This weatherboard and galvanised iron cottage was built between 1908-1915. The Wallarah Coal-mining Company built this cottage to house its mineworkers.
Mr Marks who was employed with the Mine Management lived here with his wife and daughter.
Rudge, the daughter, taught piano and lived in the house with her husband Alfie Ramsdale. They had no children.
Jack Basset and his wife Jane (nee Henderson) came from Federal City to this house. Jane was renowned as a great cook and they had two children. John and Ida. Jack was a coal miner and died in the late 50s from black dust on the lungs.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. The Company determined that the house and land would be purchased for400 pounds by Mrs J M Bassett.
The son John married Rhoda Freer and Ida married Ernie Evans. When Jane died the house went to John and he eventually sold to Mr A D Zietsch.
Renowned surfer and board maker John Stewart lived here until he passed away in Bali in 1999.The Stewart family had lived in Moonee and he had had a long association with Catherine Hill Bay. He is buried in the Catherine Hill Bay Cemetery. The Brazel family owned the house until 2002. They lived here with their two small girls for a number of years and were responsible for installing the swimming pool.
Neil Schiller and Michelle McKernan purchased the house in July 2002 and have restored it back to the original. They have one child, Emilia Schiller, DOB 17/9/04, and enjoyed spending weekends and holidays there.
The house resold.