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JA Hemphill & Sons Pty Ltd Commercial organisation
Jackman, Hugh
Jackson Place cottages House
Jackson, Charles
Jackson, Edward Jeaffreson
Jackson, Enderby
Jackson, George
Jackson, James R
Jackson, Joseph
Jackson, Richard
Jackson, William
Jade Tree Gift Shop Commercial organisation
Jadran tambouritsa band Performing group
Jagger, Eva
Jagger, Mick
Jalland, Pat
James Bonner and Sons Commercial organisation
James Cook Medal Prize or award
James Hardie & Company Commercial organisation
James Morgan Reserve Park or open space
James Ruse Agricultural High School Educational institution
James Sandy and Co Commercial organisation
James, Brian
James, Clive
James, Ellen
James, Florence
James, John
James, PA
James, Sydney
James, William
James, William G
Jamieson, Ellen
Jamieson, John (1860-1943)
Jamieson, John (c1766-1850)
Jamison Creek River or creek
Jamison Valley Valley
Jamison, John
Jamisontown Suburb
Jane Street Theatre Theatre
Jane, Bob
Janisewski, Leonard
Jannali Suburb
Jantzen (Australia) Ltd Commercial organisation
Janus Ship
Japanese Antarctic expedition 1910-1912 Expedition
Japanese submarine attack 1942 War or military engagement
Japanese submarine I-22 Ship
Japanese submarine I-27 Ship
Jardine, Walter
Jarrett, William

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JA Hemphill & Sons Pty Ltd

Wheat and flour merchants.

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Commercial organisation

Jackman, Hugh

Actor and producer who has worked in film and on television and the stage.

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Jackson Place cottages

Six sandstone cottages built at Wolli Creek by quarryman and stonemason William Jackson for his family.

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House

Jackson, Charles

Tightrope walker who crossed Middle Harbour in 1877.

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Jackson, Edward Jeaffreson

Influential architect of the late nineteenth century who esposed the Arts and Crafts style and was responsible for the introduction of red terracotta roof tiles.

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Jackson, Enderby

English theatrical entrepreneur.

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Jackson, George

Aboriginal community leader.

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Jackson, James R

Painter who studied in Paris and London before settling in Sydney where his harbour and marine scenes were popular.

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Jackson, Joseph

Retailer and cricketer, Joseph Jackson was a Councillor of the City of Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s, including serving as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1931. He also served as a Member of the State Parliament for more than thirty years

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Jackson, Richard

Former convict and thief who was transported for seven years at the age of 14 after being convicted at Middlesex in September 1796 for the theft of a table clock. Described as being 5'1" (approx 155cm) tall, with fair skin, brown hair and grey eyes, he arrived in Sydney on the Barwell in 1798. He was involved in the robbery that ended in the murder of Constable Joseph Luker in 1803. In 1806 he was found guilty of the attempted murder of a man named John Fitzgerald, and sentenced to five years hard labour and 300 lashes.

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Jackson, William

Youngest Australian awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I who enlisted again in Work War II despite having lost an arm to the military action.

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Jade Tree Gift Shop

Shop in Rowe Street Sydney run by Maude Slessor

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Jadran tambouritsa band

Croatian marching band

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Performing group

Jagger, Eva

Born Eva Scutts. Mother of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, born and lived in Sydney until her family emigrated to England.

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Jagger, Mick

English musician and rock singer.

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Jalland, Pat

Professor of history and social history writer on death and old age.

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James Bonner and Sons

Iron foundry formed by James Bonner in 1895 which purchased the Globe Iron Foundry and Glebe Foundry and operated from McKee Street Ultimo until the 1930s.

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James Cook Medal

Award since 1947 for outstanding contributions to science and human welfare in the southern hemisphere.

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Prize or award

James Hardie & Company

Global building materials company which was founded in Melbourne but is now in headquartered in the Netherlands.

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James Morgan Reserve

Park in Cromer

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Park or open space

James Ruse Agricultural High School

Public high school in Carlingford established in 1959 from the Carlingford District Rural School

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Educational institution

James Sandy and Co

George Street business selling wallpaper, glazing, silvering and other household effects, at the turn of the twentieth century.

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James, Brian

Australian actor with a long career in theatre, film and television.

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James, Clive

Author, television and radio broadcaster, critic and poet who grew up in Kogarah in Sydney's south. He left Australia for England in 1961, and remained living and working in the United Kingdom until his death.

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James, Ellen

Aboriginal elder who helped established a women's community group.

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James, Florence

Author and literary agent.

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James, John

Architect and builder who later became an expert on medieval architecture and building methods.

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James, PA

Sawmill owner in the Hornsby area in the early twentieth century.

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James, Sydney

Theatre entrepreneur who toured Australia 1914-1919

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James, William

Convict who became an illegal squatter when he built a stone and slab hut on the site of what became the Woodford Academy.

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James, William G

Composer and pioneer of music broadcasting in Australia. Born 1892, died 1977.

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Jamieson, Ellen

Shopkeeper who was murdered by John Knatchbull in 1844.

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Jamieson, John (1860-1943)

Magistrate and coroner. Appointed to the position of acting Sydney City Coroner in 1916, he was appointed officially in 1919. He had previously been a district coroner in Moree. Jamieson also held the roles of Fair Rent Magistrate, and the visiting magistrate to the Long Bay Penitentiary. Retiring in June 1925 when he reached the compulsory retirement age of 65, he was described as a just and fair magistrate who was an ornament to the NSW Bench. He died in 1943 at the age of 82.

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Jamieson, John (c1766-1850)

Free settler who became superintendent of government stock before being dismissed, whereupon he retired to farm his own land at Liverpool and Parramatta.

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Jamison Creek

A perennial stream rising in Wentworth Falls Lake about 780m north west of Wentworth Falls Railway Station and flowing generally south and south west for 9kilometres to its confluence with Kedumba River at the southern extremity of Sublime Point Ridge in the Blue Mountains National Park. It flows over Wentworth Falls about 3kilometres below Wentworth Falls Lake.

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River or creek

Jamison Valley

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Part of the Coxs River canyon system in the Blue Mountains, surrounded by sandstone cliffs and densely forested. The valley was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie for Sir John Jamison, landowner and doctor.

Valley

Jamison, John

Doctor and landowner who became a politician and constitutional reformer.

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Jamisontown

Western residential and industrial suburb on northern side of M4 Motorway. It is named after Thomas Jamison, assistant surgeon on HMS Sirius and later surgeon-general of New South Wales.

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Suburb

Jane Street Theatre

Originally built as a chapel of St Jude's Anglican Church in Jane Street, Randwick in 1887, the building was converted for theatre use.

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Theatre

Jane, Bob

Racing car driver and businessman who raced competitively between 1956 and 1986.

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Janisewski, Leonard

Academic and writer.

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Jannali

Southern residential suburb, with its name deriving from an Aboriginal word meaning 'moon'. Home-building received a boost there after the Second World War when blocks of land were offered to help returned servicemen and their families.

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Jantzen (Australia) Ltd

Australian subsidiary of US company Jantzen which commenced manufacturing swimsuits in Sydney in 1928

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Janus

Infamous convict transport with 104 female convicts, many of whom arrived pregnant in the colony.

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Ship

Japanese Antarctic expedition 1910-1912

Exploratory expedition to the Antarctic led by Lieutenant Naoshi Shirase. The expedition sailed on a 204 ton, 100 feet long converted wooden fishing boat with an 18-horse-power auxiliary engine, the Kainan Maru, that was captained by Naokichi Nomura. The ship left Tokyo in November 1910, later than had first been planned. Unable to reach the Antarctic mainland due to ice as the southern winter drew in, the expedition harboured in Sydney from 4 May 1911 until the following summer, departing on 19 May 1911. While they did not reach the South Pole, the explorers reached 80° 5 south, and were the first non-Europeans to explore Antarctica.

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Expedition

Japanese submarine attack 1942

On the night of 31 May 1942, three midget submarines, each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted unsuccessfully to sink Allied warships anchored near Garden Island.

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War or military engagement

Japanese submarine I-22

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

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Japanese submarine I-27

One of the Japanese submarines which launched midget submarines to attack Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942.

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Jardine, Walter

Commercial artist and advertising agent who achieved widespread recognition in Australia and New York as a master of line and brush work.

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Jarrett, William

Publican and businessman who became a prominent developer in Glebe and amassed a large property portfolio.

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