Finniss Street
| Place type: | Locality |
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| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
Finniss Street contains numerous homes and buildings that are in the Town of Gawler State, Local and Contributory Heritage list, including:
- Finniss Street 13
- Finniss Street 30
- Finniss Street 31 Zion Lutheran Church & Wall
- Finniss Street 41 - Mrs Broderick’s Tuckshop c1950
- Gawler Wesleyan Chapel 93 Finniss Street
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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 Finnis 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 maps 2 and 3, and in 1868 to 1890-91 rates books.
Finnis Street in 1858-61 rates books
Maps Used
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.
3. “Plan of Gawlertown and its Suburban Townships; compiled by George Warren 1863; Taxation Department”.
RATES BOOK INFORMATION
Dr Helen Wilmore, Coordinator, Gawler Historical Rates Assessment Database
Gawler Environment & Heritage Assoc. Inc.
C/- 42 Finniss St
Gawler SA 5118
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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