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1788 – Area explored by Governor Phillip and named Rose Hill
1792 – Charles Smith granted a 30 acres lying on the North side of the Creek above Parramatta
1796 – First Gaol built on ‘…
It promised to be an event of a spectacular nature seldom before seen in Australia. Ten days of pageantry and carnival at Parramatta from 27 October to 5 November 1938 to celebrate the 150th…
The first post office was opened in Australia in April 1809 but it took nearly twenty years before the first post office was built in Parramatta, in 1828.
The first post master in Parramatta…
Parramatta River notebook / by Joyce Cole – LS 994.41 COLE
A river revived: the Parramatta / by Carol Powell – READY REFERENCE LS 994.41 PARR
Parramatta River foreshore signage manual / by New…
At 1 Fleet Street North Parramatta stands a group of buildings which provides a continuous story of the evolution of child welfare and juvenile justice in New South Wales.
Dating back to the…
Private David ‘Dave’ Hamilton was the son of Alexander Hugh and Laura Marcell Hamilton (nee McDonald), Lumley Street, Granville. At the age of 19 years and 8 months, this local clerk who…
Eric was the son of Mr Richard and Ellen Coles of “Gundaroo”, Rosehill, Granville, New South Wales [1].
On 15 February 1916, aged 21, he enlisted with his nephew…
Private Ernest Fitzroy Rowley was born in Staffordshire, England to James Rowley. On August 1914, he signed up to join the army at the enlistment centre in Randwick, New South Wales. At the age of 32…
Private Dick Hosford, a furnace-man, of Connell Street, Parramatta, enlisted 15 January 1916. Dick was seriously wounded and as a result had lost an eye and a leg. His brother Frank was killed…
George was a 22 year-old book keeper when he enlisted on 15 February 1916 and was living with his father William Booth in Hassell Street, Rosehill. He had 2 years experience with the New South Wales…