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Contact | Subscribe | Block this user Itellya is researching local history on the Mornington Peninsula and is willing to help family historians with information about the area between Somerville and Blairgowrie. He has extensive information about Henry Gomm of Somerville, Joseph Porta (Victoria's first bellows manufacturer) and Captain Adams of Rosebud.
itellya on 2018-01-15 04:14:06SO, ALFRED (one of that name anyway) WAS A DOCTOR OF MAGIC EH!
I wonder if the 1918 version was the Rosebud Union footballer of 1890 or his brother.
Findings in italics at the end of this comment indicate that the Fakir (Dr.Silvester)was possibly the father of Louisa's husband, Alfred, the illusionist.
For the First Time in Australia,
SILVESTER, SILVESTER, SILVESTER,
SILVESTER, SILVESTER, SILVESTER,
SILVESTER, SILVESTER. SILVESTER,
The Magician of Magicians,
He has the secrets of the famous Fakir of Olou
'(Doctor Silvester), who appeared in Melbourne in
the 'seventies. Also the knowledge of Silvester
the illusionist, here in 1880.
(P.18, Argus, 17-10-1918, column 6.)
NOW IT GETS REALLY CONFUSING. SURELY THIS CAN'T BE LOUISA'S HUSBAND of 1874-1891 unless he sired three children in two years and continued performing with Louisa after committing bigamy. WAS THIS ONE A COUSIN?
SILVESTER-BEAUMONT.—On the 24th inst., at St.
Jude's Church, by the Rev. B. Rodda, Alfred Sil-
vester (Fakir of Oolu) to Sarah Amelia Beaumont,
eldest daughter of Wm. George Beaumont, Esq., of
Hobart Town. Tasmanian papers please copy.
(P.1, Argus, 27-10-1876.)
A detailed review of this Alfred's performance at Geelong four months before his marriage:P.3, Geelong Advertiser, 20-7-1876.
ONLY ONE MAGICAL ALFRED AFTER 1886.
SILVESTER.—On the 13th inst., at Prince's-terrace,Prince's-street, Fitzroy, Alfred Silvester (the Fakir of Oolu), aged 55.(P.1, Argus, 14-1-1886.)
He was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery. He'd lived at 2 Prusher (Prince's) Terrace, Princes St., Fitzroy.
This Alfred was born in about 1831. Louisa's Alfred was 21 when they married in 1874, so he would have been born in about 1853. It is possible that Dr Silvester had married by 1852 or so and was Louisa's father in law.
Therefore the following article would seem to be about Sarah Amelia Beaumont's future husband and his son, Louisa's husband. Alfred Jnr. was obviously a child of the doctor's first/earlier marriage.
Silvester, the 'Fakir of Oolu,' met with an accident at Bathurst, where he was badly injured by the falling timbers of the School of Arts, which was blown down in a gale of wind. His son, Mr. Alfred Silvester, assisted by Mademoiselle Naomi*, gave an entertainment entitled 'Mysteria' in various towns in New Zealand.
(P.155**, THE AUSTRALIAN SKETCHER WITH PEN AND PENCIL, 25-12-1875.)
* Louisa was most likely pregnant if this was her husband.
** I think page numbers were carried on from one issue to the next.
LIKE MAGIC, THIS ALFRED'S WIDOW FOUND A NEW HUBBY IN A JIFF!
KINGSLEY—SILVESTER.—On the 10th inst., at St.
Peter's Church, East Melbourne, by the Rev. Canon
Handfield, Henry James Collis, third son of the
late Major Charles Kingsley, of Blackrock, Co.
Dublin, Ireland, to Sarah Amelia, widow of the late
Doctor Alfred Silvester, and daughter (of) W. G. Beau-
mont, Esq., Hobart. (P.1, Argus, 17-11-1887.)
itellya on 2018-01-15 04:41:12The Alfred Silvester performing with Naomi was married to her so Louisa was not married to the doctor/Fakir's son but most likely to his nephew.
TRAGEDY ENDS PARTY CHARGE OF MURDER
Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954) Saturday 21 October 1922 p 7 Article
... collection, which consists of a lion and lioness, a panther, and a fox. belong to Mr. Alfred Silvester, a ... nephew of the famous illusionist. Dr. Silvester, and the proprietor of a thought-reading act by
AND I THINK I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT IN CASE I GO UP IN A PUFF OF SMOKE.