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124 Cumberland Street

Nicholas Rents

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Nicholas Rents 1901
NSW State Archives and Records
Digital Id: 4481_a026_000027

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Rear of the Nicholas Rents 1901
NSW State Archives and Records
Digital Id: 4481_a026_000111

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Nicholas Rents 1901 by Charles H. Bertie
The Charles H. Bertie Pictorial Collection, State Library of NSW (Mitchell Library)

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Architectural plans for 124 and 126 Cumberland Street
NSW Government Architect 'Plans and Photographs of Buildings Demolished 1902-1907'
Courtesy of the Mitchell Library

Constructed: c1833
Demolished: 1907

The four conjoined terraces at 120-126 Cumberland Street were built c1833 by Albert Nicholas and replaced a row of tenements built by George Cribb circa 1823. Number 124 was demolished by 1907.

Owners
c1813-c1824 George Cribb
c1833-1834 Albert John Nicholas (Developer)
1834-1861 John Winch and Wife Catherine (owner-occupier)
1861 Louis Foucart
1863 Charles Hall (landlord)
1867 William Hall (landlord)
1871 Croft Hall (landlord)
1877 William Henson (landlord)
1880-1902 John Hoseman (landlord)
1902 resumed by the State Government

Occupants
1834-1861 John Winch (seaman/dealer), his wife Catherine and children Francis Jane, and Margaret Elizabeth. (Another daughter Eliza was born and died in 1835.)
1855 David Gourlay (captain of the Governor-General steamer), wife Margaret (nee Winch) and children Mary Catherine, Elizabeth Jane and David.
1857 Hugh O'Neil (moulder)
1861-1863 George Puzey (mariner/labourer/gasworker), wife Lucy and children George, Charles Valentine, Lucy Emma and Harriet (born 1862)
1864 Lucy Puzey (dealer) and her children Charles Valentine, Lucy Emma and Harriet
Luckridge (John) Nichols 1865-1867
1867-1868 Frederick Dibden, wife Charlotte and 4 children
1869-1876 Donald Gray (or Grey) (shipwright/carpenter)
1877 Edward Green
1879 Charles Thomas Worth (dealer)
1880 James Fuige
1882 Edward Wright
1889 John Monaghan (grocer)
1890 Francis Gallagher
1891 Vacant
1891-1894 John Anderson
1895-1897 Alfred Hoseman (hairdresser) and family
1898-1899 Eleanor Mason (greengrocer/newsagent)
1900-1902 Arthur Smith
1903 Ester Maud Moran (nee Simpson)

The cesspit contained some dateable items including
an olive glass bottle made between 1859 and 1865 by Cooper, Wood & Co, Edinburgh
2 saucers
2 tranfer-printed 'Palestine' plates made between 1819 and 1864 made by William Adams
a dinner plate
2 flow blue tea cups and a single matching saucer made between 1851 and 1862 by Pinder, Bourne and Hope
a tobacco pipe made between 1823 and 1864
A ginger beer bottle made between 1822 and 1838
A ginger beer bottle made between 1838 and 1842
A ginger beer bottle made between 1842 and 1852
A ginger beer bottle made between 1848 and 1854
a pre-1830 half penny

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