Hi Tanja James Bloodworth was the colony's first brickmaker and also bricklayer appointed by Gov Phillip. A convict on the First Fleet Phillip pardoned him in 1790 for his efforts in making bricks & designing & building the first Government House in what is now Bridge St.Outside the Museum of Sydney is a viewing trench showing the foundations of the first Government House as well as a brick lined drain which James would have built from bricks he would have made at the kilns which were I think called Brickfield Hill, past Annadale towards Ashfield. He "married" another convict, Sarah Bellamy in 1790 but he made no secret of the fact he already had a wife back in England. He died in 1804. Well worth a read is "A Commonwealth of Thieves" by Thomas Keneally. Eric