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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Roberts, Anne
Roberts, Caroline
Roberts, Charles James
Roberts, George
Roberts, Harry R
Roberts, Hera
Roberts, Jeremiah
Roberts, John W
Roberts, Mary Ellen
Roberts, Oscar Garibaldi
Roberts, Tom
Roberts, William
Robertson & Marks Commercial organisation
Robertson Park Park or open space
Robertson's coach factory Industrial site
Robertson's Point Syndicate Commercial organisation
Robertson, Bruce
Robertson, Geoffrey
Robertson, George
Robertson, Henry
Robertson, James
Robertson, John
Robertson, Margaret
Robertson, Maria
Robertson, Thomas
Robertsons Point Headland or point
Robeson, Paul
Robey, Ralph Mayer
Robin Hood Inn Hotel
Robinson and Morey Commercial organisation
Robinson's Gentlemen's Baths Swimming pool
Robinson's Ladies' Baths Swimming pool
Robinson, Donald William Bradley
Robinson, George Augustus
Robinson, Herbert
Robinson, Hercules
Robinson, John
Robinson, Kathleen
Robinson, Mary Therese Winifred
Robinson, Michael Massey
Robinson, Peter
Robinson, Richard
Robinson, RW
Robinson, Thomas
Robinson, William
Robson, William
Roche Products Pty Ltd Commercial organisation
Roche, William Augustin
Rockdale Suburb
Rockdale City Council Local government

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Roberts, Anne

Landowner at Hornsby and wife of Oscar Garibaldi Roberts.

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Roberts, Caroline

Architect.

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Roberts, Charles James

A publican who played an active role in civic affairs including serving as Mayor of Sydney in 1879.

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Roberts, George

Painter who specialised in theatrical scenery and set design. He died while in the audience at the Victoria Theatre in 1865.

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Roberts, Harry R

Character actor who achieved success in London and New York before settling in Sydney.

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Roberts, Hera

Stylish designer, illustrator and socialite who worked in the bold modernistic style of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Roberts, Jeremiah

Businessman involved in publishing who became the first mayor of Lane Cove.

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Roberts, John W

Architect who specialised in theatre design.

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Roberts, Mary Ellen

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Teacher and administrator who advocated vocational training for women and was active in the Red Cross and the Feminist Club.

Roberts, Oscar Garibaldi

Wealthy Sydney jeweller.

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Roberts, Tom

Artist associated with the Heidelberg school of Australian Impressionism.

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Roberts, William

Convict who established a successful farm and later built roads for the colonial government, as well as keeping an inn.

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Robertson & Marks

Architectural firm responsible for many of Sydney's best known early twentieth-century buildings, as well as additions to Sydney's racecourses.

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Commercial organisation

Robertson Park

Reserve bounded by Military Road and Clovelly Street, Watsons Bay.

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Park or open space

Robertson's coach factory

Coach factory in Pitt and Goulburn Sts owned by John Robertson. By the late 1880s the coach factory itself had been taken over by Kwong Chong's boarding house.

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Industrial site

Robertson's Point Syndicate

Syndicate formed to attempt zoning changes at Cremorne to allow development of a foreshore reserve.

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Robertson, Bruce

Artist and printmaker. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1905. Returned to Australia 1912 and lived at Dee Why.

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Robertson, Geoffrey

Barrister who has been counsel in many landmark cases in constitutional, criminal, human rights and media law in Britain and the Commonwealth.

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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.

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Robertson, Henry

Architect.

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Robertson, James

Scottish watchmaker who was appointed curator of government clocks and astronomical instruments and took up land at Cremorne Point in 1833.

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Robertson, John

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Pastoralist, land reformer and politician who was Premier of New South Wales five times.

Robertson, Margaret

Wife of John Robertson.

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Robertson, Maria

Lace cleaner who continued the trade she had conducted in London.

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Robertson, Thomas

One of Parramatta's first doctors.

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Robertsons Point

Tip of the headland between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay on Sydney's north shore.

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Headland or point

Robeson, Paul

American singer and actor who toured Australia and New Zealand in 1960 and spoke forcefully in support of Aboriginal and Māori rights.

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Robey, Ralph Mayer

Merchant, grazier and politician whose involvement in the early sugar industry was embroiled in litigation.

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Robin Hood Inn

Inn established in Carrington Road (then Vickery Road) Bronte in 1859. Later the name and licence were transferred to the current Robin Hood Hotel at the corner of Carrington and Bronte roads. The old Robin Hood continued to trade as the Oxford Hotel until its licence was transferred to a hotel in Randwick.

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Hotel

Robinson and Morey

Draper in Pitt Street in the 1850s.

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Robinson's Gentlemen's Baths

Men's baths established by Thomas Robinson on a lease he had been granted in 1829 south of the current Boy Charlton Pool in Woolloomooloo Bay.

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Swimming pool

Robinson's Ladies' Baths

Small swimming baths for women established by Thomas Robinson on the western side of Woolloomooloo Bay, south of the Gentlemen's Baths.

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Robinson, Donald William Bradley

Anglican bishop and school teacher and principal, he was elected Archbishop of Sydney in 1982 and served until 1993.

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Robinson, George Augustus

Protector of Aborigines in Tasmania and Victoria, whose initial compassion hardened as he attempted to eliminate Aboriginal culture.

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Robinson, Herbert

Map maker and publisher who despite bankruptcy in the 1880s saw business flourish in the 1920s with a range of wall maps, street directories and atlases.

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Robinson, Hercules

Governor whose attempts to foster stability in New South Wales government were unpopular with politicians, but whose sporting interests made him popular with the public.

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Robinson, John

Trumpet player with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

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Robinson, Kathleen

Actor and theatrical director. After training overseas, Robinson returned and founded her own company, Whitehall Theatrical Productions, which achieved high acclaim.

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Robinson, Mary Therese Winifred

First female President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.

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Robinson, Michael Massey

Convict poet and public servant transported for blackmail who used his writing skills to both praise and offend his many mentors.

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Robinson, Peter

Journalist.

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Robinson, Richard

One of the first men to be granted land at Brooklyn in 1840.

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Robinson, RW

Early settler at Fishermans Point, Hawkesbury River

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Robinson, Thomas

Hairdresser.

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Robinson, William

Builder and local politician who was an alderman on Erskineville Council for 20 years.

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Robson, William

Proprietor of a millinery business in Pitt Street.

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Roche Products Pty Ltd

Branch of Swiss multinational diagnostic and pharmaceutical company.

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Roche, William Augustin

Sydney resident in 1858 and possibly later of Unwin's Bridge Road St Peters.

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Rockdale

Southern residential suburb of located west of Botany Bay, which is built on the country of the Cadigal, Gweagal and Bidjigal people. Rockdale is highly multicultural, with communities of Chinese, Macedonian, Greek and Arabic heritage, among others.

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Suburb

Rockdale City Council

Council formed to administer the Rockdale municipality in 1888, which became a city in 1995. It was merged with Botany Bay to form Bayside Council in 2016.

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Local government