Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
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Fawcett Edgar. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
PREFACE
A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER I. THE EXPERIENCES OF A BRITISH BOY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE EARLY FIFTIES
CHAPTER II. THEATRICAL MEMORIES
CHAPTER III. MY BOYHOOD DAYS IN VICTORIA
CHAPTER IV. VICTORIA’S FIRST DIRECTORY
CHAPTER V. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF VICTORIA BY ONE WHO WAS THERE IN THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER VI. A LITTLE MORE STREET HISTORY
CHAPTER VII. THE VICTORIA GAZETTE, 1858
CHAPTER VIII. VICTORIA IN 1859–1860
CHAPTER IX. FIRES AND FIREMEN
CHAPTER X. A SIBERIAN MAMMOTH
CHAPTER XI. MRS. EDWIN DONALD, HON. WYMOND HAMLEY, HON. G. A. WALKEM
CHAPTER XII. THE CONSECRATION OF THE IRON CHURCH
CHAPTER XIII. THE IRON CHURCH AGAIN
CHAPTER XIV. ITS DEPARTED GLORIES, OR ESQUIMALT, THEN AND NOW
CHAPTER XV. OLD QUADRA STREET CEMETERY
CHAPTER XVI. PIONEER SOCIETY’S BANQUET
CHAPTER XVII. VICTORIA DISTRICT CHURCH
CHAPTER XVIII. CHRISTMAS IN PIONEER DAYS
CHAPTER XIX. THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY FORTY YEARS AGO
CHAPTER XX. EVOLUTION OF THE VICTORIA POST-OFFICE
CHAPTER XXI. FIFTY YEARS AGO
CHAPTER XXII. FORTY YEARS AGO
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LATE GOVERNOR JOHNSON
CHAPTER XXIV. A TRIP TO A CORAL ISLAND
CHAPTER XXV. A VICTORIAN’S VISIT TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER XXVI. AN HISTORIC STEAMER
CHAPTER XXVII. COLONEL WOLFENDEN – IN MEMORIAM
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CLOSING OF VIEW STREET IN 1858
CHAPTER XXIX. MR. FAWCETT RETIRES FROM THE CUSTOMS
CHAPTER XXX. SOME COLORED PIONEERS
CHAPTER XXXI. JOHN CHAPMAN DAVIE, M.D
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BEGINNING OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AND PROTESTANT ORPHANS’ HOME
CHAPTER XXXIII. VICTORIA’S FIRST Y.M.C.A
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE LATE MR. T. GEIGER
CHAPTER XXXV. ROSTER OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTERS
CHAPTER XXXVI. MORE LIGHT ON CLOSING OF VIEW STREET
CHAPTER XXXVII. BISHOP CRIDGE’S CHRISTMAS STORY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHRISTMAS REMINISCENCES BY HON. J. S. HELMCKEN
CHAPTER XXXIX. MY FIRST CHRISTMAS DINNER IN VICTORIA, 1860
CHAPTER XL. EVOLUTION OF THE SONGHEES
CHAPTER XLI. VICTORIA THE NEW AND THE OLD
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All the Fawcetts I ever heard of from my father and mother came from Kidderminster. My father’s father was a maltster, and the sons, with the exception of my father, the youngest, were carpet weavers. The family were strict Nonconformists, and produced one or two noted divines of George the Third’s day, one of whom preached before that king. There was also a kinship with the Baxters of "Saint’s Rest" fame.
My mother was Jane Wignall, whose father was a Birmingham smallarms manufacturer in rather a large way of business, but who through the dishonesty of his partner was nearly ruined and brought to comparative poverty. The daughters, who were all well educated, had to take positions as governesses and ladies’ companions. My mother, in this capacity, lived and travelled in France and Spain, and spoke the languages of both countries. In a voyage to her home from Barcelona she was wrecked in the Gulf of Lyons, but through the timely assistance of a Spanish gentleman and his Newfoundland dog, who bore her up, she was brought to shore in little more than her nightdress. I have to-day a letter from the British consul at Marseilles which he gave to my mother, recommending her to the care of other British consuls on her way to England. The Spanish gentleman who saved her life made an offer of marriage, which my mother declined, I think, on account of his being a Roman Catholic. He would not take no for an answer, but later on followed her to England and offered himself a second time without effect. Shortly after this she and my father were married, and on the advice of Rowland Hill, his cousin (Sir Rowland Hill), he took his young bride to Australia. Rowland Hill, being his father’s trustee under his will, paid my father his share, with which he took a stock of goods and started business in Sydney.
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• Dougall, John, iron moulder.
• Drake, M. W. T., solicitor.
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