Page 1 of 1
Henry Whiteside, baptised 1746?
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:25
by daggers
Can anyone help with finding the baptism record of this Liverpool-born violin and musical instrument maker, supposed to have been born in Fontenoy Street in 1746? He later was the unlikely designer of a primitive lighthouse for the Smalls rocks off Pembrokeshire, and probably one for the Skerries off Anglesey.
IGI and Lancs OPC have not yielded any results.
Thanks in advance.
Daggers
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 22:31
by MaryA
No results from Ancestry either, sorry.
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:35
by northmeols
our old makers in this respect. Would that we had
more examples of his art left us ! Duke's backs are
mostly plain, but the wood is as good acoustically as
anything short of Italian gems of the first water.
Henry Whiteside, a maker hardly known to any
writer on violin matters, used beech for the back of
many of his fiddles.
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:52
by daggers
Thank you for both replies. I have found more about this interesting man and there is more that I have yet to see. The Historic Society of L&C ran a couple of articles some years ago, so I am tracking those down.
D
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 09:29
by MaryA
Nice one Susan, what's the source for that please?
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 09:44
by Tina
Sorry Daggers nothing in Lancs O.P.C for birth/baptism
Can't get into FHS Beta site.
Tina
Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:34
by northmeols
W. Meredith (William Meredith) Morris. British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century
http://www.archive.org/stream/britishvi ... h_djvu.txt
Posted: 02 Jul 2011 07:48
by daggers
Tina and Susan
Thanks for help, once again. It is amazing what can be turned up via this wonderful web - references we could never have found without years of visiting libraries and ROs.
All good pieces of jigsaw...
On we go!
Daggers