CURTIS Thomas Apprentice 1851 to John Tierney Draper Maitland
TIERNEY - Draper and Tailor last 6 years in business 1845
TIERNEY John- Publican 1858-67 Shamrock Inn Bourke St.side st off High Street Maitland
Shamrock Inn (site of later Grand Central Hotel 1888)
John Tierney built this single storey premises, following the Bourke street subdivision and sale in 1850. He operated a drapery business here in the early 1850’s, before opening the house in 1856 under the sign of SHAMROCK, to “attend to the outward as well as inward man.” MM 9/12/1856 (Bourke Street) Previously, Tierney operated a drapery business from the premises, a trade he returned to after the license lapsed in 1867?
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