Corner of High and Market Streets
Lot 416 was first purchased in 1832 by [[../people/duffield.html|John Hole Duffield]] for his son Charles. According to City Library records (see references) he continued to own it until the record runs out in 1879, and that M. Higham (Mary?) owned half of the lot from 1876. Charles and his elder brother, another John Hole Duffield, built their first shop on the site - a general store. Charles left for South Australia in 1867. By 1868 the shop was occupied by [[../people/josephson.html|Abraham Moise Josephson]]. The National Bank, first bank in Fremantle, was on the eastern portion of the Lot in the 1860s. It is that which gave the later hotel its name, when the [[../people/higham.html|Highams]] came to own it in 1886.
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Probably the earliest photo of Lot 416 (on the corner, right) – by Stephen Stout, c. 1865, SLWA. The crossing street in the foreground (right) might be Market Street. If it is, that is [[../people/josephson.html|Josephson]]'s shop at the right. It's even possible that is Abraham Josephson standing outside it.
References and Links
Fremantle History Centre. Look for the PDFs called:
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1829-1837
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1855-1879
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/416.html (it was last updated on 10 November, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.