Annie Maria Baxter manuscript music album, July 1852, bound together with published set of 'The Campbell Town Waltzes', 1849

MLMSS 9902/Box 1X

fonds

1849-1852

Textual Records, Manuscript Notated Music, Notated Music

1001738

0.10 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript

Annie Maria Baxter (née Hadden, later Dawbin) (1816-1905), pioneer and diarist, was born on 24 November 1816 in Devon, England, the daughter of James Hadden, an English army officer. She was married first to Lieutenant Andrew Baxter (b. 7 December 1813) on 8 February 1834 in England, and second to Robert Dawbin (b. 21 October 1827) on 1 September 1857 at St Paul's, Melbourne.

She arrived in New South Wales in 1834 on the convict ship Augusta Jessie with her first husband, an ensign and later Lieutenant in the 50th regiment. Ensign and Mrs Baxter made their way from Sydney to Port Macquarie where they lived until 1844, after which Lieutenant Baxter resigned his commission and the couple relocated to Port Phillip where they lived until about 1846. The marriage became an unhappy one and Mrs Baxter left her husband, and Port Phillip, in 1846, relocating to Tasmania where she lived with her brother.

In 1851 Mrs Baxter travelled to England. Upon the passing of Mr Baxter, the widowed Mrs Baxter returned to Melbourne to wind up her husband’s affairs. It was during this time she met Robert Dawbin, marrying him in 1857. The pair moved to New Zealand, living in Waiwera until 1870.


References:
Library correspondence file
Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dawbin-annie-maria-1967 (accessed 27 January 2017)

MLMSS 9902 (1X BOX)
A manuscript music album of mostly vocal scores with piano accompaniment (approx. 70) containing popular English folk songs, ballads and operas from the colonial period with many pieces transcriptions of works composed or arranged by George Linley (1798-1865), compiled and transcribed by Annie Maria Baxter. Album is bound with a published set of 'The Campbell Town Waltzes dedicated to the Ladies of the District, Tasmania, 1849, Thomas Browne, Lithographic Printer, Hobart Town', by Francis Hartwell Henslowe.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

This music album is referred to in: Richards, Rosemary. ‘“To Display Her Chief Accomplishment”: Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia’. In Performing History: Approaches to History across Musicology, edited by Nancy November. Boston, U.S.A.: Academic Studies Press, 2020, 320–36. Accessed 31 December 2020. https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/performing-history.

Compilation of 19th century published music.

Signed and dated on title page 'Annie Maria Baxter, Plymouth, July '52'

Fragile binding. Some pages are loose.