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Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015

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Roseneath Cottage, Parramatta 2015

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Michaela Ann Cameron

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Michaela Ann Cameron

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Cameron, Michaela Ann

Michaela Ann Cameron is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney specialising in the sensory history of colonial America, specifically Indigenous auditory cultures. Additional research interests include Australia's convict history. Michaela also promotes Sydney's historical sites, museums and history-related events on her @sydneyhistory Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Roseneath Cottage

Roseneath, an elegant Colonial Georgian style residence, was built between 1835 and 1837 as a family home for Scottish emigrant, Janet Templeton and her children. Overlooking the northern section of Parramatta Park (formerly Governor's Domain), the building housed several private schools in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Private Schools of Roseneath Cottage

Built between 1835 and 1837 as a private family residence, Roseneath Cottage in Parramatta became home to several private schools in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including: Mr Baly's Boarding Establishment for Young Gentlemen; Mrs Mary W M'Ghie's Educational Establishment, a 'first-class boarding school for young ladies'; and St Ronan's, a 'High Class Day and Boarding School for Girls', the bud from which Tara Anglican School for Girls bloomed.

Colonial architecture

Residential building

Parramatta

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Western suburb built on the land of the Burramattagal people. Sydney's second European settlement, it began as a government farm in 1788 and has many heritage listed sites. It is now the commercial hub of Greater Western Sydney.