BILLY BLUE

 BILLY BLUE

MELINDA is listed as living in Sydney from the early 20s  until at least the 1928 census. She is in Sydney when she meets Basil Kendall at the ‘dance’ in Sussex street in August 1835.  I am assuming that she spent her adolescence and young adulthood in Sydney as the dates indicate. These were the formative years of the young city and filled with character and characters. One of these was Billy Blue.

 

BILLY BLUE

STREETS OF SYDNEY:CASTLEREAGH STREET

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CASTLEREAGH STREET

MELINDA MCNALLY LIVED IN CASTLEREAGH STREET AT THE ADDRESS OF REV RICHARD HILL. SHE IS MARKED THERE IN CENSUS IN THE 1820s. 1923 AND 1928 as a child of 9 and then of 11. An obvious discrepancy. She is also recorded as MATILDA. Some have written of her as being taken in following the death of her mother Judith, by the “kindly” Mrs Hill and treated as a foster child and as passing her time engaged in the activities of young ladies e.g. watercolour painting, writing verses and pleasant sewing. This seems to me doubtful. She is listed as SERVANT. She is the little girl of  a Roman Catholic Irish family with a father convicted of Desertion and sentenced to Life. Who knows what happened in this time ? Certainly her mother was still alive in 1823 and Patrick, Judith, Eliza, William, Sarah and John are all living in Kent street at that time as is Mary although she could have been already at the residence of James Martin as his ‘ housekeeper’. In 1828 we have the same situation except that William has gone out to Airds. Patrick is listed as being 45 and the female name following his is SUSANNAH instead of Judith. She is listed as being 43 which Judith would have been so it appears probable that it refers to Judith. Be that as it may,Melinda aka Matilda McNally who in 1822 was living in Windsor with her family - Irish, Catholic, with parents and siblings. Parents and children who had survived War and Court Martial and a journey from Canada to England to NSW, life on the Hawkesbury - then spent the years from at least 1823-1828 in the home of an Anglican Minister who lists Matilda as Protestant and Servant in the middle of Sydney.  We have Patrick’s Tickets of Exemption from Government Labour to reside with his wife Judith right up till 1832 when he received his pardon.

Be that as it may - Melinda’s life from  1823 when she was 8-9 years old till at least 1828 when she was 12-13 years old was spent living in Castlereagh Street . 

http://melindakendall.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/musters-and-censuses-and-archives-aah/

NO	DATE	TENANTS AND USAGE	COMMENTS
	1805	when the Castlereagh Street School of Arts was being restored, the footings of some 1805 convict huts were found	Explorers of the buried city find what really lies beneath FROM SMH
		In Castlereagh Street, lie five wells and the remains of a timber cottage dating from the early 1800s	Explorers of the buried city find what really lies beneath
	1818	Registration of a transfer of a block of land in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, from Catherine Green, widow, to John Lowrie in 181836	Family Legends - can they be trusted? PAGE OF LINDSAY SWADLING
	1822	Father Therry’s first school was located at the New Court in Castlereagh Street and had been opened in 1822 by Thomas Byrne
?	1828	Webster :  in the 1828 Census of New South Wales his profession is listed as a “Carver & Guilder”, residing at Castlereagh Street, Sydney.
?	1832	LAMB AND BUCHANAN	SHIPPING
?	1832	COLLICOTT	CONSTITUTION BREWERY
1 CASTLEREAGH STREET	1842-1851	Nichodemas Dunn’s brewery at 1 Castlereagh Street, operating between 1842-1851	D*HUB
Castlereagh Street, between Market and Liverpool Streets	?	very large blocks of land Owned by Richard and Robert Pearce	PEARCE FAMILY
Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets The entrance to the Great Synagogue is located at 166 Castlereagh Street (nr Park Street).	1878	The building was described by the Illustrated Sydney News in 1878 as: “- a place of worship which, for lavish adornment and superb finish, has no equal in the city of Sydney… It has a frontage of sixty-four feet and extends back one hundred and forty feet, embracing the whole of the intervening space between Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets	THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE
362	1882	ANNE HOARE In 1882, Ann lived at 362 Castlereagh Street, Sydney on the east side between Goulburn and Campbell Street.	WILLIAM RIXON AND ANN HOARE
3 Fowler’s Place, off Castlereagh Street	1886	TREWIN, Esther Jane b: 17 APR 1886	Ted Marr’s MARR KILLEN YOUNG GRAY WILSON TURNER STEWART Family History
3 Fowler’s Place, off Castlereagh Street,	1887	TREWIN, Agnes Eva b: 14 DEC 1887 in  Sydney, NSW, Australia d: 9 APR 1888 in 3 Fowler’s Place, off Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia	Ted Marr’s MARR KILLEN YOUNG GRAY WILSON TURNER STEWART Family History
3 Fowler’s Place, off Castlereagh Street	1889	TREWIN, William James b: 6 JAN 1889	Ted Marr’s MARR KILLEN YOUNG GRAY WILSON TURNER STEWART Family History

 

From Urban Jail to Bourgeois Suburb

The Transformation of Neighborhood in Early Colonial Sydney

Graeme Davison

Monash University

” Early colonial Sydney was founded on convict transportation but by the 1820s was being transformed by free settlement in a developing market economy. Neighborhood relations in the town were shaped by these intersecting influences, the first dividing convict from free settler, the second dividing rich from poor. Descriptions of the town portray it as divided between a plebeian west and a respectable east, but analysis of the 1828 census reveals a more complex social geography where convicts, exconvicts, and free settlers met in individual households and neighborhoods. Court records reveal the tensions this created. The solution, for many of the urban elite, was urban planning that would create a uniform, clean, segregated, and disciplined community. ^“

http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/5/741

 

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP
Church Hill, Sydney

An eye witness, Frank Clune, recalled:

“In 1906 my home was near the Devonshire Street Cemetery. After the Government decided to extend the railway from Redfern to its present site, a tunnel was driven from Devonshire Street to George Street, through the graves of pioneers buried from 1819 to 1900. Like my scallywag companions, I was morbidly fascinated by the disinterment of the skeletons, which though done with due respect and reverence was still a grim spectacle for the crowds of onlookers. When Central Railway Station was completed, the tunnel from Devonshire Street to Railway Square was opened beneath the railway lines. Before that extension, steam trains from Redfern to the city crossed through Belmont Park to Castlereagh Street. A footbridge spanned the tram,-lines, on which I often stood trying to spit down the funnels of the locomotives.

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STREETS OF SYDNEY : KING STREET

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KING STREET.

NO	DATE	TENANT AND USAGE	COMMENTS
18 KING	1832	J BUTTS	TOBACCO

McLeay (Macleay), Alexander (1767 - 1848)

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020156b.htm

BELIEVERS IN COURT

BELIEVERS IN COURT: Sydney Anglicans Going to Law

A CASE INVOLVING REV RICHARD HILL

THE FORTITUDE

SOME INTERESTING SNIPPETS THE AUTHOR OF THIS PAGE CALLS THEM AND INDEED THEY ARE.

FORTITUDE

www.halenet.com.au/~jvbryant/fortlet1.html

JOURNEYS IN TIME

Bathurst region
On 10 May 1815 the newly proclaimed town of Bathurst was visited by three Wiradjuri warriors led (probably) by an Aboriginal named Windradyne. Macquarie presented him and his two companions with a tomahawk and a yellow cloth, and in exchange Macquarie received a possum-skin cloak. The ceremonial exchange of gifts continued later in the afternoon when eleven warriors returned and each received a black leather cap, tomahawk and food from the storehouse. Relations at Bathurst remained cordial for some months after this visit.

http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/all/journeys/menu.html

JOURNALS OF LACHLAN AND ELIZABETH MACQUARIE

Josephson, Joshua Frey (1815 - 1892)

Shelley, William (1774 - 1815)

SHELLEY LED A COLOURFUL LIFE WHICH INCLUDED A BRUSH WITH PIRATICAL NATIVES WHILST PEARLING. BY 1815 HE IS AT PARRAMATTA :

Shelley conducted Congregational services in his house and commenced work among the Aboriginals. He attempted to learn the language, took some children into his own family and addressed Governor Macquarie on ‘the practicability of civilizing’ them. He was invited to draw up plans and in December was appointed superintendent and principal instructor of the Native Institution at Parramatta, the first of its kind in the colony. However, after establishing the school, he died on 6 July 1815.

SYDNEY CONNECTIONS , KENDALLS and SYDNEY HERALD.

• 1830 -11 September: Colonial Secretary’s office send s letter to Thomas Surfleet Kendall care of MR Thomas Barker. Sussex Street Sydney.
  

The letter (30/210 Authority to select 320 acres of land.

• 1830 - 1 November : Alex Mcleay Colonial Secretary to Revd Thomas Kendall care of mr Thomas Barker Sussex Street Sydney (30/7572) Possession of land at Narrawallee Creek
• 1831 - 15 April : Thos Mitchell survey general to Mr Thos Kendall , Union Brewery Sydney. (31/209) Request for 100 acres for Mrs Kendall to be resubmitted
• 1831 - 21 April : Alex McLeay Colonial Secretary to Revd T Kendall care of Mr T Barker Sydney. (31/805) Thomas Surfleet Kendall’s selection of portionof Thomas Kendall’s leasehold at Narrawallee Creek.
• 1831 - 21 April : Alex Mcleay Colonial Secretary to Mr T S Kendall, Union Brewery Pitt Street ( 31/804) Description of 320 acres selected at Narrawalle Creek and conditions of tenure

• See Sydney Herald for Barkers Mill Advertising.
• See Sydney Herald for Bones and Kendall Advertising.

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BISCUIT

THOMAS BARKER is now enabled to supply Vessels fitting for long voyages with BISCUIT of a very superior description at the lowest prices with a Liberal Credit.

Steam Engine Flour Warehouse

Darling Harbour April 16 1831

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BONES AND KENDALL

of the Union Brewery , 35 Pitt-street.

continue to supply Public Houses and Private families with

COLONIAL BEER

Of the best quality at Moderate Prices.

Sydney April 16th 1831

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• HERITAGE REGISTER OF REMNANTS OF BARKER’S MILL
  

Sydney Harbour Foreshores Authority.

• THOMAS BARKER ON ADB