Catherine Hayes

  General Notes:

In http://www.catherinehayes.com it is noted:
This distinguished young Irish soprano, performs around the Globe--- in Europe, Britain, Ireland, America (45 cities/towns), Canada, Chile, Peru, Hawaii, Australia, India, Singapore, Java and elsewhere, during the nineteenth-century.
1818 born in Limerick, Ireland located at the mouth of the River Shannon.
1841 in Dublin she shares the concert platform with the great pianist Franz Liszt.
1845 in Milan she becomes the reigning prima donna at La Scala with Verdi in the audience.
1849 in London at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden she is a sensation.
1849 in London this young Irish soprano sings at Buckingham Palace for Queen Victoria and 500 guests.
1849 in Dublin, Cork and Limerick she is the returning great international prima donna of the opera.
1851 in Boston she sang for Daniel Webster and his family.
1852 in Washington DC she sang for the president of the United States and his family.
1853 in the Goldfields around Sacramento she sings for the miners and diggers.
1854 in the Hawaiian Islands she sings for King Kamehameha II with great success and amusement.
1854 in Sydney, Australia she becomes the first great European opera singer to perform there.
1855 in Calcutta, India, she entertains the British Army and their wives with great éclat.
1855 in Hobart, Tasmania where she gives concerts with great success.
1856 departs Sydney to return to England via the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
1856-1861 gives concerts in England and Ireland.

Perhaps her greatest moment came in Buckingham Palace, London in 1849... after an evening of singing Italian operatic arias for Queen Victoria and 500 guests she responded to the Queen's request for an encore by singing the beautiful Irish song, "Kathleen Mavourneen." The Queen was so impressed, that she recorded her comments on the Irish Prima Donna's performance for posterity in her diary the next day. The Queen was very complimentary!

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. Michael Hogan's connection to me is as follows:
Michael Hogan . . .
His Great Grandmother was Mary Hayes (c1760)
Her father was ? Hayes (c1730) & he also had Patrick Hayes (c1760)
He had Arthur Hayes (c1820) & who married Ann Caroline Leigh
They had Helen Hayes (1861) who married Philip Gard (1853)
They had John Gard (1886) who married Violet Carr (1886)
Her father was William Carr (1854) who married Charlotte Wright (1861)
Her father was Benjamin Wright (1825) & her mother was Charlotte Barwick (1830)
But Benjamin Wright (1825) also married Sarah Allen (1852)
Her father was John Allen (1822) & he also had Josiah Allen (1867)
He had Louis Allen (1891)
He had Enid Allen (1928) who married Ronald Whaites (1931)
His father was Hurtle Whaites (c1886) & he also had William Whaites (1915) who married Doris Davies (1917)
Her father was Thomas Davies (1881)
His father was Joseph Davies (1852) & he also had G. A. Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)