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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Marrickville Metro Shopping centre or retail premises
Marrickville Municipal Symphony Orchestra Performing group
Marrickville Park Park or open space
Marrickville Town Hall Town hall
Marrickville War Memorial Memorial
Marriott, Edward
Mars Ship
Marsden Park Suburb
Marsden's mill Mill
Marsden, Elizabeth Mary
Marsden, Samuel
Marsden, Thomas
Marsfield Suburb
Marsfield School of Arts Educational institution
Marsh, Arthur
Marsh, Henry
Marshall, George
Marshall, James
Marshall, John
Marshall, Mary
Marshall, Thomas
Marshall, WB
Marshall-Hall, George
Martens, Conrad
Martin Luther Kirche Place of worship
Martin Place Square or place
Martin Place railway station Railway station
Martin, Charles James
Martin, David James
Martin, David Nathaniel
Martin, Isabella
Martin, James
Martin, James 1820-1886
Martin, Jessie
Martin, Josephine
Martin, William
Martin, Zac
Martindale, BH
Martyn, David Forbes
Marx, Chico
Mary Ann Ship
Mary Anne Ship
Mary Crossland Ship
Mary Elizabeth Tea Rooms Commercial organisation
Maryfields Locality
Maryland Estate Estate
Masada College Educational institution
Mascot Suburb
Mash, Ann
Mashman Brothers Pottery Commercial organisation

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Marrickville Metro

Small local shopping mall in Marrickville, built on the site of the Vicars Woollen Mill in 1987.
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Shopping centre or retail premises

Marrickville Municipal Symphony Orchestra

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Orchestra formed by unemployed musicians in 1930 and supported by Marrickville Municipal Council. It was disbanded in 1945, but has been revived in 2010.

Performing group

Marrickville Park

Reserve bounded by Frazer Street and Livingstone Road, Marrickville.

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Park or open space

Marrickville Town Hall

The second town hall for Marrickville built in 1922.

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Town hall

Marrickville War Memorial

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Originally a large granite pillar set on a rectangular granite base, atop which was a four-metre high bronze sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory, Nike. The original sculpture held a wreath and raised sword. The memorial commemorated the more than 450 Marrickville residents who died in World War I and was unveiled before a crowd of 15,000 in 1919. The crumbling memorial was removed in 2009, and in 2014 the sculpture was donated to the Australian War Memorial. Another similar design was commissioned and unveiled in April 2015, featuring Nike with the sword at rest. Victorian sculptor Darien Pullen said 'I was chasing an image of peace and sacrifice'.

Memorial

Marriott, Edward

Cellist.

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Mars

Sloop of 30 tons built at Newcastle which was wrecked at Port Stephens in 1926.

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Ship

Marsden Park

North-western rural suburb, named after the Church of England minister and landowner in the area.

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Suburb

Marsden's mill

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Watermill built around 1810 on Darling Mills and Toongabbie Creeks by Samuel Marsden near the site of the present Cumberland hospital weir. It remained in use until about 1838. An earlier millrace on the same property was associated with the earlier Government Water Mill.

Mill

Marsden, Elizabeth Mary

Landowner in Ermington area.

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Marsden, Samuel

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Anglican chaplain who used his extensive landholdings to promote the sheep industry but is equally remembered for his extreme severity as a magistrate.

Marsden, Thomas

Son of a cousin of the Reverend Samuel Marsden who established his own mercantile firm, Marsden and Flower, with Philip William Flower in about 1830. Their partnership was dissolved in 1837 on Marsden's death, after which Flower continued the business in his name.

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Marsfield

Northern residential suburb, originally part of the much larger Field of Mars Common established in 1804. It began to be cleared in the 1870s and the first land sales were held in 1885.

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Marsfield School of Arts

Organisation established to encourage reading and cultural pursuits in the community early in the twentieth century.

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Educational institution

Marsh, Arthur

Milk vendor in Oatley from 1928.

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Marsh, Henry

Publisher and composer who set up business at 490 George Street.

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Marshall, George

Convict who built a successful business as a blanket maker and clothier.

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Marshall, James

Naval officer who was challenged to a duel by John Macarthur.

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Marshall, John

Apprenticed as a sailor at age 10 he spent his life at sea including two voyages transporting convicts to Sydney. He also saw action in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars where he was mortally wounded.

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Marshall, Mary

Dublin born convict flower keeper who continued her husband's business after his death and achieved some level of prosperity and respectability.

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Marshall, Thomas

Survivor of the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He was the first mate, or chief officer, of the ship and had to identify several of the dead at inquests around the city.

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Marshall, WB

Stained glass designer and maker.

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Marshall-Hall, George

Controversial composer, conductor and professor of music from Melbourne.

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Martens, Conrad

Artist who travelled with Charles Darwin on the Beagle before settling in Sydney where he recorded the landscapes and harbour for thirty five years.

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Martin Luther Kirche

The first German Evangelical Lutheran church built in Sydney, it was estimated to cost 2000 pounds and could accommodate 220 people.

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Place of worship

Martin Place

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Wide street running through Sydney's centre, from the General Post Office at the George Street end, and completed when Sydney City Council resumed property to extend the street all the way to Macquarie Street in the 1930s. Lined with elegant buildings of grand design and lavish materials it has been entirely pedestrian since 1979.

Square or place

Martin Place railway station

Underground station on the Eastern Suburbs line built under Martin Place in the 1970s.

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Railway station

Martin, Charles James

English physiologist and pathologist who was the demonstrator in physiology at the University of Sydney from 1891 to 1896 before moving to Melbourne. He and Frank Tidswell collaborated on pioneering research into venoms and anti-venoms.

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Martin, David James

Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin was the Governor of New South Wales from January 1989 until his resignation in August 1990, shortly before his death from pleural mesothelioma. He was the first Governor to be an officer in the Royal Australian Navy officer.

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Martin, David Nathaniel

Theatre entrepreneur who often faced protests for replacing Australian performers with overseas artists.

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Martin, Isabella

Wealthy woman and philanthropist who was the daughter of a wealthy wine merchant and wife of James Martin, with whom she had 15 children. She was one of the chief organisers of the Queen's Jubilee Fund and also a member of the Board of Control of the School of Industry for Orphan Girls. She became unhappy in her marriage and the conditions of their family home in Potts Point. She developed a distaste for the toxic smells emanating from Rushcutters Bay that often swept up to their property, and after two of her children and her sister died, she left her husband. She lived off her own substantial wealth leasing Greycliffe and then Woollahra House, before moving to Clairvaux, where she died.

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Martin, James

Convict who escaped with 10 others in the governor's cutter and sailed to Timor in 1790.

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Martin, James 1820-1886

Politician and lawyer who rose from a humble background to be a member of parliament, Chief Justice of the colony and Premier three times between 1863 and 1872.

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Martin, Jessie

American jazz drummer.

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Martin, Josephine

Architect.

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Martin, William

Architect.

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Martin, Zac

Indigenous actor in theatre and film

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Martindale, BH

Captain in the Royal Engineers who was appointed Commissioner for Internal Communication with responsibilities for road and rail building between 1857 and 1861.

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Martyn, David Forbes

Radiophysicist.

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Marx, Chico

American comedian and film star, a member of the Marx Brothers group.

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Mary Ann

Transport which bought 150 female convicts to the colony as part of the Third Fleet.

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Mary Anne

Ship which transported passengers and 103 female convicts between England and the colony.

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Mary Crossland

Small vessel built by Burton Crossland and used by him to convey supplies between the settlement at Berowra Creek and Sydney.

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Mary Elizabeth Tea Rooms

Cafe at 56 King Street, on the corner of York Street, that operated between about 1917 and the 1930s. Established and run by journalist and charity worker Zara Aranson, the cafe was a popular meeting spot and function room between the wars.

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Commercial organisation

Maryfields

Locality in Campbelltown at the intersection of Narellan Road and Hume Motorway, originally occupied by the Franciscan Friars and Poor Clare Nuns.

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Locality

Maryland Estate

Land grant of 300 acres to John Dickson in 1815. It is a major surviving mid 19th century rural estate which continues as a working dairy farm.

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Estate

Masada College

Co-educational Jewish college which grew out of a kindergarten founded by Jewish families in 1962.

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Mascot

Industrial, commercial and residential suburb on the north-western side of Botany Bay. It is the location of Sydney Airport, built on the site of Ascot Racecourse and opened in 1920.

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Mash, Ann

Convict sentenced to seven years transportation for theft of a bushel of wheat. On the journey she partnered with Richard Alley and had a daughter with him once she reached Sydney, but the child died a few days later. Ann formed a relationship with John Irving, whose land in Parramatta went to her when he died. She married Robert Flannagan, sold her land in 1798 and then married William Chapman. She managed her large family of nine children and from the late 1790s, she operated a small goods business and a passenger boat service between Parramatta and Sydney. She also assisted Chapman in various other businesses including a bakery, butchery and general store, and after his death she held a liquor licence for the King's Head Tavern until about 1813.

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Mashman Brothers Pottery

Family run pottery business which grew on the skills acquired in England before many family members emigrated. Potteries were established at Willoughby, Auburn and Kingsrove. In July 1960 it became a subsidiary of Doultons.

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