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Thread #129312   Message #2901882
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
07-May-10 - 05:56 AM
Thread Name: Joseph Bryan Geoghegan, travelling singer, 1800s
Subject: RE: Joseph Bryan Geoghegan, travelling singer, 1800s
Steve,

No, certainly not a comprehensive list. Here's your list and mine combined (from the other thread):

Allah, guard the Prince of Wales. National song [begins: " Ten thousand thousand welcomes " ]. (1876)
Benjamin and Maria or The Sheffield Hoax
Better late than never [Song, begins: " What folly 'tis for man to fret " ] (1860)
Black diamond
Bread and Cheese and Ale
Brigham Young. [Song.] (1873)
Cockles & Mussels. Song [begins: "Of all merry blades"] (1876)
The Convivial Man. [Song, begins: " They tell me " .] (1869)
A Diamond in the Rough. [Song, begins: "I'll sing you".] (1876)
Don't say who gave you the tip. [Song, begins: "I'm going to sing".] (1878)
Down in a Coal Mine. [Song, begins: "I am a jovial collier lad".] (1873)
England is England still. (1886)
England with all thy faults I love thee still (1875)
The Frenchman, 1878
Glossop Road. (1860)
A hundred years ago. (1860)
I am a merry little man
It's A way we have in the Army (1863),
It's really a dreadful affair
John Barleycorn is a hero bold. (1860)
Johnny, I hardly know you. [Song, begins: "While on the road".] (1867)
Lancashire Witch
Lines on the Flood
Marigold
Measure your Wants by your Means, [song] (1860)
The men of merry England. (1858)
The Merriest Man in the Company
A Message from the Sea
The Name of England ... Song [begins: " There is a world known little isle " ] (1876)
Napoleon talks of War, Boys. (1860)
A Novel Idea. Song [begins: " Ah! gentlemen " ]. (1873)
Oh! Marigold. [Song, begins: "Tho' I'm a blighted trumpet flower".] (1873)
Old Adam was father of all. [Song, begins: "What a wonderful world".] (1876)
Old England's future king. Patriotic song, [begins: " Arouse, ye loyal Englishmen " ] (1863)
Pat works on the Railway, 1854
The Queen of merry England. (1860)
Rock the Cradle John.
Roger Ruff, or a drop of good beer. [Song, begins: "I'm Roger Ruff".] (1860)
The Same Old Game. [Song, begins: "When I was quite a lad".] (1876)
Sons of Old John Bull
The Style, by Jove! [Song, begins: " You talk about your howling swells " .] (1866)
Ten Thousand Miles away. [Song begins: "Sing oh!"] (1870)
They all have a mate but me. [Song, begins: "Kind Christians all".] (1876)
Time works wonders [song, begins: " A friendless youth " ] (1869)
The Toilers of the Sea
True hearts are always trumps. song
Volunteers rouse & be ready. (1860)
The Waggoner. [Song, begins: "True hearts are always trumps".] (1860)
Wasn't she a Beauty

To which we can add 'The Manchester Ship Canal' which I discovered yesterday in Notes and Queries, Manchester Times, January 22, 1892.

W.R. Consterdine, Collyhurst, writes "The song 'The Manchester Ship Canal' was Written and sung by J.B.Geoghegan (mine host of the Varieties, Churchgate, Bolton), at Benjamin Lang's Music Hall, Victoria Bridge, Manchester, in 1841."

He goes on to give the text, which is identical to the Bodleian Broadside The Seaport Town of --- (with 'Manchester' inserted into the blanks). Assuming the date to be correct - and JB was living on Deansgate, Manchester in 1841 - this would be the earliest dateable Geoghegan song that I've come across so far.

As you say, JBG was probably in Sheffield in the 1860's, though there is no hint of this in the family records (perhaps I was being conservative when I said he was living a double life!). And sometime amongst all this he is supposed to have been a Music Hall manager in Bolton for 25 years!