Our family, leaving Sydney in above year, came to reside in Parramatta. I was then eight years of age. There were no public schools at that time, all being under the heads of the various…
Cover of a Register of Alienation Notices (Source: City of Parramatta Council Archives)
Alienation notice is not a term often used or heard of in relation to records. In it’s legal…
Rookwood Cemetery or officially the Rookwood Necropolis opened in 1865 and consecrated in 1867. At the time it was known as Haslem’s Creek Cemetery[1]. It is the largest cemetery in the southern…
Holroyd is a small western Sydney suburb located in the Cumberland Council local government area (Granville ward) and a small section being part of the City of Parramatta Council LGA (Rosehill ward)…
Aerial photograph of North Parramatta. Source: Six Maps
North Parramatta is a residential suburb located approximately 1 kilometre north of Parramatta and 1 kilometre west of Dundas. Some of the…
(Satellite Imagery of Wentworth Point via Six Maps)
Wentworth Point is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is 16 kilometres west of the Sydney…
Aerial photograph of Old Toongabbie and Toongabbie (Source: Six Maps)
Traditional Custodians
The traditional custodians of the land that was to be named Toongabbie are the Tugagal clan of the…
Aerial photograph of Epping. Source: Six Maps
Epping is a suburb north of Eastwood, south of Cheltenham, west of Marsfield and east of Carlingford within the City of Parramatta Council. The area…
Wentworthville Aerial Map (Six Maps NSW)
The traditional custodians of the land are the Boolbainora clan of the Durag people.
Wentworthville is a suburb west of Parramatta. Named in…
1943 aerial photograph of Beecroft. Source: Six Maps
Beecroft is a 5.1km2 suburb in northern Sydney bounded by the Hills (M2) Motorway in the north, the waterway in the east, generally by Plympton…