Editing Milsons Point (section)

==History==
[[File:1820s Early map showing Milson's residence.jpg|thumb|alt=Early map of the Kirribilli area showing an area marked Milson's residence|Sketch map<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Thrupp's Acres|title=Pictorial History, Lower North Shore|last=Warne|first=Catherine|year=1984|publisher=Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd|isbn=0-908272-83-9|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0FwhGXxV2YC&pg=PA9|access-date=28 January 2013}}</ref> of the Kirribilli area first published in 1955 in the book "The Life and Times of James Milson"<ref name="Goddard">R. H. Goddard, ''The Life and Times of James Milson'' (Melbourne, 1955)</ref> showing approximate location of Milson's residence and that of his son-in-law William Shairp  who married Milson's daughter Sophia in 1827.<ref>NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages - Registration Number V182734 73A/1827</ref> The perforated line marks the approximate boundary between Milson's 50 acres in the north and Campbell's 120 acres in the south.]]

Milsons Point was named after James Milson, a free settler originally from [[Lincolnshire]]. Milson settled in the area near Milsons Point and established a profitable business supplying ships with stone ballast, fresh water, and the produce of his dairy, orchard, and vegetable gardens. In the early 1820s,<ref name="Historical">{{cite web|url=http://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/resources/documents/H1_Kirribilli.pdf |title=Walk 1 – Kirribilli from Milsons Point Railway Station |publisher=North Sydney Historical Society |year=1994 |access-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227180639/http://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/resources/documents/H1_Kirribilli.pdf |archive-date=27 February 2012 }}</ref> Milson settled in the vicinity of [[Jeffrey Street]], [[Kirribilli]], on 120 acres of land he leased from [[Robert Campbell (1769-1846)|Robert Campbell]].<ref name="Court">{{cite web |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32076142?searchTerm=James%20Milsom&searchLimits=exactPhrase%7canyWords%7cnotWords%7cl-textSearchScope=*ignore*%7c*ignore*%7cfromdd%7cfrommm%7cfromyyyy=1831%7ctodd%7ctomm%7ctoyyyy=1831%7cl-word=*ignore*%7c*ignore*%7csortby |title=Campbell v Milsom |work=The Sydney Monitor, Wednesday 5 October 1831, p.2 |access-date=28 January 2013}}</ref> In 1824 Milson received a 50-acre grant of his own adjoining Campbell's land<ref>{{cite web|url=http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/m/F38c_mat-mit-18.htm |title=On list of lands granted and reserved by Sir Thomas Brisbane dated 10 August 1824 (50 acre grant by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane to James Milson) |work=Fiche 3269; 9/2740 p.19 |publisher=Colonial Secretary’s Papers|date=10 August 1824 |access-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425085803/http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/m/F38c_mat-mit-18.htm |archive-date=25 April 2013 }}</ref> (which is marked on the 1840s map above). In 1826 a bushfire raged through the area destroying Milson's home, orchard and dairy and farm<ref name="Bushfire2">{{cite web|url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187018|title= Report of the Bushfire|work=[[Sydney Gazette]]|date=29 November 1826|access-date=28 January 2013}}</ref> which he subsequently rebuilt (refer to 1840s map). In 1831 Campbell was involved with Milson in a court action over Milson's non-payment of the lease of the 120 acres.<ref name="Court"/> Milson lived in the vicinity of Jeffrey Street until 1831 when he built a new home, "Brisbane House", on his 50 acres facing Lavender Bay. The next home he built, also on his 50 acres, was called "Grantham".<ref name="Milsons Point">{{cite web |url=http://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/resources/documents/HW_Work_Play.pdf  |title=A walking tour from Milsons Point to Careening Cove  |publisher=North Sydney Council  |year=2008  |access-date=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430132051/http://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/resources/documents/HW_Work_Play.pdf  |archive-date=30 April 2012 }}</ref><ref name="dictionary_of_sydney">{{cite web| url         = http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/kirribilli| title       = Kirribilli| publisher   = Dictionary of Sydney| year        = 2008| first       = Ian| last        = Hoskins| access-date  = 28 January 2013}}</ref> By the 1840s, Milson was leasing only the portion Campbell's 120 acres that contained Milson's orchard in the vicinity of Jeffrey Street.<ref name ="1840s map">{{cite map| publisher   = [184-?]| title       = Robert Campbells Estate, Milsons Point and Kirribilli, Sydney| url         = http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f903| year        = 1840–1849| scale       = Scale indeterminable.| inset       = Map of peninsula at North Sydney showing leases, roads, weather board cottages, jetties, wells, orchards, bee hives, barns, milking bails and stables and the graves of the three typhoid victims from the Surry.| id          = Amicus Number: 8560781}}</ref> In 1872, Milson died at home at "Grantham" in the modern suburb of Milsons Point in what was then called the Municipality of East St Leonards.<ref name="Obit">{{cite web |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60867312?searchTerm=James%20Milson&searchLimits=exactPhrase%7canyWords%7cnotWords%7cl-textSearchScope=*ignore*%7c*ignore*%7cfromdd%7cfrommm%7cfromyyyy=1872%7ctodd%7ctomm%7ctoyyyy=1872%7cl-word=*ignore*%7c*ignore*%7csortby |title=James Milson Death Notice |date=28 October 1872 |work=Empire |page=1 |access-date=28 January 2013}}</ref>

The last of the family's holdings in the lower North Shore area were resumed in the early 1920s for the construction of the [[Sydney Harbour Bridge|Harbour Bridge]] and associated roadways.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book of Sydney Suburbs |editor=Pollon, Frances |publisher=[[Angus & Robertson]]|year=1990 |location=Australia |isbn=0-207-14495-8 |page=174 }}</ref>