Church and chapel music in and around Sydney, Australia, 1788–c1860

http://www.psalmody.co.uk/articles/GP1/GP1-8-Forsyth.pdf

PHTHISIS

In the 19th century - as it is still in the 21st century - there were some most unpleasant ways to ” do a perish” . Phthisis being one of them. Basil E died from it along with Basil the father and many others. Heres a homeopathic viewpoint from the 1880s

http://www.homeoint.org/hompath/articles/147.html

THE TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS [Treatment Of Pthisis]

Transactions Of World Congress Of Homoeopathic Physicians & Surgeons By Pemberton Dudley

Volume: 1893 May / June ( Melinda died in jan 1893)

FREE MAP OF SYDNEY IN 1836

GREAT SITE WITH DOWNLOADABLE AND DETAILED FREE MAP AND PLANY OF SYDNEY WITH PYRMONT

http://archivemaps.com/mapco/sydney1836/sydney.htm

 

MELINDA KENDALL

IN THIS YEAR - 1836

• FIRST AND SECOND YEAR OF MELINDA AND BASIL’S MARRIAGE. THEY ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN IN SYDNEY AT THIS TIME.
• CONVICT LIST FOR 1836

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/scons36.htm

• THE GREAT NORTH ROAD WAS COMPLETED.

• R. v. Murrell and Bummaree

  Supreme Court of New South Wales

  Forbes C.J., 5 February 1836

  Source: Sydney Herald, 8 February 1836[1]

  On Friday last, an Aboriginal Black named Jack Congo Murrell, was indicted in the Supreme Court for the wilful murder of another Aboriginal Black named Jabbingee, at Windsor, when his Counsel put in the following ingenious and puzzling plea.

  In the Supreme Court,

  The King v. Jack Congo Murrell.
  

  “And now the said Jack Congo Murrell in his own proper person comes, and having heard the Information aforesaid read, and protesting that he is not guilty of the premises charged in the said Information or any part thereof, for plea, nevertheless saith that he ought not to be compelled to answer to the said Information; because, he saith that the said Territory of New South Wales before and until the occupation thereof by his late Majesty King George the third, was inhabited by tribes of native blacks, who were regulated and governed by usages and customs of their own from time immemorial, practised and recognised amongst them, and not by the laws of statutes of Great Britain, and that ever since the occupation of the said Territory as aforesaid, the said tribes have continued to be, and still are regulated and governed by such usages and customs as aforesaid, - and not by the laws and statutes of Great Britain.  And the said Jack Congo Murrell further saith that he is a native Black belonging to one of such tribes aforesaid, and that he is not now, nor at any time heretofore was a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, nor was nor is subject to any of the laws or statutes of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.  And the said Jack Congo Murrell further saith that the said Jabbingee in the said information named, and with the wilful murder of whom the said Jack Congo Murrell is and by the said information charged, was at the time of such supposed murder a native Black belonging to one of such Tribes as aforesaid, and was not then nor at any time theretofore a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland; nor at any time was subject to any of the laws or statutes of the Kingdom of Great and Ireland, or under the protection of the same

• READ THE REMAINDER OF THIS CASE AT http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/cases1835-36/html/r_v_murrell_and_bummaree__1836.htm

• GOAT ISLAND STONE MASONS
  • taken from
    ‘The islands of Sydney Harbour’ by Mary Shelley Clark
    and Jack Clark.
    “Though the convicts on Goat Island had worked
    inefficiently, the finished Goat Island buildings
    were impressive. All were very solidly built from
    sandstone quarried when the site was levelled. Today
    they are among the finest standing stones of New
    South Wales’ colonial past…
    Tribute for the superb workmanship on the magazine
    buildings must be given to the overseers of the
    construction and particularly the Commanding Royal
    Engineer, Captain George Barney. Barney arrived in
    the colony in 1836 when the work was underway, but
    his passion was stonework and he left his mark on
    defence fortifications all around Sydney Harbour.
    His supervising workman were stonemasons specifically
    imported from England and they were clearly masters
    of their craft…”

Colonial Secretary Correspondence

 

Colonial Secretary Correspondence

STREETS OF SYDNEY:BRIDGE STREET

http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2424714

BRIDGE STREET

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

SYDNEY HARBOUR FORESHORE AUTHORITY

http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/dyncontent.cfm?MenuID=285&Print=1&ID=4500033#4500106

HERITAGE ON HOTEL 73 GEORGE STREET NORTH

http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/dyncontent.cfm?MenuID=285&Print=1&ID=4500033#4500106

STREETS OF SYDNEY

Gaslight was first introduced to Sydney in the 1820s and to Melbourne in the 1840s by various individuals who set up small plants which could supply a single establishment. The more complex problem of manufacturing gas and distributing it throughout a whole town, however, was first addressed by the Australian Gas Light Company, which was formed in 1837 to light the streets of Sydney. With a part-convict population of less than 30,000 Sydney lacked a municipal council when this Company first lighted its lamps. Thus on 24 May 1841, the first night of reticulated gas supply in Australia, of the 181 lamps lighted only 22 were street lights. Formed in 1842, Sydney’s Corporation began systematic lighting of the city four years later.

IMAGES OF ALLEN STREET:ULTIMO-PYRMONT

Technorati Tags: ALLEN STREET PYRMONT,ALLEN STREET ULTIMO,STREETS OF SYDNEY,MELINDA KENDALL,DEATH,1893

 

 http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ArchivesWeb/scripts/home.asp

CITY OF SYDNEY SITE AGAIN. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  IMAGES FROM THE DEMOLITION DOCUMENTS OF THE STREET IN WHICH MELINDA DIED IN 1893 AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER JANE. NO 17 ALLEN STREET.

CITATION NSCA CRS 47/1873

CITY OF SYDNEY ARCHIVES.

 

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Doomed streets of Sydney 1900-1928:
Images from the City Council’s Demolition Books

http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=64