SUSSEX STREET

 

NO	DATE	TENANTS AND USAGE	COMMENTS
	1824	THOMAS BARKER PETITIONS GOVERNOR FOR LAND TO BUILD HOUSE. CHOOSES SOUTH WESTCORNER OF SUSSEX AND BATHURST
	1827	THOMAS BARKER FRONTING BATHURST STREET AND COCKLE BAY	PURCHASES COOPER AND LEVYS MILL NEXT TO BARKERS HOUSE.
	1831	THOMAS BARKER	CONSOLIDATES  ORIGINAL LEASE PLUS 2 PURCHASES INTO 6 ACRE BLOCK
346	1831	Verge, John (1782 - 1861)	ARCHITECT.
	1830s	HANNAH HITCHENS AND HENRY SAMUELS AND CHILDREN	HENRY WAS A CARTER AND HANNAH AN ANCESTOR OF LYNNE BELL SANDERS.
	1830s	HENRY TURBIT - CARPENTERS ARMS HOTEL	“Henry Turbit, is probably Henry Turbett (b. 1799) who was sentenced at Middlesex for seven years in 1815. Turbett arrived in Sydney on the Mariner in 1816. He was employed as a carpenter in the 1820s and eventually moved into hotels, having the licence in the 1830s to the Carpenters Arms, in Sussex Street.”
	1830s ? -40s	ROBERT HENDERSON- the DOVE HOTEL AT INTERSECTION OF SUSSEX AND ERSKINE STREETS.	STORY OF CATHERINE GEARY and more aspects of NSW life in 1820s-30s-40s
	1840s	HENRY SMITH- shopkeeper - intersection of SUSSEX AND ERSKINE
	1840s	Breillat, Thomas Chaplin (1804 - 1873)	Takes over the Flour Mill which was Dicksons.
	1846	Mrs Peter Brennan (nee Elizabeth Allman) puts in a claim  to allotment in Sussex Street, Sydney
	1846	HANRAN COMMISSION AGENT	ASSISTED EMIGRANT
	1857	David NUNAN	LABOURER
139-1185	1850s	WAREHOUSES The Central Warehouses (No. 139-151) together with the Corn Exchange building (No. 173-185)

 

Take a look at this and take note that in 2003 , their intention was to destroy  what they had found and I should imagine they have done so and placed a token display in their new buildings. L.

• ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SUSSEX STREET

http://www.infolink.com.au/n/Digging-up-the-past-n761335

FURTHER SUSSEX STREET LINKS

• http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sydney-Resource_Centre-Heritage_materials-Heritage_Register-Barkers_Mill_Stone_Walls.htm

HANRANS AND HANRAHANS

Inc mention of Sussex Street and Kent Street.

To New South Wales

The Norfolk sailed from Van Diemen’s Land on 18 September 1835 bound for Sydney, docking there ten days later when the Sydney Herald of 1 October recorded the ship’s arrival in its ‘Shipping Intelligence’—

From Hobart Town, on Mon last, having sailed thence 19th ult, barque “Norfolk”, Cpt Gatenby, with sundries. Passengers—Maj Phelps, 4th Regt, [et al], 31 Rank and File of 28th Regt, 1 of 50th Regt and 1 of 4th Regt.

The Sydney Gazette included a similar article on 6 October 1835 informing its readers that the ship had been also ‘carrying male prisoners & govt stores’.

SUSSEX STREET. JAMES STEWART

FROM THE FERGUSON PROJECT.

COMMERCIAL JOURNAL AND ADVERTISER AUGUST3 1835

JAMES STEWART SAILMAKER

NO 12 SUSSEX STREET

MARKET WHARF, SYDNEY

BAGS, SACKS, WOOLPACKS, DRAY COVERS , TARPAULINS,COTS,HAMMOCKS AND BED BOTTOMS,on the shortest notice

SUSSEX STREET SYDNEY APP 1830-1840

ODDMENTS ABOUT SUSSEX STREET

• AUSTRALIAN ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY 1835
  

Held at UQ Library.

• BARKER AND KENDALL : file http://www-library.uow.edu.au/archives/pdfs/d105.pdf.UOW papers indicating business between Thomas Kendall and a Mr Barker of Sussex Street in the early 1830s. Thomas Kendall in 1829 had a house at 43 Upper Pitt Street where Basil could have been AT HOME. Note also that Mary Mahoney of Duchess of Northumberland is sent as house servant to the Barkers in 1835
• BUILDING A COLONY- ARTISANS AND CRAFTSMEN. Several references to Sussex Street. These include Thomas Barkers Flour Mill , a description of the social structure of the area near the new wharves of Darling Harbour.
• CARGO OF WOMEN BY SUSANNAH WATSON

The convicts of the Princess quotes one convict woman appealing for leniency. Her address= No 13 Sussex Street . opposite Mr Hynds

• DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND:

Arrives Sydney 1835 with Irish Emigrants. Some of whom locate in Sussex Street.

No.

Name

Age

To Whom Engaged

In what Capacity Engaged

Wages

177

Mahoney, Mary

18

Mr J. Barker

Sussex-street, ditto

ditto

10 - -

240

Wheeler, Mary

21

Mr Cuningham

Sussex-street -

ditto

10 - -

151

Lagremore, Margaret

25

- her brother, Mr. Walkeer[sic]

Sussex-street, ditto

• HALLEN, EDWARD 1803-1880: ARCHITECT- Meanwhile the government was becoming dissatisfied with Ambrose’s preoccupation with affairs outside his office. Mitchell, who wanted Mortimer Lewis to become colonial architect, so arranged matters that Ambrose had little choice but to resign, which he did in 1835, and after this his social and business interests began to multiply. He became a director of the Fire and Life Assurance Co. in 1836, a member of the Royal Exchange Co. in 1837, a director of the Australian Gas Light Co. in the same year, and a director of the Australian Auction Co. in 1840. He also had an interest in the Steam Mill, Sussex Street, Sydney, and owned a station property. He was living at Veteran Hall, Prospect, when a daughter was born to his wife in 1843.
• HARRISON, Jane. Convict assigned to : 1837 With Master Handley Jabez, Publican of the Horse and Jockey Inn, Sussex Street, Sydney
• HUTCHINS ( HITCHINGS, HITCHINS) HANNAH LIVED with HENRY SAMUELS who worked as a CARTER.
  

• LIVERPOOL - MUCKLE, George George MUCKLE built a flour mill on the Campbelltown Road c1840, 2.4 kilometres from Liverpool. The mill was described as capable of grinding ten bushels per hour when it was advertised for sale or let in June 1841. Particulars could be obtained by post from George Muckle c/- of Liverpool Post office, or Henry HOUGH, millwright of Sussex street, Sydney. It seems probable that HOUGH built the windmill for MUCKLE
• NICHOLS FAMILY Charles and Margaret Nichols’ first child, Susannah, was born on 11 April 1829 at Fig Tree Point, Middle Harbour, near Sydney. At Sussex Street, not far from Kellick’s Wharf, two sons were born, John in 1831 and Charles in 1833. *( NOTE THE importance of wharves in Sussex Street. Could also factor in with the sailing aspect of the KENDALLS ) Ann was born in June 1835 at Middle Harbour and baptised on 14 February 1836. Charles applied to buy land at Fig Tree Point in 1836 but was unsuccessful. The family returned to Sussex Street where Joseph was born. He was baptised on 13 May 1838.
• JAMES STEWART : Ex-convict sailmaker. Business in Sussex Street
• JOHN STRUTH : Left Barkers flour mill and opened an engineering workshop. Struth was a Scot.
• JOHN VERGE : Verge’s activities as a farmer seem not to have been spectacularly successful at first, though he had built up a considerable practice as architect and builder; on 24 July 1831 because of the paucity of skilled architects, he was invited by Governor Darling, unavailingly, to tender for government contracts. Verge had bought land on the site of 346 Sussex Street in February 1831 and he built his house there immediately afterwards. Most of his architectural work in Sydney appears to have been done between 1830 and 1837, when he retired to Lyndhurst Vale and later to Austral Eden.