Tailors’ Button

John & Cleary, Fremantle

In February 1893 the partnership of Moore & Co was dissolved, with  William Thomas John and Mary Agnes Cleary continuing as John & Cleary. They stocked clothing and fancy goods, including electroplated silver ware, cutlery and grocery, clothing and drapery.

Mr John retired from the firm soon after, and took over the Coronation Hotel in Woodlupine. He unfortunately died in 1908, aged only 53 years.

The West Australian (Perth), 14th February 1893 p.3

In 1896 “… great excitement was occasioned in the vicinity of John and Cleary’s establishment, 79 High-street, Fremantle, by a revolver shot at the rear of the shop premises.” A thief had been interrupted by the manager, who lived on site and who nearly got shot for his efforts!

“The ‘Emporium’ continued until 1903 when it was sold to new owners. Mary Cleary, spinster, died in 1939 in Subiaco aged 93 years.

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