Dear Rod, I have two suggestions as starting points for your Redfern Pub Crawl <<grin>>. Perhaps this group may have some history buffs as well as imbibers at: http://www.sydneypubguide.net/ On a more academic note, over the last 80 or so years there were various council merged and now form the City of Sydney Council. The archives for Redfern mentioned here: http://tinyurl.com/ymbrah It says ................ Non-current records created by municipal councils absorbed by the City of Sydney at different times. These include: Camperdown (1862-1908) absorbed in 1908; Alexandria (1868- 1948), Darlington (1864-1948), Macdonaldtown/Erskineville (1872- 1948), Glebe (1859-1948), Newtown (1862-1948), Redfern (1859-1948), Paddington (1860-1948) and Waterloo (1860-1948) absorbed in 1949, Northcott/South Sydney Municipal Council (1968-1981); and South Sydney City Council (1989-2004). To contact the archives, see this page: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ContactUs.asp At a bare minimum the archives will have the council rates books, but might also have some early photos or sketches and other correspondence. Hope this will provide some kind of starting point for you. Cheers, Tony moore (Balgo, Western Australia) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 1 Dec 2006 at 20:35, RODNEY MCDONALD wrote: From: "RODNEY MCDONALD" <rodofoz@iprimus.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-SYDNEY@rootsweb.com> Date sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:35:31 +1000 Subject: [ANS] Redfern Hotels Send reply to: RODNEY MCDONALD <rodofoz@iprimus.com.au>, aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com > Hi List, > > Hope this isn't too big a yarn for the list but I am new to this list and >trying to track some information on Redfern hotels from about 1885 >to 1905ish > My GGrandmother was the licensee of the Bedford Hotel in Wells St Redfern > when her husband died at aged 31yrs in 1897 of some sort of liver damage >I guess a workplace injury. He was Ernest John Palmer. >Gran was Mary Isabella (Hodges) Mary then married my GGrandfather >James Costello that same year that Ernest died 1897, ON that >Marriage >Cert info says that she was a publican at the Bedford Hotel and James was >a 'clicker' but appears he was running the York Hotel also in Wells St Redfern. > Long winded story to ask the list if there may be any info or photos available on the Wells St Hotels. I believe they are no longer there. > My Grandmother Marjorie Eileen Costello was born in the Bedford Hotel in 1899 > > Any assistance would be terrific, thanks and > > Regards > > Rod McDonald > Sunshine Coast Qld

My G G uncle Mr Michael McGrath was the Mayor of Camperdown for some time.....the family still has the large wall plaque. I went to the Maquarie Library etc and came up empty handed..... Just as a note family I found lived in a place called Kingston which was a large property which is now 1/2 Camperdown and Newtown area christene

Dear Christene, Since 1908, there were various council merged and now form the City of Sydney Council. The archives for Camperdown are mentioned here: http://tinyurl.com/ymbrah It says ................ Non-current records created by municipal councils absorbed by the City of Sydney at different times. These include: Camperdown (1862-1908) absorbed in 1908; Alexandria (1868- 1948), Darlington (1864-1948), Macdonaldtown/Erskineville (1872- 1948), Glebe (1859-1948), Newtown (1862-1948), Redfern (1859-1948), Paddington (1860-1948) and Waterloo (1860-1948) absorbed in 1949, Northcott/South Sydney Municipal Council (1968-1981); and South Sydney City Council (1989-2004). To contact the archives, see this page: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ContactUs.asp At a bare minimum the archives will have the council rates books, but might also have some early photos or sketches and other correspondence. Another Historical project. Newtown project: http://www.sydneyarchives.info/default.html search for McGrath......... Michael is mentioned.......... Much of your Camperdown / Kingston features are in the maps section above. You will also find many other Camperdown resources scattered throughout the Newtown pages. Cheers, Tony Moore (Balgo, Western Australia) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On 3 Dec 2006 at 7:13, chrissy wrote: From: "chrissy" <chartley@tpg.com.au> To: <aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com> Date sent: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 07:13:36 +1100 Subject: [ANS] Camperdowns Send reply to: aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com > My G G uncle > Mr Michael McGrath was the Mayor of Camperdown for some time.....the family > still has the large wall plaque. > I went to the Maquarie Library etc and came up empty handed..... > Just as a note family I found lived in a place called Kingston > which was a large property which is now 1/2 Camperdown and Newtown area > christene > >