11

J.H. Watmuff Profile,
Prologue,
1 1859-1862 Bendigo, Dunolly, Sandy Creek (Tarnagulla), Loddon , (Mt. Hope Rush), Ararat, Chinamans Flat, Moonlight Flat, Mt William (trek with guide), Pleasent Creek (Stawell), Melbourne
2 1859 Bendigo Melbourne 1862 Otago N.Z.,
3 1863 Otago,
4 1863 Otago to 1865 Melbourne,
5 1865-1866 Melbourne,
6 1866-1869 Melbourne,
7 1869-1870 Melbourne,
8 1870-1876 Melbourne
9 1879-1881 Melbourne,
10 1881-1882 Dribs & Drabs,
11 1884 Sydney & Misc.,
12 Lusitania Voyage,
13 Lusitania Voyage,
14 Lusitania Voyage,
15 Lusitania Voyage,
16 and 17 England, letters and Journal,
18 Garonne return Voyage,
19 Resignations,
20 (Journal 19) Mildura,
21 (Genealogies),
22 (Spare)],
23 (Spare)],
24 (Spare)],
25 (Spare)],
J.H. & Bessie Watmuff's Photos
Olive Watmuff's Photos

Journal 11 Sydney

1677

Addresses 1882
X(J R Hamilton
Pitt St
Sydney)X

Miss Watmuff
28 Myrtle Road
Highfields
Leicester
England

Mr J.J. Clark
283 George St
Sydney

Stone & Co
Solicitors
Leicester
Engd

11/1

1678

Feby 20th 1883
Balance in Com[mercial] Bank
£69–16-10

Bought from Mrs Brown land in Gr Davis St St Yarra 50 x 116 for £227-10-0. Pd on 20/2/83 deposit £50, balance £177-10 on the 21st March/83.

11/2

1679

J.J. Clark
Col Architects Etc
X(283 George St
Sydney)X
Brisbane

Mr Harrison
Bellove Terraces
Oakley Road
Paddington

Mr J. Hamilton
74 William St
Wooloomooloo
Or Pitt St
Sydney
Auctioneers etc.

Revd. Dalton
St. Ignatius College
River View
Lane Cove

11/3

1680

Dillon & Burrows
Sample of French
Lollies & French
Chip Fruits -
Whole pieces &
1 doz of Chig Fts[?fruits],
1 Imported

Hanson n 2/6

Mrs Moore
Thornhill Villa
Marsh
Huddersfield
Yorkshire

11/4

1681

Miss S. Watmuff
Highfields
Leicester
England

Mr T A Hamilton
Bankstown
Nr Sydney
N.S.W

J R Hamilton 20/8/85
Campbell St
Glebe

11/5

1682

• Remdale
  

P. B. Road

Forest Lodge

[a lot of scrawled figures]

11/6

1683

Copper 16 glns

For Sale
Kitchen Chairs
-“ - Table

• Filter
  

Lamp & Globes
Drawing Room *Sinke
2/10 Safe
Old Tools & Tins
2/10 Wash Stands 2
X(Commode)X
2/11 Small Tables 2
Tendor
Curtain poles
Odds Ends
Pallaises

11/7

1684

[6th April 1884 Sunday] Arrived in Sydney 12.20 6/4/84. Met Griffiths went with him to Preddy Hotel - no room for both, so I went to the Coffee Palace in Geoge St & had dinner & engaged & pd for a Bedroom 2/- so as to have to have a place to leave my traps in on being shown the room, it was most horribly & stinking that I decided not to sleep in it. On going into town, I met Alick Hamilton who gave me his

11/8

1685

mothers a/d. When I took a tram out to the Glebe & after some trouble I at length found the house but to my annoyance, no one was at home, so I returned to Sydney, & to my surprise I met Mrs. Hamilton who insisted upon my returning to tea which I did shortly afterwards - but in the meantime I visited the Baumans, who made me extremely

11/9

1686

welcome & insisted upon my making their house my home while in Sydney. I promised to on return from Hamiltons to stay all night, which I did. I had a good bedroom, but oh, the mosquitos I was dreadfully tired& yet never slept a wink tho I had been travelling in the train from Melb all the previous night.

11/10

1687

Wednesday [23rd April 1884] I went to Neutral Bay & had an hours Saunter, about the hills & returned. Saw the “Iberia” come in. On landing I went & had lunch & a good look about the wharves & the old p[ar]t of Sydney. Called at Hamiltons office Met several gentlemen there - who were

11/11

1688

going home with him to dine & spend the evening together with their wives & families. I left them for a hour & walked to Wooloomooloo & found out Mr & Mrs Clark, who have taken a large house at 163 Forbes St. Miss C.[Clark] intends opening it as a Boarding

11/12

1689

house. I returned to Sydney & called at Hamiltons Office & accompanied him to his house & spent the evening & night Mrs H[amilton] made me very comfortable.

[24th April 1884, Thursday] Next morning I came to town & went to Googi [(Coogie)] Bay returned to Sydney & got a steamer & went to Paramatta. Returned to Sydney by rail. Went for

11/13

1690

an hour to hear the Minstrels, left about 9.30 & went to Baumans & slept there - next morning knocked about town & left Sydney at 2.15 pm on an excursion to the Hawksbury River Starting from Circular Quay, I went to Manly took coach from there for about 14 miles to “Pitt water” where we Remained, at the only house there, kept by

11/14

1691

by a Mr & Mrs Schafer the latter formerly sang with me at a choir in St Kilda. Pitt Water is a lovely spot beautifully situated a few miles from the Mouth of the Hawks- -bury river. After an early breakfast, 6.15 we left by a comfortable little steamer called the “Flora” & steamed away between high rocky mountains until reaching the

11/15

1692

mouth of the river at Barrenjoy lighthouse from there to where we staid for dinner at Wisemans Ferry the River turned & twisted about around points & between high headlands here & there, might be seen little cots[?cottages] but so little land is available for cultivation that

11/16

1693

I am afraid little is, or ever will be made out of the district - the river is a fine broad noble one & is one of the most picturesque in the world - if it had the historical associations of the Rhone or Rhine neither could equal it. After leaving Wisemans Ferry

11/17

1694

(which is an old penal settlement) we pushed up to where we landed ‘Clarence Reach’ at 4pm, where a coach awaited us & conveyed us to Windsor, over a beautiful fertile country - covered with large farms It was 6pm when we arrived at W[indsor] & after tea, we left there by the

11/18

1695

train at 7pm & came to Sydney where we arrived at 9-pm, the trip being one of pleasentest I ever enjoyed. From Sydney & back cost 30/-, apart from expenses of meals etc.

Sunday morning [27th April 1884] Mr & Mrs B[aumans] & self took a strool

11/19

1696

for 2 hours around the Exhibition Garden & also the Botanical Gardens etc. After dinner Mr B[auman] invited me to a drive in his buggy to go to Sandringham a watering place 14 miles from town on Botany Bay beautifully situated at the mouth of

11/20

1697

the George River, back in town by 7pm. After tea went to a Sunday evening concert at the Opera House.

Monday morning [28th April, 1884] I went to Watsons Bay & in the afternoon to the new Picture Gallery & other places.

[29th April 1884] Tuesday morning I went to Mossmans Bay

11/21

1698

& on returning to town I met C Humbein & went with him to a pretty place called Bondi. In the afternoon I knocked about & in the evening I spent at Baumans very pleasently. Wednesday [30th April 1884] morning I knocked about town bid good bye to musician friends Miss Clark & Mrs Hamilton [(or Hamblin)] met Capt Brinks. After dinner at Baumans - I left

11/22

1699

for the train for Melbourne, which left Sydney @ 5pm arrived in Melb’ at 12 following day – found my wife & children all right & well.

11/23

1700

Jones & Edwards Langtree Avenue Planted horticultural land within 1 mile of town 12.3.92 10 am

11/24

1701

Mr. Heaven
12½ acres planted
with gordo blanco grapes
£800 Cowra Avenue

G[ordo] B[lanco] grapes 5 acres
Lemons & Oranges.
£70 per Acre.
Paid up. Planted
3 years.
One frontage ‘Benetook’ Avenue.
Lot 4 Sec 28B7.

11/25

1702

Mr. Heaven
10 acres planted
5 with G.B. Vines
one year old,
one acre Lisbon Lemons
2 Ac Figs.
A few select Oranges
Man[?darins], Navels.
Passion fruit
planted down avenue. Almonds - 40 tons
Firewood - Lucerne patch graded.
Two room house.
gal stable.

11/26

1703

To let
Auburn – Bournville, 15 Rathmines Rd,
Villa 8 Rooms, Bath, pantry, - Land 60x335 ft.
Reasonable - Scullery -

J Sharp & Co 96 – 3 - 10
Copper 1 – 2 - 6

11/27

1704

Cr Commercial Bank

Bonds Self

[Some figures not transcribed]

11/28

1705

11 029

[some figures not transcribed]

11/29

1706

February 7/85
Bought Land 49[‘]-6[“]- by 170[‘]-0- Lot 14, Rathmines Road
C 3-17.0 foot
Paid deposit £50.11.6
Fare Bill for 18
Balance and Interest £152.12.0
Dun 10 August 1886
Total £203.3.6

[Notes from a later time in the same diary]

11/30

1707

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11/31

1708

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End of Journal 11

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