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Ebenezer Entity
Ebenezer Uniting cemetery Entity
Ebenezer Uniting Church Entity
Eberson, John Entity
Eccles, Elizabeth (Betty) Entity
Eccles, Thomas Entity
Ecclesbourne Entity
Echo Farm Entity
Echo Point Entity
Echo Point Roseville Entity
Eckersley Entity
Eddy, Edward Entity
Eden Entity
Eden Park Entity
Edensor Park Entity
Edgar, Thomas Entity
Edge of the Trees Entity
Edgecliff Entity
Edgeworth David Medal Entity
Edgley, Eric Entity
Edgley, Michael Entity
Edinburgh Castle Hotel Entity
Edinenie Entity
Edith House Randwick Entity
Edmonds, Catherine (Caddie) Entity
Edmondson Park Entity
Edmunds, Rosette Entity
Edmunds, Walter Entity
Edrop, James Entity
Education Department Art Gallery Entity
Edward Lombe Entity
Edward Lombe shipwreck 1834 Entity
Edward, Deacon Entity
Edward, Duke of Windsor Entity
Edwards Beach Entity
Edwards, George Entity
Edwards, James George Entity
Edwards, Mary Entity
Edwin Davey & Sons flour mill, Pyrmont Entity
Edworthy Cycle & Motor Works Entity
Egan, Brian Entity
Egan, Daniel Entity
Egan, Josephina Entity
Egan, Marian Entity
Egan, Mary Entity
El Alamein Memorial Fountain Entity
Elanora Heights Entity
Elcar Entity
Elder Smith & Co Entity
Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd Entity

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Ebenezer

North-western rural suburb on western bank of the Hawkesbury River. Site of the oldest church in Australia, built in 1808, its Biblical name means 'stone of help'.

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Ebenezer Uniting cemetery

The first burial at the Ebenezer church was in 1812. Also known as the Portland Head burial grounds.

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Ebenezer Uniting Church

Oldest church building in Australia which was built as a Presbyterian chapel between 1809 and 1817 by free settlers.

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Eberson, John

American theatre architect.

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Eccles, Elizabeth (Betty)

Convict who settled with her husband in Parramatta under the patronage of Governor King and who worked for many years at the government dairy.

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Eccles, Thomas

First fleet convict who settled with his wife at Parramatta as a gardener under the patronage of Governor King.

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Ecclesbourne

Gothic Revival style mansion at Double Bay. Enlarged after 1854 including the addition of a battlement watchtower it was used as a boarding house in the 1960s and now provides hospital residential accommodation.

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Echo Farm

Home of the Bate family in Roseville which, in 1892, became a home for inebriates..

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Echo Point

Point south of Katoomba which juts into the Kedumba Valley. The lookout offers spectacular views of the valley the the Three Sisters.

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Echo Point Roseville

Park in Roseville on the shore of Middle Harbour.

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Eckersley

Administrative district or parish proclaimed in 1835 which encompasses Holsworthy army area, Heathcote National Park and Woronora Dam.

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Eddy, Edward

Chief commissioner of the New South Wales Railways and key figure in the development of the railway in the colony. He wrote: 'I take so much delight in my work, and I can see how, in a country which will owe much to the judicious management and extension of its railways, I could be of great service to the Colony, and also obtain credit for myself'. Although he did not succeed in bringing the railway to the centre of Sydney, he enlarged the tramway network and permitted the first experiments in electric traction.

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Eden

Convict ship of 513 tonnes built in London which was the last convict ship under the old transportation scheme. Revived shortly afterwards the final convicts arrived in 1850.

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Eden Park

Market gardens, shop and picnic grounds in North Ryde operated by the House of David religious community.

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Edensor Park

Western residential suburb, named after the home of John Brown Bossley (1810-1872). It now has large Vietnamese and Assyrian communities.

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Edgar, Thomas

Naval agent appointed to maintain the terms of the government contract on the voyage to the colony. He was described as 'a decent, kind, humane man' towards the women on board Lady Juliana.

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Edge of the Trees

Sculpture by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley of a forest of 29 poles outside the Museum of Sydney symbolising the interaction between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people. They represent the 29 Aboriginal clans of Sydney and are inscribed with words from Aboriginal languages whilst Koori voices can be heard reciting the names of places which have disappeared from the Sydney region.

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Edgecliff

Eastern residential suburb. It is named after Edgecliff House (c. 1861), built by Justice Edward Wise and later occupied by William Busby.

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Edgeworth David Medal

Awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales to a young scientist under the age of 35 years for contribution to the advancement of Australian science. It is named after the pioneering geologist and longstanding supporter of the Society, Sir Edgeworth David and was first awarded in 1948.

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Edgley, Eric

Performer and theatre entrepreneur who toured Australia extensively from England in 1920 with his brother Clem Dawe before eventually settling in Perth.

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Edgley, Michael

Concert and circus promoter who imported many Russian performing groups.

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Edinburgh Castle Hotel

Hotel on the northern corner of Pitt and Bathurst streets from 1832 to 1860. This is not to be confused with the current hotel of that name on the southern corner.

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Edinenie

Russian language newspaper established in Melbourne but published in Sydney from 1977.

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Edith House Randwick

Two-storey Victorian house on Cuthill Street, Randwick.

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Edmonds, Catherine (Caddie)

Barmaid whose biography of her work during the Depression became a best seller when it was adapted into a feature film in 1976, which grossed over two million dollars worldwide.

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Edmondson Park

South-western semi-rural suburb, now being developed as part of the South West Growth Centre. It is named for John Edmondson (1914-1941), local Liverpool resident who was the first Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second World War, after his death in the Battle of Tobruk.

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Edmunds, Rosette

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Pioneering woman architect and town planner.

Edmunds, Walter

Judge and a member of the NSW Parliament. Born 1856, died 1932.

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Edrop, James

Squatter and businessman.

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Education Department Art Gallery

Art gallery that operated in the Education Department building from 1915. Until the 1960s it was one of the best known public art venues in Sydney.

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Edward Lombe

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A three-masted timber barque of 347 (imperial) tons (352.6 tonnes) that was built in Yorkshire in 1828 and named after a local politician. The ship travelled between England and Australia in 1830 and again in 1832-3, carrying goods and passengers, including immigrants and convicts, before her final voyage in 1834. She was wrecked on Middle Head on 25 August 1834, the first time a shipwreck occurred in Sydney with an associated loss of life. Eleven of the 29 people on board died.

Edward Lombe shipwreck 1834

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Wreck of the barque, the Edward Lombe, on Middle Head on 25 August 1834. It was the first shipwreck in the harbour with an associated loss of life and was one of the worst maritime disasters to have occurred in Sydney waters.

Edward, Deacon

Priest in the Coptic Orthodox church.

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Edward, Duke of Windsor

One of the shortest reigning monarchs of British history, he visited Australia as the Prince of Wales in 1920.

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Edwards Beach

Beach on the shore of Hunters Bay about 1 kilometre south west of Grotto Point.

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Edwards, George

Actor and radio producer who pioneered the radio serial in Australia. He changed his name from Harold Parks to George Edwards in the early 1930s.

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Edwards, James George

School teacher who played an important role in the Killara Progress Association and was later elected to Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council.

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Edwards, Mary

Painter and carver who spent the later part of her life in Fiji.

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Edwin Davey & Sons flour mill, Pyrmont

Flour mill in Pyrmont built in the 1890s which closed in 1996.

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Edworthy Cycle & Motor Works

Manufacturer of cycles and motor cycles in Lidcombe and in Leichhardt from 1896 to 1963.

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Egan, Brian

Convict who worked as publican, labourer and seaman.

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Egan, Daniel

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Public servant, businessman and politician. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1853.

Egan, Josephina

Daughter of Daniel Egan.

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Egan, Marian

Second wife of Daniel Egan who perished in the Dunbar shipwreck.

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Egan, Mary

Householder in the Rocks who had followed her convict husband to the colony.

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El Alamein Memorial Fountain

Fountain to commemorate the Australian soldiers of the 9th Division who fought near the Egyptian town of El Alamein in two battles which helped change the course of World War II. As a work of modernist design it was a Sydney icon in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Elanora Heights

North-eastern residential suburb. Its name comes from an Aborginal word meaning 'home beside the water'.

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Elcar

Elcar was the electric carriage maintenance facility at Chullora Railway Workshops. The facility was closed in March 1994.

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Elder Smith & Co

Trading and commission agent business founded in Adelaide.

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Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd

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Commercial conglomerate with finance, brewing, materials and food divisions.