. E. Salaman.
Mr. Ramsay will introduce his unequalled Bravura and Imitations, which he has given in every theatre in London, with unbounded success.
The Entertainment concludes with "Notes on the Russian War," introducing two grand Panoramas of Cronstadt from a balloon, and the Bombardment of Sebastopol by night.
- For particulars see programmes.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Fawcett (actor); Edward Salamon (pianist);
see also [News], Mount Alexander Mail (6 July 1855), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202631137 

RAMSAY, W. (W. RAMSAY; ? RAMSEY)

Musician, violinist, flautist, vocalist, ? pianist

Active Bathurst, NSW, 1857

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAMSAY-W (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (30 May 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62047566 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, DURHAM STREET.
MESSRS. SOMERS, WALTERS, & RAMSAY beg to inform the inhabitants of Bathurst and its vicinity, that they intend giving a series of Vocal and Instrumental Concerts at the
Royal Victoria Theatre, when they will introduce some of the Popular English, Irish, and Scotch Songs Airs of the day.
Also, the unrivalled JOCKEY DANCE in character.
CONCERT ON SATURDAY Evening, May 30th.
PROGRAMME.
PART 1.
Come to the Old Oak Tree - (Glee) - Company.
Norah McShane - Mr. Walters
Shakespeare's Seven Ages - (Comic Song) - Mr. Somers
Cheer, Boys Cheer - Mr. Walters
Solo - Flute (from La Somnambula) - Mr. Ramsay
Doctor Brown - (Comic Song in character). - Mr. Somers
White Squall - Mr. Walters
Air - Violin, Oh Nanny wilt thou gang wi me - Mr. Ramsay
You may talk of America (Irish Comic Song) - Mr. Somers
An interval of 20. minutes.
PART 2.
Far, Far, upon the Sea - Mr. Walters
Ladies' Darling- (Irish Comic Song) - Mr. Somers
Barny Avourneen - Mr. Walters
Scotch Air - Violin, Auld Robin Gray - Mr. Ramsay
Who'd a thought of seeing you - (Comic). - Mr. Somers
Man the Life Boat - Mr. Walters
To conclude with JOCKEY DANCE (in character) - Mr. Somers
Doors open at 7 o'clock, to commence at half-past 7 o'clock.
Prices of Admission: - Boxes, 4s.; Pit, 2s.
Tickets can be had at Mr. Crawley's "Red Lion" Inn, adjoining the Royal Victoria Theatre.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, DURHAM STREET.
CONCERT ON MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1. Entire change of Programme.
PROGRAMME.
PART 1.
What are the wild waves saying - duett - Messrs. Ramsay and Walters.
The Ladies' Man - comic song - Mr. Somers.
Shells of the Ocean - Mr. Walters.
Broth of a Boy - Irish comic song - Mr. Somers.
Solo, Flute - Mr. Ramsay.
Oh wilt thou be my Bride, Kathleen - Mr. Walters.
The Workhouse Boy - comic - Mr. Somers.
My Pretty Jane - Mr. Walters.
Irish Jig - Mr. Somers.
An interval of 20 Minutes. PART 2.
The Old Arm Chair - Mr. Walters.
St. Patrick was a Gentleman - Irish comic - Mr. Somers.
Bay of Biscay - Mr. Walters.
My Mother was a true born Irishman - comic - Mr. Somers.
Air, Flute - Last Rose of Summer - Mr. Ramsay.
Slave Chase - Mr. Walters.
To conclude with Medley Dance - Mr. Somers . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: W. Walters (vocalist, musician)

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (15 July 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62047333 

FREE CONCERT - FREE CONCERT!!
THREE NIGHTS PER WEEK. TO NIGHT WEDNESDAY, FIRST NIGHT, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY.
MR. D. CRAWLEY, BEGS to inform the inhabitants of Bathurst, that after great expense and trouble he is enabled to open the splendid Saloon, adjoining the bar, and trusts he may meet with the patronage of the public, having succeeded in securing the services of
MR. W. WALTERS, the favorite Vocalist and Concertina player.
Mr. H. H. DANIELS, whose comic celebrity and happy witticisms have called forth rapturous applause from a Bathurst audience &c.
And that talented Violinist MR. W. RAMSAY.
Doors open at 7 o'clock.

ASSOCIATIONS: H. H. Daniels (vocalist)

"TUENA CREEK [FROM A CORRESPONDENT]", Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (5 December 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62048769 

Having been lately very dull on Tuena Creek in the shape of amusement, we anxiously looked forward for Saturday night as a treat. Mr. Bright on that night opened his new Theatre of Arts, and I am happy to say we were not disappointed. The scenery and performance were of a superior character; and great praise is due to Mr. Daniels for his management of the amusements, which were agreeably varied in his comic singing, which was excellent, and was loudly encored. It is to be hoped that he may long remain with us, to afford us many pleasant evenings I must also mention the very sweet and appropriate music played by our old friends Walters and Ramsay. In referring to Mr. Walters' attempt, as he called it, of the Ship on fire, I must certainly say that in my poor estimation it was a very respectable effort.

RANDALL, Charles (Charles RANDALL; RUNDALL)

Amateur vocalist, hairdresser, sawyer, convict (convicted of theft of musical instruments)

Born London, England, c. 1808
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 1828 (convict per Florentia, from England, 14 August 1827)
Married Esther SKELTON (c. 1820-1889), Oakville, Whittingham, Wollombi, NSW, 1840
Died Maitland, NSW, 18 August 1875, aged "68"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Charles+Randall+c1808-1875 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

RANDALL, Frederick (Frederick RANDALL)

Musician, flute and piccolo player (teacher of John Amadio)

Born Maitland, NSW, 1860; son of Charles RANDALL and Esther SKELTON
Married Sophia SUTTON (1863-1937), Sydney, NSW, 1882
Died Camperdown, NSW, 7 July 1939

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Frederick+Randall+1860-1939 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Charles Randall, c. 1875, shortly before his death, but after the saw accident in which he lost his hand (Taylor 2015, 127)

Documentation:

"WORSHIP-STREET", Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser (1 March 1827), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001255/18270301/019/0004 (PAYWALL)

S. Smith was charged with haying robbed Charles Randall, hair-dresser, in Hoxton, on Friday night, in the Curtain-road, of a watch (the particulars of which we gave on Monday). It since appeared that Randall told Hanley and Eagle, the officers, that he received a letter, threatening personal violence, if he attempted to prosecute Smith. Randall's father stated, that he strongly suspected his son was a villain; that he did not believe the robbery ever took place, and with respect to the threatening letter, was satisfied that it was his son who wrote it himself. The prosecutor not appearing. Smith was of course discharged.

"POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL", Sun [London] (21 May 1827), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002194/18270521/030/0004 (PAYWALL)

Charles Randall was brought before Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Solomon Joseph, of No. 17, King-street, Tower-hill, a barber and musician. Mr. Joseph stated that the prisoner had been in his employment, only two weeks, and on that morning he left the prisoner in care of his shop, and went to his private house in East Smithfield, for the purpose of celebrating the Jewish Sabbath. On his return, a little after 11 o'clock, he found the shop nearly filled with customers, and that the prisoner had decamped, taking with him three violins, a case, two bows, two music books, two valuable tortoiseshell combs, and a gentleman's dress wig.
Mr. BROUGHTON - I thought you stated yourself to be a barber. How came you to have so many violins?
Mr. Joseph - l am a barber and a dealer in music.
Richard Manning, an officer of Shoreditch, said he took the prisoner into custody, and on searching him he found a sovereign and a half in gold, and 11 1/2 d. in copper, and in his hat he had a wig and two combs.
Mr. Joseph identified the wig and combs as his property, and begged time, for the purpose of looking after the fiddles. The Magistrate granted the request, and remanded the prisoner.

"GUILDHALL", Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser (28 May 1827), 4

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001255/18270528/018/0004 (PAYWALL)

Charles Randall, a journeyman barber, was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Joseph, barber and musician, No. 17, King-street, Tower-hill. It appeared, that Mr. Joseph, on Saturday morning, the 19th inst. went to his private house, in East Smithfield, leaving the prisoner in care his shop, during the period he was engaged in celebrating the Sabbath. On his return, found his shop filled with customers, and that the prisoner had decamped, taking with him three violins, two bows, two flutes, two music books, two tortoiseshell combs, and a dress wig. Thomas Jameson, publican, Finsbury, deposed, that having heard of the robbery, he told the prisoner of it, on his calling at his house. The officer who apprehended the prisoner found part of the property on his person. Before was removed from the bar, Hanly and Eagles, two officers, recognised him, and they related a circumstance which occurred this Office a few months ago, in which the prisoner took a conspicuous part. It appeared, that about that time he went to the officer, and said had been the night before, in the Curtain-road, near the turnpike-gate, he was knocked down, and robbed of his watch by a person y'clept Young Dutch, and p[r]oduced part of the chain, which the robber left on the road; Young Dutch was taken, and at his examination the prisoner (then prosecutor) positively persi[s]ted as to the facts. Upon the second examination, he told Mr. Bennett that did not know what to do, as the party which Young Dutch belonged had written him a threatening letter, which he produced, and was in effect -
"if you are the chap that means to prosecute Young Dutch, I am the chap that will rip up your b----y guts for it, so you had better let him go again.
A FRIEND OP YOUNG DUTCH."
The father of Randall appeared on that occasion, and, with tears in his eyes, after acknowledging the villainy of his son, said, that the watch which he swore Young Dutch had robbed him of was then at home, and that the threatening letter was written by him. The Magistrate ordered pen, ink, and paper, and, after he wrote his name, it completely corresponded with the threatening letter, and corroborated his father's statement. Young Dutch was discharged, and the Magistrate observed, that it would only waste of time offer any thing the shape of admonition or rebuke to so hardened a villain.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 31 May 1827; Old Bailey online

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t18270531-47 

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=182705310032 (DIGITISED)

1059. CHARLES RANDALL was indicted for stealing, on the 19th of May, at St. Botolph without, Aldgate, 1 violin case, value 3s.; 3 violins and bows, value 4l. 10s.; 2 flutes, value 10s.; 2 music-books, value 3s.; 2 combs, value 25s., and 1 wig, value 20s., the goods of Solomon Josephs , in his dwelling-house . . .
GUILTY - DEATH. Aged 19. Recommended to mercy by the Prosecutor.

"ST. JOHN'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (8 July 1843), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article661006 

On Monday last the members of the above society, and their friends, to the number of about 450, sat down to tea in a large store in the rear of the building known as Russell's butcher's shop, West Maitland . . . A band was in attendance, which during the night played many appropriate airs. When tea was over the Rev. Mr. Lynch, the president of the society, was called to the chair . . . Several excellent songs were sung by Messrs. C. Randall, Connor, Stapylton, Dr. Harrington, and Miss McMahon. The meeting was conducted throughout in the most orderly and harmonious manner, and did not break up until nearly two o'clock in the morning . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Thomas Lynch (d. 1884, Catholic priest)

"DEATH", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (21 August 1875), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18797771 

On the 18th inst., Mr. Charles Randall, aged 68 years, after a painful illness, 50 years a resident of Maitland, and highly respected.

"First-class Concert", Nepean Times (30 March 1895), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108685133 

. . . Professor Randall, of Her Majesty's Theatre was to have played a flute solo, but owing to a family bereavement, could not be present. His place, however, was taken by Misses Furness (2), relatives, who gave a Spanish waltz with great precision and effect, and in response to an encore, the younger one danced the Highland fling perfectly, to the great delight of the audience. She was loudly applauded.

"NEWTOWN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH", The Sydney Morning Herald (5 November 1897), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14128497 

"MUSICIANS AT HOME", Evening News (13 June 1899), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113272568 

A duet for flutes (Messrs. Randall and Amadio) . . .

"SOCIAL ITEMS", Evening News (19 January 1900), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117035038

. . . fantasia, "Pastorale Hongroise," for flute, by Doppler, was beautifully played by Mr. F. Randall. Messrs. Allpress and Gehde shared the duties of accompanists . . .

"PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS' SMOKE", Evening News (10 September 1900), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112592242 

"Deaths . . . CHARLES RANDALL", Nepean Times [Penrith, NSW] (10 June 1911), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101305658 

Frederick Randall (with flute, seated, front row, second from left) with the Melba Opera Company orchestra, ? c. 1902 (Taylor 2015, 135)

Bibliography and resources:

Louise Westall Taylor, Recovering lives: 15 convicts in New South Wales (Ph.D thesis, Australian National University, 2015), 103-51, especially 129-33

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110682 (DIGITISED)

NOTE: Taylor (129-30) refers to the tenor singer "Mr. Randall", who appeared in musical programs in Maitland in 1873-74, assuming it was Charles; however, this Randall was described as from Newcastle when he sang at an Orange lodge event 1873

RANDALL, John (John RANDALL; REYNOLDS; "Black Randall")

Musician, flute and drum player, ? member of the "choir" (Parramatta church), bandsman Band of the New South Wales Corps

Born New Haven, Connecticut, North America, c. 1764
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 26 January 1788 (convict per Alexander, aged "24", from Portsmouth 13 May 1787, via Botany Bay, 21 January)
Married (1) Esther HARWOOD (d. 1789), Sydney, NSW, 21 February 1788
Married (2) Mary BUTLER (d. 1802), Parramatta, NSW, 5 September 1790
Enlisted NSW Corps, Sydney, NSW, 17 November 1800
Discharged NSW Corps, Sydney, NSW, 24 April 1810
? Died Parramatta, NSW, December 1837

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RANDALL-John (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the New South Wales Corps

Summary (after Statham and Fairall):

Randall was an African-American, from New Haven, Connecticut, born about 1764. He was convicted in Manchester, England, on 14 April 1785 for stealing a steel watch chain and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was sent to the Hulk Ceres early in 1786 and transferred to the convict transport Alexander on 6 January 1787. His name was recorded as Reynolds when mustered aboard, though he was arrested and tried as Randall.

He married fellow convict Esther Harwood (d. 1789) on 21 February 1788, the first marriage in the colony of NSW. He then married recently arrived Irish convict Mary Butler on 5 September 1790.

He enlisted in the NSW Corps at Sydney on 17 November 1800, and was discharged on 24 April 1810.

In his memoir, Joseph Holt recalled he was a tall and "well-made fellow" and "a good musician on the flute and tambourine". Holt purchased Randall's farm in November 1800, at a discounted price on consideration of he (Holt) having petitioned colonel William Paterson to grant Randall membership of "the choir", though perhaps correctly "the corps". If the former, however, it was presumably the paid group, mainly from the NSW Corps band, who sang and played at Parramatta church, and also at Toongabbie around this time (see Jordan 2012, 194).

This being the same month that Randall enlisted in the NSW Corps, he was evidently successful, and this suggests that he was very probably a bandsman if not from the very beginning, then probably for at least several years before listings survive (from 1806).

John Randall last appeared in the 1814 muster as a landholder, aged 50.

Documentation:

Monthly Pay-List and Muster-Roll of the New South Wales Regiment of Foot from 25 April to 24 May 1806 (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1640398864 (DIGITISED)

Capt. [William] Grosser's company . . . Randall, John / Band

Statement of the periods of service of all the . . . privates of the New South Wales Regiment [to 24 June 1806] (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1303990494 (DIGITISED)

[Private] / Randall / John / [date of enlistment] 17 Nov. 1800 / [to] 24 June 1806 / [years] 5 / [days] 220 . . .

Monthly Pay-List and Muster-Roll of the New South Wales Regiment of Foot from 25 November to 24 December 1806 (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1640663740 (DIGITISED)

Randall John / Band

[Quarterly] Pay-List of the New South Wales Regiment from 25 June to 24 September 1807 (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1640733759 (DIGITISED)

Randall John / -

Statement of the periods of service of all the . . . of the New South Wales Regiment [to mid 1808] (Australian Joint Copying Project, from Records of the UK War Office)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1303859228 (DIGITISED)

[Private] / Randall / John / [enlistment] 17th Nov'r 1800 / Sydney / [aged in 1808] 44 / 5 ft 9 in / [served] 7 yrs 289 days / [born] Newhaven / N'th America / [complexion] Black / [eyes] Black / [hair] Black / [visage] Round

Bibliography and resources:

T. Crofton Croker (ed.), Memoirs of Joseph Holt, general of the Irish rebels, in 1798, edited from his original manuscript . . . vol. 2 (London: Henry Colburn, 1838), 142-44

https://archive.org/details/memoirsofjosephh02holt/page/142/mode/2up (DIGITISED)

1801 [recte, 1800] November . . . While we were in conversation, a black man, named John Randall, passed by the window. Mr. Cox asked me who he was, and said, "Go and learn what he wants." Randall told me that he wished to dispose of his farm, and would sell it cheap, if I would promise to get him into the choir [sic, i.e. corps choir]. I told him I was busy at the moment, but would talk to him about the matter next day. This man had been sportsman to Governor Grose. His farm was about a mile and three quarters from Mr. Cox's estate; and I recommended Mr. Cox to purchase it. Mr. Cox looked at me for some time, as if hesitating, but at length, to my surprise, he said, "Holt, if you [143] like the farm, why not buy it for yourself? I am sure I can get him into the choir [sic, corps], and it is time you should be doing something for yourself and your own family" . . . The next day Randall came, and I went with him to view the farm; it was very well circumstanced, and convenient for me, being so near Mr. Cox's estate, and, as I hoped to continue with that gentleman, I considered it very eligible. I asked the price; Randall said £60, and to engage to get him into the choir [corps]. I told him that was more than I could do at present; but I would give him forty pounds if I could get him into the choir [corps], and fifty if I could not do it; and if he came with me he should have my letter to Colonel Paterson. This black was a well-made fellow, about six feet high, and a good musician on the flute and tambourine. I wrote to Colonel Paterson in as polite a manner as I was able, and sent it by Blackee. The Colonel returned me a very civil answer, to the effect that he would do what he could to accomplish my wishes, and would, if fit, take him into the choir [corps], on my recommendation. We then went to Mr. Cox, and he gave directions to have the deed of conveyance prepared against ten o'clock the next day. It was made out to my wife, Hester Holt, and her heirs; for although I had no indent against me, there might, nevertheless, be a legal question raised hereafter, about my capability to purchase. The deed was dated the 10th November, in the forty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third [i.e. 1800], the money paid down, and the writing witnessed by William Cox, Rebecca Cox, and James King. This conveyance I have now in my possession at Dunleary . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Holt (political prisoner, farmer); William Cox (landowner); William Paterson (lieutenant colonel, NSW Corps)

Peter O'Shaughnessy (ed.), A rum story: the adventures of Joseph Holt, thirteen years in New South Wales (1800-1812) (Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1988), 66-67

. . . This black played the flute and tambour. He was about six feet high, well made and straight . . .

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

Ray Fairall, The Afro-Australians: the Randall/Martin families and the First Fleet, Sydney 1788 (as last updated August 2021)

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~johnrandall2/genealogy/

Barrie and Margaret Chapman, "Private John Randall (Reynolds) (c. 1764-1817)", Australia's redcoat settlers (archived at NLA Pandora)

https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110615173348/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/100162/20110616-0041/freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/_garter1/randalljohn.html 

Robert Jordan, "Music and the military in New South Wales, 1788-1809", Journal of Australian colonial history 17 (July 2015), (1-22), 9

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.428841963923204 (PAYWALL)

See also Robert Jordan, "Music and civil society in New South Wales, 1788-1809", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 98/2 (December 2012), (193-210), 194

http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=060857840144157;res=IELHSS (PAYWALL)

"John Randall", Australian royalty

https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I55710/John-Randall 

John Randall, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204805162/john-randall 

RANDALL, William (William RANDALL)

Amateur musician, violinist, organist, organ-builder

Born Idlicote, Warwickshire, England, 9 December 1820; baptised Idlicote, 10 December 1820; son of William RANDALL (1787-1844) and Elizabeth LATHAM (1794-1821)
Married Anne Girling WICKES (1820-1864), Thrapston Meeting House, Northamptonshire, England, 20 September 1844
Arrived SA, 19 December 1846 (per Duke of Richmond, from London via Plymouth)
Died Adelaide, SA, 4 January 1898

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=William+Randall+1820-1898 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Documentation:

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED", Adelaide Observer (26 December 1846), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158925429 

Saturday, December 19. - The barque Duke of Richmond, 450 tons, T. Barclay, master, from London and Plymouth. Passengers . . . Wm. Randall, Esq., and lady . . . in the cabin . . . In the steerage . . . Mr. Randall's servant.

[Advertisement], South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (21 August 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195935228 

IN AID OF THE FUND FOR RELIEVING THE DESTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, -
A Concert of Sacred Music will be given, by the Adelaide Choral Society, for the above purpose, at the Large Room of the Freemasons Tavern (kindly granted by Mr. Robinson for the occasion), on Tuesday evening, the 24th instant.
Leader - Mr. Bennett; Organ (kindly lent by W. Randall, Esq,) - Mrs. Murray . . .

"Local News", South Australian (27 August 1847), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71609177 

. . . The pieces were chiefly selected from the Messiah, with the addition of some of Haydn's, Mozart's. Pergolese's [sic, Pergolesi], and Beethoven's . . . The organ, kindly lent by Mr. Randal, was well played by Mrs. Murray, who also sang, with her usual good taste and lady-like style, some beautiful solos . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Bennett (musician); Georgiana Murray (organist, pianist, vocalist); Adelaide Choral Society

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (29 September 1847), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48545672 

FOR SALE - A SWEET TONED ORGAN, with five stops, and well adapted for a small church, a chapel, or a drawing room,. Apply to WILLIAM RANDALL, Rundle street, or at Woodside Cottage, near Kensington.

"A GOOD OLD COLONIST. THE LATE MR. W. RANDALL", South Australian Register (4 January 1898), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54526783 

We announce to-day the death of Mr. William Randall, an old and highly esteemed resident of Adelaide. The deceased gentleman was born on December 9, 1821 [recte 1820], and belonged to an old county family. In his early youth he was fond of field sports, and was an excellent shot and hunted regularly. Not being of robust health he was ordered abroad, and at first proposed to move to the south of France, but with his only brother, the late Mr. David Randall, he finally decided to emigrate to the new colony of South Australia. In December, 1846, he arrived in the ship Duke of Richmond, after a six months' voyage . . . He took up his residence with his brother David, who had preceded him by about twelve months, in the house erected for the Manager of the South Australian Land Company, Mr. Giles, in Rundle-street, not far from where the York Hotel at present stands . . . He is one of the few remaining specimens of the fine old English gentleman who are fast dying out. We are all sorry that he is going from us, but his kind face, gentle words, and unostentatious charity will live long in the memories of all classes of the community. Mr. Randall was an earnest member of the Church of England, and used to ride regularly twelve miles on Sundays to hold service at Yankalilla, and home again. He had musical tastes and in his youth played both violin and organ with ability. Almost the first if not the first pipe organ imported into the colony was one which he dismantled in the old English home and brought out with him . . .

Other sources:

Papers relating to the family of William Randall; State Library of South Australia

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/198290920 

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1421 

NOTE: Should read Idlicote, Warwickshire (not Devon)

Bibliography and resources:

George E. Loyau, Notable South Australians; or, Colonists past and present (Adelaide: G. E. Loyau, 1885), 207-08

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notable_South_Australians/William_Randall (DIGITISED)

BORN at Idlicot, Warwickshire, December 9, 1820. Emigrated from the county of Northampton to South Australia in 1846, and arrived here in December of that year by the "Duke of Richmond." In conjunction with his "brother, Mr. David Randall, who had reached this colony in 1845, he brought capital with a view to investment . . .

RANGER, Sampson (Sampson RANGER)

Amateur clarinet / clarionet player, composer, bricklayer, grazier

Born Beckley, Sussex, England, c. 1820; son of James RANGER (1798-1853) and Hannah MILLER (1797-1883)
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 16 January 1839 (assisted immigrant per Alfred, from Plymouth, 16 September 1838)
Married Hannah MURRAY (1826-1907), Goulburn, NSW, 1845
Died Collector, NSW, 19 November 1887, aged "67"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Sampson+Ranger+d1887 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RANGER-Sampson (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Notice], New South Wales Government Gazette (23 January 1888), 633

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219937475 

. . . In the will of Sampson Ranger, late of Collector, in the Colony of New South Wales, farmer, deceased . . . who died on the 19th day of November, 1887 . . .

"C. OF ENGLAND DIOCESAN MUSEUM. HISTORICAL COLLECTION", Goulburn Evening Penny Post (4 September 1936), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99606892 

The nucleus of a valuable and interesting museum is now housed in the vestibule of the Church House, Goulburn . . . A clarinet, the first musical instrument used in church services in Goulburn a hundred years ago, is the gift of Mr. S. Ranger . . .

"MR. ALBERT RANGER", Goulburn Evening Penny Post (1 August 1938), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102411647 

Ransome T. Wyatt, History of the Diocese of Goulburn (Goulburn: Diocese of Goulburn, 1937), 122, 132

Ransome T. Wyatt, The history of Goulburn, N.S.W (Goulburn: Municipality of Goulburn, 1941), 122, 426

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-29899609/view?partId=nla.obj-30044207#page/n425/mode/1up 

. . . The first musical instrument ever used at a church service in Goulburn was a clarinet and is still in existence. It was brought to Australia by S. Ranger who in 1839 used it to accompany an anthem of his own composition. Afterwards it was used in the Anglican Church at Collector and later still in the Methodist Church. Then it was given to the diocesan museum by A. Ranger, of Goulburn, grandson of S. Ranger.

Bibliograhy and resources:

Sampson Ranger, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163076783/sampson-ranger

RANGONI, Antonio (Antonio RANGONI; Signor RANGONI)

Musician, cornet player, trombone player

Active Melbourne, VIC, by June 1854
Active Beechworth, VIC, 1855-57

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RANGONI-Antonio (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

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

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

ROWE'S CIRCUS. Concert Extraordinary.
A Band of Italian Musicians, whose talent was unsurpassed in their native country, having recently arrived in this colony, will have the honor of making their first appearance in Melbourne, and giving a grand Concert at Rowe's Circus, on Saturday evening, June 10th, 1854.
Having made arrangements with Caverly Volunteer Fire Company to appear with it on all public occasions, the Band has received permission to take its name and wear its uniform.
The Band will therefore be known as the Caverly Volunteer Band.
It consists of A. Rangoni, Manager, Cornet-a-pistons; Angelo Lagomarsino, Basso; Francesco Volpi, Clarinetto; Giacinto Gagliardi, Flauto; Giovanni Abba, Trombone; Allessandro Belloni, Basso; and Giovanni Grenno, Casa. Herr Ellerner [sic, Elsasser] will preside at the piano . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Andrew Rowe (proprietor); Angelo Lagomarsino (musician); Francesco Volpi (musician); Giacinto Gagliardi (musician); Alessandro Bellomi (musician); Giovanni Grenno (musician); Charles Elsasser (piano)

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (26 May 1855), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113013468

MUSIC SALOON, El Dorado Hotel, High-street, Beechworth.
Grand Concert Of Vocal and Instrumental Music, under the patronage of R. O'H. BURKE, ESQ., J.P., And the Stewards of the Races.
On Monday, May 28th, 1855, For the benefit of Messrs. Peck and Saqui.
THE following professionals and amateurs have kindly offered their valuable services, and will during the evening sing and perform a choice collection of the most popular Overtures, Solos, Duets, Chorusses, Fantasias, &c., &c.:
Signor Rangoni, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ellar, Mr. Small, Mr. Geo. Smith,
Mr. Peter Bruce, Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Hurley, Herr Schmidt,
In addition to Messrs. Peck and Saqui.
The best arrangements will he made for the comfort of ladies and families visiting this Concert, by a Committee of Management.
Mr. Ellar will sing Beethoven's magnificent solo, "Adelaide," acknowledged to be the most superb vocal composition in existence.
Messrs. Peck and Saqui will perform a brilliant duet, for violin and piano, variations on the favourite opera, Le Pre Aux Clercs, by De Beriot and Osborne.
Mr. Peter Bruce will perform a grand Invocation of Scottish National Music, on the Scotch Pipes, in full Highland costume, as played before the Duke of Buccleuch and the whole court of Queen Victoria, in Scotland.
Mr. Peck will perform Paganini's celebrated Burlesque Variations on the Carnival of Venice.
Also his own favourite fantasia on popular airs, introducing "Auld Robin Gray," "Comin thro' the Rye," "Sally in our Alley," and "When the Swallows."
Mr. Saqui will play a solo on the piano, introducing the imitation of a musical box, and sing some of his admired songs.
Leader and Solo Violin, Mr. Peck.
Flute, Mr. Johnson; Cornet a-Piston, Herr Schmidt; Second Violin, Mr. Hurley;
Basso, Mr. Thompson; Trombone, Signor Rangoni.
Mr. Saqui will preside at the piano-forte . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert O'Hara Burke (citizen); George Peck (violin); Austin Saqui (piano); Julius Henry Eller [sic] (vocalist); Peter Bruce (bagpipes)

"POLICE COURT. Thursday, February 19 . . . SLY GROG CASE", Ovens and Murray Advertiser (20 February 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014141 

Antonio Rangoni was brought up on warrant charged with selling spiritous liquors without a licence at the Yackandandah . . .

[Advertisement], Ovens and Murray Advertiser (16 March 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113014470

ST. PATRICK'S DAY. GRAND BALL.
IN aid of the Funds for Building a Presbytery and Catholic Church in Beechworth, to be held in
MACKAY, MILLER., AND MACKAY'S STORE, FORD STREET . . .
ORCHESTRA.
Conductor - Mr. Hurley
Leader - Mr. Osborne
Violin Primo - Mr. Osborne
Violin Secundo - Herr Weichmann
Violin Secundo - Herr Carll
Harp - M. Zeplin
Pianoforte - M. Carrie
Contra Basso - Herr Esther
Picolo Solo - Mr. Hurley
Clarionet - Mr. Fowriere
Cornet a piston - Mr. Barlow
Trombone - Sig. Rangoni . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: J. P. Hurley (conductor, piccolo); Ferdinand Osborne (musician); Heinrick Weichmann (musician); Carl Esther (musician); George Frederick Zeplin (musician); Mr. Barlow (musician)

RANSFORD, John (John RANSFORD; Mr. RANSFORD)

Dancer, actor

Active SA and VIC, 1850s

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RANSFORD-John (shareable link to this entry)

RAPER, Jane (Jane RAPER; Miss RAPER; Miss Jane RAPER)

Contralto vocalist, teacher of piano and singing (pupil of Eliza Wallace Bushelle)

Born Sydney, NSW, 1843; daughter of Edward RAPER (c. 1806-1882) and Jane FEENY (1806-1881)
Active Sydney, NSW, by 1867
Died Sydney, NSW, 25 March 1916

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Jane+Raper+1843-1916 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAPER-Jane (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 August 1865), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13117847 

NEW SOUTH WALES LEICHHARDT SEARCH FUND. - A CONCERT . . . German Song - The Exile, Keller, Miss Raper (pupil of Madame E. Wallace Bushelle) . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Wallace Bushelle (vocalist, teacher)

"COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT TO MRS. MEILLON", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 May 1871), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13238120 

. . . Miss Raper made her first appearance in public since her return from England, and sang with great taste a cavatina from "La Donna Carlton," for which she was encored, and gave one of her favourite Irish ballads. She also sang in the second part a solo from "The Prophet," and received much applause . . .

"Music and the Drama", Australian Town and Country Journal (21 September 1878), 26

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70595101 

We perceive from American papers that Miss Raper, formerly well known in Sydney as a successful teacher of the pianoforte and singing, has been giving concerts in Western America. A farewell concert was given by her in Denvers City, Colorado, in May last, which was largely attended, and the programme of which comprised some choice pieces. Miss Raper's singing was spoken of by the Denver press in terms of strong eulogy. We understand that Miss Raper is now in London, en route to Sydney, so her numerous friends in this city may anticipate having the pleasure of hearing her soon.

"MUSIC AND DRAMA", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 April 1916), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15648827 

The veteran contralto and teacher, Mrs. Kingsmill-Shaw, writes, in regard to the recent death of Miss Jane Raper, stating that well-known singer especially desired before she passed away that her career should be referred to in the "Sydney Morning Herald." It seems that Miss Raper was trained by Mrs. Bushelle (possibly the Mrs. Wallace Bushelle, who was a sister of Vincent Wallace, the composer, sang the role of Maritana in London, and returning to Sydney taught here for many years until her death). Miss Raper was a cultivated contralto singer, who appeared in public here a great deal some 35 or 40 years ago, and then became highly esteemed as a teacher. For many years she resided in Rosebank-street, Darlinghurst, and was a great friend of Mrs. Boesen, a prominent patron of musical affairs both at that epoch and later.

ASSOCIATIONS: Theresa Meillon Boesen (pianist); Clara Helen Kingsmill-Shaw (pianist)

Bibliography and resources:

"Edward Raper", Sydney's Aldermen

http://www.sydneyaldermen.com.au/alderman/edward-raper 

RAPSEY, Peter Hitt (Peter Hitt RAPSEY; P. H. RAPSEY; Mr. RAPSEY)

Musical amateur, member Sydney Amateur Concerts, merchant, farmer

Born Plymouth, Devon, 1794; baptised St. Charles the Martyr, Plymouth, 4 April 1794; son of John RAPSEY and Sarah ?
Married Charlotte Elizabeth SEARLE, St. Mary, Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, 9 May 1818
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 1822 (per Medway)
Died Maitland, NSW, 5 September 1847, aged "53"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Peter+Hitt+Rapsey+1794-1847 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAPSEY-Peter-Hitt (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

Baptisms, April 1794, St. Charles the Martyr, Plymouth, Devon; register fol. 55v; Plymouth & West Devon Record Office, 167/6

https://search.findmypast.com.au/record/browse?id=GBPRS/PLY/004634471/00111 (PAYWALL)

[1794] April 4th / Peter Hitt son of John & Sarah Rapsey

Marriages solemnized in the parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the county of Surrey in the year 1818; register 1804-27, page 117; London Metropolitan Archives, P71/MRY/035/001

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/4303382:1623 (PAYWALL)

No. 351 / Peter Hitt Rapsey of this parish bachelor
and Charlotte Elizabeth Searle spinster of the parish of Saint Paul Deptford in the county of Kent
were married in this Chruch by Licence this [9 May 1818] . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (8 November 1826), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2186870 

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE GOVERNOR IN CHIEF AND MRS. DARLING
AMATEUR CONCERT, IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
The GENTLEMEN, composing the COMMITTEE of the SYDNEY AMATEUR CONCERT, beg to inform the Public, that a
CONCERT will be held on Monday, the 4th Day of December next, at the Court-house, in Castlereagh-street.
Several Magistrates, and other Gentlemen of the Colony, having expressed their Wish to the Committee, that such should take Place, and having promised their Support on the Occasion, it is hoped, that the Public will give every Encouragement to promote and Attempt to relieve the above laudable Institution.
Tickets, 10s each. may be had, on Application to Messrs. JAMES FOSTER (at Mr. Norton's Office, Elizabeth-street),
EARLE, EDWARDS, FOXALL, GEORGE PAUL, John PAUL, jun. RAPSEY, ROBERTSON, B. LEVEY, and SIPPE, George-street.
A full Account of the Performance will be inserted in next Week's papers.

ASSOCIATIONS: Ralph and Elizabeth Darling (governor and wife); Augustus Earle (member); John Edwards (member); James Foster (member); Frederick George Foxall (member); George Paul (member); Peter Hitt Rapsey (member); Barnett Levey (member); George Sippe (member); Sydney Amateur Concerts (association, series)

NSW census, November 1828; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.paperturn-view.com/?pid=NDM43344&v=1.1&p=63 (DIGITISED)

Rapsey Peter / 35 / Came Free / Medway / 1822 / Merchant / George Street
[Rapsey] Charlotte / 30 / Came Free / Mary / 1824
Susannah / 4 / Born in Colony // Frederick / 2 1/2 // Infant / 2 months

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (17 September 1847), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12889304 

At his residence, Phoenix Park, Morpeth, on the 5th of September, after a long and severe illness, Mr. Peter Hitt Rapsey, aged fifty-three years.

RAUFER, Mary Ann Sarah (Mary Ann Sarah RAUFER)

Soprano vocalist, blind pupil

Born London, England, 1853
Died VIC, 1941

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAUFER-Mary-Ann-Sarah (shareable link to this entry)

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

Documentation:

"CONCERT IN AID OF THE BLIND ASYLUM", The Argus (19 September 1872), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5839056

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

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

Miss Raufer, a blind pupil, who possesses a very fine and cultivated voice, rendered "The Captive Greek Girl," and being encored gave "Smiles and Tears."

"CONCERT BY THE BLIND", Riverine Herald (2 November 1876), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113584996

"BLIND ASSYLUM CONCERT", The Argus (4 July 1879), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5949318

[News], The Argus (31 March 1882), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11536513

Bibliography and resources:

Judith Raphael Buckrich, Lighthouse on the boulevard: a history of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind 1866-2004 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2004)

RAVAC, Leopold (RAWACK, Leopold) = Leopold RAWACK

RAWACK, Amalia (Amalia MAUTHNER) = Amalia RAWACK

RAY, Mr. and Mrs. (Mr. and Mrs. RAY)

Actors, vocalists

Active VIC, 1850s

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAY-Mr-and-Mrs (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"THE THEATRE", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer [VIC] (6 November 1854), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91862409 

RAY, Edgar (Edgar RAY; Edgar LYON; Edgar Lyon RAY)

Tenor vocalist, magazine editor, journalist, publisher and printer, musical and theatrical agent

Born Bristol, England, 24 April 1828; baptised, St. Pancras Old Church, 27 February 1845 [sic]; son of Edward Adam RAY (1766-1853) and Eliza WELLER (c. 1793-1884)
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 15 October 1852 (quarantined until 25 November, per Lady Eveline, from London, 29 June)
Married Charlotte Goodiff PITMAN (c. 1832-1907), St. Paul's church, Melbourne, VIC, 15 November 1853
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 7 October 1875 (per Nubia, for Venice, and England)
Died Kew, England, 23 August 1905

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Edgar+Ray+1828-1905 (TROVE tagged by Australharnony and others)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAY-Edgar (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Family background and early years in England:

Edgar Ray's registered father, Edward Adam Ray was baptized in 1766 at St. Katherine By the Tower, London, and married his first wife Catherine Clarkson in 1788. For some time a London merchant, by 1803 Edward had become an actor and theatre manager. As recounted in Oxberry's dramatic biography (volume 7, 17-19), he:

evinced a strong predilection for every thing connected with the drama, and frequently indulged his favourite propensity, with some others of his friends, at a private theatre, till at length, unable to resist the ruling inclination of his mind, he relinquished the occupation of merchant, for which he was originally intended, and embraced the stage as a profession.

And famously, in 1810, his eldest daughter, Matilda Ray (c.1790-1842), already a successful and popular actor, married the musician and composer Charles Edward Horn.

According to his much belated baptism record of 1845, Edgar Ray was born on 24 April 1828, a son of Edward Adam Ray, then 62, and his soon to be second wife, Eliza Weller. Edward's first wife, Catherine Clarkson, was then still alive, but died a week later on 1 May 1828, allowing Eliza Weller, a "spinster", legally to marry the now widowed Edward at St. Pancras parish chapel, London, on 14 June 1828, almost 2 months after Edgar's birth. Eliza already had a much older daughter, Charlotte, and a slightly older son, William Charles Lyon (born c. 1826), whom Edgar later described as his "brother", perhaps suggesting that, if not a half brother, he was also an illegitimate son of Edward Ray.

On the night of the census of 6 June 1841, Edgar Ray, reportedly 12-year-old (he was 13), and William Lyon, aged 14, were boarding with their musical instructor, William Hawes (1785-1801), master of the choristers of the Chapel Royal and St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

On the night of the 1851 census, 30 March, Edgar Lyon [sic], then a solicitor's clerk, aged 21 [sic], was living in Hammersmith with his mother, now styled Eliza Lyon, a widow, suggesting that she had divorced Edgar's father, Edgar senior, who was then still alive, and married someone called Lyon, now deceased. Eliza's 35-year-old widowed daughter, Charlotte Mortimer (born c. 1816), was also living with them at the time.

The only clue as to the identity of Edgar's step father is in the death record of his brother William, which gives his father's name as Charles Lyon. It is of course possible that this Charles Lyon was indeed William's father; but also possible that he was likewise only a stepfather to William, whose name he prefered to take over that of his natural father, whoever that may have been.

Australia (1852-75):

Ray (spelt Rae in the manifest, aged "23") arrived in Melbourne, VIC, on the Lady Eveline from London on 15 October 1852, as secretary/manager and singing member of a musical party of four vocalists, the so-called City of London Glee and Madrigal Union, directed by his brother, William Lyon, and also including Mary Ellen and Edward Hancock. However, cases of smallpox having been found among the 250 intermediate and steerage passengers, the party was quarantined for over a month, until finally being released on 25 November.

Joined by another recent arrival from the London concerts, Harriet Fiddes, the group presented its first concert at the Mechanics' Institution on Saturday, 4 December, followed, though December and January, by half a dozen other appearances in Melbourne, and at least one at the Theatre Royal in Geelong.

After early 1853, however, Ray largely seems to have turned his back on vocal performing more or less permanently, and his closest personal connection with the musical profession was severed with the death of his brother William Lyon in July.

He married Charlotte Pitman, at St. Paul's church, Melbourne, on 15 November 1853, and they had three children by 1860. Though they never permanently separated, and Charlotte outlived him, Ray later in England in the 1870s also had at least two children by a mistress, Elizabeth Wills.

By 1855, Ray was a publisher and printer of, among other titles, Melbourne Punch, and in the 1860s, of Sydney Punch. He occasionally appeared as an amateur in acting roles, as, for instance, in June 1856, for a charity benefit at Coppin's Olympic in which the cast also included Punch contributor Richard Hengist Horne.

With thanks September 2021 to Duncan Taggart (NZ) for kindly bringing to my attention the quarantine of the Lady Eveline's passengers

Documentation:

England census, 6 June 1841; Middlesex, St. Martin in the Fields, Charing Cross, District 19, pages 6-7; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 739 / 6

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/MDXHO107_738_740-0379 (PAYWALL)

Adelaide Terrace / William Hawes / 55 / Musician . . .
Maria [Hawes] / 20 / Musician
John [Hawes] / 20 / Music seller . . .
George [Mulliner] / 12 / Singing Boy
[page 7] Marcellus Higgs / 14 / Singing Boy
William Lyon / 14 / [Singing Boy]
Theodore Genge / 13 / [Singing Boy]
George Woodhatch / 11 / [Singing Boy]
Edgar Ray / 12 / [Singing Boy]
William Rivett / 10 / [Singing Boy]
William Miller / 11 / [Singing Boy]
Henry Furrian / 10 / [Singing Boy]

ASSOCIATIONS: William Hawes (master of the choristers); William Charles Lyon (chorister, Edgar's elder "brother"); Henry Furrian (chorister)

England census, 30 March 1851, Hammersmith, Middlesex; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 1470

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/MDXHO107_1470_1470-0261 (PAYWALL)

Grove [Road] 8 Verulam Terrace / Eliza Lyon / Head / Widow / 58 / Annuitant / [born] Middlesexm Marylebone
Charlotte Mortimer / Dau'r / [Widow] / 35 /

Australia (1852-75):

[Advertisement], The Argus (4 December 1852), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788376

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. GRAND CONCERT. December 4th, 1852.
THE CITY OF LONDON GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION,
Under the direction of Mr. WILLIAM C. LYON, professor of the Royal Academy of Music, and late Vicar Choral of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey,
Beg to announce to the gentry and inhabitants of Melbourne, that their first grand concert will take place on Saturday, December 4th, 1852, on which occasion several of the finest glees, trios, duets, and songs, by the first authors, will be performed.
Artists:
Mrs. Edward Hancock, Professor of the Royal Academy of Music.
Mr. W. C. Lyon. R.A.M.
Mr. Edgar Ray, late of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. James, and
Mr. Edward Hancock,
assisted by Mrs. Fiddes, formerly Miss H. CAWSE.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
Glee - O by the Rivers, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Mr. W. C. Lyon, Mr. Edgar Ray, and Mr. Hancock - Sir H. R. Bishop.
Duet - I would that My love, Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Fiddes - Mendelssohn
Glee - The Gipsies' Laughing Trio, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes and Mr. Hancock - Glover
Song - My Boyhood's Home, Mr. E. Ray - Rooke
Glee - O who will o'er the Downs so free, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Mr. W. C. Lyon, Mr. E. Ray, and Mr. Hancock - Pearsall
Song - Why do I weep for thee, Mrs. Fiddes - Wallace
The Pirates' Chorus, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Mr. W. C. Lyon, Mr. E. Ray, and Mr. Hancock - Balfe
An Interval of Ten Minutes.
PART II.
Glee - How merrily we live, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, and Mr. Hancock - Michael Este
Song - Should she upbraid, Mrs. Hancock - Sir H. R. Bishop
A Christmas Madrigal, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Mr. W. C. Lyon, Mr. E. Ray, and Mr. Hancock - Dr Tom [Thomas Ions]
Song - Mr. W. C. Lyon
Duet - O, wert thou in the cauld blast, Mrs. Hancock, and Mrs. Fiddes - Mendelssohn
Glee - Sleep gentle lady, Mrs. Fiddes, Mr. W. C. Lyon, Mr. Edgar Ray, and Mr. Hancock - Sir H. R. Bishop
National Anthem.
Tickets, 5s each, to be had at the Institution, and Residence of the Secretary, 46, Russell-street.
EDGAR RAY, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ellen and Edward Hancock (vocalists); Harriet Cawse Fiddes (vocalist)

MUSIC: O by rivers [sic] (Bishop); My boyhood's home (Rooke); O who will o'er the Downs so free (Pearsall); How merrily we live (East); A Christmas madrigal (Ions); Sleep gentle lady (Bishop)

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 December 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612805 

THE CITY OF LONDON GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION
BEG to acquaint the profession and inhabitants of Melbourne, that they are open to engagements for concerts.
For terms apply at their residence, 46 Russell-street.
EDGAR RAY, Secy.
N.B. - Mr. W. D. Lyon and Mrs. E Hancock, professors of the Royal Academy of Music London, give lessons in singing, pianoforte, and harmony.

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 December 1852), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788541 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. THE GLEE and MADRIGAL UNION beg to announce to their patrons, the gentry, and inhabitants of Melbourne, that their second Grand Concert (and the first of a series of three) will take place on Tuesday, December 21st, 1852.
Reserved seats, 5s.; Unreserved, 3s.' Family reserved, admitting five, £1. Concert to commence at eight precisely.

[Advertisement], The Argus (21 December 1852), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612860 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. GRAND CONCERT.
THE GLEE AND MADRIGAL UNION. Under the Direction of Mr. William C. Lyon.
BEG to announce to their Patrons, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Melbourne, that their Second, and the first of a series of Three Concerts, will lake place
THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 1852.
Principa1 Performers - Mrs. Edward Hancock, Professor of the Royal Academy of Music;
Mrs. Harriet Fiddes, Mr. William C. Lyon, R A.M.; Mr. Edgar Ray, H.M.C.R.; and Mr. Edward Hancock, R.A.M.
Pianist: Mr. Buddee.
Programme -
Part I.
Glee - (five parts) Blow gentle Gales, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock - Bishop.
Duet - Giorno di orr ore, Mesdames Hancock and Fiddes - Rossini.
Song - Woman - Mr. Ray - Phillips
Glee - Ye spotted Snakes, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock - Stevens
Cavatina - O luce di quest anima, Mrs. Hancock - Donizetti
Duet - The sunny hours of Childhood, Mrs. Hancock and Mr. Ray - Roche
Glee - See the chariot at hard, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock.
Cavatina - Paga fui, Mrs. Fiddes
Madrigal - Down in a flow'ry vale, full chorus, Mesdames Hancock, and Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock - [Festa]
PART II.
Glee - Hark the Lark, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, & Hancock - Cook
Duet - The Ties of Friendship, Mesdames Hancock and Fiddes - Benedict
Song - Robin Hood, Mr. Hancock - Hatton
Glee - Why with toil thy life consuming, Mesdames Hancock and Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock - Pearsall
Duet - O my Beloved, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock - Nicholas
Song - A lowly youth, Mrs. Hancock - Wallace
Glee - The breath of the brier, Mesdames Hancock and Fiddes, Messrs. Bay and Hancock - Whittaker
Song - The Slave Girl's love, Mrs. Fiddes - Laud
Laughing Trio - Vadasi via di qua - Martini
National Anthem - Solo, Duet, Trio, and full chorus.
Concert will commence at Eight precisely . . .
EDGAR RAY, Secretary.

ASSOCIATIONS: Julius Buddee (piano)

MUSIC: Woman (Henry Phillips, in Hatton's Songs of England, vol. 3, 121-)

"THE WEEKLY CONCERTS", The Argus (23 December 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612918 

The following is the programme for this evening: -
Part 1.
Overture. - Zauberflote - Full band.
Glee. - O, by rivers. - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock.
Solo (Cornopean). - Air and variations - Mr. Chapman
Duet. - O wert thou in the cauld blast - Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Fiddes.
Serenade.- Sleep lady mine. - Mr. E. Ray.
Grand Wedding March. - Full band.
Song. - Love now. - Mrs. Hancock.
Glee. - Sleep gentle lady. - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock.
Part II.
Overture. - II barbiere di Seviglia.
Trio - The magic wove scarf - Mrs. Hancock, Mr. Ray, and Mr. Hancock.
Waltz - Die Rheinfahrt. - [Labitzky]
Duet, - The May bells. Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Fiddes
Overture - Guy Mannering. (By desire.)
Song. - Beautiful Venice. - Mrs. Fiddes.
Trio, - The gipsies' laughing trio. - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, and Mr. Hancock.
National Anthem. - Solo, duet, and trio.

ASSOCIATIONS: George Chapman (cornopean); Thursday Concerts Melbourne (long-running series at the Mechanics Institution)

MUSIC: Sleep lady mine (James Howe)

[Advertisement], Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer [Geelong, VIC] (24 December 1852), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94360502 

THE LONDON "GLEE & MADRIGAL UNION," on Friday Evening, December 24th, at the Theatre . . .
MRS. H. FIDDES, MRS. HANCOCK, MR. C. LYON [sic], MR. E. RAY, & MR. HANCOCK. This Evening, at the Theatre.

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 December 1852), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255612974 

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. GRAND CONCERT.
THE GLEE AND MADRUGAL UNION, (under the direction of Mr. William C. Lyon.)
beg to announce to their patrons, gentry, and inhabitants of Melbourne, that their Second Grand Concert will take place
THIS EVENING, 28th DECEMBER.
Principal Performers - Mrs. Edward Hancock, Mrs. Harriet Fiddes,
Mr. William C. Lyon, R. A. M., Mr. Edgar Ray, and Mr. Edward Hancock.
First appearance at these Concerts of the celebrated bassoon player, Mr. J. Winterbottom, from Monsieur Jullien's Concerts.
Pianist, Mr. Buddee.
PROGRAMME.
Part I.
Glee - The Gipsies' Tent - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray and Hancock - Cook.
Duett - Come be gay - Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Fiddes - Weber
Cavatina - As I view those scenes so charming - Mr. Hancock - Sonnambula
Trio - Turn on old Time (from Maritana) - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, and Mr. Hancock - Wallace.
Song - Come good neighbours with chorus (from Der Freischutz) - Mr. Ray - Weber.
Solo Bassoon - Mr. J. Winterbottom, (of Monsieur Jullien's Concerts, London, his first appearance at these Concerts) Fra Poco a me recoveri - Donizetti.
Duett - Deh Conte, (from Norma) - Mrs. Hancock and Mrs. Fiddes - Bellini.
Cavatina - Dearest Companions, (Sonnambula) - Mrs. Hancock - Bellini.
Trio - This Magic Wove Scarf, (Mountain Sylph), Mrs. Hancock, Messrs. Ray and Hancock - [Balfe]
Cavatina - Nobile Signor, (Prophete) - Mrs. Fiddes - Meyerbeer.
The Huntsman's Chorus (Der Freischutz) - Weber.
Part II. Glee - O, who will o'er the Downs so free - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Lyon, Ray, and Hancock - Pearsall.
Song - My Mother bids me bind my hair - Mrs. Hancock - Haydn.
Duett - Think a Sailor is faithful - Mr. and Mrs. Hancock - Balfe.
Song - The Maids of Merry England - Mr. Ray - Perring.
Glee - See the Chariot at hand - Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Ray and Hancock - [W. Horsley]
Song - Beautiful Venice - Mrs. Fiddes - [J. P. Knight]
National Anthem - Solo, Duett, Trio and chorus.
Concert to commence at Eight precisely.
Reserved seat 5s; unreserved 3s; family reserved, admitting five, 1l. To be had at the Institution; Mr. Joseph Wilkie's, Music Saloon Collins-street; and at the residence of the Secretary, 46 Russell-street.
The Third Concert will take place on Tuesday, January 3, 1853.
EDGAR RAY, Secretary.

MUSIC: The maids of merry England (James Perring)

"MUSICAL", The Argus (29 December 1852), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255613004 

With the valuable aid of Mrs. Fiddes, the "Union" has given several very high class concerts, which have well deserved the support of such portion of the public as has really a taste for good music. The most striking singer is the Mrs. Hancock who so completely took the audience of the last Thursday's weekly concert by surprise, in suddenly presenting to them one of the sweetest singers ever heard in Melbourne. Their programmes are full and varied, and everything presented is good of its kind. They lack, indeed, the agreeable variety furnished by a few overtures, &c., but if this difficulty were removed, these entertainments would probably become the most popular in the city. A novelty was presented last evening in the shape of a bassoon solo, most admirably played by a Mr. Winterbottom, who was very deservedly encored for his perfect mastery over an instrument usually considered a little gloomy and unmanageable.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Winterbottom (bassoon)

"CONCERT", The Argus (4 January 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788688 

We have to apologise for having yesterday omitted the programme of very superior entertainment, to be given this evening by the Glee and Madrigal Union of which we have already made very favourable mention. The concert is to consist entirely of sacred music of the highest class; and of the style in which these sublime compositions are likely to be given, we are justified in forming a very high conception when we find the names of Madames Testar, Fiddes, and Hancock figuring in the same programme. The lovers of really first-rate music may look forward to a treat.

[Advertisement], The Argus (17 January 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4788978

GRAND SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC, (In the Hall of the Mechanics' Institution),
UNDER the Patronage of the Right Worshipful the MAYOR OF MELBOURNE.
TO-MORROW EVENING, JANUARY 18th 1853.
Principal Vocalists: Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Hancock, and Mrs. Fiddes,
Mr. Edgar Ray, Mr. Edward Hancock, and Mr. Bancroft.
Accompanist - Mr. Buddee.
PROGRAMME.
Part I.
Chorus - Their sound is gone out - (Messiah) - Handel.
Recit, and Air - O Death, where is thy sting? - Mrs. Fiddes and Mr. Ray, (Messiah) - Handel.
Air - O Lord have mercy upon me - Mr. Ray - Pergolesi.
Air - Ye men of Gaza - Mrs. Hancock, (Samson) - Handel.
Quartette - Alla Trinita - Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Fiddes, Messrs. Ray and Hancock - Mounsey.
Air - Jerusalem - Mrs. Testar, (St. Paul) - Mendelssohn.
Trio-- O Bone Jesu - Mrs. Testar, Mrs. Hancock, and Mrs. Fiddes - Novello.
Air and Chorus - The Marvellous Works - Mrs. Hancock, (Creation) - Haydn.
PART II.
Duet - Quis est homo - Mrs. Testar and Mrs. Fiddes - Rossini.
Air and chorus - Inflammatus, Mrs. Testar - Rossini.
Recit. - Then shall the eyes of the blind - Mrs. Fiddes (Messiah) - Handel.
Air - He shall feed his flock - Handel.
Air - Come unto him - Mrs. Testar - Handel.
Quartet and Chorus - Lift up your heads (Messiah) - Handel.
Duet - Of stars the fairest - Mr. and Mrs. Hancock (Creation) - Haydn.
Recit. & Air - Consume them all - Mr. Hancock (St. Paul) - Mendelssohn.
Miriam's Song - Sound the loud Timbrel - Moore.
To commence at Eight precisely.
TICKETS, 5s. each, to be had at the Institution; Mr. Joseph Wilkie's, Music Saloon, Collins-street; and of Mr. W. C. Lyon, 46, Russell-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Testar (vocalist)

MUSIC: O death where is thy sting (Handel, from Messiah); O Lord have mercy upon me (Pergolesi, arr. of Sanctum et terribile from Confitebor tibi domine)

"DIED", The Argus (22 July 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794794

On the 18th inst., at the residence of his brother, Mr. Edgar Ray, of 87, Little Collins-street, west, Mr. William Charles Lyon, aged 27.

"MARRIED", The Argus (16 November 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4799553 

On the 15th inst., at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. S. L. Chase, Edgar Ray, Esq., to Charlotte Goodriff, second daughter of George Joseph Pitman, Esq., Solicitor, Melbourne.

[Advertisement], The Argus (2 July 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4810769 

MELBOURNE PUNCH, JUN., Esq , begs to announce that having emigrated to the City which bears his name (both he and the city were named in compliment to a late illustrious Whig Nobleman), he has determined to issue a WEEKLY PERIODICAL of a highly interesting and instructive character.
The first number will appear on or before Thursday, the 2nd of August.
As it would ill become the modesty of youth to vaunt untested excellence, Mr. Punch, Junior, contents himself with observing that his Periodical win be in all respects superior to everything of the kind hitherto attempted in the universe.
Printed and published (for the proprietors) by Edgar Ray, at the Auction Mart, Daily Advertiser Office, 66 Collins-street east, Melbourne.
Price 6d. Subscriptions 6s, per quarter in advance.

[Advertisement], The Argus (2 June 1856), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4839249

COPPIN'S OLYMPIC. AMATEUR PERFORMANCE.
In Aid of the Funds of the BENEVOLENT ASYLUM, Wednesday Evening, 4th June, 1856 . . .
THE MELBOURNE GARRICK CLUB Have the honor to announce that they will give a DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT . . .
Upon which occasion the Performances will commence with John O'Keeffe's celebrated Comedy, in five acts, entitled
WILD OATS.
Sir George Thunder - Mr. Edgar Ray . . .
John Dory - Mr. R. H. Horne . . .
Zachariah - Mr. James Smith.
Sim - Mr. J. E. Nield [sic] . . .
Lady Amaranth - Miss J. Fiddes.
Amelia - Mrs. Rogers.
Jane - Miss C. Nelson.
Previous to the rising of the curtain,
A PROLOGUE, From the pen of R. H. Horne, Esq., President of the Club, will be spoken by Mr. G. H. R. Ireland . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Hengist Horne (president); James Smith (amateur); James Edward Neild (amateur); Josephine Fiddes (actor); Carry Nelson (actor, vocalist); Emma Rogers (actor, vocalist)

"PRINCESS'S THEATRE", The Argus (6 March 1858), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7147620 

Mr. Rogers may attribute the ovation - for it was nothing less - which he received yesterday evening to his own popularity and merit; for, apart from these, the programme was not sufficiently attractive to draw one-half the number of persons who assembled at this theatre last night. We scarcely ever remember witnessing such a reception as the beneficiare obtained on his appearance as Mike in Buckstone's somewhat lugubrious drama of "Luke, the Laborer." Of the cast of the piece we need not say a word. The audience were evidently assembled for the purpose of giving a benefit to a well-known and respected actor; and a benefit they certainly gave him. The house was crowded throughout. Between the first play and the after-piece of "Secret Service," an admirable musical entertainment, in which Miss Octavia Hamilton, Miss Chalker, Mons. Coulon, Mr. Gregg, and Mr. Rogers took part, was given, and a testimonial in the shape of a handsome silver cup was presented to Mr. Rogers. A number of gentlemen, who had subscribed towards the presentation, made their appearance on the stage, and Edgar Ray, Esq. acted as spokesman, offering the gift in a suitable address, and concluding by reading the inscription on the cup . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Herbert Rogers (actor, vocalist); Octavia Hamilton (vocalist); Marie Chalker (vocalist); Emile Coulon (vocalist); John Gregg (vocalist)

"STEALING A MUSIC BOOK", The Age (15 October 1860), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154883311 

William Foy and Samuel Tucker were charged with stealing a music book, the property of a Mr. Peters, of Sandridge. Mr. Edgar Ray deposed that he identified the book produced as the property of his sister-in-law. It formed part of the contents of a port manteau lost by Mr. Hodson Peters at the Diggers' Rest public-house. It appears the prisoner had left the book with a man named Thompson for sale. Detective Williams prayed for a remand for seven days. The prisoners were remanded accordingly.

"CHRISTMAS IN OLD ENGLAND", The Argus (1 December 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5740011 

Mr. Edgar Ray appeared for the first time at St. George's-hall, on Saturday night, in a drawingroom entertainment to which the above title has been given . . . there can, at least, be no doubt as to the merits of the diorama by which it is illustrated . . . It is the merest justice to the artists engaged in the work - namely, Mr. E. J. Greig, Mr. Chevalier, Mr. Hennings, Mr. J. Willis, Mr. E. A. Appleton, and Mons. H. Freyberger - to say that they have executed the task allotted to them in the most admirable manner. Such painting as most of the pictures exhibit is not always found off the stage, and rarely, if ever, on it . . . Mr. Ray himself is entitled to very considerable credit for the manner in which he gives effect to the literary part of the entertainment; and certainly makes the most of the materials at his disposal in their present shape. The incidental music has been arranged by Joseph Parker, who officiates as the nightly accompanist . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Nicholas Chevalier (artist)

"THEATRE ROYAL. MR. EDGAR RAY'S ENTERTAINMENT", Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (1 February 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197443444 

The first exhibition of Mr. Ray's beautiful panorama "Christmas in Old England" was given at the Theatre on Saturday night. The house was moderately filled, but we regretted to notice so poor an attendance in the "dress circle" . . . But while Mr. Ray and Mr. Wharton may have been disappointed with respect to the number of the audience, they certainly have no reason to complain of the appreciativeness of those present. The entertainment was, in every respect, a success . . . Mr. Ray, who has materially altered his descriptive lecture since we witnessed the performance in Melbourne, was well received, and many of his anecdotes and jeu-de-mots were received with peals of laughter, as also were the comic songs which he sang "in character" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Wharton (vocalist)

"INTERCOLONIAL. SYDNEY", The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (22 September 1875), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244173568 

Mr. William Lyster, Mr. Edgar Ray, agent for the Williamsons . . . left by the City of Adelaide yesterday . . .

"DEPARTURE OF THE ENGLISH MAIL", The Herald (7 October 1875), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244171663 

The R.M.S. Nubia with the European mails left her anchorage to Hobsons Bay shortly after two o'clock today . . . The following is the passenger list . . . For Venice, Mr. Edgar Ray . . .

England (by December 1875):

[Advertisement], The Era [London] (21 November 1875), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/18751121/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

MISS MAGGIE MOORE and MR. J. C. WILLIAMSON.
THEATRE ROYAL, CALCUTTA, INDIA, in November. Their only authorised Agent, Mr. Edgar Ray, will shortly visit England.

[Advertisement], The Era (12 December 1875), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/18751212/001/0001 (PAYWALL)

MISS MAGGIE MOORE and MR. J. C. WILLIAMSON.
. . . All business communications to Mr. Edgar Ray, Criterion Hotel, Piccadilly.

Other sources:

A handbook to Mr. Edgar Ray's drawing-room entertainment entitled Christmas in old England; illustrated by a splendid diorama, executed in the first style of art (Melbourne: R. Stewart, 1863)

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/247734 (DIGITISED)

Bibliography and resources:

Marjorie J. Tipping, "Sinnett, Frederick (1830-1866)", Australian dictionary of biography 6 (1976)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sinnett-frederick-4585

. . . Sinnett's professionalism and infectious wit guaranteed him a place among the literary and artistic circles of the young colony. He had a hand in several ventures, and with Edgar Ray had helped to found in 1855 the splendid Melbourne Punch; he was a member of the group, including James Smith, R. H. Horne, N. Chevalier and James Stiffe, that met to plan its issues, and in 1856-59 he was editor. In May 1858, also with Ray, he began the Daily News in Geelong and was sole editor until its failure in August 1859.

Edgar Ray, AustLit

https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A94050 

"Melbourne Punch", Wikipedia

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

RAY, Joseph = alias of Joseph SIMMONS

Actor, comic vocalist, songwriter

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Joseph+Simmons+(alias+Ray) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

RAYMOND, Mrs. (Mrs. RAYMOND; Mrs. RAYMENT)

Vocalist

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

Documentation:

"ITALIAN OPERA", The Sydney Morning Herald (18 May 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13040732 

Arrangements have at length been effected by Mr. Samuel Colville, the enterprising manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre, which are shortly to result in the production here, on a scale of unequalled attraction, of the grand Opera; to be continued for one month only, four nights per week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays - the Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays being set apart as subscription nights. With this in view engagements have been already concluded with the long expected artists, the Signora and Signor Bianchi, who arrived in this city from Victoria on Friday evening last . . . By telegraphic advices Mr. Colville is informed by his agent at Melbourne of the engagement of Miss Octavia Hamilton, of whom the Victorian Press has always spoken in the highest terms of praise. Herr Schluter, Messrs. Benham, Springhorn, and Benham, together with Mesdames Lacy and Rayment, all left Melbourne by the City of Sydney, and are expected to arrive here to-morrow night. The majority of those thus engaged have been performing in conjunction with the Bianchi, and are familiar with operas promised; a circumstance which enables the manager to ensure an unusual variety in the operatic entertainment to be afforded in the above specified time. The liberality and enterprise which have been manifested by the manager in this undertaking will doubtless be rewarded by the substantial support of the musical world of Sydney and the public at large; the more so as Mr. Colville has taken upon himself the entire expense and risk of the opera without that guarantee which he looked for some time since.

ASSOCIATIONS: Samuel Colville (venue manager); Eugenio and Giovanna Bianchi (vocalists); Johann Sprinckhorn (vocalist); Italian Opera Company (troupe); Prince of Wales Theatre (Sydney venue)

"COPY OF PROTEST", Empire (12 June 1860), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60411624 

RAYMOND, Edward (Edward Raymond JENNINGS; alias Edward RAYMOND; Mr. RAYMOND)

Actor, circus performer, vocalist, equestrian, theatrical and circus manager

Born Dublin, Ireland, c. 1826; son of Edw. [?] JENNINGS and Martha RAYMOND
? Arrived NSW, by 1849
Active Maitland, NSW, by October 1850
Active Sydney, NSW, by January 1851
Married Catherine LESTER, Beechworth, VIC, 14 November 1855 (aged "29")
Died Albury district, NSW, March 1857

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Edward+Raymond+c1826-1857+Jennings (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

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

Documentation:

Edward Raymond Jennings, equestrian, aged 29, originally of Dublin, married Catherine Lester, daughter of William Lester, butcher, in Beechworth, VIC, on 14 Novembver 1855. A witness to the marriage was William Brown, proprietor of Brown's Circus, which had only arrived in the district, with Edward Raymond, as he called himself professionally, as manager, to perform in Albury in late October, before moving on to Beechworth, where Brown suddenly died only a fortnight later.

The circus disbanded, Jennings/Raymond remained in the district. Having recently been suffering from delirium tremens, and reported missing, his decomposed body was found by a brother-in-law in the bush near Albury in March 1857.

In the NSW returns of the Mounted Police for 1849, an Edward Jennings completed his term as a mounted trooper and was returned to his regiment for discharge. If this is the same Jennings, he presumably arrived with one of the British regiments serving in the mid to late 1840s, which fits with his claim to be the son of a soldier in the British army.

As Edward Raymond he was active, from 1850-55, both in theatre and circus companies, as an equestrian, actor, manager, and - as part of his equestrian act in the character of Dick Turpin - also as a vocalist.

Documentation:

"NEW AMATEUR THEATRE - THE 'VICTORIA'", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (12 October 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article689238 

Our readers will see in another column an advertisement of performances on Monday evening by a company of amateurs, assisted by Mrs. Chester, Mrs. Williams, and Mr. Raymond, at a new theatre recently fitted up in the concert room of the Rose Inn, West Maitland . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Marian Maria Chester (actor, vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 January 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12924250 

CIRCUS ROYAL, YORK-STREET, At Malcom's Adelphi Hotel.
OPEN EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY EVENING . . .
The Entertainments will conclude with a Comic Ballet of Action, entitled
LA STATUE BLANCHE; or the MARBLE LOVER.
Old Gourmand, a miser, Mr. Gard; Lavinia, his daughter, Miss Annandale;
Jacques, a confidential, Mr. Henry Burton; Henri Dupart, in the service of old Gourmand, and in love with his daughter, Mr. Raymond . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Malcom (prorprietor); Henry Burton (actor, circus performer, vocalist)

"THEATRICALS . . . CIRCUS ROYAL", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator [Sydney, NSW] (22 March 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251531866 

On Wednesday evening a new performer on the slack rope, named Hughes, made his first appearance at the Circus. He was warmly applauded by a crowded house, and his summersets were exceedingly clever. Mr. Raymond sang a song about Turpin and "Black Bess," which was frequently interrupted by loud applause; and Mr. Jones, as usual, came in for a good share of public approbation. The performances during the week have been changed, and the constant succession of novelties induces many to pay a second visit to the house. There will be an entertainment in Parramatta this evening.

MUSIC: My bonny Black Bess (song; words only)

[Advertisement], The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (10 May 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251533163 

TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE NEW EXTRAVAGANZA.
MALCOM'S ROYAL AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS, YORK STREET.
UNDER THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT OF MR. CHARLES AXTELLE . . .
Clown to the Arena, MR. AXTELLE . . .
A [REDACTED] MELODY - Messrs. Raymond and Clark . . .
Proprietor - Mr. Malcom. Leader of Orchestra - Mr. Chitterton [sic].
Riding Master - Mr. Raymond. Machinist - Mr. Spier's . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Axtelle (manager, clown); George Chittenden (musician)

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (21 May 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60035074 

MALCOM'S ROYAL AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS, York-street . . .
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. E. RAYMOND, THIS EVENING, May 21, 1851 . . .
The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Drama of TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK; or, the Death of Bonny Black Bess.
Let the lover his mistress' beauty rehearse,
And laud her attractions in languishing verse,
Be it mine in rude strains, but in truth to confess,
The love that I bear to my bonny Black Bess.
Dick Turpin, the noted highwayman, Mr. Raymond.
Tom King, his Brother of the Road, Mr. Axtelle.
In the course of the Drama the following Songs will be sung: -
"Hurrah for the Road," "Life and Death of my bonny Black Bess," by Turpin . . .
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. Chittenden;
Riding Master, Mr. Raymond; Mechanist, Mr. Spiers;
Manager, Mr. Axtelle; Proprietor, Mr. Malcom.
Vivat Regina!

MUSIC: Hurrah for the road (G. H. Rodwell, song, in Paul Clifford)

"MALCOM'S CIRCUS", Empire (23 May 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60035131 

The performance at the Circus on Wednesday evening, for the benefit of Mr. Raymond, was highly entertaining, and drew a full house. We have much pleasure in testifying our unqualified approval of the evening's performance. Mr. Raymond is a young man of great merit, and highly deserving the encouragement and support of the public . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (4 November 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60124971 

MALCOM'S ROYAL AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS, York-street.
DON'T FORGET THE GUY! For the Benefit of MR. WILLIAMS. ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1851 . . .
Mr. Raymond will then amuse the audience in an Act of Horsemanship, introducing the song of "Black Turf" . . .

MUSIC: Black turf (song)

"ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (21 October 1854), 3

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We understand this theatre, late Malcom s Amphitheatre, York-street, will re-open on Monday next. This place of amusement has undergone very great and expensive alterations, and it much improved it is. We understand, to be devoted to dramatic performances, and an efficient and talented company, including the Thorne family, Miss Kate Denin, Mr. Belfield, and Mr. McClosky, together with Mr. Raymond, and several of the old performers at the Amphitheatre are engaged . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Belfield (actor); Lyceum Theatre (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 December 1854), 4

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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 . . .
To conclude with MARMION; or, The Battle of Flodden Field.
James the Fourth, Mr. McGowan; Lord Marmion, Mr. E. Raymond;
Lord de Wiltop, the Man of Woe, Mr. Holloway . . .
A. TORNING, Sole Lessee and Manager.

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert McGowan (actor); Edmund Holloway (actor); Andrew Torning (manager); Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (23 December 1854), 3

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ROYAL PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, BATHURST.
Sole Lessee - MR. HENRY LAY . . . the above Theatre will open on
Tuesday Evening, December 26, 1854, with a new and efficient Company from Sydney,
embracing all the favorites of the Bathurst Company, consisting of the following ladies and gentlemen: -
Mrs. J. W. Stanley, Mr. J. W. Stanley, From the London Concerts.
Miss Millan, the pathetic actress from the Theatre Royal, Marylebone, London.
Miss Chittenden, the juveuile actress of undoubted promise.
Mr. Edward Raymond, from the Dublin and Sydney Theatre.
Mr. Cull, of the provincial and Sydney Theatres.
Mr. Wilson, of the Sydney Theatres.
Mr. Pitt, of the Sydney Theatres.
Mr. Richardson, from the London and Sydney Theatres.
Signor Bachrach, from the Hamburgh Concerts.
Assisted by a numerous train of auxiliaries.
Leader of the Orchestra: Mr. E. G. CHITTENDEN, JUN.
EDWARD RAYMOND, MANAGER. VIVAT REGINA.

[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal [NSW] (30 December 1854), 3

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Royal Prince of Wales Theatre.
THREE POPULAR PIECES IN ONE NIGHT . . .
ON SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30TH,
The entertainments will commence with the very laughable farce of
THE PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK FROCK
Mr. Sowerberry - Mr. Cull
Mr. Barker - Mr. Raymond
John Buttercup - Mr. Richardson
James - Mr. Pitt
Betsy Chirrup - Miss Millan
Mrs. Barker - Mrs. Stanley
Grand Duetto: Messrs. Wilkinson & Harrison.
Song: Mrs. Stanley.
To be followed by the laughable Burlesque of
BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
Bombastes - Mr. Raymond
King Artaxominus - Mr. Wilson
Fusbos - Mr. Richardson
DUSTAFINA (her first appearance at this theatre) Mrs. Richardson.
SONG - SIGNOR BACHRACH
SONG - MRS. STANLEY
The whole to conclude with the laughable farce of
THE TWO BONNYCASTLES . . .
ON MONDAY AND TRUSDAY EVENINGS, JANUARY 1ST AND 2ND, 1855,
The evening's entertainments will commence with the popular Domestic Drama of
LUKE THE LABOURER; OR, THE LOST SON . . .
Song - - "The Standard Bearer" - Signor Bachrach
Duetto - "Larboard Watch" - Messrs. Harrison and Wilkinson.
Song - "Gentle mother dear " - Mrs. Stanley.
The whole to conclude with the very laughable farce of
THE TWO BONNYCASTLES
Solo Lessee: MR. HENRY LAY.
Leader of the Orchestra: MR. G. CHITTENDEN.
EDWARD RAYMOND, Manager.

ASSOCIATIONS: Martin Bachrach (vocalist); George Chittenden (musician)

"CENTRAL POLICE COURT. - WEDNESDAY [6 June]", Empire (7 June 1855), 4

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Edward Raymond, described as a Circus rider, was apprehended by inspector Browne at the Circus, in York-street, on a warrant, charging him with obtaining from Mr. William Brown, of Wagga Wagga, in April last, the sum of £5 under false pretences. Defendant acknowledged that he had received a cheque of £5 to take him up to Wagga Wagga, but said that it was insufficient for that purpose; and that he had communicated to Mr. Brown, and to his Agents in Sydney. He was remanded to Wagga Wagga, bail being allowed for his appearance there in fourteen days.

[Advertisement], The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (4 August 1855), 1

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Brown's Royal Amphitheatre And Roman Coliseum, WAGGA WAGGA RACE WEEK . . .
Mr. EDWARD RAYMOND, late manager of the Royal Amphitheatre, Sydney, Royal Prince of Wales, Bathurst, and other provincial Theatres, will also appear in his favourite character of DICK TURPIN, in a scene from the same, written and played by him upwards of 400 nights in Sydney . . .
WM. BROWN, Proprietor. E. RAYMOND, Manager . . .

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (27 October 1855), 1

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BROWN'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND ROMAN COLOSEUM, ALBURY (ADJOINING MR NUTROL'S R0SE INN) . . .
The following artistes are positively engaged and will appear in Albury on Monday evening, Oct. 22, 1855: -
Miss Graham, Vocalist and Light Comedian.
Miss Bassman, principal Melo-Dramatic Actress
Miss Louisa Clarke, recently from the London Theatres, and late from Melbourne, will make her first appearance in the Drama of the Momentous Question.
Mrs. C. V. Howard (her first appearance), as Mrs White, in the Two Mrs. Whites.
Mr. Edward Raymond, Riding Master, Equestrian, and, principal Melo Dramatic performer.
Mr. Frederick James, Low Comedian, and Shaksperian Jester.
Mr. John West, of Sydney and Melbourne notoriety, principal Clown and Low Comedian . . .
Mr. John Scealy, Ring Master . . .
Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. Riley . . .
W. BROWN, Proprietor. C. V. HOWARD, Agent.
E. RAYMOND. Manager.

ASSOCIATIONS: Wilhelmina Bassmann (actor, vocalist); Charles V. Mason alias Howard (manager, performer)

Marriages solemnized in the district of Beechworth, 1855; Victoria Registry BDM

20 / 14 November 1855 / Edward Raymond Jennings / Bachelor / [born] Dublin / Equestrian / 29 / Itinerant / [? Wagunya] / [son of] Edw. [?] Jennings, officer in British Army [and] Martha Raymond
Catherine Lester / Spinster / - / [born] Moneroo [?], N.S. Wales / - / 21 / - / Albury / [daughter of] William Lester, Butcher [and] Catherine Murphy . . .
According to the Rites of the Catholic Church . . . in the presence of William Brown, Susanna Brown . . .

"ALBURY (From the 'Border Post')", The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (28 March 1857), 3

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A Mr. Raymond, whilst suffering from delirium, had disappeared. The last time he was seen or heard of was one evening when he jumped out of bed and called for a gun to shoot people whom he imagined were stealing peaches. Since then (eight or nine days) nothing further had been heard of him. Mr. Lester had lost a barn and 100 bushels of wheat by fire, supposed to have been the work of an incendiary . . .

"ALBURY (From the Border Post, 4 April) . . . DEATH OF MR. RAYMOND", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 April 1857), 8

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The body of this young man has been found about three miles from Mr. Lester's residence. It appears that a son of Mr. Lester's was riding through the bush, and the horse shied at something having the appearance of a log. The object, when examined, proved to be the body of Mr. Raymond. It will be remembered that deceased was missed about three weeks ago from the house of his father-in-law, and was last seen about two o'clock one morning suffering from dilirium tremens.

Register of coroner's inquests, 1857; State Archives Authority of NSW, 2921/4/6613

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10401 / Albury Dist. / 29 May [1857] / Edward Raymond / - / Found dead after having been lost in the Bush

RAYMOND, Marie Pauline (Marie Pauline RAYMOND; also Miss M. P. MAYNARD [sic])

Vocalist

Active Sydney, NSW, by 1860

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Documentation:

[Advertisement], Illawarra Mercury [Wollongong, NSW] (7 December 1860), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132222919 

Assembly Rooms, Queen's Hotel.
MR. W. H. STEPHENS, the celebrated Comedian and Comic Vocalist, will appear in his new Entertainment, entitled, "WHERE I WENT, AND WHAT I SAW" . . .
ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENINGS, DECEMBER , 10th and 11th.
Mr. HARRY HOUDIN will also appear in his great and equally surprising POLYNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.
In the course of the evening, MISS RAYMOND will Sing several BALLADS AND SONGS.
Mr. MARMADUKE H. WILSON (the celebrated Composer and Pianist) will PRESIDE AT THE PIANOFORTE . . .
MR. W. H. STEPHENS and MR. HARRY HOUDIN, will Visit SHOALHAVEN ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, 12th AND 13th DECEMBER.

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Stephens (actor, vocalist); Harry Houdin (magician, entertainer, vocalist); Marmaduke Henry Wilson (pianist)

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (22 December 1869), 3

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TEMPERANCE HALL!
MR. W. H. STEPHENS having secured the above building for the
CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S Holidays, begs to announce that on
MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 24th, MR. HARRY HOUDIN, The great Polynationalist, will make his first appearance in his
DRAWING ROOM MAGIC and wonderful POLYNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Introducing Innumerable Characters, Songs, Dances, &c., of many Lands and Languages;
concluding with his great Negro Impersonation of
BROTHER BONES, Accompanying himself on the Concertina, Bones, Whistle, and various Instruments.
In the course of the evening, MISS MARIE PAULINE RAYMOND, (From the Exeter Hall Concerts) will introduce several Favourite Ballads, &c.
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20TH.
Mr. W. H. STEPHENS Will give (for the first time here) his New Entertainment, entitled WHERE I WENT, AND WHAT I SAW. Interspersed with Comic and Descriptive Songs.
Mr. MARMADUKE H. WILSON (The Celebrated Composer and Pianist) will preside at the Pianoforte, and execute several Musical Morceaux, embracing his newest compositions.
Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8.; Reserved Seats, 3s.; Front Do., 2s.; Back Do., 1s.

ASSOCIATIONS: Temperance Hall (Sydney venue)

"ENTERTAINMENT OF MESSRS. STEPHENS AND HOUDIN", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 December 1860), 5

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. . . To this exhibition of drawing-room magic succeeded a pleasing ballad sung by Miss M. P. Raymond, a fair young debutante who possesses a very fine voice, and bids fair to become a favourite. The entire absence of affectation, and the undeniably good taste and simplicity with which this lady sings, render her interpretation of ballad music extremely effective . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (31 December 1860), 1

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TEMPERANCE HALL. TO-NIGHT, December 31.
LAST NIGHT of Mr. W. H. STEPHENS' ENTERTAINMENT, WHERE I WENT AND WHAT I SAW!
Parts 1 and 2. From Sydney to New York, via California and Panama,
With new Songs, Anecdotes, and Characteristic Sketches.
LAST, NIGHT of Miss M. P. MAYNARD [sic], the favourite Ballad Singer.
LAST NIGHT of M. H. WILSON'S New Overtures.
Concluding with HARRY HOUDINS's Polynational Entertainment . . .

[Advertisement], The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (1 January 1861), 1

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SCHOOL OF ARTS, WEST MAITLAND, FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY.
THE Celebrated Comedian, Mr. W. H. STEPHENS, from the English, Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmanian Theatres,
the favourite Ballad Singer, Miss MARIE P. RAYMOND,
and the eminent Composer and Pianist, Mr. MARMADUKE H. WILSON,
will have the honour of giving Two of their highly amusing and
SELECT ENTERTAINMENTS, in West Maitland, This Evening (Tuesday), and Tomorrow (Wednesday), January 1st and 2nd, 1861, in the Hall of the School of Arts.
PROGRAMME - PART I. OVERTURE (original) - Marmaduke H. Wilson.
Mr. W. H. Stephens will appear in his highly interesting Entertainment (a la Albert Smith), entitled "WHERE I WENT AND WHAT I SAW" . . .
Song, "I Watch for Thee in Starless Night," Miss M. P. Raymond. Fantasia, introductory, M. H Wilson.
PART II. - Mr. W. H Stephens in his "FLYING TRIP through California, to the United States, via the Panama Route" . . .
Ballad, "The Green Trees Whispered," Miss M. P. Raymond -
The evening's Entertainment will conclude with Mr. W. H. Stephens singing the following
SONGS in Character, viz - "My Love he is a Saileure Boy, only Nineteen Years old;" and "That Young Man from the country."
Front seats, 4s. Back seats, 2s. 6d. Doors Open at half-past Seven, commence at Eight precisely.
CHARLES V. HOWARD, Agent.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles V. Mason alias Howard (agent)

MUSIC: I watch for thee in starless night (words by John Francis Waller; music by A. D. Roche); The green trees whispered low and mild (words by Longfellow; music by Balfe)

"MR. STEPHENS AT THE SCHOOL OF ARTS", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (3 January 1861), 2

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. . . During the interval, Miss Raymond sang, a few favourite ballads with exquisite taste and feeling, all of which were well received by the audience . . .

RAYNER, Charles William (Charles William RAYNER; Mr. C. W. RAYNER)

Musician, professor of music, bass vocalist, banjo player, teacher of vocal music, composer, songwriter

Born ? England or USA, c. 1833
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 14 February 1865 (per Northam, from Galle, 22 January, via Adelaide and Melbourne, 11 February)
Departed Sydney, NSW, by July/August 1869 (for San Francisco)

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

Charles William Rayner (from the cover of Sleep gently, Sydney, 1867)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6527587 (DIGITISED)

Summary:

Almost nothing can be discovered about Rayner's early life, except, from a masonic enrolment record of 1866, that he was born around 1833, and that his given names were Charles William. In Sydney, Rayner advertised that he had been a pupil, probably in London in the mid 1850s, of Alberto Randegger and the American vocalist Henri Drayton (1823-1872). It was presumably in England that he was first recruited for a Christy's minstrel troupe, and he may have been English-born, if not American.

Rayner is first positively identified as a member of the Smith, Brown and Collins Original Christy's Minstrels troupe, that sailed from Southampton, England, on 27 September 1863, bound first for India, under the management of John Washington Smith. Having sailed from Galle (Sri Lanka), they arrived in Sydney (via Adelaide and Melbourne) on the Northam on 14 February 1865. With a mixed program including black-face minstrel numbers and operatic burlesque, they toured to Melbourne in March, Bendigo in April, Adelaide in May, Tasmania in July, and gave their farewell season for the reopening of the Victoria Theatre in Sydney in December 1865.

From his first Australian appearance, Rayner was especially known for his performances of an American Civil War song, Dear mother I've come home to die, with music by Henry Tucker, a local edition of which was published in Melbourne by W. H. Glen and in Sydney by J. H. Anderson and Son issued their own edition.

Rayner stayed on in Sydney after the rest of his troupe returned to Europe in December 1865, and advertised as a "professor of singing". The pianist Alfred Anderson (who was also his publisher) assisted by writing "accompaniments" of the first original song Rayner composed and published in Sydney, probably necessarily, because later it was reported that Rayner "for some time has been studying the theory of music" with Giovanni Gassner, master of Band of the 50th Regiment. Gassner also made and played band arrangements of several of Rayner's songs, as well as his own March on Rayner's Southern Cross (1867).

Rayner was last billed to appear in concert in June 1869, and probably sailed for California soon after. He was appearing with the so-called San Francisco Minstrels in Sacramento by October 1869, and by January 1870 was back in San Francisco, appearing on a program with, among others, Richard Wildblood Kohler.

Disambiguation:

Rayner is probably not to be confused with the American bass vocalist J. W. Raynor (1820-1900), who first appeared in New York in 1855, and arrived in England in mid 1857 with the Christy minstrel Earl Pierce. Raynor, billed as manager, conductor, and vocalist, was active in England from then until 1861 with the company, that at various times included Joe Brown, W. P. Collins, G. W. Moore, and Anthony Nish. Michael Balfe composed the song Gentle Nelly Gray specially for Raynor and this troupe. Notably, Charles Rayner, also a bass, is not known to have programmed this song in Australia.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Bombay Gazette (5 November 1863), 1

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THE ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.
Patronised by Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, the Nobility of England and the Emperor and Empress of the French.
THIRD GRAND CONCERT AT THE GRANT ROAD THEATRE, ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1863.
SELECT AND FASHIONABLE NIGHT. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
JOE BROWN'S SILVER BELT PRIZE JIG.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
Overture (Fra Diavolo) - Christy's Minstrels.
Operatic Chorus (from Lurline by request) - Christy's Minstrels.
I long for my home in Kentuckey - W. H. Caster.
The Gal in Blue - W. P. Collins.
Annie Lisle - W. H. Herberte.
Anna Maria Jones - Joe Browne.
Sunny days will come again New (Henry Russell) - C. W. Rayner.
I'm going home to Dixie Land) - W. P. Collins.
come where my love lies Dreaming (by request) - Christy's Minstrel.
THE FIRST PART WILL CONCLUDE WITH THE SLEIGH POLKA.
As performed only by the Christy's Minstrels, illustrative of a musical description of a Fashionable Sleight Ride in the Northern States. With the Departure. The Race on the Road. The arrival at the Hotel, the Ball. Preparing to return. All aboard. The Chorus, and arrival home at Daybreak.
AN INTERVAL OF TEN MINUTES.
PART II.
Burlesque Fling - W. P. Collins.
Rock'd in the Cradle of the Deep (Description) - C. W. Rayner.
Prize Silver Belt Jig - Joe Brown.
Violin Solo - A. La Feuillade.
A Somnambilie, Trovatorean Traviatian Sketch, produced under the most unfavourable auspices, by Two Opeartic Connoisseurs. Entitled
TEN MINUTES AT LA SCARLEE.
Signora Donna Palliasso de Mattrasso - W. P. Collins.
signora Bruchabentypiego - Joe Brown.
Duet, on to the Field of Glory (Belisario) - Messrs. Rayner and Herberte.
AN INTERVAL OF FIVE MINUTES.
PART III.
To conclude with a Laughable, Quizzical, and Ludicrous Sketch, Entitled
PHOTOGRAPHICO PAR EXCELLENCIO; OR THE ARTIST'S STUDIO, with Lights end Shaded of the Profession.
Mr. Under-the sun, A Photographic Artist of easy manners, particularly pleasing and attentive to his customers - A. La Feuillade.
James Francis Adolphus, An Apprentice in the First branch of the profession - Joe Brown.
Mr. Jeems Bluffum, a Coloured Lecturer on Astronomy and the Terrestrial Globe. Just arrived from Poona by the Train - W. P. Collins.
VISITORS, HEGROS, &c. &c. &c.
FINALE.
Plantation Festival - Johnny Rooke . . .
Books of the words to be had at the door.

"THE CHRISTY MINSTRELS", Bombay Gazette (4 November 1863), 2

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. . . "Toll the Bell" was given to perfection by Mr. Rayner. This gentleman has a rich mellow voice of considerable power, and to an admirable command of the organ, adds a genuine musical feeling, - singing pathetic airs with a tenderness and expression which leave nothing to be desired . . .

"De Christy's Minstrels", Java bode [Batavia, Java] (13 April 1864), 3-4

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[4] . . . Thans bestaan er verscheidene gezelschappen van neger- minnezangen in Engeland en Amerika; de minnezangerij mag zich als voor goed gevestigd beschouwen. Het meest beroemde is het gezelschap dat binnen kort te Singapore verwacht wordt, waartoe behooren W. P. Collins, Joe Brown, C. W. Rayner, Henry Herbert, W. H. Caster, E. Bryon, N. la Feuillade en John Smith, direkteur.

Zij verlieten Southampton in September [1863], en oogstten den meesten bijval in te Bombay, Madras en Calcutta. Er zijn ouder hen zeer goede stemmen; hun zingen mag werkelijk bekoorlijk genoemd worden. Hunne stukken zijn vol bevallige harmonie, en de uitvoering is meesterlijk; een goeden smaak eu muziekale kennis mag men de minstrels niet ontzeggen; - zij begrijpen ten volle de eischen van den tijd en van het volk dat zij bezoeken. "Beautiful star", "Let me kiss him for his molher," "Do they think of me at Home" en "Come where my Love lies Dreaming," zijn de meest, geliefkoosde liederen geworden, men hoort ze in de prachtigste salons, eu de naam van Christy in van algemeene bekendheid geworden.

[Advertisement], Java-bode (20 April 1864), 2

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De oorspronkelijke CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. Met toestemming van den Resident van Batavia. Zaturdag, den 25sten April 1864 . . .
PROGRAMME . . . TOLL THE BELL (Oorspronkelijk) - C. W. Rayner . . .
Het WRAAKLIED uit "Lucretia Borgia" - C. W. Rayner . . .
J. W. SMITH, Directeur.

"THE ORIGINAL CHRISTYS' MINSTRELS", Bell's Life in Sydney (4 February 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65463045

The admirers of the "concord of sweet sounds" will be glad to hear that the Original Christy's Minstrels, after a most successful tour through India, China, Java, Batavia, &c., &c., are about to extend their trip to the Australian colonies, and expected to arrive per next mail steamer, previous to appearing at our School of Arts. Their agent, the well-known Mr. John Smith, has preceded them, and placed in our hands published proofs of their success, popularity, and universally admitted ability, not only on their tour of the world, but also at the St. James's Hall, London, and throughout G. Britain generally, where they attracted crowded audiences for 7 years. They also were frequently patronised by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, the elite of the Aristocracy, and the Emperor and Empress of the French (during a short visit paid across the channel). The company are nine in number including W. P. Collins (the "prima donna" and originator of the principal burlesque dances, and late proprietor of the London Company), C. W. Rayner (an eminent basso and first class musician), H. Herberte (tenor), and the inimitable "Joe Brown," who has already won golden opinions from all classes of the public of Sydney, by his versatile talents when in connection with the former troupe, who visited and delighted our community. The rest of the company are also reported to be first-class in their various departments . . .

"ARRIVAL OF THE RANGATIRA AT ADELAIDE WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL PER NORTHAM . . . PASSENGERS", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 February 1865), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30935954 

FOR MELBOURNE [sic]. - . . . the Christy Minstrels - viz., Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Messrs. J. Brown, Rayner, Fenilade [sic], Byron, Herbert, and Castor . . .

[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle (11 February 1865), 3

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SMITH, BROWN, & COLLINS. VERITABLE AND ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S. SCHOOL OF ARTS on MONDAY the 20th.
CHRISTY'S. - JOE BROWN, the Champion Dancer. W. P. COLLINS, the Burlesque Prima Donna.
CHRISTY'S.- HENRI HERBERTE, Tenor. C. P. HARVEY, Second Tenor. W. H. CASTER, Baritone.
CHRISTY'S. - C. W. RAYNER, Basso. E. BYRON, Instrumental. N. LA FEUILLADE, Instrumental . . .

"PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS . . . THE ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 February 1865), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13105222 

These talented minstrels, who made their debut before a Sydney audience on Monday last, have given nightly performances at the School of Arts during this week . . . On the opening night . . . Mr. C. W. Rayner, the possessor of a powerful voice, and one of the principal vocalists of the party, sang with much sweetness and power, "Sunny days will come again," and was rewarded with long-continued applause . . . Last night, the first part commenced with an overture by the minstrels, which was followed by a chorus from the Opera of Ernani. A new song, "Dear mother, I've come home to die," was very sweetly sung by Mr. C. N. Rayner [sic] . . . What was considered the gem of the performance was a new quartette, "Celia's Arbour," by Messrs. Rayner, Herberte, Caster, and Collins; the singing of this was admirable, the voices blending beautifully . . .

"RE-OPENING OF THE VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 December 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13122708

The Christy's Minstrels have been engaged to perform a limited number of nights, prior to their departure for Europe . . . This kind of entertainment has always been acceptable to a Sydney audience, and in the hands of such clever performers as Brown, Collins, Abecco, and Rayner, is likely to continue so . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 January 1866), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13125322

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 January 1866), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13125427

[Advertisement], Empire (8 February 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63243237

Admission, 13 February 1866, The Zetland Lodge of Australia, Sydney, NSW, No. 941; United Grand Lodge of England; Museum of Freemasonry

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/60620/43970_ugl%5El%5E582%5E%5E667-00231 (PAYWALL)

[1866 February] 13 / . . . / Rayner / Charles William / 33 / [Sydney] / Professor of Music . . .

"MR. C. W. RAYNER", Freeman's Journal (17 February 1866), 98

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115453406 

MR. C. W. RAYNER. - We notice that this gentleman has established himself in Sydney a professor of music, and we can with confidence recommend his services to any of our readers who may be disposed to place themselves under his supervision. Mr. Rayner was the principal basso in the late Christy's Minstrel Troupe, and the tone and quality of his voice were the subject of just and universal commendation. If any further recommendation of Mr. Rayner's qualifications were necessary, the very fact of his having been under the tuition of Signor Randegger and Henri Drayton, should satisfy the most exacting. We heartily wish Mr. Rayner every success in his new sphere.

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

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

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 June 1866), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28611952

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 June 1867), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13146740

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 August 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13159792

"SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY ASSOCIATION", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 September 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13160714 

. . . The musical society, in connection with the association, is in a rapidly improving state; upwards of forty members have now been enrolled. They usually meet for practice at the Temperance Hall, in Pitt-street, on Friday evening, when the class has the benefit of the able instructions of Mr. C. W. Rayner.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (12 October 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28607747

[Advertisement], The Argus (6 November 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13161382

"New Song", The Sydney Morning Herald (9 May 1868), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13165826

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (18 July 1868), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13169570

[News], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 August 1868), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13171100

"Colonial Extracts", Queanbeyan Age (15 August 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30578186

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 February 1869), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13188925

MR. C. W. RAYNER, Professor of Singing, 155, Lauriston-terrace, Phillip-street.

"The Concert at the Victoria Theatre", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 June 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65470043

Rarely, if ever, has the old Victoria witnessed such a large and influential audience as that which assembled on Thursday evening to hear the second concert of the Australian Patriotic Association . . . Amongst the most noticeable features in the performance were the overtures to "Don Giovanni" (Mozart) and the "Siege of Rochelle" (Balfe), by a numerous orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr. John Deane; two Australian songs, "The Southern Cross" and "Australian Stockman," composed and sung by Mr. C. W. Rayner . . . Messrs. Cordner and Packer acted as accompanyists. The concert concluded at about half-past eleven with Packer's National Hymn, "Australia hail!"

ASSOCIATIONS: William John Cordner (accompanist); Charles Sandys Packer (accompanist); John Deane (conductor)

"METROPOLITAN THEATRE", Sacramento Daily Union [California, USA] (12 October 1869), 3

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18691012.2.17 

The San Francicco minstrels were greeted by a good house last evening, and rendered their programme, as is usual with this excellent company, in an acceptable manner. Joe Murphy and Ben Cotton, with their witticisms, frequently "brought down the house" . . . C. W. Rayner and W. T. Baker sang various ballads finely . . .

[Advertisement], Daily Alta California [San Francisco, CA] (9 January 1870), 6

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18700109.2.37.23.3 

MOZART MINSTREL HALL, POST STREET, NEAR KEARNY . . .
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS . . . Ben Cotton, Billy Ashcroft. M. B. Leavitt, Mast. Bennie, W. F. Baker,
C. W. Rayner, Theo. Jackson, R. W. Kohler, And the Great Vocal and Instrumental Galaxy . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Richard Wildblood Kohler (musician)

[Advertisement], Daily Alta California (16 April 1870), 4

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18700416.2.49.3 

"ELLA ZOYARA", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 July 1870), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13209985

The Australasian states that a mammoth circus company has been organised by Messrs. Lake, Leihy, Wilson, and Co. . . . is now working its way over the mountains to Virginia City, at which latter place Mr. C. W. Rayner, late of John Smith's Australian Minstrels, is taking a spell teaching the young idea how to sing.

Musical works:

C. W. Rayner's elementary system, and course of study for singing classes, with examples in the art of phrasing, also exercises for the development of the voice (Sydney: F. White, Machine and General Printer, [1866])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/154106493 

Speak gently, composed & dedicated to his pupils C. W. Rayner; accompaniments by A. Anderson, R.A.M. [words by David Bates] ([Sydney]: Published by the composer, [1867])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6527587 (DIGITISED)

The Australian belles (caballetta) ([Sydney: Rayner, 1867])

I will brighter be tomorrow (romanza) ([Sydney: Rayner, 1867])

Australia's welcome to prince Alfred ("Ode to Prince Alfred") (words: J. H. Rucker)(Sydney: Published by the composer, [1867])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5538433 

One word (song; words: Miss Parkes, music C.W. Rayner) (Sydney: To be had from the author [Rayner], [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7469630 

The southern cross (Sydney: Published by the Composer, [1868]), and later editions

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13427476 

There's no such word as fail (words: F. S. Wilson) (Sydney: Published by the Composer, [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33787508 

The Australian stockman's song (a bush lyric; words: F. S. Wilson) (Sydney: Published by the composer, [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18973030 

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Sydney Wilson (lyrics)

Bibliography and resources:

Col. T. Allston Brown, "Early history of negro minstrelsy, its rise and progress in the United States", The New York clipper (8 June 1912), 1

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19120608.2.17 (DIGITISED)

Joe Brown's Christy's. This company consisted of W. P. Collins, Joe Brown, C. W. Rayner, Harry Herbert, W. H. Castor, Ted Saunders and N. La Fenillade [Feuillade]. They sailed from Southampton, England, September 27, 1863, under the management of J. W. Smith, on their way to India to oppose the Nish party, then in Australia. They visited Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Suez and Aden, reaching Bombay on October 29 and giving their first concert on November 2 in the Grand Road Theatre to a house doubly rammed and jammed, with prices as follows: reserved seats, six rupees (about three dollars); parquet, five rs.; gallery, three rs.; pit, two rs. They remained one month and gave sixteen concerts, the last two in the Town Hall and one private entertainment for Sir Jamsetiee Jeejeebahoy. They left many kind friends who assembled to see them off about the 7th of November, for Madras, via Point de Jalle [sic]. There they gave two concerts in the Military Theatre while awaiting the arrival of the English mail steamer to take the company to Madras. Every favor was shown them in this hospitable city. The use of the banqueting hall in the government house and the patronage of His Excellency the Governor was obtained. A perfect furor awaited the company here, and ten concerts were given to crowded and delighted audiences. The boys, having time and wishing to see the interior, went to Bangalore in the mountains some two hundred and fifty miles, proceeding two hundred by rail and fifty by Dawk. Here they gave two concerts and paid expenses, returning to Madras and, four days after, arrived in Calcutta. And here, in five weeks, they gave twenty concerts to good business. The first night was 3,900 rs. Prices - reserved, 5 rs.; second class, 3 rs. The remaining concerts were very good, notwithstanding the city and India generally was in mourning for Lord Elgin, the late Governor-General. The arrival of Sir John Lawrence (the present viceroy) acted bad for them, in consequence of the numerous balls and parties that took place. However, on the whole, they did in four months what would be considered at home comfortable returns for a year. The boys left Calcutta on the steamer Persia, February 15, for Rangoon, in the Burmese Empire, proceeding thence to Ava to play for His Majesty, the King; his wives and children. The Nish party reached Sydney December 9, 1863, and opened Boxing Night (in December), where they made a lengthy stay . . . Mr . Castor committed suicide at Sydney, N.S.W., in March, 1865, by swallowing poison. He was connected with Joe Brown's party.

RAYNER, Joseph (Joseph Napoleon RAYNER; Joseph RAYNER)

Actor, theatrical manager

Born England, 18 June 1815
Arrived Geelong, VIC, by March 1855
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 7 April 1855 (per City of Sydney, from Melbourne, 4 April)
Died Liverpool, NSW, 12 December 1900

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Joseph+Napoleon+Rayner+1815-1900 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1828081 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAYNER-Joseph (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"THE THEATRE", Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (17 March 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91858492 

Last night Mr. J. Rayner took his benefit at the theatre, on which occasion we are happy to say that this place of public amusement was better attended than it has been during the past week. The first piece was "Raffdaelle or the Reprobate," in which the acting of Mr. Rayner was admirable. The evenings amnusements concluded with the farce of the "Irish Legacy." On Monday next Mr. Deering will take his benefit, after which the house will remain closed until the appearance of Mr. G. V. Brooke, which will be on Monday, the fifth instant.

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry Shinton Deering (actor); Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (actor); Theatre Royal (Geelong venue)

[Advertisement], Empire [Sydney, NSW] (10 April 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60176114 

MR. JOSEPH RAYNER, Principal Tragedian from the Great National Standard Theatre, London, will make his first appearance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, on MONDAY, April 16th.

ASSOCIATIONS: Royal Victoria Theatre (Sydney venue)

"THEATRICALS", Empire (10 April 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60176101 

Amongst the passengers by the city of Sydney (s.), from Melbourne, we omitted to mention Mrs. Charles Poole, and Mr. Joseph Rayner, Juvenile Tragedian, late of the National Standard Theater, London; both of whom are engaged at the Victoria Theatre. Mr. Crosby, the Stage Manager was also omitted in the steamer's list.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles and Amelia Poole (actors)

"OBITUARY. JOSEPH NAPOLEON RAYNER. How Sydney Starves its Talent", Truth [Sydney, NSW] (23 December 1900), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168004997 

"DIED at Liverpool, December 12, 1900, Joseph Napoleon Rayner, aged 86."
Such was the announcement in the Sydney papers made recently; and what a crowd of memories the death of the veteran actor recalls. Mr. Rayner was born on June 18, 1815, the day that the decisive battle of Waterloo was fought, and with it the power of the great Napoleon dually broken. Mr. Rayner's connection with the Australian stage dates back half a century. In the fifties he was leading support to Mary Provost in her Australian tour. Since that time he has acted many parts, tragedy and comedy alike. He performed with most of the stars who from time to time visited these shores, and has had the cares of management and its losses upon his shoulders. At various times he was lessee of the "Old Vic.," the Prince of Wales and the Queen's theatres, being lessee of the Prince of Wales when first burned down, a calamity which entailed upon him a heavy loss. The last decade of Mr. Rayner's life was, to the shame of old Sydney playgoers be it said, passed in absolute poverty, and he died in Liverpool . . .

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT). There has recently passed away the veteran actor Joseph Napoleon Rayner, more familiarly known as old "Joe" Rayner. He first arrived in Australia in 1855, and played the part of Raphael in "The Marble Heart" shortly afterwards. Throughout his long and varied career he played the leading part in nearly every play that was staged, and was associated with nearly all of the veterans of the stage, including Messrs. G. V. Brooke and Mr. Edmund Holloway, who is at present playing with Mr. Alfred Dampier at the Criterion Theatre. For the past 10 years Mr. Rayner was incapacitated, and thus prevented from keeping his name prominently before the play-going public; but to many - in fact, all the older hands - his name is associated with many kind and felicitous recollections. The deceased was for many years an actor-manager, and at one time of his career was the lessee of two theatres in Sydney - the Victoria and the Queen's. Sad to relate, he ended his days in the Liverpool Asylum, where, according to his own words, he received every kindness and attention that it was possible for man to bestow. The funeral was carried out by Mr. L. Murphy, of Liverpool, under instructions from Mr. J. C. Williamson (who always acted the part of a true friend). The remains were conveyed on Thursday by train from Liverpool to the Necropolis, where the following friends witnessed the interment: - Mr. E. Ross (representing Mr. Williamson), Mr. M. Moss (who played with the deceased in Ballarat in 1857), Mr. L. Booth (who played with him in New Zealand over 30 years ago), Mr. E. Rayner (grandson), Mr. Dunkelly (grand son-in-law), Mrs. William Walker (whose late husband wad a friend of over 40 years' standing), and Mr. W. J. Walker. The deceased was born on Waterloo Day (June 18, 1815), so was in his 86th year. It may here be mentioned that two of his early companions on the stage have only recently died, viz., Charlie Burford and Lachlan McGowan. The deceased was held in high esteem, and many old friends will regret his loss. Thus ends the career of a kind and generous man. At rest.

ASSOCIATIONS: Edmund Holloway (actor); Lachlan McGowan (actor)

RAYROUX, Adolphe Francois (Adolphe François RAYROUX; Adolph Francis RAYROUX)

Professor of music and languages (University of Paris), pianist, composer

Born France, c. 1843/44; son of François Louis RAYROUX and ? GUIGNARD
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 7 June 1863 (per Wellesley, from London via Plymouth, 16 March, aged "20")
Married Maria Ashley CUMMINS, VIC, 1877
Died Melbourne, VIC, 4 August 1895

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RAYROUX-Adolphe (shareable link to this entry)

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

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Argus (28 July 1864), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5751040

[Advertisement], Gippsland Times (12 January 1867), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61205056

"AMATEUR CONCERT", Gippsland Times (5 December 1868), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61342182

An amateur vocal and instrumental concert was given in the Sale Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening by the local amateurs, in aid of the fund for the purchase of the piano now used in the hall . . . Mons. Ad. Rayroux presided at the piano, and the band was comprised as follows: - 1st violin, Mr. J. H. W. Pettit; 2nd violin, Mr. S. Lang; 1st flute, Mr. W. T. Sprod; 2nd flute, Mr. S. Slater; violincello, Mr. T. Thew . . . The concert was opened with an overture from "Massaniello", very creditably performed by the band . . . A quadrille "Le jour de naissance", composed by Mr. W. Legge was rendered by the hand in an inspiriting manner . . . The Waltz "L'Etoile du Berger", composed by Mr. Rayroux was also performed by the orchestra and elicited applause.

"M. RAYROUX. TO THE EDITOR", Gippsland Times (20 April 1869), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61342914

"CONCERT", Kerang Times (14 September 1877), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66492083

"INSOLVENT COURT", The Argus (21 March 1881), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5976245

"DEATHS", The Argus (5 August 1895), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9369077

RAYROUX. - Passed away on Sunday, 4th August, at Heidelberg Hospital, Adolphe Francois Rayroux, second son of Louis F. Rayroux, of Paris, the dear husband of Marie Ashley Rayroux, of Eastbury, St. John's Avenue, Camberwell. At rest.

REA, Alexander (Alexander REA; Alex REA)

Professor of music, organist, pianist, composer

Born Leominster, Herefordshire, England, 1 April 1830; baptised Moravian brethren, Leominster, 2 May 1830; son of Nathaniel REA (1781-1860) and Mary HAY (1791-1863)
Married Susan Ryall LUCAS (1840-1903), Leominster, England, 1861
Arrived Sydney, NSW, by June 1862 (per Marco Polo from Liverpool, via Melbourne, 10 March)
Died Enmore, Sydney, NSW, 13 March 1909, aged 79

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Alexander+Rea+1830-1909 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-641575 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REA-Alex (shareable link to this entry)

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

Documentation:

"BALMAIN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH", The Sydney Morning Herald (9 June 1862), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13229891 

A tea meeting was held in the Congregational Church at Balmain on Friday evening last, to celebrate the settlement of the Rev. Alexander Rea as pastor of that church . . .

"CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 July 1862), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13231965

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 July 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28621522

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 June 1864), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13087682

"THE CHROMATIC RONDO", The Sydney Morning Herald (14 November 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13099367

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 December 1864), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13102439

"CATHEDRAL ORGAN OPENING", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 July 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13156461

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 February 1874), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13331218

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (11 February 1874), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13331386

  "NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (14 February 1874), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1448759

"MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (28 October 1874), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13344549

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 October 1874), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13336969

[News], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 June 1879), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13437192

"MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 March 1882), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13506835

"THE CENTENNIAL ORGAN. TO THE EDITOR", The Sydney Morning Herald (26 September 1889), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28336614

"NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (26 July 1902), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14471845

"FUNERALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 March 1909), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15042849

"Mr. Alexander Rea . . .", The Sydney Morning Herald (16 March 1909), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15043409

"A MUSICAL AUTHORITY FOR 48 YEARS", Sunday Times (21 March 1909), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126590434 

Alexander Rea, Professor of Music, died on March 13 at his late residence, "Butleigh," Simmons-street, Enmore. Had he lived another month, the veteran organist would have reached his 79th year. Educated for the ministry, the deceased turned his attention to music, and he was one of the recognised musical authorities in Sydney for the long period of 48 years. There is a story that at one time Mr. Rea combined religion and music by preaching the sermon and playing the organ in a Congregational church. In a sense we are indebted to Alexander Rea for the possession of the largest organ in the world. When the City Council decided to have a Jumbo among organs for our Town Hall, the negotiations with Hall and Son, the famous English builders, were conducted by Mr. Rea. The resident organist helped Hill and Son to draw up the specification, and the monster instrument was erected in the Town Hall under his supervision. Mr. Rea ran his fingers over "the noisy keys" and tested the mechanism before the late W. T. Best "opened" the organ for the City Council in August, 1890. On Mr. Best's return to England, Mr. Rea gave a number of recitals at the Town Hall. The man who sent the order for the huge instrument to Hill had charge of what he called, "his baby" until the appointment of the late August Wiegand as City Organist. Compositions by Mr. Rea found their way from time to time into the Wiegand programmes. Mr. Rea heard all the organists who have played at the Town Hall since W. T. Best and A. Wiegand - Arthur Mason (who is now in London), Edwin Lemare, and Alfred Hollins (the blind organist) among the number. For several years Alexander Rea was the organist of St. John's Church of England, Darlinghurst. He was afterwards the unassuming master of the manuals at the Congregational Church, Pitt-st., and at St. Stephen's (Church of England), Newtown. The veteran resigned his appointment at Newtown some eight years ago. He "performed" many times on the organ in the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, and his name is part of the musical history of the Garden Palace. Mr. Rea, up to the day of his death, occupied the position of Vice-Warden in the Sydney College of Music, which was founded in 1894. Apart from the share he took in the carrying on of the Sydney College of Music, the deceased was, with Mr. Hector Maclean, Examiner in Music at the Sydney University. The modest musician played the organ at the University when the instrument was presented to the Senate by the late Sir Patrick Jennings. In his vigorous days, Alexander Rea published a goodly number of compositions for the organ, and he turned out studies and solos for the pianoforte. His name is also attached to several Church Services.

Mr. Rea was born in the North of England. His father was a clergyman of the Moravian body; he was their third son. He won a scholarship at fifteen years of age at one of the Moravian schools which entitled him to five years' education on the Continent. He went to Germany, where, at the Moravian College, he studied divinity and music for seven years. Returning to England he was ordained, and worked among the Moravians in Fetter-lane (London), in Leominster (Herefordshire), and Fairfield (Manchester). At the age of thirty he met, and soon after married, his first wife. Shortly after his marriage he left England for Sydney in the Marco Polo. He accepted a call to the Congregational Church at Balmain, where he remained for about two years. Soon his voice began to fail, owing to his suffering from clergyman's sore throat, and, acting on the advice of friends, he resigned from the Ministry, and began his career as a professor of music.

"SYDNEY COLLEGE OF MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (21 April 1909), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15052118

Musical works:

Chromatic rondo (a study for the pianoforte) (Sydney: Reading & Wellbank, [1864]; London: Weekes & Co., [?])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027324

Grand octave waltz (for the pianoforte) (Sydney: Reading & Wellbank, [1864])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23386884 

Gathering rosebuds (a song written and composed by Alexander Rea) (Sydney: Elvy & Co., [1874])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33028302 

Caprice ("for the pianoforte, composed and dedicated to Miss E. M. Woolley") (Sydney: Elvy and Co., [1874])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33028191 

The promenade rondo (for the pianoforte) (Sydney: Elvy & Co., [1879])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33028161 

Sonatina for the pianoforte no. 1 in C ([Sydney] London: Weekes & Co., [1882])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027589 

The chatterbox rondo (for the pianoforte) ([Sydney] London: Weekes & Co., [1887])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027155 

Reverie (song, the words by Albert G. Dawes) ([Sydney] London: Weekes & Co., [1888])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027643 

Good night, good night (song, the words by Albert G. Dawes) ([Sydney] London: Weekes & Co., [1888])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027781 

Beneath a broad elm tree (song, the words by Albert G. Dawes) ([Sydney] London: Weekes & Co., [1888])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33027815 

Consolation (melody for the pianoforte) (Sydney: W. H. Paling & Co., [1902])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/29984570 

READ, Beaumont (William Henry READ; Mr. Beaumont READ)

Alto vocalist (student of John Hullah), sopranist, songwriter, photographer

Born London, England, 22 August 1833; baptised West Hackney church, 15 September 1833; son of William READ and Sarah BRISTOW
Married Jane SMITH (1833-1890), St. Pancras old church, London, England, 11 January 1857
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 24 November 1874 (per Parramatta, from England)
Died Unley Park, Adelaide, SA, 5 January 1910, "aged 77"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Beaumont+Read+1833-1910 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#READ-Beaumont (shareable link to this entry)

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

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (23 December 1874), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13346291

[Advertisement], The Argus  (9 January 1875), 12

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11510333

"MADAME ANNA BISHOP'S CONCERT", The Argus (13 January 1875), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11510502

. . . Amongst these names the most interesting on the score of novelty will be that of Mr. Beaumont Read who sings with a voice which is rarely heard amongst men in these days. Of mature age he appears to have still preserved the fresh and high voice of a boys voice which has grown into power without that break which marks the period of adolescence. His selections were The Maid of Athens by Allen and this being encored he sang Little Sweetheart come and kiss me (a song noticed lately as being published in Melbourne). In the second part he sang another ballad of the plaintive kind suited to his exceptional voice entitled Please give me a penny, the composition of Siebert and as sung by Mr. Read as touching an appeal as any mendicant might hope to trade upon. This was very well sung indeed and it was encored with great warmth by the audience, who, by their applause, were evidently interested by the novelty of the singer's voice.

"MR. BEAUMONT READ", The Register (4 April 1903), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56652685

"AFTER FIFTY YEARS. RETIREMENT OF A PUBLIC SINGER, MR. BEAUMONT READ", The Register (9 April 1903), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56652597

. . . When did I come to Australia? Let me see. It must have been 1874. I have a vivid remembrance of my Australian debut in Sydney. I was engaged to appear at the Exhibition Building on Christmas night, and I gave "He was despised". It happened that Madame Anna Bishop was also singing, and she was so pleased with my voice that she waited at the wings of the platform for me and arranged that I should make a tour of Australia with her company. At the conclusion of this trip I spent two years in New York, and came back to Australia, where I have remained ever since. I came to reside at Adelaide 11 years ago on the death of my wife, and immediately formed a male quartet consisting of Messrs. Holder, Nash, Middleton, and myself. We were a successful combination, and I think won considerable popularity while we were together.

"A NOTABLE SINGER", The Register (6 January 1910), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60153922

"A PROMINENT SINGER. MR. BEAUMONT READ DEAD", The Advertiser (7 January 1910), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5218577

Associated songs:

Don't go, Molly darling (ballad; "music by Edward Kearns; words by F. Mears"; "especially composed for Mr. Beaumont Read of Madame Bishop's company") (Melbourne: W. H. Glen & Co., 1875)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11297352 

Please give me a penny (by Wm. Seibert, as sung by Beaumont Read) (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, [1875])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18647424 

Sweet by and by (words by Fillmore Bennett; music by J. P. Webster; as sung by Beaumont Read of the Kelly and Leon Troupe) (Melbourne: Nicholson & Ascherberg, [1877])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13563639 

Sweet chiming bells *words by Beaumont Read; music by C. F. Shattuck) (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, [1879])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23878436 

For the old land's sake (written and sung by Beaumont Read; music by N. La Feuillade) (Sydney: W. H. Paling & Co., [1885])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10634925 

READ, Eliza (Eliza HOSKIN; Mrs. Charles READ)

Professor of Music and Dancing, Drawing from Nature (formerly of the Royal Leamington Spa), composer

Born Reading, Berkshire, 1822; baptised St. Lawrence's church, Reading, 14 August 1822; daughter of Robert HOSKIN and Rachel HOLLAND
Married Charles READ (1826-1884), Kenilworth church, Warwickshire, England, 6 July 1845
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 16 August 1853 (per Caroline Chisholm, from London, via Melbourne, 11 August, aged "30")
Died Sydney, NSW, 13 June 1905, aged 83

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Eliza+Hoskin+Read+1822-1905 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#READ-Eliza-HOSKIN (shareable link to this entry)

READ, Alfred (Alfred Alexander READ; Alfred READ)

Professor of dancing, dancing master, pianist, violinist

Born Leamington Spa, England, 1846 (first quarter); son of Charles READ and Eliza HOSKIN
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 16 August 1853 (per Caroline Chisholm, from London, via Melbourne, 11 August, aged "6")
Married Jane WILLIAMS (c. 1849-1905), St. Peter's, Woolloomooloo, NSW, 1 March 1870
Died Sydney, NSW, 28 May 1907, aged 61

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Alfred+Read+1846-1907 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#READ-Alfred (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Elizabeth Hoskin was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1822, a daughter of Robert Hoskin, a hatter, and his wife Rachel Holland, and was baptised at St. Lawrence's church on 14 August.

A Miss Hoskin, already teaching and playing piano in Birmingham in 1832-33, was evidently not Eliza, who was too young, but was perhaps an elder sister or cousin. The "Misses Hoskin" were advertising as milliners at Leamington, by 1838, and in the 1841 census, Eliza, living there with her parents and aged 18, was listed as a "professor of music".

Documentation:

England census, 6 June 1841, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire; UK National Archives, HO / 107 / 1135 / 14

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/WARHO107_1135_1135-0292 (PAYWALL)

Newbold Street / Richard [sic] Hoskin / 50 / Hatter / [not born in county]
Rachel [Hoskin] / 50 // Edward / 25 / Hatter // James / 21 / [Hatter] / Thomas / 15 [Hatter]
Eliza [Hoskin] / 18 / Professor of Music / [not born in county]

"LEAMINGTON, NOV. 13", Morning Post [London] (15 November 1841), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18411115/016/0003 (PAYWALL)

Two excellent concerts took place in our Music Hall on Thursday [11 November], under distinguished patronage, for the benefit of Miss Eliza Hoskins, a clever pianoforte player residing here. The London artists consisted of Miss Dolby, Miss Woodyatt [Mrs. W. Loder], Mr. Young, and Mr. John Parry. Conductor, Mr. G. F. Harris. The first part of the morning performance consisted of sacred music, and the second of miscellaneous compositions, which afforded the highest gratification. Miss Hoskins acquitted herself extremely well in a pianoforte duet with Mr. Harris . . .

[News], Bucks Herald (8 January 1842), 5

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000270/18420108/009/0005 (PAYWALL)

Lately, a Concert was got up at the Greyhound Inn, Thame, by the Royal Thame Band, in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, and most of the leading residents of the town honoured it with their presence . . . The following able performers were engaged: - Miss Smith, from the Hanover-square Rooms; Miss Hoskins, and Signor Poznanski . . .

[Advertisement], Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser (3 September 1842), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001670/18420903/019/0003 (PAYWALL)

TOWN HALL. STRATFORD. EVENING CONCERT. UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE.
MISS ELIZA HOSKIN HAS the honour to announce that she purposes giving a Vocal and Instrumental
EVENING CONCERT at the above Hall, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1842, on which occasion she will be assisted by
MISS SMITH, MRS. LEA, (Her first appearance before the Public,)
SIONOR POZNANSKI, (Pupil of De Beriot, Paganini, &c.)
Miss ELIZA HOSKIN will preside at the Piano-forte . . .
PROGRAMME. DUETT - Guillaume Tell (Violin and Piano) Signor POZNANSKI and Miss HOSKIN - De Beriot and Osborn . . .

[Advertisement], Leamington Spa Courier (7 January 1843), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18430107/031/0002 (PAYWALL)

MISS ELIZA HOSKIN'S ESTABLISHMENT FOR YOUNG LADIES, No. 2, Leam Terrace, Leamington Spa, WILL RE-OPEN on MONDAY Next, January 9th, 1843. At the Midsummer Vacation the Pupils will be publicly examined, in the presence of their parents and friends. Terms For Board and General Education, 18 guineas per annum ditto, including French, Drawing, and Dancing, guineas per annum.
The ACADEMY for MUSIC and SINGING, conducted by Miss E. Hoskin, will also Re-Open the same day . . .

"MISSES E. HOSKIN AND SMITH'S CONCERT", Leamington Spa Courier (14 January 1843), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18430114/004/0002 (PAYWALL)

A Private Morning Concert took place at the Music Hall, on Saturday last, at which there was a numerous attendance of fashionables. Miss SMITH was encored in Migliorucci's cavatina, "Salve Regina," in which she displayed great power of voice, as well as a considerable degree of execution. The instrumental performances of the Misses HOSKIN, and Mr. T. R. BELL, also came in for their due share of approbation. Mr. PERCY, and Mr. H. MARSHALL (the Conductor), ably assisted in the vocal department . . .

[Advertisement], Leamington Spa Courier (25 February 1843), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18430225/031/0002 (PAYWALL)

MUSICAL ACADEMY, 2, LEAM TERRACE.
MISS ELIZA HOSKIN ESPECTFULLY informs the Nobility and Gentry, that she gives (as well her Class Instruction), Private Lessons in MUSIC, SINGING, and DRAWING, either at her Academy, or at the Residences her Pupils. References of the highest respectability can be given.

"MISS ELIZA HOSKIN'S CONCERT", Leamington Spa Courier (23 March 1844), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18440323/007/0002 (PAYWALL)

We have, this week, had once more the opportunity of listening to Madame CARADORI ALLAN, in the provinces, and cannot but regret that those through whose spirited conduct this rich treat has been afforded us, must necessarily find themselves but ill remunerated by the proceeds of the above musical entertainment. The concerts, more particularly that of the morning, were attended by a highly respectable company, to whom the vocal and instrumental selections appeared to afford the highest satisfaction. It would be alike a waste of space and time, albeit a pleasing theme, to enlarge upon the performances of Madame CARADORI ALLAN, and therefore brevity of praise will, individually and generally, be the soundest policy . . . Mr. HARRISON and Mrs. N. MERRIDEW, were received with marks of warm approbation . . . Mr. BELL's flute solos were marked by much talent, and the conductorship of Mr. H. MANDER, gave promise of future excellence. The piano-forte performances of Miss HOSKIN, manifested much improvement since we last had the pleasure of hearing her. She evinces much taste in her style of playing.

[Advertisement], Leamington Spa Courier (11 January 1845), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18450111/035/0002 (PAYWALL)

WARWICK HOUSE, HIGH STREET, LEAMINGTON.
MISS ELIZA HOSKIN BEGS to inform her Friends that her Establishment will RE-OPEN on MONDAY next, the 13th Instant.
TERMS: Boarders 20 Guineas per annum. Ditto, including Accomplishment, 30 Guineas ditto. Day Scholars Shillings per Quarter.

"Marriages", Banbury Guardian (17 July 1845), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001523/18450717/031/0003 (PAYWALL)

July 6, at Kenilworth, Mr. Charles Read, to Miss Eliza Hoskin, both of Leamington.

[Advertisement], Leamington Spa Courier (12 July 1845), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18450712/034/0002 (PAYWALL)

WARWICK HOUSE, HIGH STREET, LEAMINGTON. MRS. CHARLES READ (Late Miss Eliza Hoskin), BEGS to inform her Friends that her Establishment will RE OPEN on MONDAY next, the 14th inst. . . .

[Advertisement], Leamington Spa Courier (11 December 1848), 2

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18471211/032/0002 (PAYWALL)

ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS. MRS. CHARLES READ BEGS to inform her Patrons and Friends that a Grand MORNING & EVENING CONCERT, will take place On FRIDAY NEXT, the 17th Instant, UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE.
VOCALISTS. MISS SARA HAWSON [sic, HOWSON] Sister of the late Madame Albertazzi, MRS. E. PAGE, MR. E. PAGE.
INSTRUMENTAL. MRS. CHARLES READ, MISS PROSSER, her debut, MR. T. R. BELL.
Conductor, on the Grand Pianoforte, MR. EDWARD PAGE . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sarah Howson (vocalist, sister of Frank Howson and John Howson of Sydney, and of Emma Albertazzi)

England census, 30 March 1851, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 2072

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/WARHO107_2072_2072-0872 (PAYWALL)

17 Bedford St. / Charles Read / Head / 24 / Coach Maker / [born] Middlesex Marylebone
Eliza [Read] / Wife / 27 / Professor of Music / [born] Berks. Reading
Alfred [Read] / 5 / Scholar / [born] Warwick Leamington //

Sydney, NSW (from 1853):

List of passengers per Caroline Chisholm, for Port Phillip and Sydney, August 1853; Public Record Office Victoria

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1635/images/30796_125448__0039-00259 (PAYWALL)

[From] London / Read Chas. / 26 / Coachmaker / Eng. / [for] Sydney
[Read] Eliza / 30 / Wife // Alfred / 6 // Thomas / 4 // Eliza / 3 // George / [under 12 months

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (21 October 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28643872

MRS. STANIFORTH begs to inform her friends and the parents of her pupils that she has engaged Mrs. Charles Read, professor of Music and Dancing, as Instructress in both these accomplishments, and that a class is now forming at Ariel Cottage for the newest and most approved dances taught in London and danced at all the nobility's Balls, including the much admired Tempête. Dancing day, Tuesday in every week, commencing on the 26th instant. Hours from 4 in the afternoon. Private lessons in music. Ariel Cottage, Redfern, October 20.

ASSOCIATIONS: Amy Susanna Staniforth (1792-1868); Staniforth was declared insolvent towards the end of the following year, 1854

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 January 1854), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30939640

A CARD - Mrs. C. READ, formerly of the Royal Leamington Spa, professor of music, and teacher of drawing from nature, Crown-street, Surry Hills.

[Advertisement], Empire (29 December 1855), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60171655

ROYAL HOTEL JANUARY 1ST, 1855.- Madlle. J. J. TISROUX, has fixed her grand morning concert for New-Year's Day, when she will introduce Madame Malibran's "Una boca poco fa"; also Madlle. Jenny Lind's songs, Fatherland; Our parting is near, &c., &c.
Madlle. TISROUX will sing a well known French air, "Au que la moire," with her own variations; Kathleen Mavourneen; The Irish Emigrant;
assisted by Mrs. C. Read, pianist; Mr. Turner, Mr. Banks, Mrs. Finch, from London.
Doors open at half-past one, to commence at two.
Tickets to be had at Messrs. WOOLCOTT AND. CLARKE'S; Messrs. SANDON'S, George-street.

ASSOCIATIONS: Mlle. Tisroux (vocalist); John Turner (vocalist); Thomas Banks (vocalist); Mrs. Finch (vocalist); the concert was postponed till February

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 February 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12981325

ROYAL HOTEL. - MADEMOISELLE C. T. I. TISROUX has the honour to inform the ladies and gentlemen, her friends, and the inhabitants of Sydney, that her GRAND EVENING CONCERT will take place
THIS EVENING, Wednesday, 27th February, when Mademoiselle C. T. I. TISROUX will Introduce Madame Malibran's beautiful "Una Voce Poco Fa," "Do not mingle," "Katheen Mavourneen," a well known French air, "Oh, que l'amour," with her own embellishments.
Mademoiselle C. T. I. Tisroux has engaged Mr. T. L. VAN DE STADT, who will play "Bonheur De Se Revoir, Fantasia," for the flute, accompanied by Mrs. C. READ.
Also will sing the "Marseillaise," and the celebrated singer, Miss MONTAGUE, who will make her first appearance at this concert in Sydney, will sing "Love not," and "Happy Moments."
Mr. BANKS will introduce some favourite ballads. A fantasia on piano by Mrs. C. READ.
Tickets, 5s.; reserved seats, 7s. 6d.; to be had of Mr. Johnson, Pitt-street; Messrs. Sandon and Co. George-street; and at the Bar of the Hotel. Doors open at half-past seven, to commence at eight. Schools and children at half price.

ASSOCIATIONS: T. L. Van de Stadt (flute)

"COURT OF REQUESTS. £30 JURISDICTION . . . TISCROUX V. READ", Empire (24 July 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60251090 

In this case, which had been previously tried on more occasions than one, the plaintiff sought to recover a sum of money for which the defendant had become liable under the following circumstances: - About a year ago, the plaintiff, who is a professor of music, gave a concert in the Royal Hotel, at which the defendant and his wife assisted the former as ticket-taker, the latter as a singer. Previous to the holding of the concert plaintiff gave a number of tickets to defendant's wife (130) all of which the latter signed with her initials, and by these tickets persons attending the concert were to gain admissions, an arrangement was entered into between the parties by which the defendant's wife was to pay herself from the proceeds of the sale of the tickets, for her professional services. It was stated in evidence that some two hundred persons attended the concert, at the close of which 135 tickets were returned by defendant, the ticket-taker, to plaintiff; of the proceeds, however, the sum received by the plaintiff was a mere trifle, and on her applying to Mrs. Read for an account of the tickets sold by her, the latter accounted for but a few of those alleged to have been entrusted to her for sale, in all 130. The number of tickets issued altogether was 177. There was some difficulty in eliciting the facts of the case, from the excitable temper of the plaintiff. A former action on the same plaint as the above was nonsuited, the plaintiff having in error proceeded against the defendant's wife. For the defence it was contended that Mrs. Read had not disposed of the tickets enumerated, nor had she retained them for sale - that she merely put her initials to them, after which they were returned, or most of them, to plaintiff. Evidence was also given to show that, a day or two previous to that named for the concert, the price of the tickets was reduced one-half, and also that plaintiff complained of having herself lost a number of those tickets, for which she was now suing defendant. It was also contended that defendant was not liable, as it was without his concurrence, knowledge, or consent, that his wife had acted in the matter, his honor, in submitting the case to the assessors, explained the law of liability of husbands for the acts of their wives, and showed that in this case the husband had shown by his own acts that he had acquiesced in those of his wife, making him, therefore, liable. The question as to the reduction in the price of the tickets, and how much should be allowed for that reduction, was left to the assessors. The sum claimed was £27. The Court gave a verdict in favour of plaintiff; amount, £20 18s. Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Michael; for the defendant, Mr. Newbon.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (16 November 1859), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13033291

DANCING DEPORTMENT. - Mrs. C. READ'S CLASSES are held at her residence, 13, Macquarie-street South.

"COMPLIMENTARY BALL TO MRS. C. READ", Empire (8 September 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60497827 

LAST evening a complimentary ball was given to the above lady by her pupils, at Mr. John Clark's Assembly Rooms. About sixty couples were present, and the ball was a very successful one in all its arrangements. The splendid and spacious room in which it was held was gaily decorated with a variety of flags. Mrs. Read has for many years, both in England and Australia, been a teacher of the Terpsichorean art, and this ball was the spontaneous expression of the esteem on the part of her many pupils in which she was held. The ball opened et nine o'clock with a quadrille, and dancing was continued spiritedly until half-past twelve, when the assemblage adjourned to the supper room. Here everything was prepared in a most recherche style, by Mr. Clark. Mr. W. H. Stephens occupied the chair . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Clark (dancing master); W. H. Stephens (chair)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 January 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13072199

COMPLIMENTARY BALL to Mrs. C. READ, on FRIDAY, 16th January, 1863. - To those friends desirous to honour with their presence, will please make early application, as the number being strictly limited. Names to be forwarded to the committee, to the care of Mr. ALFRED READ, 75, William-street, where tickets can be had.

"PADDINGTON", The Sydney Morning Herald (10 August 1868), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13170771

A meeting of this Council was held, pursuant to notice, on Tuesday, the 4th instant . . . Letters were read . . . From Mrs. Charles Read, requesting permission to use the Council room on one night in each week for a select dancing-class . . . On motion . . . Moved by Alderman Stone and Westaway, - "That Mrs. Charles Read's request be not complied with." Carried . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (13 November 1874), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13342867

MR. ALFRED READ, Pianist, plays for private parties, violin if required. 66, Crown-street.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 December 1874), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13337098

NEWTOWN. - Mr. ALFRED READ intends having a private Quadrille Assembly, at the Town Hall, on FRIDAY next, 11th instant. 'Bus leaves for Sydney after the party. Tickets, 7s 6d.

[News], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 1902), 11

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14497398

On Thursday evening last, at the Assembly Rooms, William street the pupils of Mrs. Charles Read presented her with an address and a 50-piece dinner service.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 June 1905), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14689018

READ - June 13, 1905, at her residence, 71 William-street, Eliza Read, relict of Mr. Charles Read, 44 years a resident of William-street.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (17 June 1905), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14675076

READ. - At her residence, 71 William-street, Mrs. Chas. Read, 50 years teacher of dancing in this city, dearly loved mother of Mr. Alfred Read, dancing master.

"WOMAN'S COLUMN", The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People (24 June 1905), 13

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114728010

Mrs. Read, mother of Mr. Read, the dancing master, passed away last week, at an advanced age. To live for 44 years in one street is in itself a feat, especially in a new country, whilst the road is yet a-making. Mrs. Read was a highly accomplished woman, and had a museum in miniature of curiosities which she showed to the many hundreds of friends and pupils which she possessed. Her long useful life was spent in teaching as well as bringing up a family of sons and daughters. For 22 years she was in the staff of professors at Subiaco Convent.

"PERSONAL", Freeman's Journal (1 July 1905), 18

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108120401

A very old Sydney identity passed out last week in Mrs. Read, whose dancing rooms have been a feature of William-street for 44 years. She leaves a son who figures as a courtly master of ceremonies at many of Sydney's society dances.

[News], Australian Town and Country Journal (12 July 1905), 29

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71532175

"L.W.: Fifty Years a Dancing Teacher in Sydney" was recorded of a lately passed-away lady, who had lived for 45 years in William-street, where her academy was, and where she had taught many hundreds of pupils the graceful art of dancing, deportment, and the etiquette of ballroom. But times have changed since the dear old lady so recently dead, first taught the waltz, as it was danced half a century ago. In 1814 the dances were the centre [contre] dance, jigs, and reels, the quadrille being then brought from Paris to England, when, it was a stately measure, only to be walked through. The measures trod after that notable ball before Waterloo written about by Lord Byron, "On with the dance-let joy be unconfined," may have included the then only coming in waltz, which was considered very improper by our ancestors. Fifty years ago the quadrilles we waltzed to very slow time, and the waltz was dignified, compared to now. It was considered "difficult to accomplish, and an art only suitable for ladies and gentlemen." When the polka first became fashionable, it was a little short jog, to "Pop goes the Weasle." Miss Piper, the daughter of Captain Piper, of the Point named after him, first introduced it in Bathurst, where she taught the young officers stationed there. Mrs. Read taught it to nearly everyone in Sydney in her day. But what shock to the artistic sensibilities of anyone who knows the ballroom of 50 years ago would it be to visit the Sydney Town Hall when a charity dance is in progress, or watch the young folk do a "barn dance," a "cakewalk," or the "Society Lancers." The "pas seuls" and "pirouettes" that distinguished the graceful dancer of other days have gone out with the court courtesy, or "curtsey," and now the "cheeky little bob" is all that remains of that graceful movement.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 May 1907), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14836685

READ. - May 28, at his residence, Maneroo, Belmore-road, Randwick, Alfred Read, Prof. of Dancing, of William-street, city, aged 61 years.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 May 1913), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15419069  

DANCING, SUPERIOR CLASSES. Conducted by The MISSIS READ. Successors to Prof. Alfred Read and Mrs. Chas. Read . . .

Musical and other works:

The irresistible galop (1865)

The irresistible galop, for the pianoforte, composed and dedicated, by permission, to His Worship, the Mayor of Sydney (C. J. Roberts, esq.) by Mrs. C. Read (Sydney: Elvy & Co., [1865])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16428258 

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165902941 (DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (16 February 1865), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13101356

THE NERVOUS CURES IRRESISTIBLE GALOP, now ready, price 2s. ELVY and CO.

ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Hammond Elvy (publisher); see also Nervous cures galop by Montague Younger; Charles James Roberts (mayor, dedicatee)

"THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL", The Argus (9 April 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5763915

. . . We could readily have dispensed with the "March of All Nations," which is the cheapest tinsel, and not worth the labour which Mr. Horsley has evidently expended on it . . . and the concert concluded with the galop " The Irresistible" . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Edward Horsley (composer, conductor)

The Sydney quadrilles (1868/69)

The Sydney quadrilles, dedicated to Mrs. James Martin, by Mrs. Charles Read (Sydney: J. Reading & Co., [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23888451 

http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE3750704 (DIGITISED)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-168696064 (DIGITISED) (lacks cover)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (7 December 1868), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13176911

THE SYDNEY QUADRILLES will shortly be published, composed and arranged by Mrs. Charles Read, on the most popular airs of Sydney, dedicated, by permission, to Mrs. James Martin.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (15 January 1869), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13184733

THE SYDNEY QUADRILLES, by Mrs. Charles Read; second edition. J. Reading and Co., George-st.

ASSOCIATIONS: Isabella Martin (dedicatee); James Reading (publisher)

Australian ball room guide (1874/75)

Australian ball room guide (1st edn. ? 1874/75); later edns.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22170009

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-191788258 (DIGITISED)

[Advertisement], Australian Town and Country Journal (30 January 1875), 11

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70488265

M. K. asks - Could you inform me whether there are any books for self-instruction in dancing and singing? where they are to be had? and what price? - Mrs. Read's Australian Ball-room Guide, by post 2s 2d.; Instruction in singing, by post 4s 6d. Both may be had from Cole, bookseller, King-street, Sydney.

"THE AUSTRALIAN BALL-ROOM GUIDE", The Maitland Mercury (29 January 1876), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18802813

We have received from the author, Mrs. C. Read, a copy of her "Australian Ball-room Guide," a little book that will be found of great value to those who are fond of the amusement of dancing. The bulk of the book is taken up with descriptions of -the various dances now in fashion, but there is a nicely-written preface in advocacy of the exercise, closing with some well chosen quotations having the same tendency, and followed by useful observations upon the etiquette of the ball room. There is also a variety of directions for calisthenics, at the end of the book. "The Ball room Guide" is well printed by Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard and Co., and ought to be very popular among young ladies and gentlemen who want a manual of dancing.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Gibbs and Joseph Thomas Shallard (publishers)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 July 1888), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28343543

DANCING AS IT SHOULD BE. See Mrs. C. Read's AUSTRALIAN BALLROOM GUIDE. Price 1s 6d. 71, William-street, and stationers.

READING, James (James READING; J. READING; J. W. READING [? Warwick])

Music-seller, music publisher, stationer, printer

Born Warwickshire, England, 20 September 1811; baptised Brook Street chapel, Warwick, 27 October 1811, son of James READING and Sarah ?
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 26 September 1838 (per Lady Fitzherbert, from London, 17 May)
Married Tabitha THRELKELD (1821-1904), Independent chapel, Sydney, NSW, 18 May 1843
Active as "Reading and Wellbank", 1853-68 (taking over J. R. Clarke's premises, plates, and stock-in-trade, July 1864)
Active as "J. Reading and Co. Music Publishers and Sellers", 1868-78/79
Died Sydney, NSW, 15/17 June 1878, aged 67

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#READING-James (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Isaac Wellbank (business partner)

Summary:

James Reading arrived in Sydney on the Lady Fitzherbert on 26 September 1838, with his sister, Sarah, her husband John Fairfax, and their 3 children (including their second son James Reading Fairfax).

In 1843, Reading married Tabitha Threlkeld, daughter of Lancelot Edward Threlkeld.

In December 1878, six months after Reading's death, J. Reading and Co. advertised the first publication of Advance Australia fair.

Documentation:

Registers of births, Brook Street Independent chapel, Warwick, Warwickshire; UK National Archives

https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/2972/40612_B0150942-00012 (PAYWALL)

James, son of James and Sarah Reading of the Parish of St. Mary., Warwick, born September 20th 1811 and baptized Oct'r 27 1811 . . .

"Shipping Intelligence", The Sydney Monitor (28 September 1838), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32161370 

On Wednesday [26th] . . . the barque Lady Fitzherbert, 386 Tons, Captain James Ferrier, from London, 17th May. Lading Merchandise. Cabin Passengers . . . Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax and three children, James Reading . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 March 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12416837

This Morning is Published. No. III. Of the New South Wales Monthly Magazine.
CONTENTS . . . Sacred Music, No. II . . .
Printed by James Reading King-street, opposite Messrs. O'Reilly and Bradley's, and sold by all Booksellers.

"MARRIAGE", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1843), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12426599 

On Thursday last, at the Independent Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Ross, Mr. James Reading, to Tabitha, second daughter of the Rev. L. E. Threlkeld.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (22 October 1853), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12949747

NOTICE. THE undersigned have this day entered into partnership, in the business of General Printers, &c.
JAMES READING.
ISAAC WELLBANK.
October 22, 1853.

"BIRTHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 October 1855), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12975424

On the 1st instant, at her residence, Bourke-street, Surry Hills, Mrs. J. W. Reading, of a daughter.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 July 1864), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30934191 

MUSIC, BOOK, and PRINT DEPOSITORY . . . 356, George-street (late Clarke's), Sydney.
READING and WELLBANK beg respectfully to announce to their friends and the public of New South Wales, that they have purchased from the trustees of the estate of Mr. J. R. Clarke, the whole of the Stock, comprising Music, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Framed and Unframed Lithographic and other Prints, Photographs, Stereoscopes and Slides, Photographic Albums . . .
PRINTED MUSIC.
The large and choice selection of printed music, vocal and instrumental, for which the establishment is already celebrated, will be supplemented by monthly importations - per Overland Mail - of every new and popular publication from London.
Catalogues of the principal Songs, Pieces, &c., are in course of preparation, and, when ready, may be had on application gratis . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (16 July 1868), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28422759

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (31 August 1868), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13171928 

NOTICE. - Mr. JAMES READING, the surviving partner in the firm of "Reading and Wellbank," of No. 366, George-street, and No. 13, Bridge-street, Book and Music Sellers, Stationers and Printers, having purchased from the Executrix of the late Mr. Isaac Wellbank all her interest in the business, begs to announce that in future it will be carried on under the name, style, and firm of JAMES READING and CO. Sydney, 28th August, 1868.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (12 October 1868), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13174182

POPULAR MUSIC.
God bless our Sailor Prince; Glover's popular patriotic song (with chorus), 2s 6d, per post 2s 8d; The Goodbye at the Door, sung by Mr. Lascelles, 2s, per post 2s 2d.
Who's at my window? 2s ; Ye tears, 2s; No one to love, 1s 6d; "I cannot sing the old songs," 2s 8d; Home, sweet home, 6d ; and Alice, where art thou? 2s; all sung by Madame Anna Bishop.
Per Mail Steamer. - The Songs, Duets, and Pianoforte Pieces from Verdi's "I due Foscari."
J. READING and CO., Music Sellers, 356, George-street.

[2 music advertisements], The Sydney Morning Herald (19 October 1868), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13174430 

POPULAR SONGS, Pieces, Solos, Duets, and Dance Music, for SALE by J. READING and CO., Music Sellers, 360, George-street . . . [stock list]

NEW MUSIC. KAIKOURA WALTZES, by Miss Drewe, 3s, post 3s 2d;
I'VE WAITED AND WATCHED, by J. C, Fisher, 2s 6d, post 2s 8d.
NO ONE TO LOVE, as sung by Madame Anna Bishop, price 2s, post 2s 2d.
J. READING mid CO., Music Publishers and Sellers, 356, George-street, Sydney.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (15 May 1871), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13238772 

POPULAR COLONIAL MUSIC - Kaikoura waltzes, 3s,; Bombay galop, 3s.; "Love among the roses," Schottische, 1s. 6d.; Australian mazurka, 2s.; Cornstalk polka, 2s 6d. J. READING and CO., Musicsellers.

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 June 1878), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13420064

READING. - June 17, at his late residence, Premier-terrace, William-street, James Reading, late of Warwick, England, aged 63 years.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 December 1878), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13425686 

NEW MUSIC - "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR." -
The new Patriotic Song, sung with great applause by Mr. A. Fairfax, will be ready in a few days.
J. READING and CO., 356, George-street.

[2 music advertisements], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 February 1879), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28390922

CLEARANCE SALE OF DAMAGED MUSIC.
JAS. READING and CO. respectfully intimate that in their Clearance Sale of
STOCK DAMAGED BY the LATE FIRE, THE MUSIC IS VERY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED.
IT IS NOW OFFERED AT MERELY NOMINAL PRICES, and consists of SONGS and DUETS, PIANO PIECES, DANCE MUSIC, WALTZES, QUADRILLES, GALOPS, Polkas, &c, &c. . . .

MUSIC - J. READING AND CO.'S LIST . . .

Musical editions:

Reading and Wellbank (sample):

https://trove.nla.gov.au/music/search?l-publictag=Reading+and+Wellbank (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Be kind to the loved ones at home, Christy's minstrels song and chorus, sung by Mr. Charles Stewart (Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, [? 1863/64])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32323512 (DIGITISED)

The Molly Asthore waltzes composed by Douglas Callen (Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, [1864 or later])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11355596/version/19695964 

From J. R. Clarke's plates

Grand octave waltz for the pianoforte by Alexander Rea (Sydney: Reading & Wellbank, [1864])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23386884 (DIGITISED)

Under the holly, a cantata, words written by Robert P. Whitworth; music composed by James C. Fisher, for the Sydney Tonic Sol-Fa Association [wordbook only] (Sydney: Reading & Wellbank, 1865)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22277703 

Royal sailor waltzes, by the composer Edward Lord, Jnr. (Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931560 (DIGITISED)

Hymn, a tribute to Prince Alfred, to whom by special permission it is respectfully dedicated by Montague Younger [words by L. M. Harrison] (Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, [1868])

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931778 (DIGITISED)

J. Reading and Co. (from 1868):

https://trove.nla.gov.au/music/search?l-publictag=James+Reading+d1878 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

Bibliography and resources:

Prue Neidorf, A guide to dating music published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899 (M.A. thesis, University of Wollongong, 1999), 225-26

http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2926 (DIGITISED)

READING, James W. (James W. READING; J. W. READING; Mr. READING)

Musician, vocalist, banjoist, flutina player, delineator, dancer, minstrel, serenader

Arrived (1) Sydney, NSW, by April 1850
Departed (1) Fremantle, WA, 10 December (per Royal Saxon, for Calcutta)
Arrived (2) Melbourne, VIC, 2 May 1853 (per Marlborough, from Calcutta, 12 March)
Active Sydney, NSW, until 1856

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#READING-James-W (shareable link to this entry)

Summary:

Nothing can be discovered of the identity of the minstrel-serenader James W. Reading before of after his first and last documented appearances in Sydney, respectively in 1850 (definitely) and 1856 (probably). As to nationality, he was perhaps more probably, like earliest-known associates, English-born, rather than north American, though this is by no means certain.

Reading was a foundation member of the Blythe Waterland Serenders in Sydney in March-April 1850, originally a quartet also consisting of Henry Burton (who performed as Blythe Waterland), and the brothers Charles and George Mason (who performed as Charles and George Howard). It is possible, therefore, that "Reading" was likewise a stage pseudonym. Burton had arrived in the colonies in Adelaide in December 1849, and the Mason/Howards were probably new arrivals in Sydney in March 1850, and it is perhaps likely that Reading arrived with one or the other of them.

After a provincial tour northwards and into the Hunter region of NSW at the end of May, the Howards left the combination in Sydney in June and formed their own new troupe. Evidently smarting at the defection, Reading and Burton went on alone to Goulburn and Bathurst, and by late July were in Melbourne, rebranded as "Waterland and Reading's Serenaders".

By the time they arrived in Hobart in early August 1850, they had engaged two other company members, Lavater West and S. Walgrove.

By early November 1850 Burton/Waterland had also left the company. He was replaced by the well-known local actor and vocalist John Proctor Hydes, and under the banner of "Reading and Hydes' Ethiopian Serenaders", the quartet appeared in Brisbane and Sydney before the end of the year, before apparently disbanding.

During the summer season of early 1851, Reading appears to have been a regular company member at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney. By April, however, he had teamed up again with the Mason/Howards and in May and June toured with them to South Australia as the "Ohio Serenaders".

Back in Sydney in late September 1851, Reading joined the originally American company, the New York Serenaders for the remainder of their Sydney season, replacing Charles Cushing, who had returned to California. After their last Sydney performance in October, Reading and the company sailed on the Royal Saxon, bound for Calcutta, but made the most of layovers en route to give concerts in Hobart and Perth.

Having sailed from Calcutta via Ceylon, they were based in Bombay from July to November 1852, giving concerts at the Grant Road Theatre. Despite their earlier advertised intention to sail on for Europe, in March 1853 they left Calcutta on the Marlborough to return to Australia, and arrived in Melbourne in May. Travelling on to Sydney, the troupe then resumed performing there until December, when they decided to disband.

Reading was back in Sydney in the early part of 1854, billed to appear at the Victoria Theatre in January and March. Thereafter, his movements are undocumented until May-June 1855, when he joined one of the Mason/Howards, and Joseph Fairchild (alias Faulkner) and Frederick Harrington, all then Sydney-based, in an ad hoc minstrel combination engaged by Moreton Bay entrepreneur John Cooling to give concerts in Brisbane and Ipswich.

Finally, in Sydney in August 1856, he was probably the Mr. Reading who, as "Squibby", was one of trio of minstrels, also including Felix Garmone ("Sambo") and J. W. Brenni ("Bingy"), who were "engaged expressly to give effect to the delineation of slave life", in Frank Fowler's theatrical adaptation of Uncle Tom's cabin, at the Lyceum Theatre.

Documentation:

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 April 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12916928

TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS.
ON account of the enthusiastic reception with which Blythe Waterland's Serenaders were received on both Monday and Wednesday Evenings, they will give another Ethiopian Concert on Saturday, the 6th April, when those who did not go on the other evenings, may have an opportunity of witnessing these graphic delineations of Ethiopian Character.
PROGRAMME.
Part I.
Overture - Caliph of Bagdad - Company
Song and Chorus - Buffalo Gals - James W. Reading
Melody - (Banjo.) Pretty Little Dark-ey'd Maid - B. Waterland
Lament - Ole Uncle Ned - George B. Howard
Song - (Banjo.) Don't believe in Stephen - B. Waterland
Refrain - Lynchburg Town - Charles V. Howard
Song and Chorus - Walk along John - James W. Reading
Song - (Banjo.) Lucy Long - B. Waterland
Song and Chorus - (Two Banjos.) - Neber do to gib it up so - James W. Reading
Part II.
Solo - (Banjo.) Christ Church Bells - James W. Reading
Song and Chorus - (Two Banjos ) Oh, Susunnah - J. W. Reading
Ballad - Rosa Lee - George B. Howard
Medley - (Banjo.) De tinkling ob de Banjo - B. Waterland
Song and Chorus - Johnny Bicker - Charles V. Howard
Ballad - (Two Banjos.) Dearest Mae. - George B. Howard
Song - (Banjo.) Dandy Jim - B. Waterland
Refrain and Chorus - Ole Grey Goose - Charles V. Howard
De whole to conclude wid de celumbrated Slow Movement Quick Step known as de RAILWAY GALLOP!!
Doors open at half-past seven, to commence at eight precisely. Admission 2s.; reserved seats 3s.

"ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", Bell's Life in Sydney (6 April 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59770450

Mr. Blythe Waterland, Mr. C. V. Howard, Mr. G. B. Howard, and Mr. J. W. Reading, have given two concerts at the Royal Hotel, which have been remarkably successful. This company has the merit of being the first that has brought the peculiarities of the "[REDACTED]," in a contracted way, before the Sydney public. Mr. Hydes, at the Victoria Theatre, had preciously paved the way for these ebon eccentricities, and very cleverly he pourtrayed them; but he was alone, and did not possess the advantages which these gentlemen can boast. There are in the new quartette two excellent banjo players, one equally good accordianist, and a first-rate trambourinist [sic], and these musical abilities, added to a strong perception, and marked delineation of character, render the Ethiopian Serenaders' Concert one of the best features in the city. Their efforts have fortunately been rewarded. On Monday the room was crowded, and on Thursday there was (to use a theatrical term,) "a good house," although the attraction of Mr. Deane's Concert kept many away. It would be almost invidious, where the four are so good, to select any of their various performances; but we feel inclined to say, that Mr. Waterland's "Lucy-Long," Mr. Reading's "Christ Church Bells," Mr. G. B. Howard's "Rosa Lee," Mr. C. V. Howard's "Johnny Baker," and the "Railway Gallop," were the gems which sparkled most brightly in the "dark" mine of entertainment. These gentlemen will repeat their performances on Saturday, after which they will, we are given to understand, commence a provincial tour. Windsor, during "the race time," being their first country "meet." If they there meet with success proportionate to their merits, they will have nothing to complain of.

ASSOCIATIONS: John Proctor Hydes (vocalist, actor); Edward Smith Deane (musician)

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 June 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12918730 

THE ETHIOPIAN 8ERENADERS. MESSSRS. BLYTHE WATERLAND, and J. W. READING, beg to notify to the public, in reference to an advertisement which appeared in yesterday's Herald from the Messrs. Howards, that they have selected a SPLENDID NEW BAND OF SERENADERS, which is now in active practice, and who will in a few days solicit the patronage of the public.
Messrs. Waterland and Reading's motive for this announcement is to guard their former supporters from being imposed upon by pretenders, whose only claim is the circumstance of their having once been engaged as part of their Company.
Sydney, June 13.

"SHIPPING NEWS", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (7 August 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2962340 

6 - Arrived the schooner Martha and Elizabeth, 81 tons, White, from Port Phillip, with stock. Cabin - Mr. Waterland, Mr. Reading, Mr. West, Mr. Walgrove, the Ethiopian Serenaders.

[Advertisement], The Courier (31 August 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2962217

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. BONES' BENEFIT.
MR. J. W. READING begs to inform the inhabitants of Hobart Town and its vicinity, that his BENEFIT is fixed for TUESDAY NEXT, the 3rd of September . . .
MR. J. W. R. for that night has chosen some of the best and choicest of the Ethiopian Melodies, being HIS LAST APPEARANCE in Hobart Town.

"THE SERENADERS", Bell's Life in Sydney (9 November 1850), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59771495

Mr. J. P. Hydes having fraternized with Mr. Reading, the original Bones of the Serenading Company, from which Mr. Waterland has retired, a series of Ethiopian Concerts have been announced by these gentlemen, who purpose giving farewell entertainments in the country districts and the metropolis prior to their departure for California. The popularity and unquestionable talent of Mr. Hydes augurs well for their success, and our best wishes will attend them on their professional travels. They purpose leaving their P. P. C. cards with their Maitland and Newcastle friends during the ensuing week.

[Advertisement], The Moreton Bay Courier (23 November 1850), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3715047

READING AND HYDES' ETHIOPIAN SERENADES!
MR. J. W. READING and. MR. J. P. HYDES respectfully to inform the inhabitants of IPSWICH and its vicinity, that they will give their
ETHIOPIAN ENTERTAINMENTS on SATURDAY, MONDAY, and TUESDAY Evenings, November 23, 25, and 26, 1850.
PROGRAMME - PART I.
GRAND MEDLEY - Overture - Full Band
SONG & CHORUS - Ware am de spot - L. West
CHAUNT - Walk Jaw Bone - S. Walgrove
REFRAIN - Cynthia Sue - J. P. Hydes
SONG - Jonny Boker - J. W. Reading
LAMENT - Carry me back to Ole Virginny - L. West
SOLO - (Flutina) - J. W. Reading
CHAUNT - Ole Joe - S. Walgrove
SONG - Come Day, Go Day - J. W. Reading
(An interval of ten minutes.)
PART II.
SOLO - (Banjo) - Bells - J. W. Reading
OPERATIC BURLESQUE - Stop dat Knocking - L. West
SONG - Ipswich Gals - J. P. Hydes
CHAUNT - Oh Susannah - J. W. Reading
EXTRAVAGANZA - Ole Dan Tucker - S. Walgrove
REFRAIN - Dearest Mae - L. West
Duet - Whistle and Bones - Reading & Hydes
MELODY - De Sandy Boy - J. W. Reading
SONG AND CHORUS - Ginger Blue - J. P. Hydes
The whole to conclude wid de RAILWAY GALLOP.
Front Seats, 3s.. Back Seats, 2s.-Doors open at half-past 7, to commence at 8 precisely.
*** An entire change on Tuesday Evening.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 December 1850), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923169

First appearance in Sydney of Reading and Hydes' celebrated company of ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.
MESSRS. READING and HYDES (the latter formerly of the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney,) having returned from a highly successful trip throughout the district of Moreton Bay, respectfully announce to their patrons and friends, that they will give a short series of THREE ETHIOPIAN CONCERTS, at the Royal Hotel, commencing on THIS EVENING, December 9.
The unprecedented success and boisterous applause that has hitherto attended these gentlemen's efforts, induces them confidently to invite the families of Sydney to their Farewell Concerts, where they will hear to the highest perfection the music of the American Banjo, by Professor Reading . . .

"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (8 March 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251533047 

We understand that Mr. J. W. Reading, who short a time as he has been in Sydney, has become a special favourite, will take his first benefit at the Victoria on Thursday next. Those whom he has so heartily gratified on many occasions will not fail to go and listen to him, and all we regret is that we have heard it is his farewell to the Sydney stage. Poor "Bones" is going back to "ole Virginny."

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (13 March 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12925498 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . . . FOR THE BENEFIT OF J. W. READING.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 13, Being his farewell appeal to a Sydney audience, and his Last Appearance at this Theatre.
Mr. Reading for the last time as the real Virginian [REDACTED]! . . .
The Evening's Entertainments will commence with a Drama of great interest, entitled CARLINE, THE FEMALE BRIGAND.
After which, Mr. Reading will appear as the real Virginian [REDACTED], and sing, (first time) "Clar de Kitchen," in character, Banjo accompaniment, assisted by Mr. Strong, on the violin . . .
[REDACTED] Song, "Dandy Jim," Mr. Reading, bone castanets accompaniment.
The whole to conclude with the favorite and laughable Farce, entitled SLASHER AND CRASHER.
Boxes may be secured . . . of Mr. Reading, at his residence, Clarence-street North, near Petty's Hotel . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (4 April 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60033858

ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.
MESSRS. HOWARD beg respectfully to announce that they will (in conjunction with Mr. J. W. Reading, late of the "Victoria Theatre,") give another of their popular Ethiopian Entertainments, in the Saloon of the Royal Hotel, THIS EVENING, Friday. April 4th, when several novelties will be introduced.
Admission, 1s.; Front Seats, 2s. Doors open at half past 7; to commence at 8 o'clock.
N.B. - Messrs. Howard and Reading, the original serenaders of this colony, will, on and after this date, be known as the "Ohio Serenaders."

"DEPARTURES", Empire (14 May 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60034877 

May 13. - Wild Irish Girl, brig, 125 tons, Captain Todd, for Adelaide. Passengers - Mr. Howard, Mr. G. Howard, Mr. Reading . . .

[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (13 June 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207007532 

OHIO SERENADERS. THIRD FASHIONABLE ENTERTAINMENT. Change of Programme. MESSRS. HOWARD and READING . . . will give their THIRD CONCERT in Adelaide THIS EVENING (Friday), June 13th, at the EXCHANGE ROOMS, King William-street . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (26 September 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60123787 

ROYAL HOTEL. NEW YORK SERENADERS . . . will give their Thirty-sixth Ethiopian Musical Soiree at the above Hotel, This EVENING, Friday, September 26th, on which occasion they will be assisted by Mr. Reading, who will also play one of his Banjo solos . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (22 October 1851), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60124567 

ROYAL HOTEL. Last appearance of the NEW YORK SERENADERS IN AUSTRALIA.
FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MESSRS. NASH, KITTS, AND WHITE . . . THIS EVENING, Wednesday, October 22nd . . .
Banjo solo - "Christ Church Bells" - Mr. Reading.
done duet - Messrs. Lee and Reading . . .
Jenny get your hoe-cake done - Mr. Reading . . .
Juliana Johnson - Mr. Reading . . .

"DEPARTURES", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 October 1851), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12931572

October 26. - Royal Saxon, barque, 510 tons, Captain Charlesworth, for Calcutta via Hobart Town. Passengers . . . Messrs. J. C. Kitts, J. P. Nash, J. C. Lee, W. H. White, W. J. Reading, J. C. Pierce . . .

"THE NEW YORK SERENADERS", The Courier (15 November 1851), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2959904

. . . The Sydney journals bear ample testimony to their abilities. Upon their departure hence one of their number left them, but fortunately an able substitute was found in Mr. J. W. Reading, formerly of the Ethiopian Serenaders of Sydney. Their route to Europe being by way of Calcutta, passages were taken in the Royal Saxon, which touched here to ship horses. Advantage was taken of this opportunity, and the company gave two soirees at the Theatre on Monday and Wednesday evenings last . . . Mr. Reading has assumed Mr. Cushing's place as a banjoist. Mr. Kitts performs the second instrument of that character . . .

"THE NEW YORK ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS", The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News [Perth, WA] (12 December 1851), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3172950 

A party of minstrels under the above name, arrived in the colony on Saturday last, per Royal Saxon, from Sydney, on their way to Calcutta, and on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday last, enlivened our metropolis with two vocal and instrumental concerts . . .

India and South Asia (early 1852 to March 1853):

[Advertisement], Bombay Gazette (28 June 1852), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002920/18520628/002/0001 (PAYWALL)

NEW YORK SERENADERS . . . intend giving a Series of ETHIOPIAN MUSICAL SOIREES IN BOMBAY, and will arrive in that City by the July Steamer from Ceylon . . .
This company was organized in the United States in 1848, and performed there with great success; and have since given their Entertainments in South America, California, Sandwich Islands, Society Wands, Van Diemen's Land, Australia, Bengal and Madras Presidencies, and Ceylon - and are now "En-Route" to the Continent of Europe and Great Britain . . .

"THE SECOND ETHIOPIAN SERENADE . . .", Bombay Gazette (20 October 1852), 3

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002920/18521020/038/0003 (PAYWALL)

. . . since the return of the New York Serenaders to Bombay, came off on Monday evening et the Grant Read Theatre, but the house was not well filled . . . in the "Trio" Mr. Reading was very successful; he is decidedly a very humorous player. "The Locomotive Rail Road Overture" was very ingenious and entertaining . . .

[Advertisement], Bombay Gazette (15 November 1852), 1

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002920/18521115/012/0001 (PAYWALL)

FAREWELL CONCERT OF THE NEW YORK SERENADERS AND LAST APPEARANCE IN WESTERN INDIA.
BENEFIT OF MESSRS. WHITE AND READING . . . on MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14TH . . .
the company leave for Calcutta in the Steamer Ganges, on the 16th . . .

Australia (May 1853 to August 1856):

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (3 May 1853), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4792228 

May 2 - Marlborough ship, 1210 tons, Allen Young, from Calcutta 12th March. Passengers - cabin: . . . . J. W. Reading, J. O. Pearce [sic], J. C. Lee, J. E. Kitts, J. P. Nash . . .

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (17 May 1853), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12945867 

May 16. - Mary and Ellen, schooner, 140 tons, Captain Tucker, from Melbourne 11th instant. Passengers . . . Messrs. Kitts, Pearce, Lee, Redding [sic] . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 December 1853), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12950827

ROYAL HOTEL. - This Evening, Thursday, December 1. - Mr. J. W. Reading's Benefit.
Grand Solo on the Bellows . . . Go and hear the Solo on the kitchen bellows . . . Last Concert but three of the New York Serenaders . . .

"NEW YORK SERENADERS", Illustrated Sydney News (3 December 1853), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63613735 

The farewell benefit of Mr. J. E. Kitts took place on Monday evening, as announced in our last, when we were glad to see such a good house, although, from his recognised popularity, this was no more than we anticipated. On Thursday evening, Mr. J. W. Reading, (we believe the oldest delineator of negro character in the colony,) took his farewell benefit, and, as we expected, from the excellent bill presented, was greeted with a bumper house. We would recommend Mr. Reading, however, to confine himself, in future, to his own legitimate instruments, upon which he is really clever, without attempting to bloae [sic], or bellow music out of a pair of Bellows, although it was certainly far from being a failure . . .

[Advertisement], Empire (16 January 1854), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60148317 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. MONDAY, l6th JANUARY, 1854. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. ROGERS . . .
Mr. Reading will appear and perform his inimitable [REDACTED] Break Down . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Herbert Rogers (actor, vocalist)

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

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12960568 

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 2. For the Benefit of a portion of the Members of the Orchestra . . . | the splendid Band of the 11th Regiment will attend and perform several of their most popular airs . . . Negro Melody, Dandy Jim, Mr. Reading . . .

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", The Moreton Bay Courier (26 May 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3708522 

May 25 - Waratah, steamer, 360 tons, Warner, from Sydney, 21st instant. Passengers. - His Honour the Chief Justice, the Hon. the Attorney-General . . . Mr. Mason, Mr. Falconer [sic], Mr. Reading, Mr. Harrington . . .

"COOLING'S CONCERTS", The Moreton Bay Courier (9 June 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3712945 

We regret that Mr. Cooling's Concerts at the School of Arts, have not met with that degree of patronage which his enterprise and the merits of the company deserved. No doubt the attractions of the circus, being so novel in Brisbane, materially contributed to thin the attendance at the concerts, but it is a great pity to think that loss should be sustained by the projector of these amusements. On Tuesday evening there were scarcely twenty persons present, and it evidently required painful efforts on the part of the performers to be at all facetious before such a beggarly account of empty benches. The singing was very good, and without particularising other songs, we may mention that of Mr. Faulkner in "My Skiff am by de Shore," and Mr. Howard in "My Canoe," were particularly happy. But as a personification of the "[REDACTED]," Mr. Reading decidedly bore away the palm, and kept the audience constantly on the broad grin with his extraordinary contortions of body and feature. At the close of the performances on Tuesday evening, Mr. Howard came forward and returned thanks, announcing that they were about to proceed to Ipswich, and would again appear at the School of Arts on Thursday next, not as Ethiopian Serenaders, but in their own proper colour, when they would be assisted by Mr. Diggles in a variety of songs, duetts, &c. We think this a wise resolution, and hope that it will be patronised. Mr. Reading, the "Bones" of the party, then came forward, and, without speaking, made a very significant pantomimic address to the slender audience, intimating plainly enough that they were much disappointed at the poor patronage they had received. This little bit of ballet action was taken in good part. Indeed it would have been impossible to have denied it justice.

"IPSWICH (From our Correspondent)", The Moreton Bay Courier (16 June 1855), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3710411 

MR. COOLING'S Concerts of the Ethiopian Serenaders were undertaken chiefly on the strength of promises of support made by the Brisbane people. There, however, they proved a failure, bringing the enterprising speculator nothing but loss . . . Of the Company I have formed the opinion that they are much above the average in talent, though unequal to the most celebrated companies in the great merit of faithful imitation. They are first rate melodists, and very clever actors, but do not seem to have studied from nature. They may be, as Mr. Howard says, like captains of slave ships, getting their living by taking off the [REDACTED], but it is in some other slave trade than that on the coast of Africa. Mr. Harrington is possessed of genuine humour. Mr. Reading has great natural capacity for broad force [sic, ? farce], Mr. Howard is a very clever performer upon the flutina, and a very clever singer also, and Mr. Faulkner has a voice which is both very rich and possessed of great compass . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Cooling (concert promoter); Howards Serenaders (minstrel troupe); Faulkner = Joseph Fairchild (vocalist); Frederick Harrington (minstrel); Silvester Diggles (piano)

"SHIPPING. ARRIVALS", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 June 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12970903 

June 23 - Boomerang (s. ) 400 tons, Captain Henry O'Reilly from Moreton Bay the 18th Instant. Passengers . . . Howard, Harrington, Reading, Fairchild . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 August 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12986292

OUR LYCEUM THEATRE, under the management of Messrs. Craven and Stephens.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN TO-NIGHT. Miss A. M. QUINN, Mr. J. H. VINSON, and the whole of the powerful company with numerous auxiliaries. On MONDAY, August 25th, the performances will commence with (first time) an entirely new dramatic story (founded on Mrs. H. B. Stowe's popular work), and written expressly for Miss A. M. Quinn, with new plot, scenes, situations, and characters by Frank Fowler, Esq.,
Member of the Literary Institute of the British Empire, &c, of EVA, or LEAVES FROM UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
The overture and entire music composed and arianged by M. Winterbottom; the new and appropriate scenery painted by Mr. Guy; the panorama of New Orleans by Mr. Thomas; the [REDACTED] dances and serenades by the Ethiopian Minstrels engaged expressly to give effect to the delineation of slave life! . . .
Squibby, Mr. Reading; Sambo, Mr. German; Bingy, Mr. Brenny . . .
In the course of the piece - Chorus - "I'll throw myself away," Messrs. Brenny, Reading, German, &c. . . .
Chorus - "Mississippi am a berry fine boat," with banjo and tamborine accompaniment, Messrs. Brenny, Reading, and Felix German . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Henry T. Craven and W. H. Stephens (proprietors); Frank Fowler (playwright); John Winterbottom (conductor); Felix Garmone (minstrel); J. W. Brenni (minstrel)

Musical works:

Songs of the serenaders (1850)

Songs of the serenaders, sung nightly by them, with great applause, before his excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, the hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart, and the elite of the aristocracy of New South Wales, part 1 (Sydney: Printed at Trood's Printing Office, n.d. [1850])

Words only; 12 pages; copy at State Library of New South Wales

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/154341774

[Advertisement], The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (29 June 1850), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101730833 

. . . NOTICE - No. 1, of SONGS of the SERENADERS just published by Messrs. Waterland and Reading, may be had at the door, price 1s. each.

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 October 1850), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12921821 

. . . NOTICE. - No. 1 of "Songs of the Serenaders,"
containing 12 Ethiopian Melodies, just published by Messrs. Waterland and Reading, and may be had at the door, price 1s.

Disambiguation - J. Reading (Adelaide, July 1852; ? J. W. Reading then in Bombay):

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

[Advertisement], South Australian Register (10 July 1852), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38456598 

TROY KNIGHT - BANJO
MR. NEWSON - TAMBO
And MR. J. READING - BONES
Will appear as the ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS!!
And sing the following Melodies . . . Rosa Mae - Mr. J. Reading . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Troy Knight (minstrel); Frederick Newson (minstrel)

Bibliography and resources:

Richard Waterhouse, "Blackface and the beginnings of bifurcation: the minstrel show and the emergence of an Australian popular stage," Australasian drama studies 14 (1989), (125–47), 129, 131

REED, John (John REED, Sergeant REID; "Serjeant REID")

Musician, band sergeant, Band of the 48th Regiment

? Arrived (with regiment) Sydney, NSW, 3/7 August 1817 (per Matilda, from Cork, 22 March)
? Departed (with regiment) Sydney, NSW, 5 March 1824 (per Greenock, for Madras)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=John+Reed+48th+Regiment (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-2.php#REED-John-48th (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Band of the 48th Regiment (military)

Documentation:

Pay-list of the 48th regiment of foot, 25 December [1816] to 24 March 1817, inclusive; Australian Joint Copying Project (from records of the War Office, London)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1590565849 

[Privates] . . . Reed John . . .

Pay-list of the 48th regiment of foot, 25 December 1823 to 24 June 1824, inclusive; Australian Joint Copying Project (from records of the War Office, London)

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1590842580 (DIGITISED)

[Serjeants] . . . Reed John . . . 15 May . . .

John Onions, paid from the Colonial Fund, 31 December 1824, for conducting the psalmody at St. Philip's, 18 March to 17 September 1824; Colonial Secretary's papers, 1788-1825 (Reel 6039; 4/424 p.417)

https://records-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1e5kcq1/INDEX2477396 (DIGITISED)

[Government notices], The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (3 October 1825), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2184477

DISBURSEMENTS . . . ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT; St. Phillip's Church, Sydney.
Thos. Taber, Clerk, salary for the year 15l and Rich. Wade Steeple-keeper ditto at 10l - 25 0 0 - 125 00
Paid Serjeant Reid, and others of the band of the 48th Regt. for performing sacred music, from 1st April 1823, to 1st April 1824 - 42 00
Ditto John Onions, for conducting the psalmody, on Thursday evenings, and Sunday afternoons, from Mar. 18, to Sept. 7 - 19 00
Ditto Edward Hoare, for ditto from 8th Sept. to 7th Dec. - 10 00
Ditto Serjeant Kavanagh, and others for conducting the psalmody on Sunday mornings, from 7th March, to 7th Sept. - 21 00
Ditto Mr. Roberts [sic], for ditto and writing music, from 8th Sept. to 7th Dec. - 13 00
Ditto James Bloodworth, for 60lbs. of candles, from 16th Jan. to 22d Dec. - 12 00
Ditto Robert Howe, for 2 advertisements, 10s. 100 printed receipts, 12s. 6d. and 10 quires of medium paper for music, 50s. from 25th Dec. 1823, to 13th June, 1824. - 14 10
Ditto R. Butt, joiner, for alterations in vestry room, making a small table, repairing a window sash and the belfry door, parting a pew, making a door, and sundry jobs - 19 00
Ditto T. Edwards, for a mop, 1 hair, and 2 rush brooms, 8s. 6d. binding 4 music books, 20s. - 5 70 . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: John Onions (conductor of psalmody); Edward Hoare (conductor of psalmody); Thomas Kavanagh (conductor of psalmosy), master of the Band of the 3rd Regiment (military); Edward McRoberts (conductor of psalmody); Robert Howe (printer)

REED, Joseph (Joseph REED; Mr. J. REED)

Amateur musician, violinist, chamber music player, architect

Born Constantine, Cornwall, England, 1823; baptised 23 February 1823; son of Nichola REED and Amy HITCHINS
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, July 1853
Married Hannah Elliot LANE, Melbourne, VIC, 26 March 1885
Died Melbourne, VIC, 29 April 1890

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Joseph+Reed+1823-1890 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470064 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-2.php#REED-Joseph (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

England census, 30 March 1851, St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 1909

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/CONHO107_1909_1909-0193 (PAYWALL)

Tregothnan Office / Joseph Reed / Head / U[nmarried] / 28 / Land Surveyor / [born] [Cornwall] Constantine

Diary of John Buckley Castieau, 18 January 1855; transcribed and published online, courtesy of Mark Finnane, by the University of Newcastle

https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/textmaptext/castieaudiaries/map.php?name=1855 (DIGITISED)

[Thursday 18 January 1855]. . . Called upon Mr. Read the Architect, a clever man in his Profession but addicted to the violin which doubtless my want of taste makes me fail to appreciate . . .

"NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (4 September 1876), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200235671 

The trustees and members of the Musical Association of Viotoria held their weekly meeting for election and proposing new members and associates on Saturday evening, in the German Association's rooms, Nissen's Cafe. Mr. C. G. Elsasser presided. Mr. C. A. Tracy, organist of St. Patricks Cathedral, and Mr. G. F. Dumoulin, violinist, proposed by Mr. Siede as members, and Mr. W. S. Lyster, of the Prince of Wales Opera House, and Mr. J. H. Turner, organist of the Brunswick-street Church, as associates, were unanimously elected. The following gentlemen are candidates for election as members and associates at next meeting - Mr. A. Montague, pianist, &c., - Mr. P. Montague, violinist, as members, and Mr. J. Reed, architect, as an associate, proposed by Mr. S. Chapman; Mr. Siede proposed Mr. W. A. C. A'Beckett and Mr. Mathias; Mr. Lundborg proposed Mr. G. L. Allan, of Allan and Co., Collins-street; and Mr. Perraton proposed Mr. George Wrigley, certificated singing master and organist, head master of the Middle Brighton State school, as associates. The meeting adjourned until Saturday next.

"MR. JOSEPH REED", The Argus (30 April 1890), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8603311 

The many friends of Mr. Joseph Reed, who during the last 25 or 30 years held the position of one of the leading architects of Victoria, will regret to learn that he died yesterday morning at his residence, Arnoe, St. James's Park, Hawthorn . . . Mr. Reed was born in Cornwall of a good family, and was early in life connected with the Earl of Falmouth's estates as an architect. Whilst he was engaged on the estates in his professional capacity, some works he was superintending were stopped, owing to the death of the Earl of Falmouth, and he determined upon emigrating to Victoria, which had then become famous through its gold diggings. He arrived here about 35 years ago, when there was scarcely a building in the colony worthy of notice from an architectural point of view . . .

Mr. Reed was over 60 ears or age when he died. He has left a widow, but no children. He was an amateur musician, and possessed one of the best collections of old violins in the world, among them being two which are held to be undoubtedly by Stradivarius. Nothing delighted him more than to hold private musical gatherings at his residence, where he had a splendid library of musical works for violin or piano performances. His library was frequently placed at the disposal of musicians, which led to many choice works being publicly performed which would otherwise have remained unknown in this colony.

"Death of Mr. Joseph Reed", Weekly Times (3 May 1890), 11

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221185287 

. . . Mr. Reed did not marry until a few years ago, and leaves no family. In addition to being eminent in his own profession, Mr. Reed was an accomplished musician, and very fond of all branches of art, and these qualities, combined with genial good nature, made his society coveted in cultivated circles . . .

Bibliograhy and resources:

David Saunders, "Reed, Joseph (1823-1890)", Australian dictionary of biography 6 (1976)

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reed-joseph-4459 

. . . Reed shared a common interest in music with Hannah Elliot Lane; they were married on 26 March 1885 and next day left for an eighteen months tour of Europe. By 1890 Reed was in financial difficulties and that year took seriously ill. He died on 29 April "of inanition and exhaustion", and was buried in Boroondara (Kew) cemetery. His estate included several violins by Stradivarius. His widow remarried in England, becoming Mrs. Boase, and had a son whom she named Joseph Reed Stradivarius. She later left her husband in India and brought the boy to Melbourne where she died in 1947 . . .

REED, Thomas (1795-1871) - see main page Thomas REED

Violinist, cellist, double bass player, string player, orchestra leader, music class leader, composer, music retailer

REED, Emma (1832-1915) (daughter of the above) - see main page Emma REED

Pianist, music teacher

REES, Alice = Madame VOGRICH

REES, Andrew (Andrew REES; Andre REES) = Andrew REIS

REES, Bartholomew (Bartholomew REES; Mr. B. REES)

Theatrical and musical agent, manager

Born Philadelphia, USA, c. 1834/35
Arrived (1) Sydney, NSW, 3 December 1855 (per Kit Carson, from San Francisco, 2 October)
Departed (2) Sydney, NSW, 24 September 1857 (per Electra, for London)
Arrived (2) Sydney, NSW, 20 April 1859 (per Caroline, from San Francisco, 20 February)
Departed (2) Melbourne, VIC, around June 1860 (for England)
? Died London, England, 1902 (1st quarter), aged "71"

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

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REES-Bartholomew (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Anna Bishop (vocalist, client); Nicholas Charles Bochsa (musician, client); John Drew (actor, client); Eugenio and Giovanna Bianchi (vocalists, clients)

Documentation:

"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE", Empire [Sydney, NSW] (4 December 1855), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60170619 

December 3. - Kit Carson, American ship, 996 tons, Captain Seth Crowell, from San Francisco October 2. Passengers - Monsieur Le Chevalier C. N. Bochsa, Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Maria Phaleu, W. J. Berry, Delia Berry, Martin Schultz, Bartholomew Rees, John Jeffrey, and 15 in the steerage. Agents, Wilkinson Brothers and Co.

"SYDNEY", The Argus [Melbourne, VIC] (8 December 1855), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4825206 

The celebrated Madame Anna Bishop, her musical director and manager, Bochsa, Mr. B. Rees, secretary, and Miss Maria Pheling, arrived on Sydney on the 3rd inst., in the Kit Carson, from San Francisco.

"THE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE; LATE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE", The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator (19 July 1856), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251541101 

. . . We observe, in the list of arrivals, the name of Mr. B. Rees, the agent to Madame Bishop. He will leave, this day, by the steamer for Melbourne, having, we believe, come up to Sydney, upon professional arrangements, which the musical world will, no doubt, be glad to hear of.

"MADAME ANNA BISHOP", The Hobarton Mercury (23 January 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3340352 

Mr. Rees has arrived in Hobart Town to make the necessary arrangements for a limited number, not exceeding four, concerts, to be given by Madame Anna Bishop, Mr. George Loder, and Herr Siede . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Loder (conductor, pianist, composer); Julius Siede (flautist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (18 June 1857), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7133776 

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. To Theatrical Artistes.
The Manager begs to publish for the information of Artistes and the public in general the following receipt:
"Received from John Black, Manager of the Princess's Theatre, a full settlement of all claims and demands from the commencement to the termination of the operatic season,
"BARTHOLOMEW REES, Agent for Madame Anna Bishop.
"18th June, 1857."

ASSOCIATIONS: John Melton Black (manager); Princess' Theatre (Melbourne venue)

"DEPARTURE", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (19 September 1857), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59867306 

On Monday Mr. George Loder, whose musical career in this colony has been so successful in connection with the Opera, leaves Sydney for London in the Electra. Mr. Bartholomew Rees also, the indefaligable agent of Madame Bishop in her tour throughout the colonies, leaves by the same vessel. Mr. Rees has while amongst us been much esteemed amidst a large circle of friends.

"THEATRICAL CHITCHAT", The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (5 May 1859), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2470430 

The following items are contained in a letter of a friendly [San Francisco] correspondent of the Melbourne Morning Herald: - "Mr. John Drew (who created such a furore in the Atlantic States) is now playing a very successful engagement at the American; he is without doubt the best Irish comedian we have ever had. Mr. Drew is engaged to Mr. Rees (formerly agent of Madame Bishop) to play an engagement through Australia. Mr. Rees leaves to-morrow in the ship Caroline. I predict an immense success, in Australia for Mr. Drew. Mr. Rees has also engaged Signor and Signora Bianchi, for Australia, a tenor and prima donna of the first order . . .

"TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS)", The Argus (23 April 1859), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5680013 

Sydney, Thursday. The Caroline arrived last night, with news from New York to the 20th January, and from California to the 20th February . . . Mr. Rees, the agent of Madame Anna Bishop, has returned in the Caroline.

"THEATRICALS AND MUSIC. THEATRE ROYAL", Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (9 June 1860), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201375344 

The Victorian stage has, we believe, seen the last of one of the very best comedians that ever trod it - Mr. John Drew - that excellent actor's engagement at the Royal having closed on Saturday night . . . The retirement of Mr. Drew so naturally suggests reference to the simultaneous secession from the corps of theatrical attachés of his business representative, Mr. B. Rees. As agent and secretary for Madame Anna Bishop, Mr. Rees earned for himself a considerable amount of public esteem, which a second visit in Australia confirmed. He returns to England by the next mail steamer, and we believe, contemplates entering into other engagements for the Australian theatrical market. The successful result of his previous speculations is not likely to lead him to undervalue the worth of genuine talent, and his experience of the taste of the Australian public must have convinced him that the asteroids of the firmament of one hemisphere do not shine as stars of the first magnitude in the other. So that we conclude the visit of Mr. Rees to Europe will have some material influence upon the theatrical destinies of this part of the world . . .

England census, 1871, Islington, London; UK National Archives, RG10/254/62/31

https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/4640991:7619 (PAYWALL)

120 Barnsbury St. / Bartholomew Rees / Lodger / Mar. / 37 / Theatrical Agent / [born] Philadelphia, United States
Harriet Rees / Wife / Mar. / 32 / - / [born] Rochester Kent . . .

The trial at bar of Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne, Bart. . . . for perjury, in the Court . . . volume 8 (London: "Englishman" Office, 1880), 806

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SREPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA806 (DIGITISED)

DECLARATIONS CORROBORATING CAPTAIN BARRY . . .
I, MARTIN SCHULTZ, of 47, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, . . . [same text, date, and witness as below]
I, BARTHOLOMEW REES, of 141, Barnsbury-road, Islington, in the county of Middlesex, theatrical agent, say that in the year 1855 I was a passenger with Captain WILLIAN JACKSON BARRY, from San Francisco in America to Sydney in New South Wales, in a ship called the "Kit Carson," when the said Captain WILLIAM JACKSON BARRY had a Red Indian boy with him, whom I well recollect, and whose name, I believe, was Frisco. -
BARTHOLOMEW REES. - Witness, E. KIMBER, solicitor. - August 7, 1879.

ASSOCIATIONS: Tichborne case (event)

REEVE, Edward (Edward REEVE)

Writer, poet, lyricist, journalist

Born Locking, Somerset, England, 15 December 1822; son of John Andrewes REEVE and Mary MORELL
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 25 February 1840 (per Earl Grey)
Married Margaret HENNESSY, Christ Church St. Laurence, Sydney, NSW, 21 March 1847
Died Randwick, NSW, 13 May 1889

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Edward+Reeve+1822-1889 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-538926 (NLA persistent identifier)

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

Musical settings:

God bless you! farewell! (Cesare Cutolo, Sydney, NSW, 1860)

God bless you! farewell! a song written by Edward Reeve, esq., the music being composed in an easy style, and adapted for all voices, with accompaniments for piano or harmonium, by Cesare Cutolo (Sydney: Lewis Moss; Melbourne: Joseph Wilkie; Adelaide: Platts's, [1860])

Copy at the State Library of New South Wales; photocopy at National Library of Australia

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/156931380 

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

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"MUSIC AND DRAMA", Sydney Mail (25 August 1860), 8

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A ballad is now in the course of publication, the music by Signor Cesare Cutolo, and the words from the pen of Mr. Edward Reeve, entitled "Farewell - God bless you." It will be remembered that some very excellent fugitive pieces, under the signature of "Yorick", appeared in a weekly journal some few years back, of which it we believe is one, and has been set to music by the popular pianist . . .

"NEW MUSIC", Empire (18 September 1860), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60498418 

Two publications have during the past week enriched the Sydney album of music, in each case of considerable value. The first is a song by Signor Cesare Cutolo, the genial and talented Italian musician and composer, who has now become a settled resident amongst us. The song is entitled "God bless you, Farewell" - the words by Mr. E. Reeve, and is so thoroughly original in its peculiarity, as to indicate the school whence it emanates, the warmth of mind that has allied tones so appropriate to the idea of the subject. It is very short, and commences in a minor (G) terminating in the major of the same key. Sad and plaintive without being melancholy, the melody of such a farewell must for ages bring back the memory of the friend who uttered it. The song is within the compass of every voice, male or female, - and well adapted for arrangement as a part song, very finished and yet exquisitely simple, by no means overburdened with ornamental accompaniment, the latter being but a few chords, for pianoforte or harmonium. The song is so easy, yet so effective, so pleasing, and so appropriate, that it is evidently destined to be in the hands of every vocaliat, and we hope the composer may be induced to continue his contributions to the art . . . We cannot omit adverting to the very elegant manner in which this music is got up; the first piece, issued by the Caxton Press, almost outshines any London publication . . .

"NEW SONG", The Sydney Morning Herald (18 September 1860), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13046063 

"God bless you - farewell," is the rather novel title of a very welcome addition to the ballad music of Australia, which has just issued from the musical press. The poetry is from the pen of Mr. Edward Reeve, and, with a number of other fugitive pieces of merit, appeared some years ago in one of the Sydney journals, under the signature of "Yorick." The subject of the poet's lay is the final farewell of two lovers, "when the rosy eve was dying into twilight dim and gray." It breathes a feeling of soft melancholy, apparently affected by the deepening shadows of the evening hour, and is expressed without descending into the insipid sentimentalism that characterises the great mass of modern ballads. It is in easy and flowing metre, though in setting it to music there must have been some little difficulty in dealing with the short concluding line of each verse. The music is the composition of Signor Cutolo, and, as announced on the title page, is in an easy religioso style, adapted for all voices, in the key of B flat, and quite in keeping with the words. The pianoforte accompaniment is light and elegant, preserving throughout in the treble an exquisite second to the voice. A composition combining the two qualities of good music and good poetry, can hardly fail to become extremely popular.

ASSOCIATIONS: Cesare Cutolo (composer); Lewis Moss (musicseller, publisher); Joseph Wilkie (musicseller, publisher); Charles Platts (musicseller, publisher)

REEVES, Charles (Charles REEVES; C. REEVES; Mr. REEVES)

Minstrel, serenader, delineator

Active Castlemaine, VIC, by June 1856
Active Melbourne, VIC, 1858
Active Sydney, NSW, until September 1862

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ASSOCIATIONS: ? Fanny Reeves and family below

Documentation:

[Advertisement], Mount Alexander Mail [Castlemaine, VIC] (3 June 1856), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202631478 

ALBERT HOTEL. Wonders will never Cease!!
"TREMONT MINSTRELS." "UNEQUALLED ATTRACTION."
MR. JONES, ever anxious to do all in his power to procure amusement for his friends and public, has, at considerable expense, succeeded in effecting an engagement with the above celebrated troupe of Minstrels, consisting of
Mr. C. Reeves - Sambo; Mr. H. Sharpe - Banjo; Mr. P. J. Stanley - Concertina; Mr. A. Seymore - Bones,
who will appear nightly in their inimitable Entertainment, characteristic of Negro life in the Southern States.
Re-engagement of MR. SMALL, The celebrated Comic Singer. Admission, One Shilling.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joe Small (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Age [Melbourne, VIC] (6 May 1858), 1

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McCOWEN'S, Late Tilke's, CONCERT HALL, Bourke-street east . . .
The usual CONCERTS Will be held every Evening. The ladies and gentlemen at present engaged are - Madame Leon Naej, Mrs. Alfred Oakey, Miss Louisa Sutherland, Mr. C. F. Percival, Mr. G. Ellis, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Luntly, Mr. Reeves, and Mr. Miller. Pianist - Mr. Alfred Oakey. Manager - Mr. J. Miller.

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza and Alfred Oakey (vocalist, pianist); Madame Leon Naej (vocalist); Charles F. Percival (vocalist); Joe Miller (comic vocalist, manager); George Ellis (comic vocalist); Philip Luntley (entertainer)

[Advertisement], The Argus (7 May 1858), 8

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TO CONCERTROOM PROPRIETORS. - THE OHIO SERENADERS, Messrs. Reeves, Luntly, and Burgess, will complete an engagement of three months at McCowan's (late Tilke's) City Concert Hall, on Saturday, May 8th, and will then be open for Re-ENGAGEMENT in town or country.
Address C. Reeves, McCowan's Concert Hall, Bourke-street, Melbourne.

"COSMOPOLITAN OPERA TROUPE", The Sydney Morning Herald (15 September 1862), 5

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The Cosmopolitan Opera Troupe, consisting of Mr. George Ellis, Mr. Charles Reeves, Mr. P. J. Luntley, Mr. C. Battle, and James Johnson, gave their first entertainment at the Temperance Hall, on Saturday evening, and were well received. Their performances gave much pleasure to the audience who appeared fully to appreciate the talent displayed by this little Company. They are to give another entertainment this evening.

REEVES FAMILY

REEVES, Charles Thomas (Charles Thomas REEVES; Charles REEVES; Mr. C. REEVES)

Amateur bass vocalist, choirmaster, conductor, carpenter

Born Surrey, England, 25 July 1820; baptised St. Mary's, Newington, 27 August 1820; son of Thomas REEVES and Lydia LUTHMAN
Married Bethia [Bithiah] MUTTON (1818-1880), St. Mary Magdalene, Peckham, 18 April 1843
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, February 1854 (per Mirzapore, from London, 13 October 1853)
Died Thomastown, VIC, 24 May 1890

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REEVES, Fanny (Bethia Frances REEVES; Fanny REEVES; Miss F. REEVES; Mrs. Charles Robert POWELL)

Contralto (mezzo-soprano) vocalist, oratorio singer (pupil of Charles Castelli)

Born Camberwell, Surrey, England, 1846 (3rd quarter); daughter of Charles Thomas REEVES (1820-1890) and Bethia MUTTON [MOULTON] (1818-1880)
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, February 1854 (per Mirzapore, from London, 13 October 1853, aged "6")
Married Charles Robert POWELL (1845-1905), All Saints' church, east St. Kilda, VIC, 20 May 1869
Died Gordon, NSW, 17 August 1934

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Summary:

Bethia Frances (Fanny) Reeves was born in Camberwell, Surrey, in greater London, in the summer of 1846, the second surviving daughter of Charles Thomas Reeves, a master carpenter, and his wife Bethia Mutton. The Reeve family sailed from London on the Mirzapore in October 1853, arriving in Melbourne in February 1854, Fanny aged 7.

According to her obituary (1934), Fanny Reeves "was a member of the Reeves talented musical family of Victoria". The first documentary notice of the family was at a Wesleyan school concert, given by George Frederick South in December 1863, when the 17-year old Fanny appeared with her father Charles (Mr. C. Reeves) and (probably) her younger sister Emma (Miss E. Reeves). The eldest sister Eliza Mary, "Lizzy" (1844-1935, from 1872 Mrs. Abraham Osborne), would usually be listed simply as "Miss Reeves", as, perhaps, later for Sarah Mortley's concert in July 1865. Probably, however, several of the Reeves were also already undocumented rank-and-file chorus members of one or more Melbourne musical societies, in Charles's case, perhaps as early as the late 1850s.

It is possible, but by no means certain, that the Charles Reeves above was her father (above).

Fanny Reeves, a pupil of Charles Castelli, made her major Melbourne debut singing in the Melbourne Philhramonic Society's annual Christmas Messiah in 1864.

In a review of a concert in August 1865, she was described as:

. . . a pupil of Castelli, and a debutante of some promise. She is a mezzo-soprano, very pleasing, particularly in the lower notes, and gave evidence, in the singing of the Maid of Judah, and the Parting, by Mendelssohn, of cultivation and good taste.

She also sang frequently for the Orpheus Union. In August 1865, however, it was reported that she failed to appear as advertised, due to a bereavement in her family. Her younger sister Emma Harriet Reeves (1848-1865) had died in Melbourne on 9 August.

Her last major Melbourne appearance was again in the annual Christmas Messiah in 1867.

She married Charles Powell in 1869, and the couple resettled in Maryborough, Queensland, where Fanny continued to perform as a musical amateur, and where her husband was president of the local School of Arts.

Documentation:

1843, marriage solemnized in the district parish church in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene in the county of Surrey; London Metropolitan Archives

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[No.] 6 / Charles Reeves / full age / Bachelor / carpenter / High St. Peckham / [father] Thomas Reeves / Carpenter
Bithiah Mutoon / full age / Spinster / - / High St. Peckham / [father] William Mutton / Gardener . . .

England census, 30 March 1851, Dulwich, Camberwell, Surrey; UK National Archives, HO 107 / 1580

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Crescent Cottage / Charles Reeves / Head / 30 / Carpenter Master / [born] Surrey . . .
Bithiah [Reeves] / Wife / 33 / Dress Maker / [born] Kent Ramsgate
Eliza Mary [Reeves] / Daur. / 7 / Scholar / [born] Surrey Camberwell
Bithiah Frances [Reeves] / 4 / [Scholar] / [born Surrey Camberwell]
Emma Harriet [Reeves] / 3 / at Home / [born Surrey Camberwell]
Cha's Wm. Reeves / Son / 1 / At Home / [born] Surrey Camberwell . . .

Passengers, per Mirzapore, from London, 13 October 1853, for Port Phillip, February 1854; Public Record Office Victoria

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Reeves, Charles / 36 / Bethia / 34 // Emma / 4 // Eliza / 9 // Bethia / 6 // Charles / 3 // William / 2 // Henry / 7 months

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (23 December 1863), 5

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A Christmas concert of sacred and secular music was given last evening in the Wesleyan Grammar Schools, Church street, Richmond, by the principal of the schools, Mr. G. F. South, assisted by the members of the Juvenile Philharmonic Society. The attendance was very large, and for the most part consisted of ladies. The evening's entertainment commenced with some pieces of sacred music, after which the cantata of "Christ Stilling the Tempest," composed by Mr. South, was produced with great effect and ability, the soloists being - soprano, Miss E. Reeves; contralto, Miss F. Reeves; tenor, Mr. Wilson; and bass, Mr. C. Reeves. The composition of the piece reflects great credit on the musical talents of the composer . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: George Frederick South (composer, conductor);

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (12 March 1864), 4

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We perceive from an advertisement in our issue of to-day, that special services will be held tomorrow in the East Melbourne Congregational Church, at the bottom of Victoria parade. The Rev. J. Beer, the pastor, will preach in the morning; and the Rev. Dr. Cairns in the evening. Also, on Tuesday next, a public tea meeting will be held . . . The choir, under the management of Mr. South, of Richmond, and assisted by Miss Watson, Mr. and Miss Reeves and others will sing some selections from the works of Handel and others.

ASSOCIATIONS: Bertha Watson (vocalist)

[Advertisement], The Argus (24 May 1864), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5749079

A CONCERT In AID of the BAKER-STREET WESLEYAN CHURCH BUILDING FUND
Will be given by the Richmond Juvenile Philharmonic Society and the Richmond Music Class,
Assisted by Miss MORTLEY, Miss FANNY REEVES, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. C. Wilson. Mr. Spenseley, Mr. N. Fletcher, and others,
In the ARTILLERY ORDERLY-ROOM, Bridge-road, Richmond. THIS EVENING. Conductor, Mr. G. F. South. Admission, 1s.; reserved seats, 2s.

ASSOCIATIONS: Sarah Mortley (vocalist)

"THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT", The Age (27 December 1864), 5

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The twelfth annual performance of Handel's great oratorio "The Messiah" by the Philharmonic Society, took place on Saturday evening, at the Exhibition Building, which was well filled in all parts on the occasion. His Excellency the Governor, who was to have attended, was kept away by pressing engagements. Miss Octavia Hamilton and Mr. Farquharson, who had been advertised to take part in the concert, were both absent, having given notice of their inability to attend, and their places were filled up by Mrs. Testar and Mr. F. Howson respectively. Madame Stuttaford, Miss Fanny Reeves (who made her debut on this occasion), Mr. Exon and Sig. Castelli were the other solo vocalists, supported by a numerous and excellently-trained chorus and orchestra. The baton was wielded by Mr. C. E. Horsley with excellent effect, and Mr. W. C. Fisher led as first violin . . . The gems of the whole performance were . . . the sweet air, in which words of blessed promise are wedded to inspired strains, sung with simplicity and unaffected yet touching pathos, by Miss Reeves; and the melancholy song, "He was despised and rejected of men," an air full of sublime grief, sung by the same lady . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Testar (vocalist); Charlotte Stuttaford (vocalist); Charles Castelli (vocalist, teacher); Edwin Exon (vocalist); Charles Edward Horsley (conductor); W. Carl Fischer (leader, violin)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (29 December 1864), 5

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A very pleasant concert, the fourth of the season, given by the members of the Orpheus Union, took place last night in St. George's Hall, Bourke-street . . . Signor Castelli was in good voice . . . The fine old English glee by Stevens to the words of Shakspeare, "Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind," was deservedly applauded, as were also the ballad of "O My Lost Love," sung by Miss Fanny Reeves, and the pretty song of "Agatha," by Miss Mortley. Mr. Schott played a solo on that difficult instrument to manage, the oboe . . . The solos upon the pianoforte by Mr. Horsley were very cleverly executed . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: James Schott (oboe); Orpheus Union

[News], The Argus (27 February 1865), 4

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The fourth of the series of vocal and instrumental concerts at the Polytechnic hall last evening was well attended, and the varied programme rendered with the artistic excellence which has distinguished the efforts of Castelli, Schott, Christen, and Horsley. A better selection of instrumental music, or better executed, has rarely been heard in Melbourne . . . An additional Interest was given to the concert of last night by the first appearance of Miss Fanny Reeves, a pupil of Castelli, and a debutante of some promise. She is a mezzo-soprano, very pleasing, particularly in the lower notes, and gave evidence, in the singing of the "Maid of Judah," and the "Parting," by Mendelssohn, of cultivation and good taste . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Hugo Christen (bass vocalist)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (25 May 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155026962 

The opening concert of the Orpheus Union for the season, was given, last evening, in St. George's Hall . . . Miss Fanny Reeves sand the ballad, "Come out to me," with considerable taste and good feeling, and she was deservedly complimented by an encore. Miss Reeves is a young lady of great natural capabilities, and she is already a decided favorite, and time and study will no doubt render her a still more valuable acquisition to the musical world of Melbourne, if she has the good sense to resist the bewildering influence of over-praise . . .

[News], The Argus (1 June 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5748487 

A concert of sacred music was given by the choir of the Brunswick-street Wesleyan Church, on Tuesday evening, in the Wesleyan Schoolroom, King William-street, Fitzroy. The programme was selected from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Spohr, &c. Miss Fanny Reeves, Mr. C. Blanchard, Mr. G. A. Johnson, and Mr. D. Beaumont were the artistes, with Mr. C. Reeves as conductor. Mr. J. A. Fielding presided at the piano.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Blanchard (vocalist); Daniel Beaumont (vocalist)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (11 July 1865), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155039155 

Miss Mortley's announced concert of sacred music, in aid of the building fund of St. Philip's Church, Hoddle-street, came off, last night, at the East Collingwood orderly-room; and, although the weather was rough and wet, there was an attendance of about 350 persons. Miss Mortley had the assistance of Miss Reeves, Miss Fanny Reeves, and Messrs. W. H. Williams, G. A. Johnson, E. Emery [sic, Amery], C. Blanchard, and the full choir of St. Philip's Church, all having kindly volunteered their services for the occasion. The programme opened with the "Te Deum" and "Jubilate" (Whitfield), and comprised choice selections from Haydn, Handel and Mendelssohn, which were all rendered very creditably, and Miss Mortley and Miss Fanny Reeves were peculiarly happy in their solos . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Henry Williams (vocalist); Edwin Amery (vocalist)

"NEWS OF THE WEEK", Leader (19 August 1865), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197036001 

The second concert of the Orpheus Union for the present season was given at St. George's Hall, on Wednesday. The members of the society on this occasion, were assisted by Miss Octavia Hamilton, Miss Geraldine Warden, Miss Liddle, Mr. Coleman Jacobs, and Messrs. J. and F. Howson. Miss Fanny Reeves was announced to take part in the concert, but, in consequence of a family bereavement, she did not appear . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Geraldine Warden (vocalist); Maggie Liddle (vocalist); John Howson junior (instrumentalist); Frank Howson junior (instrumentalist); Colman Jacobs (piano)

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (18 November 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155036754 

An amateur concert, in aid of the funds of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum, was given at St. Stephen's school room, Richmond, last evening, by a number of ladies and gentlemen. The programme embraced several well selected songs, glees, choruses, &c., the whole being under the able conductorship of Mr. C. Blanchard . . . Miss F. Reeves was in excellent voice, and rendered the song, "Maggie's Secret," with her accustomed taste and care . . .

"MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. THE CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE OF THE MESSIAH", The Argus (26 December 1865), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5779229

. . . She sang "Oh! thou that tellest," "He shall feed his flock," and "He was despised," with earnest unaffected grace of manner, and a full rich depth of tone . . .

"THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT", The Age (26 December 1865), 5

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. . . The rendering by Miss Fanny Reeves of the recitative "Behold a Virgin" &c., was such as to prepare the audience in some measure for her subsequent triumph in "O, Thou that Tellest" and "He shall Feed his Flock," and the embodiment of object grief, "He was Despised and Rejected of Men" . . .

[News], The Argus (25 July 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5773306 

A concert of vocal and instrumental music took place in the Williamstown Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday evening, the proceeds being devoted to the funds of the local grammar school, Mr. Call presided, and about 400 persons were present. The principal vocalists were Mrs. Fox, Miss F. Reeves, Mr. Labertouche, and Mr. D. A. Beaumont; Mr. Marsh presiding at the piano, and Mr. Wigley playing the violin . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: Sarah Fox (vocalist); Stephen Hale Marsh (piano)

"THE ORPHEUS UNION CONCERT", The Argus (15 October 1867), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5780631

. . . The individual performances, which constituted the largest half of the entertainment, were very superior indeed, Miss Fanny Reeves proved once more her rare powers as a contralto singer in the ballad, "I'll speak of thee, and love thee too," but left in the minds of some regret that she did not choose more classic music . . .

"THE MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY", The Argus (25 December 1867), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5786862.

. . . Miss Fanny Reeves, the contralto of the evening, was also unsteady at first, but soon rallied, and her "He was despised" was a delicious rendering of that delightful air . . .

"THE NEWS OF THE DAY", The Age (26 December 1867), 5

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. . . Miss Reeves gave "He was despised" very feelingly, but had to struggle elsewhere with evident annoyance from the inefficiency of the instrumentalists. She was nevertheless eminently pleasing in her vocalisation, and showed that sympathy with the themes which is everything . . .

"MARRIAGES", The Argus (21 May 1869),

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5827609 

POWELL - REEVES. - On the 20th inst., at All Saints' Church, St. Kilda, by the Rev. Mr. Fulford, Charles Robert, eldest son of the late Charles Powell, and nephew of the late Walter Powell, to Bithia Frances, second daughter of Charles Reeves, of Camberwell, Surrey, England.

[News], Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (6 August 1870), 2

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The hall of the School of Arts was thronged from floor to roof on Thursday evening, to assist at the amateur musical entertainment . . . Mrs. Powell won vocal laurels in the splendid trio "Fair Flora Decks," im which she was assisted by Messrs. Illidge and R. Jones . . .

"AMATEUR CONCERT", Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser [QLD] (29 October 1870), 2

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On Wednesday evening, the 26th instant, a grand concert was given in the Theatre Royal, by lady and gentlemen amateurs, in aid of the building fund of the School of Arts . . . While all distinguished themselves by their correctness of time, expression, and harmony, we cannot for bear making special mention of the sweet contralto voice of Mrs. Powell . . . Mrs. Powell then gave with taste and deep pathos Mendelssohn's "O rest in the Lord" . . . after which Mrs. Powell sweetly sang "Longing for Home," which elicited hearty rounds of applause . . . We must not omit to state that the treat afforded to our citizens on this occasion is in a great measure due to the exertions of the promoter of the concert, Mr. C. Powell, who has been indefatigable in his endeavors to arrange and carry out the "makings" of a good concert . . .

[News], Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (Q14 October 1871), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148532675 

The miscellaneous concert of vocal and instrumental music and popular readings, held under the supervision of the School of Arts, came off, as announced, on Thursday evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall. The president of the institution, C. Powell, Esq., officiated as chairman. It is almost invidious to express special thanks and pleasure where all were so kind in volunteering service, and all so admirably performed their parts, but we cannot refrain from a compliment to Mrs. Powell on her excellent rendering, in the fullness and richness of voice and the exquisite taste which regulated it, of her two songs "Jessie's Dream," and "Through every Chance and Change" . . .

"Musical Union Concerts", Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (18 May 1878), 3

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The first concert of the Musical Union, under the conductorship of the Mr. C. J. Miers, took place on Wednesday evening, with unbounded applause on the part of the audience . . . Amongst the many gems, particular mention may be made of "No more My country," exceedingly well sung by Mrs. Powell, and encored . . . the air and duett, "Canst Thou Recall," was awarded the greatest amount of applause, ending in a repetition, it being sang so well and effectively by Mrs. Powell and Miss Pollard . . .

"MARYBOROUGH", The Brisbane Courier (3 March 1885), 6

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The event of the week has been the production of Handel's "Messiah," for the first time in Maryborough. Last night an audience of five hundred, including nearly all the Maryborough elite, were treated by the Musical Union to perhaps a better exposition of the great oratorio than was expected in view of the too limited range of performers at the command of the conductor . . . Premier position for good execution among the soloists was taken by Mrs. Cantrell, "He was Despised ;" Mrs. Powell, "O thou that Tellest;" Mrs. Hunter, "Rejoice Greatly," with Mr. Jones in "Comfort Ye," and Mr. Thorburn, who sang "The Trumpet shall sound" . . .

"Death", Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (27 May 1890), 2

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REEVES. - On the 24th May, 1890 at the residence of his son-in-law (Mr. James Thomas), "Thomaston," Melbourne, Charles Thomas Reeves, aged 70 years; father of Mrs. Chas. Powell, of Maryborough.

"DEATHS", The Courier-Mail (22 August 1934), 10

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POWELL. - On 17th instant, suddenly, at Gordon, Sydney, Bethia Frances, Relict of Charles Robert Powell, and dearly loved Mother of Charles (Maroochydore), Arthur (Scarborough), Herbert (Christchurch), Mesdames William Wood and Grosvenor Francis (Sydney).

"Obituary . . . Mrs. Charles R. Powell", The Courier-Mail (25 August 1934), 5

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The death of Mrs. Charles Roberts Powell occurred suddenly at Gordon, Sydney, on August 17. The deceased, who was 88 years of age, was born at Camberwell, Surrey, England, and arrived in Melbourne with her parents when she was eight years of age. The late Mrs. Powell, who was a member of a talented musical family, possessed a rich contralto voice, and, as Miss Fanny Reeves, was a leading oratorio vocalist. Upon her arrival in Maryborough, Queensland, as a bride in 1869, Mrs. Powell became one of the foundation members of the Musical Union. The late Mrs. Powell was predeceased by her husband 29 years ago, also by her youngest son, Mr. Percy Powell, solicitor of Rockhampton and Blackall, whose widow and family reside at Hendra. She is survived by her eldest sister, Mrs. A. S. R. Osborne, late of Ascot, but now of Tasmania, and a family comprising Messrs. Charles H. (Maroochydore), Arthur W. (of the head office, Commonwealth Bank, who resides at Scarborough), Herbert E. Powell (Christchurch, New Zealand, late general manager of Vestey Bros., in Australia), and Mesdames W. A. Wood and G. A. Francis (Sydney).

"LATE MRS. CHARLES R. POWELL", The Telegraph (30 August 1934), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181857185 

. . . Mrs. Powell was a member of the Reeves talented musical family of Victoria, and in the early days when a high-class musical union was formed in Maryborough (Queensland), Mrs. Powell generally took a leading part. She had a splendid contralto voice. Mrs. Powell was always gracious in her encouragement of young singers and many of them owed much to her kindly assistance.

Disambiguation:

There were several Miss Fannie/Fanny Reeves musically active in Britain during the second half of the century. Blanche Whiffen (1845-1936) recalled that at the Royalty theatre in London, in 1865, she was asked to step in as Prince Amabel when "Miss Fanny Reeves, who sang the contralto role in the opera, was taken ill". That opera singer, active at Drury Lane in the late 1850s, was later Mrs. Elliott Galer (d. 1897). Another singer of that name, a niece of Sims Reeves, was born in 1852. A "Miss Fannie Reeves, of the London Concerts" was advertised to make "her first appearance in Australia in Brisbane in August 1872.

"DRURY LANE", The musical world (29 March 1856), 204

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_pkPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA204

[Advertisement], The musical world (2 January 1864), 1

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=E5cPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33

[News], Evening News (18 November 1869), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107132216 

[Advertisement], The Brisbane Courier (5 August 1872), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1292677

"WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING", The Brisbane Courier (2 December 1897), 7

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3662144

Mrs. Thomas [Blanche] Whiffen, Keeping off the shelf (New York: Dutton, 1928), 37

https://archive.org/stream/keepingofftheshe010807mbp#page/n53/mode/2up

REIBEY, Thomas (Thomas REIBEY)

Musical amateur, lecturer on church music, clergyman

http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-582949 (NLA persistent identifier)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REIBEY-Thomas (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"TOWN TALK AND TABLE CHAT", The Cornwall Chronicle [Launceston, TAS] (11 October 1862), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72196661 

REICHENBERG, Joseph (RICHENBERG) - see main page Joseph REICHENBERG

REICHENBERG, Angelica - see main page Angelica REICHENBERG

REICHENBERG, Eliza Frances (O'MEAGHER) - see main page Eliza REICHENBERG

REICHENBERG, Jane - see main page Jane REICHENBERG

REID, Serjeant (Serjeant REID, 48th Regiment) = Sergeant John REED

REID, James Aquinas - see main page James Aquinas REID

Musician, composer

REID, Catherine (Mrs. W. BOWER) - see main page Catherine REID

Vocalist

REID, Mary - see main page Mary REID

Vocalist

REIDLE, Carl (Carl REIDLE; ? RIEDLE)

Conductor, composer

Active Bendigo, VIC, by 1871
Died New York, USA, 6 February 1904

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REIDLE-Carl (shareable link to this entry)

REIDLE, J. A. X. (J. A. X. REIDLE; RIEDLE)

Music retailer

Born Bendigo (cousin of the above)
Died Dunedin, NZ, 20 August 1916

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REIDLE-J-A-X (shareable link to this entry)

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

Documentation:

"A COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT", Bendigo Advertiser (31 August 1871), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87906220

. . . Two overtures were played on the piano by Master Reidle and Herr Gollmick, and they were loudly applauded . . .

ASSOCIATIONS: William Gollmick

"THE EXHIBITION", Bendigo Advertiser (5 February 1887), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88925243

. . . No 1. Pianoforte solo, between the ages of 15 and 21 years . . . Over 15 . . . Carl Reidle . . .

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (5 December 1891), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39583421

"MELBOURNE NOTES. BY ONLOOKER", Otago Witness (16 October 1901), 57

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19011016.2.161

"WILLIAMSON AND MUSGROVE'S 'SIGN OF THE CROSS' CO.", Bendigo Advertiser (2 December 1898), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89454281

"THEATRE ROYAL", The Brisbane Courier (31 March 1902), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19141634

"DEATHS", The Sydney Morning Herald (13 February 1904), 10

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14599616

REIDLE - February 6, 1904, at New York, Carl Reidle (by cable) New Zealand and Melbourne papers please copy.

"OBITUARY", Bendegonian (21 November 1916), 20

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91385514

The friends of Mr. J. A. X. Reidle, late of Bendigo, will learn with regret of his death, which occurred in Dunedin on 20th August. He was manager of the Dresden Piano Co. for over 25 years, and was well-known in musical circles throughout Australasia. His collection of autographed portraits of notable people was easily the finest in the Dominion, ranging from Queen Victoria to Little Gulliver. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Joseph Riedle [sic], formerly a well-known furniture dealer in View-street, Bendigo.

REIFF, Anthony (Anthony REIFF junior; A. REIFF, jun.)

Musician, conductor (Lyster's opera company), composer, arranger

Born New York, USA, c. 1830; son of Anthony REIFF (1803-1880) and Anne ?
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, 1 March 1861 (per Achilles, from San Francisco)
Departed Melbourne, VIC, 26 September 1863 (per Northam, for England, via Ceylon)
Died New York, USA, 6 October 1916

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Anthony+Reiff+d1916 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2003018341 (WorldCat identities)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REIFF-Anthony (shareable link to this entry)

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

Summary:

Anthony Reiff junior (not to be confused with his father, Anthony Reiff senior, who died in 1880) came to Australia as musical director with W. S. Lyster's opera company in 1861.

Several of his own compositions are documented, beginning with songs composed for his Lyster co-artists, Village bells (words by Louis L. Lewis) (for Lucy Escott) (September 1862), and To look upon her face once more (ballad; composed expressly for his friend Henry Squires) (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, [1862]).

Perhaps his most interesting Australian composition, historically, was the Funeral ode in memory of the deceased explorers of Australia, Burke and Wills ("Back from the Lonely Grave") (words by James Smith) (in 6 movements: Chorale; 4 solos; Quartette) (January 1863), the words only of which survive.

Two other works were The Poet Laureate's welcome to Alexandra (music composed expressly for this occasion [the marriage of prince of Wales]) (June 1863) and, at his Sydney farewell, Souvenir d'Australie (grand mazurka de concert) (pianoforte) (September 1863).

Documentation:

US Federal census, 1850, New York, ward 10; US National Archives, Federal census, 545/52b

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4202063_00109 (PAYWALL)

Anthony Rieff / 47 / Mar. / Musician / [born] Germany
Anne [Reiff] / 40 / - / [born] New York
Anthony [Reiff] / 20 / Musician / [born New York]
Phillip / 18 // John / 16 // Henry / 12 // Ambrose / 11

"BOUND TO AUSTRALIA", Empire (28 February 1861), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60490528

The English and Italian Opera troupe have arranged to start in the Achilles for Australia, and the passages have been prepaid by Mr. Lyster. They sail next week., The company consists of Miss Lucy Escott, Miss Rosalie Durand, Miss Georgia Hodson, Mr. Henry Squires, Mr. Fred. Lyster, Mr. Frank Trevor, and the Empresario or Director, Mr. W. Lyster - seven in all. Miss Ada King, Mr. De Haga, and Mr. Reiff, the leader, do not accompany the troupe. It is the intention of Mr. Lyster to return with them to California after a thorough tour of Australia. - Alta California. December 28.

[News], The Argus (2 March 1861), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5698072

The ship Achilles, which arrived from San Francisco yesterday, has brought to these shores a "complete operatic troupe," comprising the names of Madame Lucy Escott, and Miss Rosalie Durand, sopranos; Miss Georgia Hodson, contralto; and Madame Ada King, as seconda donna. The tenor, Mr. Henry Squires, is supported by Mr. Frank Trevor, as second tenor. The baritone is Mr. F. Lester [Lyster]. Mr. A. Reiff is the conductor; and the whole are under the supervision of Mr. W. L. Lester [W. S. Lyster] . . .

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (16 September 1862), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13234150

"MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 September 1862), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13233733

[Advertisement], The Argus (22 January 1863), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6482880

"THE OPERA", The Argus (22 January 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6482875

"THE FUNERAL ODE", The Argus (23 January 1863), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6482911

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (11 June 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13079847

[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 September 1863), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13084241

[News], The Herald [Melbourne, VIC] (26 September 1863), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244292943 

"A FEW NOTES FROM A MUSICIAN ON TRAVEL", The Sydney Morning Herald (29 March 1864), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30938685 

The following extracts are from the letter of a gentleman well known in musical circles here, who left Sydney a short time since, and proceeded to Italy; he is an American by birth, and his idea of Continental "men and things" is expressed in a very amusing way. The letter is dated Rome, December 7, 1863 . . .

"DEATHS", New York clipper (14 October 1916), 31

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19161014.2.258 (DIGITISED)

ANTHONY REIFF, one of the two founders of the New York Philharmonic Society and the oldest surviving member of the society, died Octo. 6 at his home in this city. The deceased was one of the leading musicians here for many years and became an operatic leader at the age of eighteen. He Introduced grand opera in Australia, and was with the original Gilbert and Sullivan opera companies. Mr. Reiff wrote the music for the original "Humpty Dumpty," and the incidental music for the Forrest and Booth productions. As a boy he was a member of Jenny Lind's Orchestra at Castle Garden. Mr. Reiff was a former president of the Musical Mutual Protective Union and was the oldest living member of the American Institute.

Other sources:

Incomplete manuscript journal, 1856; Anthony Reiff Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/18764 (DIGITISED)

Bibliography and resources:

Harold Love, The golden age of Australian opera: W. S. Lyster and his companies 1861-1880 (Sydney: Currency Press, 1981), passim

Alison Gyger, Civilising the colonies: pioneering opera in Australia (Sydney: Opera-Opera/Pellinor, 1999), passim

Katherine K. Preston, "Notes from (the road to) the stage (Travel narrative)", The Opera Quarterly 23/1 (Winter 2007), 103-17

Zoltán Román, Gustav Mahler's American years, 1907-1911: a documentary history, 239 note 92

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kB6vuf0aGOgC&pg=PA239 (PREVIEW)

Katherine K. Preston, "Reiff, Anthony, Jr.", American national biography

https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1802916 (PAYWALL)

Reiff, Anthony, Jr. (11 May 1830? - 06 October 1916), conductor, musical director, and composer, was born in New York City, the son of Anthony Reiff, a bassoonist, and Ann Dobbs. Some sources list his birth year as 1836 . . .

Katherine K. Preston, "Reiff, Anthony, Jr.", Grove music online

https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2088710 (PAYWALL)

. . . he studied violin with U. C. Hill and piano with H. C. Timm as a youth. His first professional job was as a member of the orchestra that accompanied Jenny Lind in her New York concerts (1850). He served as leader of the orchestras at the National (1852-4), Bowery (1854-5), and New Olympic Theatres (1856-8) in New York; in 1857 he joined the Philharmonic Society, with which he remained associated for the rest of his life. He served as music director for the Pyne and Harrison (1856) and Lyster and Durand (1858-63) English opera companies on tours of the eastern United States and (in the latter case) the Far West and Australia, before returning to New York . . .

REILEY, Dennis (Dennis REILEY; Denis REILY)

Fiddler, convict

Born Co. Cork, Ireland, c. 1780
Sentenced Cork, Ireland, 8 August 1828, 7 years transportation
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 20 June 1829 (convict per Eliza, from Cork, 2 March)
Certificate of freedom, NSW, 2 May 1839

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REILEY-Dennis (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

[Convict notices], New South Wales Government Gazette (10 September 1834), 641

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230687371 

Reiley Dennis, Eliza (5), 29-1204, 54, Cork, fiddler, 5 feet 4, dark ruddy comp., black hair, bright hazel eyes, scar top of forehead in right eye-brow, and right corner of upper lip, from No. 11 Road Party, since 15th July.

Certificate of freedom, Denis Reily, 2 May 1839; State Records Authority of NSW

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1689/images/31801_216706-01005 (PAYWALL)

39/653 / 2d may 1839 / 29/1104 / Denis Reily / Eliza 5 / . . . 1829 / [native place] Co. Cork / labourer / [offence] Vagrant / [trial] 8 Aug't 1828 Cork County / . . .

REILOFF, Madame = Madame Reiloff JACKSON

REIS, Andrew (Andrew REIS; Andrew REES; Andre REES)

Musician, mariner, general dealer

Born Gothenberg (Göteborg), Sweden, c. 1816
Married Sarah DODGE (1825-1903), St. David's, Hobart Town, 14 October 1852 (aged "36")
Died Battery Point, TAS, 25 January 1867, aged "51"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Andrew+Reis+d1867 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REIS-Andrew (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

1852, marriages in the district of Hobart; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:843457; RGD37/1/11 no 516

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/843457

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-11p192j2k (DIGITISED)

516 / St. David's, Hobart Town, 14th Oct. 1852 / Andrew Rees / 36 / Mariner / . . . Bachelor / Sarah Dodge / 27 / Spinster . . .

[Advertisment], The Courier [Hobart, TAS] (5 January 1856), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2496617 

In the Matter of the Insolvency of ANDREW REIS of Lower Collins street Hobart Town General Dealer but now out of business . . .

"COURT OF REQUESTS. SATURDAY, JULY 4TH, 1857 . . . GARD v. REEVES", The Hobart Town Advertiser (6 July 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264646926 

Mr. Graves for plaintiff, in the absence of Mr. Brewer. The case was postponed from Thursday, owing to the absence of the defendant through alleged illness. Mr. Graves said he was instructed by Mr. Moriarty that Mrs. Reeves was still ill, and unable to attend the Court.
The Coiamissianer said he had heard that the defendant was not ill, but was about town.
Mr. Gard, the plaintiff assured his honor he saw Mrs. Reeves out yesterday.
Mr. Graves, under these circumstances declined to appear for the defendant, but at the Commissioner's request he watched the case.
The Commissioner read the plaint by which Mr. Gard, the plaintiff, sought to recover £5 for the services of a band of six persons at a ball at the Amphitheatre on the 8th June, guaranteed by the defendant.
Mr. Graves suggested that the witnesses, six in number, the whole band, in fact, should be out of Court.
The Commissioner - The "band" had better be out of Court or they might destroy the harmony (a laugh).
It appeared, however, that only two witnesses were there.
George Hewlins deposed thst Mrs. Reeves guaranteed the payment of £5 for music, to the six musicians. They commenced at half-past eight at night and finished at half-past five in the morning. The party who engaged Mr. Gard, the band would net put any faith in, they had been often taken in. The band played to the programme of the parties. Mrs. Reeves had been asked for the £5 by Mr. Gard in witnesses presence. Mrs. Reeves said she had received £4 for the band. Mr. Gard would have taken it, but Mrs. Reeves wished to have 9s for refreshments supplied to the band, which Mr. Gard refused. Mr. Levien, who engaged the band offered them £2 10s, but they would not trust him, and it was then that Mrs. Reeves became guarantee.
Cross-examined - I knew nothing of £4 having been tendered by Mr. Levien. It was Mr. Levien who got the ball up, no writing passed.
Mr. Graves submitted, that the plaintiff must be non-suited as there was no guarantee in writing.
Mr. Crisp, as amicus curiae, observed that the point was beyond doubt. By the statute of frauds, the guarantee must be writing.
Mr. Pitt and Mr Fitzgerald also expressed similar opinions.
The Commissioner said the contract was afterwards with Mrs. Reeves.
Mr. Lees as amicus curia, concurred with the Commissioner.
The Commissioner directed the cause of the action in the plaint to be altered from one of guarantee to contract.
Andre Rees, another musican gave similar evidence to Mr. Hewlins.
For the defendant, Mr. Graves examined the plaintiff, Mr. Gard, whose evidence was similar to that of the two witnesses for the plaintiff.
Mr. Graves again remarked that the evidence showed a guarantee by Mrs. Reeves, but not a contract. There was no legal consideration.
The Commissioner read the section of the Court of Requests Act, which gave him power to do sustaatial justice; under that he said he was not bound to regard the statute of frauds.
Mr. Graves could not see that there was any legal consideration on Mrs. Reeves's part.
Mr. Gard - Mrs. Reeves was the only party who got any consideration, for they were drinking Champaigne and all sorts, all night (laughter).
The Commissioner summed up the evidence with minuteness, and said it was in his opinion a case which entitled Mr. Gard to the sum he went for £5. Judgment for plaintiff.

ASSOCIATIONS: Joseph Gard (musician, band leader); George Hewlins (musician)

"COURT OF REQUESTS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1857 . . . REIS v. POOLE", The Hobart Town Advertiser (5 December 1857), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264645043 

Mr. Reis, the musician, brought his action against the lessee of the Theatre Royal to recover the sum of £6 10s for his services as musician at the Theatre.

ASSOCIATIONS: Charles Poole (actor, manager); Theatre Royal (Hobart venue)

"ODDFELLOWS' BALL . . . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1", The Hobart Town Advertiser (3 September 1858), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264657094 

The Annual Ball in aid of the Widows and Orphans' Fund, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, (Manchester Unity) took place this evening at the Town Hall, Macquarie street, (late Old Government House Ball Room) . . . A Band provided by Mr. Reis occupied a portion of the gallery, but in addition to the company in the Hall, them were many spectators in the vicinity of the Orchestra . . .

1867, deaths in the district of Hobart; Tasmanian names index; NAME_INDEXES:1147368; RGD35/1/7 no 6583

https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1147368 

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-7p196j2k (DIGITISED)

6583 / 25th January / Andrew Reis (Died Battery Point) (Born Sweden) / Male / 51 years / Musician / Morbis Cordis, Desease of Liver & Anasarca / [informant] Sara Reis, Widow . . .

"DEATHS", The Mercury [Hobart, TAS] (26 January 1867), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8843917 

REIS. - On the 25th instant, at 24, South-street, Battery Point, Andrew Reis, of Gothenberg, Sweden, in the 51st year of his age. The funeral will leave the residence of his father-in-law, Mr. R. Dodge, Lower Ferry, Forcett, on Monday, 28th instant, at 11 o'clock a.m. Friends are respectfully invited to attend. London and Victoria papers please copy.

Bibliography and resources:

Andrew Reis, Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150212098/andrew-reis

REKEL, Jeanne = Jeanne ROECKEL

Vocalist (active Australia 1873-75)

REKEL, Joseph = Joseph ROECKEL

Pianist, composer (active Australia 1873-75)

REMENYI, Edouard (Eduard HOFFMANN; REMÉNYI Ede; Edouard REMENYI)

Violinist, composer

Born Miskolc, Hungary, 17 January 1828
Arrived Melbourne, VIC, September 1884
Departed Brisbane, QLD, September 1885
Died San Francisco, USA, 15 May 1898

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ede_Reményi (Wikipedia)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#REMENYI-Edouard (shareable link to this entry)

ASSOCIATIONS: Isidore Luckstone (pianist), Hattie B. Downing (soprano vocalist), Rudolf Himmer (tenor vocalist)

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

Documentation:

"ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL", The Argus (26 September 1884), 5

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6058306

"EDUARD REMENYI", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 September 1884), 8

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28368932

"M. EDOUARD REMENYI ON POPULAR MUSIC", The Argus (6 October 1884), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6058904

"REMENYI'S CONCERT", The Brisbane Courier (27 August 1885), 3

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3447335

This evening M. Remenyi will perform the following solos, namely: - "Concerto Romantique," [Benjamin] Goddard - (1) Allegro moderato, (2) Recitativo and adagio non troppo, (3) Canzonetta, (4) Allegro molto - being its second performance in the colonies; "Invitation à la Valse," Weber; "Hommage a Paganini," Remenyi; and in addition to the above selections, M. Remenyi will execute his new "Australian Hymn," composed by himself during his tour through New Zealand, and, by special request, his soul-stirring "Liberty Hymn," assisted by the members of the Remenyi concert party.

"Farewells", Queensland Figaro and Punch (5 September 1885), 6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84141699

[News], Morning Bulletin (9 September 1885), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52041686

. . . The applause that followed the conclusion of the several pieces was an indication that there are many in our midst who can appreciate high-class music rendered by an artist of such ability as M. Remenyi, and that Rockhamptonites are willing to recognise genuine talent. The most pleasing number was the Carnival de Venice with introduction and improvisation by M. Remenyi, and the storm of applause that succeeded it could only be stopped by that gentleman re-appearing.

"SHIPPING", The Brisbane Courier (9 September 1885), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3448226

RENNIE, James (James RENNIE; "Professor RENNIE")

Public lecturer, journalist, teacher, controversialist, naturalist, entymologist, lecturer on music

Born Sorn, Scotland, 26 February 1787
Arrived Sydney, NSW, 25 September 1840 (surgeon per Richard Webb, from London, 3 May)
Died Adelaide, SA, 25 August 1867, aged 80

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=James+Rennie+1787-1867 (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)

http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87150490 (WorldCat identities)

https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/register-R-1.php#RENNIE-James (shareable link to this entry)

Documentation:

"Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVALS", Commercial Journal and Advertiser (26 September 1840), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226455108 

"ORIGINAL POETRY. To the Editor", The Sydney Herald (17 December 1840), 4

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12867064 

[Editorial], The Sydney Herald (21 December 1840), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12867154 

The Proprietor of the Sydney Herald has much pleasure in announcing to his subscribers, that in a few days the editorial management of this paper will be assumed by Mr. James Rennie, M. A., formerly a Professor in the King's College, London, and who is well known in the literary and scientific world. Of the advantages likely to accrue to the numerous subscribers to the Sydney Herald, and he may add to the interests of the Colony generally, it is not for the proprietor to speak, it may be safely left to the test of experience.

ASSOCIATIONS: Frederick Michael Stokes (proprietor; d. 1891)

"MARRIED", The Sydney Herald (2 January 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28652069 

"THOROUGH-BASS" [? Rennie], "SYDNEY EXTRAVAGANZAS - FELTON - NATHAN". To the Editors", The Sydney Herald (3 November 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872050 

ASSOCIATIONS: Maurice Appleby Felton (painter); Isaac Nathan (composer)

Isaac Nathan, "THOROUGH-BASS AND NATHAN. To the Editors", The Sydney Herald (5 November 1841), 2

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12872091 

Letter, Isaac Nathan, Sydney, NSW, 3 December 1841, to Eliza Hamilton Dunlop; unidentified original, transcribed in De Salis papers, State Library of New South Wales (also incomplete ed. in De Salis, Two early colonials (1967), 104-05)

Sydney, Ada Cottage, 3rd Dec'br 1841
I fear my dear Madam my long silence will not place me at no. 1 in your estimation . . .
Yours respectfully & obliged, I. Nathan.
Private I suppose you know that [semi-legible: Professor Rennie] [and] "Thorough Bass" to be one & the same - I have no doubt on the subject.

ASSOCIATIONS: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (poet, songwriter, lyricist)

[Advertisement], Colonial Times (18 June 1847), 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8760813 

MR. RENNIE'S LECTURES ON MUSIC. UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY SIR W. DENISON AND LADY DENISON. SIX LECTURES ON MUSIC, Vocal and Instrumental, will be delivered in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, by James Rennie, M.A., A.L S., Author of the "Art of Improving the Voice and Ear;" published by S. Prowett, Bond-street, London. The Lectures will be very fully illustrated by the performances of a number of the best available vocal and instrumental musicians in the colony (as per programmes), so as to combine amusement with instruction - the utile et dulce. The first Lecture will be given on Thursday next, at half-past 7 o'clock P.M. Tickets for the course, 10s. 6d. each; family tickets for two, 18s.; for three, 25s.; and for four, 30s. To be had at the Book-shops, and of Mr. Rennie, Battery Point. Single admission, 2s. P.S. - Each Lecture will be advertised separately. June 11, 1847.

"LECTURE", The Courier (19 June 1847), 2

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The first of a course of lectures on Music - Vocal and Instrumental - was delivered by Mr. Rennie, in the Mechanics' Institute, on Thursday evening last. Several members of the Choral Society were in attendance to illustrate the lecture by their performances. The lecturer, in treating upon this subject, rather disappointed us. We expected that the lecture would have been of a more elementary character, making us acquainted with music as a science, and not as in relation to phrenology, &c. We regret to perceive such a limited attendance; and also, that we have not space to advert at greater length to the substance of the lecture. The opening overture was well performed, but we cannot do otherwise than depreciate the taste which led to the adoption of a set of quadrilles as the concluding music of the evening.

"Mr. Professor Rennie's Lecture", Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (26 June 1847), 3

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A sense of public duty alone, compels us to give any notice to the first Lecture on Music, delivered by Mr. Rennie, at the Institute. We were wholly disappointed - we had almost said disgusted, at beholding one of the noblest of human arts and attractive sciences, not only unelucidated, not only unexpanded, but really turned into frothy mockery, by depreciating tirades against Sydney better-paid Lecturers, of course less illustrious than Mr. Rennie; and made a silly jest of, in a "Saturday Magazine" sort of phrenological lecture about bumps, with the indispensible concomitants of repellingly coarse and vulgar illustrations! Mr. Professor Rennie, this is altogether too Scotch-like for Tasmania! It will not do! It is too much of the clap-trap of the Highland encyclopaedia lecture-room! Taste and chivalry are not yet buried here in the same grave. We tell you, Mr. Professor, that neither the intellects, nor the morals, of Tasmanians are quite so imbruted, so stultified, as your Courier, anti-pollutionist encomiasts, would fain make distant lands suppose! Play the man of intellect - not the mountebank - and you will have, even here, honor and appreciation, for your reward!

"LECTURE", The Courier (10 July 1847), 2

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The second of a course of six lectures on Music was given in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening last, by Professor Rennie. After remarking innt the character of the individual was often stamped upon the lineaments, and written as it were upon the faces of men, a proposition which he illustrated by the citation of various examples, the lecturer proceeded to reason by analogy upon the varieties of "the musical ear." He instanced the fact of persons who had, strictly speaking, no ear for music, who felt exquisite pleasure upon hearing a musical performance, and yet could nut recollect a note. This he attributed in some mensute to the awakened associations of early life, of departed scenes, or times gone by. It was also not less remarkable that pain would sometimes usurp the place of pleasure through the influence of melody. He instanced a lady who could not bear the "Exile of Erin" sung without bursting into tears. "The Minstrel Boy," on some individuals, had a corresponding effect; while the melody of "Sweet Home" would depress a young gentleman whom he mentioned to an extraordinary degree.

The lecturer then proceeded to explain the causes of the musical affection of the ear, and quoted a long extract from Dr. Brown, the only writer who had endeavoured to investigate the subject. The doctor's opinions were ingeniously stated; but, as the lecturer observed, were not particularly intelligible. The periodicity of musical sounds being a subject too important to form part of a lecture, Mr. Rennie postponed his original intention of entering upon the subject; instead of which, he directed the attention of his hearers to the means of improving the ear, and considered that the best method of attaining to a correct appreciation of musical sounds was to learn music by the tuning of instruments. In this pursuit minuteness of tact was easily acquired by exercise. The violin, harp, and guitar were the best instruments for the purpose. As proofs of the efficacy of the plan recommended, it was a well-known fact, that most of the pianoforte tuners in the metropolis could only play one tune. This tune bad been mechanically acquired for the exercise of their profession only; and yet they were able to tune the instruments to nicety and perfection. Madame Mara, who was once considered equal to Catalani or Malibran, of former years, and Jenny Lind of the present day, could play the violin at an early age. By constant exercise she acquired the finest delicacy of ear, and had often said, that should she have a daughter whom it was necessary to teach to sing, she should first be taught the violin. These instruments were better adapted than a pitched instrument to convey an impression of the slightest variation of melody, as by sliding the finger over the strings almost imperceptible differences could be created, and the ear would become acute and acquire the finest perceptions. That exercise would improve, was evident from the fact of a schoolfellow of the lecturer, who, without musical ear, learned one song only, and by constant practice became a good singer before he was twenty years of age. Mr. Bacon, of Norwich (the organist,) in a work on "Music" dwelt much upon intonation. A correct intonation would not be obtained if there was an ignorance of the desired interval. The lecturer therefore recommended that the exercise of tuning should be blended with the practice of the first elements of music. Mr. Rennie dwelt at considerable length upon this subject, and at the conclusion notified his intention to introduce a lady at his next lecture who was an extraordinary adept at the pianoforte.

[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner [TAS] (31 July 1847), 2

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The same as given at Hobart Town under the distinguished Patronage of his Excellency and Lady Denison.
Postponed from last Monday, on account of the weather.
A LECTURE on MUSIC, by J. RENNIE, M.A., will be given at the
Assembly Room, Cornwall Hotel, on MONDAY next, the 2nd August, at half-past 7 o'clock p.m.,
fully illustrated by two JUVENILE PIANISTS, of very extraordinary talents,
respectively 10 and 11 years of age, natives of this colony, and pupils of Mr. Anderson,
whose relatives have kindly permitted them to play for the first time in public.
The famous Mozart, at a similar age, played before Kings and Courts, and astonished all Europe.
Tickets, 2s. 6d. each; reserved seats, 3s.; children under 12, half-price; to be had of Mr. Tegg, of Mr. H. Dowling, and of Mr. Whitehead. No admission without a ticket. July 28.