Finniss Street
| Place type: | Locality |
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| 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] was the residence of Johns James Hill, electrician and his wife Dorothy Inez Hill (nee Dorothy Inez Bunting, daughter of Jabez Bunting) in 1939.[1] [See Bunting F T for more details about the Bunting family]
- 42 Finniss Street [part Allotment 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.[2]
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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”.[3]
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[4]
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References
- ↑ Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 via Ancestry
- ↑ Certificate of Title 499/97
- ↑ Wilmore, Helen (2021) "Gawler's History in Maps and Plans Database Project", complied for Gawler Environment & Heritage Association Inc., South Australia. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J-Ab3PjqDc3RpawvBV5YM_TVg5R0I0hR/view?usp=sharing
- ↑ Gawler Environment & Heritage Association Inc (2004) Gawler Historical Rates Assessment Database https://gawlerhistory.com/index.php/Gawler_Historical_Rates_Assessment_Database_Project Please note: The rates book information provided represents records as they were entered in the original rates assessment books, as best as we could ascertain. However, we cannot guarantee that mistakes have not been introduced. So, for strict research purposes, the original rates assessment books held at State Records must be taken as the most definitive source of information
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