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Next of Kin Memorial Plaque Plaque
Ngahuruhuru
Ngawaka, Bill
Ngo, Canh Phuong
Ngo, Thang
Nguyen, Tuong Van
Nice Coloured Girls Film
Nicholas, Emily Hilda
Nicholas, John Liddiard
Nicholls, Doug
Nicholls, Sydney Wentworth (Syd)
Nichols, George
Nichols, George Robert
Nichols, Isaac
Nichols, John
Nichols, Joy
Nichols, Michelle
Nichols, Rosanna
Nicholson & Co Commercial organisation
Nicholson Museum Museum or gallery
Nicholson, Charles
Nicholson, John
Nick Scali Furniture Ltd Commercial organisation
Nicodemou, Ada
Nicol, Jimmy
Nicol, John
Nicol, Johnny
Nicolle, Eugene Dominique
Nicolle, Philip
Nicolson, Francis
NIDA Parade Theatres Theatre
Nield, Lawrence
Nielsen Park Park or open space
Nielsen, Christian
Nielsen, Herman
Nielsen, Juanita
Nielsen, Niels Rasmus Wilson
Nielsen, Walter Leslie
Night watch State or colonial government
Nikora, Gwen
Nile Ship
Nile, Fred
Nimrod Ship
Nimrod Theatre Company Cultural organisation
Nine Entertainment Company Commercial organisation
Nine Network Commercial organisation
Ninis, Damianos
Nithsdale House Office blockEntertainment venueHouse
Nixon, William Mark
No 2 Coffee Palace Commercial organisation

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Next of Kin Memorial Plaque

Bronze plaque of 120mm manufactured in Britain to commemorate those British and Empire service personnel, both men and women who died between 4 August 1914 and 10 January 1920. It is estimated over 1 million were made.

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Plaque

Ngahuruhuru

Māori chief who was kidnapped from the Cavalli Islands to Norfolk Island to teach flax processing.

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Ngawaka, Bill

Māori bus driver.

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Ngo, Canh Phuong

Vietnamese community leader convicted of the murder of his political rival John Newman.

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Ngo, Thang

Vietnamese born alderman.

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Nguyen, Tuong Van

Vietnamese Australian convicted and hanged for drug trafficking in Singapore.

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Nice Coloured Girls

Short film which positions Aboriginal women as naïve and nice but which shows these are merely roles played by the women.

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Film

Nicholas, Emily Hilda

Acclaimed landscape artist who exhibited in Australia, Paris and London.

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Nicholas, John Liddiard

Author and traveller who supported and wrote about Samuel Marsden's missionary visit to New Zealand. Although granted land in Sydney, he returned to England and eventually sold his land to Marsden.

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Nicholls, Doug

Aboriginal Australian Rules football player, boxer and pastor who was
the first Aboriginal to be knighted and the first to serve as a state governor.

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Nicholls, Sydney Wentworth (Syd)

Cartoonist and book publisher who created the Fatty Finn cartoon strip.

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Nichols, George

Actor who moved to England in 1946 to further his career.

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Nichols, George Robert

First native-born Australian admitted as a solicitor, he combined strong oratory with a radical reform agenda, advocating self-government and denouncing transportation.

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Nichols, Isaac

Emancipist and the colony's first postmaster, who became a wealthy farmer and shipowner and achieved financial and social success in the colony.

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Nichols, John

Early land holder at Belfield.

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Nichols, Joy

Comedienne and actress who moved to Britain to further her career and also worked in the United States of America.

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Nichols, Michelle

Local historian and librarian in the Hawkesbury area.

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Nichols, Rosanna

Born in prison and transported with her mother, she became the second wife of Isaac Nichols.

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Nicholson & Co

Music publishing business of George Street.

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Commercial organisation

Nicholson Museum

Australia's oldest university museum, located in the Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney, and home to the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere. It was founded following the donation by Sir Charles Nicholson of his private collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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Museum or gallery

Nicholson, Charles

Physician, businessman and politician who was regarded as a connoisseur, scholar and statesman. He helped found Sydney University, and a museum there is named for him.

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Nicholson, John

Ship builder who oversaw the closing of King's Dockyard.

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Nick Scali Furniture Ltd

National furniture retailing business.

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Nicodemou, Ada

Actor.

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Nicol, Jimmy

English drummer and business entrepreneur best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a series of concerts in 1964.

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Nicol, John

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Scottish sailor whose autobiography published in 1822 recorded his circumnavigation of the globe, involvement in the American War of Independence, his life on a whaling vessel and that on a convict transport. On the voyage aboard Lady Juliana he partnered with Sarah Whitlam and together they had a child on the voyage to Sydney. After arriving, Nicol was stationed there for six weeks before setting sail for England, never returning to Sydney.

Nicol, Johnny

Original band member of the Māori Troubadours and respected jazz singer-songwriter.

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Nicolle, Eugene Dominique

Refrigeration engineer who patented and developed his own ice making machine in Sydney in partnership with others. He was a pioneer in domestic devices, refrigerated railway vans and cold stores but unable to translate that to machinery suited to ships.

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Nicolle, Philip

Builder and contractor who built and lived in Ascot mansion in Randwick. He established a company with a J B Corbin on Hunter Street naming it Corbin and Nicolle but was declared bankrupt in 1894.

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Nicolson, Francis

Pioneer settler and orchardist in Forest Glen in the 1890s

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NIDA Parade Theatres

Theatre complex built on the site of a previous small university theatre which houses the headquarters for the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.

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Theatre

Nield, Lawrence

Urban design architect and sport planning enthusiast who was head of planning for the Sydney Olympics and who designed five venues for each for the Athens and Beijing Olympics.

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Nielsen Park

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Waterfront park created in 1911 when the remaining land of the Wentworth estate at Vaucluse was resumed by the state government for public recreation.  Named for Neils R W Nielsen, the NSW Government's Minister for Lands in 1910-1911, who oversaw the resumption..

Park or open space

Nielsen, Christian

Boatbuilder at Putney Point in the early twentieth century.

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Nielsen, Herman

Coal lumper who made his living at Millers Point but returned to his family at Willoughby at the end of the working week.

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Nielsen, Juanita

Australian publisher who disappeared whilst opposing development in Kings Cross where she lived.

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Nielsen, Niels Rasmus Wilson

Politician and trade unionist who grew up in Young and worked as a carpenter before joining the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia in 1887 and eventually entering politics with the newly formed Labor Party.

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Nielsen, Walter Leslie

Architect responsible for the design of several apartment blocks in Potts Point including Carinthia and Carisbrooke.

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Night watch

Early police force established by Governor Phillip in 1789 to patrol the town of Sydney during the night in order to prevent and detect 'the commission of nightly depredations'. It consisted of twelve of the 'best behaved' former convicts, with the town divided into four regions. In 1796 the watch, or 'civil police', was reorganised by Governor Hunter so that constables in each region became answerable to a local magistrate. The number of regions was also increased and extended to include the Hawkesbury, Parramatta and Toongabbie. 

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State or colonial government

Nikora, Gwen

Māori founder of the Te Aroha cultural group.

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Nile

Convict ship of 322 tons which arrived with 96 female convicts in 1801.

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Ship

Nile, Fred

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Uniting church minister who founded the Christian Democratic Party.

Nimrod

Trading vessel which operated between Sydney and China.

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Nimrod Theatre Company

Company formed by John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler to produce Australian drama.

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Cultural organisation

Nine Entertainment Company

Publicly listed media company founded in 2007 as Consolidated Media Holdings and renamed Nine Entertainment in 2010.

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Nine Network

Commercial television network with headquarters based in Willoughby.

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Ninis, Damianos

Greek-born convict who was pardoned in 1836.

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Nithsdale House

Two storey building opposite Hyde Park at 167 Liverpool Street and the corner of Nithdale Street. Built in 1873 as the home and a dance academy and ballroom of owner Frank Hillard Needs on the site of Figtree Cottage. Medical professionals also took rooms there in the 1890s. In 1903 it was purchased from the Needs family by the Sydney City Mission, who used the assembly rooms as their headquarters and continued to lease out other rooms. It was purchased from the Mission in 1913 by the developer of a picture theatre and sold again in 1922 before being demolished.

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Office block

Entertainment venue

House

Nixon, William Mark

Councillor on Hornsby Shire Council.

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No 2 Coffee Palace

Temperance hotel and coffee palace opened to the public in 1880 at Circular Quay between George and Pitt streets. It had billiard rooms, a restaurant and cafe, news room and lounges, as well as 40 bedrooms.

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