Henry Whiteside, baptised 1746?

Post by **daggers** » 30 Jun 2011 11:25

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

Post by **MaryA** » 30 Jun 2011 22:31

No results from Ancestry either, sorry.

Post by **northmeols** » 01 Jul 2011 03:35

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.

Post by **daggers** » 01 Jul 2011 08:52

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.
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Post by **MaryA** » 01 Jul 2011 09:29

Nice one Susan, what's the source for that please?

Post by **Tina** » 01 Jul 2011 09:44

Sorry Daggers nothing in Lancs O.P.C for birth/baptism
Can't get into FHS Beta site.

Tina

Post by **northmeols** » 02 Jul 2011 02:34

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

Post by **daggers** » 02 Jul 2011 07:48

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