b'Bowden, a schoolmaster who established the MethodistWhile the family moved to a new house in Glebe in 1831, Church in Australia and was a founding father of both thethe cottage remained the firms home for seventy- two years. Wesley Mission and The Benevolent Society. Thomas BowdenFor the first twenty-two years the firms address was simply likely inspired Georges philanthropic endeavours. In 1824Elizabeth Street. In 1844 the official address becameGeorge and Jane welcomed their first child a son, George190 Elizabeth Street Sydney.Wigram (known as Wigram). Over the coming years Jane gave birth to fourteen children, ten of whom survived infancy. Three of their sons, including Wigram, went onto become partners in the firm.One of these cottages is occupied as the business offices of George Allen, Esq., one of the most respectable Solicitors, and wealthy men of the City. He was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court in the year 1822, and his career has strikingly illustrated how high respect and honour can be achievedby persevering industry, and unswerving integrity.Joseph Fowles, author and artist of Sydney in 1848In 1848 Joseph Fowles published a collection of drawings of Sydney streetscapes called Sydney in 1848, which included a sketch of Elizabeth Street. George Allens cottage is second from the left.15'