Hurcombe, Alfred

Description
Unique IDPE-002654SurnameHurcombeGiven namesAlfredBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1878-1898Biographical noteBiographical details:
NSWBDMs Registry: Death HURCOMBE ALFRED 11108/1914 [parents, no mother stated] JESSE & NOT STATED registered at GRANVILLE

Death Notice: HURCOMBE - July 2, 1914, Alfred Hurcombe, late of 162 Bourke-street, Darlinghurst, aged 81 years, for many years an employee of the City Council. [ref: SMH 3 July 1914 p8]

Funeral Notices: [ref: SMH 4 July p17]

Details from contemporary sources:
1878 8½d hour - List, Clerk of Works, Smithers - May [ref: 26/151/464]
1879 Request either pay or work on Public Holidays, work where practicable - January [ref: 26/155/070]
1895 Under Lee, City Works - 7/- per day - Report on Salaries of Employees [ref: 22/48/22½ (e)]
1898 7/- per day - Return of Officers and Servants, January 1898, by the Town Clerk [ref: 22/55/1]
1900 Unfit - transferred to road metal raking - Aug [ref: 3169/1900]
1902 Application for sick pay - age 68 - employed 24 years - half pay granted [ref: 1902/2663]
1903 Read & Hurcombe, underground urinal attendants, being used to sweep streets [ref: 1903/1110]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-002125




Relationships
CollectionPeople and PositionsOrganisationSydney City CouncilPositionAttendant [City Surveyor's Department]Labourer [City Surveyor's Department]Metal Raker [City Surveyor's Department]Related itemsMemorandum: List of Carters and Labourers superintended by Mr Smithers, Clerk of WorksPetition: By labourers employed by the Council for payment of public holidaysReport 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)3169/19001902/26631903/1110
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