Cambridge street house names

One of the things I find interesting walking around Paddington is the old house names.  Cambridge street is no exception.  Walking down the eastern side of the street you will be able to pick out the following:
33 - "Waipa"
35 - "Hawea"
37 - "Arawa"
47 - "Westbury"
49 - "Sherbrooke" (pictured above, some great craftsmanship there)
53 - "Larkhall"
55 - "Langlo"
59 - "Frampton"
77 - "Oceana"
81 - "Elgin"

Those last two are brass plaques near the door so you have to be beady eyed.  I didn't think there were any names on the western side at first glance although a closer inspection reveals a date (1890) and name etched in the glass above the door on one terrace ...

30 - "Phoenix"

I had wondered if my terrace had a name so off I went to the Mitchell Library for a little research.  A great source is the Sands Directory.  This is like a phone book without the phone numbers.  It was published from the 1800s to 1933 and lists addresses by suburb and street and then gives the resident and occasionally their occupation and even a house name.  Unfortunately, it is not yet online but you soon get the gist of the microfiche.

East side Cambridge street house names found in the Sands Directory in 1890/1891:
7 - "Carlton"
9 - "Brunswick"
11 - "Eglington" (this place may have identity issues, changing names to "Olga" in 1896, and to "Meroo" by 1912)
13 - "Genoa"
19 - "Kanimbula"
45 - "Westbury" (maybe a spot of re-numbering at one point, or a misprint by Sands)
55 - "Glenelg" (which makes its current signage of Langlo a more recent addition)
59 - "Frampton"
Additionally, it appears that the group of terraces from 61-69 were originally known as the "Aberdeen Villas" in 1889.  There is also reference to a "Hiram" but the street number was not given, it was between 45 and 55.

On the west side we have the following names from 1890/1891:
44 - "Wallaroobee"
46 - "Candelo"
52 - "Kibworth"
Additionally, 50 was listed as "Golspie" by 1901.

In the beginning ...

The traditional owners of the land from South Head to Petersham were the Cadigal group.
Following British settlement a series of land grants were made in Paddington.  In 1833 the solicitor, John Gurner, received a grant of over 7 acres which was to be known as Gurner's Paddock.  By 1843 Gurner had built his house, "Duxford", on the property.  In 1881 the Crown resumed about 2 acres of Gurner's land off Glenmore Road for use as a new public school for Paddington.

John Gurner died in 1882 and his landholdings, renamed the Duxford Estate for marketing purposes, were then subdivided and offered for sale in 1885.  Cambridge Street was formed at the same time as the subdivision running between the newly created Gurner Street and Glenmore Road.  Glenmore Road had been in existence for at least 50 years as one of the earliest thoroughfares in Paddington and was formed in the 1820s as a bullock track to and from the Glenmore Distillery and South Head Road (renamed Oxford Street in 1875).

The Sands Directory (available at the Mitchell Library) lists only 2 houses in Cambridge Street in 1887.  Two years later there are over 40 houses, indicative of the construction boom of the time.