Harry Loversidge Harston documents

Date1888-1889 Last edited by: Kate Charteris

Reference NumberAms 388DescriptionCollection comprises:

Ams 388/1: Correspondence to Harry
Ams 388/2: Miscellaneous documents
Ams 388/3: Research notes and transcripts

Harry Harston (c.1865-1946) was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, the son of a piano tuner and organ builder. By the age of 15 he was working as a piano tuner himself. He had considerable musical training and was an organist, head chorister and soloist before he left for Sydney in 1884. Harry went to a post as organist and choirmaster at the Sydney Town Hall.

Six months later he arrived in New Zealand to visit a cousin, Marie Wright, and settled in Tauranga, where he taught music, tuned pianos and organs, and was the organist at Holy Trinity.

He left for Thames in 1889, where he lived until 1894 when he moved to Paeroa. He married Katherine Marie Sirdefield in 1890 and they had three children: Ernest Sirdefield, b. 1891; Neville Forsyth, b. 1898; and Enid Joyce, b. 1906, who married Ian Campbell in 1929.
In 1903 Harry settled in Napier and set up Harston's Ltd.LevelCollectionLanguageEnglish

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Correspondence to Harry Harston

Miscellaneous documents

Research notes and transcripts

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RoomClimate controlled room Last edited by: Kate Charteris

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Kaitiakitanga StatementWe ask that, in addition to normal copyright and privacy considerations, users of our heritage resources uphold the mana and dignity of the people, communities and places depicted within.AcknowledgementTe Ao Mārama - Tauranga City Libraries Ams 388

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Harry Loversidge Harston documents