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Stewart

East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 222 - Burchett

Built 1913-1919c by D Stewart for Michael Sexton

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East Melbourne, Hotham Place - Burchett

Site is in lane off Hotham Street (formerly Fitzroy Street). Stewart later built and owned Cyprus Terrace in front.
1853. MCC BR: Thomas W. Stewart, of Collingwood, to build house for self.
1862-69. Directory shows as 5? Hotham Street.
1870. H.W. Stewart - owner/occupier. Off Powlett Street, brick 4 rooms.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 158, 160, 162, 164 - Burchett

1853. MCC BR: Thomas W. Stewart for self a house.
1861. MCC BR: John Bennell for Thos. W. Stewart, 2-storey house.
1862. T.W. Stewart - owner/occupier. Brick 4 rooms.
1867. MCC BR: Thos. W. Stewart to build three 6-roomed houses, also a 4-room house in connexion with stabling.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 166 - Burchett

1867. MCC BR: Thos. W. Stewart. 4-room house with stabling.
1870. Thos. Stewart - owner/occupier.
1872-81. Names mentioned: Thos.W. Stewart, contractor. Thos. Skinner. Was numbered as 38a.
1895. Name mentioned: Mr. Henry Wood. Was then numbered as 91c.
1896-1901. Name mentioned: Mrs. Grace Wood.
1902-10. Name mentioned: Timothy Ryan.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 166, Hotham Place

Description: 

Small brick house, plain in style, with no adornments.

History: 

This house sits behind the houses at 158-164 Hotham Street, known as Cyprus Terrace.  It is entered from Hotham Street via Hotham Place and has been given the address 166 Hotham Street.  Originally the entry was from Powlett Street via Magnolia Place and was known 38a Powlett Street and then, after 1890, 91a Powlett Street.

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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 010. Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919, 1934, 1936, 1939 and1945.

4 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at 10 Simpson Street,East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919, 1934,1936, 1939 and 1945.

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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 018

Description: 

A single two storey house built in the style of a terrace house. The balcony and verandah are not original.

History: 

18 Simpson Street was built in 1874 by C C Fewster for Peter White, plumber. Peter White was born in Edinburgh and arrived in Melbourne in 1858 along with his wife, Alison, and their four eldest children.  The couple went on to have another eight children.  

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East Melbourne, Vale Street 090, The Villa Virginia

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This is a two storey red brick house with pebble dash to gable forming an attic storey. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled with terracotta, with tall chimneys and a dormer window. The two bay windows have three multi paned leadlit sashes. The garden form and paving are intact.[i-Heritage]

History: 

The first owner of the home was Frederick John Andrew, hardware merchant. He died in 1932. During his time the house was called Yarra Yarra but real estate advertisements show that the name had been changed to The Villa Virginia by at least 1934. At this time the house was being rented as bed-sits, including a detached brick room at the rear.

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Gone to War as Sister: Sisters and Brothers at the Front

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One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with East Melbourne or Jolimont.

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Holy Trinity Centenary 2007

A Talk in Commemoration of 150 years of Anglican presence and the centenary of the consecration of Holy Trinity Church

By Father John Stewart, Vicar, Holy Trinity Anglican Church East Melbourne
Director, The Living Well Centre for Christian Spirituality
Friday 19 October 2007

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