1828 born in London, of John Page, a paper marbler and Elizabeth nee Binley
1839 Father died
1841 at a boys’ school in Hackney
1851 is a commercial traveller, selling leather, staying in Glasgow
1852 December – emigrates to Australia, “leather seller” aged 24. Arrives April 1853
1853 marries Agnes Rutherford in Victoria, Australia
1854 son William Stewart born in Geelong, Victoria
1865 to 1869 licenced as auctioneer
1869 October may have departed from Yokohama with Thomas King and wife and the Royal Tycoon’s Private Troupe to Asia, then to Britain
1870 January Mr and Mrs King and Mr Page arrived in Sarawak from Manila in January 1870. Their ship the Sunshine was wrecked off the Moratabas (Muara Tebas) entrance of the Sarawak river and “a great deal of their apparatus was seriously damaged by the disaster.”[1] They then moved on to Singapore and from there to Madras on the Simla which had “Mr and Mrs King, two European adults and one child, ten Japanese adults and five children on the passenger list.[2]
[1] The Straits Times, 22nd January 1870 p 2
[2] Homeward Mail from India, China and the East, 13 March 1870 p 28
1870 November – Bankrupt in Australia
1870 Passport records Isojiro 磯次郎 aged 30, with Sei, 20 (daughter? wife?), 鶴吉？age?, Chiyokichi 千代吉 17, Toramatsu 寅松 37, Gennosuke 源之助 28、Toyomatsu 芳松 12, Umekichi 梅吉 8, Koman? 小万 6 to tour Shanghai, China, Australia, Europe. Under employ of a British man Frederick Page, for China, Europe, Australia.
1871 January Isojiro’s troupe departs Japan
1871 April – Shanghai
1871 May – September touring Singapore and Java
1871 June 5 – Royal Tycoon Japanese and European artists, manager Mr F Page, F Stebbing director. Oska and the wonder child on bamboo, Nan Oski and Little Allright. Master Frank Stebbing (b 1861) on trapeze. Juggling by GoreKetche. Japanese lady O Ruce. Eso Ketche, Gengara and Wah Hobe. Faranoska, the Japanese wonder. Java bode 5th June 1871
1871 July 24 – Page, 2 Stebbens (Stebbings), 4 Japanese, 2 Japanese women, 5 children from Singapore on Vice President Prins steamship
1872 January auctioneer licence in Geelong
1872 Jan-Feb in India
1872 March in Britain
1873 April in France
1872 May – Mikado troupe under direction of Mr F Page touring Bangkok. “who has already brought here [Singapore] two or three troupes of this sort. ” Java awaits the arrival of a troupe of Japanese acrobats, under the direction of Mr. Page. After months of being avoided by every impresario, Java now sees three at a time! The Mikado troop, the Hellers and then the Gregorys with their dog and monkey game.” The locomotive : Samarang trade and advertising paper 27 May
1873 August – in Hamburg
1873 October
Jan 1874 – in South Africa, then to Australia
1874 February – Frederick Page has auctioneer’s licence in Geelong, Australia
Continues as auctioneer until death in 1884
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