Hi Douglas and all Please ignore my last reply - I was confusing Fitzroy Place and Fitzroy Crescent. Cheers Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Burbury <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2018 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: Owner of 20 Fitzroy Place, Hobart Hello Charles, Thanks for the tip. So maybe I can hope that someone will check the "some such" for me instead. :) Douglas On 14/08/2018 3:05 PM, Charles Hunt wrote: > Hello Douglas, > Post Office directories only started in the 1890s so you are out of > luck for lookup. > > Charles Hunt > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 15:53, Douglas Burbury <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, just to be clear, that is 20 Fitzroy Place in *Hobart*. >> >> On 14/08/2018 2:47 PM, Douglas Burbury wrote: >>> Hi List, >>> >>> I'm wondering who owned the property at 20 Fitzroy Place during the >>> 1830s to 1860s. >>> >>> I found a reference to a W.L. Rait (evidently William John Rait) >>> owning >>> 20 Fitzroy Place in the 1930s and traced this back through The List >>> to land that seems to have been originally granted to Edward Dumaresq. >>> >>> However, the street may have been renumbered in the meantime. >>> >>> Would it be possible to ask for someone to look at early Post Office >>> directories or some such to check for a name for owner of said >>> property during said timeframe? >>> >>> Douglas >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> E-mail: [email protected] ----------------------- Osaka, Japan >> http://www.burbury.net (Burbury family research website) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ >> Contact Admin [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and >> Archives >> https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/aus-tasmania >> Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: >> https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 >> Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog >> RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal >> RootsWeb community >> > > _______________________________________________ > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives > https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/aus-tasmania > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal > RootsWeb community > -- E-mail: [email protected] ----------------------- Osaka, Japan http://www.burbury.net (Burbury family research website) _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin [email protected] _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/aus-tasmania Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community