Series 04: Land grants to Daniel Cooper, Solomon Levey, and Edward Devine, 1830-1845

MLMSS 10350/Box 1/Folder 4

series

1830-1845

9637162

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, typescript

Daniel Cooper (1785-1853) and Solomon Levey (1794-1833) both came to Sydney as convicts but soon developed a variety of business interests which made them spectacularly wealthy. In June 1825 they joined forces and the firm Cooper & Levey was formed. As inporters, exporters, woolbuyers, store and ship owners, shipbuilders, shipping agents, whalers and sealers, they had a large share of the colony's business. In 1826 they acquired 100 acres at Woolahra and Rose Bay, and they owned, by grant or purchase, most of the land in Waterloo, Alexandria, Redfern, Randwick, and Neutral Bay. In 1826 Levey left for England and Cooper followed in 1831 but neither gave up his business interests in Sydney.

BOX 1
1. Grant in favour of Daniel Cooper and Solomon Levey, 1130 acres in the Parish of Alexandria, 22 March 1830

2. Grant to Daniel Cooper, 200 acres, Parishes of Maroota and Cornelia, County of Cumberland, 14 June 1845

3. Grant to Daniel Cooper, Parish of Alexandria, 6 February 1838

4. Grant in favour of Edward Devine, for 60 acres in County Cook, at the Macdonald River or first Branch of the Hawkesbury, 18 January 1836

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