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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Blackstone, William
Blackwood, William
Bladders, William
Blair, Gorrie McLeish
Blake, Edward
Blake, Thomas
Blake, William George
Blamire, Anthony
Blanch, James
Blanchett, Cate
Blanco, Raymond
Bland, William
Blanket, John
Blanks, Fred
Blaxcell, Garnham
Blaxland, Audrey
Blaxland, Charles
Blaxland, Elizabeth
Blaxland, Gregory
Blaxland, John
Blevins, Jim
Blewit
Bligh, Henry Hocken
Bligh, William
Blissett, Ray
Blondin
Bloodsworth, James
Bloomfield, George
Bloomfield, John
Blue, Billy
Blue, Mary
Bluett, Frederick George
Blyth, William
Boake, Barcroft
Boan, Harry
Board, Peter
Boatswain Maroot
Bobart, Elizabeth Mary
Bobart, Henry Hodgkinson
Bochsa, Nicholas
Bockelmann, Thomas Paul
Bocking, James
Boelke, Grace Fairley
Boio
Boland, Eugenie
Bolot, Aaron
Bonachela, Rafael
Bond, Alan
Bond, William
Bondi Charley

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Blackstone, William

Blackstone who was transported for 14 years in 1815. Participated in the 1828 robbery of the Bank of Australia but received a pardon for confessing and naming the other robbers. He declined a promised free passage back to England and continued to engage in further criminal activities until his death in 1850.

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Blackwood, William

Photographer.

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Bladders, William

Former convict who had been transported for burglary but became a constable in Sydney's early police force. He was one of several suspects in the murder of another police officer, Joseph Luker, in August 1803 but was found not guilty due to lack of evidence. He was also known as William Hambridge, Ambridge or Embridge. 

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Blair, Gorrie McLeish

Scottish architect in the Government Architect's Office who was responsible for the design of the Mitchell Library building.

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Blake, Edward

Early alderman of Kogarah municipality.

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Blake, Thomas

First postmaster at Kogarah post office in 1863.

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Blake, William George

Landholder, quarryman and and postmaster for Cooks River.

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Blamire, Anthony

Brickmaker in Hurlstone Park in the late nineteenth century.

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Blanch, James

Former convict, mathematical instrument maker and foundry owner who established his business in George Street about 1822.

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Blanchett, Cate

Actor, director and artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Blanco, Raymond

Dancer and the first Indigenous artistic director in Australia.

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Bland, William

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Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

Blanket, John

Māori man who was one of the early harbour pilots and then worked for many years as a servant and part of the household of the politician John Robertson at his property Clovelly at Watsons Bay. On 8 Feburary 1874 Blanket and three other men from Watsons Bay were on a fishing expedition outside the heads. A storm blew in on their return journey and the boat was swamped near DeeWhy and sank. One of the men, a Portuguese sailor named Emmanuel Jacinto (or Jesson) was drowned, while the other three eventually managed to swim. Blanket was described as tattooed and as a Maori chief.

Blanket died in late 1889, aged about 82, and was buried at South Head Cemetery. In 1899 his remains were removed to be placed beside those of John Robertson.

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Blanks, Fred

Industrial chemist and music critic born in Germany in 1925, died in Sydney 2011.

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Blaxcell, Garnham

Trader and merchant whose unsuccessful speculation in trade undid early commercial success and involvement with the building of Sydney Hospital.

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Blaxland, Audrey

Actress and drama teacher.

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Blaxland, Charles

Pastoralist and landowner in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Elizabeth

Wife of Gregory Blaxland and an early settler in the Ryde district.

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Blaxland, Gregory

Farmer, speculator and explorer who crossed the Blue Mountains with Lawson and Wentworth in 1813.

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Blaxland, John

Merchant of independent means who lived at the Hermitage in Ryde and served on the New South Wales Legislative Council as well as holding other prominent positions in the banking sector.

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Blevins, Jim

Australian jazz musician.

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Blewit

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Aboriginal man who killed Musquito in retaliation for the wounding with a tomahawk of a boy named Pigeon in January 1806. He was also known as Ploge, or Blewett. 

Bligh, Henry Hocken

Inspector of Police at Albury and later Mayor of Willoughby, he was an early settler in Northbridge first purchasing land there in 1856.

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Bligh, William

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Governor of New South Wales who was overthrown in the Rum Rebellion of 1808.

Blissett, Ray

Policeman nicknamed 'The Blizzard' who started life as a bullock driver at age 14 before joining the police force in Redfern. He worked as a police officer during the violent razor gang wars of the 1930s, spending most of his career policing Glebe. On his retirement he had been superintendent and chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch.

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Blondin

French tightrope walker and acrobat.

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Bloodsworth, James

Emancipist brickmaker and builder who built many early buildings in the colony between 1788 and 1804.

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Bloomfield, George

Child who was removed from his family and placed in institutions where he experienced abuse and harsh punishment over several years. He later became a youth worker drawing on his own experiences.

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Bloomfield, John

Artist, printmaker and teacher who lived and worked in the United States of America and Canada before settling in Australia in the 1960s.

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Blue, Billy

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Early ferry operator on North Shore.

Blue, Mary

Daughter of Billy Blue, who married early Balgowlah settler Robert Tiffen.

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Bluett, Frederick George

Vaudevillian whose talent for wisecracks and burlesque made him a hugely popular performer for over 3 decades.

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Blyth, William

Confectionery and pastry cook who was the proprietor of popular refreshment rooms in Pitt Street between 1843 and 1850. He arrived in Sydney in 1833 with confectioner Thomas Dunsdon and his family, and managed their business opposite the Bank of Australia on lower George Street. Blyth married Dunsdon's sister Hephzibah in 1839 and took over the business in his own right in 1840. In 1843 he opened the new store on Pitt Street next to the Victoria Theatre. He sold the business in 1850 and established an Italian grocery at Haymarket.

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Boake, Barcroft

Poet who rejected the city for the bush.

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Boan, Harry

Perth retailer who married Sophie Bebarfald, daughter of Barnet Bebarfald, in 1896.

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Board, Peter

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Director of education who revolutionised public schooling in New South Wales in the early twentieth century.

Boatswain Maroot

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Boatswain Maroot was born at the Cooks River near Botany about 1793, the son of Maroot and Grang Grang. Nicknamed Boatswain or Bosun, he was a sailor and one of the first sealers put ashore at Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic ocean in 1810 where he was stranded for 18 months without food rations, later petitioning Governor Macquarie for unpaid wages. He had land at Botany Bay where he lived with his wife, and had several white tenants. He gave evidence to the Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines in 1845 where he spoke frankly about his life, his family, his Country and the impact on Indigenous people since 1788. His name is also often spelt as Mahroot.

Bobart, Elizabeth Mary

Parramatta pioneer.

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Bobart, Henry Hodgkinson

Anglican minister of St John's Parramatta for 18 years.

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Bochsa, Nicholas

Harpist and composer who died in Sydney on concert tour in 1856.

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Bockelmann, Thomas Paul

Composer of 'Como Waltz'.

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Bocking, James

Businessman who took over Bradbury district's first steam flour mill in 1870s.

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Boelke, Grace Fairley

Medical doctor who was one of the first two women medical graduates of the University of Sydney. 

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Boio

Son of Bungaree and Queen Gooseberry.

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Boland, Eugenie

Contralto who achieved some recognition in London in the 1900s.

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Bolot, Aaron

Architect who helped bring modernist design to Sydney.

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Bonachela, Rafael

Dancer and choreographer.

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Bond, Alan

Businessman and criminal.

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Bond, William

Landholder who received one of the first grants, 50 acres, along Salt Pan Creek in 1809.

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Bondi Charley

Aboriginal man who lived in the Double Bay area in the 1850s.

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