HYMN BOOK - ANCIENT AND MODERN
c. 1889 - 1953Brown imitation leather-covered book with gold lettering on front. Text written in pen on inside of first page. Book information including publisher details on next page. Written text [Mabel Mary Dumsday / Finch Street / E. Malvern / 12th December 1889] publishing page [HYMNS / ANCIENT AND MODERN / FOR USE IN THE / SERVICE OF THE CHURCH / Revised and Enlarged Edition / 'Young men and maidens, old men and children, / praise the Name of the LORD.' / LONDON: / PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS BY / WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, / LIMITED / STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. / PUBLISHING OFFICE, 13, CHARING CROSS, S.W.]
Prayer set belonged to Mabel Mary Dumsday. It was purchased sometime in the late 1880s. She wrote her name and address in East Malvern Victoria in the front of the book. The set is missing one of the books that fit into the container.
The Dumsday family moved to Western Australia in 1892 before settling in Forrestdale in 1908. Mabel came over from Victoria to WA with her family.
Mabel was an accomplished musician and would often sing with her sisters in the chorus of Gilbert and Sulivan operas in Perth, as well as featured regularly in the social papers between 1892 and 1908. She was also a devout person, helping to establish Forrestdale’s first Sunday School in 1908, and would often sing and play the piano for the children during classes.
Mabel never married, and after living in Forrestdale possibly up to the 1920s spent her final years living at Bruce Street in Nedlands. Mabel passed away 19 May, 1953 aged 72.
The prayer book was handed down to her niece Lilian Ursula Skeet, daughter of her sister Lillian Maude and Alfred Tunbridge Skeet. Ursula, as she was known, collected and looked after many of the family treasures.
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This object is part of a collection that represents the role religion and faith has played within the City of Armadale and the variety of religions that have and are represented within the local community. The collection demonstrates how religion and faith bring communities together and can represent the past, current and ongoing belief, standards and practices of that community. The collection can be used to demonstrate the growing cultural diversity of the City of Armadale as new faiths and religions become a part of the wider City of Armadale community.
