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Born / Died

Participation details - 4
Troupe Affiliation - 1
Events Naming Person - 117
Songs & Acts - 13
Bibliographic Sources - 9
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Biographical Overview

Birth Date: exactly
Death Date: exactly

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Troupes:


  • Ethiopian Serenaders 1846-48



Moniker(s):

  • “the Ethiopian Chief”
  • “the TAMBURINI of the party”



Common Acts:

  • “Old Dan Tucker”
  • “The Boatman’s Dance”
  • “Lucy Long”
  • “Dis Nigger’s Journey to New York”
  • “Sich a Getting Up Stairs”
  • “Dance the Boatman”
  • “Buffalo Gals”
  • “Good bye John”
  • “I Wonder Whar”



Representative Contemporary Description/Review:

  • Morning Chronicle (London) February 11, 1846: 5.

    “Germon, the performer on the tambourine, and Pell, the bone castanet-player, are the great gems”

Participation details

  • Tambourine Player
  • Vocalist (alto)
  • Acting Manager?
  • Minstrel

Troupe Affiliation

Troupe Name Event # of events
Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48) Minstrel 117

Events Naming Person

Event Date Location Troupe
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Hanover Square Rooms, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Hanover Square Rooms, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1846-1846 Pavilion Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Concert 1846-1846 Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Gloucester House, Piccadilly, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Dramatic 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1846-1846 Drury Lane Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Sadler's Wells, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Sussex Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Hall, The, Reading Berkshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Chiswick House, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Royal British Institution, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Horns, The, Kennington, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Horns, The, Kennington, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Green Man, Blackheath, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Dramatic 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Sussex Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Sussex Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Dramatic 1846-1846 London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Newburgh Rooms, Cannon Place, Brighton Sussex Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Portsmouth Hampshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Dramatic 1846-1846 Theatre Royal, Bristol, Bristol Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Birmingham Warwickshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Dramatic 1846-1846 Theatre Royal, Bristol, Bristol Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Royal Liver Theatre, Liverpool Lancashire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Royal Liver Theatre, Liverpool Lancashire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Royal Liver Theatre, Liverpool Lancashire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Music Hall, Abbey-Street, Dublin Dublin Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Free Trade Hall, Manchester Lancashire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Arundel Castle, Arundel Sussex Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 Newburgh Rooms, Cannon Place, Brighton Sussex Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1846 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1846-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Greenwich Kent Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Horns, The, Kennington, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Albion Hall, Hammersmith, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Albion Hall, Hammersmith, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1847-1847 Drury Lane Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Concert 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Horns, The, Kennington, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 King's Arms Assembly Rooms, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Town Hall, Oxford, Oxford Oxfordshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 London Bridge Hotel, Southwark, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Lecture Hall, Greenwich, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Manor House, Hackney, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Sussex Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Horns, The, Kennington, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Crosby Hall, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Concert 1847-1847 Sadler's Wells, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1847-1847 Grecian Saloon, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Town Hall, Oxford, Oxford Oxfordshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1847-1847 Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Variety 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 St. James Theatre, London London (city-county) Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)
Minstrel Show 1847-1847 Mechanics' Institute, Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ethiopian Serenaders (1846-48)

Songs & Acts

Number of songs and acts found: 13
Title Type Number of Events Found
1 Buffalo Gals Song 3 event(s)
2 Lucy Long Song 5 event(s)
3 Sich a Getting Up Stairs Song 2 event(s)
4 Old Dan Tucker Song 3 event(s)
5 Dance the Boatman Song 4 event(s)
6 My Skiff is by de Shore Song 3 event(s)
7 Come Back Stephen Song 1 event(s)
8 I Wonder Whar Song 1 event(s)
9 Burlesque Lecture on Phrenology and Mesmerism Song 1 event(s)
10 Nigger's Journey to New York, Dis Song 1 event(s)
11 Good bye John Song 2 event(s)
12 Boatman's Dance, The Song 1 event(s)
13 Merry is the Minstrel's Life Song 1 event(s)

Bibliographic Sources

  • Harvard Theatre Collection, Vauxhall Microfilm v7, Unidentified Clipping
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    • biography
    • description/review
    • performance history
    Document Scan, Part 1
  • Harvard Theatre Collection, Vauxhall Microfilm v7, Unidentified Clipping
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    • biography
    • description/review
    • performance history
    Document Scan, Part 2
  • John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Playbill
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    Document Scan
  • John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Playbill
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    Document Scan
  • Morning Chronicle (London) January 20, 1846: 5.
    Info in Record:
    • moniker
    Document Scan, Part 1
  • Morning Chronicle (London) January 20, 1846: 5.
    Info in Record:
    • moniker
    Document Scan, Part 2
  • Morning Chronicle (London) January 20, 1846: 5.
    Info in Record:
    • moniker
    Document Scan, Part 3
  • Morning Chronicle (London) January 20, 1846: 5.
    Info in Record:
    • moniker
    Document Scan, Part 4
  • Morning Chronicle (London) February 11, 1846: 5.
    Info in Record:
    • description/review
    Document Scan
  • New York Clipper October 7, 1876
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    • biography
    • description/review
    Document Scan
  • Observer (London) May 16, 1847: 1: 1.
    Info in Record:

      description/review
    Document Scan
  • Observer (London) May 30, 1847: 1.
    Info in Record:

      description/review
  • Observer (London) February 8, 1846: 1.
    Info in Record:
    • acts
    Document Scan
  • Theatrical Journal (London) January 31, 1846: 39:2-40:1.
    Document Image, Part 1
  • Theatrical Journal (London) January 31, 1846: 39:2-40:1.
    Part 2