Family background
William Huddleston Bogie was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire, England in 1849, the son of James William Bogie, an average adjuster, and Eleanor née Weston. He arrived in New South Wales with his parents and sisters in 1858 and initially lived in Kiama. In 1861 J W Bogie established premises as an average stater and arbitrator on Bridge Street, Sydney.
In 1873 W H Bogie married Harriette Clara Ives Coar in Sydney and during the late 1870s the couple lived in St Leonards and then Redfern in the 1880s. He died on 7 November 1896 at his residence, ‘Maroubra’, at Hurstville and was survived by his wife and five daughters.
Occupation & interests
William Bogie was an average adjuster, like his father, and established a business as a young man at Kiama, where the Bogie family lived after their arrival in New South Wales.
In 1874 Bogie applied to register the Bowenfels Coal Mining and Copper Smelting Company, to operate in Lithgow Valley, near Bowenfels. The nominal capital of the company was £30,000, with Bogie as manager and company offices in King Street, Sydney. In 1876, the company announced it was resuming its wholesale and retail business and reopening their depot at the railway terminus in Redfern.
In 1881 Bogie was described as a builder, living in Abercrombie Street, Redfern. By the end of 1882 the colliery was insolvent. In 1890 Bogie was declared bankrupt, after having been involved in the Annandale Brewery. In 1891-94 Bogie was manager of the Sydney Cyclorama building on Harris Street, Ultimo, which had been constructed in 1889 ad operated until 1906 after which it became an ice rink known as the Glacarium.
Local government service
William Bogie’s father, James, served as an alderman and mayor of Woollahra Council throughout the 1870s. In 1877, William followed suit and was elected an alderman of St Leonards. He was then elected an alderman of Redfern in February 1881 after an extraordinary vacancy was created and served until his resignation in November 1882.
References
‘Family Notices’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March 1873, p. 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28412994
‘Advertising’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1877, p. 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13387927
‘I, the undersigned, William Huddleston Bogie’, NSW Government Gazette, 6 February 1874 (No.30), p. 405 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/223692293
‘Municipal Elections’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 1881, p. 11,
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28384912
‘Advertising’, The Sydney Daily Telegraph, 13 September 1882, p. 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238475151
‘In Insolvency’, NSW Government Gazette, 21 November 1882 (No.461), p. 6198; https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225822026
‘In Bankruptcy’, NSW Government Gazette, 14 November 1890 (No.639), p. 8808, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221646221
NSW State Archives: Insolvency Index 1842-1887, File No: 17594, Place: Sydney, Occupation: Colliery Lessee
NSW State Archives: Bankruptcy Index 1888-1929, File No: 3013, Date of Sequestration: 06/11/1890, Place: Sydney & Annandale, Occupation: Brewer
‘The Late Mr. William Huddleston Bogie’, The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser, 14 November 1896, 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100860167
Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney, Baptism, Burial, Confirmation, Marriage and Composite Registers in the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney Archives
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool, England, Church of England Parish Registers, Reference Number: 283 CLE/2/2
The Illustrated Sydney news New South Wales weather almanac, 1872, p. 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2929344906
Letter: W H Bogie, Manager, Bowenfels Coal Mining and Copper Smelting Co. Ltd. wrote to request (13/03/1881 – 20/04/1881), [A-00306308], City of Sydney Archives, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1108225