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Hay, Jessie Sinclair
Hay, John
Hay, Sir John
Hayden, Bill
Hayes, Catherine
Hayes, Charles
Hayes, Chow
Hayes, Henry Smithers
Hayes, Michael
Hayes, Patrick
Hayes, William
Hayes-Williams, WG
Haymarket Suburb
Haymarket Coffee Palace Commercial organisation
Haymarket Reserve Reserve
Haymarket Theatre Theatre
Haynes, John
Hazelbrook Suburb
Hazlewood plant nursery Commercial organisation
Hazzard, Shirley
Head of the River regatta Sporting event
Heads of a Plan proposal 1786 Report or plan
Healey, Richard
Health Commission of New South Wales State or colonial government
Health Infrastructure State or colonial government
Heard, James Charles
Heart's Desire Song
Heath, Edward
Heathcote Suburb
Heaton, John Henniker
Heatwave Film
Hebe Cottage House
Heber Chapel Cobbitty Place of worship
Hebersham Suburb
Hebrew Philanthropic Society Philanthropic organisation
HEC Robinson Ltd Commercial organisation
Hecht, Charles
Heckenberg Suburb
Hedgeland, Annie
Hedgeland, Edmund Woodhouse
Hedgeland, George Caleb
Heffron, RJ
Hegarty, Mary
Heifetz, Jascha
Heights of Manly Subdivision
Heiss, Anita
Helenie House
Hell Has Harbour Views Film
Hellenic Club Club
Hellenic Lyceum Club

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Hay, Jessie Sinclair

Landholder in North Sydney and the Shoalhaven.

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Hay, John

Squatter, grazier and parliamentarian.

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Hay, Sir John

Landholder who inherited property from the Berry family in North Sydney and the Shoalhaven.

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Hayden, Bill

Politician who served in two Federal cabinets before becoming 21st Governor General of Australia.

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Hayes, Catherine

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Irish-born singer who became an international star, and toured Australia in 1854 and 1855, when Sydney was seized by 'Hayesmania'.

Hayes, Charles

Businessman and Manly councillor sometime called the father of Manly.

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Hayes, Chow

Criminal and gunman who was notorious in mid-twentieth century Sydney.

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Hayes, Henry Smithers

Manager of Brisbane Steam Mills, Parramatta Street. Declared insolvent in 1845 and again in 1849.

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Hayes, Michael

Dealer and Catholic layman whose trading businesses in Sydney and on Norfolk Island failed when he could not recover debts owed to him.

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Hayes, Patrick

Entrepreneur whose business interests ranged from brick making to ferry companies.

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Hayes, William

Rigger who was killed while working on the construction of Rose Bay hangar.

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Hayes-Williams, WG

New Zealand born Registrar-General.

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Haymarket

Urban locality in southern part of central business district. Named for the markets of the nineteenth century, it is still home to Paddy's Market as well as Chinese, Thai, Korean and Indonesian communities.

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Suburb

Haymarket Coffee Palace

Temperance hotel and restaurant in George Street, Haymarket, established by 1894.

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Commercial organisation

Haymarket Reserve

Public reserve opposite the original Belmore Markets in Haymarket, often used for circus and fairs in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Reserve

Haymarket Theatre

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Theatre in George Street, Haymarket, which hosted live performances and vaudeville as well as films. Converted to a cinema as the Civic, then the Palladium, then the Barclay.

Theatre

Haynes, John

Journalist and politician who started a number of publications, including the Bulletin, and had a long career in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

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Hazelbrook

Mid-Blue Mountains bushland town. It is named after Hazelbrook House, constructed between 1879-1880 by Edward Higgs.

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Hazlewood plant nursery

Nursery which developed from an orchard started by Walter and Harry Hazlewood.

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Hazzard, Shirley

Author of fiction and nonfiction who has lived and worked overseas since 1947.

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Head of the River regatta

Annual rowing race on the Nepean River near Penrith between eight of the Great Public Schools.

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Sporting event

Heads of a Plan proposal 1786

Proposal for the establishment of a colony at Botany Bay written in 1786.

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Report or plan

Healey, Richard

Radio sport journalist and politician.

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Health Commission of New South Wales

State government body responsible for health that replaced the Department of Public Health.

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State or colonial government

Health Infrastructure

Arm of the New South Wales government's Department of Health that oversees the planning, design, procurement and construction of health capital works in NSW

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Heard, James Charles

American swing, bop and blues drummer.

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Heart's Desire

Song written by Haydn Wood with words by Anthony Mainwaring.

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Song

Heath, Edward

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974.

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Heathcote

Far southern residential suburb, bordering on Royal National Park. It was named by surveyor-general Sir Thomas Mitchell after an officer who had fought with him in the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon.

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Heaton, John Henniker

Jackaroo and journalist who travelled widely and published a pioneer reference work, Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time in 1879.

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Heatwave

Film directed by Phillip Noyce in 1982 starring Judy Davis.

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Film

Hebe Cottage

Single storey verandahed farmhouse in Riverstone that was built by engineer Richard Dawson and includes decorative ironwork from his foundry.

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House

Heber Chapel Cobbitty

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Financed by Thomas Hassall, the chapel was built on his land at Cobbitty and dedicated in 1828 by Reverend Samuel Marsden.

Place of worship

Hebersham

Western residential suburb, part of the New South Wales Housing Commission subdivisions north of Mount Druitt. The name, dating from 1829 and honouring Anglican Bishop Reginald Heber of Calcutta, was for a planned village which did not eventuate.

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Hebrew Philanthropic Society

Established in 1833. In 1876 it merged with the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home

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Philanthropic organisation

HEC Robinson Ltd

Map publishing company which was to merge with Gregory's Guides in the 1930s. In th 1900s the business was operating from 41 Phillip Street Sydney.

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Hecht, Charles

Publican who held licenses at several hotels around Sydney despite being a bankrupt.

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Heckenberg

South-western residential suburb, part of the NSW Housing Commission's 1960s Green Valley subdivisions. The Heckenberg family - eight brothers and a sister - settled in the area before 1840.

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Hedgeland, Annie

Colonial migrant who was the sister of pastoralist Edmund Biddulph and writer Rachel Henning, and wife of surveyor George C Hedgeland.

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Hedgeland, Edmund Woodhouse

Australian surveyor and engineer who worked extensively in the Malay States in the early twentieth century. He was killed by a train in Bowral in 1927.

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Hedgeland, George Caleb

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Surveyor who undertook alignment surveys of streets across Sydney in the late nineteenth cenutry. He was also a pastoralist, artist and stained glass artist.

Heffron, RJ

Trade unionist and Labor politician who was a New South Wales government minister from 1941 and Premier between 1959 and 1964.

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Hegarty, Mary

Classical scholar and teacher.

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Heifetz, Jascha

Lithuanian born American violinist considered to be one of the finest violinists of all time. He toured extensively before injury forced him to focus on teaching.

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Heights of Manly

Subdivision in Manly in 1880 on the upper part of Darley Road towards the Cardinal's Palace.

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Subdivision

Heiss, Anita

Author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

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Helenie

House built for Isaac Shepherd in the 1840s and later occupied by Henry Parkes.

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Hell Has Harbour Views

Television mini-series of 2005 written and directed by Peter Duncan.

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Hellenic Club

Greek cultural and social club.

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Club

Hellenic Lyceum

Greek club which offered community support and encouraged the preservation of cultural items.

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