wooloomooloo

[feesca1]

Hi there does anyone know where I can get information from what wooloomooloo Sydney was like to live  in the 1880s to 1893.

Thankyou

[majm]

Hi there,

A starting point perhaps : http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/woolloomooloo

Do you know the occupation of the person you are interested in?   Perhaps the person resided at Woolloomooloo but worked in the City or elsewhere? 

Have you tried the City of Sydney online resources including : 
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ArchivesWeb/scripts/home.asp
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/AboutSydney/HistoryAndArchives/Archives/ServicesForResearchers/AssessmentBooks00.asp

Have you tried the NSW State Library or the NSW State Records Office?

Here's the link to RChat's NSW Resources Board
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,369703.0.html

Cheers,  JM

[Deb D]

Don't know which half of the planet you're in ... but this might be worth a quick look; - Tony Robinson does a walk around the area in the Sydney episode

http://www.historychannel.com.au/tv-shows/show-details.aspx?id=1061

[feesca1]

Thanks everyone to the links to the websites.

[Billyblue]

It was probably not much different to how it was in the early 1900s, when it was a poor docklands area, and a had a long record of criminal activities - Tilly Devine et al.

Even when I was a child in Sydney in the 1940s and up till say 1950s it was not a place one would want to live, similarly Surry Hills behind Central Station area.  William Street was also known to be where prostitutes plied their trade.

In c1957, some friends and I were going to a function up in Kings Cross and arranged to meet another friend on a corner of William Street near Hyde Park.  When we got to her she was rather 'shook up' - the police had stopped and asked why she was there, and warned her not to tarry on that corner for long as the 'girl' who 'owned' it might scratch her eyes out!

Dawn M

[Deb D]

My mother and grandmother went to the wedding of Mum's best friend ... and Grandma was shocked to discover that said best friend's aunty was ...  ... Kate Leigh, Tilly Devine's arch-enemy!

[feesca1]

My goodness dosen't seem a nice area to live in.  My gg grandmother was living there and met her husband there before deciding to come back to Limerick where there parents were from origionally Limerick and just was wondering what life would of been like for them back then.

[Billyblue]

Probably fairly rough!
      

Dawn M