Merriman, James Henry

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Unique IDPE-001712SurnameMerrimanGiven namesJames HenryBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1883-1927Biographical noteBiographical details:
Employed by the City for 44 years.
Grandson of James Merriman, Alderman 1867-1883 & Mayor 1873, 1877-1878; nephew of George Merriman, City Solicitor, 1880-1893

NSW BDMs Registry: Death MERRIMAN JAMES H 19324/1927 [parents] WILLIAM J & EMMA M registered at NORTH SYDNEY

Board of Technical Education Examination Results: Architecture: [ref: SMH 29 January 1887 p16]; Board of Technical Education, Technological Certificates, carpentry and joining: [ref: SMH 10 April 1888 p5]

Death Notices and obituaries: [ref: SMH 1 December 1927 p10]; [ref: SMH 1 December p16]; [ref: SMH 2 December 1927]; [ref: SMH 7 December 1927 p13]; [ref: The Labor Daily 1 December 1927 p 1]

Details from contemporary sources:
1883 Mayor's appointment articled pupil - July - Sapsford expresses satisfaction with performance - October [ref: 21/16/100 [699]]
1883 City Solicitor to prepare articles of apprenticeship - October [ref: 877/2/066-1]
1884 £40 pa - Salary Schedule 1884 [ref: 21/16/123 [891]]
1885 Salaries of Officers 1885 [ref: 22/29/11(b)]
1885 £60 pa - List of Officers & Servants - position, salary, duties - ordered by Council 9 September 1885 [ref: 30/001/094]
1886 Salaries of Officers 1886 [ref: 22/31/6(e)]
1887 Request 6 weeks’ leave - illness - granted, January [ref: 26/217/073]
1888 Schedule of Salaries 1887-88 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/35/5(b)]
1888 To be appointed Draftsman - 14 August 1888 [ref: 22/36/12]
1889 £150 pa - Salaries of Officers for 1889 - 4th Draftsman [ref: SMH 13 December 1888 p7]
1889 Given one months’ notice from 1 May [ref: 26/234/713]
1891 Draftsman - £3/10/-week - Temporary appointment for 4 weeks - August [ref: 26/252/1614]
1892 Draftsman - £3/15/-week - Temporary appointment for 4 weeks - January - plans, drawings for Town Hall works [ref: 26/255/179]
1893 Requests a salary increase - October - recommended by City Architect McRae [ref: 26/269/1813]
1894 Request 1 months leave - long hours, much overtime, half unpaid - additional mental anxiety - October - recommended by McRae - agreed [ref: 26/276/1632]
1895 £3/15/- per week - Report on Salaries of Employees [ref: 22/48/22½ (g)]
1895 Request permanent appointment - December - 4 years as Temporary- 11 years Staff - reappointment 1891 [ref: 26/282/1539]
1896 Request increase - 11 years’ service - April [ref: 26/285/642]
1897 Finance Committee recommends appointment as architect and draftsman, December [ref: 22/53/36]
1898 Leave of absence - much work - approved - December [ref: 26/314/3011]
1898 £195 pa - Return of Officers and Servants, January 1898, by the Town Clerk [ref: 22/55/1]
1898 £195 pa - Recommendations on working of Corporation Departments - Partial return of employees at July 1898 [ref: 22/55/1]
1899 Request leave of absence - December [ref: 26/314/3011]
1899 Payments - Phippard Case Arbitrator - extra remuneration [ref: 21/21/23 [325]]
1900-1927 Plans of Pyrmont Power Station 1900-1927 [ref: CRS 342]
1903 Recommended to be Acting City Architect & City Building Surveyor while Brodrick is on leave, August [ref: 1903/1696]
1918 Acting City Architect and City Building Surveyor - memo 23 July 1918 [ref: 2595/18]
1927 Deputy City Architect & City Building Surveyor - Died 30 November 1927 [ref: SMH 1 December 1927]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-003068

Relationships

CollectionPeople and PositionsOrganisationSydney City CouncilPositionCity Architect [multiple departments]Draftsman [multiple departments]Articled Pupil [City Architect and Building Surveyor's Department I]City Building Surveyor [multiple departments]Deputy City Architect & Building Surveyor [City Architect and Building Surveyor's Department I]Articled Pupil [City Architect]Related itemsReport of the Mayor, John Hardie, on temporary promotions in the City Treasurer's Department Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1885Officers & Servants of the Sydney Corporation [names, positions, salaries, duties]Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1886Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1888Memorandum: John Harris, Mayor, to TC. Inform Messrs Wilkinson, Beattie, Merriman, Seymour, draftsmen in Report of the Committee appointed to Inquire into and report upon staff salaries and wages, 1895Finance Committee Report - Re adoption of Report of Committee of Inquiry (re fraud)

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Merriman, James Henry