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Phelps. Phillip Henry Ferdinand Entity
Cooman or 'King Kooma' Entity
Pietroszys, Genovefa Entity
Pietroszys, Stefan Entity
Mitchell Park Entity
Koorea Entity
Gurangatty Entity
Waway  Entity
Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales Entity
Young, Sally Entity
Spatial Servies Entity
Timbery Entity
Japanese Antarctic expedition 1910-1912 Entity
Kainan Maru Entity
Shirase, Nobu Entity
Kumano Maru  Entity
Jubilee Dock, Balmain Entity
Nomura, Naokichi Entity
Taizumi, Yasunao Entity
Darlington post office Entity
Shirase sword Entity
Coyle, James Edmund Fitzgerald Entity
Warren, William Henry Entity
Wood, Helen Entity
Balcombe, Thomas Tyrwhitt Entity
Baggara Entity
Browne, Thomas Kirkman Entity
Cumberland Place house Entity
Erskine, James Entity
Erskine Park estate Entity
East, John Barton Entity
McGarvie, William Entity
Brennan's Ltd, Newtown Entity
City Tattersalls Club Entity
Tattersalls Club building Entity
Tattersall's Building, Hunter and Castlereagh Streets Entity
Blackburn, David Entity
HMS Supply Entity
Vic Johnston Entity

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Phelps. Phillip Henry Ferdinand

The son of the Liverpool police magistrate Colonel Lieutenant James Henry Phelps, P H F Phelps created several volumes of sketches of his surroundings in Sydney and New South Wales. He appears to have returned to England in about 1842 after the death of his father in November 1841.

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Cooman or 'King Kooma'

Gweagal man in western Sydney in the 19th century. Goodall and Cadzow suggest he may be the man identified as Kourban in PHF Phelps drawing of Aboriginal people in Liverpool c1840.

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Pietroszys, Genovefa

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Eastern European refugee who arrived in Australia in 1948 with her husband Stefan as displaced persons. After being threatened with deportation because of health issues, the couple fled authorities and lived for more than twenty years in caves at Killarney Heights and around Middle Harbour. After her death from a heart attack in 1979, her husband went to live in an aged care home where he died in 1982.

Pietroszys, Stefan

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Eastern European refugee who arrived in Australia in 1948 with his wife Genovefa as displaced persons. After being threatened with deportation because of health issues, the couple fled authorities and lived for more than twenty years in caves at Killarney Heights and around Middle Harbour. After his wife's death from a heart attack in 1979, Stefan went to live in an aged care home where he died in 1982.

Mitchell Park

Part of Cattai National Park on Cattai Creek. The surrounding bushland includes huge forest red gums and a rare remnant rainforest

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Koorea

Area in Cattai on the Hawkesbury called Koorea by the local Aboriginal people when they shared knowledge of the Hawkesbury landscape with the Rev John McGarvie in 1826.

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Gurangatty

Powerful being in Darug/Darkinyung culture. A gigantic eel-being or rainbowed serpent who possibly created the Hawkesbury river and its valley. He may have been the same Being as Gurangatch, who in the mythology of the nearby Gundungurra people, tore up rock and earth with his powerful body in his desperate flight to escape the hunter Mirrigan, the tiger-quoll, and so created the Coxs and Wollondilly rivers.

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Waway 

Ancestral monster river fish who inhabits the Hawkesbury River in Dharug and Darkinyung culture. Also written as or Wau-waiy and appearing as the prefix Wowaw-.

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Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

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Publicly available, online interactive map created by NSW State government department Spatial Services in 2021 using the results of the Real Secret River: Dyarubbin research project led by Professor Grace Karksens with Aunty Edna Watson, Leanne Watson and Jasmine Seymour, and supported by the State Library of NSW 2018-2019 Coral Thomas Fellowship.

Use the External Link with this record to go directly to the map at Spatial Services.

Young, Sally

Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and author of 'Paper Emperors: the rise of Australia’s newspaper empires'. The 2020 Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of NSW.

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Spatial Servies

A division of the New South Wales Department of Customer Service that provides New South Wales’ spatial and land information services.

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Timbery

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Dharawal man who was designated ‘King of the Five Islands’ by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1816.

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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Kainan Maru

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Japanese wooden fishing sailboat weighing 204 tons and equipped with an 18-horsepower auxiliary engine that was converted for use in the Japanese Antarctic Expedition in 1910-1912. Only 30 metres long, the ship was thought by many to be too small to make the voyage. It was renamed for the expedition, one of the English translations of 'Kainan Maru' being 'Opener-up of the South’.

Shirase, Nobu

Lieutenant Shirase was the leader of the Japanese Antarctic expedition in 1910-1912. His name is also given as Naoshi or Choku Shirase.

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Kumano Maru 

Japanese mail steamer built in Scotland especially for the Australasian trade that ran regularly in the early 20th century between Yokohama and Sydney via Melbourne, Kobe, Moji, Nagasaki, Hong Kong, Manila, Thursday Island, Townsville and Brisbane.

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Jubilee Dock, Balmain

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Huge floating dry dock at Cameron's Cove on Johnston's Bay, Balmain that was designed and built by James Anderson of Anderson, Goodall & Co of Balmain. The dock's full name was the Victoria Jubilee Floating Dock, in honour of Queen Victoria. It was 320 feet long, 57 feet wide and 27 feet deep, with displacement of 14,500 tons. The dock was lowered to receive its first ship, the Royal Tar, on 1 October 1887.

Nomura, Naokichi

Japanese sailor who was the captain of the Japanese Polar expedition's ship Kainan Maru.

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Taizumi, Yasunao

Cinematographer who joined the Japanese Polar expedition in Sydney in November 1911 before the second attempt was made to reach the Antarctic.

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Darlington post office

The Darlington post office, which closed in 1975, was located at the southern end of what is now Maze Crescent (previously a section of Darlington Road).  Darlington Town Hall was between the post office and the school.

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Shirase sword

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Seventeenth century Japanese samurai sword presented by Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, the leader of the Japanese Polar Expedition, to Professor Edgeworth David as a gesture of friendship and thanks for his support during the expedition's stay in Sydney from May-November 1911. In 1979 the sword was presented to the Australian Museum by Mary David, the professor's daughter. The sword was made by Mutsu no Kami Kaneyasu, a master swordsmith who worked in the period 1600-1650. 

Coyle, James Edmund Fitzgerald

Civil engineer who, with Professor William H Warren, designed the suspension bridge at Northbridge. Born in Ireland about 1844, he was a Member of the Institute of Civil engineers and worked in coal mining in Scotland before migrating to New Zealand in the early 1870s. He worked there as an engineer and surveyor, also travelling to and from Sydney. In 1884, he was asked to produce a report on the NSW Department of Public Works for the government,who were looking for recommendations to reduce its size. In the late 1880s he was commissioned by the NSW Government to produce a report on the Murray River, looking at navigation and water rights, and also advised on railways. He died at his sister Rosalind Robertson's house, Byron Lodge, in Randwick on 6 October 1895 at the age of 51.

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Warren, William Henry

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Civil engineer who became the first Professor of Engineering at the University of Sydney. 

After two years’ service with the New South Wales Department of Public Works, Warren initiated the teaching of engineering at the University of Sydney in March 1883.  He remained Head of the Department of Engineering until his retirement at the end of 1925. 

Warren’s main interest was in materials and structures.  He was the author of three editions of a widely used textbook: the first Australia-based publication in this field.  He also imported Australia’s first materials testing machine in 1885, the results from which on Australian materials were of national importance.

Wood, Helen

School teacher from Tintaroo Falls, Queensland who won the title of Miss Australia1957 at the age of 19. She and Australian tennis player Ashley Cooper married in 1959.

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Balcombe, Thomas Tyrwhitt

Artist and surveyor who worked across south east Australia with Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. His artistic works were well known in colonial Sydney and included sketches, paintings, lithography and wax models. His representations of the gold fields were especially popular. The son of early colonial treasurer William Balcombe, he was born on St Helena where Napoleon had been exiled, and knew the deposed Emperor.

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Baggara

Baggara (Bagara, Baggarra) or Boggora, was from Broken Bay.  In 1804 British botanist Robert Brown on the HMS Investigator obtained a list of the Aboriginal names of plants from him, and described him as 'very intelligent Native of Broken Bay - he appeared to be about 22 or between than 25 years of age'. He died in 1813 of natural causes and was buried in Woolloomooloo on 20 November 1813, when Clever men conducted the only recorded traditional inquest in the Sydney coastal area.

He was also known as Mendoza.

 

 

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Browne, Thomas Kirkman

Irish convict who was sentenced to 7 years transportation in Dublin in 1791, and arrived in Sydney on the Boddingtons in 1793.

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Cumberland Place house

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House erected at Bunkers Hill in The Rocks for Robert Campbell in the mid 1820s. Designed by Francis Greenway, it was eventually sold to the Scott family and was the home of David Scott Mitchell. The house was demolished in 1912.  

Erskine, James

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Soldier and Lieutenant Governor who arrived in Sydney in 1817, departing in 1823.

Erskine Park estate

Three thousand acre (1214 ha) estate in western Sydney that was granted to James Erskine soon after his arrival in the colony in 1818.

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East, John Barton

English artist who arrived in Sydney from Madras in 1832, and returned there in 1835. A talented portrait and miniature artist who had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London every year between 1818 and 1830, he executed portraits of Billy Blue, James Dowling and many others, since lost, that were highly praised in the colony. His name has frequently been transcribed as TB East, or TB Earl, instead of JB East.

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McGarvie, William

Scottish journalist, bookseller and art dealer, who was one of the founders of the Sydney Herald.

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Brennan's Ltd, Newtown

Newtown family business that operated Brennan's Department Store at 294 King Street until 1989. The family also owned various other properties in the area, including the Majestic Theatre on Wilson Street. 

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City Tattersalls Club

Social club that was founded in 1895 by bookmakers in competition to the well-established Tattersalls Club.

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Tattersalls Club building

Lavish five storey building designed and built for the Tattersalls Club in 1927 on a block that runs from Castlereagh through to Elizabeth Street, facing Hyde Park. The architects were Burcham Clamp & Finch, and it was built by WS Baker & Sons. The building included an indoor swimming pool on the third floor, at the time the only elevated indoor pool outside the United States of America.

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Tattersall's Building, Hunter and Castlereagh Streets

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Four storey office block, assembly room and stables building on the corner of Hunter and Castlereagh Street which was designed by architects Benjamin Backhouse & John J Lough in 1882 and completed by builder WH Jennings in 1883 for Hawkes. Stalls for up to 156 horseswere situated even up to the third floor, with a series of ramps and elevator providing access. The site had previously been in use by circuses and for athletics.  Also known as the Tattersalls Chambers, and subsequently the Royal Chambers, the building was demolished in the early 1960s and replaced by the P&O-Orient Line building at 1 Castlereagh Street.

 

Blackburn, David

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

HMS Supply

Ship that arrived in Sydney in 1795, replacing HMAT Supply that had left the colony four years earlier. 

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Vic Johnston

Victor Johnston was a writer and press photographer in Sydney from the 1930s through till the 1960s. He worked for the Sun, for People and for PIX. Often mistakenly credited as Vic Johnson.

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