RUSSELL HILL
The temporary suburb of Russell Hill was on a site near to the present Campbell Shops. It consisted of 120 sites for houses built by owners. Many who had lived at Riverbourne (1925-1927) moved to Russell Hill. Riverbourne was on the south bank of the Molonglo River three miles from the Queanbeyan Post Office. Russell Hill had its own school and was never connected to electricity or sewerage. Between late 1926 and mid 1927 one of the residents was HLB Lasseter who came to Canberra to work. He worked as a carpenter on a number of weatherboard cottages in Ainslie.
ALLEN, Benjamin storeman
ALWARD, John labourer
ARMFIELD, Jean & Ernest hd & labourer
AXELBY, Elsie & Albert hd & labourer
114 BATESON, Minna & Alfred hd & carpenter
15 BEGENT, Florence & James hd & carpenter
BOON, Rosina & James hd & gardener
BOREHAM, Mary & Heric hd & labourer
BRASH, Alice & William hd & labourer
BROWN, Beatrice & Neil hd & labourer
BURR, Mary & James hd & ganger
BURR, Emma & James hd & storekeeper
(Mrs Burr ran the Post Office)
CARROLL, Isabell & Oscar hd & labourer
CARTER, Iris & Robert hd & haulage contractor
CASH, Walter motor driver
CHAPMAN, Amy, Arthur & Henry hd, motor driver & ---
CLARK, Rosalie & William hd & labourer
29 CLARK, Violet & Frederick hd & carpenter
CONROY, Eileen & Patrick hd & linesman
101 COWAN, Bridget & James hd & clerk
COWIE, Georgina, Arthur & John hd, labourer & chainman
CURRIE, May & Charles hd & labourer
DAVIS, Minnie & Arthur hd & carpenter
DOBSON, Edith & Robert hd & cartage contractor
"The Ambassadors" DOCKER, Gladys & Edmund hd & plumber
DOYLE, Greta & Michael hd & contractor
98 DUNN, Ada & George hd & drayman
DWYER, Mildred & Kenneth hd & carpenter
EMSLIE, Rita & Cleveland hd & chainman
GARDINER, Ellen & Albert hd & horse driver
83 GALLEREID, Elizabeth & Henry hd & carpenter
80 GEARY, Katherine & Leonard hd & carpenter
GINNS, Myrtle & Charles hd & labourer
GRANT, Teresa & Frederick hd & labourer
GREEN, Alice & Albert hd & blacksmith
HAMMOND, Daisy & Lysle hd & labourer
HARRISON, Esther & John hd & cartage contractor
HAWKINS, Dulcie & Dinniss hd & ganger
HOLLAND, Mary & John hd & labourer
HILL, Rita & Wallace hd & painter
26 HOLMES, Elizabeth & Harold hd & watchman
HUNTINGFORD, Catherine & Christopher hd & labourer
HYDE, Linda & Benjamin hd & labourer
HYDE, Clarice & Charles hd & laundryman
INNES, Jessie, Ewart & William hd, labourer & painter
89 JACKSON, Adelaide hd
JOHNSON, Pearl & Charles hd & labourer
36 JOHNSON, Mary & Joseph hd & labourer
12 KENNEDY, Margaret & Joseph hd & labourer
KING, Florence & Paul hd & labourer
LAWLER, Frederick labourer
16 LITTLEFIELD, Sussanah & William hd & cook
LLOYD, Blanche & Edward hd & labourer
54 McCORMICK, Hilda & Alfred hd & watchman
McCROREY, Marie & Charles hd & labourer
McCULLOUGH, Catherine & William hd & carpenter
17 McFARLANE, Eva & Andrew hd & quarryman
McINTYRE, Evelyn & Walter hd & labourer
McKUEN, William labourer
McLEOD, Bertha & Angus hd & gardener
MARLOWE, May & Edward hd & camp cook
MARSHALL, Clair, Selena, George, Joseph & William wood merchant, hd, labourer, labourer & labourer
13 MATTHEWS, Lizzie hd
MAYES, Flora & Charles hd & labourer
MILES, Henrietta hd
MOON, Violet & William hd & watchman
MOORE, Thomas plumber
MORTON, Evelyn & Frederick hd & carpenter
MURRAY, Ellen, William & James hd, labourer & labourer
63 NOBLE, Ada & Stanley hd & labourer
59 PATERSON, Emily & Eric hd & electrician
89 PHILLIPS, Elizabeth & James hd & labourer
14 PHIPP, Alice & Alexander hd & labourer
PHIPP, Ernest motor driver
PITNEY, Mildred & Frederick hd & miner
POWER, Annie & William hd & labourer
RAMSDEN, Kathleen & Fred hd & carter
REYNOLDS, Clarice & Thomas hd & labourer (Mr Reynolds was the camp steward and was in charge of the keys for the tennis court)
RICHARDSON, Norah & Patrick hd & motor driver
ROBINSON, Ethel & Amos hd & labourer
ROSS, Nora & Andres hd & painter
SHEPHERD, Sarah & Archibald hd & labourer
SHUMACK, Mary hd
SKERRY, Lily & Thomas hd & labourer
SMITH, Elizabeth & John hd & labourer
122 SMITH, Jane & George hd & labourer
SOUTHWELL, Lilia & George hd & ranger
SPEERING, Annette, Alfred & Luke hd, labourer & labourer
77 SUTTON, Emily & George hd & carpenter
19 SUTTON, Winifred & Alfred hd & labourer
76 THOMAS, Isabel & Stanley hd & labourer
112 THOMPSON, Gwenydd & William hd & painter
THURTELL, Margaret & Ernest hd & linesman
TILYARD, Eva, Cyril & Merrick hd, plasterer & labourer
95 TWEEDLEY, Marion & William hd & carpenter
WAGHORN, Winifred & Sydney hd & labourer
WALLACE, Austin labourer
WHITE, Margaret & George hd & maintenanceman
WILL, Alice & Edward hd & bricklayer
WILLIAMS, Esther & Thomas hd & labourer
WILLIAMS, Gladys & Frederick hd & labourer
WRIGHT, Victoria & John hd & carrier
25 March, 1927 a list of children in the settlement was recorded. It is as follows:
1 J SMITH, Francis, Elizabeth, Thomas
2 PHIPPEN, nil
3 O’CONNELL, Maureen
4 A H CHAPMAN, Eileen
5 J BURR Jr, James, Peter, Terry & Maureen
6 G FIELD, Madge, Percy, Stella & Malcolm
7 N BROWN, nil
8 J KENNEDY, Bert & Martha
9 A M PHIPPS, Ernest
10 J BEGENT, Jack, Mollie & Harold
11 R EADY, Albert
12 R SHAW, nil
13 C CURRIE, Norma
14 F MILES, Terry & Frederick
15 J SULLIVAN, Keith, Mervyn & Leonard
16 A McCORMICK, Francis & Margaret
17 W COOPER, William Trevor & Eric
18 C HUNTINGFORD, Percy & Olga
19 AG VENABLES, Gloria
20 C WILLIAMS, Phyllis & Robert
21 W CLARK, William, Elvina, George, Lorna & Gordon
22 FC MORTON, William, Cyril, Charles & Evelyn
23 RJ BURKE, June
24 JT STAPLETON, Sylvia
25 HF LORD, Dorothy
26 T LOYD, Kathleen, Frederick, William & Mary
27 D McKENZIE, Warwick
28 GEO WYBAR, Joyce, Moyna, George & Leslie
29 LHB Lasseter, Robert, Betty (Lasseter shortly after this time left for Sydney and then his ill-fated trip to the Northern Territory)
30 D HAWKINS
31 CH McCROREY, Terence, Molley, Reg & Jean
32 F GRANT, Pearl, Daniel, Edward, Clare & Grace
33 LA GEORGE, Stanley
34 F RAMSDEN
35 L PROUD
36 J COWIE, Robert & James
37 E NANCARROW, Gladys & Edwin
38 A NYE, Gilbert
39 T WILLIAMS, Lorna & William
40 J MURRAY, William & James
41 R HILL, Muriel
42 J BOON, Rosina, Irene, Lorna & Marjory
43 RA DOBSON, Douglas, Joy & Lexa
44 H HOLMES, Norma
45 C EMSLIE, Gwyneth
46 C MAYES
47 F CLARK, Doris & Edgar
48 J BURR sn,
49 F PITNEY, John
50 H McARTHUR, Jean
51 P CONROY, Mary, Patrick & John
52 J JOHNSON
53 E WILL, Claude, Ethel & Arthur
54 S NOBLE, Jean
55 W THOMPSON, Jean
56 J HOLLAND, Leonie
57 J McCONEY, Audrey
58 A SHEPHERD, Noel & Colin
59 C DYER
60 A BOREHAM
61 A ARMFIELD
62 N MAXWELL, Thomas & Sylvia
63 W McCULLOUGH, Mary, William & Joseph
64 E FARNHAM
65 A GIBBS
66 E DOCKAR, Edmund
67 L GEARY, Catherine
68 W COCHRAN, Hilda
69 A GREEN, Cecil & Enid
70 BLANCHFLOWER
71 L THOMAS
72 R WALKER, Maxwell & Keith
73 E BROWN, Norman, Dulcie, Albert & Stanley
74 A BATESON, Diana & Marcelline
75 B HYDE, Mary
76 T HEATH, Ronald
77 A DAVIS, Daphne
78 E CASSIDY, Frederick, Eileen & William
79 E DAY, Rodney
80 S BROWNLEY, Cyril
81 C HAMMOND, Doreen, Lysle & Ruby
82 H BOREHAM, Colin & Maxwell
83 J HOLLAND, Leonie
84 D BUCKLEY, Richard, Betty & Frederick
85 J HODGE, Mary, Kathleen, John & Mavis
86 W INNES
87 J PHILLIPS, Mary & Eric
88 W SHUMACK, Kathleen, Hazel, Ellen, John & Allan
89 F WILLIAMS, Grace, Lilly, Hazel, Daphne, Harold, Leonard, Olga & Mervyn
90 GEO WHITE
91 MUNN
92 M MITCHELL
93 W TWEEDLY, Veram, Sydney, Jean & Sylvia
94 M AMBLER, Stanley
95 W BRASH, William, Norman & Stanley
96 A ROBINSON, Frances, Phillip, Leo, Catherine, Vivian & Daphne
97 T REYNOLDS, Douglas & Harold
98 G CAVANAGH, Glyn
99 T NOLAN
(The numbers 1-99 are not house numbers).
Below: Daphne Davis’s house built on the family farm on the corner of Hindmarsh Drive & Jerrabomberra Avenue. The windows and other sections of the house came from the old one at Russell Hill.