Obituary, Nellie Paulin Hickey Bantly

 

The Times, 27 Sep 1954

Bantly – In San Mateo, September 25, 1954, Nellie Hickey Bantly, beloved wife of Benedict Bantly; loving sister of Mrs Polly Williams of Vancouver, BC; Mrs Nugent Short of Victoria, BC; Mrs Violet Lapraik of Etna, Calif, and Fred a Pauline of Victoria, BC; also survived by several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, September 28, 1954 at 2:00pm at the Colonial Mortuary of Crosby-N, Gray & Company, 2 Park Road, Burlingame.  Internment will be in the family plot in Victoria, BC.

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Runaway apprentice, Roger Cutler, 1756

London Daily Advertiser 21 September 1756 page 2

 

london daily advertiser 21 sep 1756 page 2 roger cutler

Whereas Joseph Ashby, Apprentice to Roger Cutler, Plumber at Windsor, absented himself from his Master’s service the 5th instant; whoever employs or harbours him, shall be fined; and whoever gives notice of him, or brings him home, shall be rewarded according to his Deforts.  He is about five feet three inches high, at a swarthy complexion, down look, and had on a coffee-coloured coat with brass buttons, and double-breasted white waistcoat.

Roger Cutler tree

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Visit home, 1958

Times Colonist, 23 August 1958

Four month old Michael Cormack, right, gives his twin brother, Christopher, a slightly covetous look at Christopher smugly holds on to his rattle.  Boys are photographed with their mother Mrs Irvine Cormack, at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs WO Pauline, 936 Foul Bay Road.  Mr and Mrs Cormack and the twins have come from North Vancouver for a holiday at the Pauline’s summer home at Shawinigan Lake.23 aug 1958

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Marriage TI Cormack and Shirley Pauline, 1954

Times Colonist, 13 March 1954

Mr and Mrs T Irvine Cormack to live near Hamburg, Germany

Mr and Mrs Thomas Irvine Cormack, married this afternoon in St Mary’s Church, will soon travel to Germany to make their home near Hamburg where the groom will be stationed with the 2nd Bn, PP CLI.  The couple will travel on honeymoon to Calgary, where the groom is now stationed.  He will leave for Germany at the end of March, when Mrs Cormack will return to Victoria, leaving in several month’s time to join him.

Baskets of plum blossoms, white stocks and deep pink tulips decorated the church for the ceremony.  Archdeacon AE Del Nunns heard the vows of Shirley Mary, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Oliver W Pauline, 936 Foul Bay Road, and the son of the late Alan Cormack, well-known shipbuilder, and the late Mrs Cormack.

The bride is granddaughter of the late Hon James A Macdonald, former chief justice of British Columbia, and Mrs Macdonald, and of the Hon FA Pauline, former agent-general for BC and the late Mrs Pauline.

James Gerry played traditional wedding music.

An afternoon length gown of amethyst iridescent taffeta was worn by the attractive, chesnut-haired bride. The gown was styled with full, crinolined skirt, fitted bodice trimmed with matching sequins, and boat-shaped neckline.  She wore a tiny shell hat of iridescent dusky rose straw with shoulder-length veil, satin slippers and gloves to match, and carried a cascading bouquet of rosebuds shading from rose to mauve tones.

Her sister’s only attendant, Miss Carolyn Pauline wore an afternoon-length gown of pale pink corded sikl, with v-neckline, fitted bodice, bracelet length sleeves and full flared skirt. She wore a navy stray hat, navy accessories and carried a bouquet en tone.

Ronald Alexander was best man.  Peter Powell and Murray Pauline, Vancouver, ushered guests to pews marked with nosegays of cream daffodils.

Reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, where a three-tier wedding cake centred the bridal table, which was covered with a madeira cloth.  Tiny Dresden vases arranged with white stocks and carnations and tall white candles in silver holders flanked the cake. Plum blossoms, iris, pink tulips and white stocks decorated the rooms.  Dr Fraser Murray, Vancouver, proposed the toast.

The mother of the bride wore a flared afternoon dress of pink lilac bengaline, navy accessories and spray corsage.

Mrs Cormack donned an azure blue dressmaker suit and apricot wool topcoat for travelling on honeymoon.  She wore a navy pillbox hat trimmed with white pique, white blouse and navy shoes and handbag.

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Unlocking the paternity of Edward Francis Meynell Cutler, born 1847

Edward Francis Meynell Cutler was born in the spring of 1847 in Kingston, Surrey, to Louisa Cutler (nee Freak).  While his birth certificate lists John Cutler (Louisa’s husband) as his father, we know that this is actually not the case.  He was born 4 years following his death.  His baptism in 1851 in Waltham, Surrey states that his mother was unmarried.

Edward Cutler

So who was his father?  His given names provide the clue.  Many unwed mothers used the biological fathers’ names in their children’s given names, a way to have them recognized as the son of, or to give them some sense of paternal identity.  How do we know Louisa did this for Edward?  Meynell was not a name which came from her family.  There were no Meynells in the tree.  So was the father Francis Meynell?

There are a few Francis Meynells hanging about England at the time of Edward’s birth.  Is one of them his father?  Hard to determine.

I did however find this article on newspapers dot com which mentions a Francis Meynell in the Royal Navy.  Compelling because Louisa’s brother in law was in the Navy, and her father had been a shipbreaker, with connections to the navy.  Puts him in her network – as a possible.

I will leave it there.

The Morning Chronicle, 5 Feb 1849

Court-Martial at Naples on Lieutenant Meynell, RN –  A court-martial was held at Naples, on the 23d ult, on board the Hibernia flag ship, to try Lieutenant Francis Meynell (1846), of the Bellerophon.  The following members composed the court: – Captains Sir James Stirling of the Howe, 120 (President); HW Bruce, of the Queen, 116; W Ramsay, of the Terrible, steam-frigate; RL Baynes, CB, of the Bellerophon.  It was in substance as follows:- That overhearing Lieutenant Meynell making observations on the multitude reports which he was obliged to receive from the master-at-arms, ship’s corporal, &c, he left his cabin, and took his place at the ward-room table, in the hope that his presence would put an end to remarks which he conceived to be highly subversive of discipline.  His presence, however, at the mess-table had not the effect he anticipated; whereupon Commander Randolph desired Mr Meynell to go on deck. The latter replied he would not; he had no notion of being ordered from his own mess table as if he were one of the mess servants, but if Commander Randolph would go on deck himself, and send for him (Lieutenant Meynell) he would then obey his summons.”  The court was occupied about six hours in the investigation, and finally found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to be dismissed her Majesty’s ship Bellerophon, and to be placed at the bottom of the list of lieutenants.

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HMS Bellerophon from Wikipedia.
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Music Sounds Note in life of La Puentean, Benedict Bantly, 1957

Los Angeles Times, 27 January 1957

Music Sounds Note in Life of La Puentean

La Puente – Rooms filled with instruments, compositions, pictures of composers and musicians reflect the musical career of one of the city’s most colorful personalities, Benedict Bantly.

The house at 15802 E Temple Street has become so crowded with his collection that Bantly is remodelling the attic to serve as an extra music room.

Of all his possessions, the 79 year-old musician is proudest of a framed diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at Leipzig, Germany, where he studied from 1902 to 1906.

Started in Canada

Bantly’s musical training began more than 70 years ago when he was a boy in Victoria, British Columbia.  He and his father, brother and a sister played at dancing clubs in Victoria.

At one performance, Bantly, who was also a photographer, arrived with his violin case, only to discover that instead of the instrument he had a camera inside.

The La Puentean met his first wife while studying in Germany.  She was a vocalist and he wrote many compositions for her.

“This was a particularly mushy one,” he chuckled, thumbing through one of the many scores that fill a bookcase.

Played for Actors

During the early days of silent motion pictures, Bantly played mood music for such actors as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.

In 1922 Bantly joined the faculty of La Puente High School and was head of the music department there for 30 years.  One of his special productions was the Ben Sing Laundry act put on for the annual vaudeville.

For this number he used bamboo rakes as music stands and several authentic Chinese instruments.  He still has a Chinese violin and a botak, or mandolin, from Malaya.

Has  Dozen Violins

Of more than a dozen violins, his favorite is a model of an Amati which he played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus where Mendelssohn first conducted.

Among his smaller instruments is a 100-year-old yellow clarinet made of box wood, with only seven keys, which his father brought from Germany.  He has three others of the Albert system that date from the 80s, a mandola, similar to the present viola, and old metronomes.

Of his five pianos the oldest is a three and one-half octave piano built in Paris in 1809.  Beside a modern electric organ, which he said shocked him at first because it sounded synthetic, he has an 1875 Reed Organ.

Bantly was concertmaster for Harold Scott’s San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestra for 10 years.  He organized the Rotary Orchestral Club in Victoria, and returns there for a visit each year.

Practiced Diligently

Proving that there is no substitute for practice, Bantly produced a record of his practice week in his early days which showed a total of 45 hours spent on the piano, organ or violin.

Bantly, whose philosophy is “if you can’t laugh it off, it’s too bad,” believes that the best method for staying young is to keep busy.

He practices what he preaches.  He still teaches music and has organized a local Rotary music group.

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Marriage Thomas Irvine Cormack and Shirley Mary Pauline, 1954

The Province 17 March 1954

Cormack-Pauline vows repeated at ceremony of wide interest

Victoria – Mr and Mrs Thomas Irvine Cormack, married Saturday in St Mary’s Church, will soon travel to Germany to make their home near Hamburg, where the groom will be stationed with the 2nd Bn PPCLI.  The couple will travel on honeymoon to Calgary, where the groom is now stationed.  He will leave for Germany at the end of March, when Mrs Cormack will return to Victoria, leaving in several months’ time to join him.

Archdeacon AE Del Nunns heard the vows of Shirley Mary, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Oliver Pauline, and the son of the late Alan Cormack, well-known ship builder, and the late Mrs Cormack.

The bride is granddaughter of the late Hon James A Macdonald, former chief justice of British Columbia, and Mrs Macdonald and of the Hon FA Pauline, former agent-general for BC, and the late Mrs Pauline.

An afternoon length gown of amethyst iridescent taffeta was worn by the attractive bride. The gown was styled with full crinolined skirt, fitted bodice trimmed with matching sequins, and bateau neckline.  She wore a tiny shell hat of iridescent dusky rose straw and carried a cascading bouquet of rosebuds.

 

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Her sister’s only attendant, Miss Carolyn Pauline wore an afternoon-length gown of pale pink corded silk.

Mr Ronald Alexander was best man, Mr Peter Powell and Mr Murray Pauline, Vancouver, ushered guests to pews marked with nosegays of cream daffodils.

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