Nicholas Rents 1901
NSW State Archives and Records
Digital Id: 4481_a026_000027
Owners
c1813-c1824 George Cribb
c1833-1834 Albert John Nicholas (Developer)
1839-1856 Isaac Moore
1845-1867 Edward Brady
1869-1871 William, Edmund and Thomas Brady and Mary Ann Smith (nee Brady)
1871 William Henson
1877-1882 Mary Ann Smith (nee Brady)
1891-1902 William Henson
1902 resumed by the State Government
Tenants
c1842-1845 (maybe 1852) Robert O'Neill (labourer)
1848 George Bond
1855-1859 John Lewis, his wife Sarah and two daughters Eliza and Sarah
1856 Charles Johnson (boarding with the Lewis's)
1861 Henry Williams (GPO)
1863-1864 Thomas Conway (drayman) and wife Jane (laundress)
1867-1870 Joseph Duncan (labourer)
1871 Michael Hogan
1873 William Davis (stonemason)
1876-1878 Margaret Hadden, nee Kirkman, later Yates and Clark (laundress)
1877 Alexander Clark
1878 Ellen Kirkman
1880 Patrick O'Connor
1880 William Driscoll (machine ruler)
1882-1891 Michael O'Brien
The cesspit contained some dateable items including
an 1875 coin
2 spirit flasks (first registered in 1872)
a glass marble from a Codd aerated water bottle (first patented in 1873)
3 banded plates/saucers dated to the mid-1870s onwards
a blue transfer-printed sherd dated to 1861
a tobacco pipe made by Thomas Davidson (Glasgow 1862-1911)
window glass dated to mid-1860s
The demolition fill contained construction material including nails(83), bolts(1), fragments of
roof slate(11) and window glass(212)
and animal bone and shell fragments including sheep(199), chicken(45), fish(42),
molluscs(53), cattle(12), shark(1) and pig(1)
The remaining material included domestic wares, utensils, food containers,
personal items, toys, toiletries and pharmaceutical items
