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Freeman, James
Freeman, Joan
Freeman, Ralph
Freeman, Samuel 'Jewey'
Freeman, Wellington
Freeman, William
Freemans Reach Suburb
Freemasons Arms Hotel
Freestone, CA
Fremlin, Alfred
French Benevolent Society Nonprofit or charity
French's Tavern Entertainment venue
French, Leonard
French-Australian Chamber of Commerce Business association
Frenchman's Gardens Farm
Frenchmans Bay Bay or cove
Frenchmans Beach Beach
Frenchs Forest Suburb
Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery Cemetery or crematorium
Frere, Georges Gaston Leonce
Frere, Georges Pierre
Frere, Jacques Gustave
Frere, Marthe
Freres Crossing Locality
Fresh Air League Nonprofit or charity
Freshwater Suburb
Freshwater Beach Beach
Freshwater Creek River or creek
Freshwater estate Estate
Freycinet, Henri de
Freycinet, Louis de
Friday on My Mind Song
Friday, James
Friend in Hand Hotel Glebe Hotel
Friend, Donald
Friends of Lane Cove National Park Community organisation
Friends of Rodd Island Community organisation
Friendship Ship
Friendship ferry Ferry
Friendship II Ship
Friendship Medal Object
Frinsdorf, Mark
Frith, John Eric
Frog Hollow Camp
Froggatt, Walter Wilson
Froma House House
Frost, Robert
FT Wimble & Company Commercial organisation
Fullagar, Kate
Fuller's Commercial organisation

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Freeman, James

Convict who arrived on the First Fleet and became the colony's first official executioner for the duration of his sentence when offered the role in lieu of his own execution.

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Freeman, Joan

Physicist who began her career at the CSIRO but spent most of her working life at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment in England.

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Freeman, Ralph

Engineer who claimed to have designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Freeman, Samuel 'Jewey'

Gangland criminal famous for his part in the first armed robbery using a motor vehicle. His relationship with Kate Leigh was not enough to save him from a long gaol sentence.

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Freeman, Wellington

Successful farmer at Agnes Banks.

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Freeman, William

Farmer at Agnes Bank.

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Freemans Reach

North-western semi-rural suburb on banks of Hawkesbury River. It has a large Maltese community.

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Suburb

Freemasons Arms

Hotel with restaurant run by James Larra, ex-convict, which was one of the first licensed in NSW.

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Hotel

Freestone, CA

Submariner and businessman whose donation made possible the memorial to all submarines and their crews lost between 1914 and 1955.

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Fremlin, Alfred

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Fellmonger who became an activist in parliament for a bill that would establish a site to allow the tanning industry to continue, away from residential areas.

French Benevolent Society

Organisation providing assistance to elderly, sick, lonely or vulnerable French-speaking people.

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Nonprofit or charity

French's Tavern

Wine bar at 86 Oxford St which provided a venue for many emerging bands in the 1970s.

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Entertainment venue

French, Leonard

Prominent Australian symbolist artist from Melbourne who was renowned for his work in stained glass, especially the ceiling of the National Gallery in Melbourne and windows at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. 

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French-Australian Chamber of Commerce

Organisation of over 400 members that help promote the development of commercial, industrial and economic bilateral links between France and Australia.

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Business association

Frenchman's Gardens

Just after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, a fleet of French ships captained by Jean-Francois Lapérouse also arrived and anchored at what is now known as Frenchmans Bay. After making landfall, they set up a stockade and planted European vegetable seeds in a plot which became known as 'the Frenchman's Gardens'. The French fleet, however, departed after just six weeks. An 1824 description noted the garden was still visible: 'An enclosure in which Lapérouse had vegetables sown is still there, it has kept the name of the French garden. It is surrounded by a hedge but the inside is almost uncultivated; some vegetables saved by the detachment perished because of lack of water'.

The location of the Frenchman's Gardens is uncertain but was described in 1824 as 'located at 300 paces' distance' from the Macquarie watchtower.

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Farm

Frenchmans Bay

Bay within Botany Bay to the west of La Perouse.

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Bay or cove

Frenchmans Beach

Beach at Frenchmans Bay between two rocky headlands at La Perouse, named after the French expedition of 1788.

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Beach

Frenchs Forest

Leafy north-eastern residential suburb. It is named for James Ffrench [sic], special constable and crown lands ranger, who supervised timber-getters and set up sawmills in the area from 1856.

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Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery

General cemetery established in 1940, taking advantage of its bushland setting.

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Cemetery or crematorium

Frere, Georges Gaston Leonce

Vigneron who emigrated with his family from France and established a vineyard on the Georges River.

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Frere, Georges Pierre

French born vigneron who took up land on the river that was to bear his name.

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Frere, Jacques Gustave

Vigneron who established a vineyard near Albury and also selected land on the Georges River with his brother and nephew.

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Frere, Marthe

French women who travelled with her family to work in vineyards in Albury and Sydney.

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Freres Crossing

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River crossing on the Georges River about 4 kilometres northeast of Campbelltown.

Locality

Fresh Air League

Charity formed to provide poor children a summer holiday in a farmhouse in Moss Vale.

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Freshwater

Northern beachside residential suburb. It was known as 'Harbord' from 1923 until 2008, when it was renamed after its beach.

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Freshwater Beach

Beach just north of Manly.

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Freshwater Creek

Very small creek north of the industrial area on Worth Street at Chullora.

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River or creek

Freshwater estate

One of the Bassett-Darley Estates put up for sale in 1877.

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Estate

Freycinet, Henri de

French naval officer.

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Freycinet, Louis de

French naval officer who joined his brother on the Baudin expedition to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia.

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Friday on My Mind

International hit song performed by Australian rock group The Easybeats, written in 1966 by band members George Young and Harry Vanda.

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Song

Friday, James

Aboriginal man who camped at Bondi in 1873.

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Friend in Hand Hotel Glebe

One of Glebe's oldest hotels established to serve the labourers of the nearby woolstores and foundries.

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Friend, Donald

Artist, writer and diarist who was well known for his studies of the young male nude.

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Friends of Lane Cove National Park

Community conservation group.

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Community organisation

Friends of Rodd Island

Resident action group formed to lobby against commercial development on Rodd Island

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Friendship

Convict transport which bought 72 male convicts, 25 crew and 40 marines to Port Jackson as part of the First Fleet.

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Ship

Friendship ferry

Sydney harbour ferry which entered service in 1986.

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Ferry

Friendship II

Convict ship which traveled from London to Cork to collect Irish convicts sentenced to transportation to the colony, including a number of United Irishmen.

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Friendship Medal

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Engraved commemorative coin depicting convict ship Friendship held in the National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, UK. On one side is engraved the two-masted sailing vessel with the inscription 'Success to the Friendship. 1787.' On the reverse is inscribed, 'F.W.' for Francis Walton master of the Friendship.

Object

Frinsdorf, Mark

Property developer in western Sydney.

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Frith, John Eric

Artist, sculptor and cartoonist.

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Frog Hollow

Depression camp at the northern end of the beach at Frenchmans Bay near the Aboriginal reserve at La Perouse, where many Aboriginal people moved during the 1930s. It later housed new migrants after World War II.

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Camp

Froggatt, Walter Wilson

Entomologist and academic who contributed to the popular study of natural history.

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Froma House

House built by James Neale in the 1860s.

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House

Frost, Robert

Minister and founding headmaster of the King's School at Parramatta.

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FT Wimble & Company

Printing company and advertising agency operating in 1880s.

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Commercial organisation

Fullagar, Kate

Historian, author and academic

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Fuller's

Publishing company of the late nineteenth century.

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