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159:; one of three pubs with that name in Sydney at the time. He remained the licensee till September 1855. In 1856 he applied for the licence to the Grafton Hotel, 26 Kent Street, Sydney. He had left that hotel by 1862 and moved on to another pub in Millers Point, the Gladstone Hotel. That one he left in January 1863.
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to George and Mary
Merriman. His parents died while he was very young and he and his sister Mary were raised by guardians. By 1828 they were lodging with Sydney merchant Joseph Raphael and his wife. He was indentured as a cooper, and later served on whaling vessels for four years. In 1843 he married
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In the whole of the City of Sydney, it is to be questioned if there was any one who had the amount of influence of the deceased ... Mr
Merriman was quietly and unobtrusively charitable. He was foolish enough to give away a great deal of money, and to never advertise it ... lived in a large but
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He seems to have been a considerable property owner in Sydney. In
December 1862 he advertised for tradesmen to repair seven houses in Argyle St, Millers Point.
111:(23 October 1816 – 13 May 1883) was an Australian cooper, whaler, publican, shipowner, alderman, mayor of Sydney and member of the New South Wales Parliament.
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Central Wharf. But with the exception of maintaining a handsome carriage and pair for his family, his unostentatiousness bordered on the primitive.
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rather rambling house in Argyle Street. It was always bright and clean .. At
Millers Point was King. He seems to have owned it all from the
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From about 1850 he was a shipping agent for vessels trading between Sydney, the
Pacific Islands and
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As the 1850s went his commercial interests began to shift to maritime activities and shipping.
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In July 1847 he applied for the license of the
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Crown Road in Miller's Point was renamed
Merriman Street in 1875.
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was lost at sea while engaged in the pearl shell fishery in
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Anne
Thompson, with whom he had five children, one of whom,
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parliamentarian & three times Lord Mayor of Sydney
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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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136:He was trading to the Pacific Islands by 1844.
637:"Sydney International Exhibition Commission"
587:New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007
523:"Ships' mails: loss of the James Merriman"
219:Sydney International Exhibition Commission
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86:cooper, publican, shipowner, civic leader
495:"Water Police Court: licensing business"
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328:"Raphael, Joseph George (1818–1879)"
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469:"Grafton Hotel license application"
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270:"Merriman, James (1816–1883)"
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666:Former members of the
612:"Wentworth Park Trust"
268:Abbott, G. J. (1974).
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215:Wentworth Park Trust
441:"Licensing meeting"
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62:13 May 1883
878:Categories
860:1877–1878
762:John Booth
500:The Empire
446:The Empire
255:References
248:Argyle Cut
194:Politician
126:Parramatta
78:Australian
736:0007-4039
385:"Exports"
356:1833-7538
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115:Biography
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