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Convict tried at Worcester, England in 1786 for burglary and sentenced to death which was commuted to seven years' transportation to New South Wales. She was sent to Norfolk Island and developed a relationship and had two sons named Norfolk and Sydney with Philip Gidley King…

Hill at the top of The Rocks, west of Sydney Cove, which is the highest point overlooking Port Jackson. With commanding views both east and west, it was the site of one of Sydney's first windmills from 1796 before being replaced with a fort in 1803. By 1849 an observatory had…

Magistrate and coroner, who, during his short tenure as Sydney Sydney City Coroner in the mid 1950s, was consistently critical of the growing road and rail death toll, urging for safer roads and railways. He campaigned to charge drunk or irresponsible…

Ship of the Russian-American Company which visited Sydney on its voyage to deliver cargo to Novoarkhangelsk in Russian America (now Sitka, Alaska).

Ship chartered to bring the extended Forlonge and Darvall families to Van Diemen's Land and Sydney with their flocks of Saxon sheep.

Mary Reibey was a formidable colonial entrepreneur. Arriving in Sydney as a convict in 1792, she became a leading businesswoman, philanthropist and matriarch.

Small national park in northern Sydney, based on the Lane Cove River bank land set aside for a park in the 1920s.

Boundary marker for the north eastern limit of Sydney Town originally thought to be placed north of New South Head Road.

Covered concourse constructed as an amenity for tram, train and ferry passengers. Demolished for the construction for the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Trams had a rocky start in Sydney, with the first tracks laid upside down, causing many accidents and leading to their removal. The International Exhibition of 1879 brought trams back to Sydney and a network was built that became one of the world's largest at its greatest…

An integral part of Sydney's nineteenth-century architectural heritage, stained glass was a medium where artists displayed their visions of the colony's future.

Composer, administrator and critic, George de Cairos-Rego was an advocate of the establishment of the Sydney Conservatorium.

Convict who became a successful farmer, mill-owner, and quarryman on his grant near Darlinghurst, and a landowner at The Oaks and Picton near Sydney.

Company founded by George and Charlotte Sargent in 1906 that went on to become one of Sydney's large catering and baking companies.

Architect who designed many of Sydney's public schools after he was appointed Chief Architect in the Department of Public Instruction in 1880.

Free settler who established a mill in Sydney as well as having extensive land grants at Bringelly, Suttons Forest and along the Hawkesbury.

Irish dancer and actress who became infamous as a 'Spanish dancer' in Europe and who performed in Sydney and the goldfields in 1855-56.

Merchant who returned to Sydney after receiving his education in England, and became head of the family wharf, shipping and mercantile business.

Australian comedy crime film about a strip club promoter in Kings Cross, Sydney who falls on the wrong side of a local crime lord.

Convict who became a government housekeeper before marriage to John Fisher. Her son Thomas endowed the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney.