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Kathleen May Thomas – Musical progress

Van Cooten Voices Posted on November 24, 2020 by rodneyNovember 24, 2020

Kathleen May Thomas progressed through the examination syllabus of the Trinity College London, and ultimately was awarded an Associate Diploma of the Trinity College of Music, London, in Piano, which qualified her to become a recognised piano teacher. An article … Continue reading →

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Australian Music Examinations

Van Cooten Voices Posted on November 18, 2020 by rodneyDecember 18, 2020

My paternal grandmother (Nana Van) Kathleen May Thomas was born in 1900, and was raised by her grandparents in Maryborough, Queensland, owing to the death of her mother (and baby) following childbirth in 1902. Young Katie was supported and encouraged … Continue reading →

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Where was J. B. Edward’s Jewellers Shop

Van Cooten Voices Posted on March 5, 2020 by rodneyNovember 25, 2020

If you walk from Alexandra Fountain in Bendigo today, and head down Pall Mall towards the Law Courts, its a little hard to see where J. B. Edwards Jewellery shop at 3 Pall Mall was. The picture below shows the … Continue reading →

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J. B. Edwards Stereoscopic Photography

Van Cooten Voices Posted on March 5, 2020 by rodneyMarch 5, 2020

James Benjamin Edwards, jeweller of Bendigo, was a well connected and well respected citizen. He was also my wife’s great-grandfather. He  was a stalwart of the Forest Street Methodist Church, including being a trustee, chairman of the Bendigo Chamber of … Continue reading →

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Slave emancipation

Van Cooten Voices Posted on February 26, 2020 by rodneyNovember 25, 2020

Hendrik Van Cooten was a plantation and slave owner. In Britain, in August 1833, the Slave Emancipation Act was passed, giving all slaves in the British empire their freedom, albeit after a set period of years. Plantation owners received compensation … Continue reading →

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Who was Theodore Barrell?

Van Cooten Voices Posted on February 18, 2020 by rodneyNovember 25, 2020

Looking closely at the the letters written by Theodore we can infer: He has a father named Walter Barrell, alive in 1799 He has sisters Abby, Polly and Charlotte He has an uncle Theodore His mother is deceased in 1799 … Continue reading →

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Borderless Empire : Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800

Van Cooten Voices Posted on February 10, 2020 by rodneyFebruary 10, 2020

In 2015, Bram Hoonhout, then a PhD student working on the 18th century history of Essequibo and Demerara, alerted me to the existence of references to Hendrik, Jan and Nicolaas van Cooten in the letterbooks of Theodore Barrell, a merchant … Continue reading →

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The Spagnoletti Speaking Instrument

Van Cooten Voices Posted on January 28, 2020 by rodneyJanuary 28, 2020

Great great grandfather William Thomas, in his handwritten autobiography of 1926, refers to his time on the railways in Wales in the early 1870s, and using the “Spagoletti speaking instrument.” This turns out to be a form of the Single … Continue reading →

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Where is Hendrik junior?

Van Cooten Voices Posted on January 22, 2020 by rodneyJanuary 22, 2020

The will of Hendrik Van Cooten (transcript) in 1825 implies that Hendrik had two sons, Cornelis and Hendrik, born out of wedlock, prior to his marriage to Dorothea Nicols. The will says that Hendrik junior has “absented himself from Holland … Continue reading →

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A stolen hat

Van Cooten Voices Posted on May 18, 2009 by rodneyMay 19, 2009

In searching the 19th Century English Newspapers for Maggie’s Gormans, we came across the following intriguing item in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle for July 13 1861: William Taylor a respectably dressed young man, was charged with stealing a … Continue reading →

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