RAMIN COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney
Archibald Liversidge, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, image/li>
Belle Golding of Inverness, 75 Annandale Street(SANDS 1918)); Annie and Belle's sister Kath Dwyer of Altna-Grieg, 79 Annandale Street(SANDS 1918); and Maud Wynn of Linden Hall of 29-33 Annandale Street (see Hull at 15 SANDS 1904, at 29-33 in SANDS 1918 and SANDS 1916) and S260 Annandale's third substation; were all in the a 1902 photograph of leaders of the suffrage movement
Belle Golding is featured in our exhibition . She worked in the NSW Dept of Labour & Industry (1900 to 1927) & was instrumental in regulating workers' conditions catalog
"An Annandale Branch was formed. The meeting for this purpose was held in the Coun cil Chambers, Johnston-Bt., and was well st tended. Mrs. Martel being absent through illness Miss M. McDouald, V.P., occupied the chair.Miss Golding addressed the meeting cn the objects of the association, and the reforms it was instrumental in bringing about.Mrs. Wynn, formerly president of the An nandale Branch of the Womanhood Suffrage League, was elected President, Mrs. Maicroft hon. secretary, and Mies Lily Bell hon. treas urer. This branch was formed mainly by the efforts of Mrs. Dwyer, hon sec. of Camperdown Brsncb, and Mrs. T. Parkes, vice-President of the W.P.A. Doubtless it will remove the re proach from Annandale that so many of its women refuse to become enrolled." - 1903 'Women's Progressive Association.', The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 - 1905) , 1 April, p. 7, viewed 12 May, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77083149
"A most successful Drawing room Meeting was held at Mrs. Wynn's for the Annandale Branch. About thirty-five fresh members were gained. This is very encouraging, for Annandale was one of the electorates where many women were foolish enough to refuse to enrol. .." 1903 'Women's Progressive Association.', The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 - 1905) , 1 May, p. 7, viewed 12 May, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77442918
"A very successful meeting of the Annandae branch of the Women's Progressive Association was held on the 13th May, at Mrs. Wynn "Carrington, ' Northumberland Avenue, Annandale" 1903 'News and Notes.', The Dawn (Sydney, NSW : 1888 - 1905) , 1 June, p. 6, viewed 12 May, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77442955
In the 1890s M. Wynn appeared to sell clothing and dress making services through the Dawn, the newspaper edited by Louisa Lawson. The address first given was 402 George Street and later 138 Phillip Street. Later she appears as Mrs Wynn on the cover - M Wynn in the Dawn
Christina Stead lived her last few years in Annandale and died at the Abbey on 31 March 1983 - Movers and Shakers
Geoffrey's father Lancelot Davis bought the Abbey for his son in 1959 for £4500. Geoffrey's stepdaughter Francesca Davis recalls moving in with her brother and mother Daune, who had just married Mr Davis -Mixed emotions as The Abbey goes up for sale(19 May 09).
2. Dr Geoffrey Davis failed to ensure Mrs X was given proper and adequate medical attention following her admission to Population Services International Clinic, Kings Cross on 16 February, 1982, in particular;
Post Master Francis Wright, delivering a letter to a servant girl who is flirting with him, image
GE Fitzpatrick's George's St George English Rifle Regiment Hat Badge and Sergeant, Lance Corporal, Lieutenant Stripes and Pips. Courtesy Harold Fitzpatrick.
Grant was a frequent visitor to Henry Lawson's home in North Sydney. Cowan another returned soldier would play the violin while Grant provided the conversation while Lawson wrote.(ref)
In 1897, Master P Cowan had performed a violin solo for a gathering at Rofe's Hotel, Annandale (1897 'BANQUET AT ANNANDALE.', The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), 3 April, p. 2. , viewed 07 Nov 2016, http://nla.
When the war broke out, Cowan enlisted, and went to the front. After the Armistice he returned, and, in Sydney, renewed his friendship with Lawson. Another returned soldier who was a close friend of both Lawson and Cowan is Douglas Grant, a highly educated Queensland aborigine. Douglas is the only one of the three now living. On being shown the violin he greeted it as an old friend, and told how he and Cowan, with the violin, used to go over to where Lawson lived in North Sydney, when Cowan would play, while Lawson sat at the table and wrote. With tears in his eyes, Douglas vividly described the little room, even going into such details as an old newspaper being spread on the table in lieu of a cloth.1931 'LAWSON AND MUSIC.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 1 August, p. 7, viewed 23 July, 2013, http://nla.
Mr. Kennedy In a short talk told of Cowan and Lawson, and how the violin was sometimes taken on tramps. He related an ancedote of how it was used in an effort to charm a snake when they were out Cobar way. In later years a friend of both Lawson and Cowan was the North Queensland aborigine Douglas Grant, who had been adopted and educated by a Mr. Grant, of the Sydnev Museum, Douglas told Mr. Kennedy how he, with Cowan and the violin often used to go over to Lawson's room in North Sydney, when Cowan would play ns Lawson sat writing at the table. 1950 'A Violin That Sang to Henry Lawson.', Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885 - 1954), 7 September, p. 6, viewed 23 July, 2013, http://nla.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Principal Consultant
- Communications' Principal Consultant
- Editor Annandale on the Web, 22 November 2010
Ramin Communications' Principal Consultant, Marghanita da Cruz, provided leadership in the drafting of the Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of ICT and its subsequent adoption as the international standard. Marghanita facilitated workshops around Australia to seek feedback and socialise the draft standard. In 2006, Marghanita contributed a Chapter on the new standard to Frameworks for IT Management, published in the Netherlands and later translated into Dutch, Japanese, German and Mandarin.
Mary Mackillop was one of the Trustees, on the deed of transfer for the "gentleman's residence" at 36 Collins Street in 1906. This became Saint Joseph's convent and the nuns continued to run St Brendan's school, until they pulled out of the parish in 1978 - St Brendan's A Journey
Mary MacKillop, Mother Mary of the Cross, will be Canonised on October 17, 2010 in Rome.
Mary MacKillop was Canonised on October 17 at St Peter's Basilica, Rome. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Mary's sainthood during the Canonisation Mass. Over 8000 pilgrims from Australia and New Zealand attended the ceremony. - After Canonisation
"E' quanto hanno fatto i sei nuovi Santi che oggi vengono proposti alla venerazione della Chiesa universale: Stanisław Sołtys, André Bessette, Cándida María de Jesús Cipitria y Barriola, Mary of the Cross MacKillop, Giulia Salzano e Battista Camilla Varano." - OMELIA DEL SANTO PADRE BENEDETTO XVI, Piazza San Pietro Domenica, 17 ottobre 2010. [Google Translation: And 'what did the six new saints that are now proposed to the veneration of the universal Church: Stanisław Sołtys, André Bessette, Candida Maria de Jesús y Cipitria Barriola, Mary of the Cross MacKillop, Giulia Salzano and Camilla Battista Varano.]
Douglas Grant, draughtsman and soldier, with his ornamental pond and Harbour Bridge, Callan Park, between 1932-1940 / photographer Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection. *oai:sl.nsw.gov.au:902171* P1 / 2079 Sir Philip Game unveiled the memorial which was built by the inmates of B ward, military cottages, Leichhardt and designed by Douglas Grant (standing to the right of the Governor) - 1931 'MODEL OF BRIDGE AS WAR MEMORIAL.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 5 August, p. 14, viewed 19 September, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16798394
Douglas Grant is covered in great detail, including a photograph of him with a German Soldier, in Remembering Aboriginal Heroes: Struggle, Identity and the Media By John Ramsland, Christopher Gerald Mooney Pages displayed by permission of Brolga Publishing. Copyright. googlebooks
NSW State Library holds Grant's Papers from his time as POW in Germany. Grant was in a civilian camp, with Indians. The correspondence her wrote as secretary of the British Help Committe talked of stale and possibly mouldy bread and socks arriving from the Red Cross and requests for more Curry Powder, Spices, Lentils and Rice. There was also correspondence with the German YMCA about food. This was possibly the start of Berlin's love affair with Curry Wurst
A protest was entered at the week-end by that well-known aboriginal, Douglas Grant, against the action of Condobolin footballers in drawing the colour line and refusing to meet an aboriginal team in the local football ' cup. Douglas Grant, who is a full-blooded aboriginal, happens to be the secretary of the Lithgow Returned Soldiers' League.... 1929 'SYDNEY.', The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), 24 June, p. 6, viewed 20 July, 2013, http://nla.
The chairman's eye and ear. Seated by himself and having little to say was the aboriginal, Douglas Grant, of Litigow, well educated and a real "white man," and another who appeared, to enjoy his own. company was Federal member Roland Green, who left a leg on the Menin Road of ill repute but brought the full use of his persuasive tongue to assist the delegates. 1929 'THE METROPOLIS HOW THE WORLD WAGS IN SYDNEY.', Western Champion (Parkes, NSW : 1898 - 1934), 8 August, p. 3, viewed 20 July, 2013, http://nla.
Henry Grant was born in 1890. He was also employed as a taxidermist at the Australian Museum from 1909 to 1943. His retirement from the museum, due to ill-health was reported in the Australian Museum Magazine of March 30 1943. Source: Email P Walker Australian Museum 6 March 2014
Robert Grant was born in Scotland and was the gamekeeper for the Duke of Hamilton, before coming to Australia. He worked as a miner before joing the museum as a collector and then a taxidermist. He retired in 1917 and died aged 69. Ref: Grant, Robert, Death of p242, Australian Museum Magazine Vol 01 No 08, April 1923, http://web1.australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/documents/28543/ams368_v1-8_lowres.pdf
Robert Grant died in 1923. A newspaper article, pointed out by Ian Cranwell, reported the death, focussed mainly on the "adoption" of Douglas Grant. "Scientists visiting New South Wales saw Illustrated in this young black the potentialities of the aboriginal in a new environment and carefully nurtured, as the young adopted Grant was, and they lost no opportunity to got into touch with him. His upbringing and development have also been the theme of articles in scientific works". The article noted Douglas Grant's foster brother, Henry T. Grant became a taxidermist at the Museum. - 1923 'TAXIDERMIST'S DEATH.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 9 March, p. 10, viewed 8 July, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16064567
"Mr. Robert Grant, formerly collector and taxidermist to the Sydney Museum, recalls the fact that he is the foster father of Douglas Grant, Lithgow's famous aboriginal Digger. Mr. Grant was for years a resident of Lithgow, but it was during ono of his many trips to North Queensland that he adoptod tho little blackfellow and brought him to Lithgow. He was christened and given the name of Grant, and was educated at the district school; but enjoys the' dis tinction, uniquo in its way, of talking with a decided Scotch accent, having imbibed the linguistic peculiarities of his.foster-parents, o.f whom he was very fond. Douglas . went to the front, attained the rank of sergeant, and was captured by tho Germans, who had never till' then seen this kind of Australian. They, therefore, put him.' among the Gurkhas, with whom the, dapper little follow, had nothing in common. He is at present working at the Small Arms factory. He is a, good singer and entertainer, and immensely popular."1923 'Advertising.', The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser (NSW : 1886 - 1942), 16 March, p. 8, viewed 28 May, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126118158
"A large table was strewn with all sorts of curious aboriginal implements at the Civil Service Stores yesterday, when Mr. W. W. Thorpe (ethnologist at the Australian Museum) delivered a lecture to members of the Legacy Club.
He appealed to the public, he said, to do what they could for the aborigines who re- mained In this State. In the early days the aborigines in the metropolitan area num- bered about 5000, and mobs of 90 or more used to wander on the banks of the Parramatta. At the earliest census in 1883 there were 7000 aborigines In New South Wales. Todaythere were barely a thousand. .." 1930 'THE ABORIGINES.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 14 March, p. 10, viewed 23 July, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16633103
OBITUARY. MR. W.W. THORPE: Mr. William Walford Thorpe, ethnologist of the Australian Museum, died suddenly at Dural on Friday. Although only 53, he was the oldest member, In years of service, on the scientific stair, for he Joined in 1898. Four years ago he and several other men founded the Anthropological Society of New South Wales, of which for the last three years he was secretary. He was associate editor of Its journal, "Mankind." A recent letter from Dr A C Haddon of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, referred to him as the highest authority on ethnology In Australia. His last works were an article, "Aboriginal Relics of the Sydney District," published in the handbook of the Science Congress held here last month, and a paper "Some Mutilatory Rites Practised by the Aborigines of Australia," which was read at the same congress. He is survived by Mrs. Thorpe and five sons. The funeral took place on Saturday at the Botany Cemetery. 1932 'OBITUARY.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 5 September, p. 10, viewed 21 December, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28033297
In an article in the Australian Museum Magazine in 1923, WW Thorpe, who was one of the curators of the anthropology collections and who apparently started off as a watchman, described the manufacturing of the canoe and especially about the inlay of shells at the stern [as you could see in the previous photo] and also the little canoe ornament that you may see here at the front. In this article he talks about the inlaying of this canoe: ...Ocean Crossings: The material traces of voyaging seminar Matthew Spriggs, Kylie Moloney and Melanie Van Olffen, National Museum of Australia, 22 July 2009 http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/transcripts/vaka/NMA_ocean_crossings_20090826.html viewed 21 Dec 2013