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Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Donald Thomas
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, Ellen
Anderson, Ethel
Anderson, Francis
Anderson, Gae
Anderson, Harold
Anderson, Henry Charles Lennox
Anderson, Hugh
Anderson, Jessica
Anderson, Joe
Anderson, John
Anderson, Kevin S
Anderson, Mary
Anderson, Matthew
Anderson, Maybanke
Anderson, Thomas
Anderson, William
Anderson, William G
Andersons, Andrew
Andrade, Will
Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool Swimming pool
Andrews, Edward
Andrews, Georgiana
Andrews, Gordon
Andrews, Malcolm
Andrews, William
Angas, George French
Angel Place Street or lane
Angel-Lord, Gertrude
Angell, Victor
Anglican Church of St Paul, Canley Vale Place of worship
Anglican Diocese of Sydney Religious organisation
Anglican Home Mission Society Nonprofit or charity
Anglicare Nonprofit or charity
Anglo-Australian Investment Finance and Land Company Commercial organisation
Angophora costata Plant
Angus & Robertson Commercial organisation
Angus, Samuel
Animal Kingdom Film
Animal Logic Commercial organisation
Ann and Hope Ship
Ann Gales Ship
Anna Maria Ship
Annan, William
Annand, Douglas
Annandale Suburb
Annandale Abbey House
Annandale Council Local government

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Anderson, Charles

Scottish-born mineralogist, palaeontologist and academic who willingly shared his scientific knowledge through research and membership of scientific associations.

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Anderson, Donald Thomas

Zoologist who specialised in the study of invertebrate animals.

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Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

English physician and feminist who was a pioneer in holding positions normally held only by men including being the first dean of a British medical school.

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Anderson, Ellen

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Woman of Aboriginal descent who raised her family along Salt Pan Creek using her knowledge of country to eke out a living.

Anderson, Ethel

Writer, painter and champion of modernist painting.

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Anderson, Francis

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Professor of logic and philosophy who helped reform public school teacher training and curricula.

Anderson, Gae

Biographer.

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Anderson, Harold

Administrator and teacher who encouraged a close relationship between the tanning school and industry.

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Anderson, Henry Charles Lennox

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Principal Librarian of Public Library who negotiated the donation of the Mitchell collection.

Anderson, Hugh

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Landowner along Salt Pan Creek.

Anderson, Jessica

Writer of several novels and stories set in Sydney.

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Anderson, Joe

Aboriginal activist and leader known as King Burraga, who lived at Salt Pan Creek on the Georges River. In 1933 he made a film with Cinesound that was shown around the country, asking for recognition of Aboriginal people and representation in Federal Parliament:

'All the black man wants is representation in federal parliament. There is plenty of fish in the river for us all and land to grow all we want.'

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Anderson, John

Professor of philosophy and free thinker who influenced generations of students at Sydney University.

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Anderson, Kevin S

Magistrate who was appointed to the court of Petty Sessions in 1964. As coroner he oversaw the inquest into the Luna Park Ghost Train fire in 1979.

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Anderson, Mary

Dairy owner and farmer.

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Anderson, Matthew

Physician who practised privately including serving as the Macarthurs' private physician. As a surgeon superintendent on four voyages he was responsible for over 680 convicts arriving under his care, losing only six.

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Anderson, Maybanke

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Teacher, suffrage campaigner and writer who was described as 'one of Australia's noble and notable women'.

Anderson, Thomas

Dairy owner at Greenwich and Longueville.

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Anderson, William

Theatre entrepreneur who fostered local talent in his Melbourne and Sydney theatres and was the owner of Wonderland City from 1906 until 1911.

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Anderson, William G

Property owner and farmer at Kirkham.

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Andersons, Andrew

Architect of major Sydney buildings, both public and private.

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Andrade, Will

Anarchist who ran a theatrical supplies shop that also sold radical literature.

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Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool

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Olympic sized swimming pool constructed on the site of the Domain Pool in Woolloomooloo Bay. Named for champion swimmer 'Boy' Charlton.

Swimming pool

Andrews, Edward

Emigrant who arrived on board the Rachel in 1861.

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Andrews, Georgiana

Governess who found a suitable match whilst on the journey from England.

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Andrews, Gordon

One of Australia's foremost designers, he was responsible for the design of Australia's first decimal currency bank notes in 1966.

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Andrews, Malcolm

Author of several works on Australian sport and sportspersons.

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Andrews, William

Trader on the New Zealand route.

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Angas, George French

Naturalist and painter who painted Sydney and surrounds and worked on the Australian Museum collection.

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Angel Place

Laneway which weaves past fine commercial buildings and the City Recital Hall linking two major thoroughfares. It now houses a cluster of bird cages called Forgotten Songs by Michael Thomas Hill which commemorates the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney before they were gradually forced out of the city by European settlement.

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Street or lane

Angel-Lord, Gertrude

Medical practitioner.

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Angell, Victor

Gymnast and trapeze performer.

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Anglican Church of St Paul, Canley Vale

Anglican church in Canley Vale that was founded in 1889. The land was sold by the Anglican Church in 1998 and the heritage listed buildings partially destroyed in a suspicious fire in September 2012.

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Place of worship

Anglican Diocese of Sydney

Administrative division of the Anglican church that covers Sydney, Wollongong and the south coast of New South Wales and includes around half of Australian Anglicans, led by an archbishop since 1897.

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Religious organisation

Anglican Home Mission Society

Social welfare and support agency.

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Nonprofit or charity

Anglicare

The urban mission and community care arm of the Sydney Anglican Church.

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Anglo-Australian Investment Finance and Land Company

Finance and development company which merged to become the Anglo-Australian Assets Company Ltd in 1893.

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Commercial organisation

Angophora costata

Woodland tree of eastern Australia, common in the Sydney area, growing mostly on sandstone and known for its pink bark in spring.

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Plant

Angus & Robertson

Bookshop and publishing company known for its role in publishing Australian literature.

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Angus, Samuel

Presbyterian theologian who was accused of heresy.

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Animal Kingdom

Crime drama filmed in Melbourne about an underworld crime family.

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Film

Animal Logic

Digital visual effects company working in the television and film industry.

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Ann and Hope

Merchant 12-gun ship of 550 tonnes which was built at Providence, Rhode Island in the United States of America.

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Ship

Ann Gales

Emigrant ship which arrived in the colony in 1840 with the workforce for the new sugar works.

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Anna Maria

Schooner of 91 tons which made over 100 voyages between 1849 and 1851 carrying coal from Newcastle before running aground on a Newcastle beach.

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Annan, William

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Aboriginal man who lived on the southern side of Botany Bay and was sometimes called the 'Chief of Port Hacking'. His English name was based on the name of convict transport and whaling ship, the William and Ann, and he was referred to in the press by various versions of this including Willimannan, Wil-lam-an-nan, Wilhamanan among many others. In the 1820s, he worked as an armed police tracker as well as on whaling ships. In 1838 he was stung by a catfish while fishing with Europeans in Darling Harbour and taken to the General Hospital where his right arm was eventually amputated. He died of exposure in Hyde Park in 1844.

Annand, Douglas

Artist and designer who was important in the development of 'camouflage' painting during World War II.

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Annandale

Inner-western suburb bounded by Rozelle Bay to the north and Parramatta Road to the south. It began as farmland granted to Captain George Johnston of the New South Wales Corps in stages between 1793 and 1799, and was later subdivided with wide regular streets on a rectilinear pattern with large lots.

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Suburb

Annandale Abbey

Sandstone mansion built as a gentleman's residence with gables and tower and reconfigured into flats for working-class families in the 1920s. The 50-room house was bought by Dr Geoffrey Davis in 1959 who held it for 50 years before it was purchased and totally restored by Michael Hogan and Ann Sherry as a family home.

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House

Annandale Council

Inner-west council formed in 1894, which was amalgamated to form part of Leichhardt Council in 1949.

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Local government