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Pioneers at Peace: The
Story of St John's Cemetery, Gordon by Jill Lyons
provides a history of St John's Church and Cemetery at Gordon, on
Sydney's Upper North Shore. It also provides interesting
information about burial customs over the years and gives
biographical details of many of thos whose final resting place is
St John's. Accompanying this book is a complete record of all of
those buried at St John's Cemetery
Gordon, including photographs of the monuments. The
sesquicentenary of the cemetery occured in 2017.
Goldfields Cemeteries. Hill
End-Tambaroora and District Burials. A list of known deaths in the
area.
Devonshire
Street Cemetery, Sydney. The list provided here contains
details of more burials at Devonshire Street than any list
previously published.
AUSTRALIANA
free ebooks and other resources
The Amateur Tramp: A
Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia by Colin Choat—Aidan de Brune was
the first person to walk around the perimeter of Australia.
He set off in 1921, unaccompanied and unassisted, and walked 10,000 miles,
(16,000km) from Sydney to Sydney, anticlockwise.
The First World War.
2014 — the centenary of the beginning of the Great war. This
page details a number of ebooks about ANZAC and the conflict in
general.
Dictionary of
Australian Biography. Biographies of more than 1000 people
prominent in the development of Australia; explorers, artists,
politicians, scientists, etc. All died before the end of 1942. An
online free ebook.
Australian Discovery. The
first authenticated landing on Australian soil occurred in 1606. In
2006 Australians celebrated the 400th anniversary of the event.
This page covers the period from 1606-1770. Many free ebooks.
Australian Explorers. A
chronology of Australian exploration with links to relevant free
ebooks, together with an extensive list of Australian explorers and
their biographies.
Dr. Widger's
Library. Dr David Widger has submitted numerous ebooks to
Project Gutenberg in the US. They are all listed here, with links
to enable them to be download from PG. Check out "Widger's
Quotations", memorable quotes gleaned from the texts
themselves.
Westerns. Western titles from our
extensive collection!
Bestsellers. A list of the top
ten bestselling books in both fiction and non-fiction categories
for the years 1923 through 1953. Many are available from this site
as free ebooks and links are provided. Read a bestselling book
today!
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