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James McDermott
Hitchcock:
On August 8, 1834, Captain James McDermott, one of Fremantle's first merchants and landowners, was drowned when his vessel, the Cumberland, was wrecked in Mangle's Bay. Captain McDermott, an Englishman of Irish descent, was an officer of the East India Company until 1829, when he arrived in Fremantle in his own vessel. He established a business on Marine Terrace between Henry Street and Collie Street. Later the premises were acquired by the Government and used as Fremantle's first Customs House. A wooden residence for the Collector was added to the original buildings. Hitchcock 1929: 23.
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Fremantle's first official customs house between Henry and Collie Streets, in Marine Terrace, where Leonard Worsely Clifton (1830-1895) was Collector of Customs 1862-1891. (Image from Dowson 2003: 184.)
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