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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Cox, Philip
Cox, William
Coxen, Charles
Coxen, Charles F
Coxen, Stephen
Coxhead, Harald
Coxs Creek River or creek
CR Tebb & Sons Commercial organisation
Crackenthorp, Spencer
Cracknell, Ruth
Craigend House
Craigend Mill Mill
Craigie, Billy
Craignathan House
Cramer, Madame
Cramphorn, Rex
Cranbrook House
Cranbrook Estate Estate
Cranbrook School Educational institution
Crane, Samuel
Crane, WG
Cranebrook Suburb
Cranston, William
Crater Cove Bay or cove
Crawford, Jack
Crawford, Percy
Crawford, Robert
Crawley, Margaret
Craydon, Letty
Creamery House
Credo Religious organisation
Creed, John Mildred
Creighton, John Wilford
Cremation Society of New South Wales Society or association
Cremorne Suburb
Cremorne Bathing Pool Swimming pool
Cremorne Gardens Park or open space
Cremorne Orpheum Theatre
Cremorne Point Suburb
Cremorne Point Reserve Park or open space
Creole Cradle Song Song
Crescent Coffee Palace Commercial organisation
Cresswell, John
Cressy, Richard
Crest Hotel Hotel
Crestani, Sebastiano
Creswell, Rosemary
Crews, Bill
Crick, Guy
Crick, Paddy

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Cox, Philip

Architect who designed many of our iconic buildings including several used for the Olympic Games in 2000.

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Cox, William

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New South Wales Corps officer who settled in the Windsor district and oversaw the building of the first road over the Blue Mountains.

Coxen, Charles

Naturalist who travelled for months collecting specimens of Australian fauna which provided the stimulus for the expedition of John Gould in 1838-40. He later became a politician in Queensland.

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Coxen, Charles F

Student at the Normal Institute.

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Coxen, Stephen

Settler in the Upper Hunter who was ruined by drought and flood in the 1840s.

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Coxhead, Harald

Community activist who became first ranger of Carss Park.

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Coxs Creek

Watercourse about 3 kilometres long which rises about 1 kilometre north east of Punchbowl railway station and flows into the Cooks River.

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River or creek

CR Tebb & Sons

Family butcher which operated at Liverpool in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Commercial organisation

Crackenthorp, Spencer

Chess champion.

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Cracknell, Ruth

Actor and author who worked in radio, television, film and on the stage.

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Craigend

Darlinghurst villa designed and built by Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell.

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House

Craigend Mill

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Windmill adjacent to Craigend mansion, Darlinghurst, but not associated with that estate.

Mill

Craigie, Billy

Aboriginal campaigner who worked for better legal, housing and medical services for Indigenous people.

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Craignathan

House constructed in Hayes Street Neutral Bay which was demolished in 1968.

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Cramer, Madame

Singer who performed in Sydney in 1856 and 1857.

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Cramphorn, Rex

Experimental theatre director who emerged in the 1960s challenging the received view of theatre.

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Cranbrook

Two storey sandstone home which has also served as state governor's residence and from 1917 was the nucleus of the new Cranbrook School.

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Cranbrook Estate

Leasehold of 40 acres which been part of the Cooper estate on the southern side of New South Head Road.

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Estate

Cranbrook School

Private Anglican boys school at Bellevue Hill established in 1918.

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Educational institution

Crane, Samuel

Soldier and early settler who was killed while clearing his land at Concord in 1794.

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Crane, WG

President of the YMCA.

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Cranebrook

Western residential and semi-rural suburb on northern edge of Penrith. 'Crane Brook Farm' was granted to emancipist James McCarthy in 1804, and probably named for the abundance of cranes and lagoons in the area.

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Suburb

Cranston, William

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He was described in newspaper reports of the disaster as a boy.

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Crater Cove

Bay in North Harbour at Balgowlah surrounded by Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Bay or cove

Crawford, Jack

Champion tennis player who won the Australian Open four times in the 1930s.

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Crawford, Percy

Tivoli employee for more than 20 years under both Harry Rickards and later Hugh D McIntosh.

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Crawford, Robert

Principal clerk to the Colonial Secretary who arrived from Scotland in 1821 and soon managed to build up extensive holdings including farms and Clydebank on his town allotment. Financial difficulties later in the decade saw many of the properties sold by 1828.

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Crawley, Margaret

Solicitor and a founder of the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales.

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Craydon, Letty

Actress who began her career as a child touring in tent shows. She performed in revue and vaudeville in Sydney and the United Kingdom.

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Creamery

Residential building, part of the Camden Dairy Company, owned and occupied by the Lavercombe family until 2000.

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Credo

Christian student group at the UTS Sydney who are multicultural, inter-denominational and inter-faculty.

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Religious organisation

Creed, John Mildred

Physician and politician who was unconcerned at the unpopularity of many of his legislative initiatives such as registration of medical practitioners, protection of children and care of inebriates.

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Creighton, John Wilford

Plasterer and carpenter, transported for seven years in 1819. Participated in the 1828 robbery of the Bank of Australia. Died by drowning in a boating accident in 1829.

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Cremation Society of New South Wales

Organisation formed in 1908 to lobby government for the erection of a crematorium. It developed from the 1890s organisation with a similar name, 'New South Wales Cremation Society'.

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Society or association

Cremorne

Residential suburb on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It was a picnic place in the nineteenth century, taking its name from the Cremorne Gardens in London.

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Cremorne Bathing Pool

Public swimming pool at Cremorne.

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Swimming pool

Cremorne Gardens

English-style pleasure garden on Cremorne Point opened in 1856.

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Park or open space

Cremorne Orpheum

Art deco cinema in Military Road, Cremorne, built in 1935 and classified by the National Trust. In 1986 it was purchased by TV personality Mike Walsh who restored the interior and reopened as the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace.

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Theatre

Cremorne Point

Suburb built on the peninsula between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. Its foreshore was preserved when Cremorne Reserve was gazetted in 1905.

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Cremorne Point Reserve

Bushland park at the tip of the Cremorne peninsula.

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Creole Cradle Song

Musical composition written by G.H. Clutsam in 1801.

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Song

Crescent Coffee Palace

Temperance establishment, restaurant and meeting place in George Street, Haymarket, which was open by 1894, and still trading in 1915.

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Cresswell, John

Marine officer who embarked as Lieutenant aboard Charlotte during the First Fleet voyage and transferred to Prince of Wales whilst in port at Cape Town, South Africa.

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Cressy, Richard

Sailor who died in the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. His body was washed up near the wreck, at Mr Bass's shipyard, and was identified at an inquest by Thomas Marshall, the ship's first mate. A stout and athletic man between 40 and 50 years old, Cressy had been at the wheel when the ship entered the Heads, but had been washed away with the front part of the ship within five minutes of it striking the rocks at Middle Head. 

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Crest Hotel

Scandinavian style 14 storey hotel on the corner of Darlinghurst and Victoria Roads in Kings Cross that opened in 1967 on the site of the former Kings Cross Theatre and Surf City. The building was partially demolished in 2016 and remodelled as the multipurpose apartment building Omnia.

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Hotel

Crestani, Sebastiano

Italian community leader whose shed was used for some of the first meetings of Club Marconi.

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Creswell, Rosemary

Literary agent, editor and author who also worked as a lecturer and book reviewer.In 2008 she received an OAM for service to literature, particularly through the promotion and support of Australian writers.

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Crews, Bill

Uniting Church minister who founded the Exodus Foundation to help homeless youth.

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Crick, Guy

Architect responsible for many of the European modernist style theatres in Australia.

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Crick, Paddy

Colourful and feisty solicitor and politician remembered as a racehorse owner and a heavy gambler, rather than one who fought for legislative reform.

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