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From: "Kerry Raymond" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD-BRISBANE] Emperor Street Stephens? LOGAN WHALAN
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:15:47 +1000
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> But your identification of St Stephens Estate in Annerley sounds very
> possible. I would guess that this estate surrounded St Stephens
> church. I will have to get a map and look at Buranda and the Stones
> corner area.

I grew up a few streets away. My memory is of a residential street full of
houses. I don't think there was a hospital in it, but of course in those
times sometimes nurses ran small private hospitals in a normal house with
just a few patients, so anything is possible.

Although the forerunner of the current Princess Alexandra hospital was not
far away, nonetheless it was in the same location as it is today and that is
Ipswich and Cornwall Streets, not Emperor St. If you want to see it all on a
map, see here:

http://tinyurl.com/2kc7bv

The layout of the streets hasn't really changed in that immediate area (a
little further to the south, the South-East Freeway did change the street
layouts in the 1960s but not at Emperor St).

The district (I think it was a district council prior to the amalgamation
into Greater Brisbane in the 1920s/30s) was called Stephens after one of
Brisbane's early mayors Thomas Blackett Stephens, and not after a St
Stephens church. The local C of E church which is in Cornwall St not far
from Emperor St is St Phillips.

If you can tell us the name of the person (or other relatives likely to have
been living with them), it is possible to see if they were living there in
the 1903 and/or 1913 electoral rolls.

Kerry






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