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marked the completion of the total amount necessary for the endowment in perpetuity of the "Ada Baker" cot in the institution. Mrs. W. H. Read chairman of the hospital board gave a short address during the interval and said Madame Ada Baker and students had created a record in raising £500 necessary for the endowment of the cot in a little less than five years. She specially thanked Mr. W. Goodman who gave his services to play "Gaspard". A profusion of flowers was presented to the performers Madame Ada Baker was given a basket of flowers from the hospital board and a bouquet of roses and cornflowers by Miss Clare Peatling (hon secretary of the fund).
415:. She applied for divorce from Hall in 1897, on the grounds of desertion since 1891. During the court case, her lawyer revealed that Hall had been convicted of embezzlement and imprisoned. She had continued her teaching and singing after the wedding and claimed that Hall had not financially supported her nor their children. It was alleged by Hall's lawyers that Baker had committed adultery with her castmate Harry Fitzmaurice, which she denied. The judge found that there was no evidence of desertion and no evidence that Baker had been unfaithful to her husband, so dismissed the case. In the era of 433: 302: 626: 633: 190: 51: 461:
that Baker knew of the travel arrangements and her non-attendance resulted in financial and reputational disadvantage. They produced a witness who said that Baker had said it would inconvenience her singing business if she was to go to the fields. The magistrate was unconvinced by Baker's claims of illness and determined that the medical certificate was provided to avoid attending the fields. Hence, the court decided to find against Baker.
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lectures for the alliance: the first in July 1934 was "The Training of Children's Voices" and the second, in August 1938, was on English music of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. By 1939 she had become an active member of the Nothing Under Seventy club, whose members were seventy years of age and above, regularly performing and undertaking charity work with other members.
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buildings. During that time she calculates that she has trained many hundreds of singers, many of them now well known. She has staged between 40 and 50 operas. A committee of 60 people, many of there former pupils, who in turn are the parents of present pupils, have arranged a testimonial concert for Madam Baker at the Sydney Town Hall next Thursday.
367:, Surry Hills. According to Baker, Hall had married her reluctantly as her brother threatened to "break his head" if he did not. The couple had two children: Beatrice in 1887 and Vera in 1889. Being married and a mother did not stop Baker from continuing as a teacher and performer. In 1887 she had sung in three concerts at Bondi Aquarium (at 1738:
Madame Ada Baker's Pymble Cecilia Ladles' Choir can fairly claim to be the original "All-Girl" Patriotic Entertainers. Their first performance was given for the war funds in August, 1914, and they have continued working for the patriotic causes since then. They played the Japanese operetta, "Princess
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Baker, in December 1898, sued the proprietors of The Continental Gardens, who arranged performances in the Hotel Continental as well as tours outside of Perth, for £5 over lost wages. The case centred around her assertion that when signing her contract for performances she had told them she could not
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Baker continued working throughout her life and remained involved in teaching children to sing. In March 1933 she was elected to the executive of the Australian Music Teachers' Alliance and on 25 November was elected vice-president. She was re-elected to this position in 1934 and 1935. She gave two
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regions with Baker prominently billed. When Baker learned of this, she produced a medical certificate testifying she was too sick to travel. She denied knowing what opposing counsel meant when they said she refused to go because of "a Coolgardie or Kalgoorlie reason". The defendants counter-claimed
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as a singing teacher and performer. She moved back to Sydney in 1907 where she reestablished herself as a well-respected and influential singing teacher, and joined Sydney's musical society. Her influence as a teacher was such that she was later made vice-president of the Australian Music Teachers'
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describing her as "perhaps the best mezzo soprano vocalist in the state." Years later her achievements and performances in Sydney were reported in the West Australian press. Hall, her estranged husband, had been living in Western Australia by that time. Despite Baker not arriving in Perth with him
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A singer who has sung her way through three wars, Madam Ada Baker, is retiring from a long career as a singer and a teacher of singing, at the age of 83, after being injured in a motor accident, which has affected her health. For more than 40 years Madam Baker has had a singing studio at Paling's
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Ju Ju," at Chatswood Town Hall, on September 29, with full scenic and costume effects, and repeated it on Saturday at Killara; a third performance will be given at the Repertory Theatre on October 27. The three performances are to help the War Chest, Y.M.C.A., and Red Cross Nurses' Comforts Funds.
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Miss Baker possesses a voice of rare quality, good range, and sings with the ease and grace of a natural artiste and a cultivated vocalist. Her style is marked by fascinating refinement, her intonation is perfect; her enunciation distinct, and as a ballad singer she bids fair to take place in the
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The final performance of "Les cloches de Corneville" was given by Madame Ada Baker and her students in the Railway Institute on Saturday night. There were four productions of the opera, the proceeds going to different charities Saturday nights performance was for the Rachel Forster Hospital and
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Students of Madame Ada Baker will present the Oriental operetta, Princess Passion Flower, on Wednesday next at St. James' Hall, Phillip-street. Mr. Elved Jenkins, winner of the cup at the Katoomba Eisteddfod, will be one of the principals. The proceeds are in aid of the work of the Sydney Night
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Proctor's operetta, Princess of Poppyland, was again successfully rendered by Madame Ada Baker's Pymble Cecelia Ladies' Choir on Saturday evening last at the Chatswood Town Hall. The entertainment was in aid of the Returned Soldiers' Building Fund, and was largely attended by an appreciative
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I saw Miss Ada Baker yesterday while in Paling's music warehouse. She was looking well, and says she is getting on splendidly. She has a choir of over 60 children under sixteen in training, and the first concert, to be given shortly, is to be partly in aid of the Children's
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reporter described: "The palm must be given to Miss Ada Baker, who appeared for the first time at these concerts. She possesses a voice of rich calibre; the lower notes are deliciously liquid, the upper ones of full power, so that she fills the building with ease."
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Baker moved back to Sydney in late 1886 to have piano lessons with Victor Benvenuti and singing lessons by Albert Fisher. During the same year, she participated in a number of Promenade concerts, held at the Exhibition Building which was situated in
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Students of Madama Ada Baker, assisted by an ensemble from the studio of S. Vost Janssen, appeared at St. James's Hall on Saturday evening in a successful presentation of King Prostor's Oriental operetta in a prologue and three acts, "The Rajah's
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At St. James's Hall on Saturday night the students of Madame Ada Baker presented the light opera, "In Old Havana," the proceeds being devoted to the cot fund of the Rachel Forster Hospital. There will be another performance on Wednesday
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Baker returned to Sydney in December 1907, and her first reappearance in the city was for the Highland Society early in the following year. She formed a new juvenile choir at Nicolson and Co., a piano importer in
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Madame Ada Baker's students arranged a gala concert and dance on Saturday night at Paling's concert hall, to celebrate the fact that they had completed the sum of £500 for their cot In the Rachel Forster
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in 1975–if neither party could prove fault in the marriage by the other, then it would not be granted. Baker and Hall never formally divorced although they remained separated. Hall died in 1937 in Perth.
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An interesting lecture-recital on the "Training of Children's Vocies" was given by Madame Ada Baker before members of the Australian Music Teachers' Alliance in Paling's concert hall on Wednesday night.
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Since then Madame has been the means of raising £3000, including £1000 raised during the War by her Ladies' North Shore Choir, which gave the first war entertainment for Lady Cullen's War Fund.
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said that "Madame Ada Baker's Pymble Cecilia Ladles' Choir can fairly claim to be the original 'All-Girl' Patriotic Entertainers." The choir performed a variety of concerts, including the play
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Mme. Ada Baker directed a repetition of Millard's pretty fantasy "Birds and the Fairies," at St James's Hall on Monday night, In aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.
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At the annual meeting of the Rachel Forster Hospital today, Madame Ada Baker will hand over a cheque for £140, the proceeds of her recent Golden Jubilee opera entertainment.
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on 14 July 1949, but Baker was too ill to attend. She died at her Pymble home on 24 July 1949. Services were held at St. Swithen's Church in Pymble, and she was interred at
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Sunday ... 3.0 Broadcast from the Lyceum Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Service. Preacher, Rev. F. H. Raward. Programme arranged by Madame Ada Baker.
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had her made a life governor of the hospital in 1927. From 1925 to 1932 she raised AU£500 for a permanent cot, and in 1932 she raised a further AU£140 for that hospital.
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where she taught singing. Upon returning to Sydney she received further training under Albert Fisher. She debuted to much acclaim at the Promenade Concerts in 1886 at
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Sponsor of the idea is Madame Ada Baker, who has four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. A grandson was killed in the RAF's first big raid over Berlin.
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The recital was held in order lo raise funds to enable Madame Baker to produce Arthur Penn's new opera. "The China Shop," at the Railway and Tramway Institute
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as the ninth child of English-born parents: George Frederick Baker (c. 1827 – 1900), auctioneer, and Sarah Wilkinson Baker,
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Upon her return from overseas, Baker performed in a hospital benefit at the School of Arts in North Sydney, and in August 1894 joined
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A concert, in aid of the Sydney Night Refuge has been arranged by Madame Ada Baker, to take place in St. James's Hall on November 10.
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Between 1891 and 1893 Baker toured India and China with the Willard Opera Company, playing lead for three years in a series of
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A most enjoyable concert was arranged on Friday evening last by Miss Ada Baker for the inmates of Callan Park Hospital
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where her father purchased the Pastoral Hotel and worked as its manager. When she was 12 she sang in Mendelsohn's
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As part of the Willard Opera Company, Baker toured China and India in the early 1890s. Back in Sydney she joined
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Alliance. Baker also gave concerts and was a fund-raiser for charities, later becoming a life governor of the
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Refuge, Francis-street, which provided 6418 meals, free of charge, during the Winter months to destitute men.
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Baker also arranged and performed in numerous concerts, recitals and eisteddfods, including a performance of
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She continued to raise funds for charity. In 1945, after one of her grandchildren died while serving in the
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When Baker left Western Australia in 1907 to go back to Sydney she had built a solid reputation, with the
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Baker was a prolific fund-raiser, including for the Sydney Hospital, the Protestant Orphan's Fair, the
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Family history: George Frederick Baker and Sarah Wilkinson Epsley; Deal, Kent to Australia 1854
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comic operas, and "created something of a stir in the part of Hollee Beebee" in a rival opera,
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Upon her retirement, over 60 past and present students arranged a testimonial concert at
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Madame Baker will speak on English music of the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
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Advertisement announcing Ada Baker's intentions to stay in Perth to teach singing.
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During July and August 1898 Rickards' Tivoli company, including Baker, toured in
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reported that "there seemed no regret for 'the man she had left behind her.'"
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Baker married former castmate Hall, now a law clerk, on 23 April 1887 at the
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She performed in another two concerts and for her second concert the
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Contemporaneous records of these concerts are in advertisements:
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Baker arranged music for and led the St Cecilia Ladies' Choir in
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travel. However the company advertised performances at the
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Not to be confused with former Dutch female tennis player
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to dissolve marriages under limited circumstances. See
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Catalog of Copyright Entries on musical compositions
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Western Australia. 7 October 1907. p. 3. 1236: 1234: 1232: 1213: 1211: 1338: 1166:The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser 603:(1935), and Robert Planquette's opéra comique 2143: 1461: 961: 884: 882: 880: 878: 876: 874: 872: 870: 2510:Burials at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens 2339: 2318: 2261: 2203: 1920: 1766: 1683: 1570: 1560:"The Children's Hospital: Facts and figures" 1229: 1208: 427: 244:in 1898, where Baker established herself in 2435: 2398:, New South Wales. 29 March 1945. p. 8 2357: 2279: 2225: 2190:"Radio Programme 2FC (Farmers) 1100 metres" 2133:""Boccaccio" Presented by Madame Ada Baker" 2125: 2104: 2014:"Musical Festival, Commonwealth Eisteddfod" 1722: 1497: 1376:"Obit: Charlie Hall – a Personality Passes" 1270: 1252: 888: 580:(1930), Arthur A. Penn's light comic opera 282:with the Sydney Philharmonic Society under 2406:– via National Library of Australia. 2182: 2161: 1198:"Once a Wagga Woman, now in the limelight" 1094: 867: 806:"The establishment of divorce laws in NSW" 49: 2198:Friday, April 9 ... Ada Baker's juveniles 1368: 1204:. Wagga Wagga. 11 August 1923. p. 8. 1006:. Wagga Wagga. 11 August 1923. p. 8. 976: 240:' vaudeville circuit. The company toured 1934:. Sydney. 18 November 1920. p. 11. 1912:. Sydney. 12 November 1922. p. 16. 1758:. Sydney. 14 December 1919. p. 14. 1102:"The Saturday Evening Promenade Concert" 894:"Baker, Ada Winifred Weekes (1866–1949)" 431: 400:(though she also stated that it was the 346: 322:. She received favourable reviews, with 300: 256: 2257:. Sydney. 25 November 1933. p. 10. 2118:. Sydney. 6 September 1937. p. 6. 1955:. Sydney. 29 November 1932. p. 3. 1855:. Sydney. 18 December 1912. p. 19. 1834:. Sydney. 13 February 1912. p. 4. 1548:. Sydney. 28 December 1903. p. 19. 1493:. Sydney. 18 December 1907. p. 12. 1334:. Sydney. 24 September 1897. p. 3. 1150:. Sydney. 24 September 1897. p. 7. 803: 328:writer praising her debut performance: 14: 2477: 2275:. Sydney. 29 October 1934. p. 10. 2139:. Sydney. 13 November 1933. p. 5. 2096:. Sydney. 22 October 1928. p. 5. 2078:. Sydney. 30 November 1930. p. 7. 1977:. Sydney. 17 October 1932. p. 4. 1891:. Sydney. 4 November 1920. p. 3. 1873:. Sydney. 22 October 1913. p. 10. 1798:. Sydney. 26 December 1909. p. 1. 1736:. Sydney. 17 October 1917. p. 7. 1643:. Sydney. 26 February 1908. p. 2. 1594: 1584:. Sydney. 5 February 1908. p. 12. 1511:. Sydney. 28 November 1907. p. 4. 1439:. Perth. 30 December 1898. p. 29. 1421:. Perth. 10 September 1898. p. 1. 1186:. Sydney. 25 December 1896. p. 6. 1180:""Sinbad the Sailor" at her Majesty's" 957:. Wagga Wagga. 10 May 1945. p. 6. 261:Baker was born on 11 December 1866 in 2353:. Sydney. 3 October 1940. p. 23. 2332:. Sydney. 17 August 1938. p. 8. 2293:. Sydney. 30 October 1935. p. 8. 2233:"Australian Music Teachers' Alliance" 1816:. Sydney. 9 November 1911. p. 4. 1780:. Sydney. 15 August 1914. p. 16. 1529:. Sydney. 12 January 1908. p. 2. 1403:. Perth. 5 September 1898. p. 2. 1266:. Sydney. 6 February 1891. p. 6. 1129:. Perth. 4 September 1898. p. 2. 559:Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 266: 27:Australian soprano singer (1866–1949) 2196:. Lismore. 8 April 1926. p. 6. 2020:. Sydney. 15 August 1910. p. 3. 1999:. Sydney. 18 April 1939. p. 2. 1849:"Callan Park Hospital Entertainment" 1619:"Miss Ada Baker, teacher of singing" 1295:. Sydney. 27 August 1894. p. 3. 1284:. Sydney. 25 August 1894. p. 2. 850:Library of Congress Copyright Office 2427:. Sydney. 10 July 1949. p. 9. 2386:"Grandmothers' Victory Bond League" 2311:. Sydney. 14 July 1934. p. 8. 2239:. Sydney. 29 March 1933. p. 8. 2175:. Sydney. 6 June 1925. p. 19. 2157:. Sydney. 27 July 1939. p. 11. 2038:. Sydney. 12 March 1911. p. 2. 1679:. Sydney. 9 August 1908. p. 2. 1625:. Sydney. 11 March 1908. p. 2. 1316:. Sydney. 25 April 1891. p. 4. 835:notes that C. King Proctor was the 794:(also known as 36 Vic. No. 9)—with 713:Forde, Australian Capital Territory 551:Callan Park Hospital for the Insane 480: 333:front rank of Australian vocalists. 24: 2467:. Sydney. 25 July 1949. p. 8. 2449:. Sydney. 25 July 1949. p. 4. 2056:. Sydney. 30 May 1921. p. 3. 1661:. Sydney. 22 June 1908. p. 8. 1542:"Nicholson and Co., George-Street" 1475:. Perth. 25 April 1908. p. 7. 1248:. Sydney. 4 July 1939. p. 13. 1026:. Sydney. 24 July 1886. p. 1. 977:Christian, Mark (September 2013), 899:Australian Dictionary of Biography 25: 2521: 1774:"Pymble Ladies' Choir at Killara" 1697:. Sydney. 9 May 1908. p. 17. 1637:"Miss Ada Baker's Juvenile Choir" 1566:. Perth. 26 June 1908. p. 4. 1346:"The Matrimonial Causes Act 1959" 1328:"A music teacher and a law clerk" 715:was named in her honour in 2006. 272:(died 1885). The family moved to 2505:Colony of New South Wales people 652: 638: 631: 624: 188: 2371:. 27 February 1945. p. 4. 2032:"Choral Association Eisteddfod" 1415:"Advertisement: Miss Ada Baker" 1278:"Advertisement: Tivoli Theatre" 1168:. 1 November 1890. p. 973. 225:, she moved with her family to 160: 1715:. 2 October 1929. p. 15. 1225:. 3 December 1936. p. 19. 1108:. 13 December 1886. p. 8. 904:Australian National University 788:restitution of conjugal rights 755:. 15 February 1887. p. 2. 535:, by C. King Proctor, and the 371:). In October 1890 she was in 13: 1: 2421:"Madam Ada Baker Testimonial" 2151:""Les cloches de Corneville"" 1162:"M. Kowalski's Grand concert" 860: 839:of Arthur Morton Powell, see 743:. 25 January 1887. p. 2. 616: 306: 1072:. 15 August 1886. p. 4. 821:(2) (5th ed.): 241–248. 709:Northern Suburbs Crematorium 411:' vaudeville company at the 121:Northern Suburbs Crematorium 7: 2221:, ACT Parliamentary Counsel 1350:Australian Women’s Timeline 1310:"The Embezzlement Epidemic" 951:"Grandmothers Support Loan" 783:Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 767:. 29 March 1887. p. 2. 675:was named after the singer. 10: 2526: 2365:"Grandmothers for Victory" 2326:"Music Teachers' Alliance" 2287:"Music Teachers' Alliance" 2269:"Music Teachers' Alliance" 1867:"Sydney Mission to Seaman" 1810:"Protestant Orphan's Fair" 1595:Egeria (30 January 1908). 29: 2447:The Sydney Morning Herald 2391:Blue Mountains Advertiser 2369:The Sydney Morning Herald 2330:The Sydney Morning Herald 2309:The Sydney Morning Herald 2291:The Sydney Morning Herald 2273:The Sydney Morning Herald 2255:The Sydney Morning Herald 2237:The Sydney Morning Herald 2155:The Sydney Morning Herald 2137:The Sydney Morning Herald 2116:The Sydney Morning Herald 2018:The Sydney Morning Herald 1975:The Sydney Morning Herald 1953:The Sydney Morning Herald 1932:The Sydney Morning Herald 1792:"Sydney Hospital Concert" 1734:The Sydney Morning Herald 1695:The Sydney Morning Herald 1641:The Sydney Morning Herald 1623:The Sydney Morning Herald 1582:The Sydney Morning Herald 1509:The Sydney Morning Herald 1282:The Sydney Morning Herald 1264:The Sydney Morning Herald 1223:The Sydney Morning Herald 1106:The Sydney Morning Herald 798:in 1953—that allowed the 765:The Sydney Morning Herald 753:The Sydney Morning Herald 741:The Sydney Morning Herald 606:Les Cloches de Corneville 533:The Princess of Poppyland 494:, where they raised over 492:Perth Children's Hospital 471:nor living with him, the 428:Move to Western Australia 199:Ada Winifred Weekes Baker 187: 182: 174: 144: 134: 126: 116: 93: 87:Colony of New South Wales 65:Ada Winifred Weekes Baker 60: 48: 41: 18:Ada Winifred Weekes Baker 1578:"Miss Ada Baker's Choir" 1397:"Classified Advertising" 1018:"Ly-ee-Moon Relief Fund" 718: 1655:"Sydney Juvenile Choir" 1433:"Theatrical Wages Case" 804:Bennett, J. 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Perth. p. 8. 1597:"Gossip of the week" 1469:"Civil Servant Sued" 1000:"Once a Wagga woman" 852:. 1938. p. 385. 671:Ada Baker Street in 576:(1921) and operetta 570:Stephen Vost Janssen 419:–Australian enacted 205:, was an Australian 163: 1887; 2500:Singers from Sydney 2495:Australian sopranos 2173:The Daily Telegraph 2094:The Daily Telegraph 2054:The Daily Telegraph 1997:The Daily Telegraph 1889:The Daily Telegraph 1871:The Daily Telegraph 1853:The Daily Telegraph 1832:The Daily Telegraph 1730:"From Near and Far" 1599:. Egeria's Letter. 1401:The West Australian 1332:The Daily Telegraph 1260:""Under the Palms"" 1184:The Australian Star 1023:The Daily Telegraph 848:. 1. Vol. 32. 2305:"Madame Ada Baker" 1906:"Tea-Table Gossip" 1020:. 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Ada Winifred Weekes Baker
Ada Bakker

Strawberry Hills
Sydney
Colony of New South Wales
Pymble
New South Wales
Northern Suburbs Crematorium
Singing teacher
separation

soprano
vaudeville star
singing teacher
Strawberry Hills
Sydney
Wagga Wagga
Surry Hills
Harry Rickards
Western Australia
Perth
Rachel Forster Hospital
Strawberry Hills
née
Wagga Wagga
Elijah
Henri Kowalski
Green Cape Lighthouse

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