PIONEER
Joseph ("Joe") BATTEN
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| occupation | recording engineer; producer |
| birth | 10 Oct 1885, Hoxton, Borough of Shoreditch, London (FreeBMD: 1c 63) |
| baptism | 1 Nov 1885, St John The Baptist, Hoxton (Hackney) |
| death | 18 April 1955, Ealing, West London (69y) |
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| marriage | married in 24 June 1906 in St John The Baptist, Hoxton, Shoreditch to:
 Emily/Emma JARVIS (FreeBMD 1c 156) b. .... <1882>, ....... (stagename: Cissie DAVIES, p. 48-49) |
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PARENTS
| father | Albert Samuel BATTEN b. .. Apr/May/June 1864, St Luke, Middlesex |
| mother | Jennie/Jane DEAN b. ........ |
| marriage | on .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1883, Shoreditch. |
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LIFE
1901 CENSUS (Hoxton, London, ENGLAND)
Albert S Batten (36y) artificial florist
Jane Batten (37y)
- Joseph Batten (15y) pianoforte music accompanist
- Phoebe Batten (11y)
- Matilda Batten (9y)
- May Batten (7y)
- George Batten (5y)
- William Batten (1y)
- Violet E Batten (3m)
recorder
1906 Neophone Recording Co. (p. 49)
1907 British Polyphone Musikwerke (p. 20)
1920 Edison BELL (p. 56)
Stagename: Joe BOLTON
joined COLUMBIA in 1927 as music adviser
NOTES
- Joe Batten's Book. The Story of Sound Recording by Joe Batten (1956, Rockcliff Publishing Corporation)
- reproductions of pages from Neophone catalogues in Hillandale News No. 117 of Nov 1980 (p. 128/136-137), No. 118 of Feb 1981 (p. 160-161)
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