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MINDING
Her Own
BUSINESS

C ATHERINE B ISHOP is an experienced historian with a PhD in Australian history. Born in New Zealand, she lived in the UK before moving to Sydney nearly twenty years ago. Catherine has worked as a maths teacher, bookseller, school assistant and is now a historian at Australian Catholic University and the University of Sydney. She has published a number of articles for both academic and general audiences and has won the ANU Gender Institute PhD Thesis Award and the Australian Historical Association Ken Inglis Prize. This is her first book.

COVER IMAGE S.T. Gill sketched this view of George Street from the corner of King Street, looking south towards Market Street, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In the 1850s this block was home to Elizabeth Irwins wireworking business, Mrs Sparks Royal Hotel and Mrs Keanes straw bonnet and millinery warehouse. In 1863 Mrs E. Way opened her first shop next to Ashdowns Ironmongers on the corner. Pastrycook Catherine Meredith was also here in 1863. In the 1870s, Mrs Sarah Wises fruit shop was in this block and Madame Courvoisier had taken over the licence of the Hotel de France from her husband, Alphonse. Just on the other side of King Street was Madame Ponders well-known millinery shop, trading throughout the 1850s and 1860s, while beyond Market Street was Elizabeth Coates glass and earthenware warehouse, in business during the 1860s, opposite the markets themselves, where Madame Laroche sold millinery and numerous other women had stalls.

MINDING
Her Own
BUSINESS

Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney

CATHERINE BISHOP

A NewSouth book

Published by

NewSouth Publishing

University of New South Wales Press Ltd

University of New South Wales

Sydney NSW 2052

AUSTRALIA

newsouthpublishing.com

Catherine Bishop 2015

First published 2015

This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher.

National Library of Australia

Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Author: Bishop, Catherine author.

Title: Minding her own business: Colonial businesswomen in Sydney/ Catherine Bishop.

ISBN: 9781742234328 (paperback)

9781742247465 (ePDF)

9781742242149 (ebook)

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Businesswomen Australia History 19th century.

Women-owned business enterprises Australia History 19th century.

Small business Australia History 19th century

Women Social conditions 19th century

Nineteen hundreds (Decade)

Dewey Number: 647.940994

Cover images TOP

George Street from the corner of King Street, sketched by S.T. Gill.

National Library of Australia, an7537492-v;

LEFT 1800s woman iStock.com/JonnyJim

Cover images BOTTOM

TOP LEFT tied beef iStock.com/nicoolay;

TOP RIGHT sewing machine iStock.com/ivan-96;

BOTTOM LEFT bonnet iStock.com/Nancy Nehring;

BOTTOM RIGHT beer iStock.com/Quality-illustrations

Cover design Nada Backovic

All reasonable efforts were taken to obtain permission to use copyright material reproduced in this book, but in some cases copyright could not be traced. The author welcomes information in this regard.

For Kate and Beth and in memory of Susan

Contents

SYDNEY NORTH MAP

1	Catherine Brown, Hero of Waterloo Hotel
2	Madame Sibley, phrenologist
3	Catherine Brown, Marine (now Orient) Hotel
4	Mary Ann Fisk, school
5	Rosetta Terry, businesswoman and publican, Kings Head Inn (now Wine Odyssey)
6	Catherine Brown, Paragon Hotel
7	Ann Staddon, Sarah and Ellen Price, confectioners
8	Sarah Adnum, ironmonger; Jane Hudson (nee Kirkwood), combmaker
9	Mary Ann Street, jeweller (11 Hunter Street then Lower George Street)
10	Margaret Doak and Rebecca Kerr, Madame Minnie Beattie, Misses Flower, dressmakers; Mary Ann Silver, school; Mrs Sacleir, ladies school
11	Elizabeth May, baby linen warehouse
12	Elizabeth Cummins, Lemon Tree Hotel; Margaret Doak and Rebecca Kerr, dressmakers
13	Amelia Eagland, staymaker
14	Hannah Henderson, Clarence Inn
15	Elizabeth Raine, Matilda Fulloon, Eliza Garnsey, school
16	Horbury Terrace: Frances and Theresa White, boarding-house
17	Charlotte Dick, jeweller; Ann Spiers, milliner
18	Eliza Hudson, music seller
19	Henrietta Dubost and Margaret Potts, ladies school; Misses de Metz, ladies school; Elizabeth Beer, phrenologist
20	Mary Ann Burdekin, businesswoman, Burdekin House on Macquarie Street; Mrs McCullagh, pomade manufacturer, Phillip Street
21	Madame Josephine Ponder (later Durand), milliner
22	Marianne Pawsey, servants registry office; Sarah Waples, boarding house; Mary Ann Nicols, Brougham Tavern
23	Eliza Capps, servants registry office; Margaret Smith, Prince Imperial Hotel
24	Mary Theresa Polly Smith, Prince Imperial Hotel; King Street East: Phebe Hayman, milliner; Ann Hordern, staymaker
25	Jane Kirkwood, milliner, later Jane Hudson, comb maker
26	Emma Palmer, Liverpool Arms; Harriet Rubsamen, Louisa Cagnie, Jane Steer, Elephant and Castle
27	Eliza Capps, servants registry office
28	Harry and Polly (nee Smith) Roberts, Shakespeare Hotel and Caf
29	Hyde Park Barracks Female Immigration Depot: Eliza Capps, matron
30	Mary Sylvester, salt manufactory
31	Elizabeth Irwin, wireworker and tobacconist; White Horse Tavern: Blessington Floods Registry Office

City of Sydney Archives Historical Atlas of Sydney

SYDNEY SOUTH MAP

1	Margaret Doak and Rebecca Kerr, dressmakers; Madame Ellen Sohier, waxworks
2	Caroline Farmer, Farmer & Co. founder; Emily Way, E. Way & Co. founder; Mary Ann Robson (nee Rossiter), milliner
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