The purpose of this publication is to help researchers discover the names of the first publicans in the outer Sydney and suburban areas from 1849 through to 1875, by showing them listed with reliable sources. One problem that is apparent is that the hotel licenses were portable and could be located in a different street from year to year. There were even cases of two different hotels having the same name in the same year. Some publicans appear to have been licensed at more than one pub around the same time. Very confusing!
This CD is a follow on from Volume 1, which covered the 1788-1848 period, and contains names of pubs and publicans (and brewers) from the early settlement of New South Wales in the County of Cumberland, outside of the central business district of Sydney. Some entries may be in fact be situated in the CBD, such as ones listed as “Parramatta Road”. The following database includes all suburbs of Sydney including Parramatta, Windsor and Hawkesbury, Appin and Campbelltown, Penrith and Narellan, ALL mentions of Parramatta Road or Street, ALL mentions of Liverpool Road (but not Street), South Head Road (even when it states Sydney).
Produced as Excel files, the information is sorted by either pub name or by surname. The information you will find in these files are Surname, Christian Name/s, Licences, Hotel, Address, Date, and Source.
