Finniss Street

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Place type:	Locality
Town or Locality:	Gawler

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Finniss Street is named after surveyor Boyle Travers Finniss, who was part of the company 'Light Finniss & Co' that surveyed Gawler Town in 1839. It is visible on the original Gawler Town Plans.

Finniss Street contains numerous homes and buildings that are in the Town of Gawler State, Local and Contributory Heritage list, including:

• Finniss Street 13 - heritage residence 'Winstowe'
• Finniss Street 30 - heritage residence, which operated for a time as 'Church Hill Private Hospital'
• Finniss Street 31 - Zion Lutheran Church
• Finniss Street 41 - heritage cottage, which operated c1950s as Mrs Broderick’s Tuckshop

The Primitive Methodist Church once stood on the south eastern corner of Finniss Street and Dundas Street, it was demolished in the 1950s and a 1950s residence was built (contemporary address 18 Finniss Street). The stables of the church still stand and have been restored (contemporary address 16 Finniss Street).

Finniss Street was also the site of a mysterious occurrence that made the news in 1883 - see 'The Mystery of Finniss Street'.

Residents of Finniss Street

• 33 Finniss Street [this street number no longer exists, street was renumbered c1950s] was the residence of Johns James Hill, electrician and his wife Dorothy Inez Hill (nee Dorothy Inez Bunting, daughter of Jabez Bunting) in 1939. [See Bunting F T for more details about the Bunting family]
• 41 & 43 Finniss Street [part Lot 71 on original Gawler Town Plan] were owned by the Broderick family for over 100 years [see Broderick William & Mary and Broderick (Cr) Nicholas Aloysius], from 1877 until 1984. In the 1870s the site used to have one more substantial cottage (contemporary address 41 Finniss Street, known as 18 Finniss street before street was renumbered c1950s ) and three more humble cottages (likely row cottages that ran back from the street) that the Broderick family rented out (contemporary address 43 Finniss Street). The more humble cottages were demolished at some stage and in 1987 the site was subdivided into two blocks and a heritage-style cottage was built at 43 Finniss Street (at the time of building strict guidelines were imposed "to ensure it harmonised with the overall ambience of the area". At one stage this was the residence of Margaret Cheffirs.
• 42 Finniss Street [part Lot 60, which extends all the way down to Jacob Street] was the residence of Philip Cheek, Gawler Corporation Inspector, from May 1886 (or earlier) until September 1920 when it was transferred to Ada Mary Llewelyn, of Gawler South, married woman.

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Finniss Street Maps & Assessment Book Records

Finniss Street in Map 2 - “Frearson’s Plan of Gawler Town and its Suburban Townships” (this map has no date but was probably done sometime in the 1890s or first decade of the 20th century) and Map 3 - “Plan of Gawlertown and its Suburban Townships; compiled by George Warren 1863; Taxation Department”.

Finnniss Street is in the 1868 to 1890-91 Council Assessment Rates Books and recorded as 'Finnis Street' [with single 's' in 'Finniss'] in the 1858-61 Rates Books

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Related Articles

• Finniss Boyle Travers
• Adult Education in Gawler
• Gawler's Changing Street Names

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