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Shuffrey Street
Shuffrey Street makes its first appearance in post office directories in 1908, when there were two residents on the right-hand, western side from Quarry Street to Fremantle Park: Mrs W.D. Kekwick at 13 and Richard Bates at 17 (numeration may have changed since then, as those numbers are no longer found). The street was formerly known as Stirling Street, as it was intended to continue the southern part of that street across Fremantle Park (crossing Ellen Street, named for the first Governor's wife, and continuing [after a gap] to the river as James Street, with his first name). Stirling Street was the southwestern boundary of the garden of The Asylum, which has become the Fremantle Leisure Centre, so there have never been dwellings on the eastern side of Stirling/Shuffrey Street.
The street was named in honour of prominent local resident George S. Shuffrey, who owned a house, Hillcroft, on the northern side of the adjacent Barnett Street, where he lived from 1897 (and perhaps before) to 1901. He may well also have lived in the street with his name, as he did not die until 1920.
References and Links
Post office directories
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 3 January, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/shuffrey.html (it was last updated on 18 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.