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Mather, John
Mathers' Dairy Farm
Mathers, James
Mathers, John
Mathers, Oliver
Mathew, Daniel Dering
Mathews, Robert Hamilton
Matilda Ship
Matilda Cruises Commercial organisation
Matora
Matra, James Mario (Maria)
Matraville Suburb
Matraville Garden Village Subdivision
Matraville Sailors' and Soldiers' Garden Village Welfare Association Community organisation
Matron's Quarters Residential block
Matthew Talbot Hostel Nonprofit or charity
Matthews, Daniel
Matthews, Harley
Matthews, Maisie
Matthys
Maudsley, Henry
Maugoran
Maundrell Park Park or open space
Maundrell, Walter L
Mauns Point (Karkingang) Headland or point
Mauritian Chinese Circle of Sydney Community organisation
Mawson Park Park or open space
Mawson, Douglas
Maxine Night Club Commercial organisation
Maxwell, Allan Victor
May Villa Locality
May Ville
May's Family Hotel Forest Lodge Hotel
May, Edwin Alfred
May, Phil
May, Ricky
May, Ross
Maybank House
Maybanke House
Maybanke College Educational institution
Maybanke Hostel Aged care facility
Maybanke Kindergarten Educational institution
Mayfair Theatre Theatre
Maynard, Fred
Maynard, John
Mayne, William
Mayoh, Arthur
Mayoh, Joseph
Mays Hill Suburb
Mays Hill Cemetery Cemetery or crematorium

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Mather, John

Scottish born plein-air artist and etcher.

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Mathers' Dairy

Dairy established at Greenwich in 1906.

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Farm

Mathers, James

Scottish missionary for Sydney City Mission in the Rocks and Millers Point area around 1900.

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Mathers, John

Dairy farmer at Greenwich.

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Mathers, Oliver

Dairy farmer at Greenwich.

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Mathew, Daniel Dering

Free settler in the St Ives area who worked in the colony as architect, engineer and magistrate.

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Mathews, Robert Hamilton

Surveyor and anthropologist who recorded Aboriginal culture.

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Matilda

Whaling vessel which was converted to transport 250 male convicts as part of the Third Fleet before reverting to whaler.

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Ship

Matilda Cruises

Ferry company formed in 1984 by the merger of two private companies.

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Commercial organisation

Matora

The first wife of Aboriginal man Bungaree. According to the Reverend Lancelot Threkgold, 'mut-tau-ra' meant 'small snapper' in the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie ('Awabagal') language group, to which she probably belonged. 

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Matra, James Mario (Maria)

American-born Member of Captain James Cook's crew on HMS Endeavour during his Voyage of Discovery, and a major proponent of the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay.

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Matraville

South-eastern suburb built on the sandy swamps on the peninsula between the eastern beaches and Botany Bay. It was developed after the First World War as a settlement for returned soldiers.

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Suburb

Matraville Garden Village

Garden village planned by the State Government in 1917 under the Returned Soldiers' Holdings Act with tenancy restricted to war-injured returned soldiers, sailors and war widows. Voluntary donations of both labour and building materials helped erect 93 homes and provided for a memorial reserve, parkland and sites for public buildings and churches but the scheme suffered mismanagement and corruption and by the 1970s most had been demolished.

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Subdivision

Matraville Sailors' and Soldiers' Garden Village Welfare Association

Residents' organisation of the Garden Village erected for returned World War I sailors and soldiers

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Community organisation

Matron's Quarters

Part of a group of building including storeroom and dispensary which were constructed for the use of the matrons or supervisors of the Female Factory.

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Residential block

Matthew Talbot Hostel

Homeless men's hostel established by the St Vincent de Paul Society in 1938, which has functioned at various sites in Sydney, and is still a centre for services to the homeless.

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Nonprofit or charity

Matthews, Daniel

Missionary who established a mission and school for aborigines near Echuca. He championed aboriginal causes through the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Association he had founded, despite growing enmity from officials and local farmers.

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Matthews, Harley

Writer, soldier and vigneron whose vineyard became a popular venue for Sydney's Bohemia.

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Matthews, Maisie

Prostitute and criminal figure who became the lover of the petty thief and sly-grog seller, Iris Webber. Matthews was romantically linked to another criminal figure, Bill Smillie, and was associated with Kathleen McLennan. Together they were convicted of slashing a woman with a razor in 1936.

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Matthys

Malay convict from Capetown, South Africa. who arrived in Sydney 1837.

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Maudsley, Henry

Early settler in the Fairlight area.

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Maugoran

Burramattagal elder who made the first formal recorded protest about when he advised Governor Phillip that the Aboriginal people were angry about the number of white settlers at Rose Hill. He and his family later moved to the river flats near Meadowbank.

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Maundrell Park

Park on the corner of Stanmore Road and Hopetoun Street Stanmore, previously named Hopetoun Park, then South Kingston Park. Named after Walter L Maundrell, Mayor of Petersham in 1925, 1935 and 1939.

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Park or open space

Maundrell, Walter L

Local politician who became Mayor of Petersham three times in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Mauns Point (Karkingang)

Land on the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) in lower Portland that is named after an early colonist, Joseph Maund. The Aboriginal name for the point, recorded in 1829, is Karkingang, meaning ‘big mouth’.

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Headland or point

Mauritian Chinese Circle of Sydney

Social club for Mauritians of Chinese descent

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Mawson Park

Park on the corner of Queen and Cordeaux Streets, Campbelltown

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Mawson, Douglas

English-born geologist best known for his exploratory expeditions to Antarctica.

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Maxine Night Club

Night club in Oxford Street Woollahra

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Maxwell, Allan Victor

Barrister who presided at four Royal Commissions.

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May Villa

Home in Carlingford for intellectually handicapped boys between 1919 and 1983.

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Locality

May Ville

House in Fairlight owned by Alf Reid on the corner of Cohen Street and Sydney Road.

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May's Family Hotel Forest Lodge

Forest Lodge hotel which has served generations of labourers and university students. Originally known as Durrell's Hotel.

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Hotel

May, Edwin Alfred

The son of a former police sergeant, May spent over forty years in public service. Following his three years as a police magistrate at Tamworth, May was appointed to the position of Sydney City Coroner in May 1928. A year later he was appointed to the additional position of acting Stipendiary Magistrate in the Ryde District. He provoked controversy early in his coronial position when, during an inquest, he suppressed a letter written by the deceased besmirching a living person. May retired in 1932 at the age of 64 and died in 1956 at the age of 84.

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May, Phil

Artist whose drawings for the Bulletin influenced later Sydney cartoonists, despite his short stay in the city.

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May, Ricky

New Zealand singer who found fame as a cabaret and television performer in Australia.

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May, Ross

Right wing political activist and enforcer active in the Domain from 1962.

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Maybank

One of twin terraces built by Norman Selfe at Balmain and lived in by family members.

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House

Maybanke

The home of Francis and Maybanke Anderson at Bayview.

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Maybanke College

Girls' school run by Maybanke Wolstenholme (later Anderson).

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Educational institution

Maybanke Hostel

Salvation Army aged care facility in the former premises of Maybanke College, the school run by Maybanke Wolstenholme (later Anderson), in Marrickville.

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Aged care facility

Maybanke Kindergarten

Named for Maybanke Anderson, pioneer of the free kindergarten movement in Australia, the kindergarten has been operating since 1924. The building is a former Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1877 and extended in 1906.

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Mayfair Theatre

Cinema with 1320 seats which specialised in screening the films that would have long runs like that of The Sound of Music which ran from 1965 to 1967.

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Theatre

Maynard, Fred

Aboriginal activist who protested the separation of Aboriginal children from their families and demanded families should be granted land rights within their traditional country.

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Maynard, John

John Maynard is the a Worimi man and Professor of Indigenous Education and Research(Indigenous History) at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

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Mayne, William

Slaughterman who took advantage of the fresh water supply of the Cooks River to establish his business near the junction of Cup and Saucer Creek at Campsie.

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Mayoh, Arthur

British engineer who worked on Sydney's underground railway and in partnership with his brother Joseph and Sidney Kidman at the Kidman and Mayoh shipyard at Putney.

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Mayoh, Joseph

British engineer who worked on Sydney's underground railway and in partnership with his brother Arthur and Sidney Kidman at the Kidman and Mayoh shipyard at Putney.

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Mays Hill

Small western residential suburb, named for Thomas May, who bought land here in 1859 when the first subdivision of the governor's domain at Parramatta was made. It is the site of Mays Hill Cemetery and Sydney Murugan Hindu Temple.

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Mays Hill Cemetery

A Presbyterian and Baptist cemetery dating from the 1840s.

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Cemetery or crematorium