In soc.genealogy.ireland Phil C. <philstoxicwaste@fsmail.net> wrote: ... : Frederick Nicholls Crouch was English but enjoyed some minor celebrity : as a "lecturer on Irish minstrelsy" - that's his primary description : on his lithographed portrait of ca1840 in the British Museum. This ... : Do you recall ever coming across any reference to him at all in Irish : newspapers? Thanks for any help. By entering "Crouch" in the search engine of the IrelandOldNews website I found two pages, one of which quotes the Waterford Press in the Cork Examiner of a Miss Hickie performing pieces by "Bellini, Crouch, Rossini, Thalberg and Czerinay" http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1847/SEP.html The other reference is a death notice for James Crouch, at Lisburn, 1764 http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Dublin/1764/FEB.html I suggest that you search an index to The Times, either in print or online, for Frederick Nicholls Crouch and if any of them mention his touring in Ireland, look for contemporary reports or reviews in local or national Irish papers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -