This is a follow-up list, not twelve lives in one paragraph. The bullets are an index of names that keep turning up on this blog: Phillip and Macquarie in the governors’ column; Richard Joness mansion on the south-west of Pitt near Hunter; Samuel Terry and Judge Therry as neighbours in the same street memory; Campbell’s Wharf; John Piper at Point Eliza, which is Point Piper once the nickname stuck; Cadman; Greenway and the buildings he signed; Simeon Lord; Mary Reibey (Haydock); James Underwood’s yard; Isaac Nichols, postmaster from 25 April 1809, office in his George Street house.
Treat “Famous Inns of Sin” as colour, not a licence history. The Hero of Waterloo is a real Millers Point pub; Brown Bear, Cat and Fiddle, Jolly Sailor and the rest need a Trove hit before they become essays. Morris Asher and the Rat Pit are a Rocks blood-sport footnote, not a founding story. Major Ross was appointed lieutenant-governor in October 1786 — of the settlement, not of a later state. Frederick Goulburn is often called the first Colonial Secretary in the modern office; don’t collapse every earlier secretary into him.
If a name already has a page — Campbell’s Wharf, Point Piper, Greenway, Cadman, the Hero — send the reader there. This post is the scrap of paper on the desk, not the book.
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