Author: heather

Nurseries

From some 17,000 years ago when Aborigines arrived in this place, they named the local plants and farmed it for the fruits and other edible

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Ogden, George,

George Ogden was born around 1821 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He married Emma Browne and they lived, in 1851, with her three unmarried siblings in

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Ogle, Robert

Robert William George Ogle DSO [1] was born on 21 November 1904 at Georgetown, Newcastle the son of Robert William Ogle, a locally born blacksmith,

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Onus, Bill

William Townsend Onus Jnr (1906-1968) [1] William Townsend Onus Snr was born in 1868 to Madha (or Martha) Hobbs, Hibbs or Higgs (d 1926). Madha

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Opium Bust

The Beecroft Opium Bust Following a tip off, NSW Police detectives and customs officers raided the Copeland Road East home of May Alice Quan in

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Other Parks

Booth Park Sutherland Road, which runs along the side of the railway on the opposite side to Beecroft Road , was formerly a dirt track

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Oxley, Samuel

Samuel James Oxley (1859-1952) [1]  the son of English-born Owen Oxley who had arrived in the colony, on board the ‘Roxburgh Castle’ with his family,

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Park Avenue

The land largely comprises part of the initial portion 702 into just over 5 acres and was sold to Benjamin Rivett Lloyd in 1891. He

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Parker Close

This was a subdivision of the grounds surrounding the home Oaklands.The land had originally been purchased by Alfred George Biden in 1888 and he formed

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