WIDOGOOTOGUP

WIDDOGOOTOGUP / WID-DO-GOO-TOO / WID-DOGOO-TOGUP

The name attributed to the high rising ground at the eastern end of Murray Street where the Roman Catholic cathedral and associated buildings now stand. The name was recorded by the ethnographer Daisy Bates, whose research was largely informed by interviews with Noongar people, including Fanny Balbuk (d.1907), and the previous recordings of Robert Lyons from 1833.

St. John’s Pro Cathedral, the little church on Victoria Avenue, was the principal place of worship for the Roman Catholic Community in Perth from 1844 until 1865 after which services commenced up the hill in the newly-constructed St Mary’s Cathedral. The precinct includes the Perth Colonial Hospital (1855), Archbishop’s Palace (1855) and Sisters of Mercy Convent (1847).