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The Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme is funded by the Australian Government. In 2015 the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme supported the First Fleet project to enhance information and stories about the First Fleet on the Dictionary of…

The Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme is funded by the Australian Government. In 2016 the Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme supported the Second Fleet project to enhance information and stories about the Second Fleet on the Dictionary of…

Young Māori woman of the Te Hikutu clan who married former Australian convict George Bruce in New Zealand in 1806. She travelled with him to India, and on their passage back to New Zealand stopped in Sydney, where she died, a month after giving birth to their daughter.

Jewish dentist who moved from Melbourne to Sydney in the 1850s and set up his practise in Hunter Street. He was later jailed for bankruptcy and his practice was taken over by his stepson. It appears he moved back to England without his wife in 1884.

Wealthy English migrant who married Fanny Wentworth, the daughter of William Charles Wentworth, and built Greycliffe House on land originally situated on the Wentworth Estate. He came from a landed family in Suffolk and after arriving in Sydney, he took up land in Gippsland,…

Clerk, transported for 14 years in 1817 and freed by servitude in 1831. Found guilty of receiving stolen banknotes following the 1828 Bank of Australia robbery and sentenced to 14 years on Norfolk Island, he returned to Sydney in 1839 and given his freedom in 1840.

Aboriginal man in colonial Sydney described in illustrations of him as the 'Chief of Botany'. He and his brother William Annan worked as whalers and sealers with Boatswain Maroot on the whaling brig the Mercury in the 1820s. His name is also written as Bolgobrough or Bulgabra…

Hairdresser who was a passenger on the Edward Lombe and died when it was wrecked in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. When the crew were taking the passengers up on deck in the hope of rescue he refused to leave his cabin and was never seen again.

Government primary school established for children from the families employed at Eveleigh railway workshops. The school moved in 1975 to new premises on the corner of Golden Grove and Abercrombie Streets, while one building, the old schoolhouse was conserved for use by the…

Architect and engineer with Scottish heritage who was given charge of the cleansing, lime washing and demolition in The Rocks area after the outbreak of plague in 1900. His photographic record of the housing and poverty of the area remains an extraordinary reminder of 1900s…

Australia's first lottery, held in Sydney in 1849, was surrounded by controversy and was probably illegal. It was immensely popular however and the government turned a blind eye as it seemed the only way of averting the consequences of a financial disaster.

Combining an ornate nineteenth-century facade in Castlereagh Street, with an Art Deco fantasy of black marble and silver in Martin Place, the Hotel Australia was one of Sydney's most elegant until its demolition in 1972, when the MLC Centre was built.

Suburb in Sydney's northern beaches region which was home to Chinese and Italian market gardens. These were gradually replaced by industrial and residential development in the postwar period, when it was selected in the Cumberland Planning Scheme as the main area for…

Reservoir constructed as part of Sydney's water supply system to get water from the Botany Swamps Scheme to the urban area. It was decommissioned in 1899 and served as garage and workshop until collapsing in 1991. In 2009 it opened as a sunken garden and cultural precinct.

Company formed in Chippendale by Henry Lytton Bussell after his arrival in Sydney in 1904. It produced flour products under the White Wings brand name until 1952 when the company was acquired by Gillespies Bros Pty Ltd and the company name changed to White Wings Pty Ltd.

Successful shipbuilder who established shipyard on north eastern shores of Darling Harbour in the early 1830s, as well as a smaller one at Bradley's Head on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. He developed land at Balmain and on the Hawkesbury, also building a new punt at…

Ornate Edwardian Art Nouveau underground men's lavatory with a domed glass roof in Wynyard Park. Built by the City of Sydney in 1912, it was decommissioned in the 1990s due to safety and access issues, and in 2003 was demolished and converted into an entrance into the Park.…

The son of the Liverpool police magistrate Colonel Lieutenant James Henry Phelps, P H F Phelps created several volumes of sketches of his surroundings in Sydney and New South Wales. He appears to have returned to England in about 1842 after the death of his father in November…

English feminist, academic and cricketer who migrated to Australia in 1946 as the principal of Sydney University's Women's College and from 1958-1970 of Abbotsleigh girls school. As the captain of the England women's cricket team she led the first – and victorious – tour of…

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…