Thought some of this may be useful if you think Elizabeth
WHITE has a connection with the
TOOHEY family.
A births registered to Matthew and Honora in Vic have the surname
TUOHY. The transcriptions of the baptisms also
TUOHY.
Electoral Roll 1856 Victoria
TOOHEY Matthew Clarendon Street, licensed victualler Qualification-householder [note: not leaseholder or freehold]
Sands & Kenny Directory
1857, 1858, 1859, 1860
Great Britain Hotel, Hill, Richard Evans 109 Flinders Street west.
1861, 1865
Great Britain Hotel, McGowan, James 109 Flinders Street west. [News item 5 Sep 1860 of licence transfer spells name McGARRAN]
1858, 1860, 1861
TOOHEY Matthew Limerick Arms Hotel, Clarendon & Park Streets, Emerald Hill [Hotel of the same name still at this address today however earlier photos which appear to taken either late 19thC or early 20thC, show it to be two stories, today it is today three]
1865
Great Britain Hotel, M Toohey, Clarendon & Napier Street, Emerald Hill.
[This hotel was mentioned in 1862 in a news item with landlord William John
COXON - not everyone paid to have entries in the directories]
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/toohey-james-matthew-4943John Thomas Toohey (1839-1903) and James Matthew Toohey (1850-1895), brewers, were the sons of Matthew Toohey (d.1892), businessman, and his wife Honora (d.1878), née Hall. John Thomas was born on 26 April 1839 at Limerick, Ireland, and was taken to Melbourne by his parents in 1841. His father bought town lots and settled many Irish families in Victoria. One of the founders of the St Patrick's Society in Melbourne, he was a political ally of (Sir) John O'Shanassy and (Sir) Charles Gavan Duffy. In the 1860s he was forced to sell at a loss; in 1866 he went to New South Wales and lived in virtual retirement. Slightly different to the info about Matthew, posted by Neil....so Matthew
TOOHEY didn't establish the Limerick Arms Hotel he leased it.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qbc/Argus 8 Apr 1861
LAW REPORT - SUPREME COURTMr. Fellows, on behalf of James O'Brien, owner of the Limerick Arms, moved for the writ of certiorari. Mr. Higinbotham, on behalf of the magistrates above-mentioned, appeared to oppose the issue of the writ.......
The facts appeared to bo these:-Jame O'Brien, the owner of the Limerick Arms Hotel, Emerald Hill, on the 25th March, 1858, granted a lease of the premises to Matthew Toohey, of Emerald Hill, licensed victualler, for three years, from the 4th of March, 1858; under covenants, among other things, to uphold the licence, and also not transfer it to any other person without the lessor's consent in writing. On the 5th of March, 1861, O'Brien applied to the benoh of magistrates at a special quarterly licensing meeting for a publican's goneral licence to himself for the Limerick Arms Hotel. His application was postponed for a month, for him to put the premises in proper repair. They had fallen out of repair during Toohey's term. On the same 5th of March
Matthew Toohey applied to the same bench of magistrates for a publican's generaI licence for a new house, in Clarendon-street, not before licensed, which he proposed to open himself, and keep as an hotel, under the name of the Limerick Castle. Tho application was opposed by O'Brien, and was refused.
Argus 23 Jul 1866
POLICE COURT
SANDRIDGE
The licence of the Great Britain Hotel was transferred from Mr, Matthew Toohey to Mr. Edward Wootton ;
Arrrggghhhhh.....after all that research just found this AND to throw a big spanner in the works - Great Britain Hotel at Williamstown not 'Melbourne'
Need a smiley for 'frustration'
Argus 4 Jul 1866
WILLIAMSTOWNThe application for a transfer of the Great Britain Hotel from Henry Mackinnon to
Norah Morley was postponed for fourteen days.
Argus Thursday 21 Feb 1867
WILLIAMSTOWNJoseph Cruikshahk Was charged with stealing two bottles of gin and a bottle of porter from the Great Britain Hotel on Sunday forenoon. The larceny wvas proved by the
landlady of the house, who saw the prisoner go into the pantry and carry the bottles away. Ile yvas ordered to be locked up for forty I eight hours.-
Could this be the aunt who owned the Great Britain Hotel in "Melbourne"?
Cheers
Cando
