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93 Gloucester Street

The Arm and Legg House

Weatherboard and shingle house
Constructed: c1795
Demolished: c1822

Two storey semi-detached stone house
Constructed: c1822
Demolished: c1889

In c1795 convicts Anne Armsden and George Legg built and lived in a weatherboard and shingle house on the site. In 1805 George Legg died and in 1810 Anne Armsden married George Talbot, a baker. Sometime before 1822 they built two new semi-detached stone cottages on the site. The southernmost house, number 93, was sold to Hugh Hector Innes Noble in c1822.

Owners
c1795 - c1805 George Legg and Anne Armsden (owner-occupiers)
c1805 - c1810 Anne Armsden (owner-occupier)
c1810 - c1822 George Talbot and Anne Armsden (owner-occupiers)
c1822 - 1829 Hugh Hector Innes Noble (landlord)
1829 - 1844 William Henry Chapman (landlord)
1844 - 1853 William Massey (landlord)
1853 - 1855 Mary Anne Massey (nee Benson, later Henson), widow of William Massey (landlord)
1856 - 1863 William and Mary Anne Henson (landlord)
1861 William Samuels (landlord)
1867 - 1871 Croft Hall (landlord)
1877 Mary A. Hall (nee Chilcott) (landlord)
1880 H. Christison (landlord)
1882 William W. Pullyard (landlord)
1891 demolished

Occupants
c1795 - c1805 George Legg and Anne Armsden (owner-occupiers)
c1805 - c1810 Anne Armsden (owner-occupier)
c1810 - c1822 George Talbot and Anne Armsden (owner-occupiers)
c1822 - c1827 Hugh Hector Innes Noble (owner-occupier), wife Eliza Ann (nee Chapman) and their children
1828 - 1845 unknown
1845 Thomas Thompson (waterman)
1848 Thomas O'Brien
1852 Thomas King (butcher)
1855 - 57 Robert Grace (seaman)
1858 Emma Murphy
1859 Robert Pascall
1861 Agnes Ellars
1861 Patrick Cassidy
1863 John Buxton
1864 James F. Binks (grocery store)
1865 William Stokes (butcher)
1866 John Murphy (dealer)
1867 vacant
1867 Thomas Brown (stonemason)
1867 vacant
1868 Donald Gray/Grey (shipwright/carpenter)
1869 George Wilson (mariner/waterman/grocer) a widower with 8 children
1869 Rosanna French (nee Boyd)
1870 - 1871 William Kitchen Neal (fruiterer/mariner) and wife Jane (nee Kirkman)
1870 - 1871 Antony Silver/Silva
1873 - 1877 James Wall (waterman/carpenter), wife Eleanor, and children Percy G (1873), Maude Sarah J (1874), Australis Victoria (1876) and Eleanor (1877)
1879 Alfred Henry Miller and wife Eliza (boarding house)
1880 - 1882 William Byrnes/Bryant (van Proprietor)
1882 vacant
1883 - 1888 Peter Agusutus Lett (nightwatchman/labourer), wife Honora (nee Burns or Byrnes), and children Agustus (1871) Margaret (1873) and Edward W. (1875)
1889 Dennis Mitchell
1889 John Funnell (sugar boiler)
1890 Mary Ryan
1891 - 1892 David Munn

The cesspit contained some dateable items including
pennies dating to 1874, 1882 and 1884
2 aerated water bottles made between 1885 and 1888
2 black-tranfer printed tea saucers made in 1882

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