Charles Nathan (1816 - 1872)

Born 1816 in London, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet (Fisher) Nathan — married 1842 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 20 Sep 1872 at about age 56 in Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)

Biography

Charles Nathan has Jewish Roots.

Charles Nathan was born in 1816 in London, England, United Kingdom. He was the older son of Isaac Nathan, an English-born musician of Jewish faith, and his first wife Rosetta Worthington, an English-born Christian. His mother died in 1824 and father married again in 1826, also to a Christian lady.

Charles Nathan migrated from England to New South Wales.

After completing his medical studies Charles opted to his join his father, step-mother and siblings in migrating to New South Wales (Australia). Arriving in Sydney, via Melbourne on the York on 7th April 1841, he started a successful medical practice in Elizabeth Street North.

In 1842 in Christ Church St Laurence, Charles married Emmeline Harriet Fisher, daughter of Henry Fisher, a prosperous wine merchant. ^[1] Their extensive family included:

1. Augustus Vernon Nathan (1843-94); married Georgianna Jane Druitt
2. Charles W (1844-)
3. Lady Eliza Ann MacLaurin (1846-1908); married Hon. Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin
4. Emmeline H R (1848-1907); married Albert Alexander Smith
5. Edith V (1850-1925)
6. Robert A (1851-99)
7. Marion Sophia (1853-1937); married Robert Campbell Close
8. Helen J (1854-1926)
9. Edward A (1856-1927)
10. Harriet E (1858-1927)
11. Gertrude M H (1859-)
12. Hubert F (1860-)
13. Maud E (1862-1946)
14. Alfred Woodward (1864-1914); married Catherine Southgate Cory
15. Mabel A A (1867-68)

Charles' baritone voice had been trained by his father, music being the family's greatest recreation. He was a foundation member of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia and a member of the Sydney Philharmonic Society. A fervent Evangelical, he was a warden and trustee of St James's Church, King Street, and daily read a chapter from the New Testament in the original Greek which he had taught himself.

Generous, kindly and tolerant, he died from septicaemia at his home in Macquarie Street, Sydney, on 20th September 1872 and was buried in the Anglican section of the Camperdown Cemetery. ^[2] He was survived by his wife, four sons and eight daughters. Charles' eldest daughter, Eliza Anne, married Sir Normand MacLaurin.

Sources

1. ↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #249/1842 V1842249 26C
2. ↑ New South Wales Death Index #1299/1872

See also

• Mackerras, Catherine. Nathan, Charles (1816–1872). Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1974; accessed online 9 Jun 2018.