Carl Mumme

Mumme arrived with his parents Frederick William Mumme (died 1866?) a woollens manufacturer, and Marie Elizabeth Mumme (c. January 1812 – c. May 1904) from Hamburg in September 1857 aboard the ship Peter Godefroy, also reported as Peter Godfrey.

In 1859 Mumme was part-owner of a drapery shop at 134 Rundle Street, Adelaide, in partnership with brothers Emil and Gustav and brother-in-law Johannes Carl Friedrich Brandenburg. The venture failed in 1862,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159520634 |title=Tuesday |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |volume=XXI |issue=1150 |location=South Australia |date=17 October 1863 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} and they were forced to sell up their stock,{{cite web|title='Advertising' |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=26 July 1862 |page=1 |via=Trove |access-date=10 December 2023 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50164080}} following which Mumme was in 1865 found insolvent, their losses being mostly bad debts.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207603192 |title=Supreme Court — Criminal Sittings |newspaper=The Adelaide Express |volume=II |issue=516 |location=South Australia |date=9 August 1865 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94735572 |title=Insolvency Court |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |volume=VIII |issue=382 |location=South Australia |date=2 December 1865 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He was a member of the Adelaide Liedertafel and soloist from 1864 or earlier,{{cite news|title=The French in Lifu|newspaper=South Australian Register |date=11 October 1864 |page=2 |access-date=10 Dec 2023 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39131692}} and served as president in 1876{{cite news|title=Mr F. F. Wcklein |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=24 October 1876 |page=5 |access-date=10 December 2023 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43000015}} and conductor 1879–1889.{{cite news|title=Town Hall |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |date=23 May 1889 |page=4 |access-date=10 December 2023 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199866753 }}

He was a practising Catholic, and frequently performed secular and sacred songs at church functions.{{cite news|title=St Patrick's Concert |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |date=31 March 1869 |page=5 |access-date=10 December 2023 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31987985 }}

He was conductor of St Francis Xavier's cathedral choir from 1877 to around 1890, the choir being celebrated for its renditions of Masses no. 12 of Mozart; 1, 2, 3, and 16 of Haydn, and 3 of Giorza.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165888120 |title=General News. |newspaper=The Southern Cross (Adelaide) |volume=VI |issue=238 |location=South Australia |date=19 January 1894 |accessdate=11 December 2023 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He was the inaugural choirmaster of the Church of the Holy Cross, Goodwood, in 1894; succeeded by W. J. McBride.{{cite news|title=C. E. Mumme |newspaper=The Pictorial Australian |date=1 March 1894 |page=6 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224817001 |access-date=10 Dec 2023 }}

In March 1894 Mumme left for Western Australia, where he was soon "back in harness", and in October led the massed choirs of Perth and Fremantle in the Corpus Christi procession at Subiaco.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211983990 |title=Corpus Christi procession at Subiaco |newspaper=The W.A. Record |volume=XXI |issue=734 |location=Western Australia |date=11 October 1894 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} cathedral choirmaster to 1897.

In 1903 he was licensed as a spirits merchant, located at 217 Fitzgerald Street.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24825193 |title=Licensing Courts |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XIX |issue=5,374 |location=Western Australia |date=3 June 1903 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He died age 82{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55028650 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=XCI |issue=26,616 |location=South Australia |date=17 April 1926 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}

A captioned photo of Mumme appeared in a newspaper nearly two years later{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58042964 |title=The Late Mr C. E. Mumme |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=1215 |location=Western Australia |date=17 April 1921 |accessdate=8 December 2023 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} with no obvious relevance.

Mumme married Mary Maud McLaughlin (1838 – 21 June 1903){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24826858 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XIX |issue=5,392 |location=Western Australia |date=24 June 1903 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} in 1860, had a home on Hutt Street. Their family includes:

• Anna Marie Mumme (11 May 1863 – ){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50178413 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XXVII |issue=5162 |location=South Australia |date=12 May 1863 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} married Richard Blades (died 1903) in 1883.
• Frederick William Mumme (1864–1866)
• Agatha Adelaide Mumme (1866 – 8 September 1928){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199982152 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Saturday Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XLIII |issue=16457 |location=South Australia |date=8 September 1928 |accessdate=11 December 2023 |page=29 |via=National Library of Australia}} married Thomas Conway in 1895
• Carl or Charles Edmund "Duck" Mumme (1868 – 28 September 1920),{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27788127 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XXXVI |issue=5,766 |location=Western Australia |date=6 October 1920 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} brickmaker of Glen Forrest, Western Australia, who died of injuries received near railway line,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27787551 |title=News and Notes |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XXXVI |issue=5,760 |location=Western Australia |date=29 September 1920 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} after a drinking session,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213735828 |title=The Whisky Waggon |newspaper=Local Option Advocate |issue=148 |location=Western Australia |date=31 December 1920 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27787530 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XXXVI |issue=5,760 |location=Western Australia |date=29 September 1920 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} It is likely his wife and son "Gussie" left WA in 1921 to live with relatives in Adelaide.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206652415 |title=District News |newspaper=The Swan Express |volume=XXII |issue=81 |location=Western Australia |date=4 November 1921 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Joseph Daniel Mumme (1870 – )
• Frank Aloysius Mumme (1 Jan 1872 – 19 May 1952) - Wellington, Western Australia
• Frederick Vincent Mumme (1876–1877)
• Walter Giorga/George Mumme (1878 – )
• Dorothy Mumme, of Mount Lawley, married to Ernest Wallace after 1923{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58038790 |title=Engagements |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=1304 |location=Western Australia |date=7 January 1923 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}} but later Mrs Smith{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41312867 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=53 |issue=15,901 |location=Western Australia |date=15 June 1937 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} or Wallace-Smith.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41614815 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=54 |issue=16,105 |location=Western Australia |date=9 February 1938 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

• William Mumme (April 1837{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77439920 |title=Flotsam and Jetsam |newspaper=The Sunday Mirror (Perth) |volume=2 |issue=32 |location=Western Australia |date=30 January 1921 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} – c. 23 March 1921){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84744933 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Daily News (Perth) |volume=XXXX |issue=14,369 |location=Western Australia |date=31 March 1921 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} was from 1872 employed by the Western Australian Stanley Brewery (a predecessor of Emu Brewery).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58042964 |title=The Late Mr G. E. Mumme |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=1215 |location=Western Australia |date=17 April 1921 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was a founder of the (later Royal) Perth Yacht Club.
• Heinrich Gustav Mumme (1836–1893) married Emily Clisby ( died 1924) in a private ceremony conducted by J. C. Woods on 27 February 1864.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39135258 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XXVIII |issue=5414 |location=South Australia |date=5 March 1864 |access-date=8 December 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

:*Albert Redford Mumme (1868–1969), violinist, married Annie Elizabeth ?? in 1924

• Friedrich Wilhelm Mumme Jr (26 April 1837 – 23 March 1921)
• Carl or Charles Edmund Mumme (1839–1919), subject of this article
• (John or Johannes) Emil Mumme (c. 1840 – 12 May 1917){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1617485 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=22,087 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 May 1917 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} married Lydia Featherstone (1844 – 13 December 1896){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54472461 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=LXI |issue=15,632 |location=South Australia |date=18 December 1896 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} of Brighton on 23 May 1863.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159518103 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |volume=XXI |issue=1130 |location=South Australia |date=30 May 1863 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} They had five children in South Australia, then left for Germany 1872, returning around 1888, settling at "Hawthorn Park", Preston, Victoria sometime before 1892,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145709902 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=383 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=28 October 1892 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} then moved to Elsternwick before 1901.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10529371 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=17,008 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=12 January 1901 |access-date=11 December 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} They had a large family. He married again, to divorcee{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215222118 |title=Divorce Court |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |volume=43 |issue=13116 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 April 1898 |accessdate=11 December 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} Violet Keam, née Minnist, whose only son was killed at Gallipoli{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1618942 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=21,941 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 November 1916 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Helene Auguste Mumme (1842 – 17 February 1926) married Johannes Carl Friedrich Brandenburg (c. 1833 – 14 October 1876){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33741077 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=XIX |issue=5614 |location=South Australia |date=16 October 1876 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} on 4 July 1860. She married again, to Otto Charles Emil Junge, of Nuriootpa{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43594448 |title=When the State Was Young |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=22 July 1927 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Albert Henry Mumme (1851–1920) of Adelaide married Sarah James Warren
• Ida Henriette Mumme (13 October 1852 – 1923) married Eugen Victor Ottoman Muecke (c. 1843 – 20 February 1882) in 1875, had home at High street, Burnside, where her mother, Marie Elizabeth Mumme, spent her last 20 years.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200815092 |title=Personal |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XXXVII |issue=10388 |location=South Australia |date=11 May 1904 |access-date=9 December 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Carl August Mumme (1855–1911) married Fanny Leader in 1884

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