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Palmer House House
Palmer's Mill Mill
Palmer, Arthur Aubrey
Palmer, Benjamin
Palmer, Charles
Palmer, Charles Herbert
Palmer, Emma
Palmer, GT
Palmer, John
Palmer, Thomas Fyshe
Palmer, Vance
Palmerstone Estate Estate
Pan Arcadian House Hall
Pan-Korinthian Association of NSW Apostle Paul Ltd Community organisation
Pan-Macedonian Association Community organisation
Pan-Rhodian Benevolent Society Community organisation
Panama Ship
Panania Suburb
Panepirotic Federation of Australia Community organisation
Paniebollong
Pankhurst, Adela
Panton, George
Papakura, Maggie
Papandreou, Nikolaos
Papathanasopoulos, Theophylaktos
Pappas, Nick
Paracyclotosaurus davidi Animal
Paragon Cafe Katoomba Shop
Paralympic Games 2000 Sporting event
Paraquad NSW Philanthropic organisation
Pardoe, Mary
Paris Theatre Theatre
Park View Estate Subdivision
Park, Ruth
Parker, Alfred Livingstone
Parker, Henry Watson
Parker, John Crane
Parker, John Skottowe
Parker, William Francis
Parker, William Frederick
Parkes Companies Commercial organisation
Parkes, Annie Thomasine
Parkes, Clarinda
Parkes, Cobden
Parkes, Eleanor
Parkes, Henry
Parkes, Hilma Olivia Edla Johanna
Parkes, John
Parkes, Julia
Parkes, Varney

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Palmer House

Home built in 1960 by Allen and Jack. It has a modern flat roof with post and beam design.

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House

Palmer's Mill

Large stone windmill constructed by Commisary John Palmer that he operated along with a smaller timber mill and the government bakery on land in the present-day upper Botanic Gardens. 

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Mill

Palmer, Arthur Aubrey

Surgeon, pathologist and criminologist who was the first New South Wales Government Medical Officer in 1913. He worked for the Department of Public Health until his retirement in 1936.As Chief Government Medical Officer and senior gaol surgeon he was associated with many notorious cases that came to trial and was called by tabloids the 'Post Mortem King'.

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Palmer, Benjamin

Publican and long serving alderman on City of Sydney Council who was Mayor at the opening of the Sydney Town Hall in 1876.

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Palmer, Charles

Free settler who established a successful farm on the first land grant at Agnes Banks in 1803.

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Palmer, Charles Herbert

Minister and teacher who ran a school at Studley Park.

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Palmer, Emma

Publican who assisted her husband at the Liverpool Arms.

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Palmer, GT

English-born landholder who lived in Parramatta and was granted land in Bringelly.

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Palmer, John

Purser of the Sirius who arrived in the first fleet, and later settled in Sydney with his family. Known as 'Little Jack' Palmer, he became an eminent and successful citizen, with extensive farms.

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Palmer, Thomas Fyshe

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Unitarian minister transported to New South Wales for sedition who became a pioneer in trade, manufacture and shipbuilding in Sydney.

Palmer, Vance

Writer.

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Palmerstone Estate

Estate of 32 acres bounded by Birrell, Dickson and Henrietta streets at Waverley with a two storey stone house. The estate was successively subdivided between 1920 and 1940.

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Estate

Pan Arcadian House

Classical Revival style building initially built as a Masonic Temple it is now known as the Pan Arcadian House.

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Hall

Pan-Korinthian Association of NSW Apostle Paul Ltd

Community organisation formed by migrants from Corinth in Greece.

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Community organisation

Pan-Macedonian Association

Community group established in the 1960s as the voice of the Greek Macedonian population.

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Pan-Rhodian Benevolent Society

Greek community club established by migrants from Rhodes.

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Panama

Ship of 522 tons which bought 188 government immigrants to Port Jackson in 1849.

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Ship

Panania

South-western residential suburb with an Aboriginal name meaning 'sun rising in the east and shining on the hills.' Settlement began in the 1890s on small orchards and poultry farms, with residential development following the opening of the railway station in 1931 and continuing after the Second World War.

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Suburb

Panepirotic Federation of Australia

Federation of organisations representing migrants who originated from the Epirus region of Greece.

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Paniebollong

Daughter of Daringa and Colebee.

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Pankhurst, Adela

Suffrage campaigner and activist who emigrated to Australia in 1914, moving to Sydney in 1918, where she had a long and erratic career as a political campaigner for a range of causes.

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Panton, George

Wharfinger or harbourmaster who was appointed coroner of the County of Cumberland in September 1819. He resigned from the position two months later when he was appointed as the postmaster of the Territory of New South Wales, running the post office from the Kings Wharf. He died in April 1829 at his home on Bunkers Hill.

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Papakura, Maggie

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Māori woman who acted as a guide at the hot lakes in Rotorua before establishing a touring concert troupe to showcase Māori culture which performed in Australia and England.

Papandreou, Nikolaos

Greek-born convict who was pardoned in 1836.

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Papathanasopoulos, Theophylaktos

Third Greek Orthodox Bishop of Australia.

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Pappas, Nick

Rugby league player.

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Paracyclotosaurus davidi

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Giant salamander-like labyrinthodont amphibian from the Triassic period which lived in lakes in the Sydney basin. A complete fossil skeleton was found in the St Peters brick pits in 1910 and is now in the Natural History Museum, London.

Animal

Paragon Cafe Katoomba

Art Deco heritage listed cafe in Katoomba that captures a bygone era and has become a tourist mecca.

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Shop

Paralympic Games 2000

International games for elite athletes with disabilities, held after the Olympic Games in Sydney.

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Sporting event

Paraquad NSW

Support organisation for people with spinal cord injuries, which provides clinical services, care and accommodation.

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Philanthropic organisation

Pardoe, Mary

Convict who was tried at the Warwick Assizes on 2 April 1788 for theft and sentenced to seven years transportation. During the voyage she gave birth to a daughter, Ann, who upon arrival in Sydney, was the youngest person on the ship. She was sent to Norfolk Island where she married First Fleeter, Peter Hibbs. After returning to Sydney, the family settled in the Hawkesbury.

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Paris Theatre

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Cinema, later theatre, on Liverpool Street, that hosted movies, vaudeville, cabaret and drama.

Theatre

Park View Estate

Real estate subdivision in east Roseville, advertised between 1910 and 1915, occupying the area of Moore Street and Addison and Duntroon Avenues.

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Subdivision

Park, Ruth

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New Zealand-born writer who lived most of her life in Sydney and is the author of many novels, children's books and non-fiction books including novels based on Sydney's history.

Parker, Alfred Livingstone

A solicitor and local politician, Sir Alfred Parker served as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1934-35.

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Parker, Henry Watson

Public servant and Member of Parliament who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1856 to 1857.

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Parker, John Crane

Early landowner and successful market gardener in the suburb later known as Fairlight.

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Parker, John Skottowe

Coroner for the Sydney district from 1856 until his death in 1866. Prior to this he had been the coroner for Maitland and before that for the district of Paterson. He was the Superintendent of Agriculture at Eagle Farm in Moreton Bay from 1828.

In 1831 he married Jane Phillips in Newcastle, with whom he had 12 children. Parker died from hepatitis at his home in Newtown in 1866.

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Parker, William Francis

Son of early landowner William Frederick Parker.

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Parker, William Frederick

Early landowner in the area later known as Brookvale.

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Parkes Companies

Development and construction company established in 1978.

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Commercial organisation

Parkes, Annie Thomasine

Daughter of Henry Parkes and his first wife Clarinda.

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Parkes, Clarinda

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First wife of Sir Henry Parkes.

Parkes, Cobden

Soldier during World War I and architect who was appointed New South Wales Government Architect.

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Parkes, Eleanor

Second wife of Henry Parkes.

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Parkes, Henry

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The preeminent politician of nineteenth-century Sydney, who was a minister, premier and one of the architects of Australian federation.

Parkes, Hilma Olivia Edla Johanna

Swedish born political organiser, feminist and suffragist. After emigrating to Sydney, she became a ward-sister at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She joined the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1897, becoming one of its eight vice-presidents and then in 1902, formed the Women's Liberal League of New South Wales.

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Parkes, John

Convict who worked as a sawyer and was later granted his own farm.

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Parkes, Julia

Third wife of Henry Parkes.

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Parkes, Varney

Architect and politician.

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