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Coxen, Stephen Entity
Coxhead, Harald Entity
Coxs Creek Entity
Coyle, James Edmund Fitzgerald Entity
CR Tebb & Sons Entity
Crackenthorp, Spencer Entity
Cracknell, Ruth Entity
Craddock, John Lansdown Entity
Craigend Entity
Craigend Mill Entity
Craigie, Billy Entity
Craignathan Entity
Craignathan, Neutral Bay c1880 Media
Cramer, Madame Entity
Cramphorn, Rex Entity
Cranbrook Entity
Cranbrook Estate Entity
Cranbrook School Entity
Crane, Kenneth Contributor
Crane, Samuel Entity
Crane, WG Entity
Cranebrook Entity
Cranston, William Entity
Crater Cove Entity
Crawford, Jack Entity
Crawford, Loretta Entity
Crawford, Percy Entity
Crawford, Robert Entity
Crawford, Robert Contributor
Crawley, Margaret Entity
Craydon, Letty Entity
Creamery Entity
Credo Entity
Creed, John Mildred Entity
Creighton, John Wilford Entity
Cremation Society of New South Wales Entity
Cremorne Entity
Cremorne Bathing Pool Entity
Cremorne Gardens Entity
Cremorne Orpheum Entity
Cremorne Point Entry
Cremorne Point Entity
Cremorne Point Reserve Entity
Creole Cradle Song Entity
Crescent Coffee Palace Entity
Cresciani, Gianfranco Contributor
Cresswell, John Entity
Cressy, Richard Entity
Crest Hotel Entity
Crestani, Sebastiano Entity

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Coxen, Stephen

Settler in the Upper Hunter who was ruined by drought and flood in the 1840s.

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Coxhead, Harald

Community activist who became first ranger of Carss Park.

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Coxs Creek

Watercourse about 3 kilometres long which rises about 1 kilometre north east of Punchbowl railway station and flows into the Cooks River.

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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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CR Tebb & Sons

Family butcher which operated at Liverpool in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Crackenthorp, Spencer

Chess champion.

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Cracknell, Ruth

Actor and author who worked in radio, television, film and on the stage.

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Craddock, John Lansdown

Public servant and magistrate who served as the City Coroner between 1961 and 1963.

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Craigend

Darlinghurst villa designed and built by Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell.

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Craigend Mill

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Windmill adjacent to Craigend mansion, Darlinghurst, but not associated with that estate.

Craigie, Billy

Aboriginal campaigner who worked for better legal, housing and medical services for Indigenous people.

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Craignathan

House constructed in Hayes Street Neutral Bay which was demolished in 1968.

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Craignathan, Neutral Bay c1880

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Ben Boyd's store at left, Craignathan residence, Thrupps Cottage at right

From the collections of the
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(Mitchell Library)

Cramer, Madame

Singer who performed in Sydney in 1856 and 1857.

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Cramphorn, Rex

Experimental theatre director who emerged in the 1960s challenging the received view of theatre.

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Cranbrook

Two storey sandstone home which has also served as state governor's residence and from 1917 was the nucleus of the new Cranbrook School.

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Cranbrook Estate

Leasehold of 40 acres which been part of the Cooper estate on the southern side of New South Head Road.

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Cranbrook School

Private Anglican boys school at Bellevue Hill established in 1918.

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Crane, Kenneth

Crane, Samuel

Soldier and early settler who was killed while clearing his land at Concord in 1794.

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Crane, WG

President of the YMCA.

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Cranebrook

Western residential and semi-rural suburb on northern edge of Penrith. 'Crane Brook Farm' was granted to emancipist James McCarthy in 1804, and probably named for the abundance of cranes and lagoons in the area.

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Cranston, William

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He was described in newspaper reports of the disaster as a boy.

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Crater Cove

Bay in North Harbour at Balgowlah surrounded by Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Crawford, Jack

Champion tennis player who won the Australian Open four times in the 1930s.

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Crawford, Loretta

Receptionist at the Carousel club in Kings Cross, and a witness at the 1983 inquest into the disappearance of Juanita Neilsen in 1975. In 2001 she made a statement to the police with additional information concerning Neilsen's death.

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Crawford, Percy

Tivoli employee for more than 20 years under both Harry Rickards and later Hugh D McIntosh.

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Crawford, Robert

Principal clerk to the Colonial Secretary who arrived from Scotland in 1821 and soon managed to build up extensive holdings including farms and Clydebank on his town allotment. Financial difficulties later in the decade saw many of the properties sold by 1828.

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Crawford, Robert

Robert Crawford is Professor of Media & Communication at RMIT University. In 2017 he was the David Scott Mitchell Fellow at the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.

Crawley, Margaret

Solicitor and a founder of the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales.

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Craydon, Letty

Actress who began her career as a child touring in tent shows. She performed in revue and vaudeville in Sydney and the United Kingdom.

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Creamery

Residential building, part of the Camden Dairy Company, owned and occupied by the Lavercombe family until 2000.

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Credo

Christian student group at the UTS Sydney who are multicultural, inter-denominational and inter-faculty.

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Creed, John Mildred

Physician and politician who was unconcerned at the unpopularity of many of his legislative initiatives such as registration of medical practitioners, protection of children and care of inebriates.

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Creighton, John Wilford

Plasterer and carpenter, transported for seven years in 1819. Participated in the 1828 robbery of the Bank of Australia. Died by drowning in a boating accident in 1829.

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Cremation Society of New South Wales

Organisation formed in 1908 to lobby government for the erection of a crematorium. It developed from the 1890s organisation with a similar name, 'New South Wales Cremation Society'.

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Cremorne

Residential suburb on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It was a picnic place in the nineteenth century, taking its name from the Cremorne Gardens in London.

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Cremorne Bathing Pool

Public swimming pool at Cremorne.

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Cremorne Gardens

English-style pleasure garden on Cremorne Point opened in 1856.

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Cremorne Orpheum

Art deco cinema in Military Road, Cremorne, built in 1935 and classified by the National Trust. In 1986 it was purchased by TV personality Mike Walsh who restored the interior and reopened as the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace.

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Cremorne Point

Once a camping, fishing and ceremonial place for the Cammeraygal people, Cremorne Point was granted to James Robertson in the 1830s and later sold to James Milson. Cremorne pleasure gardens were built there, opening in 1856, with visitors arriving by ferry. From 1903, houses were built, and apartments in the interwar years, as well as guesthouses for holidaymakers. The foreshore was preserved for the public and now has parks, pools and walking tracks.

Cremorne Point

Suburb built on the peninsula between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. Its foreshore was preserved when Cremorne Reserve was gazetted in 1905.

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Cremorne Point Reserve

Bushland park at the tip of the Cremorne peninsula.

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Creole Cradle Song

Musical composition written by G.H. Clutsam in 1801.

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Crescent Coffee Palace

Temperance establishment, restaurant and meeting place in George Street, Haymarket, which was open by 1894, and still trading in 1915.

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Cresciani, Gianfranco

Gianfranco Cresciani is a Sydney historian

Cresswell, John

Marine officer who embarked as Lieutenant aboard Charlotte during the First Fleet voyage and transferred to Prince of Wales whilst in port at Cape Town, South Africa.

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Cressy, Richard

Sailor who died in the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. His body was washed up near the wreck, at Mr Bass's shipyard, and was identified at an inquest by Thomas Marshall, the ship's first mate. A stout and athletic man between 40 and 50 years old, Cressy had been at the wheel when the ship entered the Heads, but had been washed away with the front part of the ship within five minutes of it striking the rocks at Middle Head. 

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Crest Hotel

Scandinavian style 14 storey hotel on the corner of Darlinghurst and Victoria Roads in Kings Cross that opened in 1967 on the site of the former Kings Cross Theatre and Surf City. The building was partially demolished in 2016 and remodelled as the multipurpose apartment building Omnia.

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Crestani, Sebastiano

Italian community leader whose shed was used for some of the first meetings of Club Marconi.

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