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| Previous Address | 137 was also known as 65 Chetwynd Street, Hotham before street renumbering. | Source: from the 1895 MMBW map |
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Land Details
- 1895 MMBW Map
- Compiled Crown Record Plan
Building Details
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Subsequent Building Alterations
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Heritage Significance and Listings
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The desireable Victorian heritage dwelling with its own private back yard garden that once existed on this site was demolished and replaced by a modern two storey townhouse. |
Owners
| From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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| to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
| Mr. A. Huggins, first Crown land purchaser | source: Hatcher Index | |||
| abt 40 thousand years earlier | 1835 | Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria | source: Hatcher Index |
Residents
| From | To | Resident | More Info | Data Source |
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| to date | Private | source Hatcher Index | ||
| 1920 | 1925 | Mrs. Una Upton | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
| 1910 | 1910 | William Johnston | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
| 1905 | 1905 | Robert Moyes | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
| 1900 | 1900 | Lewis Norris | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
| 1890 | 1894 | Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, nee Shea | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. |
Social History
The Shea and Perkins Family.
Elizabeth Perkins was born at Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland in 1823, daughter of Denis Shea and Anne Counihan.
Elizabeth arrived in Australia in 1855 on the brig Champion and four years later the 36-year-old married a 51-year-old widower named James Edward Perkins. He had been a successful baker and lived at 182 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. His first wife, Charlotte died the year before, leaving him with a ten-year-old daughter named Charlotte and six older adult children.
Elizabeth, James and Charlotte left CBD life and settled down at 214 Church Street Richmond, where Elizabeth gave birth to a son named Alfred Joseph Perkins in 1862.
Tragedy struck them when James Perkins died in 1872, aged 64.
In 1877 Elizabeth’s son and stepdaughter, Alfred and Charlotte left Richmond and settled in at 69 Chetwynd Street, Hotham. Around 1890, they moved into the house next door, at 65 Chetwynd Street, today know as number 137 Chetwynd Street, North Melbourne.
In 1883 her twenty-one-year-old son, Alfred Joseph Perkins married Alice Ethel Swifte. Alice was three years his senior, had been born in 1859 at Jericho Tasmania, daughter of Bernam Henry Nassau Swifte and Mary Bransgrove.
Alice Perkins gave birth to seven children, Keith, Edmund, Bernard, Eric, Colin, Marjory and Jocelyn Perkins.
Matriarch, Elizabeth Perkins passed away quietly at her home on Chetwynd Street in 1894 at the age of seventy.
Both original Victorian era homes at 137 and 139 have not survived. They’ve been replaced by a modern two storey townhouse and a four-storey block of serviced flats.
Researched by: Stephen Hatcher in 2022.
source: Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria
Context and Streetscape
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This property resides within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. |
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The controls listed below affect this property:
This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.
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Chetwynd Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, two churches, a school and two hotels known as the Queens Arms and the Star of Hotham. The Chetwynd streetscape today is characterised by a mix of multi-storey blocks of public flats, some modern commercial/industrial buildings, an ambulance depot, and a school. In 2021, only fifty of the original one hundred and twenty-nine Victorian heritage dwellings once found on this street remain, compared to the 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map. |
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