Watsons Bay

Robin Derricourt

doi:10.5130/sj.v1i2.800

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v1i2.800

Keywords:

Watsons Bay, Local history, cultural history, Australian history

Robin Derricourt

Abstract

In March 1791 Elizabeth Macarthur described her visit as an early tourist to what would later be called Watsons Bay: ‘We passed the day in walking among the Rocks, and upon the sands very agreeable.’ There were no longer the Aboriginal people found there three years earlier, but she recorded the presence of ‘a few huts’ for the crew despatched by the authorities to man a lookout post and flagpole at the adjacent South Head, to signal arriving ships. Fifty-six years later, in 1847, she was back in Watsons Bay, staying in one of the area’s grand ‘marine villas’, Clovelly (where she eventually died), owned by her nephew Hannibal (and later by two state premiers). Around these fine houses were spread the homes of fishermen, tradesmen, pilots and their crews.

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Vol 1 No 2 (2008)

Section

Sydney's Suburbs

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Robin Derricourt

Robin Derricourt is a Sydney writer and publisher

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