Kerrigan’s Hotel, Zeehan

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1890-1900 James Kerrigan, Kerrigan’s Hotel, Zeehan

We were shown the plans of Mr. James Kerrigan’s new hotel now being erected here. When finished the building will be an ornament to the town and district, and much in advance of any structure of its kind on the field. It will present an ornate front after the Queen Anne style of architecture, and contain 30 lofty and commo-dious rooms. It is anticipated that sufficient headway will be made with the work by the 3rd proximo to justify the Licensing Bench in granting Mr. Kerrigan his license on that day. When finished, the new hotel will resemble Lee’s Park Hotel at Launceston. Mr. A. Manser, of this place, executed the plans, and, Mr. J. Taylor, of Launceston, has the building contract.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 14 October 1890

NOTICE
I, James Kerrigan, of Mount Zeehan, in Tasmania, Gentleman, hereby give notice that I did on the twenty-fifth day of October, now last past, deposit with the Clerk of the Peace at Stratum, in’ Tasmania, a notice of my intention to apply at the next Annual Meeting of the Licensing Bead), to be holden at Strahan afore said, for the district of Macquarie, for a Justices’ Certificate approving of my receiving a Public-house License in respect of the house situate at Mount Zeehan aforesaid, and intended to be known by the sign of ‘Kerrigan’s Hotel,’ which: I intend to keep as a Public-house. And I further give notice that I did on the same day deposit with, the said Clerk of the Peace complete plans of such house, showing exactly the site of the house and the boundaries of the land to be occupied therewith, and the situation of the front door of such house. Dated this fourth day of November, 1890.
JAMES KERRIGAN.
XD, 12 November 1890

List of license granted November 1890
Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 28 November 1890

One of the oldest established hotels of Zeehan is Kerrigan’s Hotel, directly opposite the A.M.A. Hall, in Main street. Being within easy reach of the Post Office and principal business places, it is most conveniently situated for travellers and visitors. Attached to the hotel is a first-class billiard room, with splendid table. The very best brands of wines and spirits are kept on the premises.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 9 December 1898

A Popular Hotel.
In another part of this issue Mr. D. J. O’Keefe, favorably known for so many years as a journalist on the West Coast, notifies that he has taken over the popular hostelry known as ”Kerrigan’s Hotel,’ which has been conducted in such exemplary manner by Mr James Kerrigan since the earliest days of the Zeehan field. The new proprietors side and special knowledge on all matters relating to mining and sporting should ensure him a fair share of patronage in his new rule, and as he intends to do his utmost to maintain the good name that “Kerrigan’s Hotel” has borne for the last ten years he should not fail to secure the support of the public.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 19 March 1900

DISASTROUS FIRE
Damage at Zeehan Worst in History
Eight Buildings Gone
The most disastrous fire that has ever occurred in Zeehan broke out in Kerrigan’s Hotel yesterday at 10.15 a.m., and the hotel and the old “Zeehan and Dundas Herald” offices were completely destroyed. By superhuman efforts on the part of many willing helpers, Brumby’s old auction mart and Mr. D. Nicholas’s butcher shop, although considerably damaged, were saved.
On the opposite side of the street the intense heat, aided by a strong northerly breeze, caused the old A.N.A. Hall and buildings to catch. The flames then quickly spread along that side of Main Street, demolishing Mr. J. A. Duff’s tobacconist shop, two empty shops owned by the Zeehan Investment Co.; the Returned Soldiers’ Hall and offices (one of which was occupied by Mr. W. G. Pybus, “The Mercury” representative, and Registrar of Pensions), the office of Mr. A. J. Spotswood, and Mr. R. W. Sansum’s boot shop.
The fire was here checked by a vacant block, where once stood the old Victoria Hotel, otherwise the conflagration would have continued down the street to the Central Hotel. The offices occupied by Mr. Spotswood were owned by Mr. C. E. Brown, of Ulverstone, and Mr. Sansuni’s shop by Mr. J. G. Duncan, of Launceston. Owing to the fire starting at the top of Kerrigan’s Hotel most of the contents of the hotel were saved. The linotype machine and other printing machinery In the “Herald” building could not be shifted.
The Mercury, 10 July 1931

1899 Zeehan & surrounds

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Zeehan
F. H. Furner, Grand Hotel
John Lawler, Palace Hotel
James Kerrigan, Kerrigan’s Hotel
M. MacLennan, Royal Exchange
D. MacLennan, Caledonian
A. T. Anderson, Commercial
James Bashfield, Federal
Lewis Sweet, Railway
T. Buckley, Royal
A. J. Dolan, Club
W. Teniswood, Shelverston
A, Perkins, Victoria
Annie Donovan, Exchange
D. Sullivan, All Nations
H. E. Kittson, Zeehan Hotel

Other locations
J. Thurston, Miners’ Arms, Dundas
J. Fitzgerald, Leslie Junction
A. Morrison, Smelters’ Arms, Argenton
James Paice, Mount Read Hotel, Mount Read
R. Hart, Union Hotel. Ringville
W. Hocking, Hercules
Felix Burns, Terminus, Williamsford.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 4 December 1899

George Inn (1)

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St John Street, eastern side between William Street and Cimitiere St (see bottom)

Previously in George Town
1835 John Gardiner Thomas, George Inn, Launceston
1836-39 John Gardiner Thomas, George Inn, St John Street
1840 John Gardiner Thomas, George & the Dragon, Launceston

Moved to Wellington Street but I’m not sure when it moved. At the annual licensing meeting in
1839 it is in St John Street. On 6 February 1841 (see first advertisement below) it is in Wellington St.

Became Temperance Coffee House

Cornwall Chronicle, 30 September 1837
 (So far this is the earliest mention of St John Street as the location)


Part of much longer advertisement for “Land Premises Situate in St. John-street, between Messrs. Hewitt, Gore & Co., and Messrs. Smith, Raven, & Co’s. Stores, the whole being divided into four lots, as now let to the respective tenants.
Cornwall Chronicle, 13 October 1838

AN IMPROVEMENT. – A public-house near the wharf, known as the George and Dragon, has been converted into a Temperance Coffee-house, and is, we understand, conducted in a very respectable manner by Mr. Stoneham. This will be a very gratifying token of improvement to all advocates of temperance.
Launceston Advertiser, 21 January 1841

Location notes


This is from Smythe’s map of 1835. The street marked with a dotted line is St John Street, near the wharf.  The two buildings on the corner of William Street were, at the time, Ship Inn  and Sailor’s Return. (The 1838 advertisement above details adjoining buildings & an 1852 advertisement put Connolly & Co (formerly Hewitt, Gore & Co) on the corner of Cimitiere Street.) The most likely position is in the group of buildings between Cimitiere & William Streets,

On George Fuller’s map, he places it part way along this block, with the note “Captain John Gardiner Thomas in the thirties, this was before the kept the “George Inn”-it was situated north end of row two story weather board buildings, Mr Ritchies mill is on part same site.”. The Ritchies Mill building is here (brick building with cream trim).

1899 Launceston

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LAUNCESTON.
Original Licenses.
John Archer, T.R.C. Hotel.
Alexander Bennett, Royal Tasman Hotel.
Harry B. Bowen, Mart Hotel.
William Douglas Burns, Tamar Hotel.
Edward James Buller, Esplanade Hotel.
George Cooper, Criterion Hotel.
Michael James Corcoran, Exchange Hotel.
Margaret Davis, Sydney Hotel.
Margaret Dynan, Steam Packet Hotel.
John Morris Davis, Ship Hotel.
John L. Doolan, Star Hotel.
Charles F. Dunne, Sportsman Hall Hotel.
Alexander Dawson, British Hotel.
Robert Earl, Marine Hotel.
Charles Fawkner, Royal Oak Hotel.
Ernest A. Fawkner, Centennial Hotel.
Annie J. Huston, Launceston Hotel.
Henry H. Hay, Elephant and Castle Hotel.
John William Holloway, Globe Hotel.
Robert Henry Jones, Duke of Wellington Hotel.
William Brown Jorey, jun., Crown Hotel.
Walter David Johnson, Jubilee Hotel.
William Kirkwood, Park Hotel.
William John Killalea, Central Hotel.
Elizabeth J. Lawler, Victoria Hotel.
Margaret Mullane, Caledonian Hotel.
Patrick Murphy, Tynan’s Hotel.
Thomas Morton, Cornwall Hotel.
Annie M’Masters, Main Line Hotel.
Thomas James O’Byrne, City Hotel.
Mary O’Farrell, Commercial Hotel.
Edward H. Panton, Enfleld Hotel.
Francis Mary Powell, Court House Hotel.
Robert Smille, River View Hotel.
John Tynan, Terminus Hotel.
Mary West (in place of James West, deceased), Fire Brigade Hotel.
Hugh George Webb, Shakespeare Hotel.
Andrew W. White, Bath Arms.
Emma Walters, Prince of Wales Hotel.

New Applicants for Houses Previously Licensed;
Robert John Brooks, Coach and Horses Hotel.
Francois Murlus Cognet, Brisbane Hotel.
Annie M’Gregor, All the Year Round Hotel.
Owen Wright, Volunteer Hotel.

Packet Licenses.
James Alexander Bain, steamship Centennial.
Alexander Bannerman James Irvine; steamship Wareatea.

For License to Sell at a Railway Station.
Annie Corcoran, refreshment rooms, Launceston and Western and Main Line railways.

Launceston Examiner, 2 December 1899

Black Horse (1) [Tailor’s Arms, Hand & Shears]

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York & St John Street

1834 William Woods, Black Horse, Launceston

TO BE LET,
THOSE eligible Premises at the corner of York and St. John Streets, now in the occupation of Mr. John Furlong.
The Premises consist of a House containing seven Rooms, and a good Loft of 40 feet long, well calculated either for a comfortable Private Residence, or for a public House. For further particulars apply to the proprietor, on the premises.
JOHN FURLONG.
Cornwall Chronicle, 8 August 1835

The Independent, 19 July 1834

To be Let.
With immediate Possession, that well known Public House, the “Black Horse,” at the corner of York and St John Streets, lately occupied by William Woods. The House is in tenantable repair, and contains seven rooms, with a store above 40 feet long. There is a large Yard, Stable and Skittle Ground, with a good Garden, well stocked with Fruit Trees, &c. Rent moderate to a respectable tenant.
Apply to Mr. John Furlong, corner of, Elizabeth and Wellington Streets, or at this Office.

John Furlong seems associated with a number of public houses that don’t seem to exist outside of one notice/advertisement

TAILOR’S ARMS

1835 John Furlong, Tailor’s Arms, Launceston


Cornwall Chronicle, 28 November 1835

HAND AND SHEARS


TO BE LET,
Furnished or Unfurnished,
THAT well-known house, situate at the corner of York and St. John-streets, lately occupied as a Public House, by the sign of the HAND and SHEARS, containing 7 large and commodious rooms, with yard adjoining. The situation is so well known, either for public or private business, that comment is unnecessary.
The fixtures, which are of the best description for the Public Line, may be had at a valuation. Apply lo Mr. John Furlong, on the premises.
Launceston Advertiser, 10 November 1836

Queen’s Head (1)

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Wellington & Elizabeth Streets
(John Ashton, previously associated with the King’s Arms at the same intersection owned land on the NW corner, later the site of George Inn. Presumably these premises are all at the same location)

38-39 John Ashton, Queen’s Head, Wellington & Elizabeth Streets
1839-40 Frederick Myers, Wellington & Elizabeth Streets

Launceston Advertiser, 8 August 1839


NOTICE.
At a quarterly meeting of Justices held at Launceston, on Monday, the ?th day of August, the following Transfer of Licence to retail fines and Spirits was allowed :–
Thomas Archer to Charles Grant, “The Plough,” Charles-street, Launceston.
And on Friday, the 9th of August, the following Transfers were approved of.–
John Ashton to Frederick Meyers, ‘”The Queen’s Head,” the comer of Wellington and Elizabeth-streets, Launceston.
Henry Stephens to John Auchey, ‘The Wattle Tree,”‘ the corner of Wellington and Elizabeth-streets, Launceston.
Dated this 12th day of August, 1839.
M. KENNEDY,
Clerk of the Peace.
Cornwall Chronicle, 24 August 1839

F. Meyers, Queen’s Head; Major Wentworth objected to a license being granted to Mr. Meyers, on account of his opposition to the police in the execution of their duly upon several occasion— application refused.
Launceston Advertiser, 3 September 1840

Launceston Advertiser, 17 September 1840

Sawyer’s Arms (1)

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Cameron Street

(Incomplete)

The Colonist, 20 May 1834
The Colonist, 20 May 1834

[Antonio Martini] By 1823 he had received his ticket-of-leave and moved to Launceston. The same year he bought a town allotment in Tamar Street and three years later purchased adjoining land. In 1825 he received his certificate of freedom and built two dwellings on his land. One structure, a two-storey wooden building with verandah and balcony, was to become known as Martini’s Corner. About 1828 he rented this building to B Smythe, who conducted his Cornwall Collegiate Institution there until 1834, when Martini converted the building to a hotel, calling it the Sawyer’s Arms. He was the licensee until 1843.

About 1832 he started a timber business in partnership with William Burke: in 1833 Martini was listed as a sawyer in Launceston. In 1833 he married Mary O’Mara, who had arrived in Hobart on the Norval in 1830. They had a son, born in 1834, and a daughter, born in 1836. Mary died on 18 June 1836, soon after the birth of her daughter. In 1838 Martini constructed a wooden building in Cameron Street, next to his hotel on the corner of Tamar and Cameron streets, to serve as the first dedicated place of worship for the Catholics of Launceston. It was the Catholic Chapel from 1838 to 1842, when St Joseph’s was opened in Margaret Street. He built a brick hotel on the corner of Brisbane and Tamar streets in 1844. Later named the Royal Oak, it was leased by the Martini family to a succession of publicans until the 1950s when it passed out of the Martini family ownership. Antonio Martini died at his home in Tamar Street on 6 March 1867, aged eighty-seven years.
Launceston Historical Society Inc, Newsletter No 104, October 2007, p. 6 (pdf)