The prompt for Week 24 was 'Artistic', and as to the best of my knowledge there have been no artists in my ancestry I chose to focus on music, which is the focus for Week 51. So as I have already blogged about my mother's musical talent, I searched my records for other musical talent amongst my ancestors.
Included in my newspaper records, I found several articles relating to musical events and concerts in which various ancestors performed, especially my Argent branch of my family tree.
The article above is from the Essex Standard published Friday 7 January 1876 and has several members of my Argent family preforming. My Great Great Grandfather John Thompson Argent was Chair or the event and his sister Ada Emily Argent was the pianist.
These musical evenings were apparently a regular winter highlight, and reports of similar concerts appeared in several newspapers.
The final concert for the winter of 1875/76 was reported above in the Essex Standard on Friday 11 February 1876, with the following season's first concert reported below on Friday 1 December 1876.
Clearly music was a large part of my ancestors' lives and musical performances formed a large part of the social network in their community.
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