8106 Nellie Melba and W.M.H. Southwick Correspondence, 28 Oct 1902.

Melba, Nellie

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Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell. In 1882 she married Charles Nesbit Frederick Armstrong, who died in 1948. From the description of Papers concerning Mitchell and Armstrong families [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225791512 Mrs Helen Porter Armstrong, soprano singer, was born in, and derived her non de plume from Melbourne. She first appeared in opera in 1887 after concentrating for many years on her piano playing and made her final appearance in...

Armstrong, Helen

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Southwick, W.M.H.

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William Mark Havelock Southwick was born in london in 1848 and came to Australia with his parents in about 1854, settling in the Mudgee area of New South Wales. He later moved to Warwick, where he established a grocery business and in 1875 married Emma Anne Crombie. In 1881, the couple moved to Brisbane. For seven years, Southwick was a commercial traveller for Robert Harper & Company, and in 1897 went into business as a grocer in Caxton Street, Paddington. In 1900, in addition ...