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Grubmeier, Rebecca
Gruner, Elioth
Gruppo Campari Commercial organisation
Gubbins, GW
Guerin, James
Guerin, Theodosia
Guest's grocers Commercial organisation
Guides NSW Glengarry State Training Centre Camp
Guildford Ship
Guildford Suburb
Guildford Soldiers Memorial School of Arts School of Arts hall
Guildford West Suburb
Guinness, Howard
Guiterman, David
Guiterman, Rosine
Guldulo Locality
Gullett, Lucy Edith
Gulpilil, David
Gum-An-Nan Locality
Gumbery jah (Harry's song) Musical composition
Gumbramorra Creek River or creek
Gumbramorra Swamp Swamp
Gundamaian Locality
Gundimaine House
Gundungurra Reserve Park or open space
Gunnamatta Bay Locality
Guns 'n' Rosé Book
Gunther, William James
Gurner, John
Gurney, Theodore
Gurr, Thomas Stuart
Gustin, Lena (Mamma Lena)
Guthrie, Bessie
Gweagal people Ethnic group
Gymea Suburb
Gymea Bay Suburb
Gymea Bay School of Arts hall School of Arts hall
H Cohen and Son Commercial organisation
H Desbrowe Annear c1921 Painting
Haag, Stefan
Habbe, Alexander
Haberfield Suburb
Haberfield Public School Educational institution
Haberfield School of Arts hall School of Arts hall
Hackett, Ron
Hacking River River or creek
Hacking, Henry
Hackings Creek River or creek
Haddrick, Ron
Haddy, Anne

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Grubmeier, Rebecca

German migrant who founded Commonwealth Brooms which continued the work of her husband Heinz, a highly skilled broom maker.

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Gruner, Elioth

Landscape artist who studied with Julian Ashton and adopted the plein air style.

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Gruppo Campari

Global wine and spirit manufacturer.

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Commercial organisation

Gubbins, GW

Naval officer who conducted surveys along eastern Australia and into the Pacific.

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Guerin, James

Actor.

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Guerin, Theodosia

Actor who performed on the stage from the 1840s until the 1870s.

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Guest's grocers

Early grocery shop in Fairlight

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Guides NSW Glengarry State Training Centre

State training camp for NSW Guides, located in a tract of bushland in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

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Camp

Guildford

Convict ship of 521 tons which made eight voyages to Australia between 1812 and 1829 carrying over 1500 male convicts.

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Ship

Guildford

Western residential suburb named by Lieutenant Samuel North in 1837 for his friend the Earl of Guildford. It now has a large Lebanese community.

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Suburb

Guildford Soldiers Memorial School of Arts

Community hall constructed in stages 1901-25 and renamed and dedicated as a war memorial in 1933.

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School of Arts hall

Guildford West

Western residential suburb. It was separated from Guildford in 1994.

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Guinness, Howard

Anglican minister who pioneered student ministry and became chaplain at the University of Sydney.

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Guiterman, David

American businessman of German descent who suffered from the social repression at the start of World War I.

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Guiterman, Rosine

Jewish activist, poet and humanitarian whose commitment to teaching, social action and the theatre seemed inexhaustible.

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Guldulo

Guldulo, or Goodoolo is an area of Portland Reach on the Hawkesbury that was pointed out by the Aboriginal people sharing information with Rev John McGarvie as he recorded a list of place names in use by the local Darug and Darkinyung people along the river in 1829. The word probably means flint/hard stone for spear points, suggesting that this area was a source for the stone, or that stone points were made here.

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Locality

Gullett, Lucy Edith

Medical practioner and philanthropist who drove the campaign to establish a hospital run for and by women.

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Gulpilil, David

Dancer and actor who had a traditional upbringing in North Eastern Arnhem land before being cast in his first film Walkabout in 1970.

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Gum-An-Nan

Area near the mouth of the Cooks River which was put up for sale in fifty acres lots in 1838. Because of realignment of the river mouth for expansion of the Sydney airport the site is now under the international terminal.

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Gumbery jah (Harry's song)

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Aboriginal chant or song performed by Corrangie (Harry) between 1820 and 1823 and transcribed by Judge Barron Field. It was first published in 1823 when The London Magazine published Field's article ‘Journal of an excursion across the Blue Mountains of New South Wales’ and again in 1825 in Fields' Geographic Memoirs of New South Wales. The work was performed by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee and recorded by Kevin Hunt Conservatorium of Music in 2010.

Musical composition

Gumbramorra Creek

Creek that ran through the Marrickville valley draining the Gumbramorra swamp into the Cooks River, with its mouth close to Tempe Railway Station. Much of the western side of modern day Sydenham and Marrickville lies across its former path and is still subject to flooding.

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River or creek

Gumbramorra Swamp

Swamp on the north of the Cooks River in the Marrickville valley between Marrickville and Sydenham. Most of the swamp had been drained and the land resumed and developed by the early 20th century, but flooding in the area continues to be an issue. Sydenham Road, that runs from Sydenham through Marrickville, was originally called Swamp Road.

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Swamp

Gundamaian

A locality in the Royal National Park, on the southern side of Port Hacking south-east of Gymea Bay

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Gundimaine

Imposing residential design in the Federation style by the architects Spain and Rowe made all the more prominent by occupying an island site.

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House

Gundungurra Reserve

Park in Mount Annan.

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Park or open space

Gunnamatta Bay

Area surrounding large bay on the northern shore of Port Hacking.

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Guns 'n' Rosé

Crime novel set in Terrigal on the New South Wales central coast.

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Book

Gunther, William James

Anglican minister at Seven Hills.

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Gurner, John

Chief clerk of the Supreme Court who left government service in 1841 to pursue more lucrative private practice as a solicitor.

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Gurney, Theodore

Second professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Sydney.

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Gurr, Thomas Stuart

Journalist and writer.

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Gustin, Lena (Mamma Lena)

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Radio broadcaster and welfare worker who was the voice of the Italian community from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Guthrie, Bessie

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Designer, publisher and feminist whose leftist sympathies and political consciousness led her to campaign for children's rights and provide a safe house for victims of domestic abuse.

Gweagal people

Aboriginal clan who lived predominantly south of Botany Bay.

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Ethnic group

Gymea

Southern residential suburb. It was named after the Gymea Lily in 1855 by W.A.B. Greaves, New South Wales government surveyor.

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Gymea Bay

Southern bayside residential suburb overlooking Port Hacking. It was proclaimed a village in 1933 and a suburb in 1973.

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Gymea Bay School of Arts hall

Community hall built in 1929, and later moved to Gymea Oval, then demolished.

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H Cohen and Son

Wholesale grocery store established by Jewish tailor and convict, Henry Cohen, in the early 1840s on George St where Australia Square now stands. The site also included the Cohen family's house and is depicted in Joseph Fowles' Sydney in 1848. For a time, the store was run by Cohen's second son, Edward Cohen, before he moved to Melbourne.

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H Desbrowe Annear c1921

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Portrait by William Beckwith McInnes of Melbourne architect Harold Desbrowe Annear which won the first Archibald Prize in 1921.

Painting

Haag, Stefan

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Singer, director and theatre administrator who built a varied career in music, theatre, television and teaching, advocating the development of an Australian artistic sensibility.

Habbe, Alexander

Danish-born scenic artist who painted sets for theatres in Melbourne and Sydney.

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Haberfield

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Inner western residential suburb. Planned by real estate agent Richard Stanton as a 'model suburb' at the end of the nineteenth century, it retains much of its Federation architecture.

Haberfield Public School

Established as a demonstration school in 1910.

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Educational institution

Haberfield School of Arts hall

Community hall used by the School of Arts, and later as a dancing school, before Ashfield Council took it over in 1964.

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Hackett, Ron

Film, television and theatre actor of the 1970s to early 2000s.

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Hacking River

River in Sydney's south that flows through the Royal National Park to Port Hacking.

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Hacking, Henry

Sailor and ship's pilot who explored extensively before he was convicted of theft and transported to Van Diemen's Land. Port Hacking is named for him.

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Hackings Creek

Original name of Haslams Creek, which flows into Homebush Bay

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Haddrick, Ron

Actor who first appeared on stage in 1946 and who also worked extensively on radio and television.

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Haddy, Anne

Actor whose career spanned over three decades in television, film and on stage.

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