Gibbs
East Melbourne, Powlett Street 052 - Burchett
1889. MCC BR: Blackwell and Dalton Premier Building, Architects of Collins Street, to build 2-storey residence for P. Sheehan Esq. Brick, 15 rooms.
1890. P. Sheehan - owner/occupier.
1891-3. Occupant: Mark Herman, manufacturing jeweller at 476 Albert Street.
1894-7. Occupant: Isaac Allen. Executor: Sheehan.
1898-1906. Occupant: George A. Gibbs.
1907-20. Occupants: William C. Steel and Mrs.
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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 010. Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919, 1934, 1936, 1939 and1945.
4 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at 10 Simpson Street,East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919, 1934,1936, 1939 and 1945.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 024 - Burchett
1891. MCC Building Notice: Timmins and Moles, builders, 2-storey house for George A. Gibbs.
1892. G.A. Gibbs - owner/occupier.
1900. Eliza Welch - owner. Robt. Francis Howe - occupier. Brick, 9 rooms.
1973. Purchased by Hon. Billy Sneddon.
1974. Sold to Jeff Cousins.
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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 148, 150, 152
Description:
Two shops and seven roomed brick villa
History:
150 was one in from the SW corner of Powlett Street. It was a pharmacy from about 1896 to 1924. The first chemist there was Patrick McLean; he was followed about two years later by Edward Maurice Gibbs; then for about ten years from 1903 by Harry J. Massey, chemist and dentist; and finally Walter J. Williams, chemist and optician, purchased the business about 1913.
Walter Murray Buntine, M.A.
Photocopied chapter from 'Years May Pass On. Caulfield Grammar School 1881-1981' by Horace Webber, being a biography of Walter Murray Buntine, M.A., educationist and headmaster of Caulfield Grammar 1896-1931. Buntine matriculated from Scotch College in 1885. During his time at Scotch he boarded with the Reverend Mr. Steel, then minister at the Presbyterian Church in East Melbourne.
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