Nineteen year old Charles Stephen Seabrook died at Ravenswood, Tough Street, Hawthorn on 3rd February 1894.
A quick search on google maps reveals no such street. So obviously its name has been changed. Now what! A google search reveals a soldier with a Tough Street address enlisting in March 1915. So either the name was still in existence in 1915 or locals still used the old name.
I have now emailed the Hawthorn Historical Society in the hope that they can assist. Or can anyone else make a suggestion of where to from here?
I had a look in the Melbourne Street Directory for 1920(http://www.gould.com.au/Melbourne-Street-Directory-1920-Morgan-p/au7034.htm), and it's listed there, but not in the 1936 edition. There is a map of Hawthorn in the 1920 edition, but either it's not on the map, or it's one of the small streets.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alona for looking this up for me. I wonder if someone significant visited Melbourne between 1920 and 1936 and the street name was changed in their honour.
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