Occupation - Employee
Lassetter, Frederic
Position - Employee of 2CH
Herd, Margaret
Position - Employee of 2UE
Rogers, Bob
Wilkins, Ormsby
Position - Employee of AL and G McCredie Architects
Anderson, Arthur
Position - Employee of AMP
Black, Morrice A
Carment, David Maxwell
Sneddon, Andrew William
Thomson, Robert
Position - Employee of Aboriginal Legal Service
Briscoe, Gordon
McKenna, Ross
Smith, Shirley (Mum Shirl)
Position - Employee of Allens Arthur Robinson
Coleman, Cecil
Hemsley, Alfred
Marr, David
Mutton, Judy
Robertson, Geoffrey
Position - Employee of Angus & Robertson
Lockley, John Gilmour
Position - Employee of Anthony Hordern & Sons
Foster, Arthur George
Position - Employee of Ashwin & Falconer
Radecki, John
Position - Employee of Auburn City Council
Black, Eric
Position - Employee of Australian Agricultural Company
Slade, George Milner
Position - Employee of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Evans, Lindley
Position - Employee of Australian Museum
Ramsay, Edward Pierson
Position - Employee of Australian Music Examinations Board
Hill, Mirrie
Monk, Cyril
Position - Employee of Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society
Green, James
Position - Employee of Australian Red Cross
Tildesley, Evelyn Mary
Position - Employee of Balmain New Ferry Company
Nelson, John Dunbar
Position - Employee of Bank of New South Wales
Hall, Edward Smith
Potts, Joseph Hyde
Position - Employee of Bebarfald's
Moncrieffe, Mona
Position - Employee of Bennett's Bakery
Davis, John
Stephens, Charles
Position - Employee of Broadhurst, Edward
Windeyer, William Charles
Position - Employee of Bull and Mouth Hotel
Kennedy, Bridget
Torpy, Bridget
Position - Employee of Cafe Francais
Cauvarel, Aristide
Position - Employee of Camden Park Estate
Flick, Casper
Gerhard, Georg
Justus, Johann
Sickold, Friederick
Stein, Johann
Wenz, Johann
Position - Employee of Carousel Club
Crawford, Loretta
Position - Employee of Chequers nightclub
Lee, Donald George
Position - Employee of City of Sydney Council
Brigg, Albert Henry
1891 - 09 Sep 1914
Graham, Henry
McKenzie, Cecil Roland
Nesbitt, Thomas Huggins
Weekes, Norman
Woolcott, Charles Henry
Position - Employee of Clyde Engineering Company
Rafferty, Chips
Position - Employee of Commissariat Stores
Allan, David
Position - Employee of Cowper, Charles
Justus, Johannes
Vogt, Joseph Michael
Position - Employee of Cumberland County Council
Edmunds, Rosette
Luker, Sidney
Position - Employee of David Jones
Riley, Philip
Watson, James Henry
Position - Employee of Department of Public Works
Halligan, Gerald
Position - Employee of Devine, Tilly
Green, Francis Donald (Frank)
Position - Employee of Dickson, John
Barker, Thomas
Position - Employee of Doak and Kerr
Beattie, Minnie
Position - Employee of Fairfax Media
Brooks, William M
Position - Employee of Farmer and Company
Dudley, Herbert Joseph
Grace, Joseph Neal
Position - Employee of Fincham, John
Tiffen, Robert
Position - Employee of Flower, Salting and Company
Challis, John Henry
Position - Employee of Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs
Brindle, Ken
Williams, Tom jnr
Position - Employee of George Edwards Players
Elliott, Sumner Locke
Position - Employee of Glebe Municipal Council
Burton, William James
Position - Employee of Government Architect's Office
Andersons, Andrew
Farmer, Edward H
Kombumerri, Dillon
Position - Employee of Government Dairy
Eccles, Elizabeth (Betty)
Position - Employee of Grace Brothers
Grace, Michael
Position - Employee of Grose, Francis
Reibey, Mary
Position - Employee of Henning, Edmund Biddulph
Taylor, Deighton
Position - Employee of J. Walter Thomson
Ashby, Sylvia Rose
Simmat, Rudolph
Position - Employee of JC Williamson
Moncrieff, Gladys
Position - Employee of James Sandy and Co
Lidbury, Frederick
Position - Employee of Jenkins, James
Position - Employee of King Nam Jang
Cumines, Albert
Position - Employee of Lintas
Hetherington, Norman (Heth)
Position - Employee of Lyon Cottier & Company
Handel, Alfred
Little, David McColl
Marshall, WB
Position - Employee of Macarthur & Company
Franki, James Peter
Position - Employee of Macarthur, John
Lucas, Penelope
Position - Employee of Mackenzie & Petersen
Petersen, Harold
Position - Employee of Manly Council
Woods, John
Position - Employee of Mansfield, George Allen
Smith, Frederick Trenchard
Position - Employee of Mark Albery & Co
Kebblewhite, James
Position - Employee of Meggitt's Linseed Oil Factory
Position - Employee of Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company
King, Kelso
10 Jan 1878 - 1943
Position - Employee of Moore, Thomas
Parkes, John
Position - Employee of Mort & Co
Chard, William Henry
Position - Employee of National Trust of Australia (NSW)
Position - Employee of New Theatre
Flower, Pat
Position - Employee of New Tivoli Minstrel and Grand Speciality Company of Forty Artistes
Crawford, Percy
Position - Employee of Nimrod Theatre Company
Enright, Nicholas (Nick)
Position - Employee of Nosworthy, Ellice
Hall, Libby
Hare, Elizabeth
Hutchinson, Louise
Kelman, Winsome
Munro, Barbara
Richmond, Ethel
Wilsford, Gene
Position - Employee of O'Brien Glass
Benfield, Arthur G
Position - Employee of On Chong & Co
Yee Hing, Thomas
Position - Employee of PN Russell & Co
Selfe, Norman
Position - Employee of Parramatta Industrial School for Females
Bubb, Edith
Position - Employee of Protestant Political Association
Goold, Stephen Styles
Position - Employee of Robertson, George
Dymock, William
Position - Employee of Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney
Carter, Bryce
Position - Employee of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Parkes, Hilma Olivia Edla Johanna
Position - Employee of Smith's Weekly
Position - Employee of Smith, Frank
Clay, Harry
Position - Employee of State Library of New South Wales
Leeson, Ida
Position - Employee of Sun
Waller, Kevin Maurice
Position - Employee of Surveyor Generals Department
Higinbotham, Albert John
Position - Employee of Sydney County Council
Brereton, Laurence John (Laurie)
Position - Employee of Sydney Living Museums
Malaxos, Nick
Position - Employee of Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
Bellingham, Francis
Position - Employee of Sydney Morning Herald
1949 - Apr 1950
Position - Employee of Sydney Punch
Clint, Alfred
Position - Employee of Sydney Water
Position - Employee of The Bulletin
Position - Employee of The Home
Roberts, Hera
Position - Employee of Tivoli Circuit Australia Pty Ltd
Wallace, George
Position - Employee of Tooth and Co Ltd
Fogg, Joseph
1875 - 31 Mar 1911
Ives, Isaac Ellis
Lucas-Tooth, Robert Lucas
Position - Employee of Tresillian Family Day Care Centres
McMillan, Elizabeth
Position - Employee of Urquhart, John
Oatley, James (jnr)
Position - Employee of Vaucluse Council
Sautelle, Edwin Stanhope
Position - Employee of Wiley and Sons
Wiley, Hannah
Position - Employee of Wylie's Baths
Selby, Desmond
Accountant and merchant whose innovation transformed his ironmonger business into a thriving general emporium.
Radio station owned by the Council of Churches until it was sold to John Singleton in 1989.
Radio presenter who was known as the Fairy Godmother.
2UE
Australia's oldest commercial radio station which first operated from the lounge room of CV Stevenson at Everett Street Maroubra. Originally called 2EU after his Electrical Utilities business in George Street its first advertising contract was with butcher Harry Woods, from George Street, who paid one shilling for each advertisement. It is now owned by Macquarie Radio Network.
Disc jockey and radio broadcaster with a career spanning over 60 years.
Talkback radio host.
AL and G McCredie Architects
Architecture and consulting engineering practice run by brothers George and Arthur McCredie.
Architect responsible for many of Sydney's prominent stores, warehouses and offices between 1890 and 1940.
The Australian Mutual Provident Society is one of Australia's largest wealth management companies, founded as a mutual society in 1849 and demutualised in 1998.
Actuary for AMP for 30 years to 1890.
Actuary who rose to be a senior executive at AMP in early twentieth century.
General Manager of the AMP Society from 1934 until his death in 1945.
Secretary of Australian Mutual Provident Society 1854-65, later co-founder in Melbourne of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society in 1873.
Aboriginal Legal Service
Community-led group providing free legal assistance to Aboriginal people. It was the first Aboriginal service to directly challenging government institutions by offering alternative services.
Aboriginal activist and academic.
Activist involved in the establishment of Aboriginal social welfare programs in the 1970s.
Aboriginal activist whose welfare work began by visiting Aboriginal prisoners. Over many years she also provided a home for over 60 children.
Allens Arthur Robinson
Law firm dating back to colonial times. Recent growth has been through mergers and acquisitions.
Solicitor with Allen Allen and Hemsley.
English-born lawyer who joined the Allen legal firm in 1894, making it Allen, Allen and Hemsley, and later served as a member of the Legislative Council.
Journalist, author and political and social commentator.
First female partner at Allen Arthur Robinson.
Barrister who has been counsel in many landmark cases in constitutional, criminal, human rights and media law in Britain and the Commonwealth.
Angus & Robertson
Bookshop and publishing company known for its role in publishing Australian literature.
Writer who wrote several gardening books and, using the pseudonym 'Redgum', wrote about gardening at the Sydney Morning Herald. He also wrote under the pseudonym 'Fiorist' for the Evening News and also for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Sun.
Anthony Hordern & Sons
Drapery business at Brickfield Hill which became Sydney's largest department store and whose motto was 'While I Live I'll Grow'.
Theodore Arthur George Foster, better known as AG Foster, was a historian. He and his wife Ethel Foster were founding members of the Royal Australian Historical Society and documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.
Stained glass designer whose work can be seen in the Polding Memorial Chapel, Christ Church St Laurence and St John's Campbelltown.
Auburn City Council
Council established in 1892 to govern Auburn Municipality, which later incorporated Lidcombe Municipality. Cumberland Council was formed in 2016 by the merger of parts of Auburn, Holroyd and Parramatta councils.
Chief engineer of Auburn Municipal Council who designed Auburn Botanic Gardens.
Australian Agricultural Company
Land development company which was established with a Crown Grant from the British parliament. It now operates 19 cattle stations, two feedlots and three farms in northern Australia.
Colonist who held many official positions in Sydney and Brisbane, despite a history of difficulties with finances.
The ABC is Australia's national public broadcaster, across a range of platforms including radio, television and online. The service was officially launched on 1 July 1932 by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons and ABC radio announcer Conrad Charlton.
Pianist, teacher and composer who worked with the ABC Children's Hour for over thirty years.
Australia's oldest natural history museum, founded in 1827.
Zoologist, ornithologist and horticulturalist who influenced Victorian garden design and species registration.
Australian Music Examinations Board
Organisation established to develop syllabuses, publications and written examinations for music, speech and drama.
Prolific composer and teacher who wrote for voice, piano, orchestra and film.
Musician, teacher and composer.
Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society
Fire insurance company formed in 1871 which was owned by policy holders. The society's early interests were closely associated with the city's cooperative building movement.
City of Sydney alderman, for whom Green Park at Darlinghurst is named.
Australian Red Cross
Voluntary aid organisation formed as a branch of the British Red Cross in Melbourne in August 1914. It was quickly adopted and established in each state by the wives of each state governor.
The Tildesley sisters were women of private means who loved theatre and believed that drama was an important part of education. They were both teachers and expert fencers who gave private displays.
Balmain New Ferry Company
Ferry company established c1890 which also diversified into pleasure grounds at Bantry Bay to maximise ferry excursions. It was liquidated in 1917 and the assets sold to Sydney Ferries.
Entrpreneur who promoted the pleasure grounds at Bantry Bay as a means of increasing ferry excursions.
Bank of New South Wales
Australia's oldest bank, established in Sydney in 1817, and still trading as Westpac.
Banker, charity worker and editor who used his editorial position as an advocate of a free press, representative government and trial by common jury. In November 1819 he was appointed to the position of the coroner of the territory of New South Wales by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, for which he was paid an annual salary of £80. He resigned from the position in October 1821 and went to his property at Lake Bathurst near Goulburn. On his return to Sydney in 1826 he founded the newspaper The Monitor with Edward Hill, leading to many disputes with Governor Ralph Darling and convictions for libel.
Accountant and early landowner in the areas later known as Lidcombe and Woolloomooloo Hill, which he renamed Potts Point. He was also the first employee of the Bank of New South Wales.
Bebarfald's
Furniture manufacturer, interior design company and furnishing retailer which traded opposite the Town Hall for over 70 years.
Dressmaker employed by Bebarfald's to promote dressmaking and colour co-ordination.
Bennett's Bakery
Bakery which established the wealth and position of its owner and occupied a prominent position on Parramatta.
Convict employed at Bennett's bakery in Parramatta.
Convict who was employed at Bennett's bakery in Parramatta.
Broadhurst, Edward
Successful barrister and politician whose public career faltered when he was accused of duelling to defend his sister's honour.
Barrister, judge, politician and social reformer who encouraged education for girls and was founding chairman of Women's College, within the University of Sydney.
Bull and Mouth Hotel
Hotel on the corner of Pitt and Market Street.
Servant at Bull and Mouth hotel who was attacked by her employer.
Barman at the Bull and Mouth hotel.
Servant at the Bull and Mouth hotel.
Cafe Francais
Licensed cafe in George Street opposite Hunter Street.
French born publican whose hospitality extended to catering for all classes of society and even Mayoral picnics. After working in several cafes and hotels around Sydney he spent 10 years in Gundagai before leaving for Europe, later returning to work in Dubbo.
Camden Park Estate
Estate established by John Macarthur on land granted from 1790, and still in the hands of his descendants.
Vinedresser who emigrated from Hattenheim in Germany with his wife and two sons and was to raise a further four children in the colony.
German vinedresser who arrived from Hattenheim in Germany as a bounty immigrant to tend the Macarthur vines bringing with him his wife and five children.
Vinedresser who emigrated with his wife and child to help establish the Macarthur vineyard.
Vinedresser who emigrated with his wife and five children to work with the Macarthurs in establishing a wine industry.
Vinedresser who bought Reisling vines to the colony when he emigrated from Erbach in Germany in 1838.
Vinedresser who travelled with his wife and three children to work near Camden. On completion of his contract he became an innkeeper at Lochinvar.
Carousel Club
Nightclub in Kings Cross on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Roslyn Street that was owned by Abe Saffron & Sammy Lee who had built the venue to house the revue 'Les Girls'.
Receptionist at the Carousel club in Kings Cross, and a witness at the 1983 inquest into the disappearance of Juanita Neilsen in 1975. In 2001 she made a statement to the police with additional information concerning Neilsen's death.
Chequers nightclub
Nightclub established by Chinese entrepreneurs Denis and Keith Wong which attracted a colourful and often notorious clientele to its original basement location in The Strand Arcade in the 1950s. It then moved to 79 Goulburn Street.
Waiter at Chequers nightclub who lived in Kellett Street, Kings Cross in the 1950s.
Governing body of the City of Sydney, incorporated as a city in 1842. Boundaries of the city have changed over the years, although it has always focused on the old centre of Sydney.
Surveyor who first worked for the Sydney City Council as a 'cadet pupil' and then the chief draftsman before being appointed the City Surveyor in 1914. Upon his resignation he reportedly announced he had no feelings of 'regret or resentment. He stated that for years the work of the department had been too much for one man....'
Medical doctor who worked as the City of Sydney council's Health officer between 1859 and 1870.
Electrical engineer employed by the Sydney County Council.
Town Clerk of Sydney Municipal Council who made many progressive decisions to widen streets, eliminate slums and introduce electricity to the city.
Town planner and architect.
Artist and City of Sydney Town Clerk between 1857 and 1887.
Clyde Engineering Company
Heavy engineering company that began as Hudson & Sons, with headquarters at Redfern, and moved to land at Granville in 1883. The company built railway rolling stock and trams and in 1898 was reconstituted as Clyde Engineering, with contracts to build locomotives for the New South Wales Railways.
Actor who epitomised the laconic Australian bushman in many films between 1939 and 1971.
Commissariat Stores
Warehouse and offices that stored the goods of the colony, for supply to the convicts, soldiers and others who relied on government rations.
Deputy commissary general who was in charge of the Commissariat between 1813 and 1819, when he left the colony. He returned to live in Sydney in 1829.
Cowper, Charles
Farmer and politician who became Premier five times, testament to his political adroitness and powers of conciliation.
German vinedresser who emigrated to join his uncle in the colony.
German vinedresser.
Cumberland County Council
Statutory body set up under the Local Government (Town and Country Planning) Amendment Act 1945 to coordinate town planning across Sydney. It was made up of delegates from the municipalities and shires of Sydney.
Pioneering woman architect and town planner.
Civil engineer and town planner who became chief planner for the Cumberland County Council from 1946 and coordinated the Cumberland Planning Scheme.
Premium department store chain founded by Welsh-born David Jones in 1838.
Draper who established Riley Bros. drapery business with his brother Alban.
Draper, soldier and historian who pursued his passion for historical research after resigning from business life and the militia in 1902.
Colonial and state government department, under a number of related names, that oversaw public building and construction in New South Wales.
Public servant and local politician.
Devine, Tilly
Prostitute, madam and sly-grog seller, famous in interwar Sydney for her criminal exploits.
Known as 'The Little Gunman' because of his short stature, Frank Green was the lover of Nellie Cameron and rival of Guido Calletti. He had brown hair and eyes, an L-shaped scar on his right cheek from a razor and several bullet wounds on his body. He worked as a gunman for Tilly Devine's brothels in the late 1920s and clashed with the Devines after the shooting of Gregory Gaffney. He was stabbed to death by his girlfriend at his home on Cooper Street, Paddington.
Dickson, John
Engineer who brought an early steam engine to Sydney in 1813, and established large grazing properties and manufacturing works.
Flour miller and businessman with extensive landholdings who was equally energetic in public affairs and philanthropy.
Doak and Kerr
Drapery business in Pitt Street.
Milliner who worked in her mother's business in Pitt Street.
Newspaper business run by the Fairfax family for 149 years before public ownership and expansion into a multimedia organisation. In 2018 when the business merged with the Nine Entertainment Company, the Fairfax name was dropped.
Printer and publisher whose involvement in a variety of business committees was to lead into state politics.
Farmer and Company
Drapery business established in 1839 by Joseph and Caroline Farmer which became a retail empire and social institution. Located initially opposite the Victoria Theatre in Pitt Street, it expanded into a purpose built department store further south on Pitt Street in 1874.
Land developer and auctioneer who developed large area of crown land at Maroubra as residential areas and provided community services and facilities to encourage growth. His association dated from family holidays at Long Bay in the 1890s when he realised the potential of the area if it was gradually unlocked with better tram services and roads.
Shopkeeper who progressed from hawking his goods by horse and cart, to establishing with his brother Albert, Grace Brothers department store.
Fincham, John
Convict and early settler in the Balgowlah area who also received a land grant in Sydenham.
Early landowner at Balgowlah.
Flower, Salting and Company
Mercantile firm first established by Thomas Marsden and Philip William Flower in about 1830 as Marsden and Flower. Their offices were located on George Street and then on the corner of Hunter and Pitt streets. After Marsden's death it became known as Flower, Salting and Company with a new partner, Severin Salting, and junior partner, John Challis. After encountering financial difficulties during the slump of the early 1840s, the company recovered and a counterpart firm, P W Flower and Company was established in London in 1844, England and became the largest importer of Australian wool in Britain.
Merchant and philanthropist who made his fortune selling wool and other merchandise. He was a prominent property owner, with holdings at Potts Point, and also ran cattle and sheep stations at his properties in southern New South Wales. He made generous donations to the University of Sydney allowing the establishment of the Challis professorships. After his death his estate was valued for probate at 60,000 pounds in England and 101,000 pounds in New South Wales. His bequest to the University of Sydney completely transformed the institution, and was estimated to be 250,000 pounds or $32 million in 2016.
Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs
Cultural and social organisation that helped Aboriginal people who had moved to Sydney to find jobs, housing and a community.
Aboriginal community leader and activist who campaigned for the removal of constitutional and legislative discrimination, and for the provision of educational opportunities for young people.
Aboriginal community leader.
George Edwards Players
Radio theatre company formed by George Edwards, his wife actor Nell Stirling and writer, Maurice Francis to produce radio serials in the 1930s.
Novelist, playwright and actor who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Literary Award in 1977.
Glebe Municipal Council
Local government area established following a petition of 64 resident householders and freeholders of Glebe who petitioned the Governor to create a municipality.
Stonemason who became a publican in Glebe and represented his ward on Glebe Council for many years.
Government Architect's Office
Office of the New South Wales Government Architect which has an advocacy and advisory role to government as well as operating a commercial professional consulting service. Originally known as the Colonial Architect's Office.
Architect of major Sydney buildings, both public and private.
Architect who joined the New South Wales Government Architect's office in 1939 and was Government Architect from 1958 until 1973.
Aboriginal architect who has designed several major works, assisting Indigenous communities realise their cultural aspirtions within the built environment.
Government Dairy
Dairy established by Governor Macquarie which also employed a cooper who was making buckets, churn and pails by 1819 when the dairy was supplying many of the government institutions in Parramatta.
Convict who settled with her husband in Parramatta under the patronage of Governor King and who worked for many years at the government dairy.
Grace Brothers
Department store chain founded in 1885 which became the first to expand into suburban locations, and survived when other city retailers closed. It was taken over by Myer in 1983, and rebranded Myer in 2004.
Grace family member who was chair of the company when it was taken over by Coles Myer in 1983.
Grose, Francis
Lieutenant-governor for two years after the departure of Governor Philip, who encouraged the initiative of the military and settlers, often to the detriment of government enterprise.
Convict who became a wealthy businesswoman.
Henning, Edmund Biddulph
Pastoralist and company director. Usually called Biddulph.
Husband of letter writer Rachel Henning, who was a farmer and overseer of her brother Edmund Biddulph Henning's properties. Also an alderman on Illawarra Council.
J. Walter Thomson
J. Walter Thomson, or JWT, is a global advertising and marketing company, with its headquarters in the United States of America.
Pioneer in market research in Australia who established the Ashby Research Service.
English psychologist who worked in advertising and market research.
JC Williamson
Theatrical empire of theatre, film, property and investment companies which dominated the theatrical world until 1976 when it closed and leased out its name.
Popular soprano whose roles in vaudeville and musical comedy made her one of the highest paid performers in Australian theatre. She toured extensively, including entertaining the armed forces during and after World War II.
James Sandy and Co
George Street business selling wallpaper, glazing, silvering and other household effects, at the turn of the twentieth century.
Business manager of home decorating business in George Street at the beginning of the twentieth century who was the Mayor of Rookwood, now Lidcombe, on several occasions. His name was combined with that of another Mayor Alexander Larcombe to create the new suburb name 'Lidcombe' when it was felt that the area's development was being held back by it's association with Rookwood Cemetery.
Jenkins, James
Convict who became a landowner on Sydney's northern beaches and built the first road from Balgowlah to Dee Why.
King Nam Jang
Importing business and ships' providores which operated at 85 George Street North in Chinatown for over a century.
Fundraiser and community leader who worked for charities in China and Australia.
Advertising agency which grew out of Lever Brothers soap manufacturer into a global business through agency acquisition and large scale advertising.
Puppeteer, artist, teacher and cartoonist who began experimenting with marionettes with Clovelly Puppet Theatre in 1952. He went on to present puppets on television from 1956. He is best known as the creator of the marionette 'Mr Squiggle', who drew with his nose and appeared regularly on ABC children's television from 1959-1999, Australia's longest running children's television series. Hetherington was the sole operator and voice of Mr. Squiggle.
Lyon Cottier & Company
Stained glass manufacturing company from Glasgow.
Stained glass designer and maker.
Stained glass designer and manufacturer.
Macarthur & Company
Company formed by TS Mort and Thomas Macarthur to operate Mort's dry dock in Balmain. Superseded by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company in 1872.
Engineer and ship builder who oversaw the spectacular development of shipbuilding at Mort's Dock for over 50 years.
Macarthur, John
Soldier, entrepreneur and pastoralist who established the Australian wool industry.
Governess employed by John Macarthur.
Mackenzie & Petersen
Towage company formed in the 1930s.
Danish seaman who worked in towage with his brother's company.
Manly was incorporated as a local government body on 6th January, 1877. It was merged with Warringah and Pittwater to form Northern Beaches Council in 2016.
Carrier whose became a prominent community member in Manly and served as Mayor of Sydney in 1865.
Mansfield, George Allen
Architect who was responsible for many significant buildings in 19th century Sydney, including many schools.
Manly architect and local politician.
Mark Albery & Co
Carpet and furniture retailers which operated from 358 George Street during the 1880s.
Office worker who rose to become managing director of Beard Watson Ltd.
Meggitt's Linseed Oil Factory
Linseed oil manufacturer in George Street Parramatta serviced by the tramway.
Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company
Fire insurance company founded in 1878 which expanded to cover all kinds of insurance.
Businessman whose hard work and business acumen lead to his position on many company boards and within many cultural organisations.
Sailor, boatbuilder, magistrate and philanthropist who endowed Moore College. He was also labelled 'the King of Liverpool' as his 1809 land grant in Moorebank made him the first citizen of Liverpool. He also funded and oversaw the construction of many of the area's public buildings and he became the magistrate of the Georges River district in 1810 - a position he held until his death.
Convict who worked as a sawyer and was later granted his own farm.
Mort & Co
Wool brokerage and auction company formed by Thomas Mort in 1854.
Wool merchant and agent for an American fur company.
National Trust of Australia (NSW)
An independent community-based organisation that has advocated the conservation of built, cultural and natural heritage since its foundation in Sydney in 1945.
Independent theatre company first established in Newtown which is now the oldest theatre company in continuous production in New South Wales. It is also Australia's oldest radical theatre movement and over its lifetime, it has staged plays of contemporary international and Australian writing. It has been at its current premises on King Street in Newtown since 1973.
Crime novelist and television playwright.
New Tivoli Minstrel and Grand Speciality Company of Forty Artistes
Vaudeville and music hall company formed by Harry Rickards in 1892.
Tivoli employee for more than 20 years under both Harry Rickards and later Hugh D McIntosh.
Nimrod Theatre Company
Company formed by John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler to produce Australian drama.
In a widely varied career, he was best known as a playwright. His better known works were the plays Blackrock, Daylight Savings and Mongrels.
Nosworthy, Ellice
One of the first woman architects who graduated from Sydney University in 1922, and established her own practice specializing in domestic architecture.
Architect.
Architect who worked with Ellice Nosworthy in the 1920s and 1930s.
One of many female architects employed by Ellice Nosworthy.
Architect who worked in London and Montreal during World War II before returning to practise in Sydney in 1941.
Architect who worked building air raid shelters in London in 1938-39 before returning to practice in Sydney in 1940.
Architect who worked in the predominantly female practice established by Ellice Nosworthy.
O'Brien Glass
Glass making company formed in 1924 by Frank G O'Brien.
Stained glass maker.
On Chong & Co
Merchant, shipping and trading company at George Street in The Rocks.
Chinese political activist and businessman.
PN Russell & Co
Engineering company created in 1855 by Peter Nicol Russell in partnership with his brothers John and George. It was wound up in 1875 after industrial unrest and financial difficulties.
Engineer, designer and activist, whose visionary plans for Sydney's harbour crossing and education system were not realised until after his death.
Parramatta Industrial School for Females
Girls' home set up for neglected and 'uncontrollable' girls. It served a dual purpose as shelter for girls awaiting court appearances and as a reformatory. Conditions were draconian and punishment severe with little schooling but harsh 'training duties' including laundry and cleaning.
Instructor.
Protestant Political Association
Organisation formed to secure the return of Protestants to parliament and council after the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh further inflamed the sectarian strand of colonial politics.
House painter and building contractor who lobbied for Protestant political organisations and greatly expanded Masonic membership, despite his Jewish ancestry. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1874.
Robertson, George
Bookseller and publisher who promoted Australian literature and authors including AB Patterson and Henry Lawson and was able to convince the government to support the bequest of David Scott Mitchell and construct a library to house his Australiana collection.
Bookseller and publisher who founded the book store now known as Dymocks.
Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney
Music ensemble active between 1885 and 1973 which grew out of a number of choral societies which had existed from the 1830s. By charter granted in 1909 it became the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Cellist who played a prominent part in concert life in Sydney.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Major Sydney hospital in Camperdown that has trained doctors and nurses and treated Sydneysiders since it opened in 1882.
Swedish born political organiser, feminist and suffragist. After emigrating to Sydney, she became a ward-sister at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She joined the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1897, becoming one of its eight vice-presidents and then in 1902, formed the Women's Liberal League of New South Wales.
Smith's Weekly
Independent tabloid newspaper which mixed sensationalism, satire and controversial opinions with sporting and finance news.
Smith, Frank
Publican and entrepreneur who transformed the amenities at the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel into a major tourist attraction.
Entrepreneur and singer who took theatre to Sydney's suburbs in the early twentieth century, with theatres in Newtown, North Sydney, Parramatta and elsewhere.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910.
Librarian who was appointed as the second Mitchell Librarian, despite opposition to a woman in the role, in 1932, and who consolidated the Library's position as the preeminent repository of Australian and Pacific historical documents. During World War II, Leeson was made a major in the Directorate of Research (and Civil Affairs) in the Australian Military Forces.
Daily afternoon newspaper first published in 1910. In 1953 Associated Newspapers sold it to Fairfax who published The Sun until 1988 as a companion to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Public servant, barrister, magistrate and coroner. He was appointed as the City Coroner in 1970 and in 1987 conducted the coronial inquest into the death of Pearl Watson, the Family Court judge's wife killed in 1984 by a bomb at her Greenwich home unit. In 1988 he was the first person to be appointed to the position of New South Wales State Coroner. As State Coroner he conducted inquests into some of the state's most significant cases including the 1989 death of David Gundy, the Kempsey coach crash, the Newcastle earthquake and the shootings in 1991 at the Strathfield Plaza shopping centre. He held the position until his retirement in 1992. He was the inaugural chair of the Victims Advisory Council from 1992 and the founder of the the Australian Coroners Society in 1991. In 1993 he chaired an independent committee reviewing suicide and other forms of self-harm in the NSW prison system, and a crisis and aged care unit in the Long Bay Correction Centre Hospital was named after him.
Surveyor Generals Department
Colonial government body responsible for surveying the settlement.
Draughtsman and journalist who was instrumental in the publication of early maps of the city.
Sydney County Council
Body formed to assume control of the Electricity Department previously part of the Municipal Council of Sydney, supplying electricity to the city and other municipalities. In the 1950s its generating stations were transferred to the Electricity Commission but it continued distributing power until it was dissolved with the Sydney Electricity Act 1990.
Electrician and trade union official who joined the parliament in 1970.
Sydney Living Museums
Statutory authority established in 1980 to manage, maintain and interpret a number of historic houses and museums for the New South Wales state government as the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Known as Sydney Living Museums since 2013, the organisation manages 14 properties and sites across the state, including the Museum of Sydney, as well as research collections like the Caroline Simpson Library.
Administrator.
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
The oldest School of Arts in Sydney was founded to provide further education for working people and has done so since its inception in 1833.
Secretary and librarian at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts who sued for wrongful dismissal.
Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.
Talented artist who made his living and his reputation as a scenic artist and cartoonist.
Organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of Sydney's water supply, formed in 1880 when these functions were taken from the Sydney City Council. Reformed a number of times by legislation, the organisation was corporatised in 1995 but remains state-owned.
Weekly magazine influential in Australian literature and culture, particularly before World War I.
'Lifestyle' publication founded by Sydney publisher Ure Smith which featured the work of distinguished Australian artists and designers.
Stylish designer, illustrator and socialite who worked in the bold modernistic style of the 1920s and 1930s.
Tivoli Circuit Australia Pty Ltd
Theatrical company formed in May 1934 through the merging of Con-Paul Theatres (Mike Connors and Queenie Paul) and Frank Neil. It was taken over by David N Martin in 1944.
Comedian, vaudeville and film star whose career spanned four decades.
Tooth and Co Ltd
Brewing company founded in 1835, and incorporated in 1888, which became a large, successful and diversified company for most of the twentieth century.
Drayman and town traveller who was well known in the liquor trade and worked for Tooth's Brewery for almost 40 years.
Brewer who fulfilled his civic responsibilities at both local and state levels. He served as Mayor of Sydney 1896-97.
Prominent businessman, brewer and farmer who later became a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Tresillian Family Day Care Centres
Organisation formed to co-ordinate childhood and maternal services in response to statistics during World War I that showed 63,000 Australian servicemen had lost their lives fighting, whilst 70,000 children under 5 had died through poverty, lack of hygiene and disease in the same period.
Nurse who saw service in the Middle East and Western Fronts before training in London in Dr Truby King's Plunket Mothercraft method. She became the first director of the Karitane organisation in Sydney responsible for nurse training and mother care.
Urquhart, John
Coachbuilder of George Street and Parramatta.
Publican, businessman and politician who was mayor of Sydney in 1862.
Vaucluse Council
Municipal council for the Watsons Bay and Vaucluse area that was formed in 1894. It was merged into Woollahra Municipal Council in 1948.
A civil engineer who, as the Vaucluse Council Town Clerk, designed the Parsley Bay suspension bridge. He later became an alderman on Vaucluse Council, serving twice as mayor. in 1895 he had been appointed Secretary of the South Head General Cemetery Trust, but in 1938 was charged with forgery and larceny after misappropriating cemetery funds and sentenced to three years in gaol.
Wiley and Sons
Basket warehouse and retail store at 20-21 Park Street.
Shopkeeper who assisted in her husband's wholesale basket business.
Wylie's Baths
Ocean baths built at the southern end of Coogee Beach in the early twentieth century.
Swimming pool lessee at Coogee.