Organology is a passion for many, but shared by few. J W Walker installed quite a few organs in Australia as well. I noted more German influence in the US from various bits and pieces of my interest in missionary history. There is a bit of German influence in South Australia, settled in part by Lutheran pietists who emigrated from what is now Poland.
While I am online, if anyone happens to know anything about Lydia Mary Fay, who worked as a governess in Essex Country, generally around Alexandria and the Tappahannock area from 1939-1849, I would be delighted to hear from you. She worked for the Dulany and Carter families, and later was principal of a small school for elite white young ladies in the home of Dr. Jefferson Minor.
She was originally from Vermont, educated in Albany NY, and was originally a Presbyterian. She became an Episcopalian (Christ Church. Alexandria, 1844). Mary Fay later joined the Episcopal Mission in Shanghai China. She died in Chefoo, China in 1878.
Apart from Miss Fay, I am keen to learn as much as possible about the Dulany, Carter and Jefferson Minor connections in the preCivil War period. Personal letters are the real jewels in the crown, if possible.
Enjoy the cold weather we are seeing in today's international media, folks. This week has been well above 100 degree temperatures across Southern Australia with bushfires raging everywhere. On the other hand, really heavy monsoon rains and the usual cyclones (tornados in US, I think) across the North.
Greetings from the excessively sunny south,
Ian Welch
Canberra
----- Original Message -----
From: John Pearce <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:13 am
Subject: [VA-HIST] partial answer re Jamestown organ
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> Colleagues, when Brent posted his inquiry about the Jamestown
> exposition organ some days ago, I forwarded it to John Vreeland,
> Director of Music Ministries at St. George's Episcopal here in
> Fredericksburg, who has done some nifty research aand come up
> with this information:
>
> John,
> A partial answer:
> Austin Opus 182, 3 manuals and pedal 31 stops. Installed in the First
> Presbyterian Church in Norfolk after the exposition.
> Research on the Church
> web site shows that the congregation moved to a new sanctuary in
> 1912. It
> is likely that the Austin organ went along. The current
> organ, 4 manuals
> and 70 ranks, dedicated in 1993, is by J. W. Walker and sons, an
> Englishfirm. No mention of the Austin organ can be found
> on the church web site,
> but a call to the current organist, Dr. Jean Thiel, might be
> helpful.
>
> First Presbyterian Church
> 820 Colonial Avenue
> Norfolk, VA 23507
> Phone: (757) 625-1697
> Fax: (757) 625-1288
>
> Office Hours:
> 8:00a.m. - 5:00pm
> Monday - Frida
>
> Again, this information is from John Vreeland--I'm just the
> lucky conduit.
>
> John
>
>
> John Pearce
> Director, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
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