Municipality of Petersham

The Municipality of Petersham was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The small municipality was proclaimed as a borough in 1871 and was centred on the suburbs of Lewisham, Petersham and Stanmore.[2] It was bounded by Parramatta Road in the north, Cardigan and Liberty Streets in the east, Stanmore and New Canterbury Roads in the south, and Old Canterbury Road in the west.[3] The municipality was divided into three wards: South Kingston, Annadale and Sydenham, all the names of early farms. The boundaries remained fairly stable, with only minor changes on the east and western sides. The borough became a municipality in 1906. In 1949 under the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, Petersham council was merged with the larger neighbouring Marrickville Council which was located immediately to the south.

Municipality of Petersham New South Wales
Population	29,451 (1947 census)[1]
• Density	8,410/km^2 (21,790/sq mi)
Established	14 December 1871
Abolished	31 December 1948
Area	3.5 km^2 (1.4 sq mi)
Council seat	Petersham Town Hall
Region	Inner West
Parish	Petersham
LGAs around Municipality of Petersham: Leichhardt Camperdown Ashfield Municipality of Petersham Newtown Canterbury Marrickville

Mayors

Petersham Town Hall, which replaced an earlier town hall built in 1882, was the seat of the council from 1938–1948.

Term	Mayors	Notes
14 February 1872 – 10 February 1880	William Hilson Piggott	[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
10 February 1880 – 10 February 1881	Michael McMahon	[12]
10 February 1881 – 15 February 1882	William Henry Paling	[13]
15 February 1882 – 15 February 1884	John Gelding	[14][15]
15 February 1884 – 11 February 1885	Henry Hughes	[16]
11 February 1885 – 10 February 1886	William Lovel Davis	[17]
10 February 1886 – 11 February 1891	John Wheeler	[18][19][20][21][22]
11 February 1891 – 13 February 1894	Llewellyn Jones	[23][24][25]
13 February 1894 – 12 February 1897	Alfred Rofe	[26][27][28]
12 February 1897 – 10 February 1899	Percy Grose Hordern	[29][30]
10 February 1899 – 15 February 1901	Joseph Wetherill Cockbaine	[31][32]
15 February 1901 – 9 February 1903	Henry Davis	[33][34]
9 February 1903 – 16 February 1905	Percy Grose Hordern	[35][36]
16 February 1905 – February 1908	Frederick Lawrence Langdon	[37][38]
February 1908 – February 1910	Percy Grose Hordern	[39]
February 1910 – February 1912	Tom Hoskins	[40][41]
February 1912 – 17 September 1912	R. A. Barry	[42][43]
20 September 1912 – 31 January 1914	John Wheeler	[44]
3 February 1914 – 2 February 1915	Charles Henry Crammond	[45]
2 February 1915 – February 1916	Tom Hoskins	[46][47]
February 1916 – 11 February 1918	John Henry Albert Weekley	[48]
11 February 1918 – February 1920	Richard Gendle	[49][50]
February 1920 – December 1920	Abraham Cropper
December 1920 – December 1921	John Allworth Clark	[51]
December 1921 – 7 December 1922	William John Bastion	[52]
7 December 1922 – December 1923	David Robert Cooper	[53][54][55]
December 1923 – December 1924	Joseph Johnson	[56]
December 1924 – December 1925	Walter Lawrence Maundrell	[57]
December 1925 – December 1926	John Henry Albert Weekley	[58]
December 1926 – December 1927	Gilbert Barry	[59][60]
December 1927 – December 1928	Arthur Whiteley	[61]
December 1928 – December 1929	Thomas Casserley	[62][63]
December 1929 – December 1930	James Bain	[64][65]
December 1930 – January 1932	Ernest Albert McKinley	[66]
January 1932 – December 1932	Arthur Whiteley	[67]
December 1932 – December 1933	Joseph Johnson	[68]
December 1933 – December 1934	Jacob Lauder Raith	[69]
December 1934 – December 1935	Walter Lawrence Maundrell	[70]
December 1935 – December 1936	John Alexander Stewart	[71][72]
December 1936 – December 1937	Robert John Hoskins	[73]
December 1937 – December 1938	Joseph Johnson	[74]
December 1938 – December 1939	Walter Lawrence Maundrell	[75]
December 1939 – December 1940	Fred Cahill (ALP)	[76][77][78]
December 1940 – December 1941	Sydney Hastie Bain (ALP)	[79]
December 1941 – December 1943	John Friel Laxton	[80]
December 1943 – December 1944	Hilton Gregory Clifford	[81]
December 1944 – 31 December 1948	John Friel Laxton	[82][83][84][85]

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85. Also Mayor of Marrickville, 1958–1959.