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Felton,Maurice Appelbee
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Unique IDPE-000052Pre-nominal honorificsMrSurnameFeltonGiven namesMaurice AppelbeeBirth date1st January 1838Birth date qualifieryear onlyDeath date18th July 1910Biographical noteFamily Background:
Maurice Appelbee Felton was baptised in Liverpool, Lancashire, ENGLAND on 25 December 1838. His parents were Dr Maurice Appelbee Felton (1803-1842) and his wife Emily Felton (c1800-1878). Dr Felton came to NSW in 1839 with his wife and four children as the surgeon on the immigrant ship “Royal Admiral”. He was an accomplished portrait artist and paintings by him are held by the National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Australia and the Mitchell Library (State Library of NSW). Dr Felton died prematurely in March 1842. His daughter Myra Felton (1835-1920) was also a talented portrait artist and paintings of hers are in collections including the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania. She was a prominent art teacher and painter in Sydney for more than 40 years from the 1860s. Another daughter, Emily Louisa Felton, married Frederick Taylor, eldest son of the President of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, London, in Sydney in 1871. His son, Maurice Appelbee Felton, showed his creative talent in music rather than painting. Dr Felton’s family grew up in a large two storey house in Phillip street which in 1866 became the Police Headquarters; the building was demolished in 1902.
Early Career and Family of Maurice Appelbee Felton:
In about 1854, when he was about 16, Felton became one of the volunteers enlisting in the first NSW Artillery Company which was raised for the defence of the Colony after the withdrawal of English troops from Sydney.
Felton moved to Brisbane, Queensland by the early 1860s. In 1863 he married Mary Jane Worcester and between 1866 and 1879 they had 7 children, 5 of whom survived. Felton was a partner with Edwin and Josiah Young in an importing business, known as Felton, Young and Co in trade between 1863 and June 1865. The Company brought wholesale grocery items from Sydney to sell in Brisbane.
Active participation in Church matters and in musical performances are two continuing themes throughout Felton’s life. Felton was associated with the Wickham Terrace Church and his name appears in advertisements in 1864 for a Grand Oratorio to raise funds for the church organ; in 1867 he co-audited the Church accounts; and in 1869 he was Honorary Secretary of the Church Building Fund. From at least August 1866 he was the Honorary Secretary of the Brisbane Philharmonic Society and his name appears in advertisements for various concerts presented by the Society in the 1860s. In February 1868, he was secretary to a committee which presented an Amateur Concert to entertain the visiting HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
In January 1866 he was appointed an officer in the Queensland Auditor-General’s Department in Brisbane. Charles William Forbes, later employed as clerk by the Bradford Brothers in Sydney, said he had worked in Brisbane with Felton and considered him to be “a very sharp, shrewd, and clever man”. (Interview, “Bradford frauds”, Evening News, Sydney, Tuesday 13 December 1887 p3)
He was made insolvent in May 1877 by the Supreme Court of Queensland being described as a clerk of South Brisbane. In June 1877, he “applied personally, upon a resolution of creditors, for his certificate of discharge. The resolution was to the effect that the insolvency had arisen from circumstances for which the insolvent could not justly be held responsible, and recommended that the certificate be granted. The certificate was granted.” [Brisbane Courier, 28 June 1877, p2]. A first and final dividend of 3d in the £ was made in December 1877.
In June 1879, the house he occupied, Nettleton House, and its grounds near Stanley St Brisbane was sold by order of the mortgagee. He then moved to Sydney.
Employment by City of Sydney:
He was appointed Examiner of Accounts for the Corporation of the City of Sydney on 1 May 1880, the first person to hold this position which had been created to provide a means of internal audit of Corporation expenditure. His salary in 1881 was £300 pa (in comparison the Town Clerk earned £600 and the City Treasurer £500). In 1884, his salary increased to £350 pa. In his half year report in August 1886, Joseph Carroll, the City Auditor, inspected the Department of the Examiner of Accounts in company with the Special Auditor, George Durham, and reported to the Mayor that the Department “was in every way as satisfactory as when specially reported on by me 8th March 1884”. In this same report, Carroll noted that he had checked entries in all journals of the Council and Bank pass books and had correlated all vouchers for payment with journal entries.
The satisfaction of the Auditors with the financial arrangements of the Council and the performance of Felton as Examiner of Accounts came to an abrupt end with the exposure of the Bradford Frauds in September 1886. A clerk in the City Engineer’s department, George Pasfield, discovered discrepancies in records relating to Council dealings with the iron foundry company headed by brothers Robert and David Bradford. In October, the Bradfords, a clerk or book-keeper in their employ, Charles William Forbes, and the Council storekeeper, John Walton, came before the Police Court on charges of conspiring to defraud the Corporation of Sydney. The case against Walton was withdrawn and eventually the Council restored his position and paid his legal expenses. David Bradford and Charles Forbes were committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud and also forgery while Robert Bradford was discharged for lack of any evidence against him. The committal hearings followed by the trial in November 1886 and subsequent later special audits conducted for Council revealed the mode of the frauds and eventually the amounts defrauded.
The Council arrangements for payments of accounts had been so lax that David Bradford or Forbes had been able to take vouchers and requisition papers already signed by Council staff, including the store-keeper, the City Engineer and his staff or the City Surveyor to the pay office which was overseen by Felton; in many of the forms the quantities approved were altered after obtaining Walton’s initials at the Council Store acknowledging receipt of the items and in some cases the forms were entirely false with Walton’s initials being forged; when given to J Trevor Jones, the City Engineer, or John Fyfe, the Mechanical Engineer, they in turn initialled the forms without taking any note of the changed quantities. On the altered documents, the most used form of fraud was by adding the numeral one before the existing quantity, so for instance and order for 3 items became 13 or an order for 50 items became an order for 150. Bradford received a sentence of four years and Forbes a sentence of seven years.
Bradford was released from gaol less than a year later in September 1887 on grounds of ill-health. A petition for his early release was signed by a number of City Alderman. Forbes was released in November 1887 on similar grounds. Forbes died in March 1889 aged only 35 years.
Several years earlier in 1882, there had been allegations that Bradford had done work for Alderman Davies at no charge in return for some unspecified favours. A Council inquiry failed to establish any charge against Davies but concluded that the book entries and receipts relating to the transaction with Davies and presented by David Bradford to Council were concocted later. Motions were moved to have no more dealing with Bradford but dealings with the firm continued. Curiously, Charles William Forbes, identified as a clerk, was accepted as a surety in five of Bradford’s contracts with Council between 1880 and 1882 was but apparently not recognised as a Bradford Bros employee.
The amount of the frauds revealed in the public trial of Bradford and Forbes in 1886 was estimated to be about £9,000 and for some time after Councillors and others denied rumours of greater sums involved. When a special audit was conducted in 1888, the auditors’ report in December stated the amount defrauded between 1880 and 1886 in the Water Department (under the City Engineer’s management) was £29, 925-18-4; an additional amount of £1360-17-1 had been identified as fraudulently obtained in dummy contracts in the names of William Taylor and William Toner made for City Works for the benefit of the Bradfords. When interviewed by the “Evening News” in December 1887, Forbes had suggested the amount involved amounted to £43,000.
In reaction to the revelation of the frauds and the committal hearings in 1886, Council suspended Felton, Fyfe, Trevor Jones and Walton. Moves were made to suspend the Town Clerk. Suggestions were made that similar frauds had occurred in the City Surveyor’s department. Alderman Playfair queried the award of contracts to the Bradfords when the official contractor for iron castings was Pope & Maher; he also suggested there was a deficiency in the City Surveyor’s department of £900. The City Surveyor, Adrien Mountain, resigned explaining he had accepted an appointment in Melbourne offering a higher salary. His resignation was accepted and the matter was not pursued.
Felton offered his resignation which was not accepted. In his letter which was published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” 16 November 1886, he maintained he had checked vouchers and checked the calculations and the schedules of prices for items; he only accepted initialled vouchers accompanied by the requisition signed by the head of the department; he said he had no practical knowledge of iron castings. Also published was a statement by George Durham, appointed at various times as a Special Auditor, in which Durham stated that Felton had acted correctly but he wrote “It seems to me that the weakness in this audit is the want of technical knowledge to discriminate between qualities of goods supplied and which no audit clerk can be expected to possess. This knowledge is vested solely in the head of the department”.
Council reinstated all but Felton who was left to carry the whole blame. More revelations of fraud in the City Engineer’s department were raised 18 months later in March 1888 and John Trevor Jones, John Walton and John Fyfe were again suspended and also David C Robertson (Inspector of Water Service) but no further actions followed and all were permitted to resign. They were already in the process of being transferred to the NSW Government body, the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, where their careers continued.
By the time that the Special Auditors presented their final report of their examinations of all departments of Council in December 1888, it was clear that, considering the huge amount of the frauds detected, many of the senior Council officers should have observed that a much greater amount of money had been expended particularly in the Water Department than should have been expected. George Durham and John Miles stated that the frauds “were facilitated by the late City Surveyor’s adoption of the same easy habit that the late City Engineer practised of signing, without examining, accounts in which castings are charged for largely in excess of orders and deliveries and at prices higher than schedule rates”. Damningly for Felton and in contradiction to Durham’s earlier statement laying no blame on Felton, the Special Auditors now concluded “we are compelled to remark that, notwithstanding the neglectfulness of other officers whose vigilance slumbered profoundly, the Bradford frauds would have been utterly impracticable if the late Examiner of Accounts had not culpably disregarded his duty.” The full text of this report was published in the Sydney daily papers. It might be noted that neither Durham and the other City Auditors had discovered any of the frauds in the course of their routine audits. Felton was the only City employee to suffer any adverse consequences in relation to the Bradford frauds; no legal action was taken against him although at a Council meeting in December 1888, Alderman JD Young suggested “steps” should be taken against him and made further remarks suggesting that an un-named dismissed City Employee had been formerly dismissed from the Queensland Government Offices for “robbery”. The public were left to speculate where all the money went.
Later Career:
While employed by the City of Sydney Felton was also Auditor for the Borough of Burwood in 1885, 1886 and 1887.
From about April 1887 to June 1890, he was employed by the Civil Service Co-operative Society of NSW Ltd as “Secretary and Accountant”. His appointment there may have come to an abrupt end as the Society published a notice in June 1890 stating he was no longer Secretary and that an acting secretary had been appointed.
According to his obituary, he had an association with the City Mutual Life Assurance Company. He was present at the annual meeting of shareholders in March 1903.
Voluntary Service to the Community and the Arts:
The participation that Felton had made in Brisbane to church and musical matters continued in Sydney. Felton resided at Burwood, a suburb of Sydney, and was People’s Churchwarden at St Paul’s Church of England, Burwood between 1882 and 1890.
In September 1887 he took part in a performance of “HMS Pinafore” at the Petersham Town Hall to raise funds for The Queen’s Fund for the relief of Distressed Women. He played the role of First Lord of the Admiralty. In July 1888, he took part in a musical and literary entertainment at St Paul’s Burwood in aid of the School Building Fund and sang at another entertainment at St Paul’s in September. At the same time he helped organise events for a bazaar and sale of work.
He was a member of the Burwood Amateur Operatic Society and participated in another performance of “HMS Pinafore” in November 1889. The operetta was performed again at the St Leonards School of Arts to raise funds for the wife and family of a yachtsman who had disappeared at sea.
His Death:
Maurice Appelbee Felton died in Sydney on 18 July 1910. A brief obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald noted that he was the son of Dr Felton and had lived in the Phillip St house that became the Police Office. It referred to his service as a Volunteer and it noted his association with the City Mutual Life Assurance Company but made no mention of his municipal service.
February 2017; Marilyn Mason
References:
City of Sydney Archives: CRS 26 Letters Received, CRS 21 Reports of Committees, CRS 22 Reports of the Finance Committee: (item descriptions or digitised objects available online).
Newspapers: 1842 to 1910: Australian Town and Country Journal; Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton NSW); Empire; Evening News; Freeman’s Journal (Sydney); The Australian; The Brisbane Courier; The Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser; The Sydney Morning Herald; The Telegraph (Brisbane); digitised by the National Library of Australia and searchable online: www. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Birth Death Marriage Registries of NSW and Queensland: indexes online
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQQZ-5XT : accessed 24 February 2016)Relationship legacy dataRELATED TO: Governance of the Council FN-0021 (1/5/1880 to 31/12/1886)
RELATED TO: City Treasury Department I AG-0012 (1/5/1880 to 31/12/1886) - Repported to
Occupational historyExaminer of Accounts, City of Sydney Council - 1880 to 1886Auditor for the Borough of Burwood - 1885, 1886 and 1887Secretary and Accountant, Civil Service Co-operative Society of NSW Ltd - April 1887 to June 1890Archivist notePrepared by volunteer Marilyn Mason - Feb 2017Legacy dataRegistered by: Smith, Michael
Registered date: 05/05/2017
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Maurice Appelbee Felton was baptised in Liverpool, Lancashire, ENGLAND on 25 December 1838. His parents were Dr Maurice Appelbee Felton (1803-1842) and his wife Emily Felton (c1800-1878). Dr Felton came to NSW in 1839 with his wife and four children as the surgeon on the immigrant ship “Royal Admiral”. He was an accomplished portrait artist and paintings by him are held by the National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Australia and the Mitchell Library (State Library of NSW). Dr Felton died prematurely in March 1842. His daughter Myra Felton (1835-1920) was also a talented portrait artist and paintings of hers are in collections including the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania. She was a prominent art teacher and painter in Sydney for more than 40 years from the 1860s. Another daughter, Emily Louisa Felton, married Frederick Taylor, eldest son of the President of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, London, in Sydney in 1871. His son, Maurice Appelbee Felton, showed his creative talent in music rather than painting. Dr Felton’s family grew up in a large two storey house in Phillip street which in 1866 became the Police Headquarters; the building was demolished in 1902.
Early Career and Family of Maurice Appelbee Felton:
In about 1854, when he was about 16, Felton became one of the volunteers enlisting in the first NSW Artillery Company which was raised for the defence of the Colony after the withdrawal of English troops from Sydney.
Felton moved to Brisbane, Queensland by the early 1860s. In 1863 he married Mary Jane Worcester and between 1866 and 1879 they had 7 children, 5 of whom survived. Felton was a partner with Edwin and Josiah Young in an importing business, known as Felton, Young and Co in trade between 1863 and June 1865. The Company brought wholesale grocery items from Sydney to sell in Brisbane.
Active participation in Church matters and in musical performances are two continuing themes throughout Felton’s life. Felton was associated with the Wickham Terrace Church and his name appears in advertisements in 1864 for a Grand Oratorio to raise funds for the church organ; in 1867 he co-audited the Church accounts; and in 1869 he was Honorary Secretary of the Church Building Fund. From at least August 1866 he was the Honorary Secretary of the Brisbane Philharmonic Society and his name appears in advertisements for various concerts presented by the Society in the 1860s. In February 1868, he was secretary to a committee which presented an Amateur Concert to entertain the visiting HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
In January 1866 he was appointed an officer in the Queensland Auditor-General’s Department in Brisbane. Charles William Forbes, later employed as clerk by the Bradford Brothers in Sydney, said he had worked in Brisbane with Felton and considered him to be “a very sharp, shrewd, and clever man”. (Interview, “Bradford frauds”, Evening News, Sydney, Tuesday 13 December 1887 p3)
He was made insolvent in May 1877 by the Supreme Court of Queensland being described as a clerk of South Brisbane. In June 1877, he “applied personally, upon a resolution of creditors, for his certificate of discharge. The resolution was to the effect that the insolvency had arisen from circumstances for which the insolvent could not justly be held responsible, and recommended that the certificate be granted. The certificate was granted.” [Brisbane Courier, 28 June 1877, p2]. A first and final dividend of 3d in the £ was made in December 1877.
In June 1879, the house he occupied, Nettleton House, and its grounds near Stanley St Brisbane was sold by order of the mortgagee. He then moved to Sydney.
Employment by City of Sydney:
He was appointed Examiner of Accounts for the Corporation of the City of Sydney on 1 May 1880, the first person to hold this position which had been created to provide a means of internal audit of Corporation expenditure. His salary in 1881 was £300 pa (in comparison the Town Clerk earned £600 and the City Treasurer £500). In 1884, his salary increased to £350 pa. In his half year report in August 1886, Joseph Carroll, the City Auditor, inspected the Department of the Examiner of Accounts in company with the Special Auditor, George Durham, and reported to the Mayor that the Department “was in every way as satisfactory as when specially reported on by me 8th March 1884”. In this same report, Carroll noted that he had checked entries in all journals of the Council and Bank pass books and had correlated all vouchers for payment with journal entries.
The satisfaction of the Auditors with the financial arrangements of the Council and the performance of Felton as Examiner of Accounts came to an abrupt end with the exposure of the Bradford Frauds in September 1886. A clerk in the City Engineer’s department, George Pasfield, discovered discrepancies in records relating to Council dealings with the iron foundry company headed by brothers Robert and David Bradford. In October, the Bradfords, a clerk or book-keeper in their employ, Charles William Forbes, and the Council storekeeper, John Walton, came before the Police Court on charges of conspiring to defraud the Corporation of Sydney. The case against Walton was withdrawn and eventually the Council restored his position and paid his legal expenses. David Bradford and Charles Forbes were committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud and also forgery while Robert Bradford was discharged for lack of any evidence against him. The committal hearings followed by the trial in November 1886 and subsequent later special audits conducted for Council revealed the mode of the frauds and eventually the amounts defrauded.
The Council arrangements for payments of accounts had been so lax that David Bradford or Forbes had been able to take vouchers and requisition papers already signed by Council staff, including the store-keeper, the City Engineer and his staff or the City Surveyor to the pay office which was overseen by Felton; in many of the forms the quantities approved were altered after obtaining Walton’s initials at the Council Store acknowledging receipt of the items and in some cases the forms were entirely false with Walton’s initials being forged; when given to J Trevor Jones, the City Engineer, or John Fyfe, the Mechanical Engineer, they in turn initialled the forms without taking any note of the changed quantities. On the altered documents, the most used form of fraud was by adding the numeral one before the existing quantity, so for instance and order for 3 items became 13 or an order for 50 items became an order for 150. Bradford received a sentence of four years and Forbes a sentence of seven years.
Bradford was released from gaol less than a year later in September 1887 on grounds of ill-health. A petition for his early release was signed by a number of City Alderman. Forbes was released in November 1887 on similar grounds. Forbes died in March 1889 aged only 35 years.
Several years earlier in 1882, there had been allegations that Bradford had done work for Alderman Davies at no charge in return for some unspecified favours. A Council inquiry failed to establish any charge against Davies but concluded that the book entries and receipts relating to the transaction with Davies and presented by David Bradford to Council were concocted later. Motions were moved to have no more dealing with Bradford but dealings with the firm continued. Curiously, Charles William Forbes, identified as a clerk, was accepted as a surety in five of Bradford’s contracts with Council between 1880 and 1882 was but apparently not recognised as a Bradford Bros employee.
The amount of the frauds revealed in the public trial of Bradford and Forbes in 1886 was estimated to be about £9,000 and for some time after Councillors and others denied rumours of greater sums involved. When a special audit was conducted in 1888, the auditors’ report in December stated the amount defrauded between 1880 and 1886 in the Water Department (under the City Engineer’s management) was £29, 925-18-4; an additional amount of £1360-17-1 had been identified as fraudulently obtained in dummy contracts in the names of William Taylor and William Toner made for City Works for the benefit of the Bradfords. When interviewed by the “Evening News” in December 1887, Forbes had suggested the amount involved amounted to £43,000.
In reaction to the revelation of the frauds and the committal hearings in 1886, Council suspended Felton, Fyfe, Trevor Jones and Walton. Moves were made to suspend the Town Clerk. Suggestions were made that similar frauds had occurred in the City Surveyor’s department. Alderman Playfair queried the award of contracts to the Bradfords when the official contractor for iron castings was Pope & Maher; he also suggested there was a deficiency in the City Surveyor’s department of £900. The City Surveyor, Adrien Mountain, resigned explaining he had accepted an appointment in Melbourne offering a higher salary. His resignation was accepted and the matter was not pursued.
Felton offered his resignation which was not accepted. In his letter which was published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” 16 November 1886, he maintained he had checked vouchers and checked the calculations and the schedules of prices for items; he only accepted initialled vouchers accompanied by the requisition signed by the head of the department; he said he had no practical knowledge of iron castings. Also published was a statement by George Durham, appointed at various times as a Special Auditor, in which Durham stated that Felton had acted correctly but he wrote “It seems to me that the weakness in this audit is the want of technical knowledge to discriminate between qualities of goods supplied and which no audit clerk can be expected to possess. This knowledge is vested solely in the head of the department”.
Council reinstated all but Felton who was left to carry the whole blame. More revelations of fraud in the City Engineer’s department were raised 18 months later in March 1888 and John Trevor Jones, John Walton and John Fyfe were again suspended and also David C Robertson (Inspector of Water Service) but no further actions followed and all were permitted to resign. They were already in the process of being transferred to the NSW Government body, the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, where their careers continued.
By the time that the Special Auditors presented their final report of their examinations of all departments of Council in December 1888, it was clear that, considering the huge amount of the frauds detected, many of the senior Council officers should have observed that a much greater amount of money had been expended particularly in the Water Department than should have been expected. George Durham and John Miles stated that the frauds “were facilitated by the late City Surveyor’s adoption of the same easy habit that the late City Engineer practised of signing, without examining, accounts in which castings are charged for largely in excess of orders and deliveries and at prices higher than schedule rates”. Damningly for Felton and in contradiction to Durham’s earlier statement laying no blame on Felton, the Special Auditors now concluded “we are compelled to remark that, notwithstanding the neglectfulness of other officers whose vigilance slumbered profoundly, the Bradford frauds would have been utterly impracticable if the late Examiner of Accounts had not culpably disregarded his duty.” The full text of this report was published in the Sydney daily papers. It might be noted that neither Durham and the other City Auditors had discovered any of the frauds in the course of their routine audits. Felton was the only City employee to suffer any adverse consequences in relation to the Bradford frauds; no legal action was taken against him although at a Council meeting in December 1888, Alderman JD Young suggested “steps” should be taken against him and made further remarks suggesting that an un-named dismissed City Employee had been formerly dismissed from the Queensland Government Offices for “robbery”. The public were left to speculate where all the money went.
Later Career:
While employed by the City of Sydney Felton was also Auditor for the Borough of Burwood in 1885, 1886 and 1887.
From about April 1887 to June 1890, he was employed by the Civil Service Co-operative Society of NSW Ltd as “Secretary and Accountant”. His appointment there may have come to an abrupt end as the Society published a notice in June 1890 stating he was no longer Secretary and that an acting secretary had been appointed.
According to his obituary, he had an association with the City Mutual Life Assurance Company. He was present at the annual meeting of shareholders in March 1903.
Voluntary Service to the Community and the Arts:
The participation that Felton had made in Brisbane to church and musical matters continued in Sydney. Felton resided at Burwood, a suburb of Sydney, and was People’s Churchwarden at St Paul’s Church of England, Burwood between 1882 and 1890.
In September 1887 he took part in a performance of “HMS Pinafore” at the Petersham Town Hall to raise funds for The Queen’s Fund for the relief of Distressed Women. He played the role of First Lord of the Admiralty. In July 1888, he took part in a musical and literary entertainment at St Paul’s Burwood in aid of the School Building Fund and sang at another entertainment at St Paul’s in September. At the same time he helped organise events for a bazaar and sale of work.
He was a member of the Burwood Amateur Operatic Society and participated in another performance of “HMS Pinafore” in November 1889. The operetta was performed again at the St Leonards School of Arts to raise funds for the wife and family of a yachtsman who had disappeared at sea.
His Death:
Maurice Appelbee Felton died in Sydney on 18 July 1910. A brief obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald noted that he was the son of Dr Felton and had lived in the Phillip St house that became the Police Office. It referred to his service as a Volunteer and it noted his association with the City Mutual Life Assurance Company but made no mention of his municipal service.
February 2017; Marilyn Mason
References:
City of Sydney Archives: CRS 26 Letters Received, CRS 21 Reports of Committees, CRS 22 Reports of the Finance Committee: (item descriptions or digitised objects available online).
Newspapers: 1842 to 1910: Australian Town and Country Journal; Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton NSW); Empire; Evening News; Freeman’s Journal (Sydney); The Australian; The Brisbane Courier; The Sydney Mail and NSW Advertiser; The Sydney Morning Herald; The Telegraph (Brisbane); digitised by the National Library of Australia and searchable online: www. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Birth Death Marriage Registries of NSW and Queensland: indexes online
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQQZ-5XT : accessed 24 February 2016)Relationship legacy dataRELATED TO: Governance of the Council FN-0021 (1/5/1880 to 31/12/1886)
RELATED TO: City Treasury Department I AG-0012 (1/5/1880 to 31/12/1886) - Repported to
Occupational historyExaminer of Accounts, City of Sydney Council - 1880 to 1886Auditor for the Borough of Burwood - 1885, 1886 and 1887Secretary and Accountant, Civil Service Co-operative Society of NSW Ltd - April 1887 to June 1890Archivist notePrepared by volunteer Marilyn Mason - Feb 2017Legacy dataRegistered by: Smith, Michael
Registered date: 05/05/2017
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Minister: NoneUpdated Date: 05/05/2017
Updated User: mdsmithSource system ID52
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