Assisted Immigration Passenger List, 1828 – 1896. State Archives of NSW
Elizabeth Scott arrived in the colony with her son Arthur in 1838.
They had traveled on the Lady Kennaway as…
The Anderson Fountain – Photo Peter Arfanis
Mathew Anderson (ca. 1790-1850): ‘Dr Anderson’, wrote Mrs Elizabeth Macarthur, ’was related to the Percy family of the Duke of Northumberland’. At some…
Matron Rutter, Parramatta District Hospital, Cumberland Health Services.
In 1876 Parramatta District Hospital came under the management of a trained nurse.
They took the title…
Amy Baker sorting vertical files (Source: Neera Sahni)
The Vertical Files are a collection of approximately 1250 files stored upright in filing cabinets. Each file is a collection of newspaper…
Staff at Parramatta District Hospital, c.1890. Source: Heritage Centre – Local Studies Photographic Collection, LSP00098
The photograph above shows Matron Florence Mary Greenwood in 1890 seated in…
Betty Margaret Schofield, Parramatta’s Woman of the Year, 1975. Image: Women of Parramatta
Betty Margaret Schofield was a Matron and Director of Nursing at Parramatta Hospital for almost twenty…
Margaret Telfer receiving The Rose Butler Award Memorial Prize, Parramatta Psychiatric Centre, 5 June 1972. Source : Margaret Davidson
Margaret Gail Davidson is a trained midwife and nurse. She…
Lucy Osburn and 21 nursing staff outside the Sydney Hospital, Nightingale Wing in 1870 (Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly courtesy of Sydney Hospital)[1]
The first nursing staff…
William Castles was a 19 year old coal carter whose mother Ada Locke and father Thomas Castles were stated to be dead when he enlisted 15 May 1916. Philippa Scarlett has written an article on William…
Parramatta District Hospital Nursing Staff, 1948. Image: A History of Nursing in Parramatta
This photograph shows the Parramatta District Hospital staff in 1948. Seated on chairs from left to…