Category: People

Abram, William

Frederick William Abram was born in Germany in 1854 of an English father and a German mother; his father was a bee farmer from Somerset

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Alcock, Edward

Edward Henry Alcock was born in Darling Point, Sydney, in 1854, son of English-born Thomas Alcock who had come to Sydney in the 1840s. With

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Allsop, Francis

Francis Allsop, Jr, was born in the district in 1835, son of a convict father and free mother, Frances Allsop and Ann Eyles. In 1848

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Ballooderry

Ballooderry (c 1783-1791)[1] lived around Ryde and his name is the same as the fish we know as ‘leather jacket’ – a salt water fish. His

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Barnby, Alfred

Alfred Barnby was born around 1850 to Edgar and Hannah Barnby. He was a draftsman when he married a widow Angelina Charlotte Wachsmann in 1880. Angelina 

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Barwick, Garfield

Garfield Edward John Barwick, PC AK GCMG Kt KC QC (1903-1997) was born on 22 June 1903 in Cannon Street, Stanmore to Jabez Edward Barwick

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Baur, Louise

Louise Alison Baur AM was born on 7 August 1956 in Coffs Harbour to George and Ruth Baur. Her father was based in Coffs Harbour

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Bellamy, Thomas

Thomas, Nicholas and John Jeremiah Bellamy, were all residents of Beecroft, great-grandsons of early convict farmers of West Pennant Hills, William and Anne Bellamy.[1] Thomas

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Bidgee Bidgee

  Bidgee Bidgee (c1787-c 1836)[1]  First recorded as the five year old attending the funeral of his step-brother, Ballooderry, in the grounds of Government House.

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Boyce, Una

Una Parry Boyce (1911 – 2003) Champion of Australian war widows Una was born in Sydney to Charles Robertson Swan and his wife Kate Emma

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Brodrick, Robert

Robert Hargreave Brodrick was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1860, the son of Robert Brodrick, a well-to-do silk manufacturer. At the age of 16 years

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