elucidated by archaeological evidence. Archaeological investigation and analysis of the site is likely to reveal remains and information not available from other sources. The site may contribute data relevant to early nineteenth-century households and economic status in this part of Sydney. The opportunity to examine archaeological assemblages that might contribute to such knowledge is rare and diminishing. The artefact assemblage should reflect all classes of people who lived in the house: owners, servants and convicts. The evidence associated with the reform institutions is rare and if it survives with any level of integrity it provides knowledge that no other resource can. This site has the potential to contain archaeological remains associated with two significant phases of occupation of the site. The occupation by Alexander Spark and family and the reform institution operated by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The knowledge to be gained from the analysis of the archaeological material excavated from the study area is relevant to general and substantive problems relating to the archaeology and history of Australia. Some of the areas of research that are germane to historical archaeology are questions relating to: colonial attitudes towards house and garden design and private recreation identification, analysis and interpretation of living conditions and class structure within nineteenth-century society and how this evidence is structured within the archaeological resource; working, accommodation and living conditions for convists on colonial properties; examination of the role of gender relations and how it structured nineteenth-century life especially with reference References Bibliography Attribution This article is copied from External links 19th-century establishments in Australia New South Wales State Heritage Register Chapels in Sydney Houses in Sydney Convents in Australia Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register 1836 establishments in Australia Buildings and structures completed in 1836 John Verge buildings