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From: "Colin Borrott-Maloney" <>
Subject: Re: [PJ] Brickfield Hill
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:46:04 +1000
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Hi Rhonda & John
This could be it ?
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2716944-1
Though the toll house was lower down towards Ultimo (right hand side) ?

Old Burial Ground, now Town Hall, George St looking north.
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/foundations/zoom/lg_bg1842.html


Historic Parish Maps are searchable. You need, St Lawrence & St Andrew
Parishes in Co Cumberland.
http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/pmap.html

Cheers
Col

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhonda Flowers" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:36 PM
Subject: [PJ] Brickfield Hill


> Hi Col & John
>
> In the course of my family history research I have come across two
> mentions of Brickfield Hill. In the Muster Roll of 216 male convicts per
> Fergusson from Ireland 28th March 1829 my ancestor was assigned to Edward
> Redmond - Brickfield Hill.
>
> Edward Redmond died in 1840. In the Australian Dictionary of Biography
> there is the following mention of Brickfield Hill.
> I am wondering if land ownership records (if they exist for this period)
> might give a more precise idea of where Edward Redmond's house at
> Brickfield Hill stood.
>
> 'He died in 1840 and was buried in the Devonshire Street cemetery on 24
> January. He was later reinterred at Botany. To his widow and children he
> left farms at Bathurst, Bingham, Annandale and on the Hawkesbury River,
> houses at Windsor and Liverpool, and Sydney houses in Essen Lane and
> Prince Street and on Brickfield Hill. He had risen from convict status to
> the ranks of respectability, and made a contribution to the establishment
> of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia.'
>
> The dictionary also mentions the following:
>
> ' In 1815 Redmond, in partnership with Patrick Cullen, leased the tolls
> between Sydney and Parramatta, and so was involved in the controversy
> which followed the refusal of J. H. Bent to pay them.'
>
> So maybe this was where the house on Brickfield Hill stood. I also wonder
> if there might be some hint of locality of the house on Brickfield Hill in
> Edward Redmond's will.
>
> Rhonda
>
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