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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Bulfin, William George (Billy)
Bulkabra
Bull, John Edward
Bull, Nathaniel George
Bullen, Perce
Bulmanna
Bundle
Bungaree
Bungaree, Bowen
Bungaree, John
Bungaree, Rose
Bungaree, Toby
Bunker, Ann
Bunker, Eber
Bunker, Margaret
Bunker, Margrett
Bunn, Anna Maria
Bunning, Walter
Bunting, James
Burattini, Dino
Burdekin, Sydney
Burdekin, Thomas
Burguez, Angèle
Burguez, Léona
Buring, Hermann Paul Leopold
Burke, Walter
Burlakov, Misha
Burley, Elizabeth
Burn, Simon
Burne, William
Burne, WP
Burnett, Alfred
Burnley, Ian
Burns, James
Burns, Joanne
Burns, John Fitzgerald
Burns, Tommy
Burnum Burnum
Burragalang, Paddy
Burridge, Pam
Burridge, Theresa
Burstall, Tim
Burt, Samuel
Burton, Henry
Burton, Rosina
Burton, William James
Burton, William Westbrooke
Busby, James
Busby, John
Bush, Beatrice Olive

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Bulfin, William George (Billy)

Publican at several inner city hotels and local cycling champion in Glebe.

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Bulkabra

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.

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Bull, John Edward

Military officer and public servant who supervised road gangs in the Woodford area before his appointment as commissioner for Crown lands in Castlemaine in Victoria.

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Bull, Nathaniel George

Draper and shopkeeper who moved from local to state politics.

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Bullen, Perce

Circus owner and ringmaster who travelled extensively with a large menagerie of animals to perform in his two-ringed circus.

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Bulmanna

Aboriginal man from the Botany Bay area who lived close to Sydney Town in the 1820s.

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Bundle

Aboriginal child orphaned soon after the colony was established. Over four decades he travelled extensively as a guide to coastal explorers often assisting as interpreter and also worked as a tracker and native constable.

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Bungaree

Negotiator who accompanied Flinders, thereby becoming the first Aboriginal to circumnavigate Australia. He was held in high esteem by various governors and became a leader of the township Aborigines.

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Bungaree, Bowen

Indigenous leader who succeeded his father as leader of the clan at Broken Bay.

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Bungaree, John

Kamilaroi man brought to Sydney from the Namoi River valley and educated at the Normal Institution in the 1830s.

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Bungaree, Rose

Aboriginal woman.

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Bungaree, Toby

Aboriginal identity in early Sydney.

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Bunker, Ann

Widow of Captain William Minchin who became the third wife of Eber Bunker.

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Bunker, Eber

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American-born sailor who was an early whaler, merchant and landowner.

Bunker, Margaret

Second wife of Eber Bunker who is managed the farm while he was away on whaling expeditions.

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Bunker, Margrett

First wife of Eber Bunker who, as his whaling business became profitable, was able to join him in Sydney, with their five children.

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Bunn, Anna Maria

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Author of the first novel printed and published in Sydney. Anna Maria Bunn (1808–1889) was the anonymous author of The Guardian: a Tale (by an Australian) (1838) the first novel published on mainland Australia and the first in the continent by a woman. Bunn’s authorship was only established after an historian found a copy of the book in which her son had noted his mother’s authorship

Bunning, Walter

Leading modernist architect and publicist for architecture and town planning, designed Anzac House and Liner House.

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Bunting, James

Businessman who lobbied for Glebe to be declared a municipality and was elected to the first council in 1860.

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Burattini, Dino

Architect whose controversial design for East Circular Quay was not built.

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Burdekin, Sydney

Pastoralist and politician, Burdekin was Mayor of Sydney in 1890-1891.

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Burdekin, Thomas

Ironmonger who set up a branch of the family company Burdekin & Hawley in Sydney and became a wealthy and successful merchant and landholder.

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Burguez, Angèle

Ran 'Bondo' guesthouse, Parramatta, mother of painter Lloyd Rees.

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Burguez, Léona

Aunt of painter Lloyd Rees.

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Buring, Hermann Paul Leopold

Winemaker and viticulturist who established Leo Buring Pty Ltd, a winery at Emu Plains called Leonay and a wine cellar on George Street called Ye Olde Crusty Cellar. In 2018, the Leo Buring label is owned by Treasury Wine Estates.

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Burke, Walter

Photographer who formed an advertising agency with Harry J Weston in 1908.

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Burlakov, Misha

Dancer and founder, with Louise Lightfoot, of First Australian Ballet in 1931.

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Burley, Elizabeth

Convict who married Thomas Arndell and raised a farming family in the Hawkesbury area.

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Burn, Simon

Convict who arrived in Sydney on the Friendship in 1788. Described as a stocking weaver and timber getter, he was convicted in Exeter in 1783 of highway robbery and sentenced to transportation to America for seven years, but escaped before departure in the convict mutiny on the Mercury in 1784. Recaptured, he was transported to New South Wales. On 10 February 1788 he married fellow convict, Frances Anderson and given a land grant in Parramatta in July 1791. Accused in 1794 by Marsden of drunkenness on the Sabbath, a few weeks later he was murdered by drinking partner John Hill when he tried to defend a woman, Hill's partner, from an attack. He was the first emancipist in the colony to be murdered by another colonist.

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Burne, William

First secretary of Glebe School of Arts whose resignation necessitated forced entry to the premises when he removed all keys and documentation.

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Burne, WP

Shipwright at Greenwich.

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Burnett, Alfred

Farmer in the Camden district.

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Burnley, Ian

Academic and teacher in population geography and demography.

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Burns, James

Shipowner, businessman and philanthropist who endowed Burnside Children's Homes.

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Burns, Joanne

Poet who won the Judith Wright award 2005.

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Burns, John Fitzgerald

Businessman and politician who was Postmaster-General and Treasurer in the late nineteenth century.

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Burns, Tommy

Canadian heavyweight boxer who lost his world title to opponent Jack Johnson at Sydney Stadium.

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Burnum Burnum

Activist, actor and author who is best remembered for planting the Aboriginal flag on the white cliffs of Dover on the Australian Bicentenary Day of 26 January 1988.

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Burragalang, Paddy

Aboriginal elder who lived in the southern part of Dharawal country in Five Islands (The Illawarra).

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Burridge, Pam

Champion surfer who learned to surf on Sydney's northern beaches.

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Burridge, Theresa

Fruit shop owner and confectioner who inherited a ginger beer factory upon the death of her husband.

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Burstall, Tim

Film producer and director and writer who was instrumental in rebuilding the Australian film industry from the 1960s.

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Burt, Samuel

Convict who was tried at London's Old Bailey for forgery in January 1787, a crime he committed after a rejected marriage proposal. He told the court: 'I now feel myself forever cut off from the union of a person that was most dear to me, death to me will be preferable to life'. While in prison his intended agreed to marry him, however, Burt was sentenced to transportation for life and his fiancée died of typhus before he was sent to Sydney. During the voyage he warned the ship's captain and officers of a convict group's plan for mutiny. For his role thwarting the mutiny he was granted 30 acres in Erskineville, known as Burt's Farm, on 8 January 1794 and given a full pardon by Governor Francis Grose. His land was later the site of Bakewell Brothers' Beulah Steam Brick and Pottery Works.
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Burton, Henry

Circus proprietor and horse breeder who toured remote areas around Sydney and interstate.

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Burton, Rosina

Equestrienne and circus performer who travelled with her husband's circus troupe in the 1850s.

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Burton, William James

Stonemason who became a publican in Glebe and represented his ward on Glebe Council for many years.

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Burton, William Westbrooke

Lawyer, judge and politician who helped develop legal structures in the colony.

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Busby, James

Pioneer viticulturalist and farmer who was British Resident in New Zealand from 1833.

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Busby, John

Surveyor and engineer who built Sydney's first regular water supply system.

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Bush, Beatrice Olive

Rozelle woman who for 25 years sold newspapers seven days a week from the traffic island at the intersection of Victoria Road and The Crescent, White Bay.

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