Gaetano Brandi 1728 – 1829
Gaetano’s death record states he was 101 years old when he died and was buried at St. Pancras, the 28th of May in 1829. We know little about him before he married Rebecca Dando in London 1790. But a couple of newspaper mentions let us know he was playing music, either the oboe or flute, back to the 1770s in London.
This composition, which was performed at the time, was sold in many music shops across the British Isles, with many ads over a period of time in the newspapers.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37000439/brandi_gaetano_brandis_man_of/
The library bought the copy I did not, from a book seller in Germany. But you can believe there will be other copies to come up for sale. This one sold for 249 Euros.
The library of Scotland has beautifully scanned this copy and placed it online for the world.
Print it out and play it and please record it and send me a link to it on You Tube so we can share Gaetano Brandi with the world again.
This copy at the library has some handwritten notes. I wonder whose hand?
This wiki of Gaetano’s nephew, Joseph Haydon Bourne Dando (1806 – 1894), named Gaetano as one of his teachers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dando
Name: Senmor Giactonar Brandi
[Gaetano Brandi]
Age: 101
Record Type: Burial
Birth Date: abt 1728
Death Date: abt 1829
Burial Date: 28 May 1829
Burial Place: St Pancras Parish Chapel, Camden, England
Register Type: Parish Register –
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003
Gaetano on findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70027703/gaetano-brandi
Down the middle of the screen is a list of all the performers and in the third cropped page see Gaetano Brandi in the Oboes.
Brandi, Gaetano Brandi 1801 The Man of Feeling or the Gentleman’s Musical Repository
Another listing. There are about a dozen just in the online papers – so there would have been many more at the time.
In the tax record for his home, Gaetano Brandi has his address as Buckingham Place. This does not exist today as such. Trying to locate the address in the first decades of the 19th century on a map of today is not easy. Much of the area around the palace in those years is either behind the walls or is under the paved roads of today.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1239209
Cherie Lynn's Herstory 
Thank you! I believe that Gaetano Brandi is one of my ancestors so this information is very interesting to me. Does anybody know where Gaetano came from – Spain? Italy?
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Hello, Delighted to hear of more family researching. My money is on Italy. I need to go back and reread the blog and add some info – but maybe better to add a new blog and then link to the other.
Elizabeth Brandi Dando has needed more work for a long time, she and her husband John Dando are the parents of Harriet, Eliza and son, Joseph Haydon Bourne Dando, and in his biography, we learn of his lessons with his “uncle” Gaetano Brandi.
I might wonder if Gaetano might even be a great uncle.
But it all certainly made for great clues.
Thank you for the sharing.
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But also a strong thought is France.
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My mother thought there was a Spanish link. Her grandfather, who was Gaetano Brandi’s great grandson, was called Alphonso. She and her parents lived with Alphonso until he died when she was 17, so she must have known him quite well.
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That is great information.
I also searched out Gaetano’s name from the beginning as well as his surname.
Branda is a sword and that really wasn’t that helpful; to make any judgements.
Today there is better info on the given name.
“Gaetano (anglicized Cajetan) is an Italian masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. It is derived from the Latin Caietanus, meaning “from Caieta” (the modern Gaeta).”
I also used this name, these names, with a search in Ancestry. I entered in the name Alphonso birth in Italy and there are thousands of hits. Also the same search with all the names.
So much still to research.
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Thank you for your further efforts! I have a photo of something that came down the family from Alphonso – is there a way I can send it to you? It looks to me like a Spanish punal – dagger. Maybe they used similar daggers in Italy too. If you email me I could email the photo to you.
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A further thought – maybe the object is a kind of sword (branda) rather than a dagger. All rather intriguing – wish I could speak to my ancestors!
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