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Wilkinson

East Melbourne, Albert Street 348 - Burchett

Built in 1870 by James Sutherland for Frederick Wilkinson - owner. Architect - Leonard Terry Occupied: 1870-1885 - Frederick Wilkinson 1885-1889 - W G Howitt, surgeon
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 057, 059, 061 - Burchett

Built in 1885 by the City of Melbourne Building Sociaty 3 brick houses each of 10 rooms. Owned 1890 - 57 by Wilkinson, agent for the City of Melbourne Building Society, 59 by Martin Moran, 61 by Martin Moran.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 088,090 - Burchett

Built 1869 by James Martyn for Mrs Wilkinson. Occupied 1874: 88 - Robert Scott 90 - H Husband
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 115 - Burchett

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Original name: 'The Oaks'. 1853. MCC BR: Jacomb for self wood house. 1854. Name mentioned: Wilkinson, 10 rooms. 1861. Hy. Bridger - owner. Mrs. Sheils- occupier, she conducted Ladies School here for 15 yrs. 1863 and 1870. Names mentioned: F. Jacomb - owner. Mrs. Sheils - occupier. 1880-1892. T.A. Inglis - owner/occupier. He managed Universal Permanent B'lding & Inv. Soc. 1890 No.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 115, Amorique

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A large weatherboard house with a cedar shingle roof (later covered by iron).

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Robert Elwall Jacomb, the first owner of the house, was the official assignee. It was to him that an insolvent's assets were transfered, or assigned, for distribution to creditors. Jacomb built this house as an investment while he, himself, lived in Powlett Street. In 1861 Mrs.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 161, 163 - Burchett

1860. MCC BR: S. Ward to build for Marshall two houses. Ward also builder of 179 Gipps St. 1861. James Marshall - owner both houses. Occupiers: Marshall and Frederick Wilkinson. 1867. J. & R. Bailey. 1869. Edward Barnes. 1878. M.H. Davies - solicitor. 1881. Names mentioned: John Aarons, Stanley Shepherd. 1888. Names mentioned: George Moore M.D. George Young. P.A. Agnew. 1890.
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My Grandmother's Secret

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Author, Kath McKay, writes about the legal case surrounding the rape of her grandmother, Ethel Wilkinson, as a nine year old child in 1895.  The accused rapist was Edwin Worrall, a family friend who looked after Ethel and her two brothers while Harry Wilkinson, their father, a sole parent, was at work.

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