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Bixio, Nino
Black, Dorrit
Black, Eric
Black, George Mure
Black, John
Black, Morrice A
Black, William
Blackburn, David
Blacket, Arthur
Blacket, Edmund
Blacket, Owen
Blacket, Sarah
Blackman, Charles
Blackmore, Edward Hugh Enes
Blackmore, George
Blackmore, Kate
Blackstone, William
Blackwood, William
Bladders, William
Blair, Gorrie McLeish
Blake, Edward
Blake, Thomas
Blake, William George
Blamire, Anthony
Blanch, James
Blanchett, Cate
Blanco, Raymond
Bland, Eliza
Bland, William
Blanket, John
Blanks, Fred
Blaxcell, Garnham
Blaxland, Audrey
Blaxland, Charles
Blaxland, Elizabeth
Blaxland, Gregory
Blaxland, John (1769-1845)
Blaxland, John (1799-1884)
Blevins, Jim
Blewit
Bligh, Henry Hocken
Bligh, William
Blissett, Ray
Blondin
Bloodsworth, James
Bloomfield, George
Bloomfield, John
Blue, Billy
Blue, Catherine
Blue, Mary

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Bixio, Nino

Captain of ship that brought Italian emigrants to Sydney in 1856, later deputy of Garibaldi.

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Black, Dorrit

Artist who studied in Adelaide, Sydney and London before returning to Adelaide to work. She is considered a pioneer of Modernism in Australia.

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Black, Eric

Chief engineer of Auburn Municipal Council who designed Auburn Botanic Gardens.

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Black, George Mure

Journalist, editor and politician whose self esteem often outstripped his political stature.

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Black, John

Ship's officer and privateer who was based in Sydney from 1798 to 1802.

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Black, Morrice A

Actuary for AMP for 30 years to 1890.

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Black, William

Orchardist and long term resident of Galston who in 1894 suggested the name Glenorie for the area known as North Dural.

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Blackburn, David

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Naval officer who was the master of the HMAT Supply, part of the First Fleet.

Blacket, Arthur

Architect

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Blacket, Edmund

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Colonial Architect and designer of Sydney University and many public buildings.

Blacket, Owen

Architect who followed his father and brothers into the profession.

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Blacket, Sarah

Daughter of a miller who ignored family opposition to marry for love and travel across the world to the new colony.

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Blackman, Charles

Renowned Australian artist whose work is represented in all the Australian and state galleries.

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Blackmore, Edward Hugh Enes

Classics and mathematics teacher who ran his own school on Hunter Street. He also taught at Sydney Grammar in the late 1850s and 1860s, as well as working as a private tutor, and teaching for a short time in the 1880s at Sydney Girls High.  Born in England, he had migrated to New Zealand in the 1840s, where he was secretary to Governor George Grey, then the Collector of Customs and Sub Treasurer in Nelson. When it was discovered he had been misappropriating funds from the Treasury, he left the colony and arrived in Sydney in about 1856. His brother, Edwin Blackmore, was a respected legal scholar in South Australia.

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Blackmore, George

Landowner who built Ben Linden in Narellan in 1919.

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Blackmore, Kate

Historian and writer.

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Blackstone, William

Blackstone who was transported for 14 years in 1815. Participated in the 1828 robbery of the Bank of Australia but received a pardon for confessing and naming the other robbers. He declined a promised free passage back to England and continued to engage in further criminal activities until his death in 1850.

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Blackwood, William

Photographer.

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Bladders, William

Former convict who had been transported for burglary but became a constable in Sydney's early police force. He was one of several suspects in the murder of another police officer, Joseph Luker, in August 1803 but was found not guilty due to lack of evidence. He was also known as William Hambridge, Ambridge or Embridge. 

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Blair, Gorrie McLeish

Scottish architect in the Government Architect's Office who was responsible for the design of the Mitchell Library building.

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Blake, Edward

Early alderman of Kogarah municipality.

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Blake, Thomas

First postmaster at Kogarah post office in 1863.

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Blake, William George

Landholder, quarryman and and postmaster for Cooks River.

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Blamire, Anthony

Brickmaker in Hurlstone Park in the late nineteenth century.

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Blanch, James

Former convict, mathematical instrument maker and foundry owner who established his business in George Street about 1822.

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Blanchett, Cate

Actor, director and artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Blanco, Raymond

Dancer and the first Indigenous artistic director in Australia.

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Bland, Eliza

The wife of Major CT Smeathman who arrived with her husband and son Henry in Sydney in 1827. After her husband's death she married surgeon William Bland.

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Bland, William

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Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

Blanket, John

Māori man who was one of the early harbour pilots and then worked for many years as a servant and part of the household of the politician John Robertson at his property Clovelly at Watsons Bay. On 8 Feburary 1874 Blanket and three other men from Watsons Bay were on a fishing expedition outside the heads. A storm blew in on their return journey and the boat was swamped near DeeWhy and sank. One of the men, a Portuguese sailor named Emmanuel Jacinto (or Jesson) was drowned, while the other three eventually managed to swim. Blanket was described as tattooed and as a Maori chief.

Blanket died in late 1889, aged about 82, and was buried at South Head Cemetery. In 1899 his remains were removed to be placed beside those of John Robertson.

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Blanks, Fred

Industrial chemist and music critic born in Germany in 1925, died in Sydney 2011.

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Blaxcell, Garnham

Trader and merchant whose unsuccessful speculation in trade undid early commercial success and involvement with the building of Sydney Hospital.

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Blaxland, Audrey

Actress and drama teacher.

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Blaxland, Charles

Pastoralist and landowner in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Elizabeth

Wife of Gregory Blaxland and an early settler in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Gregory

Farmer, speculator and explorer who crossed the Blue Mountains with Lawson and Wentworth in 1813.

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Blaxland, John (1769-1845)

Early settler who was persuaded by Banks to migrate with his younger brother, explorer Gregory Blaxland, to New South Wales. He became a landowner, founding the Newington estate at Homebush, and was a participant in the rebellion against Bligh. He was a member of the Legislative Council until he resigned due to ill health in 1844.

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Blaxland, John (1799-1884)

Merchant of independent means who lived at the Hermitage in Ryde and served on the New South Wales Legislative Council as well as holding other prominent positions in the banking sector.

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Blevins, Jim

Australian jazz musician.

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Blewit

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Aboriginal man who killed Musquito in retaliation for the wounding with a tomahawk of a boy named Pigeon in January 1806. He was also known as Ploge, or Blewett. 

Bligh, Henry Hocken

Inspector of Police at Albury and later Mayor of Willoughby, he was an early settler in Northbridge first purchasing land there in 1856.

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Bligh, William

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Governor of New South Wales who was overthrown in the Rum Rebellion of 1808.

Blissett, Ray

Policeman nicknamed 'The Blizzard' who started life as a bullock driver at age 14 before joining the police force in Redfern. He worked as a police officer during the violent razor gang wars of the 1930s, spending most of his career policing Glebe. On his retirement he had been superintendent and chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch.

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Blondin

French tightrope walker and acrobat.

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Bloodsworth, James

Emancipist brickmaker and builder who built many early buildings in the colony between 1788 and 1804.

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Bloomfield, George

Child who was removed from his family and placed in institutions where he experienced abuse and harsh punishment over several years. He later became a youth worker drawing on his own experiences.

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Bloomfield, John

Artist, printmaker and teacher who lived and worked in the United States of America and Canada before settling in Australia in the 1960s.

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Blue, Billy

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Early ferry operator on North Shore.

Blue, Catherine

Irish woman who was the daughter in law of Billy Blue.

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Blue, Mary

Daughter of Billy Blue, who married early Balgowlah settler Robert Tiffen.

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