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CHRISTENSEN, ? {I01554} (b. , d. ?)

Source: (Name)
Title: Danish CensusSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Only a partial census. Covers many years from 1797 to 1915Repository:

Name: http://

Data:
Text: Children named Christensen in Census record but no record of father

Source: (Birth)
Title: Danish CensusSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Only a partial census. Covers many years from 1797 to 1915Repository:

Name: http://

Page: 1880 Aarhus, Hasle, Aarhus Kobstad 16, 1304/Valdemarsgade
Data:
Text: Mother and 8 children cited - no husband

Source: (Birth)
Title: Danish CensusSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Only a partial census. Covers many years from 1797 to 1915Repository:

Name: http://

Data:
Text: aarhus, Hasle, Aarhus Købstad, Århus Købstad 16, , 1304/valdemarsgade, 21, FT 1880 Following fields are shown: Name, Age, Marital status, Position in household, Occupation , Birth place Lagertha Johanne Marie Christensen Født Kock, 42, Enke, , , Helsingør Frits Andreas Peter Cornelius Christensen, 17, Ugift, , Maskinlærling, Aarhus Vilhelm Anthon Sophus Christensen, 14, Ugift, , , Aarhus Peter Frederik Ferdinand Christensen, 13, Ugift, , , Aarhus Alfred Laurits Valdemar Christensen, 12, Ugift, , , Aarhus Ahulda Flora Adele Juliane Christensen, 4, Ugift, , , Aarhus Josefine Caroline Chrestine Rasmussen, 16, Ugift, , Tjenestepige, Aarhus Carl Emil Georg Christensen, 16, Ugift, , Handelslærling, Aarhus Lagertha Dorthea Kristiane Christensen, 10, Ugift, , , Aarhus

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 1806
Place: Per "Alexander", convict

Note: Nancy Jacobs, Biographer of Henry Jacobs, first Dean of Christchurch, NZ

She (Nancy Jacobs) married Robert James Coates in Christchurch in 1915. They had two daughters (maybe other children) - Helen & Emily. Helen(now Garrett) is QSO, BA(NZ) MA(Oxon) She married John Garrett - I think in England and they lived for a period in Canada returning to NZ in 1949. She became the first woman in NZ to serve on a criminal jury & was a Christchurch City councillor for 18years. They had three sons - one is called David.

Source: (Birth)
Title: UK Census 1851Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: GoodRepository:

Name: Society of Australian Genealogists

Data:
Text: Elizabeth Jacobs abt 1838 Newchurch, Hampshire, England Daughter Newchurch Hampshire Henry Jacobs abt 1824 Whitewell, Hampshire, England Son Newchurch Hampshire Henry Jacobs abt 1848 Newchurch, Hampshire, England Grandson Newchurch Hampshire Jacob Jacobs abt 1796 Whitewell, Hampshire, England Head Newchurch Hampshire Jane Jacobs abt 1795 St Larance, Hampshire, England Wife Newchurch Hampshire

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Page: C009626

Note: Mary Ann Connor was a convict arriving in Tasmania on the ship "Mary 1" 5 Oct 1823
May have spelled name O'Connor

Sentenced in Leeds Bow Quarter Session 21 Oct 1822 to 7 years transportation for pickpocketing
Convict record # 101 650 396 4/4009

Hobart newspaper reports:
1825 Connor, Mary...........absconded
1825 Connor, Mary...........captured

Witness at the marriage of Joseph Brain and Caroline Sandeford in Hobart in 1834 (Joseph BRAIN was a baker as was William LEAR and was probably Stephen LEARs cocnspirator in Bitton)

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Page: C009626
Data:
Text: Father James Connor

Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian State Archives Web SiteSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium

Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: High

Data:
Text: Aged 37
Tasmanian Deaths: 1840 RGD 35/1 545

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 05 OCT 1823
Place: On Mary I in Van Diemen's Land

Event: Type: Convicted
Date: 21 OCT 1822
Place: Leeds Bow Quarter Sessions, 7 years transportation, pickpocket

Religion: Place: Buried Hobart C Reg

Source: (Death)
Author: Leonard Jacobs
Title: Jacobs Book/Manuscript
Publication: Name: c 1900;
Call number: NoneSource Medium: Manuscript
Source Quality: low
Typed, 67 pages copies obtained from Angela McCarthy who personally obtained them from the Hewlands in New Zealand (descendants of Henry Jacobs b 1824)Repository:

Name: Michael Jacobs holds copy

Source: (Birth)
Author: Leonard Jacobs
Title: Jacobs Book/Manuscript
Publication: Name: c 1900;
Call number: NoneSource Medium: Manuscript
Source Quality: low
Typed, 67 pages copies obtained from Angela McCarthy who personally obtained them from the Hewlands in New Zealand (descendants of Henry Jacobs b 1824)Repository:

Name: Michael Jacobs holds copy

Religion: Place: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI, USA

Source: (Burial)
Author: Stephen Randall (stephen.randall@village.uunet.be)
Title: Randall Transcription of Church Records
Publication: Name: Births, Deaths and marriages from 1550 to 1900 on the IOW;Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Limited transcription from Parish Records to Access data base formatRepository:

Name: http://gallery.uunet.be/Stephen.Randall

Religion: Place: Newchurch, IOW, ENG

Source: (Birth)
Title: UK Census 1851Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: GoodRepository:

Name: Society of Australian Genealogists

Data:
Text: Born Whitwell, aged 52 Husband James Jacobs

Source: (Death)
Author: IOW Family History Society
Title: Isle of Wight FHS
Publication: Name: On line database;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: mediumRepository:

Name: http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Data:
Text: Jacobs, Jane 1871 aged 76, Newport

Source: (Name)
Author: Published by van Tiggelen family members in Holland
Title: Familie van TIGGELEN
Publication: Name: Typed manuscript in two volumes (held by M. Jacobs);Source Medium: Book

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Source: (Burial)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/

Data:
Text: Fawkner Crematorium And Memorial Park wishes to advise that the location of the buried remains of the late Esther Lear aged 61 are located at Coburg Cemetery CHURCH OF ENGLAND: Compartment: P Grave No: 315.

Religion: Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS

Note: Harry Crosby

1898-1929

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
Entry Updated : 12/16/2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Career
Further Readings
Personal Information
Sidelights
Source Citation
Writings

"Sidelights"
Remembered as a brilliant, energetic poet, Harry Crosby was a member of an eccentric group of American expatriates who enlivened Paris in the 1920s. His early collection of poems, Sonnets for Caresse, expresses a hatred of the Puritan ethic that had permeated his Boston childhood and calls for an end to sexual hypocrisy. Other works by Crosby, including Chariot of the Sun and Transit of Venus, reveal the poet's growing preoccupation with mystical sun worship. Written shortly before Crosby's suicide, Sleeping Together and Mad Queen portray the sun as a life-giver and destroyer and suggest that the poet was nearly consumed by thoughts of death. Crosby was also a publisher whose Black Sun Press Produced finely designed and manufactured volumes of works by important new authors. Limited editions of the writings of authors such as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot have become collectors' items and have led some observers to believe that Crosby's most important contribution to literature was his work as a publisher.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family: Born June 4, 1898 in Boston, MA; committed suicide, December 10, 1929; married Polly Peabody, September 9, 1922. Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1921.

CAREER
Poet.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

(Editor) Anthology, privately printed (Paris, France), 1924.

Red Skeletons, Editions Narcisse (Paris, France), 1927.

(Author of foreword) Oscar Wilde, The Birthday of Infanta, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1928.

Chariots of the Sun, At the Sign of the Sundial (Paris, France), 1928.

Sonnets for Caresse, Editions Narcisse (Paris, France), 1927.

Shadows of the Sun, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1928, second series, 1929, third series, 1930.

Six Poems, Latterday (New York, NY), 1928.

Chariot of the Sun, Cour du soleil d'or (Paris, France), 1928.

Mad Queen: Tirades, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1929.

The Sun, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1929.

Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1929.

Aphrodite in Flight, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1930.

Forty-seven Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1930.

Sleeping Together: A Book of Dreams, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1931.

Torchbearer, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1931.

Transit of Venus: Poems, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1931.

War Letters, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1932.

(Editor and translator with Caresse Crosby) 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Black Sun Press (Paris, France), 1930.

Devour the Fire: The Selected Poems of Harry Crosby, Two Windows Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983.

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BOOKS

Crosby, Harry, Shadows of the Sun, three volumes, Black Sun Press, 1928-30.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 4: American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.

Geoffrey Wolf, Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, Random House, 1976.

PERIODICALS

Time, September 6, 1976.

SOURCE CITATION

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Harry Crosby
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Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 ? December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature.

Born Henry Sturgis Crosby (his parents later changed his middle name to "Grew") in Boston's exclusive Back Bay neighborhood, he was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England and the nephew of the son of J.P. Morgan, the financier. As such, he was heir to a substantial family fortune.

During World War I, Harry Crosby said he wanted to escape "the horrors of Boston and particularly of Boston virgins" and volunteered with the American Field Service in France, serving at the Front as a driver in the dangerous ambulance service. On November 22, 1917, a German shell seriously wounded a man standing next to Crosby and as he drove several wounded soldiers to the Medical Corps, his ambulance came under heavy fire. Harry Crosby said that was the night he changed from a boy to a man.

In 1921 Crosby married Mary Phelps Jacob, who later took the name "Caresse" Crosby. Two days after their wedding, they moved to Paris, France, where he worked in his uncle's bank. Uninterested in a respectable banker's life and desiring to pursue life as a poet, Crosby quit his job at the Morton Harjes Bank and in April of 1927 he and wife Caresse founded a book publishing company. Originally named Éditions Narcisse, it was later changed to the Black Sun Press. By 1928, Harry Crosby gained some recognition as a poet after the publishing of his Red Skeletons collection said to be heavily indebted to Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe.

The Black Sun Press produced finely crafted books in small editions, including works by, among others, D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, and Hart Crane. It also issued two more volumes of Crosby's poetry, Chariot of the Sun and Transit of Venus. In 1929, Crosby published Mad Queen, collection of verse influenced by Surrealism. Torchbearer, a collection of his poetry with an afterward by Ezra Pound, and Aphrodite in Flight, a meditation on love and the principles of aeronautics, were both published posthumously. A boxed set containing Chariot of the Sun with D. H. Lawrence's intro, Transit of Venus with T. S. Eliot's intro, Mad Queen with Stuart Gilbert's intro and Torchbearer was brought out in 1932.

On December 10, 1929, Crosby and Josephine Bigelow, née Rotch, a newly married woman with whom Crosby had been carrying on an affair, committed dual suicide. Crosby's death scandalised Boston's Back Bay society.

Following her husband's death, Caresse Crosby edited his papers and continued the work of the Black Sun Press. She published and translated some of the works of Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others, as well as volumes of poetry (Crosses of Gold (Léon Pichon, 1935), Painted Shores (Black Sun Press, 1927), Poems for Harry Crosby (Black Sun Press, 1931)). Alvin Redman published her autobiography, Passionate Years, in 1955.

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Data:
Text: Henry Grew CROSBY Sex: M Event(s): Birth: 4 Jun 1898 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Parents: Father: Stephen Van Rensselaer CROSBY Mother: Henrietta Marion GREW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film Number: 2078128

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Data:
Text: John Schuyler CROSBY Sex: M Event(s): Birth: 19 Sep 1839 Albany, Albany, New York Parents: Father: Clarkson Floyd CROSBY Mother: Angelica SCHUYLER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call No. Type 8832304 - 1553308 Film NONE Sheet: 54

Note: Card Table (one of a pair)
Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819)
Mahogany, mahogany veneer, basswood, ash, cherry, eastern white pine, yellow-poplar, cut brass inlay, ormulu mounts and brass casters, c. 1817
AIHA Collection: Gift of Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, grandson of Harriet Bayard and Stephen Van Rensselaer IV, and grandnephew of Maria Bayard and Duncan Pearsall Campbell

Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:

Name: http://www.familysearch.org

Data:
Text: Stephen Van Rensselaer CROSBY Sex: M Event(s): Birth: 1869 Albany, Albany, New York Parents: Father: John Schuyler CROSBY Mother: Harriet VAN RENSSELAER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call No. Type 5005646 - 1553275 Film NONE Sheet: 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Occupation: Place: Publican

Source: (Death)
Title: SA Centennial Park Cemetery
Publication: Name: www.centennialpark.org;Source Medium: ElectronicRepository:

Name: On line

Data:
Text: Arthur William Cussans from DAW PARK Date of Death: Age: 89 Years Interment Details: Burial Section: General C Row: Path: 14 Site: 1095 Licence Number: 2849 Licence Expiry Date: 27/05/2047