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Bower, Arthur
Bowers, Mary
Bowers, William
Bowker, Richard
Bowman, James
Bowman, Thomas
Bown, Charles
Box Hill Suburb
Box Hill House House
Boxall, Arthur d'Auvergne
Boyages, Steven
Boyce, Francis Bertie
Boyd Ship
Boyd, Ben
Boyd, Penleigh
Boyd, Robin
Boyd, Thomas
Boyle, John
Boys' Town Engadine Nonprofit or charity
BP Commercial organisation
Bra Boys Film
Brabham, Jack
Brabyn, John
Brace, Emmanuel
Bradbury Suburb
Bradbury Park House
Bradbury Park Park or open space
Bradbury, William
Bradfield Park Lindfield Park or open space
Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel Hostel
Bradfield Park Milsons Point Park or open space
Bradfield Park Public School Educational institution
Bradfield, JJC
Bradley Hall House
Bradley Reserve Reserve
Bradley, Eileen Burton
Bradley, Joan Burton
Bradley, Joseph
Bradley, Newton and Lamb Auctioneers Commercial organisation
Bradley, Walter
Bradley, William
Bradley, William 'Cairo'
Bradley, William 1800 - 1868
Bradleys Head Headland or point
Bradman, Donald
Bradwell, Ann
Brady, Edwin James
Brady, J
Brady, Patrick
Braeside Ship

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Bower, Arthur

Poultry farmer, one of the first returned soldiers to take up land offer at Engadine in 1916.

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Bowers, Mary

Resident of Pitt Street in the 1850s.

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Bowers, William

Butcher.

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Bowker, Richard

Medical practitioner who became a parliamentarian.

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Bowman, James

Principal Surgeon at the Sydney Hospital between 1819 and 1836. He became a large landowner after marrying into the Macarthur family. Lyndhurst at Glebe was built for him in 1837.

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Bowman, Thomas

Stonemason and quarryman who traded from St Leonards during the mid-1800s.

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Bown, Charles

Fireman who followed his uncle Thomas Bown into professional fire service for insurance companies.

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Box Hill

North-western rural suburb. The area takes its name from either a stand of box trees that were once in the area or the fact that in the 19th century there were hunting boxes built on the tops of hills in this area.

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Suburb

Box Hill House

House built by the Terry family of Box Hill.

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House

Boxall, Arthur d'Auvergne

South Australian artist who exhibited in Sydney and where he spent his later years teaching.

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Boyages, Steven

Medical practitioner and health administrator.

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Boyce, Francis Bertie

Campaigner for old age pensions, slum clearance, women's suffrage and temperance.

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Boyd

A convict ship of 395 tons that brought convicts and passengers from Ireland in 1809. In November 1809 she sailed from Sydney Cove with goods and passengers on her way back to England via the Cape of Good Hope. She stopped to pick up timber at Whangaroa, New Zealand, where the ship's crew and most of the passengers were massacred after Te Ara, a Māori chief, was flogged onboard.  Of the approximately 70 people on board, four survived, Ann Morley and three children, who were later rescued by Alexander Berry. The ship was looted and burned after gunpowder on board ignited. European whalers responded with revenge attacks on the Māori in March 1810, leading to further conflict.

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Ship

Boyd, Ben

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Entrepreneur in pastoral and whaling industries who was accused by some of trying to introduce slavery into NSW.

Boyd, Penleigh

Painter of landscapes who studied in London, Melbourne and Paris. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape in 1914.

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Boyd, Robin

Architect and critic who worked mainly in Melbourne.

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Boyd, Thomas

Orchardist who farmed on a land grant in Turramurra.

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Boyle, John

Councillor on Hornsby Shire Council.

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Boys' Town Engadine

Boys' home founded by Father Thomas Dunlea at Engadine in 1939.

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Nonprofit or charity

BP

Global energy company.

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Commercial organisation

Bra Boys

Documentary film about the cultural evolution of the beachside suburb of Maroubra.

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Film

Brabham, Jack

Racing car driver and engineer who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966.

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Brabyn, John

Military officer and commandant at Port Dalrymple who became a magistrate and farmer in the Windsor district.

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Brace, Emmanuel

Emmanuel, or Emanuel, Brace was a young escaped convict who was part of the small gang that murdered Robert Wardell in Petersham in 1834. He testified for the Crown and received an absolute pardon. In 1858, he was tried at Darlinghurst for the murder of his wife Esther at Eden on the New South Wales coast but was acquitted. He died an alcoholic in Newcastle in 1880.

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Bradbury

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South-western residential suburb, which remained rural until the 1960s when suburban development began to displace dairy farms. It includes Sherwood Hills model estate.

Bradbury Park

Two storey house built on the estate of the same name near Campbelltown.

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Bradbury Park

Park adjacent to Sherwood Hills estate, Campbelltown.

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Park or open space

Bradbury, William

Early settler in Campbelltown area in 1820s and 30s.

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Bradfield Park Lindfield

Park established on the site of the second Australasian Scout Jamboree held between December 1938 and January 1939.

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Bradfield Park Migrant Hostel

Migrant hostel established on a former RAAF training camp in Lindfield.

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Hostel

Bradfield Park Milsons Point

Park adjacent to Milsons Point railway station.

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Bradfield Park Public School

School established for the migrant and Housing Commission children living at Bradfield Park.

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Educational institution

Bradfield, JJC

Engineer and planner who designed and oversaw the building of the Harbour Bridge, underground railway and other Sydney infrastructure.

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Bradley Hall

Single-storey Colonial Georgian house in Paddington, built for Thomas Broughton, merchant, mayor and member of the first Legislative Assembly, since demolished. Part of the sandstone boundary wall of the property still exists in Bennetts Grove Road.

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Bradley Reserve

Park in South Turramurra, in Sydney's northern suburbs.

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Reserve

Bradley, Eileen Burton

Bush regenerator who opposed the use of chemicals and controlled burns to control weeds and developed, with her sister, an alternative method of hand weeding and minimum disturbance to encourage regrowth.

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Bradley, Joan Burton

Bush regenerator who with her sister, promoted native plants by using hand weeding and minimum disturbance to encourage regrowth.

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Bradley, Joseph

Conductor of the Sydney Royal Philharmonic Society from 1908-27.

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Bradley, Newton and Lamb Auctioneers

Auction firm established by Walter Bradley, Edward Newton and brothers Horace and Charles Fisher Lamb. Their auction rooms were in the Oriental Bank building which was on the corner of Spring and O'Connell streets before it was demolished. After Bradley retired in 1889, it became known as Newton and Lamb before Edward Newton decided to establish his own business as an auctioneer and valuer in 1892.

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Bradley, Walter

Auctioneer and politician who arrived in Sydney with little money before working at an auction house and then starting his own business. He became a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was an alderman and mayor at Randwick Council. He became the subject of scrutiny in the Sydney press in 1892, when his wife petitioned for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty.

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Bradley, William

First lieutenant on HMS Sirius, who kept a detailed journal during the early years of settlement.

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Bradley, William 'Cairo'

Evangelist who worked for 20 years in Egypt before migrating to Sydney in 1919 to continue his evangelical mission with demobilised soldiers. He became well known for his tent missions and weekly prayer meetings in the Town Hall.

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Bradley, William 1800 - 1868

Pastoralist and politician who held grazing runs at Goulburn and Monaro and lived in Sydney only to attend to his political obligations.

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Bradleys Head

Headland on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, now part of the Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Headland or point

Bradman, Donald

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Champion cricketer.

Bradwell, Ann

Former convict who had six children with another former convict, Thomas Lisson, in the Hawkesbury, before leaving him and going to live with Isaac Gorrick in about 1812. She and Isaac had another five children.

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Brady, Edwin James

Socialist journalist and writer who edited journals and newspapers across three states.

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Brady, J

Publican at Woolloomooloo in the 1850s.

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Brady, Patrick

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Suspect in the Shark Arm murder of 1935, who was acquitted in the trial.

Braeside

Ship part-built in the Kidman and Mayoh shipyard, but eventually burnt at sea, off Sydney Heads.

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