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Scott Griffiths, Jennie
Scott Street Cottages House
Scott, Alexander Walker
Scott, Andrew George
Scott, Geoffrey
Scott, Harriet 1804-1866
Scott, Harriet 1830-1907
Scott, Hugh
Scott, James
Scott, Jane
Scott, Montagu
Scott, Rose
Scott, Thomas Hobbes
Scott, William
Scottish Martyrs Group
Scottish Week Festival
Scouts NSW Community organisation
Scratchley, Peter
Scriven, Peter
Scrymgeour, William Tindal
Sculthorpe, Peter
Scylla Bay Bay or cove
SDN Children's Services Educational institution
SDN Woolloomooloo Children's Education and Care Centre Educational facility
Sea Breeze Hotel Hotel
Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation Cultural organisation
Seaborn, Rodney
Seacombe Private Hospital Hospital
Seaforth Suburb
Seale, Allen
Seamen's Union of Australia Industrial organisation
Seamer, John Henry
Searle's Monument Memorial
Searle, Henry
Sebastian, Guy
Second city railway terminal Railway station
Second Fleet Fleet
Second Fleet Commemoration plaque Plaque
Second Hospital Parramatta Hospital
Second World War Servicewomen Memorial Memorial
Seddon, Richard
Seddon, William
Sedgewick, Edward
Sedgewick, Elizabeth
Sedgewick, Ted
See, John
Sefton Suburb
Sefton, Charles
Seidler, Harry
Seland, James

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Scott Griffiths, Jennie

Texas-born journalist and political activist who opposed conscription during World War I and promoted feminism and socialism. Her views cost her her job as editor of the Australian Women's Weekly.

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Scott Street Cottages

Group of 1870s houses with corner shop built as a result of the rapid development in Pyrmont in the 1870s, following the establishment of the CSR works. Supposed to be demolished for a factory in the 1950s, they were then bought by the City Council but squatters moved in, politics took hold and eventually the buildings were saved. Artists have painted them over the years.

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House

Scott, Alexander Walker

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Entomologist and entrepreneur who began many innovative projects in the Hunter Valley and Newcastle leading to a role in state government but who became increasingly devoted to the study of insects in the colony.

Scott, Andrew George

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Con man and bushranger who was tried and hanged in Sydney in 1880. His alias as a bushranger was Captain Moonlite, or Moonlight.

Scott, Geoffrey

Historian.

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Scott, Harriet 1804-1866

Early Sydney resident who grew up in the The Rocks.

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Scott, Harriet 1830-1907

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Botanical illustrator who with her sister, made a huge contribution to colonial natural science by collecting specimens and recording them meticulously.

Scott, Hugh

Anglican rector.

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Scott, James

Sergeant of marines on the First Fleet who travelled with his family and stayed in the colony for three years. His diary is one of the few surviving contemporary accounts of the first settlement of Australia.

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Scott, Jane

Military wife who travelled with her husband in the First Fleet, giving birth to a daughter at Rio de Janeiro and a son in Sydney in 1790.

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Scott, Montagu

British-born artist and cartoonist who worked in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

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Scott, Rose

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Feminist campaigner who was a founder of the Australian women's suffrage movement, and a lifelong advocate for the rights of women and children.

Scott, Thomas Hobbes

Anglican minister in western Sydney in the 1820s who became close to the Macarthur family. He was a tireless worker and did much to promote education in the colony.

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Scott, William

The first government astronomer appointed to the Sydney Observatory.

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Scottish Martyrs

Scottish reform movement of the 1790s which was deemed seditious as it advocated electoral reform, universal male suffrage and freedom of speech, even though it urged refom by constitutional means. Five of those accused were transported between 1794 and 1795.

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Group

Scottish Week

Scottish cultural festival held since the 1980s, usually in late November.

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Festival

Scouts NSW

New South Wales branch of the Scouts, an international community organisation for young people.

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Community organisation

Scratchley, Peter

Engineer and soldier who advised on each colonies defences.

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Scriven, Peter

Artistic director and founder of the Marionette Theatre of Australia who played a huge role in establishing puppetry as a serious artform in Australia.

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Scrymgeour, William Tindal

Pastoralist and businessman who owned property in Queensland and at Putney.

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Sculthorpe, Peter

Composer of orchestral and chamber music who has sought to combine elements of native Australian music with that of Asia and the West.

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Scylla Bay

Bay on the southern shore of the Georges Rives at Como, much of which was reclaimed for playing fields during the 1930s Depression.

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Bay or cove

SDN Children's Services

Association formed in 1905 to provide preschool services for working class mothers and which established the first training centre for nursery school teachers in 1931 at Woolloomooloo Nursery. In 1999 the name was changed from the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association to SDN Children's Services

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Educational institution

SDN Woolloomooloo Children's Education and Care Centre

Purpose built centre for mothers and babies at 208 Dowling Street Woolloomooloo.

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Educational facility

Sea Breeze Hotel

Hotel established at Tom Ugly's Point at Blakehurst to service the fishermen and ferry traffic. Offering picnic grounds and fresh oysters it was popular with pleasure seekers on the Georges River. When the original hotel was demolished in the 1930s an elegant modernist hotel was equally as popular until it was demolished to make way for apartments in the 1990s.

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Hotel

Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation

Charitable foundation formed to assist the performing arts, particularly at the Independent Theatre.

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Cultural organisation

Seaborn, Rodney

A psychiatrist and patron of Australian theatre, he formed a foundation that purchased the Stables Theatre. A significant performing arts archive in the foundation's name is based at NIDA.

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Seacombe Private Hospital

Private hospital at 16 Wolseley Street, Drummoyne that operated between 1912 and the 1950s. The building had formerly been a private residence called 'Seacombe'.

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Hospital

Seaforth

Residential suburb on the northern shore of Middle Harbour, west of the Spit Bridge. It was subdivided in 1906.

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Suburb

Seale, Allen

Much loved gardening author, journalist and broadcaster who appeared on television and radio from the 1950s.

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Seamen's Union of Australia

Trade union for merchant seamen formed in Sydney and Melbourne in 1874 which took the name Seamen's Union of Australia in 1906. In 1993 it amalgamated with the Waterside Workers' Federation to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

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Industrial organisation

Seamer, John Henry

Timber merchant, Mayor of Glebe Council in 1878

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Searle's Monument

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Monument in Parramatta River off Henley Point to world champion rower Henry Searle who died of typhoid in 1889 at the age of 23. Designed by Shervey and Lenthall , with work carried out by the Patten Brothers, the memorial was unveiled on December 10 1891. Described in The Australian Town and Country Journal on January 2 1892 as consisting of a 21 foot high 'pedestal of Melbourne bluestone, on which is placed a broken column of white Sicilian marble, which is relieved for one third of its height with reeds and fluting, and above are wreaths of native flowers. A bust of the sculler in bas-relief with cross sculls and wreaths decorate the pedestal of marble', with inscriptions on all four sides of the plinth. It marks the finishing spot of the championship course where Searle became world champion in October 1888.

The monument was repaired in 1926 after being damaged when a boat crashed into it during a heavy fog on the river.

Memorial

Searle, Henry

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Sculler from Grafton who trained in Sydney and won a world championship race in Sydney in 1888 and London in 1889. On his return to Australia later in 1889 he contracted typhoid and died in Melbourne.

Sebastian, Guy

Malaysian born singer-songwriter who achieved fame in 2003 by winning the 'Australian Idol' television talent program.

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Second city railway terminal

Sydney's second city railway terminal, opened in 1874, was close to Devonshire Street, north of the first terminal. It was known as Redfern due to its proximity to the suburb.

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Railway station

Second Fleet

Fleet of four transport ships, a supply vessel and a Royal Navy escort carrying over 1500 convicts. Arranged by private contractors the convicts were mistreated and starved and placed a huge strain on the infant colony as over half required hospitalisation on arrival.

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Fleet

Second Fleet Commemoration plaque

Bronze plaque on sandstone plinth erected in the Rocks to commemorating the arrival of the Second Fleet in 1790.

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Plaque

Second Hospital Parramatta

Clay brick hospital consisting of two wards and outbuildings. As they were constructed without lime they proved only marginally more stable than the original hospital and soon suffered deterioration and overcrowding.

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Second World War Servicewomen Memorial

Memorial features a bronze statue of a uniformed servicewoman standing on a sandstone plinth in front of a sandstone wall. To her right is a bronze bas-relief illustrating the fields in which women served in World War II.

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Seddon, Richard

Cabinetmaker whose wife's drinking habits drove him to the debtor's prison.

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Seddon, William

Missionary for the Sydney City Mission in Chippendale.

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Sedgewick, Edward

Farmer who established Smeaton Grange on land inherited by his wife Elizabeth.

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Sedgewick, Elizabeth

Inherited land from her father James Fitzpatrick and with her husband Edward Sedgewick, built Smeaton Grange.

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Sedgewick, Ted

Sheep and dairy farmer who inherited the family property Smeaton Grange.

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See, John

Merchant and politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislature and was then Premier of New South Wales from 28 March 1901 until 14 June 1904.

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Sefton

South-western residential suburb, on the site of James Wood's 1839 grant named 'Sefton Park' after the place in Liverpool, England. It was an area of orchards, market gardens and poultry farms until residential subdivision began in the 1920s.

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Sefton, Charles

Boxer who fought James Parton (known as Bellinger) near Botany in January 1814 in an illegal match.

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Seidler, Harry

Austrian-born architect of iconic residential and commercial buildings considered to have been one of the leading exponents of Modernism in Australia.

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Seland, James

Coal lumper and planksman who worked at Sydney wharves. He had arrived in Sydney in 1889 from Norway and lived in the Rocks with his family. He was naturalised in October 1903, with one of his references provided by another coal lumper Herman Nielsen. Seland died on 3 November 1905 after being hit by a basket and knocked into the hold of the steamship Kanowna while at work loading coal on 23 October. His fifth child had been been born on 22 October, the night before the accident.     

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