Unique IDPE-000333SurnameTunksGiven namesWilliamBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1846-1858Biographical noteBiographical details:
Contractor for supply of blue metal stone to Council and Commissioners from 1846-1858
Involved in development of cricket in NSW [ref: https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/about/history]
Member of the Legislative Assembly of NSW 7 December 1864 - 28 November 1874 [ref: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=441]
First Mayor of Borough of St Leonards - served as Mayor 1867-1883
Died April 1883 – obituary [ref: Evening News 13 April 1883 p3]
Monument to Tunks located at Falcon & Miller Streets, St Leonards Park, North Sydney, 2060 [ref: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/government---colonial/display/22633-william-tunks]
His Grandfather was William Tunks, First Fleeter, who arrived in NSW as a marine on HMS Sirius
Family History sites: Tunks Descendants Association [ref: http://www.tunksaustralia1788.com.au/]
and [ref: https://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I66904&ged=purnellmccord.ged]
Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: William Tunks - papers, 1868 - 1880, 1837 (MLMSS 3011)
Details from contemporary sources:
1846 Complains of irregular payments by the Corporation for road metal - Meeting 17 August [ref: 7/3/155]
1851 Tender for supply of blue road metal, sureties James Pye and Samuel Ogden - meeting 10 February [ref: 7/5/290]
1851 Commissioners offer £300 pa to be Supervisor at Pennant Hills - to find his own house - meeting April 1854 [ref: 7/7/1854]
1854 Appointed 10 May 1854 at £300 pa [ref: City Commissioners' Meeting 10 January 18540]
1854 Return appointments & dismissals to Colonial Secretary - appointed 10 May [ref: City Commissioners' Meeting 19 December 1854]
1854 Weekly payments to Tunks for Quarrymen's wages at Pennant Hills - May 1854 to January 1855 [ref: Council Meetings]
1855 Colonial Secretary advises that Council's letter re Tunks's occupancy of Pennant Hills Quarry has been referred to the Secretary for Lands & Public Works - March [ref: 25/9/099]
1855 Sureties J Lord and James Pasfield offered for his contract to supply blue stone metal - March [ref: 26/15/303]
1856 Offer to supply 100 tons of Pennant Hills blue metal at 17/- per ton [ref: 26/23/460]
1857 Contract for supply of blue metal - Bond £200 - March [ref: 65/0030]
1857 Tunks supplies surety for George Gilbert, Assistant Building Surveyor, for £500 - September [ref: 65/0035]
1857 Tunks threatens legal action if his account for £1027 , certified correct by Council officers, is not soon paid - passed for payment December [ref: 26/32/665]
1858 Letter from Tunks requesting leave for Gilbert, District Building Surveyor, to play cricket match in Melbourne - NSW v Victoria - January [ref: 26/33/0010]
1858 Colonial Secretary advises that Secretary for Lands & Public Works has advised Tunks that his permission to take stone from Pennant Hills Quarry will end on 17 July [ref: 25/9/116]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-004452
