Concord

To honour John Curtin, WW2 Prime Minister of Australia.

Named to honour David Cumming, Mayor of Concord on several occasions.

Named after an early resident of Concord. Joseph Cross is shown as a “freeholder, Concord” on the Petition of 1883 that requested the incorporation of the Municipality of Concord.

Named after a house existing in the vicinity. (From a photograph in the possession of a member of the Concord Heritage Society).

To remember Samuel Crane, a Private in the New South Wales Corps, who was granted 35 acres at Concord . (“A History of Concord” C.Wallace. 1970) [I have not been able to verify this. Ed.]

Named in honour of Thomas Obed Correy (Junior), Mayor of Concord several times and a highly respected member of the Concord community.

Name later changed to Burton Street.

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An early resident of Concord, James Corby – “freeholder, Concord” – and a Petitioner in the application for the incorporation of the Municipality of Concord.

An obvious name that has remained since the 1840s.

After the name of an old sandstone homestead that was the home of William Cox (1836-1913).

(Formerly Church Street, name changed approximately 1915.) Named after William Coles, an Architect-Builder who settled in Concord in 1859 and supervised the building of part of St. Luke’s Church.