Molineux, Thomas

Dates Active in Dublin: 

before 1739–1757

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: violin
Address(es): 

Christ Church Yard

Details: 

Father of Martyn Molineaux?

Earliest dated violin is from 1739 but presumably active earlier.

Apprentice: Thomas Perry? [although design of instruments is quite different].

Obituary notice states: Died 'In Christ Church Yard, Mr Thomas Molineux, Fiddle Maker' (Faulkner's Dublin Journal)

[Addresses differ according to sources: Faulkner's Dublin Journal gives the address as Christ Church Yard, but Boydell (Calendar) erroneously gives it as Christ Church Place.]

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Produced

  • Violin: National Museum of Ireland (Gogan)
  • Violin: private collection (Rice)
    • See Also: 

    Molineaux, Martyn
    Perry, Thomas

    Source(s): 

    Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 3107, 25–29 January 1757, p. 2

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 303)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 30)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 108

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 260

    Rice, John Kenneth, 'The Life and Work of Thomas Perry' (unpublished doctoral thesis, St Patrick's College Maynooth, 1993), pp. 18, 26, 29, 93–95

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Molyneux’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013