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NIGEL ....

Here you are .. photo and text ... by me

https://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2022/08/j-t-dalton-soldene-baritone-to-whom.html

Nigel, Maggie died of consumption that it was hoped the America trip might cure. JT didn't continue to Australia with the Soldene co, but went home. Maggie died at Cleveland Ohio 9 August 1877. For any details on JT's career, write me on Removed  Kurt Gänzl.

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I hope you can get your hands on them!  :-)

Kurt Gänzl

Yes, I see that there is a chance it might not be she... but, goodness, how many Cafferatas WERE there!  Please, use my test wherever and whenever you like. Knowledge/research is meant to be shared. Best wishes, Kurt.

CAFFERATA, Louisa [Eliza] (b Liverpool 5 September 1839; d 98 Cochran Street, London, 21 April 1875).

Like so many would-be vocalists, of some talent, Miss or Mdlle Cafferata had a struggling career …

The family of Joseph Cafferata (d 53 Everton Rd., 10 August 1871), a Liverpool brewer, and his wife Frances Elizabeth née McQueen (d 9 July 1878), was a large one from which seven children survived to adulthood. And five of those would make – for some of their life, at least -- a career in music. Four sons, Joseph Raphael (1832-1913), Charles Edward (135-1893), Arthur Frederick (1853-1933) and Julius Francis (1855-1918) -- who stayed in Liverpool and contributed local music-making, while the fifth, and one daughter, Louisa. Louisa went to London.

Now, many a time and I’ve had cause to damn the amateur genealogists who infest the WorldWideWeb with their semi-imaginary family trees. But the Cafferatas are well-documented and the family have come up with some fine photographs and, best off all, an autograph letter written by Louisa, aged 31, freshly down in London and trying to make a go of a singing career. It is a wonderful letter … well, it speaks for itself, so I hope the family won’t mind if I quote from it…

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