A short study tying up loose ends in the biography of the Sydney cabinet-maker Andrew Lenehan (c 1814-1886) and his brother-in-law James Templeton (1807-1862), both from Dublin, who arrived together on the Jane Goudie in 1835. It covers Templeton's cabinet-making business in George and Castlereagh Streets and his bitter feud with the neighbouring jeweller James Haldane Watt, who was convicted of assaulting him in 1839; the chain migration of the Templeton brothers on the Spartan in 1838; Lenehan's double Roman Catholic and Church of England marriage to Susan Templeton in 1840; and his 1841 acquisition of Templeton's business, which left him well placed to tender for work such as the York Street Synagogue interior.

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