Sutherland Shire Street Names

Transcription

SUTHERLAND SHIRE STREET NAMES
Street Name
Abbott Road
Suburb
Heathcote
Abel Place
Cronulla
Abraham
Close
Menai
Acacia Road
Kirrawee/
Sutherland
Achilles
Road
Engadine
Achilpa
Close
Bangor
Actinotus
Ave
Caringbah
Acton Street
Sutherland
Name Source/ meaning
Naming theme for area– NSW politicians/
senior public servants circa 1886 when
area subdivided. Therefore likely named
after Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott (18421901) who was Minister for Mines 188385 & Minister for Lands 1885 -87.
Street created 1960. DP registered 1962.
As streets to north named after explorers
possibly named after Abel Tasman.
Theme in area is early local pioneers.
Josephine Abraham was an early settler in
area.
On pioneer settlers list 1992
Parts north and south of railway called
Acacia Road North/ South 1947 to 2005.
First shown on 1882 DP registered by
James Murphy of Holt Sutherland Estate.
Name is species of Australian native trees
which including wattles, mulga, myall.
Apparent subdivision theme is streets
named after trees (Oak, Box, Waratah)
Achilles is figure from Greek mythology
– born of sea goddess Thetis and mortal
Peleus. Was a hero of the Trojan war.
Nearby Ajax Street is name of giant who
fought alongside Achilles
Aboriginal word for ‘wild cat’
Reference
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
Council info
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
File MD1/11/P1
CL
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Internet
Ab Word Bk J
Kenyon & File MD
1/11/P1
Named by Council 1909 after type of
St George Call
indigenous flora.
10/4/1909 pg1
Actinotus is the botanical name for flannel Internet
flower
Prior to 1986 was part of The Grand
CL, Kirkby Index
Parade East
Cards
Theme for new names for streets split by
RD 000/5 Pt 1
railway etc was towns etc from Australian
post codes so would be named after Acton www.tams.act.gov.
in Canberra which was name given c.1843 au & Australian
Adaluma
Ave
Adelaide
Place
Bangor
Adelong St
Sutherland
Sylvania
Adina Street
Miranda
Adventure
Place
Caringbah
Agnes Ave
(DISC)
Cronulla
Ajax Place
Engadine
Akuna Ave
Bangor
by Lieutenant Arthur Jeffreys, RN to the
Canberry estate he acquired at that time.
The name is believed to be after a town in
Denbighshire, Wales.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a river’
Probably named after City of Adelaide in
South Australia which was named after
Queen Adelaide, wife of English King
William IV
Aboriginal word meaning ‘river on a
plain’
Pre 1937 was part of Flora Street, 1937 till
1986 was Flora St West. Renamed 1986.
Named after south western NSW town
near Tumut which was named after local
aboriginal word meaning ‘along the way’.
ROC 25/11/1985 that street names for
renaming parts of streets split by railway
etc be “of towns and places using the post
code directory as a reference”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘good’
Place Names ( B &
B Kennedy)
Cooper & Endacott
& File MD1/11/P1
Australian Place
Names (B & B
Kennedy)
Place Names Aust,
CL aborig names
CL
www.planbooktrav
el.com.au
CL aborig names /
Aust Museum/
Endacott/ Cooper
Or ‘pleasant, good’
Ab Word Bk – J
Or “swampy” (North Qld)
Kenyon
Name of ship captained by Captain Tobias Wikipedia
Furneaux which accompanied Captain
Cook on the Resolution during Captain
Cook’s 2nd voyage to the Pacific (1772).
In group of streets named after ships
associated with Captain Cook (Resolution,
Northumberland, Endeavour)
In 1930 as ‘off Waratah Street’. Became
1930 Sands
Clyde Street.
Directory. CL
Owner’s signature on original 1922
DP
subdivision plan was Agnes MacDonald
so street probably named after her.
A figure in Greek mythology – the giant
Internet
who fought alongside Achilles. Is near
Achilles St.
Was previously known as Bruce Avenue
CL
An aboriginal word meaning ‘to follow’.
CL Aborig names
& Aust Museum
An aboriginal word for ‘flowing water’
Endacott
Or ‘flowing river’
MD1/11/P1
Alamein St
Engadine
Alban Street
Albany Place
Kirrawee
Kareela/
Kirawee
Albatross
Circuit
Woronora
Heights
Albert Ave
Sylvania
Alberta
Street
Jannali
Albion Place
Engadine
Alder Grove
Menai
Aldgate
Street
Sutherland
Alexander
Ave
Taren
Point
From El Alamein - site of World War 2
battle in line with theme in area of naming
streets in area after battlefields.
Intended name not used. See Moona Rd.
No obvious area theme -Possibly named
after town of Albany in Western Australia
which was named after Frederick
Augustus the Duke of York and Albany a
son of King George III.
Named after type of large water bird. In
subdivision where most streets are types
of birds (eg egret, dotterel).
In Royal View Estate subdivision (1923)
with Henry St & Edward Pde (also royal
names) so probably named after Prince
Albert of Saxe -Coburg -Gotha, husband
of Queen Victoria.
Part of “Queen’s Jubilee Towns hip”.
Street names (Alice, Alberta, Victoria,
Mary, Louisa) are names of members of
Queen Victoria’s family. One of her
daughters is Louise Caroline Alberta.
Albion is the earliest known name for the
island of Great Britain. Also sometimes
used as name for Scotland so may link to
several nearby streets named after Scottish
towns.
Common name for genus of deciduous
plants belonging to birch family. In sub division where streets named after trees.
In original 1882 subdivision was part of
Minerva Street.
Named after town in Adelaide Hills in
South Australian which named after
London suburb of Aldgate which was
eastern gateway through London Wall and
name of ward of City of London. Word
meant ‘open to all’. ROC 25/11/1985 that
street names for renaming parts of streets
split by railway etc be “of towns and
places using the post code directory as a
reference”.
Created in two subdivisions in 1918 in
both of which the surveyor was John
Alexander Harrison so possibly named
after middle name of surveyor.
CL
Sheppard &
Wajnryb
Internet
1936 Parish map
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Internet
www.placenames.s
a.gov.au
RD 000/5 parts 3
and 4
DP
Alexander
Street
Sylvania
Alfords Point
Road
Menai,
Alfords Pt,
Illawong
Alfred
Avenue
Cronulla
Alice Street
Caringbah
Alice Street
Jannali
Alkaringa
Road
Miranda
Alkira Place
Caringbah
Allambie
Ave
Caringbah
In same subdivision with Webber Street
so possibly named after an Alexander
Webber. No information known about
him.
John Alford was granted 60 acres in this
area in 1821. He was a former convict.
His wife farmed the land after he died.
His land was close to Deadman’s Creek
west of what now Alford’s Point.
As adjoins Robinson Street and owners of
land at time of subdivision in 1913 were
Alfred Saunders and James Robinson is
probably named after Alfred Saunders.
In 1922 subdivision with Dean & Binney
Streets. Probably name of member of
Binney family who would have been
owners /subdividers.
Part of “Queen’s Jubilee Township”.
Street names (Alice, Alberta, Victoria,
Louisa) are names of members of Queen
Victoria’s family. One of her daughters
named Alice Maud Mary.
Aboriginal word meaning “the primeval
times”
Part formerly Dantun Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘where the old
people live’
Or ‘bright, sunny”
Aboriginal word meanin g “quiet place”
Or “ a quiet place to rest a while”
Allan Street
Allawah
Close
Allen Place
Kangaroo
Point
Bangor
Menai
DP
Sandy Point
Secrets - A History
of Sandy Point
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire
Council info
DP
1936 Parish map
Council min1169 17/7/1929 (LW)
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin April 1975
In subdivision with Ilma Street
Aboriginal for ‘stay here, rest ,sit down’
land
Or ‘to camp here’
Part renamed Arrilla Place (GG 148 of
2/11/1979)
Theme for area is early pioneers of area
Ethel Allen was an early settler in area
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper
CL
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Allen family came to area c 1912
Allies Road
Barden
Ridge
Allison
Crescent
Menai
Allison Road
Cronulla
Almada St
Alpine Place
Engadine
Engadine
Alpita Street
Kareela /
Kirrawee
Amaroo
Street
Sylvania /
Gymea
Herbert Allen settled in area 1910
In same subdivision as Anzac Road and as
subdivided during WWI would be named
after Australia’s WWI ‘Allies’ ie UK,US,
Canada, France, etc.
Street named after Arthur Allison early
settler in area (1904-1926) who when he
left area /died left (or accordingly to one
source his widow sold) his property to
Sutherland Council for recreation grounds
– became Menai Oval, now site of Menai
Marketplace
First shown on 1903 subdivision so NOT
named after Arthur Allison of Menai.
Almada is city in Portugal
In same 1968 subdivision as Peak St and
Sierra Rd so name is in line with theme of
words relating to mountains. Word means
‘of or relating to high mountains esp Alps’
Aboriginal word for white tail tips of
bilbies
Aboriginal – ‘a lovely place’
Or ‘beautiful place’
Amber Lane
Amberwood
Place
Ambyne
Street
Wooloowa
re
Menai
Wooloowa
re
Amede Place
Illawong
Amiens Ave
Engadine
Alternative meanings ‘red mud’, ‘rain’. Is
name of NSW town.
Named circa 1986
Named after species of tree – Streets in
subdivision named after trees
In 1930 Sands spelt Amboyne but 1934
Gregory’s directory has as Ambyne.
Created in 1919 subdivision by Harold
Laurence Hensleigh Harnett. Ambyne is a
location in East Gippsland Victoria
Named after Bill Amede Secretary /
Treasurer Menai ALP branch. He was
instrumental in development of area – he
lobbied for Public School, water supply
and bridge across Georges River.
Named after WW1 French battle field
(120 km north of Paris) by Mr W R
Illawong : A Place
in History
MD1/11/P1
Illawong : A Place
in History
Online dictionary
Fauna of Australia
K Johnson & Ab
W Bk J Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL aborig names
& Aust Museum
Wajnryb
DP
Internet
Council info
Pg 29 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Amitaf Ave
Caringbah
Amos Place
Sylvania
Andromeda
Crescent
Woronora
Heights /
Engadine
Kirrawee
Anemone
Place
Angas Close
Barden
Ridge
Angle Lane
Sutherland
Angle Road
Gray’s
Point
Angophora
Place
Alfords
Point
Animbo
Street
Anitra Ave
Miranda
Anzac Ave
Engadine
Kareela
Ainsworth local resident and Shire
president – 1919-21
Previously known as Nambucca Avenue
on old maps but not on any DPs.
Possibly so named as is Fatima spelt
backwards.
In 1966 subdivision with Withybrook
Place but no obvious link re names.
Named after the galaxy (near Orion St &
Sirius Pl whose names are also astronomy
based)
New street 1973. Anemo nes are form of
sealife.
Named after George Fife Angas (17891879) –merchant, banker, land owner and
philanthropist involved in development of
South Australia. Moved from UK to SA
1851. Area has Australian pioneers theme.
Named GG 172 of 31/10/1986.
Possibly so named as has a 90 degree
angle in middle (it is T shaped).
Part of land for road purchased for $1000
from Holt Sutherland Co in 1968. Unused
part closed 1974.
Named GG 65- 30/5/1930. Part renamed
Greenhaven Road (1975). Possible source
of name is that original (northern) part had
a 90 degree angle in middle of it.
Species of Australian native eucalypt tree
common name rusty gum or apple gum. In
group of streets named after trees/ plants.
Seville &
Wikipedia
CL
Named after Sydney Hobart winning
yacht (1st overall 1957, 2nd 1958). Most
streets in subdivision named after Sydney
Hobart Race winning yachts. Name
created for the eastern princess in Ibsen’s
Peer Gynt (1886).
When streets in area were being named at
end of WW1 by Mr W R Ainsworth
(Shire President 1919-21) he invited Mr
Bower local resident who was a wounded
Gallipoli veteran to name the street he
lived in, he chose Anzac Ave. ANZAC –
Internet
www.alldownunde
r.com
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD2/22/3-6)
Aust’n Dictionary
Biography online.
CL
Kirkby Index cards
CL
Assoct’n of Societies
for Growing Aust’n
Plants & Gardening
Australia websites
Pg 29 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
Anzac Road
Bangor
Anzac Street
Miranda
Apollo Place
Port
Hacking /
Lilli Pilli
Engadine
Appin Place
Appletree
Place
Apsley Place
Araluen
Place
Menai
Taren
Point
Sutherland
Arana Close
Bangor
Arcadia
Avenue
Gymea
Bay
Arcadia
Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Australia New Zealand Army Corp
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918
Named after ANZAC – Australia New
Zealand Army Corp
Named after ANZAC – Australia New
Zealand Army Corp
Greek and Roman good – son of Zeus.
As some streets in area named after NSW
towns probably named after Appin – town
south west of Sydney. Appin was named
in 1811 by Governor Macquarie after a
small coastal village in Argyleshire in
Scotland where his wife was born.
Alternatively could be named directly
after Scottish village (as above) as some
Engadine streets have Scottish origins.
Species of tree. In subdivision where
streets named after trees.
Possible word source - from aspen (tree)
and lea (meadow).
Alternatively could be named after
Apsley, Earl of Bathurst the Secretary of
State for Colonies c 1818 or after Apsley
House the Duke of Wellington’s House in
London
Aboriginal word meaning ‘singing waters’
,‘running waters’ or ‘place of lilies’ (WA)
In NT means ‘place of lagoons and water
lilies and running waters’
Alternatively means “plenty of water’
Or ‘place of water lilies’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘moon’
Arcadia was originally the name of a
mountainous region in Greece but now
symbolizes simple and rustic pastoral
happiness or Paradise itself.
Arcadia was originally the name of a
mountainous region in Greece but now
symbolizes simple and rustic pastoral
happiness or Paradise itself.
CL
Wikipedia
smh.com.au
“Appin – Culture
& History 13/11/08
Aust Place Names
( B & B Kennedy)
Internet
Australian Place
Names (B & B
Kennedy)
Hurstville Council
website.
Araluen botanical
park website
ABC website
Endacott
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum &
Cooper, File MD
1/11/P1
Internet
Internet
Archer Row
Menai
Ardisia Place
Loftus
Ardrossan
Road
Engadine
Ardua Place
Argo Place
Engadine
Miranda
Argyle Place
Kareela /
Kirrawee
Arika Close
Bangor
Arrilla Place
Bangor
Arkana Place
Engadine
Armidale
Place
Engadine
Arnold Place
Menai
Archer family – Doris, Nora, Florence and Menai Congrega
Douglas – were early settlers in area.
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Mr Arthur Howard Archer, wife Florence, Suth Shire Hist Soc
children Dora, Douglas & Nora lived in
Bulletin Oct 1973
area West of Old Illawarra Road 1918-43. & Aug 1986
In group of streets named after early
settlers in area.
Ardisia are tropical evergreen climbers/
Elook.com
shrubs. In group of streets named after
plants.
Ardrossan a town in Ayrshire Scotland.
Place Names of
Several nearby streets also named after
Aust. AW Reed
Scottish towns (Dundee, Kilmarnock etc)
There is an Ardrossan in South Australia
Austn Place Names
named after same Scottish town. Gaelic
(B & B Kennedy)
root of word ‘a rd’ = height ‘ros’ =
prominent rock or headland
Latin for ‘adversity’
Internet
In Greek mythology the ship on which
Internet
Jason and the Argonauts sailed to retrieve
the Golden Fleece. Adjoins Jason Place.
In same 1963 subdivision as Inverness
DP
Place so would be named after Argyle a
Wikipedia
region /county in Western Scotland. Word
means ‘margin of the Scots’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blue water lily’ Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Or ‘small water lily’
MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal word meaning ‘Aborigine’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Or ‘blackfellow’
Endacott
Part originally Allawah Close (renamed
CL
1979).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘boomerang’
Ab Word Bk J
Kenyon
As adjoins Tamworth St likely named
Australian Place
after northern NSW town of Armidale
Names (B & B
which was named by G J McDonald,
Kennedy)
Commissioner of Crown lands after his
ancestral home village of Armidale in
Scotland.
Area’s naming theme is early local
pioneers. Jennifer Arnold was an early
settler in the Menai area.
Arragong St
Bangor
Arthur Ave
Cronulla
Arthur Street
/ Place
Bonnet
Bay
Arundel St
Engadine
Arunta Close
Bangor
Ascot Place
Miranda
Ash Avenue
Ashwood
Close
Asmus Street
(DISC)
Caringbah
Menai
Aster Avenue
Aston
Avenue
Miranda
Lucas
Heights
Sutherland
Arnold family moved to Alford’s Point
Road area c 1925.
Fred & Mary Alice Arnold settled in area
in 1927
Aboriginal name for solid wood shield
used by Eora and Dharug people
Aboriginal word meaning “hardwood
parrying shield”
Probably named after Arthur Horsfield
who owned the land prior to subdivision
in 1913.
Named after 21st US President Chester
Alan Arthur (1881-85). That Bonnet Bay
street names be those of US presidents
recommended by Deputy Shire Clerk Jim
Hall and agreed to by Parkes
Developments and Council
Probably named after Private CJ Arundel
a resident of Engadine who was wounded
in WW2 (or else his family)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘white
cockatoo’
Name central Australian Aboriginal tribe
First appears in 1968 subdivision plan.
Likely named after English racecourse
Reflections– Menai
Congregational
Church
Illawong: A Place
in History
MD1/11/P1
The Australian
Frontier Wars 1788
–1838 by J Connor
Aust Museum &
MD 1/11/P1
CL
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
(Cards) Propeller
19/7/1945 pg 3
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& MD1/11/P1
Cooper
In subdivision where streets named after
trees. Named after species of tree.
Name discontinued. Shown in Wilson’s
Street Directory 1934 – name indistinct so
spelling suspect. Was a road leading from
Eton Street through what is now the
location of Waratah Park tennis courts.
Was probably a track to “Mad Mile”
settlement of depression years along what
is now “Rawson Avenue”
Private road in ANSTO site. Named after
Francis William Aston (1877-1945) who
invented mass spectrograph, discovered
212 natural isotopes and won 1922 Nobel
www.ansto.gov.au
Atherton
Road
Engadine
Atkins Place
Barden
Ridge
Atkinson
Road
Taren
Point
Attunga
Road
Miranda
Auburn St
Auckland St
Audley Road
Ault Place
Sutherland
Engadine
Royal
National
Park
Illawong
Prize for Chemistry.
As some other streets in vicinity named
after Australian towns (eg Geelong Rd)
probably named after Atherton (town and
tablelands) in Queensland which were
named after John Atherton a pioneer
grazier in the Atherton Tablelands c 1857.
Probably named after Richard Atkins
(Bowyer) (1745-1820), deputy judge
advocate. In line with area’s Australian
Pioneers theme
Likely named after John Atkinson one of
provisional (1906) councilors. He had 11
ac leasehold dairy on Parraweena Rd (near
where Parke Davis was later).
Aboriginal word meaning – ‘a high place’
Called Yowie Bay Road in St George Call
newspaper in 1904 and Judd’s Road on a
1902 map.
Name first registered on 1889 DP.
First shown on 1882 DP 802 registered by
James Murphy manager/ director of Holt
Sutherland Estate Co. Likely named after
Auburn which was either a real or a
fictitious village in Ireland, described by
the Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith in his
poem "The Deserted Village" (1770).
As near Napier St (another NZ city) likely
named after City of Auckland in New
Zealand which is named after Lord
Auckland who in 1840 was viceroy of
India and who was patron of Captain
William Hobson NZ’s first governor.
Named after Lord Audley who surveyed
the stream in the area in 1865.
Lord Audley’s full name was George
Edward Thickness-Touchet, 21 st Baron
Audley. He later became son in law of
Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell.
In line with theme of areanames of
historical nautical significance
www.tablelands.or
g & Australian
Place Names (B &
B Kennedy)
ADB online
Library index cards
& Suth Shire Hist
Soc Bulletin May
1977
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig. names
Echoes from the
Bay- The Yowie
Bay Story
DP
Wikipedia
Internet
Sails to Atoms
First Fifty Years of
Suther land Shire
1906-56 pg 11
Council pamphlet
re place names
Austin Street
(DISC)
Illawong
Australia
Road
Barden
Ridge
Avenel Road
Avery Ave
Gymea
Bay
Kirrawee
Avon Place
Kirrawee
Awatea Place
Engadine
Azalea Place
Loftus
Babbin Place
Caringbah
Bach Place
Engadine
Badto Ave
Gymea
Bain Place
Barden
Ridge
Baker Lane /
Bundeena
Was an early street in area when still
rural. Became Fowler Road (Govt Gaz
121 of 1/8/2003) Was previously part of
Sproule Road. Charles Henry Austin was
a Hurstville Council alderman 1897-98
when Illawong was part of Hurstville
Council. ( Sproule Rd also named after
Hurstville alderman)
Named after Australia our country.
Part of Barden Ridge section renamed
Wardell Drive circa 1987, rest still exists
but parts deviated from original route.
Menai section north of Bangor Bypass
renamed Carter Rd (GG 36 16/4/1993)
Derived from French word meaning ‘oat
pasture”
Named GG 104 of 12/9/1947. An Avery
family lived at Sutherland 1901-1958. A
Mr Avery was one of petitioners seeking a
letter receiving office at Kirrawee in 1908.
Henry Avery had greengrocers run and
carrier business.
The family owned land where street is.
Probably named after the Avon River in
England as is near Serpentine Rd which is
name of English River near Avon River.
Means “new dawn” or “dawning of a new
era” in Maori. Merchant navy vessel in
WW2 bore the name.
Flowering plant. In group of streets with
plant names.
Name changed from Babbin Avenue
(Govt Gaz 77 of 30/5/1975)
Aboriginal word for ‘father’
Or ‘ a friend”
One of 4 streets in area named after
classical music composers. Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750) German
composer and organist
Aboriginal word meaning ’water’
Named after James Bain – chaplain who
joined NSW Corp in 1789, Area has
Australian pioneers theme.
Baker Street was named after an odd job
CL
Hurstville Council
website & The
History of
Hurstville Council,
Elections
CL
CL. Libray card
index
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Oct 1974
& Nov 1988
Internet
Also Development
Com 19/5/1975
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
wikisource- Moore
Who Did What
www.newcastle.ed
u.au
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD2/22/3-6)
ADB
The Bundeena
Street
Balandra St
Balarang
Place
Balboa Street
Kareela
Bangor
Kurnell
Balemo Place Bangor
Balfour Ave
Caringbah
Balgang Ave
Kirrawee
Baliga Ave
Caringbah
man who was a local identity.
Named after yacht Balandra (in 1967
Australia’s Admiral Cup Winning team) is
near Freya St which is name of another
Australian Admiral’s Cup yacht.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of
Swamp Oak’
Named after Spanish explorer Vasco
Nunez de Balboa (1475 – 1517) the first
European to see the Pacific. Streets in area
named after explorers who saw or
explored Pacific Ocean.
Name first registered 1882
Aboriginal word meaning rough leaved
fig tree
Or ‘fig tree’
As 4 streets in area named after British
politicians, possibly named after Arthur
James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (18481930), British politician, UK Prime
Minister 1902-05
Aboriginal word meaning ‘boomerang’
or meaning ‘barren’
or ‘to track’
Previously Bellingen Avenue on old maps
but not on any DPs. Named GG 86 of
13/9/1963
Aboriginal word meaning ‘father’
Balla
Machree
Way
Ballanda
Place
Gymea
Bay
Meaning “House of my heart‘ in Irish
Gaelic
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ long ago, at
the first, in the beginning’
Or ‘ dreamtime before man was created’
Ballar
Avenue
Ballina Place
Gymea
Bay
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ secretly’
Aboriginal meanings (1) oysters/ fish (2)
to fight (3) where river runs into sea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fighting
ground’
Or ‘blood running from wounded fighting
ground’
Book
www.nla.gov.au,
internet
MD 1/11/P1 &
Aust Museum
Who Did What –
Biographical
dictionary
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
MD 1/11/P1
Wikipedia
www.anu.edu.au
www.newcastle.ed
u.au
wikisource-Moore
CL
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum &
Cooper
Internet
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
Wikisource –
Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL of Aboriginal
names
Aust Museum
Balowrie
Street
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning– bogan lily
Balyata
Avenue
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ firm, fixed’
Bampton
Avenue
Menai
Australian historical nautical significance
Banbal Road
Engadine
Bandain Ave
Kareela
Bandalong
Crescent
Bangor
Bando Road
Cronulla
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ the place
where the native men meet first in the
morning; a place of assembly’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the band
around the loins, a girdle’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘joining,
junction’
Or ‘junction’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘horse fly’. In
group of 5 streets in Beach Park Estate
subdivision 1916 all with names of
Aboriginal origin.
Name discontinued. Street created in
1929, closed in 1941 to allow for
development of steel products factory –
now site of new Bunning’s store
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a low hill’
Bangalla
Kirrawee
Street (DISC)
Bangalay
Lane
Heathcote
Named 2005
Name refers to a species of eucalypt (blue
gum)
Bangalee
Place
Bangor
Also known as Eucalyptus Botryoides –
bastard mahogany tree
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sandy river’ –
original name for Shoalhaven River
Or ‘sandy beach’
Bangaroo
Street
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘native bear’
Bangor
Bypass
Bangor
Banjo Street
Heathcote
Named after Bangor in Wales the town
where Owen Jones the first settler in area
was born.
One of group of streets in area named
Aboriginal Words
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Menai Developm’t
Unit 23/3/81 File
MD 2/10/10 (LW)
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www.newcastle.ed
u.au, Aust Museum
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Mary Jane Cain –
SL website
CL
www.newcastle.ed
u.au* also Endacott
CL
www.lakemac.info
hunt.nsw.gov.au &
File 95/2960
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
Banks Place
Barden
Ridge
Banks Street
(DISC)
Kurnell
Banksia Ave
Engadine
Banksia Rd
Caringbah
after famous Australian poets. Named
after Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Patterson
(1864-1941) poet, journalist, solicitor.
Named after Sir Joseph Banks (17431820) explorer, botanist on Endeavour in
line with area’s Australian Pioneers theme
Name discontinued. Now inside Botany
Bay National Park. Named after Sir
Joseph Banks botanist on Endeavour.
Named after genus of Australian shrubs
which were named after Sir Joseph Banks
botanist on Endeavour who discovered
genus at Botany Bay
On a Council field day in 1910 unnamed
Engadine street was named “banksias”
Named after genus of Australian shrubs
named after Sir Joseph Banks botanist on
Endeavour who discovered genus at
Botany Bay.
Was previously part of Curranulla Beach
Road renamed 1916
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hill’
Banool Street
Kareela
Baradine
Place
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘red wallaby’
h
Barana Place
Kareela
Aboriginal word meaning ‘black duck’
Barcoo
Island
Sylvania
Waters
Barden Lane
(DISC)
Barden
Ridge
Barden Road
Barden
Ridge
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ice on the
water’. One of 30 streets in area named
after an Australian river. Barcoo River is
in western Queensland (water eventually
feeds to Lake Eyre).
Renamed Marsden Road
Named after Barden family who settled in
area in 1900.
Frederick Barden took up 111 acres in
1900 east of Old Illawarra Road.
Named after Barden family who settled in
area in 1900.
Frederick Barden took up 111 acres in
1900 east of Old Illawarra Road
ADB
Council file
95/3170
CL
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
St George Call
9/7/1910 pg 4
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Council Min
1/11/1916
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
also Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Cooper & Aust
Museum
www.grandpapenci
l.net/austral/abwor
d
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
www.wapedia.mob
i
CL
200 years in
Retrospect
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
200 years in
retrospect
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
Barden Ridge
Lane (DISC)
Bareena
Street
Barden
Ridge
Lilli Pilli
Name discontinued. Named after Arthur
Barden
Meaning “plant like tea tree”
Bargo Street
Maianbar
A W Reed says Bargo is corruption of
Aboriginal word Barago meaning thick
scrub or brush wood.
Named GG 53 of 2/5/1969
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cripple’
Barham
Street
Maianbar
Named GG 53 of 2/5/1969
Engadine
Possibly named after HMS Barham,
Royal Navy battleship which served in
WWI and II, sunk November 1941.
Aboriginal Word meaning ’light’
Barjadda Ave
Sylvania
Aboriginal word meaning ‘light’ or ‘silver
wattle’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘native cat’
Barkduk Ave
Barker Close
Miranda
Illawong
Baringa Road
Barnes
Crescent
Menai
Barnsley
Place
Menai
Barraran
Gymea
Originally intended to name this street as
“Jacobs Close” in Council Minutes but
did proceed. In 1999 decision to name it
as Barker Close. Was name of a long time
resident family of surrounding property.
Was 1 of several names suggested by Mr
& Mrs Kerslake long time residents
Named after Sidney George Barnes (1916
-1973) cricketer /sports writer. Test player
1938-48. In group of streets named after
Australian cricketers.
Jack Barnsle y and family were early
settlers in area
CL
Council minutes
1169 17/7/29 (LW)
Also Endacott
Place Names of
Aust A W Reed
CL also Dpt Com
Min 17/6/1968
CL Aborig names
& Aust Museum
CL also Dpt Com
Min 17/6/1968
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
also Endacott
CL Aborig names
& Aust Museum
Wikisource “ Diary
of ten years’
File 96/2161
Aust Dictionary of
Biography online
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Two Barnsley Bros selected land on Old
Illawong: A Place
Illawarra Rd & Alford’s Pt Rd in 1901
of History
On pioneer names list 1992
File MD1/11/P1
Previously MacFarlane Road renamed GG CL
Street
Bay
Barratta
Place
Bangor
Barrier Place
Illawong
Barrigon
Grove
Menai
Barry Road
Barton Road
(DISC)
Menai
Heathcote
Barwing
Place
Woronora
Heights
Barwon
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Bass Street
Dolan’s
Bay
Bassett Place
Menai
Bassia Place
Alfords
Point
Bataan Close
Illawong
65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘schnapper’
Aboriginal word for species of shag /
cormorant (bird)
Or ‘white or black shag’
Named after Adelaide Steamship ship
launched 1912. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
A type of large tree with a swollen trunk
(also known as Big Bellied Ceiba) which
is member of the Kapok family of trees. It
is in Woods Circuit subdivision where
streets named after trees.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Name discontinued. Was at south end of
Heathcote.
Named after Sir Edmund Barton (18491920) MLA 1879-87, 1891-94, MLC
1887-91, 1897-98. Attorney General
1889, 1891-93. 1st Australian Prime
Minister 1901-03 in line with theme of
naming streets in area after government
ministers around time area subdivided.
Named after type of bird also known as
Babblers which have dark bars / stripes on
wings (thus name). In subdivision where
most streets are types of birds.
Aboriginal word meaning “great, wide,
awful river or river of muddy water’.
Or just ‘great, awful river’
Or “wide stream”
Street named after Barwon River (3 rivers
1 each in NSW, Victoria & Queensland)
one of 30 streets in area named after
Australian rivers.
Likely named after George Bass (17711803) who with Matthew Flinders
explored Port Hacking in 1796.
A Mr H V Basset owned piggery at Menai
pre 1939. His land became part of tip.
Botanical name for summer cypress. In
subdivision where streets named after
trees and other plants.
Named after Royal Australian Navy anti
Ab Word Bk - J
Kenyon
Cooper & Aust
Museum
File MD 1/11/P1
CR/ Log of Logs
by I Nicholson
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ion.com
CL
CL
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
www.thewonderof
birds.com
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum
Wapedia
Wikipedia
Internet
Kirkby card index
at library K291-2
File MD 1/11/P1
Internet
CR / Australian
Batavia Place
Illawong
Batchelor
Close
Menai
Bate Bay
Road
Bates Drive
Cronulla
Kareela /
Oyster Bay
/ Sylvania
submarine destroyer which was deployed
as part of naval peace keeping force in
years after WW2. Built 1942 – scraped
1958. Named after Battle of Bataan in
Philippines. In line with historical names
of nautical significance theme
Dutch ship shipwrecked 1629 off Western
Australia. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance.
Mr A Batchelor was a pioneer selector in
Menai area.
On Pioneer names list 1992
Named after Bate Bay which was
originally known as ‘Whale Bay’
Named after Keith Bates Shire Councilor
1953 -68
He was a Jannali builder
Named GG 47 of 18/5/1962
Also was known as Jannali Access Road
from 1957 to 1962 and as part of Box Rd
Bath Road
Kirrawee /
Kareela
Bathurst St
Gymea
Battunga
Place
Baudin Close
Engadine
Illawong
In 1947 parts renamed Bath Road North/
South , returned to name Bath Road 2003
Likely named after City of Bath, UK as
most other N-S streets in DP 801 named
after English towns. First registered in
1882 by James Murphy manager/ director
of Holt Sutherland Estate Co.
Originally there had been an unnamed
crown Road 40 m to west which was
closed in 1882, moved and then named
Bath Rd. Section of Crown Rd south of
Box rd closed for resubdivision 1965.
Named after the 3rd Earl Bathurst
Secretary of State for the Colonies 181227. In group of streets named after
persons of importance in early years of
NSW Colony
Aboriginal word meaning ’place of large
trees’
Nicolas Thomas Baudin, French explorer
who was commander of French expedition
of 1800 -1803 to explore Australian coast.
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defence &
File 96/2161
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Propellor and St
George Call 1921library card index
File MD1/11/P1
A Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
Sutherland Shire –
A History
CL
Naming- Works
Com 20/11/1961,
18/12/61& 15/1/62
CL
DP
Laurie Burgess –
Council officer.
ADB online
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Echoes from the
Bay – The Yowie
Bay Story pg 23
Bay Lane
Cronulla
Bay Road
Taren
Point
Taren
Point
Bay Way
Bay Vista
Place
Bayhaven
Place
Bayside
Place
Bayview
Road
Bay View
Street (DISC)
Lilli Pilli
Gymea
Bay
Caringbah
Wooloowa
re
Cronulla
Bay View
Miranda
Street (DISC)
Beach Road
Cronulla
(DISC)
Beach Street
Bundeena
Beach Street
Cronulla
Beachcomber
Ave
Beach Park
Avenue
Bundeena
Cronulla
Beatrice
Street
Jannali
Beauford
Caringbah
Unnamed 1927-30. On 1934 Street map as 1934 Gregory’s
Bay Road. So named as it went to edge of Street Directory
Gunnamatta Bay.
Probably so named as runs to near shore
of Woolooware Bay.
Private road in Woolooware Shores
Retirement Village. Near Woolooware
Bay.
Name reflects that there are potential
views to Gannon’s Bay from street.
Name reflects that street adjoins Gymea
Bay
Near eastern side Yowie Bay
Name reflects that location had/has views
to bay
Changed to Marsh Avenue (Govt Gaz 94
of 13/8/1948). Name would reflect that
bays (Woolooware and possibly also Bate
Bay) were visible from street.
Changed to Parkview Street (Govt Gaz 80
of 16/7/1948). Had view of Yowie Bay
In 1930 Sands directory. Renamed
Connels Road (Govt Gaz 33 of 21/3/1930)
Name registered 1904. Name would have
reflected location although it was about
500 m to beach.
Name reflects street’s proximity to
Gunyah Beach. Named at same time as
some other streets in area named after
English Beaches (1886).
Name reflects street’s proximity to and
view to beach
Named by subdivider of “Pacific Waters
Estate” where streets have beach theme.
Originally Gunnamatta Lane renamed GG
98 of 25/6/1954
Street in area bought circa 1910 by Sir
Arthur Rickard and subdivided as “Beach
Park Estate”
Named after one of Queen Victoria’s
children in line with theme of streets in
area slightly to south and west of street.
Beatrice Mary Victoria was her 9th child.
Area was part of Beauty Point Estate.
CL
CL
CL
The Bundeena
Book
CL
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
by M Hutton Neve
CL
Ave
Beaumaris
Drive
Menai
Beckton
Place
Lilli Pilli
Becquerel
Place
Lucas
Heights
Bedford
Place
Beethoven
Street
Sylvania
Bega Road
Jannali
Begonia
Place
Belair Ave
Wooloowa
re
Caringbah
Engadine
Belarada
Bangor
Close
Belbowrie
Bangor
Close
Belgrave
Sylvania
Street (DISC)
Belgrave
Esplanade
Sylvania /
Sylvania
Waters/
Taren
Point
In line with theme of naming streets in
area after locations in Wales probably
named after town and castle on Isle of
Anglesey in North Wales on NW shore of
Menai Strait
Named after house named Beckton at 2024 Beckton Street. Area subdivided 1918
but street not named till 1965
Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel
(1852- 1908) French physicist who
discovered radioactivity. Shared 1903
Nobel prize with Marie & Pierre Curie.
Private road in ANSTO site.
Internet
One of group of 4 streets named after
music composers. Named after German
composer Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘large camping
ground’
Or named after south coast town which
named after ‘biggah’ Imlay Bros sheep
station nearby .Meaning unknown
Genus of non native flowering plant.
Who Did What
French word for ‘beautiful air’
Australian Place
Names – Kennedy
Aust Museum &
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CL
Aboriginal word for ‘oak shrub’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘broad leafed
tea tree’
Name of Belgrave Esplanade 1958-1971
On 1928 map Belgrave St was block of
Belgrave Esplanade closest to Tom Uglys
bridge. First named on 1882 DP –
registered by James Murphy manager/
director of Holt Sutherland Estate
Part renamed Marra Place 1971 (GG 31 of
19/3/1971). Was originally Belgrave
Street (named GG 53 of 23/5/1958) –
changed to Esplanade (GG 31 of 19/3/71)
On 1928 map is from Shag Pt to Sandy Pt.
Voted worst street in the Shire in 1984
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Sheppard
DP
CL
Pictorial News
5/6/1984 pg 9
Bella Place
Barden
Ridge
Bella Vista
Street
Bellbird
Place
Bellevue
Parade
Bellingara
Road
Heathcote
Follows approximately the route of drive
to Thomas Holt’s “Sutherland House”.
Likely named after area / Square in
London.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930 so existed
well before area developed.
Possibly named after a Mr Arthur Bell
who was a prominent Cronulla lifesaver.
He and his family rescued many people c
1925 , 1928
Named after town in Italy from which the
owners at time subdivided (and for
previous 30 years) had emigrated (letter
1991 from surveyor to Council seeking
approval for name)
Means ‘good view’
Kareela
Name of type of Australian bird.
Caringbah
Means ‘good view’
Miranda/
Sylvania
Bellingen
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Bellinger
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Belmont St
Sutherland
Spelt Bellingarra on some early plans.
First named as “Belingara Road” on 1893
DP.
Name on old maps ( but not on any DPs )
for what now Baliga Avenue
Town South west of Coffs Harbour. 2
possible origins for name (1) Aboriginal
word meaning ‘cheeky fellow’ or ‘
loudmouth person’ or (2) from town of
Shipton –Bellingen in Hampshire
Named after Bellinger river in northern
NSW. One of 30 streets in area named
after Australian rivers.
First shown on 1882 DP 802 registered by
James Murphy manager/ director Holt
Sutherland Estate Co
From 1947 to 2005 parts na med Belmont
Street North/ South
Possible name origins (1) from town near
Newcastle NSW named after village on
Island of Unst in Shetland or (2) suburb of
Geelong, Vic, from French /Italian word
‘fine hill’.
Aboriginal word for ’running water’
Belinda Road
Bell Place
Beltana
Close
Alfords
Point
Burraneer
Bangor
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
CL
Library index cards
File MD 2/22/8
part 2
DP
CL
Australian Place
Names (B & B
Kennedy)
DP
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Australian Place
Names (B & B
Kennedy)
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
MD 1/11/P1
Benaud
Close
Menai
Benson Road
(DISC)
Illawong
Bent Street
(DISC)
Miranda
Bentley
Grove
Menai
Beresford
Road/ Ave
Caringbah
Bermuda
Burraneer
Place
Bermuda
Como
Street (DISC)
Bernie Street Bundeena
Berrico Place
Bangor
Named after Ritchie (Richard) Benaud
(born 1930) –cricketer (1950’s/60’s)/
commentator (in group of streets named
after Australian cricketers eg Bradman)
Name discontinued. Ran from Sproule
Road to Still Creek. Part became Richards
Ave and later part of Redman Ave. Most
now in Park.
Name discontinued Was near Kirkby
Place. Probably so named as street had a
double bend in middle.
In group of streets named after early
settlers in area.
Fred Bentley was a local settler and a
trustee of Menai School of Arts.
Stanley Bentley owned land to west of
Billa Road , north of Menai Road in early
1900’s. Later family had business in area
making gut rope for shearing machines
and strings for tennis racquets.
Bentley family – Gertrude, Charles, Neil,
Maud, Elsie and Stan were early settlers
in area.
Family grew large quantities of
strawberries for IXL jam factory
Family moved from Miranda area circa
1897.
They were farmers / market gardeners
Charles Bentley settled in area June 1897
Originally Beresford Road, renamed
Beresford Avenue.
As 4 streets in area named after British
politicians (2 Prime Ministers) probably
named after Charles William de la Poer
Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford.
1934 Gregory’s
directory
1934 Gregory’s
directory
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1986
& May 1989
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
a history to 1939
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents
1930 Sands dir.
MD 1/11/P1
CL
Wikipedia
In 1930 Sands Directory
Named after Berenice Forster whose
husband subdivided the land
Aboriginal word for ‘a hollow place’
The Bundeena
Book
Aboriginal Words
Berrima
Street
Heathcote
Aboriginal word for ‘to the south’
Berry Grove
Menai
Raymond and Harry Berry were early
settlers in Menai area.
They lived on eastern side of Old
Illawarra Road.
Moved to area c1925
Berry Street
Cronulla
Berwick
Place
Menai
Best Crescent
Kirrawee
Beta Place
Engadine
Beta Street
Kareela
(DISC)
Betham Place Kirrawee
Betula Place
Loftus
Beulah Place
Biami Close
Engadine
Bangor
Probably named after WE and AG Berry
builders - were partners in New Cronulla
Development Co Ltd formed 1926 which
subdivided area.
Named after Australian golfer Harry
Berwick. In a group of streets named after
Australian golfers.
Named after Councillor Edwin Best one
of the 1906 temporary councilors. He had
sawmill / lumber yard SE cnr President
Av/ Princes Hwy and was known as the
“Lumber Lord”
Second letter of Greek alphabet
Name discontinued. Second letter of
Greek alphabet.
In same 1962 subdivision as Bligh Street,
Putland Place, Johnston Street and Kemp
St all of which relate to Governor Bligh so
most likely named after the maiden name
Betham of Governor Bligh’s wife
Elizabeth Betham Bligh.
Genus of deciduous Northern Hemisphere
trees common name birches. A number of
streets in area named after plants.
Beulah is word from bible Isaiah 62:4
Aboriginal word for ‘the Great Spirit’
Or ‘ the spiritual being’
and Place Names
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and Place Names
also Endacott &
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Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
Illawarra: A Place
in History & MD
1/11/P1
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1987
St George Call –
8/12/1904 and Nov
1906
CR
Internet
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
MD 1/11/P1
Biargar Ave
Miranda
Bidurgal
Kirrawee /
Ave/ Lane
Gymea
Bignell Street Illawong
Bildera Place
Bilga Street
Grays
Point
Kirrawee
Billa Road
Bangor
Billara
Avenue
Biloela Place
Gymea
Bay
Gymea
Bay
Bilpin Close
Bangor
Bimbadeen
Ave
Miranda
Bimbai Close
Bangor
Binalong
Avenue
Caringbah
Binaville
Avenue
Binda Road
Burraneer
Bindarra
Caringbah
Yowie Bay
Aboriginal word meaning ‘light, not
heavy’
Lane named 2005
Wikisource-Moore
CL
Street first named 1909.
Named after Bignell family / House.
House built in 1893 by / for Alfred
Bignell (builder /contractor who also built
nearby Cranbrook) and his wife Lucy Jane
Bignell.
Lucy Bignell bought land 1893.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
Named 2005
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bees nest’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘river, water,
fish’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dead leaf’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cockatoo’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘name of
mountain’
Or ’mountain’
3 meanings on internet – ‘place of many
birds’, ‘place of croaking frogs’ or ‘place
with a view’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a spot where
the grass has been burnt’
Aboriginal word meaning ’towards a high
place’
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l.net/austral/abwor
d also Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Endacott &
wikisource- Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Endacott , Cooper,
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
File MD 1/11/P1
Internet
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Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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CL Aborig names
Internet
Aboriginal word meaning ‘high place’
Possibly named after vil lage in France
near Argonne forest -scene of WWI battle.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘deep water’ or Aboriginal Words
‘sea weed’
and Place Names /
CL Aborig names
First name on DP registered 1889
DP
Originally named in 1894 , Renamed
CL
Road (DISC)
Bindea Street
Como/
Jannali
Bingara
Drive
Sandy
Point
Caringbah Road in 1909
Bindarra was early name for Caringbah
Possibly from “bindara” aboriginal word
meaning ‘white man’
Created / named 1912. Aboriginal origin
like other streets in DP but meaning not
found.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bark’ or
‘creek’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘creek’
Name of a town north of Tamworth NSW.
Town name said to be aboriginal word
meaning ‘creek’ or ‘shallow crossing’
Binney Street
Caringbah
Binniguy
Grays
Street (DISC) Point
Binya Place
Como
Kirrawee
Birdwood
Street
Sylvania
Birok Ave
Engadine
Birubi
Avenue
Gymea
Birunna Ave
Gymea
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names /
Place Names of
Aust.
CL Aborig names
& Endacott, Aust
Museum, Cooper
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In 1922 subdivision with Alice & Dean
Sts so like ly named after family who were
owners/ subdividers.
Renamed Budyan Road
DP
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a cutting , a
mountain’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big mountain’
or ‘mountain’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL aborig names
& Endacott, Aust
Museum
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u.au *
Macq Abo words
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to dig, to cut’
Birch Place
Kirkby index K47
Cooper
Or meaning ‘pregnant’
Area subdivided / sold by Council 1967.
Would be named after type of tree.
Probably named after Lieutenant General
Sir William Birdwood former Indian
Army officer who commandeered Anzac’s
at Gallipoli 1915-16.
Named GG 51 of 4/5/1956
Aboriginal word meaning’ summer’
(Western Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘Southern
Cross’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘wind from the
north west’
CL
www.anzacsite.gov
.au
CL
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum &
Cooper
Development Comt
19/8/1957 Council
Bisdee Place
Engadine
Bishop Road
Menai
Black Close
In group of 3 streets named after
Australian Victoria’s Cross recipients.
Trooper John Hutton Bisdee (1869-1930)
who was awarded the VC for action at
Warm Bad in Transvaal in South Africa 1
September 1900 (Boer War). See also
Brooke Street.
A Crown road from circa 1896. Named
GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Ronda and Florence Bishop were early
settlers in area
File R/39/11
www.anzacday.org
.au
CL
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Illawong
Blackburn
Place
Gymea
Bay
Blackbutt
Place
Blacket St
Engadine
Heathcote
Blacksmiths
Lane (DISC)
Sutherland
Blackthorn
Circuit
Menai
Blackwattle
Place
Blackwood
Street
Alfords
Point
Miranda
In line with the me of areanames of
A Mr John Blackburn was an early settler, Library card index
lived Gymea Bay Road 1901, died washed
off rocks at Cronulla 1923 while fishing.
Alternatively could be named after
Lieutenant Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
(1892-1960) who was awarded Victoria’s
cross for gallantry for action July 1916 at
Pozieres France.
Named after species of large native tree.
First named 1899. Subdivision streets
named after politicians /public servants of
that time. Possibly named after Edmund
Blacket who was Colonial Architect.
Early (unofficial name) for Boyle Lane.
So named because there was a
blacksmiths business on corner of lane.
Also known as Phillips Lane
Prunus Spinosa (blackthorn) large shrub/
small tree. In subdivision where streets
named after trees/plants.
Name of type of tree – in subdivision
where streets named after trees & shrubs.
Probably relates Mr Ernest S Blackwood
who was a builder and also licensee of
Yowie Bay Hotel from c 1903-05 or his
brother Harry L Blackwood a builder who
Wikipedia
Suth Shire Hist
Soc Bulletin
Internet
Echoes of the Bay
the Yowie Bay
Story
Blamey Ave
Caringbah
Blaxland
Drive
Illawong
Bligh Street
Kirrawee
Blue Bell
Rd/Pl
Heathcote
Blueberry
Place
Blue Gum
Ave
Bluegum
Lane
Alfords
Point
Gymea
Bay
Heathcote
Bluegum
Way
Boala Place
Menai
Bobbin Place
Bangor
Bob Booth
Lane
Bundeena
Bodalla
Crescent
Bangor
Engadine
owned land in area. The family also had a
boatshed just north of Wonga Road.
Named in 1915.
As in subdivision by War Service Homes
probably named after General Sir Thomas
Albert Blamey (1884-1951) – soldier,
Victorian police commissioner and
commander –in–chief Australian Military
Forces 1942-1945.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Named after William Bligh (1754-1817)
British Naval Officer, 4th Governor of
NSW (1806-1808). Near/named at same
time as Hunter St (2 nd NSW Governor)
also Johnston St (Major) , Putland Pl (Mrs
Putland was Gov Bligh’s daughter),
Betham Place ( his wife’s maiden name)
Same subdivision as Larkspur Place so
would be named after type of flower –
Blue bell.
Named after species of Australian trees.
Named 2004.
Named after species of Australian tree in
line with theme in East Heathcote of
naming after trees/ plants. Named after
significant stands of Bluegums in area.
Private road
Named after species of Australian tree
In subdivision with Almada & Flagstaff
Sts.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘father or
moon’.
Or ‘place of smoke’.
Unnamed till 2005
Name suggested by Bundeena Progress
Assoc as he was person who had made
significant contribution to area.
Aboriginal word meaning “tossing a child
up in the air”
Or ‘place where a child is tossed into the
DP
ADB online
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/81 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
CL
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
DP
CL
Council file
95/2960
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum
CL
File 03/00764
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
Bode Place
Bogan
Avenue
Barden
Ridge
Sylvania
Waters
Bohr
Crescent
Lucas
Heights
Bolaro
Avenue
Gymea
Bombell Ave
Engadine
Bombo Place
Bangor
Bombora
Avenue
Bundeena
Bond Place
Illawong
air’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘several waters’
O ‘running waters’
Or ’tossing a child in the arms, haven for
boats, several waters’
On pioneer settlers name list 1992
and Place Names
CL Aborig names
MD 1/11/P1
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the birthplace
of a notable headman of the local tribe’.
One of 30 streets in area named after an
Australian river. It is a tributary of the
Darling River and starts near Forbes.
A Private road on ANSTO site. Named
after Neils Bohr (1885-1962), a Dane,
who developed model of atomic structure
and won Nobel Prize in 1922.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘man with
boomerang’.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Possible named after location in northern
NSW near Moree.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘thunder’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘reef of rocks
usually found at the foot of a cliff’.
Named by subdivider of Pacific Waters
Estate.
Bondell
Avenue
Bonnet
Avenue
Gymea
Bonnet Road
(DISC)
Como
Bonnie Doon
Place
Burraneer
Bonnie View
St
Bonnieview
St
Gymea
Possibly from Aboriginal word ‘bondel’
meaning ‘name of man’.
Area was known as “The Bonnet” named
after a rock outcrop known as “The Old
Womans Bonnet”.
Renamed Wigens Ave (GG 6 ,19/1/1962)
Name relates to nearby rock formation
originally called ‘Old Woman’s Bonnet”
due to looking like such.
In 1930 Mr C H Hammond had a house
called “Bonnie Doon” at Burraneer Bay this is possible source of name.
Means good view
Wooloowa
re
In Bonnie View Estate (1919)
Means good view
Como
File MD 1/11/P1
www.wapedia.mob
i/en
www.ansto.gov.au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
Maps.bonzle.com
File MD 1/11/P1,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
The Bundeena
Book
CL of Aboriginal
names
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story –C Burgess
CL
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story
1930 Sands
directory
DP
Boomerang
Ave
Boomi Place
Lilli Pilli
Woronora
Aboriginal word for ‘weapon for
throwing’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ dark brackish
water’ or a form of word Biami the name
of the creator spirit
Boongulla
Road (DISC)
Barden
Ridge
Boorima
Place
Boorroo
Street
Cronulla
Aboriginal word meaning ‘brackish
water’.
Type of tree aka rough barked apple, rusty
gum, apple box, gum myrtle.
Aboriginal word for ‘rough barked
angophora tree’.
Alternate spelling for Koongulla Road
which ran from Old Illawarra Road
opposite Barden Road to Little Forest
Road. Part closed 1955. Section through
Ridge Sports complex closed 2000. Rest
bushland track in old Crown Rd reserve.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blowfly’
Kangaroo
Point
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘north’.
Booyong
Avenue
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning’ ironwood tree’
Boondah
Place
Borambil
Place
Boree Place
Kareela
Or ‘place of ironwood trees’
Oyster Bay Meaning ‘place near initiation ground “
Bangor
Or ‘projecting root of tree’ or ‘place near
initiation ground’
Aboriginal word meaning “weeping
myall” or ‘fire’.
Or ‘fire’
Boronga
Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big waterhole’.
Boronia Ave
Boronia
Grove
Engadine
Heathcote
Named after Australian native plant.
Street built by Heathcote Hall Estate Ltd c
1928.
Boronia
Caringbah
Renamed Gordon Street.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names /
Place Names of
Aust.
Developm’t Com
Min 866-1/12/1969
Internet
Aust Museum
CL
www.vaclang.org.a
u
CL
Macq. Aboriginal
words
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
also Endacott
Aust Museum
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
& Aust Museum
Mementos of
Oyster Bay
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
also Endacott
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
Endacott & Aust
Museum & File
MD 1/11/P1
Pg 72 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
Sutherland Shire’s
first settlement
CL
Street (DISC)
Boronia St
Cronulla
Bottlebrush
Place
Bottle Forest
Rd
Alford’s
Point
Heathcote
Boundary
Road /Street
Bounty Ave
Heathcote
Bournemouth
Street
Bundeena
Kirrawee
Bouvardia St
Bowra Close
Caringbah
Bangor
Bowral Ave
Miranda
In 1930 listed as Ave.
Name of Australian native plant.
Mr Charles Butcher, early president of
Cronulla Progress Association, had house
at Cronulla called “Boronia”
where streets named after trees & shrubs
Bottle Forest was the original name (1842
to 1903, after 1886 only eastern part) for
Heathcote. Two theories re name (1) Said
to be beca use a bottle left behind by
earlier surveyor was found by Surveyor
General Thomas Mitchell embedded in
tree in area. (2) Map of area c 1842/43
was in the shape of a soldier’s water
bottle. Was first road in area shown on
1845 map.
So named as was boundary of subdivision.
On original DP as Boundary Street,
As off Bligh St would be named after
HMS Bounty - ship Captain Bligh
commanded at time of Mutiny of Bounty.
Part of Yarmouth Estate – the streets in
this estate in most cases were named after
English beaches.
Name first registered 1886.
Name of flowering shrub from Mexico.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bald head’
Or ‘head’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘pleasant’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘high’ &/or
‘large’
Box Road/
Lane
Boxsell
Jannali,
Kareela,
Sylvania
Caringbah
Menai
Prior to 2007 was Eastern end of Garnet
Road. Name changed GG 41 of 9/3/2007.
In line with apparent theme in subdivision
(incls Acacia, Waratah, Oak sts) named
after species of native trees.
Name first registered 1882 by James
Murphy manager/ director of Holt
Sutherland Estate Co.
A Boxsell family lost home at Menai in
1930 Sands
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
First Settlement –
P Kennedy
DP plan
The Bundeena
Book
DP
Internet
MD 1/11/P1
CL aborig names
Aust Museum
www.grandpapenci
l.net/austral/abwor
d
Aust Museum &
Aust Place Names
( B& B Kennedy)
CL
DP
Propeller
Close
Boyd Place
Boyle Street
Boyle Lane
bushfire 1945.
Eileen, Edna & Esther Boxsell were early
settlers in area.
Barden
Ridge
Sutherland
Sutherland
Area has Australian pioneers theme.
Probably named after Benjamin Boyd
(1803-1851) who developed a whaling
station at Eden on NSW south Coast
Named after Edward William (Ted) Boyle
(1868-1942), Shire Councilor 1911-14,
1917-1920 and 1932-1934 (also hotelier
of Boyle’s Hotel Sutherland 1901-1942).
Was Station Street renamed GG 26 of
20/2/1942.
Named after Edward William (Ted) Boyle
(1868-1942), Shire Councilor 1911-14,
1917-1920 and 1932-1934 (also hotelier
of Boyle’s Hotel Sutherland 1901-1942).
Lane named GG 35-13/4/1962.
Lane had earlier unofficial names Blacksmiths Lane and Phillips Lane.
15/11/1945 pg 6
Reflections –
Menai Congregat ional Church
File MD 1/11/P1
A History of NSW
Sutherland Shire
Hist Soc Bulletin
Aug 1988 p 374
CL. Works Com
2/4/1952,3/10/1961
Sutherland Shire
Hist Soc Bulletin
Aug 1988 p 374
CL. Works Com
2/4/1952,3/10/1961
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 88
Bracken
Close
Bradley
Place
Engadine
Fern like plant
Illawong
Bradman
Road
Menai
Braeside
Place
Engadine
Bragg
Avenue
Lucas
Heights
Probably named after William Bradley
ADB online
(1757 -1833) first officer on first fleet ship
Sirius. Worked on surveys of Sydney
Harbour and Norfolk Is. Bradley’s Head
named after him. Theme of areanames of
Named after Sir Donald Bradman
Australian cricketer. One of group of
streets named after famous Australian
cricketers.
Named after location of Scotland. In
group of streets (with Lochiel, Gort etc)
also named after Scottish locations.
www.ansto.gov.au
William Lawrence Bragg (son-18901971) and William Henry Bragg (father d
1945) who shared 1915 Nobel Prize for
Physics. William Henry invented X ray
Spectrometer. William Lawrence
developed X ray analysis of crystal
structure.
Bramwell
Place
Illawong
Bray Grove
Menai
Bream Street
Breeza Place
Brice Close
Como
Bangor
Illawong
Bridge Road
(DISC)
Woronora
/ Menai
Bridge Street
(DISC)
Waterfall
Bridges
Street
Bridgeview
Road
Kurnell
Brigalow
Place
Brighton
Street
Brisbane St
Henry David (Harry) and Annie Bray and
their 7 children lived at Menai from c
1904. Harry died 1941. They had ma rket
garden/ poultry farm adj Old Illawarra Rd
where now Blaxland Drive Reserve.
Daphne and Florence Bray were early
settlers in area.
Probably named after species of fish
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flea’
Woronora section renamed Prince Edward
Park Road (GG 24 & 80 1948)
Menai section renamed Menai Road
So named as access bridge over Woronora
River.
Renamed Kooraban Street.
Name reflects that street included bridges
over highway and railway.
Engadine / Possibly so named as has view to
Yarrawarra Woronora River bridge
h
When area subdivided Harbour Bridge
could be seen from street
Engadine
Aboriginal word - ‘native companion’.
Bundeena
Illawong
Brigalow is a type of acacia /wattle.
Council took over street in 1950
English beaches.
First named on DP registered 1886.
Named after RAN Cruiser from 1950’s or
Coal trader steamer (arrived in Australia
1886) which likely named after NSW
Governor Sir Thomas MakDougall
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
MD 1/11/P1
CL
CL
Dennis Daly
Council employee
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Public Notice
Observer 12/5/50
The Bundeena
Book
CR/Australian
EncyclopediaNaval Defence
Brolga Place
Gymea
Bay
Bromwich
Place
Menai
Brooke Street
Engadine
Broom Street
Loftus
Broughton
Street
Barden
Ridge
Broula Close
Caringbah
Broulee
Place
Browallia
Crescent
Brown Close
Engadine
Bruce
Avenue
Bruce Road
(DISC)
Caringbah
Loftus
Menai
Brisbane (1773-1860) (Governor 182125). In line with theme of areanames of
Aboriginal word meaning ’native
companion’.
Named after Australian tennis player John
Bromwich 1918-1999. Played in
Australia’s winning Davis Cup teams
1939, 1950. Subdivision where all streets
named after Australian tennis players.
In same group of Lands Dept subdivisions
as streets named after VC winners
including Trooper John Bisdee. Possibly
named after Major Brooke who was
rescued by Trooper Bisdee at Warm bad
in Transvaal September 1900 (Boer War)
Type of plant. Number of streets in area
named after plants.
In line with Australian pioneers theme in
area likely named after William Grant
Broughton (1788-1853) Anglican bishop /
archbishop of Australia (1836-52)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘trickling
water’
Or ‘place of trickling water’
Possibly named after town on NSW south
coast between Batemans bay and Moruya.
Name of an evergreen herb/shrub also
known as bush violet.
Brown family were early settlers in area.
On pioneers list 1992
Bangor
Unnamed Crown Rd from c 1910, Named
GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Parts closed in
1970’s when area resubdivided. Other
parts now Akuna Avenue, Bangor Bypass
and Arrila Place.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Internet
“Our Greatest Boer
War Heroes”
ADB Online
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper & Aust
Museum
Internet
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Brushwood
Drive
Buangi Place
Buchanan
Avenue
Buckinbah
Place
Buckle
Avenue
Buderim
Avenue
Alfords
Point /
Illawong
Gymea
Bay
Bonnet
Bay
Aboriginal word meaning ‘spotted gum
tree’.
Named after 15 th US president James
Buchanan (1857-61) That Bonnet Bay
was recommended by Deputy Shire Clerk
Jim Hall and agreed to by Parkes
Development and Council.
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story –C Burgess
Doug Buckle took up land in area c 1919.
As returned soldier Doug Snr was offered
5 acres of land in Woronora Rd from
Anzac Avenue to Achilles Avenue. Doug
Jnr died on way to England in WW2.
Named GG 134 of 27/8/1954
Aboriginal word meaning ‘honeysuckle’
(LW)
Pg 58 Engadine
1825 -2001 by Ron
Seville
Lilli Pilli
Engadine
Kareela
Budyan
Road/ Lane
Grays
Point
Bujara Place
Bulba Road
Bangor
Engadine
Named 2004
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Previously
Binniguy Street. Westernmost part of
Budyan Road renamed Budyan Lane GG
122 of 7/10/2005.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘morning’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an island’
Bulberry
Place
Bulbine St
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘quail’
Engadine
Bulgalla
Place
Caringbah
Bulimba
Avenue
Bullecourt
Ave
Kareela
Buller Street
Jannali
Name of 50 species of perennial herbs –
based on latin word for bulb. Examples
include Wild O nion, onion weed, native
leek, golden lily, rock lily.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘large leaf
native tree’. Name chosen to fit with other
street names in vicinity named after trees.
Type of Banksia.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the place of the
heart’
Named by W R Ainsworth Shire President
1919-21 and local resident after French
WW1 (1917) battle field.
Named GG 135 1/11/1918
Named by developer Intercolonial Land &
Engadine
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
CL
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Internet
Development Comt
3/3/1958 Council
File R/39/11
Wikisource Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Pg 29 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
CL
DP
Bulls Rd/Ave Burraneer
Bulls Avenue
West
Burraneer
Bulumin St
Como
Bulwarra St
Caringbah
Bunarba
Road
Bunbury Ave
Bunda Road
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Sutherland
Menai
Illawong
Bundanoon
Road
Engadine/
Woronora
Heights
Bundarra
Street
Waterfall
Building Co Ltd 1900. Named after
General Sir Redvers Buller who was
awarded Victoria’s Cross in Boer War.
Adjo ining streets (Roberts and White)
also named after Boer War figures.
Named after early settlers Nathaniel
George Bull, Lewis Daniel Bull and
Anthony Hordern Bull.
Named after early settlers Nathaniel
George Bull, Lewis Daniel Bull and
Anthony Hordern Bull.
Was John Street renamed GG 33 of
21/3/1930.
In 1930 Sands as Bulumla Street which
probably a typo/ spelling mistake. Named
1912 by Holt Sutherland Estate.
Aboriginal origin but meaning not found.
Adjoins and in same subdivision with
Ultimo St. Bulwarra St is and Bulwarra
House was in Ultimo – inner Sydney
suburb. Name 'Bulwara' was name of the
home of John Harris (1838-1911), who
was a city alderman for 34 years, and
several times Mayor.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘high’
Or ‘pelican’
Or ‘high’ , ‘lofty’
Named after Bunbury – town in Western
Australia – in group of streets named after
Western Australian places/ people. Town
named after Lieutenant Henry William St
Pierre Bunbur y whose report on area led
to the area being settled c 1838.
In Menai name discontinued. In Illawong
became Old Illawarra Road (now Fowler
Rd) & Wilbung Rd (GG 22 of 5/2/1988).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hawk’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of deep
gullies’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big kangaroo’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stone
Wikipedia
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
CL
DP
City of Sydney
Council websitestreet names list
CL Aborig names
Endacott / Cooper
Aust Museum
Sheppard
CL
Macq Abo words
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
also Endacott &
Aust Museum
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
internet
Bundeena
Drive/ Road
Bundeena/
RNP
tomahawk’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cold’
Aboriginal word for ‘head of a plain’
Or ‘cluster of trees at edge of swamp’,
‘kangaroo’, ’cold’
According to Waterfall Progress Assoc
means ‘cluster of trees at edge of swamp’
Named GG 13 of 3/2/1961
Bundeena Rd /St & Chritchet St renamed
Bundeena Drive GG 86 of 13/9/1963.
Part also previously Jibbon Road.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘noise like
thunder’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small wild
melon’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ a maid, a
young girl’
pigeons’
Name of river and town in North
Queensland.
Bungal Street
Engadine
Bungarn
Place
Bunyan Place
Caringbah
Burdekin
Place
Engadine
Burgan Close
Menai
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mountain tea
tree’ - shrubby plant with narrow leaves.
Burke Road
Cronulla
In group of streets named after explorers
therefore probably named after Robert
O’Hara Burke (1821-1861) leader 1st
expedition to cross Australia south to
north – died on return journey.
Burke Street
Burleigh Ave
Como
Caringbah
Burley Close
Illawong
Streets in subdivision appear related to
historic British Lords. Probably named
after William Cecil Lord Burleigh (aka
Burghley) (1521-1598) British politician,
Secretary of State, Lord High Treasurer.
Aboriginal word meaning “star’
Sylvania
Waters
As street naming theme in area is names
of historical nautical significance
probably named after HMS Burley mine
sweeper in 1950’s
Named GG 78 of 28/8/1968.
Burnett Place
Bangor
CL aborig names
Cooper
Aust Museum
File 98/1997
CL
CL
Council pamphlet
re place names
www.coombs.anu.
edu.au
Wikisource –
Moore
CL Aborig names
& Aust Museum
Endacott & Austin
Abo. Words in
English: their
origin & meaning
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
DP
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Internet
CL
Burns Lane
Caringbah
Australian river. Burnett River is in north
Queensland near Bundaberg. River named
after James Charles Burnett who
discovered it in 1847.
.
Named GG 110 of 13/9/1974
Named after William Joseph Burns who
owned land and lane is in the subdivision
is “Burns Estate”. In 1890’s there was a
Burn’s Timber yard at Caringbah.
Timber yard was where now Caringbah
Inn, Owned land south of President Av
from Port Hacking Rd to Willarong Rd.
Moved yard to NW Cnr President Av/
Kingsway 1920. C 1960 business moved
to Captain Cook Dr.
In line with theme of naming streets after
politicians/public servants around time
area subdivided probably named after
John Fitzgerald Burns (1833-1911) MLA
1861-91, Treasurer 1885-86, 1887-89.
In 1930 Sands and 1934 Gregory’s
Directory. Now the western part of
Ingalara Avenue. Would have been
named after Joseph Burns who owned
land at time subdivided.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the pine tree’
Burns Road
Heathcote
Burns Street
(DISC)
Cronulla
Burraddar
Ave
Burradoo
Street
Engadine
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘many brigalow
trees’ or ‘many trees’
Burraneer
Bay Road
Cronulla to
Caringbah
On 1889 and 1909 subdivision plans
shown as Gunnamatta Bay Road.
Shown as Burraneer Bay Road on DP
4237 in 1904.
Parts renamed Saunders Bay Road (GG
135 1/11/1918 and St Andrews Place (
GG 8 of 19/1/1940).
Bay named by Surveyor Dixon in 1827 –
Meaning ‘point of the bay’.
Original spelling by Surveyor Dixon was
‘Burranear’.
Town Clerk David Kirkby in 1958 said
original spelling was “Burrameer” which
close to Burrima which means Swan. Said
www.wapedia.mob
i/en/Burnettriver
CL
Echoes from the
Bay – the Yowie
Bay Story
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
CL
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names /
CL Aborig names
also Endacott
Microfiche plan in
Local History coll.
DP
CL
Council pamphlet
re place names
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
Letter 8/5/1958 in
Council file
R/39/11
Burrawalla
Road
Burrawang
Place
Caringbah
Alfords
Point
“It is quite possible that this may be the
derivative of the meaning of Burraneer, as
swans, even today are plentiful in area”
Burra means ‘ sky’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘nut tree’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘wild duck’
Burrinjuck
Place
Burrumburra
Road (DISC)
Miranda
Bangor
Burunda St
Como
Busby Close
Barden
Ridge
Butler Close
Menai
Byrnes Lane
Heathcote
Or ‘ spiral fern palm’
Aboriginal word for ‘rugged top
mountain’.
From Dam name which is from aboriginal
word ‘Boorin –yiak’ meaning ‘precipitous
mountain’. As joins Wyangala Pl (name
of dam near Cowra) likely it is named
after Burrinjuck Dam near Goulburn.
Unnamed Crown road from c 1910,
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Ran from Menai Rd to Goorgool Rd.
‘Burrum’ is an Aboriginal word which
usually means water.
Became part of Goorgool Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘swan’
Named after John Busby (1765-1857),
surveyor / civil engineer – he constructed
Busby’s bore – Sydney’s first regular
water supply.
Probably named after Keith Butler who
was an early settler in the Menai area.
Unnamed till 2005.
Named after James Byrnes (1806-1886)
NSW politician/public servant in line with
theme in area of names of NSW public
servants/ politicians at time originally
subdivided. Secretary for Public Works
1866-68, 1870-72. Valuer for Public
Works Dept re railway resumptions
(1875-1886)
Dharawal
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.grandpapenci
l.net/austral/abwor
d & Endacott &
Aust Museum
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
A History of NSW
by S Kingston
CL
1934 Gregory’s
Street directory
Yorkey’s Knob
Council info
www.publish.csiro.
com
Allocated by
Correspondence
24/8/2000 (file
95/3170) /ADB
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
File 95/2960
Byron Place
Illawong
Bywong
Place
Sylvania
Possibly named after vice admiral in
British Navy Commodore John (“Foul
Weather Jack”) Byron (grandfather of
Lord Byron the poet) who Captain Cook
named Byron Bay after. He had
circumnavigated the globe in Dolphin in
1764-65. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big hill’
Cabarita
Place
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘by the water’
Cabramatta
Road
Wooloowa
re
Cadence
Place
Kareela
Caedman
Avenue
Cronulla
Caldarra Ave
Engadine
Caley Place
Barden
Ridge
Calga Place
Sylvania
From 2 Aboriginal words ‘cabra’ meaning
‘fresh tasty water grub’ &‘matta’ meaning
‘a point/ jutting out piece of land’.
Or ‘home of the cobra grub’.
Named after Sydney – Hobart race
winning yacht (Overall winner 1966) as
are the other streets in this subdivision.
Also won 1st Sydney – Brisbane race.
Private road off Croydon Street.
In 1930 Mrs E Elphinstone had a house
called “Caedman” nearby (on Burraneer
Bay Road between Gunnamatta St and
Public School).
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918 and part
GG 131 of 10/10/1941
Named after George Caley (1770-1829)
naturalist and explorer who tried to cross
Blue Mountains in 1789 & 1804. In 1897
mounted an expedition from Prospect to
upper reaches of George’s River. Street
naming theme is Australian pioneers.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the mouth’
Or ‘star’ or ‘stony ridge’
Calliope Rd
Miranda
Callistemon
Close
Alfords
Point
Name of Greek muse/goddess of epic
poetry, also name of a type of piano.
Probably relates to previous use in area Matson’s Pleasure Grounds which had
dance hall, amusement rides etc.
Name from genus of Australian trees
common name Bottlebrush.
Wajnr yb
Australian
Navigators
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
Endacott, Aust
Museum,Wikipedi
a
Wikipedia
Aust Museum
www.alldownunde
r.com
1930 Sands
directory
CL
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
ADB
Gosford Council
website
Randwick Council
website
Internet
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Caloola Road Kirrawee
(DISC)
Calypso
Place
Cambria Ave
Yowie Bay
Cambridge
Lane
Sutherland
Camden St
Sylvania
Engadine
Camellia
Grove
Gymea
Bay
Cameron
Place
Alfords
Point
Campbell St
Gymea
Name discontinued / road closed in stages
1971 to 1987.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to climb’
Aboriginal word meaning either ‘to climb’
or ‘a battlefield’.
First shown on 1886 DP registered by
Ran from Garnet Road to The Boulevarde
just west of Bath Road.
CL
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918. Part
renamed Victory Street. In line with other
streets in vicinity named after WWI
battlefield (possibly spelt Cambrai).
Named GG 172 of 31/10/1986. As adjoins
Harvard Lane and Oxford Street would be
named after Cambridge University in
England.
In subdivision with Macarthur, Onslow
and Merino Streets so relates to Macarthur
farm at Camden south west of Sydney
where Macarthur - Onslow family bred
Merino sheep. Town named after John
Jeffreys Pratt 2nd Earl / 1 st Marquis of
Camden Secretary of Colonies 1804-5
who gained permission for Macarthur to
take sheep from King’s flock of merinos
to Sydney
Name from genus of 300 of trees and
shrubs native to Asia includes flowering
camellias and the tea pla nt.
Common name of species of hardwood
tree from Central and South America.
Botanical name Samanea pedicellaris. In
trees/ plants.
As in group of streets named after early
colonists including Governor Macquarie
probably named after John Thomas
Campbell (1770-1890) Secretary to Gov
Macquarie (1810-1819), MLC 1829-30,
One of founders of Bank of NSW 1817.
Or possibly Robert Campbell (1769-1846)
merchant, pastoralist, politician.
CL
CL Aborig names
Endacott & Aust
Museum
DP
1934 Gregory’s
Street Directory
CL
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography Vol 1
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
www.floormall.co
m
ADB
Canberra Rd
Canobolas
Place
Canopus
Close
Canyon Place
Cape
Solander
Drive
Capital Place
Sylvania
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a meeting
place’
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning “two shoulders’
h
referring to the 2 peaks of extinct volcano
(Mt Canobolas near Orange).
Engadine
Canopus is second brightest star in the sky
and is mainly visible from the Southern
Hemisphere. Star was named after a ship’s
pilot in Greek mythology. In group of 4
streets named after stars/ constellations.
Engadine
In group of streets with naming theme
relating to mountains (eg crest, ridge) so
refers to topographical feature
Kurnell
Named after Doctor Daniel Solander ,
Danish naturalist on Cook’s Endeavour.
Off Canberra Road so probably relates to
Canberra being capital of Australia.
Capri Close
Heathcote Island in Gulf of Naples in Italy. In group
of streets with names linked to Classic
Roman / Greek places/ myths
Captain Cook KurnellNamed after Captain James Cook. Named
Drive / Lane Caringbah GG 134 of 13/4/1951. In 1954 streets at
Kurnell end (Di Gama St, Cook St)
became part of Drive – GG 134 of
27/8/1954. Lane named 2005.
Carabella
Caringbah Was previously spelt Carrabella. DP
Road
registered 1894. Originally went to
Woolooware Rd (1928 map) –eastern Part
became part of Captain Cook Drive.
Means pretty face in Italian
Caravan
Como
Renamed Caravan Head Road. Source of
Road (DISC)
name is rock on headland said to look like
a wagon/ caravan.
Caravan
Oyster Bay Named after Caravan Rock – a large rock
Head Road
on the point of Caravan Head that was
shaped like a wagon.
Was previously known as Caravan Road
Cardiff Street Engadine
As joins Dover Pl probably named after
City of Cardiff in Wales.
Carina Rd/
Oyster Bay Aboriginal word “bride, wife girl”
Ln
Caringbah
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
Kids.net.au
Sylvania
Caringbah-
In 1929 & 30 Sands spelt Careena Road.
Road to / near Carina Bay.
Adaption of Aboriginal word ‘Kuringbah’
Internet
CL
CL
Babynames.com
CL
Yorkey’s Knob
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
Yorkeys Knob
CL
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names
(LW)
Sands directory
CL of Aboriginal
Road
Woolowar
e
Carinya
Place
Kirrawee
Carissa Place
Alfords
Point
Carmarthen
St
Carmen
Place
Carnavon
Street
Carol Ave
Caroline
Street
Caronia
Avenue
Carramar
Crescent
Carrington
Avenue
for “paddymelon wallaby”
Previously known as Bindarra Road – so
registered 1894. Name changed to
Caringabah Rd 1901. So spelt till about
1911 when Caringbah starts to appear on
plans.
Name of street predates suburb and was
source of suburb name
Aboriginal word meaning ’peaceful happy
home’ or ‘a happy home’
Name of plant aka conker berry. In
subdivision where street names are those
of trees/ plants.
Menai
In line with use of Welsh place names in
this area it is named after a town in Wales
near which legend says Merlin was born.
Caringbah Likely source of name is that owner at
time of subdivision in 1982 was Carmen
D’Innocenzo
Yarrawarra Named after town in Western Australia –
h
in group of streets named after Western
Australian locations. Town was named in
1883 after 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Henry
Howard Molyneux, Lord Lieutenant of
Co. Southampton, High Steward,
University of Oxford, Constable of
Carnarvon Castle; Secretary of State for
the Colonies 1866-67 and 1874-78, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland 1885-86.
Jannali
Oyster Bay Named after Caroline Chisholm (18081877) – female emancipist
Cronulla /
From 1947 to 2005 parts of street were
Wooloowa known as Caronia Avenue East/ West.
re
On 1909 DP was Street but Ave by 1911
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shade of trees’
Caringbah
Probably named after Lord Carrington
Charles Robert Wynn – Carrington (18431928) NSW Governor 1885-90.
Or one of the 4 members of the
Carrington family who were British
names
CL / DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin June 1967
www.hunter.tafens
w.edu.au ,
Endacott
Internet
Internet
DP
Sheppard
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
CL
DP
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig names ,
Endacott, Cooper,
Aust Museum
Wikipedia
Carrol Court
Menai
Carter
Crescent
Gymea
Bay
Carter Road
Menai
Cartledge
Ave
Carvers Road
Caspian
Place
Cassandra
Crescent
Cassia Place
Castlenau
Street
Castle Place
Castlereagh
Crescent
Castlewood
Avenue
Members of Parliament.
Possibly “carroll’ aboriginal word
meaning ‘forked tree’
JB Carroll lived west of Old Illawarra Rd
in early 1900’s
At time of subdivision 2 of owners were
James C and Slater L Carter (signatures
on plan) so likely named after owners.
R and Mrs Carter were early settlers in
area and Mr Carter was President of
Progress Association
Roy Carter (Snr) settled in area in 1920’s
Formerly was part of Australia Road.
Miranda
Horace James Charles “Ossie” Cartledge
was Shire Councilor for 11 years 1948 -59
Oyster Bay Mr Nicholas Price Carver was original
landowner in area
Woronora
Heights
Heathcote Theme in area is Greek & Roman myths/
places. In Greek mythology Cassandra
was a beauty loved by Apollo. She was
daughter of King & Queen of Troy who
prophesied fall of Troy but not believed.
Loftus
Named after genus of trees /shrubs known
as Senna or Shower Tree. A number of
streets in area named after plants
Caringbah Should be spelt Castelnau as named after
General Noel de Castelnau (1851-1944)
Allied General during WWI. In same
subdivision as Jellicoe Street which is
named after WWI Allied admiral.
Sylvania
In area that had been part of John
Connell’s ‘Castle Connell Estate’ from
1833 till bought by Thomas Holt 1861 –
thus likely source of name.
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. The Castlereagh River
starts north of Dubbo and joins into
Barwon and then Darling Rivers.
Wooloowa Area was subdivided as “Castlewood
re
Estate”.
CL of Aboriginal
names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1986
DP
Menai Co ngrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
MD 1/11/P1
List of Councilors
– council website
SHof OB
(LW)
Wikipedia
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
The Great War – J
Mowbray
Wikipedia
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 10 No
1 Feb 2007
Casuarina
Road
Alfords
Point
Casuarina
Road
Gymea
Bay
Catalpa
Grove
Menai
Cato Place
Illawong
Catton Place
Cawarra
Road
Menai
Caringbah
Cecil Street
Caringbah
/ Dolan’s
Nearby house “Castlewood” at 87
Woolooware Rd built by Thomas Daley (a
Marrickville brickmaker) in 1913
(Subdivision 1912) so not source of name.
House was home of Dr William Sproule
who practiced at Cronulla c 1911-1929.
Western section originally called Ontario
Avenue (in line with name of estate of
western part)
Botanical name for genus of trees which
includes she-oak, iron wood. In
trees / plants.
Botanical name for genus of trees which
includes she oak and ironwood.
Was part of Sylvania Road south till 1998.
Name in line with concurrent renaming
adjoining part of Sylvania Road as
Greygum Place
Botanical name for a small genus of
deciduous northern hemisphere trees
common names Indian Bean, Cigar Tree.
tree species.
Probably named after ship Cato sunk with
HMS Porpoise on Wreck Reef off
Queensland coast 17 August 1803. HMS
Porpoise was taking Matthews Flinders
and his charts etc back to UK after his
explorations. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
On Pioneer settlers list 1992
1947 to 2005 was known as Cawarra
Road North. Cawarra Road South became
Mackay Street (GG 86 10/7/1970)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beside running
water’
Name of paddle steamer sunk in
Newcastle Harbour in 1866 with loss of
60 lives. Name first shown on 1893 DP.
But was in existence earlier as was a
divisional road of access mapped out by
Lands Dept – but not named. Later named
by James Murphy of Holt Sutherland Co.
1909 subdivision so too early to be named
after Cecil Monro
A Pictorial History
of Cronulla (pg 36)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 197???
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
File 97/0271
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Wikipedia,
Australian
Navigators
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
www.lindemans.co
m
Wikipedia
DP
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
Cecil Monro
Avenue
Bay
Cronulla
Cedar Place
Kirrawee
Celosia Place
Loftus
Central Ave
Central Road
Chadwick
Street
Como
Miranda
Lucas
Heights
Chakola
Place
Kirrawee
Chamberlain
Avenue
Caringbah
Chapman La/
St
Gymea
Charles Place Jannali
Charlotte
Illawong
Place
Charlton
Place
Menai
Chaun Street
(DISC)
Kirrawee
Mr Cecil O (Joe) Monro an estate agent
and publican was Councillor for 34 years
from 1914, Shire President 1917-18,
1922-27,1939 and 1949-51 and later a
Member of the Legislative Assembly
(1932-41 and 1950-53).
Off Oak St (but much later subdivision) so
would be named after type of tree.
Type of flower also known as Cocks
combs or Woolflowers. Name derived
from Greek word ‘kelos’ meaning fire
Is in centre of its subdivision.
Is in centre of shopping area.
James Chadwick (1891-1974) who
discovered neutron and won 1935 Nobel
Prize for Physics. His discovery paved
way for uranium fission & atomic bomb.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘lyre bird’
In group of streets named after British
politicians (2 of them prime ministers).
Named after Neville Chamberlain British
Prime Minister 1937-1940. Or Joseph
Chamberlain British Prime Minister at
time of Federation.
From 1947 till 2005 parts of street were
named Chapman Street North/ South.
Lane named 2004.
Probably named after First Fleet transport
ship ‘Charlotte’. Theme of areanames of
Named after Andrew Murray ‘Boy’
Charlton (1907-1975), famous Australian
Swimmer. Nicknamed ‘Manly Flying
Fish’ won 1500 m at 1924 Olympics.
Subdivision where all streets named after
Australian swimmers.
Off eastern side of Acacia Road
immediately south of railway line (circa
Best Street).
Word means ‘ to open , to yawn’
Faces of the Shire
www.readyflowers
.com.au
Place Names of
Aust, CL Aborig
Names, Aust
Museum
Hurstville Council
website
CL
Internet
Internet
Microfiche plan in
Local History file c
1939- 46
www.thefreedictio
Chelmsford
Avenue
Cronulla
Cherana
Place
Kareela
Cherrywood
Grove
Chester
Street
Menai
Chestnut
Street
Chipilly Ave
Loftus
Chisholm Rd
Kurnell
Christina
Place
Kareela
Christopher
Place
Wooloowa
re
Sylvania
Engadine
Chritchet
Bundeena
Street (DISC)
Chullora
Crescent
Engadine
Church Street
Wooloowa
re
Named after State Governor, Rt Hon
Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron
and 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Lord
Chelmsford. He visited Cronulla with
Lady Chelmsford November 1912 to lay
stone for extension of School of Arts
Named after Sydney Hobart race winning
yacht (Overall winner 1959) as are the
other streets in this subdivision.
Named after species of tree in line with
theme of subdivision.
In group of streets (with Warwick,
Oakham, Durham) named after towns
which are chief towns of English
Counties. Is chief town Cheshire County
Type of tree. A number of streets in area
named after plants.
Named by W Ainsworth (local resident,
Shire President 1919-21) after WW1
battle field near the Somme – battle
August 1918.
Probably named after Caroline Chisholm
(1808-1877) – philanthropist who helped
immigrants.
yacht (overall winner 1946) as are most of
the other streets in this subdivision.
Adjoins Wren Place – thus likely named
after Christopher Wren English architect/
astronomer (1632 -1723). Most famous
building St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Renamed Bundeena Drive (GG 86 of
13/9/1963) sometimes spelt Critchett.
Possibly named after Richard Cornelius
Critchett Walker who was early settler
north of river and Principal Secretary to
Colonial Secretary 1879-1903 and a
National Park Trustee 1889.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flour from
grinding grass and plant seeds”
Whilst a church was never built in street
there was a proposal to build a church in
street c 1912 with money (2500 pounds)
from Nathaniel Bull’s Estate. Instead
nary.com
A Short Authentic
Hstory of Cronulla
& Macquarie Book
of Events
www.alldownunde
r.com
Wikipedia
Pg 29 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography Vol 1
www.alldownunde
r.com
Who Did What
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1977
& File 95/2960
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
A Short History of
St Andrews
Anglican Church
Cronulla
Church Street Waterfall
(DISC)
Churchill
Kirrawee
Avenue
Clare Street
Sylvania
Clarence
Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Claret Ash
Grove
Clarke Place
Menai
Classen
Street
Clements
Parade
Sylvania
Clerke Place
Kurnell
Cleveland
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Menai
Kirrawee
because land considered to be too far from
Cronulla the church (St Andrews
Anglican) was built closer to Cronulla.
Renamed Warabin Street (GG 65 of 30/5/
1930). Possibly had been church in street.
As first named 1946 likely that street was
named after Sir Winston Churchill. Prime
Minister of United Kingdom during
WWII.
First named 1882 on DP registered by
Sutherland Estate Co. Could have been
misspelling of name of Clara Rice who
with parents and sisters had settled in area
in 1873. Their house had adjoined street.
Australian river. Clarence River is in
north eastern NSW – flows through
Grafton and Maclean. River named after
Duke of Clarence (1765-1837) who
became King William IV.
theme of subdivision.
Named after Ron (Ronald William)
Clarke (born 1937) distance runner. In
group of streets named a fter Australian
athletes.
John Findlater Clements was surveyor
who did subdivision plan in 1928 so likely
named after him.
(private road). In line with areas theme of
sea explorers/ navigators named after
Charles Clerke. He completed his 2nd
circumnavigation of world with Cook on
Endeavour, on Cook’s 3rd voyage he
commandeered the Discovery and took
over command of expedition when Cook
killed at Hawaii. Named 2005.
Named after 22 nd and 24th US President
Grover Cleveland (1885–89, 1893-97)
That Bonnet Bay street names be those of
US presidents was recommended by
Deputy Shire Clerk Jim Hall and agreed to
by Parkes Development and Council
CL
DP
Randwick Council
website
BDCA
DP
File 95/3210
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Cliff Haven
Place
Clifford
Road
Clio Street
Clothier
Road
Clough Ave
Yowie Bay Named after sandstone house built circa
1932 by stonemason Roy Ellis (still exists
@ 16 Wonga Road)
Miranda
Echoes from the
Bay
Sutherland
www.big.com.au
Menai
Illawong
Clovelly
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Clubb Lane /
Crescent
Miranda
Clyde Ave
Cronulla
Coachwood
Crescent
Coast Ave
Alfords
Point
Cronulla
Cobargo
Road
Gymea
Bay
Cockcroft
Place
Lucas
Heights
Clio is the Greek muse of History.
Name first registered on DP 1882 by
I G Clothier was early settler in area
He was a vet and farmer.
On 1992 pioneer settlers list
Charles Clough was a Hurstville Council
alderman 1894-1900. Illawong was part of
Hurstville Council until 1921.
Road existed pre 1906. Named pre 1934.
Former name for Robertson Street circa
1886.
Like suburb near Randwick probably
named after fishing village in Devon UK
Lane named 2005. Crescent =-name first
registered 1948. Elma J Clubb was owner
at time of original 1948 subdivision so
probably named after her.
Was originally Agnes Avenue.
Possibly named after Inner Western
Suburb of Sydney near Parramatta as near
Parramatta St
Name first registered 1906. Name
possibly relates to location near the coast.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘grandfather’
In group of streets named after South
Coast locations (Huskisson, Nowra etc) so
would be named after town of Cobargo
near Bega.
Private road on ANSTO site. Named after
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967)
1930 Sands
directory
MD1/11/P1
The Histo ry of
Hurstville Council
Elections
CL,1934 Gregory’s
Directory
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
by Fred Midgley
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
www.randwick.ns
w.gov.au
CL
DP
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
www.ansto.gov.au
Collicott
Place
Barden
Ridge
Collins Place
Columbine
Close
Colwyn
Close
Engadine
Loftus
Combara
Ave
Caringbah
Menai
who won 1951 Physics Nobel Prize for
research on transmutation of atomic
nuclei. In 1933 he produced artificial
radioactivity.
Named after John Thomas Collicott
(1798-1840) Hobart Postmaster 1822-40
(area has Australian Pioneers theme)
Seaside borough in North Wales, town is
Colwyn Bay. Theme of naming streets in
area is names of Welsh locations.
Aboriginal word meaning yesterday or
tomorrow ie one day away
Word means “ tomorrow’
Commons
Point Road
(DISC)
Caringbah/
Taren
Point
Como Parade
Como
Como
Crescent
Como Road
Como Street
(DISC)
Name NSW outback town as are 2 other
nearby streets – Curban Ln, Condon St
Early alternative name for Taren Point
Road as Taren Point was also called
‘Commons Point’. Point also called
Cummins Point and Comyns Point.
From suburb name – suburb named after
areas resemblance to Lake Como in Italy
In 1930 as Como Crescent
From Suburb name which is said to be
named after Lake Como in Italy.
Renamed Janna li Avenue (GG 99 of
25/7/1930)
Shown as Como Crescent on 1888
Subdivision plan of Queen’s Jubilee
Estate Jannali
Oyster Bay From suburb name – suburb named after
area’s resemblance to Lake Como in Italy.
In 1930 as Como Crescent.
CR
ADB Online
Wikipedia
Place Names of
Aust, CL Aborig
names & Aust
Museum
Council file
R/39/11
Council File
99/0198
CL
SH of OB (LW)
1930 Sands
Directory
Jannali /
Sutherland
Sutherland
Former name for East Parade circa 1886
Named after suburb which named after
it’s resemblance to Lake Como in Italy.
CL
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939 pg
48
SH of OB (LW)
1930 Sands
Directory
Street Names in
Early Sutherland Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
Condon St
Caringbah
Conifer Place
Conjola
Place
Engadine
Gymea
Bay
Probably named after outback NSW town
as are nearby Curban Ln and Combara St.
Connor Place
Believed to be from aboriginal word
‘kongoola’ name of type of freshwater
fish
Coast locations (Huskisson, Nowra etc) so
named after Lake Conjola near Nowra.
Oyster Bay John Connell early landholder in area.
He owned land in Shire including Kurnell
and Sylvania from 1821 to his death 1849.
Cronulla
Named after early owner of area where
street is - John Connell Jnr
Originally Beach Road Renamed Govt
Gaz 33 of 21/3/1930.
Illawong
Australian Historical nautical significance
Conway St
Menai
Cooinda St
Engadine
Connell Road
Connels Rd
Cook Road
Cook Street
Cook Street
Cook Street
Coolabah
Place
Coolangatta
Avenue
area after places in Wales probably named
after river and town in North Wales
Aboriginal word meaning ‘happy place’
Named GG 15 of 7/2/1964
Oyster Bay Named after Captain James Cook
Caringbah- Probably named after Captain James Cook
Cronulla
Kurnell
Part became Captain Cook Drive GG 134
of 27/8/1954. Part now in Botany Bay
National Park.
Named after Captain James Cook.
Sutherland Could be named after Captain James
Cook or after Robert William Cook coach
proprietor of Sutherland early 1900’s. He
was Shire Councilor 1906-11, 1914-20,
1922-32, Shire President 1916 & 1928.
Caringbah Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt,
flooded box tree’
Or ‘black box tree’
Burraneer
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fine or
splendid view’.
Or ‘good look out’
Name may relate to historic house
‘Coolangatta’ nearby at 93 Dolans Road
Council file
99/0198
www.shoalhavenh
olidays.com.au
SH of OB (LW)
Sutherland Shire- a
history to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/81 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
Internet
www.cooinda.net.a
u, also Endacott
CL
SH of OB (LW)
CL
DP
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents
Council website
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum
LEP2006 –
Heritage list
Coolgardie
Place
Coolidge
Crescent
Coolum
Place
Coombah
Place
Coombs (or
Coombes)
Road (DISC)
Sutherland
/ Jannali
From place name for Western Australian
town– which was named after aboriginal
boy who found a water hole there.
In group of streets named after Western
Australian places/ people.
Bonnet
Named after 30 th US President Calvin
Bay
Coolidge (1923-29) That Bonnet Bay
Development and Council
Yowie Bay Coolum was the name of an aboriginal
man of ancient legend
Engadine
Aboriginal word for ‘a baby boy’
Grays
Point
Coonabarabr
an Place
Caringbah
Coonong Rd
Gymea /
Gymea
Bay
Cooper Street
Coopernook
Avenue
Engadine
Gymea
Bay
Became southernmost part of North West
Arm Road via GG 137 of 28/11/1947
Named after William Thomas Coombes
an early ‘weekender’ resident from 1914
who retired to area in 1956.
Aboriginal word for an ‘inquisitive
person’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dirty water’
Or ‘dirty water’ ‘excrement’
Original owner of land was Thomas
Rowland Cooper.
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918.
Said to be named after Francis Seymour
Cooper also an early settler and brother of
Thomas Cooper. They ran horse and cart
‘bus’ service.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an elbow’
Named 2004
Coora Road
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘a bush
kangaroo’
Or meaning ‘blue gum eucalyptus tree’
Name first registered in 1889 DP.
Cooriengah
Engadine
Originally called Lang Road.
Heights Road
Town Clerk David Kirkby 6/6/1958 to
Engadine ALP said “as far as the writer is
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Bur gess
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Gray’s Point Story
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Place Names of
Aust / CL Aborig
names,
Aust Museum
CL
CL
Suth Shire – some
Early Residents pg
66
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Abo. Names &
Aust Museum
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper
DP
CL
Council File
R/39/11
aware the road may have been known as
Lang Road as one o f the roads in the
subdivision was locally called that name”
Named GG 131 of 10/10/1941.
Named after ridge which so named pre
1936. Ridge name gazetted 1973.
Copeland
Road
Engadine /
Heathcote
Coral Road
Wooloowa
re
Coral Tree
Place
Sylvania
Corbett Place
Barden
Ridge
Cordeaux
Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Corea St /Ln
Miranda /
Sylvania
Coreen Ave
Loftus
Corella Road
Kirrawee
1936 Parish map
Geographical
Names Board
website
Named after Henry Copeland (1839-1904) www.parliament.ns
MLA 1877-1900, Secretary of Public
w.gov.au
Works 1883, Secretary Lands 1886 -87,
1891-94, in line with theme of naming
streets in area after government ministers
at time area subdivided.
In line with theme with naming streets in
subdivision after trees (Jackaranda,
Oleander). Name derived from ‘coral tree’
Private road. Named after type of
flowering tree – botanical name erythrina.
Also called flame tree.
ADB online
Probably named after Arthur Brownlow
Corbett (1877-1970) engineer and
administrator.
Australian river. Cordeaux River is south
www.wapedia.mob
west of Sydney and is a tributary of the
i/en/Cordeaux_
Nepean / Hawkesbury River system.
River
River named after William Cordeaux
Australian
(1792-1839) a land commissioner.
Dictionary of
Biography Vol 1
Corea St was Corea Rd renamed GG 135
CL
15/12/1961. Lane unnamed till 2005.
Street named GG 135 of 15/12/1961.
Name first registered on 1882 DP by
DP
Corea is old alternate spelling of Korea so
name possibly after ‘exotic‘ foreign
locations as other north south streets in
subdivision have similar location names
Aboriginal word meaning ‘last of the
Aboriginal Words
hills’
and Place Names
& CL Abor Names
& Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a white or pink Aboriginal Words
Corinth Road
Heathcote
Cormorant St
Grays
Point
Coronation
Avenue
Cronulla
Costens Point Royal
Fire Trail
National
Park
Cottonwood
Grove
Couranga
Street
Court Lane
Court Place
Cowan Street
Menai
Lilli Pilli
parrot’
‘white cockatoo’
Named after ancient city state in Greece.
In group of streets with names linked to
Classic Roman / Greek places/ myths
Previously was part of Grays Point Road –
renamed GG 109 of 28/8/1970 .Named
after sea bird - in group of streets named
after species of birds – known colloquially
as “the Aviary”. Council memo
28/11/1969 “ being the name of a bird
frequenting the area”
In 1930 Sands as Street. Changed from
Street to Avenue GG 99 of 19/7/1940 Part
previously Sylvia Avenue renamed 1940
so street did not have 2 names.
First named July 1911 so would be named
to commemorate Coronation of King
George V on 22/6/1911.
Named after 1st owner of area William
Costens an immigrant Dutch seaman In
1870 he received a 40 ac grant on
foreshores Gooseberry Bay, Port Hacking.
Land became part RNP in 1970’s.
A.k.a Costens Point Rd. Not a public road.
Species of tree – Theme of subdivision is
streets named after tree species.
Means “eucalyptus “
Aboriginal name for tree the botanical
name of which is Eucalyptus botryoides
Engadine
Off Caldarra Street. Named 2003.
Name suggested by community member
as this lane leads to Engadine Court retail
complex.
Menai
Named after Margaret Court (nee Smith)
tennis player. Born 1942. Won 62 Grand
Slam titles. First Australian woman to win
Wimbledon (1963), 2nd women in world
to win tennis grand slam in same year
(1970). In a subdivision where streets
Oyster Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘big water’ or
and Place Names
CL Aborig names
DP
CL
DP
Council minutes
1169 17/7/29 (LW)
Endacott
CL
Council file
96/1602
Internet,
www.tennis.com.a
u
Aboriginal Words
‘uncle’
Cowper
Place
Barden
Ridge
Cowra Place
Cronulla
Cox Place
Gymea
Wooloowa
re
Craigholm St Sylvania
Crammond
Bundeena
Avenue
Crammond
Caringbah
Boulevarde
Named after Archdeacon William Cowper
(1778-1858) (area has Australian Pioneers
theme)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘rocks’
Among streets named after important
early colonists (eg Governor Macquarie)
so probably named after William Cox
(1764-1837) military officer & road
builder who built first road over Blue
Mountains in 1814
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
CR, Australian
Dictionary Of
Biography Vol 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Aust Museum
Internet
Craig Street
Cranberry St
Loftus
Cranbrook
Lane
Cranbrook
Place
Cronulla
Cremona
Road
Illawong
Como
Named after owner of land at time of
subdivision Rose Hannah Crammond
One of two owners at time of 1920
original subdivision was Rose Hannah
Crammond so likely named after her. She
was probably related to Charles
Crammond Estate agent of Petersham and
later Shire. He lived at Gunnamatta Bay
Named GG 65 -30/5/1930. Name of plant
evergreen shrub/ vine with edible berries.
In group of streets named after plants.
Title information
House named ‘Cranbrook’ at 16-20
Cranbrook Place built by Alfred Bignell c
1895 as country house for Robert Fowler
MLA, merchant and pottery manufacturer
– his town house at Camperdown was also
called “Cranbrook’. See also Fowler Rd.
Robert Fowler purchased land 1892
LEP 2006
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
a history to 1939
House later owned by Sir James Joynton
Smith, Lord Mayor of Sydney
Named after Cremona in Lombardy, Italy
(near Milan) by James Murphy - manager,
director, major shareholder of Holt
Sutherland Estate who named Como and 8
original streets after locations in Italy.
Name first registered 1888 DP
DP
A History to 1939
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
& Feb 1993
Como Public
School 1884-85,
1921-1988- A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Crescent
Road
Caringbah
Crest Place
Engadine
Cronulla St
Cronulla
Crookwell
Ave
Cross Road
Miranda
Cross Street
Miranda
Croston Road
Engadine
Croydon St
Cronulla
Croydon
Lane
Cronulla
Crusade
Place
Wooloowa
re
Crystal Street
Sylvania
Cudal Place
Wooloowa
re
Kirrawee
Name first registered 1904 DP.
Name possibly relates to shape of road
resembling a crescent.
In group of streets with name theme
relating to mountains (mountain, sierra,
alpine, peak).
From aboriginal word “kurranulla”
meaning small pink sea shells.
Was originally called Curranulla Street.
Was originally Kurranulla / Curranulla
Street Renamed GG 124 of 18/6/1952.
Part now known as Cronulla Plaza.
Name possibly relates to town of
Crookwell in southern NSW
Named by Mr Manor
In 1930 Sands directory as Cross Street
Likely so named as is street across
peninsula
Name of village in Lancashire – village
name means cross town.
Zinna Street renamed Croydon Street GG
62 of 29/4/1921. Parts of Croydon Street
became Searl Street, Wilbar Avenue,
Tonkin Street. Tonkin Street section 1946.
Probably named after Croydon in England
as near / in same subdivision as Gosport
St which is name of town near Croydon.
Lane existed from 1921 but not officially
named till 1965. Named after street which
probably named after town of Croydon in
England as near / in same subdivision as
Gosport St which is name of town near
Croydon UK.
Likely source of name is that the surveyor
who did subdivision (in 1961) had his
office in ‘Crusade House’ at the corner of
Willarong Rd & The Kingsway Caringbah
Probably named in line with gemstone
theme in subdivision (Ruby, Garnet Sts)
Originally Crystal Road – first so shown
in 1882 DP registered by James Murphy
manager/ director of Holt Sutherland
Estate Co.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flat’
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Pg 29 From Sails
to Atoms
CL
Leader 9/3/1989 p
22 (LW)
DP
Wikipedia
CL
DP
DP
Aboriginal Words
Cudgee Road
Culburra
Road
Culgoa Place
Gymea
Bay
Miranda
Sylvania
Waters
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a very good
place’ or “kangaroo skin”
Or ‘very good place’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘very good
place’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sand’
Or ‘sandy creek’
Possibly named after Culburra - town on
NSW south coast as adjoins (but is later
subdivision then) Wingello Road and
Wingello is town 60 km NW of Culburra
Aboriginal word meaning ’river running
through’
Cullen St/ Ln
Maianbar
Culmara
Place
Cumbee
Lane
Curaliga
Road (DISC)
Engadine
Or ‘running through’, ‘returning’
Is name of a north western NSW river
which joins Darling River near Bourke.
Nathaniel & William Moncur Wallis sold
the property which lane/ street now in to
John Cullen in April 1886
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ferns”
Caringbah
Means “stone tomahawk”
Caringbah
Curban Lane
Caringbah
Curie Street
Lucas
Heights
Curlew Lane
(DISC)
Caringbah
N-S road Caringbah to Burraneer Bay
Roads west of Port Hacking Road –
Subdivision did not proceed and no street
exists now in this location.
Off Mansfield Ave. Named 2005
Named after NSW outback town near
Gilgandra in line with theme of other
lanes/streets in area (Combara & Condon)
Marie and Pierre Curie who discovered
radioactivity and won 1903 Nobel Prize.
Marie also won 1911 Nobel Prize for
Chemistry. All streets on site named after
scientists.
Ran from Saunders Bay Road to Gannons
Road approx where Nemesia Ave is.
Type of bird. Name of pathway along
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
& Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names /
Place Names of
Aust.
Aust Museum
CL of Australian
names
Cooper
Endacott
Googol maps
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
Maianbar
(Maianbar Progress
Assoc publication)
www.beagleyname
plates.com.au
Council min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
1912 subdivision
plan
CL
File 99/0198
www.ansto.gov.au
On 1939-46 micro
fiche map (library)
Curlew Close Woronora
Heights
Currah Road Como
Curranulla
Lane
Cronulla
Curranulla
Road / Street
(DISC)
Cronulla
Currawang
Place
Como
Curtis
Avenue
Curtis Street
Taren
Point
Caringbah
Cuthbert
Place
Menai
Cutler Road
Engadine
Cygnet Place
Illawong
Cypress
Close
Daintree
Way
Alfords
Point
Menai
drainage reserve not a public road.
Named after type of bird. In subdivision
where most streets are types of birds.
In 1930 Sands misspelt as Curran. In 1913
subdivision with other streets having
aboriginal names so likely of Aboriginal
origin.
Name commemorates original name of
Cronulla Street off which it runs.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of small
pink sea shells’. Unnamed till 2006
Original name of Cronulla Street.
Curranulla Road in 1930 Sands directory
Renamed GG 124 - 18/6/1952. Also spelt
Kurranulla (which = small pink seashells).
Aboriginal word meaning ’bell or black
magpie, donkey bird, crow shrike’
Or ‘spear wood’
Or ‘ spear wood tree’
Louis Curtis NOT surveyor
Named after Louis Curtis surveyor and
land owner in area (between Taren Rd and
Willarong Rd). Section north of railway
renamed Gardere Street GG 89 4/6/1954
Named after Betty Cuthbert k/a “The
Golden Girl” (born 1938) a champion
sprinter. In a group of streets named after
Australian athletes.
In group of 3 streets named for Australian
Victoria’s Cross recipients. Lieutenant
(later Sir) Arthur Roden Cutler (19162002) won VC for action in Lebanon in
1941. Later NSW Governor (1966-1981)
Possibly named after barque Cygnet 5th
ship to sail to South Australian settlement
in 1836. Also carried out coastal surveys.
Theme of area is historical nautical
significance.
(private road) Possibly named after
Daintree River in Qld which was named
after Richard Daintree an explorer he was
later Government Geologist for North
CL
Pg 29 From Sails
to Atoms
1930 Sands
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Endacott
Aust Museum
CL
BDCA
www.anzacday.org
.au
Wikipedia
Internet
Dalley Road
Heathcote
Dalman
Place
Dalpura
Place
Dalrymple
Place
Sylvania
Dalton
Avenue
Lucas
Heights
Dalziel Street
Engadine
Dameeli Ave
Kirrawee
Dampier St
Dandarbong
Avenue
Dantun Road
(DISC)
Bangor
Barden
Ridge
Kurnell
Bangor
Miranda
Queensland & Agent General in London.
Named after William Bede Dalley (18311888) MLA 1856-60, 1862-64, MLC
1870-73, 1875-80, 1883-88 Solicitor
General 1858-59, Attorney General 187577, 1883-85 in line with theme of naming
streets in area after government ministers
at time area subdivided.
plenty’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘calm’ or
‘quiet’
George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone
Dalrymple (1826-1876) was a Queensland
explorer, pastoralist, public servant and
politician. Area has Australian pioneers
theme.
John Dalton (1766-1844) English scientist
who developed atomic theory of matter
and first periodic table.
In group of 3 streets named for Australian
Victoria’s Cross recipients. Private Henry
Dalziel (1893-1965) won VC for action at
Hamel Wood, France in July 1918.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘namesake’,
‘goodwill’, ‘affection’
Letter to applicant says to be named
Dameeli meaning ‘namesake’. Developer
asked for Dube Av after family who had
farm where street is – request refused as
Council policy to use Aboriginal words.
Mr Dameeli had worked for Council and
family home still at eastern corner of
street and President Ave.
Named after explorer William Dampier
(1652-1715). Streets in area named after
explorers who saw or explored Pacific
Ocean. Name first registered on 1882 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘very pretty’
Now Alkaringa Road.
Dantun is Victorian aboriginal word
meaning ‘blue mountain lorikeet’
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
Council D list.
Aust Museum
Council D list,
Cooper
CR & ADB Online
www.ansto.gov.au
www.anzacday.org
.au
Council D list, CL,
Aust Museum
Council file
R/39/11 & Suth
Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1978
Long term resident
of street
DP
Council D list,
Aust Museum
CL
Wikipedia quoting
Howitt. A.W,
(1996) The Native
Tribes of South-
East Australia ,
Daphne St
Caringbah
Dapto Place
Bangor
Darangan
Close
Waterfall
Darbal
Avenue
(DISC)
Sylvania
Darling Place Sylvania
Waters
Darly Street
Darook Place
Miranda
Cronulla
Darook Park
Road
Cronulla
Darryl Place
Gymea
Bay
Darwin Place
Barden
Ridge
Davey Street
Jannali
David Ave
Caringbah
David Road
Barden
Name of flowering plant. In group of 3
streets named after plants (with Heather ,
Maple)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘lame person’
Aboriginal word - ‘lame native chief’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ to spill, to let
water fall’
Waterfall Progress Assoc (letter 9/6/2003)
say means ‘water falling’. Report in 1975
says means ‘to spill, let water fall.
Part of former route of Princes highway /
Illawarra Rd. Named when highway
straightened to follow railway line.
Now Marra Place. Was originally part of
Belgrave St/ Esplanade. Named Darbal
Ave 1958, renamed Marra Place 1971.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an estuary’
Australian river. Named after Darling
River in western NSW which named after
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Darling
(1775- 1858) who was NSW Governor
1825-1831
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a large hill’
Darook (Dharuk) tribe lived in area
Named after Park which is named after
Aboriginal tribe who lived in area. Part
unnamed, part Darook Park Avenue 1918
to 1930, then Road
Originally proposed to be Jabiru Street in
line with theme of subdivision – adjoins
Brolga Place
Possibly named after Charles Robert
Darwin (1809-1882) naturalist who
visited Australia on ‘Beagle’ in 1836.
Possibly named after Thomas Davey
(1758 -1823) soldier & Lieutenant
Governor of Van Diemans Land 1813-17.
First initial of owner at time (1922) of
subdivision was D so street may be named
after his name.
Probably named after David Shackel as in
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
Council D list
Wikisource- Moore
File 98/1997
CL
Wikisource- Moore
Place Names of
Australia AW
Reed
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography Vol 1
Tyrrell
Council pamphlet
re place names
Council pamphlet
re place names
DPs
DP
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography vol 1
DP
Ridge
Davidson Rd
Menai
Davis Place
Menai
Dawes Place
Barden
Ridge
Dawson
Place
Menai
Deakin Place
Kirrawee
Dean Street
Caringbah
Deeban Walk
Cronulla
Delagoa
Place
Delia Parade
Caringbah
Delta Place
Denbigh
Place
Sutherland
Menai
Denman
Caringbah-
Engadine
the area owned by him and his two
brothers and goes down to Shackel Esta te
lots on waterfront.
Named after Australian cricket all rounder
Alan Keith Davidson (b 1929). Played in
Tests from 1953 to 1963. In group of
streets named after Australian cricketers.
Street naming theme in area is local early
pioneers. Dorothy Davis was an early
settler in area
The Davis family settled in area 1902 .
Possibly named after Lieutenant William
Dawes (1762-1836) officer of marines,
scientist, and astronomer. Was on first
fleet. Area has Australian pioneers theme
Street naming theme for area is local
pioneers. John Henry and Emily Da wson
moved to Menai 1898. They had a mixed
farm (mostly poultry) of 23 acres on
Menai Road. Dawson Place is on their
land. Emily involved in founding School
of Arts and Congregational Church.
John Dawson settled in area June 1897
Probably named after Alfred Deakin
Australia’s 2nd Prime Minister. Previously
Victorian politician.
In subdivision with Alice and Binney
Streets.
Named GG 105 of 23/9/1955
Deeban is one spelling of the Aboriginal
name for Port Hacking
Meaning ‘of the lagoon’.
Internet
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
MD 1/11/P1
Internet
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
pgs 32-33
MD 1/11/P1
CL
Council D list
Internet
Originally proposed to be “Albertha
Street” but changed to Delia Parade at
developer’s request.
Council R/39/11
Named after town in North Wales in line
with theme of naming streets in area after
locations in Wales.
Part previously Fry Street renamed GG 11
Internet
CL
Avenue
Dents Place
Derby Place
Dernancourt
Avenue
Derribong
Crescent
Wooloowa
re
of 24/1/1941. Part was part of Hughes
Street North.
Named after Rt Hon Thomas Denman, 3rd
Earl Denman (1874-1954), 5th Governor
General of Australia (1911-1914)
Gymea
Named after Fred Dent was in charge of
Bay
drilling for coal seams in creek in vicinity
(Dents Creek) in 1880’s.
Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town – in
h
group of streets named after WA
locations. Town named in 1883 after
Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Derby
(1826-1893), Secretary of State for
Colonies 1882-1885.
Engadine
Named by W Ainsworth Shire President
1919-21 and local resident after WW1
battlefield in Somme area. Battle was in
early 1918.
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘green trees’
Derrilin
Bangor
Close
Derwent
Woronora
Street (DISC)
Deviation Rd
between
Kareena Rd Miranda Rd
(DISC)
Devlin Place
Miranda
Dewberry
Close
Menai
Dianella St
Caringbah
Menai
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shooting or
falling stars’
Became part of Prince Edward Park Road
GG 80 of 16/7/1948.
In line with theme in area (eg Severn.
Tay, Liffey Streets) named after English
rivers would have been named after River
Derwent in North East England. Name
origin is Welsh word Derw meaning Oak
Became Malvern Road GG 20 –
15/2/1929
Named after Bruce William Devlin (born
1937) – professional golfer, commentator
and golf course designer. Won Australian,
French, NZ opens, 3 PGA titles. In group
of streets named after Australian golfers.
Dewberries are a trailing type of
blackberr y. In subdivision were streets
named after trees and other plants.
Named after a drought resistant plant also
known as Paroo Lily, Blueberry Lily,
DP
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
Suth Shire Hist.
Soc. Bulletin Nov
1977 & 88 (LW)
www.landgate
.wa.gov.au
Pg 29 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
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Dianthus
Place
Dibbs Lane
Dibbs Road
(DISC)
Jannali
Heathcote
Heathcote
Di Gama
Kurnell
Street (DISC)
Blue Flax Lily. Plant named after Diana
(Roman goddess of the hunt) and ‘ella’
(suffix meaning ‘small’)
Genus of flowering perennials including
carnations and pinks.
Named 2004
Named after NSW politician at time area
subdivided (1887) in line with theme of
naming streets in area after public
servants/ ministers. Sir George Richard
Dibbs (1834-1904) was MLA 1874-77,
1882-1895, Colonial Treasurer 18831885, Premier 1885, 1889, 1891-94.
Name discontinued.
Named after NSW minister around time
area subdivided (1887) in line with theme
of naming streets in area after government
ministers. Sir George Richard Dibbs
(1834-1904) was MLA 1874-77, 18821895, Premier 1885, 1889, 1891-94.
Became part of Captain Cook Drive GG
134 of 27/8/1954
Named after Vasco Di Gama, explorer .
Streets in area named after explorers who
saw or explored Pacific Ocean.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘splinter of
wood’
Dilga Close
Bangor
Dilkara Court
Menai
Aboriginal word meaning ’rainbow’
Dillon Close
Barden
Ridge
Dillwynnia
Grove
Heathcote
Possibly named after Peter Dillon (17881847) adventurer, South Seas explorer and
trader. Area has Australian pioneers theme
Named after native plant “dillwynia”.
Street name is misspelling as botanical
name has 1 “n”. Road was constructed by
Heathcote Hall Estate Ltd c 1927.
Dindima
Place
Bangor
Dinjerra
Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word for Pleiades cluster of
stars in constellation Taurus (aka the 7
Sisters)
Aboriginal word meaning ’west’
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Pg 71-2 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote –
first settlement
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Diosma Place Engadine
Pink flowering shrub
Discovery
Oyster Bay
Place
Dixon Close Illawong
Possibly name after Robert Dixon (18061858) surveyor and explorer.
Dobell Road Engadine
Named after Sir William Dobell –
prominent Australian artist. ( Newspaper
extract “Seer” 28//11/1970)
Dodson Ave
Cronulla
Originally called Dodsons Avenue.
Named after early settler – Mr Dodson
who owned land when subdivided in 1918
Dolans Road Wooloowa Named after Dominick Dolan who settled
re
at head of Burraneer Bay 1865. His father
Patrick also owned land in area.
From 1947 to 2005 sections were known
as Dolans Road North/South
Dominic
Wooloowa Named after Dominic Dolan who bought
Street
re
land at head of Burraneer Bay in 1865
Donna Place Miranda
Female first name. In group of streets
bearing first names (Jean, Doris etc) all
with same owner when subdivided so
possibly named after members of his
family.
Doris Ave
Miranda
family.
Dorrigo
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stringy bark
Close
tree’
Dorset Road
Heathcote
Dotterel
Place
Douglas
Place
Woronora
Heights
Miranda
Or ‘ edge of the world’
Named after English County of Dorset
(adjoins Kent St which has similar origin
and was subdivided same year)
A Mr William Douglas was Miranda
resident in 1890’s
Owner at time of subdivision (1965) was
Kenneth Douglas Slip so may be named
after him. Same subdivision as Jonathan
Place and Graham Ave.
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Dove Close
Doveleys
Road
Dover Place
Downes
Close
Doyle Street
Drama Ave
(DISC)
Drake Ave
Driscoll
Place
Drummond
Road
Drysdale
Place
Dubarda St
Woronora
Heights
Como
Named GG 95 of 23/6/1933
Adjoins Cardiff St so probably named
after town of Dover on English coast.
Illawong
Possibly named after FWA Downes who
was first Member of Legislative Assembly
for Shire in 1904 -1913
Barden
Named after Cyrus Matthew Doyle (1793Ridge
1855) pastoralist who had land in
Hawkesbury and Maitland areas (area has
Australian Pioneers theme)
Caringbah On 1928 Street map approximately where
Caringbah Station is now – ran from
Kingsway to Banksia Road.
Caringbah As near Frobisher St (Sir Martin Frobisher
served under Sir Francis Drake) highly
likely named after Sir Francis Drake –
English admiral and explorer.
Barden
Probably named after Cornelius Driscoll
Ridge
(1782-1847) banker, magistrate, public
servant, politician in Tasmania (1832-47).
In same subdivision as Garling & Elliston
places which also named after magistrates
in colonial times. Theme of area is
Australian pioneers.
Oyster Bay Named after James Drummond, 16 th Earl
of Perth
Kareela
CL
Engadine
Engadine
Dubbo Place
Bangor
Dudley Ave
Caringbah
Dudley Street
Dulin Close
Kirrawee
Bangor
From Sails to
Atoms
Allocated by
correspondence
24/8/2000 (File
95/3170) ?ADB
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(File MD 2/22/3-6)
ADB online
SH of OB (LW)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flower of the
banksias tree’
Aboriginal word meaning “red ochre”
or aboriginal word meaning ’cap or head
covering’
Or ‘eagle skin head covering’ or ‘netted
forehead band’ or ‘red ochre’ or ‘gypsum’
or ‘foggy’
Named after 4th Governor General of
Australia (1908-1911) Rt Hon William
Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (18671954). In same subdivision as Northcote
St named after 3rd Governor General.
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and Place Names
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Aboriginal word meaning ‘sea shell’
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Dictionary of
Biography online
Dulwa Road
Menai
Dumbarton
Place
Engadine
Dunbar Place
Illawong
Dunbil Court
Bangor
Dundee St
Engadine
Dundra Close
Bangor
Duneba Ave
Kirrawee
Dungog
Place
Bangor
Dunkeld
Close
Dunlea Road
Burraneer
Engadine
Dunmore
Place
Barden
Ridge
Dunoon
Place
Bangor
Named in 1930. Road never built and
name discontinued. Was from New
Illawarra Road into southern edge of
what now 287 Alfords Point Road (then
lots 304 and 383). Name is aboriginal
word meaning ‘casuarina’ or ‘she oak’
Probably named after town in Scotland
near Glasgow. Several nearby streets
named after Scottish towns ( incl Kelton ,
Kilmarnock).
Named after ship sunk of South Head of
Sydney Harbour 20 August 1857
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sky’
Probably named after City of Dundee in
Scotland as a number of nearby streets
also named after Scottish towns (Kelton,
Kilmarnock, Dumbarton etc)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small
waterfall”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘wattles’
Or just ‘wattle’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘clear hill’
Or ‘bare or clear hill’
Probably named after town in Perthshire,
Scotland
Named after Father Thomas Vincent
Dunlea (b 1894 – d ?) who founded Boys
Town 1939, was first parish priest at
Engadine. He also introduced Alcoholics
Anonymous to Australia.
Site of road had been where Boy’s Towns
poultry farm had been ( letter 1972).
Streets in area named after Australian
pioneers. Probably named after John
Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) – NSW
clergyman, politician, educationalist ,
historian
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a ridge’
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Dunstan
Place
Engadine
Dunumbral
Grays
Street (DISC) Point
Dunwell Ave Loftus
Duraba Place
Caringbah
Dural
Crescent
Engadine
Durbar Ave
Kirrawee /
Gymea
Sylvania
Durham
Place
Duri Close
Dwyer Street
Bangor
Gymea /
Miranda
Dyinda Place
Miranda
East Parade
Sutherland
Easton
Avenue
Eaton Street
Sylvania
Sutherland
One in group of 3 streets named after
Corporal William Dunstan (1895-1957)
won VC for action at Gallipoli 1915.
Now Noyana Avenue
Name of a parish in Walgett shire
Original owner of land Algernon Henry
Dunwell
Aboriginal name fo r plant – hakea recurva
(Common name reminder or waitabit)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a hollow tree
on fire’
With adjoining streets (Gamut, Gamenya,
Mendos) is name of variety of Australian
wheat
Earlier was Rae Place. In group of streets
(with Warwick, Oakham) named after
chief towns of English Counties. Is chief
town of Durham County.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hollow from
which issues a cloud of smoke’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘snake crawling
in grass’ or ‘to crawl’
Or ‘to crawl’
Previously Pine Street renamed GG 123
of 3/7/1953
Possibly named after Frederick Adrian
Dwyer who worked for Sutherland Shire
Council 1907-29 mostly as overseer and
supervised building of many early Shire
roads.
Aboriginal word for a species of opossum
Was also known as ‘Main Road’ after
1885. Possibly so named as was Eastern
edge of national park.
Circa 1886 was named Como Street.
Name of a number of towns and villages
in United Kingdom.
Name discontinued – an alternate spelling
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(DISC)
Ebon Street
(DISC)
Loftus
Ebony Row
Menai
Eckersley
Road (DISC)
West of
Waterfall
Eckersley
Military
Road (DISC)
Waterfall /
Holsworth
y
Eden Place
Caringbah
Edgecliff
Place
Edinburgh
Close/
Crescent
Edward Ave
Engadine
Edward St
Sylvania /
Kareela
Wooloowa
re
Miranda
for Eton street on some old plans
Name discontinued.
Was first surveyed 1845 by Surveyor
Darke as part route Menai - Waterfall
Appears in Wilson’s Street Directory
1934 as road along the southern boundary
of Woronora Cemetery – where now First
Avenue Loftus.
Word means ‘made of ebony, black in
color’
In line with theme of subdivision named
after species of tree.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Ran north south from Lucas Heights area
to settlement of Eckersley which no
longer exists (resumed 1913). Became
part of Holsworthy Army land. Original
road surveyed 1845 by Surveyor Darke
Surveyed and cleared c 1903, not used
after c 1915 used for military manoevers.
Ran roughly east west. Some of eastern
part (between Highway and Mirang Rd)
still exists giving access to properties
excluded from Heathcote national park.
This part know known as Eckersley Rd.
dirt track. Western part now in
Holsworthy Army Base
Probably named after Eden (town on
NSW south coast) which was family name
of British Secretary for the Colonies, Lord
Auckland, in 1842.
Name reflects streets location on edge of
Woronora River valley escarpment.
City in Scotland
Street named in 1921 so probably named
after Prince Edward (later King Edward
VIII) who visited Australia on in 1920.
Adjoins and in same subdivision as
Renown St. HMS Renown was name of
ship Prince Edward came to Australia on.
When subdivided in 1929 adjoined
George St (renamed Rocklea Cres in
1954) so probably named after King
Edward VII (King of England 1901-10)
1934 Gregory’s
directory
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National Library of
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Edward
Parade
(DISC)
Sylvania
Edwards
Place
Barden
Ridge
Became MacFarlane Parade GG 123 of
3/7/1953. In 1923 Royal View Estate
subdivision where other streets Albert and
Henry so probably named after Queen
Victoria’s son Prince Edward who became
King Edward VII 1901-1910.
Name changed from Edwards Road GG
20 of 16/2/1996
Possibly named after Larriane Edwards
an early settler in the Menai area
Edwards
Road (DISC)
Barden
Ridge
Edwin
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Egret Place
Woronora
Heights
Jannali
Name changed to Edwards Place GG 20
of 16/2/1996.
Probably named after Larraine Edwards
an early settle in Menai area
Not built. Was in approximate location of
Binalong Avenue south of railway line.
Was proposed in 1929 “Yowie Bay Park
Estate” subdivision but marked ‘excluded
from plan’ on plan
Eighth street in subdivision
Loftus
Eighth street in subdivision
Lucas
Heights
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) who
developed theories of relativity and won
1921 Nobel Prize for Physics
Named after 34 th US President Dwight
David Eisenhower (1953 -61).That
Bonnet Bay street names be those of US
presidents was recommended by Deputy
Shire Clerk Jim Hall and agreed to by
Parkes Development and Council
Princess from Greek mythology. In group
Eighth
Avenue
Eighth
Avenue
Einstein
Avenue
Eisenhower
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Elder Place
Alfords
Point
Heathcote
Electra Street
Elizabeth
Place
Elizabeth
Crescent
(DISC)
Cronulla
Grays
Point
Name discontinued
CL
CL
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
CL
CL. On 1939-46
map on microfiche
Library Local
History collection
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Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Internet
Elkhorn
Place
Ella Avenue
Alfords
Point
Barden
Ridge
Ellery Place
Ellesmere
Ln/Rd
Elliott Road
Caringbah
Gymea
Bay
Menai
Ellis Street
Sylvania
Elliston Place
Barden
Ridge
Elm Place
Wooloowa
re
Elouera Road
Cronulla
Eltham Place
Heathcote
Elwyn Street
(DISC)
Kirrawee
Emerald
Place
Emerson
Place
Grays
Point
Menai
Name of type of plant– in subdivision
where streets named after trees & plants
Named after Ella brothers who were
Aboriginal rugby union players who
represented Australia. Theme in 2003
subdivision (by Gandangara Aborig, Land
Corp.) was aboriginal sports persons
Part became Marina Crescent GG 79 of
24/8/1962. Lane named 2004.
Named after Herb (Herbert James) Elliott
(born 1938) athlete. In a group of streets
named after Australian athletes.
Possibly named after Frederick Samuel
Ellis Holt (Thomas Holt’s 2nd son). Or
Ellis family who lived in 1 of Holt houses
near Sutherland House in 1880’s. Ellis
was Thomas Holt’s wife’s maiden name.
Possibly named after William Gore
Elliston (1798- 1872) schoolmaster and
newspaper editor in Hobart. Also Mayor
of Hobart, MLC and a magistrate. In same
subdivision as Garling and Driscoll Places
who were also early magistrates.
In line with theme in adjacent earlier
subdivision of tree names (jacaranda,
oleander etc) so named after tree species.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘pleasant place’
Previously called Govett Road
In same 1960 subdivision as Woodford
Cres – both are suburbs in London UK.
Intended name not used.
Word is of Welsh / Gaelic origin meaning
“white, fair, holy’. Is form of name of 6th
Century Irish saint.
Named after Roy Emerson (born 1936),
Australian tennis player. In winning Davis
Cup teams 1959-62, 64-67. Won 11 Davis
Cup matches and 12 Grand Slam Singles
Championships. In group of streets named
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after Australian tennis stars.
Empire Place
Illawong
Endeavour
Road
Caringbah
Endeavour St
Sylvania
Enderby
Place
Barden
Ridge
Engadine
Ave/ Place
English
Street
Epacris Ave
Erang Ave
Eric Street
Erskine Road
Esperance
Place
Named after Captain James Cook’s ship
the Endeavour during his 1770 voyage to
South Pacific and Australia.
Named after Captain James Cook’s ship
the Endeavour during his 1770 voyage to
South Pacific and Australia. In same
subdivision as extension of Pembroke St
(Earl of Pembroke was Endeavour’s
previous name)
Named after Australian pioneer Samuel
Enderby Junior (1756-1829) trader and
involved in shipping and whaling (area
has Australian Pioneers theme)
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography 1788
-1850 (LW)
Council 7/12/1987
( File MD2/22/3-6)
Engadine
From suburb name which was named after Pg 64 From Bottle
Charles Mc Alister farm “Engadine
Forest to Heathcote
Estate’ (earlier he had called it Sunbeam
-Sutherland Shire’s
Cottage and later Homlea) which he had
first settlement
named after areas similiarity to Engadine
CL
district in Switzerland.
“Engadine” means “the garden” – relates
Engadine – 1825 to areas then abundant wildflowers
2001
Western part became Fairview Avenue
CL
GG 51 of 16/5/1958
Wooloowa When the eastern end of the street was
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re
subdivided (1949) owner was J R English
so possibly named after owner.
Caringbah Council selected name 1909. Type of
St George Call 10
indigenous flora.
April 1909 pg 1
Part at Intersection Saunders Bay Rd
became part of Parthenia Street
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘valley’
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Bundeena
Named after Eric Mobbs of the family that The Bundeena
owned estate
Book
Caringbah/ Probably named after Erskine Samuel
Taren
Smith who was Director of Taren Point
Point
Land Company – which was owner when
subdivided in 1914.
Yarrawarra Named after West Australian town – in
h
locations. Town named after French
Sheppard
Essington
Crescent
Sylvania
Ethell Road
Kirrawee
Eton Ln / St
Sutherland
Eucalyptus
Street
Alfords
Point
Eucla Place
Sutherland
frigate L’Esperance. Under Captain
Kermandec it sheltered in bay during
exploration of West coast of Australia and
search for lost explorer La Perouse.
Possibly named after Port Essington early
settlement near Darwin abandoned 1849
which was named after Vice Admiral Sir
William Essington by explorer Phillip
Parker King.
Name first registered 1893 in subdivision
with Marshall St so may have been name
of member of Marshall family.
Sometimes spelt Eaton St. 1947-2005
parts called Eton Street North/ South.
Murphy manager/ director Holt
Named after genus of mostly Australian
trees commonly known as gum trees or
eucalypts.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bright fire’
Eugenia St
Loftus
Eurabalong
Road
Euroa Place
Burraneer
Named after town in Western Australia –
in group of streets named after Western
Named after genus of mostly American
evergreen trees. Most streets in area
named after plants.
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘joyful , happy’
Evans Street
Como
Evelyn Street
Sylvania
Ewos Parade
Cronulla
Excelsior
Road
Exmouth
Place
Cronulla
Or ‘white gum tree’
Possibly named after George William
Evans (1780-1852) surveyor & explorer
Part called Evelyn Street North GG 51 of
16/5/1958
Named after E.W.O’Sullivan (then NSW
Minister for Public Works)
Part became Gerrale Street GG 175 of
20/10 /1916. Was previously Ocean Road.
Was street in Excelsior Estate subdivision.
Yarrawarra Named after Exmouth a town in Western
h
Australia. In group of streets name d after
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Eyre Place
Kirrawee
Fairs Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Fairview Ave Engadine
Fairview
Road (DISC)
Falmar Place
Engadine
Farnell Ave
Royal
National
Park
Woronora
Heights
WA locations. Town named by Captain
Phillip P. King when surveying coastline
in 1818, after Edward Pellew, First
Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833). He had
distinguished himself in the Royal Navy
1776 -1816. During the Napoleonic Wars,
he was Commander in Charge in India,
the North Sea and the Mediterranean.
Possibly named after explorer Edward
John Eyre (1815-1901) who was also
State Governor of South Australia.
Adjoining streets are Wylie (named after
aboriginal who accompanied Eyre) and
Scott Pl (E B Scott was Eyre’s assistant)
Named after owner at time of subdivision
– Richard Edward Fairs
Was originally part of Engadine Avenue –
renamed 1959. Fairview Avenue was
“name by which it is locally known”
Renamed Kingswood Road GG 22 of
18/2/1949
In same subdivision as Quarrion Place.
Quarrion is type of bird (cockatiel) so
Falmar may be misspelling of Fulmar a
type of seabird from petrel family.
Was the branch road to National Park
from original 1879 Illawarra or Nationa l
Park Road.
Named after James Squire Farnell a
member of the first Trust of the National
Park appointed 1879. He was an early
brewer. In 1877 became first native born
Premier of NSW. Farnell Ave was
southern part of original ‘National Park
Road’ built 1879 which was renamed lady
Rawson Drive 1903. His son Arthur was
National Park ranger 1904-1942 (except
war service 1915-18).
James Squire Farnell was politician 18601888, Premier 1877-1882, NSW Secretary
of Lands 1883. One of his 13 children son Frank was also a politician and a
Trustee of National Park from 1888 to
1929, Chairman 1907-1929.
One source says named in 1915 after
Frank Farnell not James
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Farrer Place
Fauna Place
Fawkner
Place
Fenton
Avenue
Fenton Lane
(DISC)
Ferguson
Close
Oyster Bay Named after William James Farrer (18451906) – Scientist who developed disease
resistant wheat
Kirrawee
Probably so named due to it’s proximity
to Flora Street (which subdivided much
earlier) Means – animal life
Barden
Named after John Pascoe Fawkner a
Ridge
pioneer in Hobart (area has Australian
Pioneers theme)
North
Name first registered 1929. Streets in
Caringbah subdivision (Drake, Frobisher etc) appear
to have theme of historical nautical
persons. Edward Fenton (died 1603) was
an English navigator who sailed in Sir
Martin Frobisher’s 2nd and 3rd expeditions
to discovery North West Passage.
Waterfall
During an investigation of naming of
lanes in Waterfall, a local resident
expressed opinion that one of the lanes
had been known as Fenton Lane. No
verification of this found. Samuel Fenton
had a dairy in area in 1912,16
Menai
Named after Adair Ferguson rower listed
in Australia’s sporting greats
Fermi Street
Lucas
Heights
Fermo Road
Engadine
Fern Circuit
Menai
Fernhill
Place
Grays
Point
Or more likely named after June Ferguson
(1928-) athlete (Silver medalist at 1948
Olympics) as other streets in vicinity
named after athletes.
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) who worked on
development of first nuclear reactor. Won
1938 Noble prize for Physics for work on
induced radioactivity.
Possibly name of City in northern Italy. In
same subdivision as Geneva Place ( 2nd
largest city in Switzerland)
Named after species of plants in line with
theme of subdivision where streets named
after trees / plants.
Name after street in Hursltone Park where
owner Dave Conyard (from 1915 on,
family still owned when subdivided in
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Grays Point Story
Fernleigh
Road
Caringbah
Ferntree Rd
Engadine
Ferrier Drive
Menai
Fiddick Place Menai
Fiddlewood
Grove
Menai
Field Place
Illawong
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Fillmore
Road
Jannali
Loftus
Bonnet
Bay
Finch Place
Woronora
Heights
Jannali
Loftus
Gymea
Bay
Sylvania
Waters
First Avenue
Fitzroy Place
Flagstaff St
Flat Rock Rd
Engadine
Gymea
Bay
1984) had once lived
Named after Fernleigh House which was
built by Charles York circa 1873.
House originally called York House.
Street subdivided 1905.
Western part became part of Edgecliff
Place GG 138 of 27/8/2004
Named after Jim Ferrier (1915-1986)
golfer. Moved to US in 1944. Won 2
Australian Opens, 4 Australian amateur
titles. In group of streets named after
Australian golfers.
Thomas Fiddick was early Menai settler.
ran cattle on farm adjoining Popplewells.
On Pioneer settlers list 1992
after species of tree. Botanical name
Citharexylum spinosum - it is a West
Indian native tree.
Fifth street in subdivision
Fifth street in subdivision
Named after 13 th US President Millard
Fillmore (1850-53) That Bonnet Bay
First street in each subdivision. First Ave
Loftus in approximately same location as
Ebon Street.
Named after Fitzroy River in central
Queensland (mouth near Rockhampton)
which was named after NSW Governor
(1846-1855) Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy
( Qld then part of NSW). One of 30 streets
in area named after Australian rivers
Named after geological feature nearby
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
CL
Internet
File MD 1/11/P1
Burkes Backyard
website
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
The Macquarie
Book Of Events
&
www.wapedia.mob
i
Fletcher
Avenue
Miranda
Fletcher
Road (DISC)
Heathcote
Flide Street
Flinders Rd
Caringbah
Cronulla
Flint Place
Illawong
Flora Street
Flora Street
Florence
Parade
(DISC)
Florey Place
Florida Street
Named after Councilor Norman James
Fletcher. Councilor 1920 -28.
Named at May 1957 Development
Committee. Report says Fletcher family
had long association with shire
Name discontinued. Streets named after
politicians / public servants at time area
subdivided (1887) -probably named after
James Fletcher (1834-1891) MLA 188091, Minister for Mines 1886, Secretary for
Public Works 1889
As in group of 7 streets named after
explorers it was probably named after
explorer Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
who with George Bass explored East
Coast 1797-98, circumnavigated 1798-99.
Sutherland Part west of railway became Flora Street
/ Kirrawee West in 1937 and Adelong Street 1986.
Sutherland Estate Co. Meaning – plant life
Section east of Acacia Road was
originally Hawthorne Road. Name
changed in 1922. Illawarra Street became
part of Flora St.
Oyster Bay Meaning – plant life. So named due to
abundance of wild flowers in area
Grays
Now fire trail from Angle Road to RNP
Point
visitors centre.
Likely was named after Florence Alice
Rawson wife of NSW Governor Sir Harry
Holdsworth Rawson (Governor 19021909). She died 1905. Western end
connected to Lady Rawson Drive
Barden
Named after scientist Howard Walter
Ridge
Florey (1898-1968) who was head of team
which developed penicillin during WW2.
Street naming theme in area is Australian
pioneers.
Sylvania
Murphy manager / director of Holt
Mrs B Fletcher
(LW). Councilor
list on SSC website
Council File
R/39/11
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
CL
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1969
Momentos of
Oyster Bay
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
www.abc.net.au
DP
Foch Avenue
Gymea
Forbes
Crescent
Engadine
Forbes Street
(DISC)
Forby Street
(DISC)
Kirrawee
Foreman
Place
Barden
Ridge
Kurnell
Sutherland Estate Co. Apparent theme in
subdivision of naming north- south streets
after ‘exotic’ foreign locations/cities so
likely named after Florida in USA.
Possibly named after Ferdinand Foch
(1851-1929) WWI Marshal of France. In
line with time of subdivision – street first
registered 1919 / surveyed 1918.
As near Armidale and Tamworth Sts
possibly named after town of Forbes in
central NSW.
Name discontinued
Street created in early subdivision but
never physically built – now part of
Towra Point nature reserve.
Named after Forby Sutherland – sailor on
Endeavour who died whilst ship in Botany
Bay and was buried at Kurnell.
Named from Australian pioneers list
Winifred, Roy and Betty Foreman were
early settlers in the area.
Mr S Foreman Menai farmer 1930
Forest Glen
Way
Forest Road
CL
CL
Environment and
Health Com 177
27/7/1992 (LW)
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
1930 Sands dir
File MD 1/11/P1
Menai
Sutherland
to Miranda
Forest Road
(DISC)
Illawong
Forest Road
Heathcote
Formosa St
Sylvania
On 1882 Holt Sutherland Estate Co
subdivision map as Forest Street. As
Forest Road on 1886 subdivision plan
Part in Gymea known as Rulwalla Place.
As in early years the area was thick bush
name probably reflects such.
Now part of Old Illawarra Road
As in early years the area was thick bush
name probably reflects such.
One of earliest streets in area when area
known as Bottle Forest – name likely to
reflect area name, that area bushland.
CL
CL
DP
Forum Drive
Heathcote
Foster Street
Barden
Ridge
Fourth
Avenue
Foveaux
Place
Jannali &
Loftus
Barden
Ridge
Fowler Road
Illawong
Fowler Street
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Frances Place Miranda
Frangipani
Caringbah
Place
Franklin
Wooloowa
Road
re
Frederick
Road
Frederick
Street
Taren
Point
Miranda
Sutherland Estate Co. Apparent theme of
naming north south streets in subdivision
after ‘exotic‘foreign locations. So likely
named after island of Formosa off China.
Named after hub of Ancie nt Rome which
was seat of government, courts main
marketplace / business district. In group of
streets with names linked to Classic
Named after aboriginal women’s cricket
(vigaro) player. The me in 2003
subdivison (by Gandangara Aborig, Land
Corp.) was aboriginal sports persons.
Fourth street in respective subdivisions
Named after Major Joseph Foveaux –
soldier and administrator in NSW Corps –
at 1 time he was largest land and stock
owner in NSW (area has Australian
Pioneers theme)
Road first named 1909. Previously part
was Austin Street, part Old Illawarra Rd
and part was Gaga Rd. Renamed GG 121
of 1/8/2003. Parts renamed Osprey Lane
(2006), Osprey Drive and Hobart Place.
Named after Robert Fowler MLA who
built his country house ‘Cranbook’ at
Illawong c 1894. He was director of
Fowler Pottery.
From 1947 till 2005 parts named Fowler
Street North/ South. Named after original
owner of estate Mr Fowler
Internet
File 95/3170
CR / Australian
Dictionary of
Biography
CL
a History to 1939
CL
Named after flowering tree.
As in group of streets named after
explorers probably named after John
Franklin (1786-1847) Arctic explorer who
died searching for “North West Passage”
Was named after Frederick Charles
Sidney Holt (son of Thomas Holt).
Or Frederick Samuel Ellis Holt.
Probably named after Frederick Matson as
he owned land at time of subdivision in
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Jan 1977
1916. Frederick was a member of the
Matson family who ran Matson’s Pleasure
Grounds from 1904 till c 1913 in the area
now Camellia Gardens and Matson
Crescent. They had boat shed at end of
Wonga Road 1894 till c 1914 and also ran
Audley boatshed and had boat building
business in Kareena Rd till 1964.
Freeman
Road
Fremantle
Place
Freya Street
Friendship
Place
Frobisher
Avenue
Fry Street
(DISC)
Gabo Place
Gaga Road
Echoes from the
Bay
Faces of the Shire
Heathcote
Yarrawarra Named after WA City of Fremantle which
h
was named after Captain Charles Howe
Fremantle (1800-69) captain of first ship
bringing settlers to Swan River in 1829.
He claimed whole of West coast in name
of King of England. In group of streets
named after Western Australian locations.
Kareela
Named after yacht Freya which was in
Australia’s first Admiral’s Cup team in
1965. Also won Sydney Hobart race 1963
- 65. In subdivision where streets named
after Sydney Hobart winning yachts.
Illawong
Two ships named “Friendship’ – (1) First
Fleet convict transport ship which also
bought more convicts to Sydney in 1800
and 1818, (2) Captain Cook’s first
command in 1755. Theme of areanames
North
Named after Sir Martin Frobisher (1535Caringbah 1594) an English explorer who led an
expedition in search of North West
passage and who served under Sir Francis
Drake and helped defeat Spanish Armada
(Drake St adjoins & in same subdivision)
Wooloowa Became part of Denman Avenue GG 11
re
of 24/1/1941. A Mr Fry bought land near
Woolooware Golf Course from a solicitor
Mr Harnleigh.
1934 street map showed it only 1 block
long and west of Woolooware Road.
A Charles Fry was Joint Secretary of
Cronulla Progress Association 1908
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ’we don’t know
/ understand’
Illawong
Crown road existed pre 1906. Named GG
65 of 30/5/1930. Part (southern end)
Place Names of
Aust. A W Reed
Sheppard
www.cyca.com.au
www.alldownunde
r.com
Internet
Internet
CL
1934 Gregory’s
street directory
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 2007
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Gailes Street
Galga Street
Sutherland
Sutherland
Gallipoli
Lane
Engadine
Gambier
Avenue
Sandy
Point
Gamburra
Street (DISC)
Kirrawee
Gamenya
Place
Engadine
became Old Illawarra Rd/ now Fowler Rd.
In original 1882 subdivision was part of
Moira Street.
Named after Queensland suburb south
west of Brisbane. Suburb name chosen in
1925 on recommendation of local resident
who had come from near West Gailes
Golf Course in Ayrshire Scotland.
code directory as a reference.
Means ‘overgrown with bog – myrth”
(Scottish). Name of location in Scotland.
In 1882 subdivision was part of Moira
Street. Aboriginal word meaning ‘empty ‘
or ‘hungry’
Or meaning ‘to chop or cut’
Or ‘hunger’
Named after small town north east of
Adelaide in South Australia. Town name
means ‘hungry’. ROC 25/11/1985 that
street names for renaming parts of streets
split by railway etc be “of towns and
reference
Named 2004.
Name suggested by local resident to fit in
with road naming theme in area i.e named
after war battle fields. Named after WWI
battlefield in Turkey.
Possibly named after town of Mount
Gambier in South Australia.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Exact location unknown – Gazettal
description ‘Road – Holt Sutherland
Estate (Western).’
Aboriginal word ( Wiradyuri language)
meaning ‘ flowers’
A variety of wheat developed in 1960.
Adjoining streets Dural, Gamut, Mendos
also named after wheat varieties.
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ov.au
www.newcastel.ed
u.au *
Macq Abo words
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
interne t
www.placenames.s
a.gov.au
CL
Works Committee
WKS 067-05 also
File 96/1602
CL
The Wiradyuri &
Other languages of
NSW by R H
Matthews(internet)
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au & www.
publish.csiro.au
Gamut Road
Engadine
Gannet Place
Woronora
Heights
Kurnell
Caringbah
Gannon St
Gannons
Road
Garbala Road Gymea
Gardenia
Street
Cronulla
Gardere
Street
Garfield
Avenue
Caringbah
Garie Road
Royal
National
Park
Bonnet
Bay
Garling Place Barden
Ridge
Garnet Road
Miranda,
Gymea,
Kareela,
Kirrawee
With adjoining streets (Dural, Gamenya,
Mendos) is named after variety of wheat
where all streets are types of birds.
www.publish.csiro.
au
Named after Alfred Edward Gannon early
landholder
Local Studies file–
Gannon family
(LW) / A Short
Authentic History
of Cronulla
CL
1947 to 2005 parts were called Gannons
Road North/ South
William Gannon owned Fernleigh near
Gannon’s Rd 1888-1905
Aboriginal word meaning’ the afternoon /
evening / towards sunset’
Name of flowering shrub. Several nearby
streets also named after flowering plants
(rose, boronia).
Name may relate to owner of northern
half of subdivision when created – Clarice
Garde.
Part became Curtis Street GG 89 of
4/6/1954
Named after 20 th US president James
Abram Garfield (1881). That Bonnet Bay
2 theories - either named after a
bushranger named Geary who camped at
Garie
Or Aboriginal word meaning ‘sleepy’
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bull Nov 2006
www.archives.org
wikisource-Moore
DP
CL
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum,
Dharawal
As in same subdivision as Driscoll and
Council 7/12/1987
Elliston Places which named after colonial (File MD2/22/3-6)
magistrates probably named after
ADB online
Frederick Garling (1775-1848) crown
solicitor, magistrate, NSW deputy judge
advocate, crown prosecutor
Part in Miranda became Bowral Avenue
CL
GG 41 of 9/3/2007.
Near and in same subdivision as Ruby and DP
Crystal streets so likely gemstones theme.
Garvan Road
Heathcote
Gascoyne
Place
Illawong
Gatenby
Place
Barden
Ridge
Geebung
Lane
Engadine
Geelong
Road
Engadine
Geneva Place Engadine
Genista St
Loftus
Genoa Street
Como
Geoffrey
Crescent
George Street
Loftus
George Street
Murphy manager/ director Holt
area after politicians around time area
subdivided named after James Patrick
Garvan (1843-1896) MLA 1880-1894,
Justice Minister 1886-87, Treasurer 1894.
Named after Royal Australian Navy
Frigate 1943-66. Theme of areanames of
Australian pioneer /farmer and flour
miller in Tasmania Andrew Gatenby
(1771-1848) (area has Australian Pioneers
theme)
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
CR/Australian
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defence
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography
1788-1850 (LW)
Council min 408,
18/4/1988 File
MD 2/22/7
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ native plum’
Endacott,
Named 2003
CL
Type of shrub with edible fruit
www.chapelhill.ho
meip.net
Name suggested by Council Natural Areas Council file
Manager as a plant native to area as many 96/1602
of streets in area named after native flora.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of the
Place Names of
native companions’
Aust. A W Reed
As several streets in area named after
Australian towns may be named after
Geelong in Victoria which is said to be
Sheppard
local tribe (Wathawurung) word for the ‘
swampy plain’ beside the Barwon River.
Named after second largest city in
Switzerland.
Botanical name for “broom’ plant. In
Internet
group of streets named after plants.
Named after Genoa in Italy by James
Como Public
Murphy – manager, director, shareholder
School 1884-85 ,
of Holt – Sutherland Estate who named
1921-1988 A
Como after Lake Como in Italy. He also
History of Two
named the 8 original streets after locations Schools
in Italy. Name first registered 1888.
Miranda/
Yowie Bay
Sylvania
Renamed Rocklea Crescent GG 161 of
CL
(DISC)
Georges
River
Crescent
Georges
River Road
Gerald Road
Geraldton
Place
Gerrale St
Getyunga
Ave
Gibb Street
(DISC)
Gibbs Street
Gibson Street
1/10/1954. Originally named 1929. As
adjoined Edward St likely named after
King George V – King of England 191036. (Edward VII, his father, was King
1901-10)
Oyster Bay Named after river which named after
either Major George Johnston who was
granted property (Georges Hall) at
junction of Georges River & Prospect
Creek or alternatively named after King
George III
Jannali/
Named after river which possibly named
Oyster Bay after Major George Johnston who was
granted a property (named Georges Hall)
at junction of Georges River and Prospect
Creek.
Alternatively named after King George III
Parts renamed Box Road (GG 199- 31/12
/1937), Mitchell Ave (section west of
railway line) -(GG 142-24/9/1937)
Menai
WEBSITE PROBABLY WRONG AS
1930 SUBDIVISION
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Yarrawarra Named after Geraldton in WA which was
h
named after WA Governor Charles
FitzGerald in 1850. In group of streets
named after Western Australian towns.
Cronulla
Originally Glaisher Street. Renamed GG
105 of 7/7/1922 - to avoid confusion with
Glaisher Parade.
Oyster Bay Named after first house in area
Wikipedia
Sandy Point
Secrets – L
Singleman
Council pamphlet
re place names
Sandy Point
Secrets – L
Singleman
Council pamphlet
re place names
CL
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
CL
Place Names of
Aust A W Reed
CL
Short History of
Oyster Bay
Later was name of subdivision/estate.
Mementos of
Oyster Bay
= Get younger. Advertisement for Estate
Suth Shire Hist Soc
claimed it would ‘rejuvenate you’
Bulletin Nov 2001
Miranda
Renamed Hood Street GG 129– 3/10/1941 CL
Probably to avoid confusion with Gibbs St
Miranda
Yarrawarra Named after Gibson desert in Western
h
Australia which is named after Alfred
Internet
Gibson explorer who died on Ernest Giles
1874 expedition. Or named after town of
www.landgate.wa.
Gibson which was named after Gibson
gov.au
a reliable permanent water source
first recorded by surveyor A.W.Canning
in 1896, and named after "Billy Gibson"
who came across the soak while searching
for stock. In group of streets named after
Western Australian locations.
Giddings family (Albert and Agnes)
opened store (1895) and first post office
(1906) at Cronulla (Gerrale St), operated
horse coaches from Sutherland rail station
to Cronulla till 1911.
Son Lance set up real estate agency and
was one of the auctioneers selling land in
subdivision in 1915.
The family owned the land which
included Giddings Avenue.
They owned land from Waratah St to
Gerrale St
Aboriginal word meaning ‘spear’
Soak
Giddings
Avenue
Gidji Road
Cronulla
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘wattle tree’
Or ‘stinking wattle tree’
Gilbert Street Sylvania
In same 1966 subdivision as Leichhardt
and Roma Streets. John Gilbert (1810-45)
was one of explorers accompanying
Ludwig Leichhardt on his 1844- 45
expedition to Northern Territory. Killed
by natives near Gulf of Carpentaria.
(Their expedition traveled via Roma area)
Gilders Lane Cronulla
Name changed to Surf Lane GG 61 –
(DISC)
23/5/1969
Named after Mr Gilders who owned land
in area (incl where Cronulla Cinema built)
Giles Road
Cronulla
Name discontinued.
(DISC)
Likely either relates to H Giles 1 of 3
builders in Cronulla in 1929 Sands
directory or named after Ernest Giles
explorer.
Giles Street
Yarrawarra Named after lake and point in Western
h
Australia which were named after Ernest
Giles (1835-1897) explorer. In group of
streets named after Western Australian
locations.
Gilgandra
Caringbah Name discontinued
Street (DISC)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘long
waterhole’
Pg 12 &17 From
Sails to Atoms and
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1998
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
DP
ADB Online
CL
File 03/00547
CL
Internet
CL
Aust Museum
Gillham Ave
Caringbah
Gillwinga
Avenue
Caringbah
Gilmore Ave
Kirrawee
Gipps Lane
Kirrawee
Girraween
Avenue
Como
Girrilang
Road
Cronulla
Or ‘walking along’
Named after Gordon Gillham who owned
land in Caringbah off Telopea Avenue
where Gillham Ave is situated.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘home of the
wattle’
Or ‘cedar tree’
Gilmore family were early residents of
area. They had an orchard between Acacia
Road and Kenneth Avenue. Adjoined
Gilmore Ave.
Named after Gilmore’s orchard
Lane named 2005
Named after Sir George Gipps (17911847), 9th NSW Governor (1838- 1846)
(near Bligh St named after Governor
Bligh)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ place of
flowers’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘star’
Endacott
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin July 2005
www.dailyexamine
r.com.au
Aust Museum
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
& Feb 2006 (LW)
CL
CL
Internet
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig Names,
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
In 1930 Sands spelt ‘Girralong’
Glade Place
Glaisher
Parade
Engadine
Cronulla
Glaisher
Cronulla
Street (DISC)
Glandore
Street
Wooloowa
re
Glassop St
Glen- Ayr
Ave
Glenbower
Road (DISC)
Caringbah
Yowie Bay
Cronulla
Named after Point which possibly named
after either James Glaisher (1809-1903)
English meteorologist or his son James
Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848-1928)
mathematician.
Renamed Gerrale Street GG 105 of
7/7/1922 - to avoid confusion with
Glaisher Parade.
Named after Point which possibly named
after either James Glaisher (1809-1903)
English meteorologist or his son James
Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848-1928)
mathematician.
In subdivision (DP7331) where streets
named after Castles. Glandore is a castle
in Ireland.
Name discontinued. Was off south eastern
side of Burraneer Bay Rd approximately
Wikipedia
CL
Wikipedia
DP, Internet
CL
Glencoe St
Sutherland
Glendale
Place
Glenelg St
Jannali
Glenfern
Place
Glenhaven
Place
Glenora Rd
Gymea
Bay
Oyster Bay
Glenview
Place
Goburra
Road
Goldfinch
Place
Sutherland
where now Cronulla Public School. Street
was created in 1912 subdivision of
“Glenbower Estate” – subdivision plan
shows large house existing on lot 6 which
was probably house street named after,
1947 till 2005 parts were named Glencoe
Street North/ South
Sutherland Estate Co. Possibly named
after village of Glencoe in Scotland.
Dep. Plan
CL
DP
In 1882 Subdivision was part of Moira St
Named after South Australian town which www.placenames.s
was named after Lord Glenelg 1778 -1866 a.gov.au
- UK politican, Secretary of State for
Colonies 1835-39.
File RD 000/5 pt 3
code directory as a reference’
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘eagle’
h
Engadine
Glen = valley. Street has view into valley.
Cooper
Waterfall
&
Heathcote
National
Park
Grays
Point
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kookaburra /
laughing jackass’
Road does not physically exist. Became
part of Heathcote National Park in 2003.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Named after species of bird. In group of
streets named after birds – colloquially
known as “The Aviary”.
Original proposed name for Kungar Road.
Mr Golding was owner at time of
subdivision in 1966. Council polic y at that
time was that streets be given Aboriginal
names not be named after owners.
Grays Point Story
Golding
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Goobarah
Road
Goodacre
Burraneer
Miranda
Owner at time of 1961 subdivision was
CL
DP
Council info
Avenue
Goodwin St
Goolagong
Place
“Goodacre Developments Pty/ Ltd’ so
probably named after company.
Wooloowa
re
Menai
Goondah
Road
Engadine
Goorgool
Road
Bangor /
Woronora
Gooriwa
Place
Gorada Ave
Gordon St
Gore Avenue
Engadine
Gore Lane
Kirrawee
Gorse Close
Loftus
Gort Lane/Rd
Engadine
Gosby Ave
Goshawk
Crescent
Gosport St
Miranda
Woronora
Goulburn
Peninsula
Sylvania
Waters
Kirrawee
Caringbah
Kirrawee
Cronulla
Named after Evonne Goolagong Cawley,
(born 1951) Australian aboriginal tennis
player, winner of 14 Grand Slam titles. In
Australian tennis players
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dark’, ‘night’,
’rain’ or ‘cloud’
Or ‘storm/ rain’
Originally unnamed crown road from c
1910, Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part
was previously Burrumburra Road. In
1977 eastern end closed and diverted
north east and north to join Menai Road.
Name believed to be Aboriginal origin.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big rocks’
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u
Aboriginal word meaning ‘little,short’
1915. Previously Boronia Street.
Probably named after William Gore (1765
-1845), NSW Provost Marshall from 1806
to 1808, 1812-1817 . He traveled to NSW
with Bligh. Near streets with Gov Bligh
theme (Hunter, Kemp, Putland)
Probably named after William Gore (1765
-1845), NSW Provost Marshall from 1806
to 1808, 1812-1817 . He traveled to NSW
with Bligh. Near streets with Gov Bligh
theme (Hunter, Kemp, Putland)
Named after type of plant. In area where
streets named after plants,
subdivision /group of streets (with
Lochiel, Braeside etc) also named after
Scottish locations.
www.archives.org
Probably na med after town of Gosport
UK as adjoins Croydon St and Gosport
and Croydon are neighboring UK towns.
Australian river. River rises near Mudgee
Place Names of
Aust.
Aust Museum
CL
Endacott
File 95/2721
File 95/2721
www.wapedia.mob
Gould Place
Menai
Government
Road (DISC)
Jannali
Govett Road
(DISC)
Cronulla
Gow
Avenue
Port
Hacking
Gowrie St
Cronulla
Grafton St
Sutherland
/ Kirrawee
Graham
Avenue
Miranda
Graham
Street
Bundeena
Grandview
Parade
Grant Place
Caringbah
Gray Street/
Sutherland
Bonnet
Bay
and joins Hunter River near Denman. The
river was named after Henry Goulburn
UK Secretary of the State for Colonies c
1818-1824
Named after swimmer Shane Gould (born
1956) who won 3 Gold medals at age 15
at 1972 Olympics. She held every
freestyle record from 100 m to 1500 m at
one time. Subdivision where streets
named after Australian swimmers.
Now Wattle Road . Shown as Government
Road on 1901 plan. Formally named
Wattle Road in GG of 1930.
‘Government Road’ also used on DP's
/maps in other areas as indication that
road dedicated to or created by
government but not formally named.
Renamed Elouera Road.
Probably named after William R Govett
(1807-1848) explorer and surveyor of
Blue Mountains. Group of streets in
vicinity named after explorers.
On 1958 subdivision plan signature of one
of the then owners appears to be M W
Gow so likely was named after that owner
Aboriginal word meaning ‘down of the
eagle hawk’
James Murphy manger/ director of Holt
In 1925 “City View Estate” subdivision
with Stevens Ave so probably named after
a Graham Stevens however no info found
as yet re owner at that time.
Was part of “Graham’s Estate“ in 1939
subdivision – one of owners was Leslie
William Graham - likely named after him.
Named GG 63 of 7/6/1957.
Adjoins / has views of Burraneer Bay.
Named after Ulysses Simpson Grant 18 th
US President (1869 – 1877). That Bonnet
Bay street names be those of US
Parkes Development and Council.
Named after Samuel William Gray of
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Nature’s Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Lane
Greenhaven
Road
Kiama, held large tracts of land in shire
incl 70 acres where Sutherland township.
Gray Lane named GG 172 of 31/10/1986
Grays
Samuel William Gray land holder,
Point
speculator and politician of Kiama held
large tracts of land in shire.
Alternatively named after John Edward
“Spike” Gray – National Park ranger c
1890’s till 1920’s who had house across
river from Point.
Parts created from 1910 and parts named
from 1923. Major part named GG 65 of
30/5/1930. Parts were renamed as parts of
Cormorant Street and Swallow Rock
Drive GG 109 - 28/8/1970. Part was
previously Peninsular Road – renamed
GG 109 of 28/8/1970.
Road so named as is road to Grays Point.
Gymea
Renamed Molong Rd GG 72 of 3/8/1962.
Bay
Probably named after Samuel William
Gray landholder/ politician. Alternatively
named after John Edward “Spike” Gray –
National Park ranger c 1890’s till 1920’s
who had house across river from bay.
Oyster Bay Name first registered 1903 / surveyed
1901. Is road to Green Point which was so
named in 1860’s when part of Holt farm –
relates to green appearance of area.
Wooloowa NOT named after Green family who had
re
dairy in area 1919 on as street was named
in 1912 DP well before Green family
arrived in area. A Mr Walter Green in
1916 Sands as greengrocer in Cronulla
Caringbah So named in 1894, Renamed Yathong
Road in 1908.
Name means ‘green valley’
Grays
Formerly part of Angle Road renamed
Point
1975
Greenway St
Gymea
Greig Place
Engadine
Grays Point
Road
Grays Road
(DISC)
Green Point
Road
Green Street
Greendale
Road (DISC)
Named after Francis Greenway (17771837), convict architect. In group of
streets named after persons of early
Colonial significance.
One of 4 streets named after a classic
composer. However name is misspelt.
Bulletin May 88 p
367 (LW)
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Bulletin Nov 88
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Grays Point Story
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1868 Holt Estate
report
Sands
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Development Com
Minutes 669 –
21/12/74 & 93 –
17/3/75
ADB online
Who Did What
Gundawarra
Street
Lilli Pilli
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)
Norwegian composer who wrote music
for Peer Gynt.
Name first registered 1929. Streets in
subdivision (Drake, Raleigh etc) have
theme of historical nautical persons. Sir
Richard Grenville (1542-91) Elizabethan
soldier, sailor and explorer was cousin of
Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake.
Involved in defence against Spanish
Armada. Vice admiral of fleet 1591.
Named as a result of a street name
competition conducted by Heathcote Hall
Estate. 6 entrants submitted this name
which is species of Australian plants. 2
adjacent streets also named after plants.
Had been part of Sylvania Road South till
1998. Name suggested by local residents.
Name is species native tree.
Probably named after John George Griffin
Hurstville alderman 1891-1900, Mayor of
Hurstville 1893-4. Illawong was part of
Hurstville Council till 1920’s. Nearby
Sproule and Thompson Streets also bear
names of Hurstville mayors.
Possible origin - Grosvenor is family
name of Duke of Westminster
Name first registered 1886 DP. Area has
English Beach names theme
Named after Wally Grout Australian test
cricket wicket keeper. In a group of streets
named after Australian cricketers.
Name discontinued. In 1931 Wilson’s
Street directory approximately in location
where now Johnston Avenue
Aboriginal word meaning ‘this one, this
way’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ hut on a
stream’
Or ’house by the river’ – according to
1980 interview with Stan Gray son of
early RNP ranger John Gray.
Meaning ‘spear thrower’
Gunnamatta
Cronulla
Or ‘throwing s tick’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beach and
Grenville Av
Caringbah
Grevilla
Grove
Heathcote
Greygum
Place
Gymea
Bay
Griffin
Parade
Illawong
Grosvenor
Crescent
Grosvenor
Street
Grout Place
Cronulla
Grove
Avenue
(DISC)
Gundain
Road / Lane
Gundamaian
Road
Kirrawee
Bundeena
Menai
Kirrawee
Royal
National
Park
Wikipedia
Propeller 9/9/1927
pg 2 (LW)
File 97/0271
Hurstville Council
website & The
History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
Internet
DP
Internet
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Aust Museum
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
Council min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
Road
sandhills‘ – original name for Cronulla
Gunnamatta
Bay Road
(DISC)
Name first registered 1903 DP /
From name of Bay which was named
1827 by Surveyor Dixon
From Aboriginal word ‘ Goonamurra’
Early name for Burraneer Bay Road
Caringbah
Bay named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
From aboriginal word ‘ Goonamurra”
Renamed Beach Park Avenue GG 98 of
25/6/1954
Bay named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
Gunnamatta
Lane (DISC)
Cronulla
Gunyah St
Cronulla
Gurrier Ave
Miranda
Gwawley
Parade
Miranda
Gwydir St
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a river with red
banks’
Gymea Bay
Road
Gymea
Named after suburb which was named by
government surveyor WAB Greaves in
1855 due to abundance of Gymea lilies.
From an aboriginal word meaning either a
giant lily or a small bird
From aboriginal word ‘ Goonamurra’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hut, bark
shelter’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Name first registered in 1948 DP .
Council approval 1947.
Named after Bay which was named by
Surveyor Dixon in 1827.
Dixon’ s original spelling was “Gwawly’
1947 to 2005 parts were known as Gymea
Bay Road North/ South. Part renamed
Sylvania Road GG 39 of 2/3/1934. Part
became Casuarina Road. 2 parts originally
Milburn Road (renamed 1916/1934)
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200 years in
retrospect
Dharawal
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& CL Abo. Names
200 years in
retrospect
Dharawal
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Aboriginal Words
And Place names
& CL Abo. Names
200 Years in
retrospect
Dharawal
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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From Sails To
Atoms
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names,
CL of Abo. Names,
Aust Museum
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Hacking
River
Crescent
(DISC)
Grays
Point
Hahn Street
Lucas
Heights
Hakea Street
Engadine
Hale Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Hall Drive
Menai
Hamelin
Place
Illawong
Hammersley
Road
Grays
Point
Hampshire
Street
Hampton
Road
Cronulla
Harbour St
Cronulla
Harding
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Sylvania
Waters
Renamed Moyran Parade
Named after river which named after
Henry Hacking who arrived as a
Quartermaster on Sirius in 1st fleet and
was an explorer and harbour pilot. Said to
have been first to sight inlet c 1796 when
hunting kangaroos.
Otto Hahn (1879-1968) who won Nobel
Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for discovery
of fission of heavy nuclei
Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964.
Named after genus of Australian
flowering shrubs/ small trees.
Name discontinued. Appears in Wilson’s
Street Directory 1931 approximately
between Sutherland Oval No 1 and The
Grand Parade Tennis Courts.
Whilst street is in a subdivision where the
other streets are named after Australian
cricketers this street is named after Jim
Hall a long serving Council Committee
clerk at the time the area was subdivided.
Probably named after Jacques Felix
Emmanuel Hamelin (1768-1839), French
explorer sailed 1800-03 on scientific
exploration of South Seas and charting
WA coast. Second in command to
Nicholas Baudin. In line with theme of
areanames of historical nautical
significance
As adjoins Pilbara Place likely it was
named after Hammersley Range in
Western Australia
Named after location in England as are
several nearby streets.
Not named after river as are other streets
in area. Likely named after location in UK
near Belgrave .
Probably so named as has view to
Harbour / bay
Named after 29 th US president Warren
Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923) That
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Bygone Days of
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What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Dennis Daly – long
time Council
officer
Wikipedia,
Australian
Navigators
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Harlech
Close
Menai
Harley Street
Harnleigh
Avenue
Sylvania
Wooloowa
re
Harper Way
Harrier Place
Menai
Harrison
Avenue
Woronora
Heights
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Bonnet
Bay
Harrow St
Sylvania
Harte Street
(DISC)
Hartog Place
Miranda
Harvard Lane
Sutherland
Harvey Place
Menai
Harris Street
Illawong
Name of castle (built 1283) and village in
Wales – in line with theme of naming
streets in area after locations in Wales.
1947-2005 parts known as Harnleigh
Avenue North / South.
The area near Woolooware Golf course in
which avenue situated was in early years
owned by Sydney solicitor Mr Harnleigh
Off Forest Glen Way
On Pioneer settlers list 1992.
Probably named after AG Harper Shire
Councilor 1949-56, Shire President 1954,
Member Royal National Park Trust
As created in 1912 is probably too early to
be named after Reginald Harris –
councilor 1922 and 1925-1928.
Named after either /both William Henry
Harrison (9th US President–1841) and/ or
Benjamin Harrison (23rd US President
1889-1893). That Bonnet Bay street
names be those of US presidents was
Hall & agreed to by Parkes Development
and Council
Name first registered in 1882 DP by
Sutherland Estate Co. Would be named
after town of Harrow in England as
number of other streets in subdivision
named after UK towns.
Ran from Wyralla Road to Forest Road
Named after Dirk Hartog (1582-1631),
Dutch sailor and explorer commander of
2nd European expedition to land on
Australian soil. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Oxford St and Cambridge Lane would be
named after Harvard University in USA.
Named after Robert Neil Harvey (born
Encyclopedia
Britannica
Australia online
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Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin
File MD1/11/P1
Kirkby Index
.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
1934 Gregory’s
Directory
Wikipedia
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www.premier.crick
Hassett Close
Menai
Hastings
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Hatton Place
Barden
Ridge
Illawong
Havannah
Place
Havelock
Ave
Havelock
Ave (DISC)
Hawkesbury
Esplanade
Engadine
Sylvania
Sylvania
Waters
Hawthorne
Road (DISC)
Kirrawee
Hawthorn St
Loftus
1928) cricketer (batsman). Test player (79
tests) 1947 to 1963. In group of streets
named after Australian cricketers
Named after Arthur Lindsay Hassett
(1913-1993) Victorian / Australian
cricketer (batsman) 1930-54 .In group of
streets named after Australian cricketers
Australian river. Hastings River is on
NSW North Coast near Port Macquarie.
The river was first charted in 1818, afte r
its discovery by John Oxley who named
the river for the then Governor-General of
India, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st
Marquess of Hastings.
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Australian Pioneers theme
Probably named after HMS Havannah
(1811-1860’s) Royal Navy frigate & later
training ship. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Possibly named after Sir Arthur Elibank
Havelock (1844-1908) Governor of
Tasmania 1901-1904. Or Sir Henry
Havelock (1795-1857) British soldier and
hero of Indian mutiny
On 1934 street map ran from eastern side
of Port Hacking Road to edge Gwawley
Bay just north Box Rd.
Tasmania 1901-1904 or Sir Henry
Havelock (1795 -1857) British soldier and
hero of Indian mutiny.
Australian river. The river flows to the
west and north of Sydney.
The Hawkesbury River was named by
Governor Phillip in June 1789, after
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool,
who at that time was Baron Hawkesbury.
Renamed Flora Street GG 105 of 7/7/1922
James Murphy , manager / director of
Holt Sutherland estate Co.
Name of plant type. In area where streets
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www.wapedia.mob
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1934 Gregory’s
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ADB online
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Hay Avenue/
Lane
Caringbah
Hayden Place Engadine
Hayes Place
Bonnet
Bay
Haymet St
Kirrawee
Hazel Place /
Lane
Burraneer
Heath Lane/
Place
Heathcote
Heathcote
Road
Engadine/
Heathcote
/ Sandy
Point /
Menai
Heathcote
Heathcote
Street (DISC)
named after plants.
Street and lane first shown as ‘ unnamed
road on 1925 DP. Road named before
1937 when part within railway line
corridor closed by railway resumption.
Date of lane naming after 1964 when lane
widened as “unnamed lane”
classic composers. (and 1 of 2 misspelt ).
Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) Austrian
composer known as ‘the father of the
symphony’.
Named after 19 th US President Rutherford
Birchard Hayes 1877 -1881. That Bonnet
A Mr F I Haymet had a market garden at
the corner of President Ave and Oak Road
Created as unnamed lane in 1924. Hazel
Lane from 1930, renamed Hazel Place GG
18 of 7/2/1941
Was originally called Petticoat Lane.
Lane named Environment & Planning
Committee 389-3/12/79
Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell
named Parish Heathcote after one of 2
officers he served with in the Peninsular
War (1808-14) against napoleon either
Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General
Ralph Heathcote or Assistant Surgeon
Godfrey Heathcote. Name later adopted
for suburb/ road.
On 1886 subdivision map what now
Princes Highway through Heathcote was
shown as Heathcote Street.
During WW2 it was called Military Road
as it accessed Holsworthy Army camp.
Means cottage or sheep fold on a heath.
Renamed Princes Highway GG 155 of
21/10/1921.
Name – refer Heathcote Road above.
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Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
1930 Sands
directory
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Pg 97 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement.
Library card index
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
Sutherland shire’s
first settlement – P
Kennedy (pg 16)
“” “” pg 25
“ “ “ pg 86
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
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Heather St
Caringbah
Heather St
Loftus
Hector Street
Illawong
Helena Street
Kirrawee
Henry Ave
Sylvania
Henry
Kendall
Close
Heritage
Drive
Heathcote
Heron Place
Grays
Point
Illawong
Hibiscus
Close
Hickory
Close
Higgerson
Ave
Alfords
Point
Alfords
Point
Engadine /
Heathcote
High Street
Caringbah
High Street
High Street
Gymea
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Miranda
Higherdale
Avenue
Highpoint
Place
Highview
Crescent
Como
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Type of low
growing plant. In group of 3 streets (with
Daphne, Maple) named after plants.
Name of type of plant. In area where
streets named after plants
Name of 10 Royal Navy ships from 1656
to WWII. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Was part of
old Crown road that predated Holt
subdivision.
In 1923 Royal View Estate subdivision
with Albert and Edward Streets so likely
named after one of the King Henrys
Named after Australian poet Henry
Kendall. One of a group of streets named
after Australian poets.
streets named after birds colloquially
known as “The Aviary”
Named of genus of warm climate
flowering plants (mostly shrubs)
Named after John Higgerson early (18851905) resident of Heathcote and later
Engadine . He was also a National Park
ranger.
He had been a jockey. One of the horses
he won on was Veno (see Veno St)
Named GG 170 of 2/9/1949
Part of Hilltop Estate (1914). Name
reflects that street is elevated.
Name reflects that street is elevated
Name reflects that is a high point
Oyster Bay Name reflects location – is high with
views
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Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Gray’s Point S tory
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
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DP
Hill Street
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Hilloak Way
Menai
Hinkler Ave
Caringbah
Hoad Place
Menai
Hobart Place
Illawong
Holland St
Hollings
Crescent
Cronulla
Heathcote
Holly Street
Caringbah
Holmlea
Place
Engadine
Holt Road
Sylvania
Holt Road
Taren
Point
Holts Point
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Named after John Hill councilor on
temporary Council 1906 and 1906 -1922.
Shire president 1918. Street named 1909.
He was a boat builder at Cronulla.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW)
a History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1987
Family lived in large house on corner Hill
St & Woolooware Road from 1893.
Subdivisions theme of naming streets after
trees/ plants.
Used to have section south of railway line. Microfiche map (
1939-46) Local
History collection
Due to time of subdivision c 1928
DP
possibly named after aviator Bert Hinkler Internet
(1892-1933) who in 1928 was first person
to fly solo from Britain to Australia.
Whilst shown in UBD directory street
does not exist.
Named after RAN ships – Hobart I a
CR/ Australian
cruiser / Hobart II a destroyer. Ships
Encyclopedia –
named after Hobart in Tasmania which
Naval Defense
named after Robert Hobart Secretary of
Wajnryb
State for War and the Colonies when
Hobart settled. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Created 1911 but named later
Named in 1966 subdivision. Possib ly
DP
follows theme for area of naming streets
after politicians / senior public servants c
1886 when area originally subdivided.
In line with adjoining streets ( jacaranda,
oleander etc ) named after species of trees
Name relates to Charles McAlister early
Engadine
settler’s property Homlea (originally
Sunbeam Cottage, later renamed
“Engadine Estate”)
Named after Thomas Holt early
Suth Shire Hist Soc
landholder
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Called Holt Street pre 1927
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landholder or more likely after his son
Frederick Holt as is near Frederick Street
landholder.
Homer Place
Caringbah
Honeyeater
Place
Honeysuckle
Street
Hood Street
Woronora
Heights
Jannali
Hoover Place
Bonnet
Bay
Hopkins
Lane (DISC)
Hopman Ave
Waterfall
Horderns
Lane
Hornby Ave
Bundeena
Horning St
Kurnell
Horns
Avenue
Gymea
Bay
Hotham
Road
Gymea /
Kirrawee
Miranda
Menai
Sutherland
1978 council resolved to name street
‘because the point was known as Holt’s
Point at turn of century and so shown on
maps’
Named GG 18 of 18/2/1977
Greek legendary author of the Iliad and
the Odyssey.
Common name for a type of banksias
Rd000/5/ Pt 1
Previously Gibb Street, renamed GG 129
of 3/10/1941- probably to avoid confusion
with nearby Gibbs Street
Named after 31 st US President Herbert
Clark Hoover (1929 -1933). That Bonnet
Name discontinued
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Named after tennis coach Harry Hopman
(1906-1985). Non playing Davis Cup
captain 1938-1969 guiding Australia to 15
wins. Won 7 Grand Slams. Played Davis
Cup 1928, 30, 32, 38-39. Subdivision
where streets named after tennis players.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Is laneway to Hordern’s beach.
Named after the person who subdivided
the land – Mr Hornby
Named after early landowner in Kurnell.
1968 Kurnell Progress Association asked
Council to change name. Council refused
as named after early landowners.
Previously Second Avenue renamed GG
113 of 6/8/1937. Hornes family lived
nearby in 1930’s
Part became part of North West Arm
Road GG 137 of 28/11/1947
Road first named in 1886 DP (by James
Sutherland Estate Co). Said to be so
named as ‘concession to Jack Want‘
(solicitor who owned land near Yowie
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The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
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letter 7/8/1968 and
Leader 18/9/1968
pg 33
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Grays Point Story
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DP
A History of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
Houston St
Gymea
Hovea Place
Kirrawee
Howie
Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Hughes
Street
Wooloowa
re
Humberstone
Avenue
Gymea /
Miranda
Hume Road
Cronulla
Hunter Street
Heathcote
Hunter Street
Kirrawee
Huntingdale
Avenue
Miranda /
Sylvania
Huon Place
Illawong
Bay) so not named after Hotham Poultry
Farm which started 1912. Farm named
after street.
Probably named after town of Hotham
Yorkshire UK as in same subdivision as
Milburn & Manchester Rds (UK towns)
Probably named after Ralph Liddle
Houston who in 1919 owned part of
DP1660 which was subdivided into
DP9458 at that time.
Name of Australian shrub sized
wildflower
William Howie was a builder and
involved in the Cronulla Methodist and
Presbytrian churches 1916 till late 1920’s.
He was owner at time of 1946 subdivision
1947-2005 parts known as Hughes Street
North / South. Part became part of
Denman Avenue
Named after maiden name of Lucy
Thacker (nee Humberstone) wife of
Edward Thacker who was a Shire
Councilor and involved in Miranda
School of Arts and Co–Operative Society.
Street on what was part of Thacker farm.
so probably named after Hamilton Hume
(1797-1873) who with W Hovell explored
Sydney – Melbourne 1824-5.
Name first registered on 1900 DP (surve y
1899). As same subdivision as Blacket St
(Colonial architect) may be named after
Henry Hunter (1832-1892) architect –
however he mostly worked in Tasmania/
Queensland.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Named after Governor John Hunter (1737
-1821) 2nd NSW Governor (1795–1800)
(adjoins Bligh St).
In subdivision with The Knoll and Manor
Hill - all three names of major golf
courses. Huntingdale Golf Course is in
Melbourne.
Named HMAS Huon a Destroyer which
was stationed at Hobart. Probably named
after Huon River in Tasmania which was
Sutherland Shire- a
history to 1939
Wikipedia
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a History to 1939
DP
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Some Early
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Bay Family
History Society
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
DP
DP 95/2525 &
ADB Online
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Internet
CR/ Australian
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defense
Huskisson
Street
Gymea
Bay
Hyde Close
Illawong
Hyndman
Parade
Wooloowa
re
Ibis Place
Grays
Point
Ilkinia Place
Engadine
Illaroo Street
Bangor
Illawarra
Road ( aka
Illawarra or
National Park
Road and
The Sydney
Road (DISC)
Sylvania to
Sutherland
named after Huon de Kermadec ships
captain on Bruni D’Entrecasteaux voyage
of exploration. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Coast locations (Conjola, Nowra etc) so
would be named after Huskisson near
Nowra
Probably named after Sir George Francis
Hyde (1872-1937) Royal navy officer
who also served in Australian navy. Head
of RAN 1931-37. In line with theme of
significance
Named after Edward Walter Hyndman
(1871- 1937), who was councilor 19061920, shire president 1911-15. He had a
poultry farm at Miranda from c 1904.
Involved in Miranda School of Arts and
Progress Assoc.
Name of waterbird. In group of streets
named after birds, colloquially known as
“The Aviary”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sacred totemic
design” (Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘track near the
sea’
Original road from Horse Rock Point
Sylvania to intersection with Old Illawarra
Road (Woronora Road). Mostly became
Princes Highway. Originally went through
where now Cemetery. On 1882
Subdivision map Old Princes Highway
from Eton St to Grand Parade was shown
as Illawarra Road.
Illawarra – aboriginal word meaning
white clay hill (internet) or mountain
(internet) or high place near the sea (CL,
Aust Museum)
Part renamed Kingsway GG 175 20/10/1916, Part renamed Princes
Highway GG 155 of 21/10/1921, Part
renamed Adelong Street after no longer
forming part of the original ‘ main road’
Shown on DP800 12/01/1882 as
“Illawarra or National Park Road” and on
Wajnryb
ADB online
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW) & Suth
Shire Some Early
Resident pg 73-4
Tyrrell
CL Aborig names
& File MD 1/11/P1
Internet, CL , Aust
Museum
CL
Illawarra
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Illawong Ave Caringbah
Illuta Place
Engadine
Ilma Avenue
Iluka Place
Kangaroo
Point
Cronulla
Ilumba Place
Bangor
Imlay Place
Immarna Ave
Inderi Place
Barden
Ridge
Inelgah Road
Ingalara Ave
Lilli Pilli
Grays
Point
Como
Cronulla
Ingara Ave
Miranda
Inglebar
Close
Inglewood
Road
Bangor
Ingrid Road
Kareela
Grays
Point
DP 802 (13/12/1882) as “Illawarra Road”
- both DP’s registered by James Murphy
of Holt Sutherland Estate Co. 3rd section
named under DP 1989 in 1887 – this part
became Adelong Street..
Previously (c 1886) was Railway Street.
After being Illawarra Street became part
of Flora Street.
Illawarra means ‘ high place near the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘view of water’
Or ‘between two waters”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small wallaby’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘corrobooree’
(Barbi tribe WA)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘near the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘white barked
‘ghost’ gum’
Or ‘ghost gum’
Named after 3 Imlay brothers who were
pioneers of the Bega District and in
Tasmania. Peter Naval surgeon, George –
pastoralist and holder of a Naval Post,
Alexander – army medical officer. Area
has Australian Pioneers theme
Aboriginal word meaning ‘camp’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘rustling’
Western part was previously Burns Street.
Eastern part created/named 1913.
Previously Jolly Avenue Aboriginal word
meaning crayfish
Aboriginal word meaning ‘long way’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘crayfish holes’
Possibly named after Inglewood in
Victoria near Bendigo which was named
after Inglewood Forest in England.
yacht (overall winner 1952) as are most
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
Council pamphlet
re place names
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
www.theatreguide.
com.au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Endacott, Cooper
Cooper
File MD 1/11/P1
Place Names of
Aust, CR /
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
MD 2/22/8 Pt 1
Cooper
Cooper
CL
CL / www.aussie
things.com.au
Cooper
Aust Museum &
File MD1/11/P1
Wajnryb
www.alldownunde
r.com
Inverness
Place
Kareela
Ironbark
Close
Ironbark
Lane
Alfords
Point
Heathcote
Irrubel Road
Irwine Road
Ischia Street
Caringbah
Caringbah
Cronulla
Island Way
Taren
Point
Woronora
Heights
Jabiru Place
Jabiru Street
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Jacana Grove
Heathcote
Jacaranda
Road
Caringbah
Jack Lane
Heathcote
other streets in subdivision.
In same subdivision as Argyle St, Perth St
and Stirling Ave so would be named after
town of Inverness in Scotland.
Named 2004
CL
In line with theme in East Heathcote of
Council file
naming after trees /plants lane named after 95/2960
significant stands of ironbark trees in area.
Probably named after “Ischia” Mr A T
Fleay’s cottage at South Cronulla
New private road in Woolooware Shores
Retirement Village.
Aboriginal word for ‘stork’
Name of sea bird. Original proposed name
for Darryl Place. Was in line with theme
for area – adjoined Brolga Place.
Originally named Park Road – renamed
1955 or 56 due to having 2 streets with
similar names (nearby was Parkes St). At
one time was Parr Avenue (possibly a mis
spelling). Named after a bird which
scampers over water lilies. Name was
suggested by Heathcote Heights
Protection Committee.
In 1969 spelling changed from Jackaranda
to Jacaranda
Named after genus South American trees
- in line with ’tree’ theme in subdivision
(Oleander, Coral (tree) etc)
Named after Jack Lane who had the
general store on the Princes Highway at
Heathcote 1952 to 1966.
Lane named GG 32 of 11/3/2005.
Originally proposed to be Whitton Av but
residents suggested Jack Lane . He had
owned Heathcote’s only store for many
years on land adjoining lane. He died
2003 aged 92 & lived in area for over 50
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Pgs 89-90 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote
first settlement
GG 123 17/10/
1969 p 4266 (LW)
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote Suth
Shire’s First
Settlement p96-7.
CL
File 95/2960
Jackson Ave
Miranda
Jackson
Close
Menai
Jacobs Close
Menai
Jaeger Place
Jamberoo
Place
Woronora
Heights
Bangor
James Close
Menai
James Cook
Island
Jamison
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Barden
Ridge
Jane Place
Jannali
Avenue /
Crescent
Heathcote
Jannali/
Sutherland
years. He was WWII veteran and POW on
Burma Railway. Assisted many
community groups and families in need.
F Jackson was a poultry farmer in
Miranda in 1930 - ? earlier. Road first
named 1915.
Named after Marjorie Jackson – Nelson
(born 1931) sprinter. In a group of streets
Possibly named after F Jacobs an early
resident of the Menai area.
F Jacobs was a dairyman
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a track’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt’
As it adjoins Yeo Pl which is named after
James Yeo it is also probably named after
him. He was local pioneer and poultry
farmer who was former owner of land.
Named after Captain James Cook
Loftus
Alfords
BDCA
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
1930 Sands dir.
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
MD1/11/P1
Named after Australian pioneer Sir John
Jamison – physician, explorer, land owner
and constitutional reformer. Also founder
of Bank of NSW. Had farms at Georges
River and South Creek. Street name theme
in area is Australian pioneers.
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography 1788
-1850 / CR/
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
From aboriginal word meaning ‘moon’
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig words,
Aust Museum
200 years in
retrospect
CL
Or “ place of beautiful moon rises”
Japonica
Place
Jarrah Close
1930 Sands
directory
Name changed from Waterford Parade/
Road GG 99 of 25/7/1930
On 1888 subdivision plan of Queen’s
Jubilee Estate Jannali it is shown as Como
Crescent
Name of type of tree. In area where streets
named after plants.
Tree and timber native to Western
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939 pg
48
Aboriginal Wo rds
Point
Jasmine
Place
Jason Street
Sylvania
Jean Avenue
Miranda
Jeenga Place
Sylvania
Jefferson
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay
Jeffrey Street
Kurnell
Jellicoe
Street
Caringbah
Jellingal Rd
Engadine
Jennings Rd
Heathcote
Jenola Lane
Wooloowa
re
Miranda
Jensen Place
Engadine
Jerrara Street
Engadine
Australia – also known as blue gum
mahogany gum or swamp mahogany.
As adjoins Argo Place probable origin
from Jason of Greek Mythology
bearing first names (Doris etc) all with
same owner when subdivided so possibly
named after members of his family.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sweet’
(Eastern NSW)
Named after Thomas Jefferson 3rd US
President -1801-1809. That Bonnet Bay
Named GG 83 of 31/7/1959. Named after
local resident. Letter in 1959 from local
resident says Jeffrey family were only
weekend residents. Council file indicates
name was what street known locally as.
Named after Admiral John Rushworth, 1 st
Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) Admiral and 1st
Sea Lord in WWI, Governor General of
New Zealand 1920-24.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘creek’ (eastern
NSW)
In line with theme in area named after
NSW politician around time area
subdivided (1887) named after Sir Patrick
Alfred Jennings (1831-1897) MLC 186770, 1890-97, MLA 1870-72, 1880-1887.
Colonial Secretary 1885, Premier 1886-87
In early 1950’s Mr Reginald Norman
Dallimore (Councillor 1941-50) named
his house Jenola. When land subdivided
and lane named it adopted house name.
Source is 2 letters from each of his
daughters first names (Joy, Elva, Norma)
Private Joergen Christian Jensen (18911922) - VC for action France April 1917
Aboriginal word meaning ’a place where
and Place Names
AW Reed
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
Council file
R/39/11
The Great War – J
Mowbray
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
ADB online
Council website of
Councillor names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin No 21 Oct
1971
www.anzacday.org
.au
Aboriginal Words
Jervis Drive
Jibbon Ln /
St
Illawong
Cronulla
Jibbon Road
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Jinatong St
Miranda
Jingara Place
Sylvania
Jiri Place
Joffre Street
Engadine
Gymea
Bay
John Street
(DISC)
John Street
Burraneer
Cronulla
eels sleep or lie down’
Or ‘haunt of eels
Part between Old Illawarra Road and
Gerald St renamed Oriana Drive 1986
Possibly named after Royal Navy Admiral
Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
(1735-1823) after whom Jervis Bay
named. Or HMS Jervis Royal Navy
destroyer 1937-1954. In line with theme
of areanames of historical nautical
significance
Lane unnamed till 2005
Jibbon is alternative spelling of “Deeban”
local aboriginal name for Port Hacking.
Street has view towards Jibbon Beach at
Bundeena.
Alternatively ‘Djeeban’ which means
‘sand bars at low tide’
Now named Bundeena Drive
Aboriginal word meaning ‘young grass’
Aboriginal word for ‘a large mountain
believed to be inhabitated by a fabulous
creature with a cavernous mouth which
preyed on unsuspecting tribesmen/
women’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘spotted finch’
As named in 1919 DP from 1916 survey
was probably named after Joseph Jacques
Cesaire Joffre (1852-1931), French field
marshal who commanded Allied Troops
in France in WW1.
Renamed Bulls Avenue West GG 33 of
21/3/1930
First named 1910.
Leader 21/7/2009 claimed was named
after John Stroud believed to be one of
longest serving lifesaver s in world who
was brother of Phyllis Stroud (Miss
Cronulla 1927). However Leader says
Stroud family moved to area in 1913
which makes claim unlikely - but Kirkby
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
CL
www.ag.gov.au
Wikipedia
CL
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Dharawal
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
www.archives.org
wikisource- Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Wikisource- Moore
Dp, Internet
CL
CL
Leader 21/7/2009
pg 1 article re 104th
birthday of Phyllis
Stroud
Kirkby Index
John Davey
Avenue
John Forrest
Avenue
Cronulla
Johnson
Avenue
(DISC)
Johnson
Close
Caringbah
Sutherland
Bonnet
Bay
Johnston Ave Kirrawee
Jolly Avenue
(DISC)
Jonathan
Place
Jones Street
Jonquil
Place
Jowyn Place
Judd’s Road
(DISC)
Judd Street
Miranda
index says Frank Stroud present in 1907 at
formation of Cronulla Life Saving Club .
John Stroud not born till September 1912. Wentworth Courier
22/07/09
Named after John Greig Davey an original CL
owner in area.
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918) surveyor,
ADB online
explorer, politician in Western Australia.
Name discontinued
CL
Named after either /both Andrew Johnson
(17th US President 1865-1869) or Lyndon
Baines Johnson (36 th US President 19631969). That Bonnet Bay street names be
those of US presidents was recommended
by Deputy Shire Clerk Jim Hall , agreed
to by Parkes Development and Council
Named after George Bain Johnston a first
fleet lieutenant and early settler. He was in
charge of NSW regiment and was the
officer who arrested Gov. Bligh. In same
1962 subdivision as Bligh Street, Putland
Place, and Kemp St all of which relate to
early years of NSW Colony and Governor
Bligh / Rum Rebellion. Was previously
Grove Avenue.
Renamed Ingara Avenue
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
File 95/2721
CL
Miranda
Engadine
Owners name on 1961 subdivision plan is
R Jones so probably named after owner.
Alfords
Name of type of plant – in subdivision
Point
Kirrawee
Name of an Aboriginal nation in
Queensland
Miranda /
On 1902 map Attunga Road shown as
Yowie Bay Judd’s Road (in 1904 St George Call
called Yowie Bay Road).
Named after William George Judd –
Councilor / 1st Shire President (1906) who
had a holiday house at Yowie Bay
Cronulla
Named after William George Judd (1847 -
DP
www.iceaustralia.c
om
Echoes From The
Bay
Cronulla Public
Jukes Close
Barden
Ridge
Junction Rd
Junction St
Heathcote
Miranda
Junction
Cronulla
Street (DISC)
June Place
Gymea
Bay
Juniper Place Sylvania
1929), first Shire President (1906-1910),
Councillor 1906-14. President Avenue
named in his honour. Street named 1910.
Named after Joseph Jukes – geologist.
Circa 1840 he made several geological
excursions in Sydney / Wollongong area.
Area has Australian Pioneers theme.
Part of ‘Junction Estate” i.e at junction of
Kingsway and Port Hacking Road.
Renamed Links Road
Juvenis Ave
Name of type of North American
coniferous trees
Oyster Bay Latin for ‘young’
Kalang Lane
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word for ‘beautiful’
Kalgoorlie
Place
Sutherland
Kalkada
Avenue
Kalmia Place
Gymea
Bay
Miranda
Kaloona
Place
Kalvin Street
(DISC)
Kirrawee
Kambalda
Place
Kamira Road
Kanandah
Kirrawee
Named GG 51 of 16/5/1958
Also name of river in northern NSW
between Bellingen and Nambucca
Aboriginal word for a shrub which grows
in Kalgoorlie area of Western Australia.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mullet’
(Western Australia)
Name of species of evergreen shrubs in
heath family
Discontinued. Ran south off Forest Road
approximately where now eastern end of
Mundakal Ave.
Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town
h
near Kalgoorlie. Name of aboriginal
origin but meaning unknown. In group of
streets named after WA locations
Lilli Pilli
In Greek mytholo gy, Kamira was a
daughter of Danaus who was worshipped
on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the land where
School Golden
Jubilee 1925-1975
Council Min 361
of 8/5/1989 ( File
MD 2/24/4) &
Aust’n Dict of Bio
CL
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
www.ancestry.com
.au
CL aborig. Names,
also Endacott, Aust
Museum, Council
File R/39/11
CL
www.wapedia.mob
i
Place Names Of
Aust. A W Reed
Tyrrell
Wkisource- Moore
www.britannica.co
m.au
1934 Gregorys
Street Directory
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
Road
the sun sets’
Kanangur
Ave
Gymea
Kangaroo
Point Road
Kangaroo
Point
Kannan Place Kirrawee
Kanning Ave
Gymea
Bay
Kanoona St
KaraKarook
Street
Caringbah
Maianbar
Karamarra
Road
Karangi
Place
Engadine
Karda Place
Gymea
Kareena
Road
Miranda
Karimbla
Road
Miranda
Karnu Place
Kareela
Karoola
Crescent
Caringbah
Karree Place
Heathcote
Illawong
Or ‘ in the west’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘adorned’
First appears on DP 3643 (registered
28/3/1900, surveyed 1891) as “Road 1
chain wide to Kangaroo Point’ First listed
as “Kangaroo Point Road 2/11/1900. On
1934 Street directory as ”Kangaroo Rd”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shallow, not
deep
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cave’
and Place Names ,
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Endacott
Development Comt
19/8/1957 Council
file R/39/11
DP
1934 Gregorys
Street directory
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Or ‘the south’
Wikisource-Moore
1949 subdivision with Laguna St
DP
Meaning ‘sand’
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
In Endacott Karkarook = sand
Endacott
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a duck’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Named after RAN Boom Defense Vessel CR/ Australian
Encyclopedia
Naval Defense
Aboriginal word meaning ‘part or portion’ Works Com
6/1/1958 Council
file R/39/11
1947 to 2005 parts known as Kareena
Road North / South
First named on 1893 DP
DP
Means ‘pure’ (Greek) or ‘dear/ beloved
Internet
one’ (Swedish)
Most of street created in 1893 DP, new
CL & DP
part east of Kareena Road named GG 11
of 24/1/1941 due to railway corridor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘rock or stone’
Macq abo. Words
or meaning ‘ mountain’
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place of rest’
www.mn.catholic.o
rg.au
First named in 1949 DP.
DP
Aboriginal word meaning ‘by and by’
Endacott
Karri Place
Alfords
Point
Karuah Place
Engadine
Kathryn
Place
Kawana
Place
Gymea
Bay
Bangor
Keats Place
Heathcote
Keele Street
Como
Kelly Street
Sylvania
Kelsall Place
Barden
Ridge
Kelso Street
Engadine
Kelton Place
Engadine
Kemp Ave
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt’. In
Subdivision where streets named after
trees/ plants.
1958 Council list said was aboriginal
word for ‘a crab’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a native plum
tree’. In subdivision where streets named
Meaning ‘native plum’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flowers’
Or ‘ wild flower’
John Keats (1795- 1821), English
Romantic poet. One of 12 streets in area
named after famous .
Development Control Unit resolved 1978
roads in area to be named after poets.
Possibly named after village in
Staffordshire UK the name of which is
Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘cow hill’
Possibly named after John Kelly who was
caretaker for Holt Sutherland Co for 10
years. He also worked on Intercolonial
Investment Land and Building Co
subdivision in 1886, managed Railway
Hotel at Sutherland and was a coach
propertier in 1890’s.
Named after Roger Kelsall (1793-1861) –
Soldier and Engineer. Was in charge
mapping branch of Ordinance Dept. in
Tasmania also construction of buildings
including church & barracks at Port
Arthur. Area has Australian Pioneers
theme
As several nearby streets named after
Scottish towns (Dumbarton, Kilmarnock)
likely it is named after town of Kelso in
The Borders area of Scotland.
As several streets in vicinity (Dumbarton,
Kilmarnock) named after Scottish
locations is probably named after parish
of Kelton in Galloway , Scotland
Named after Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773-
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Works Co m
6/1/1958 Council
file R/39/11
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
File MD 1/11/P1
Internet
MD 000/5 Pt 1
Wikipedia
a history to 1939
CR
ADB Online
A Book of Sydney
Kendall
Place
Kenna Place
Kareela
Kennedy
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay
Kenneth Ave
Kent Place
Kirrawee
Heathcote
Kentia Place
Alfords
Point
Kerr Avenue
Kerslake
Grove
Bundeena
Menai
Kestrel Place
Gymea
Kiah Place
Woronora
Heights
Port
Hacking
Miranda
Kiama Street
Miranda
Kiara Close
Bangor
Kewol Place
1868), who was captain in charge of
government stores and a merchant. He
was involved in arrest of Gov Bligh. In
same 1962 subdivision as Bligh Street,
Putland Place, and Johnston Street all of
which relate to time of Governor Bligh.
Possibly named after Henry Kendall
Australian poet
Probably named after Private Edward
Kenna (1919-) who won Victoria’s Cross
for action at Wewak PNG in WWII.
Named after 35 th US President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961 -1963). That
Suburbs & ADB
Online
Named after English County (adjoins
Dorset St which has similar origin and
was subdivided same year)
Name of species of palm tree. In
trees/ plants.
Named after Estate owner Laura Kerr
Jean , George and Marion Kerslake were
early settlers in area
DP
Kerslake family in 1925 purchased land
on Old Illawarra Road, ran market garden
Type of bird , a falcon. In subdivision
where streets named after birds.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘deep water’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a beautiful
place’
Aboriginal word meaning either ‘famous
father spirit’ or ‘good fishing ground’
Or ‘plenty food’, ‘good fishing ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a white
cockatoo’
www.anzacday.org
.au
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Title records
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Illawong : A Place
in History
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Kiewa Place
Kirrawee
Kilborn Place Miranda
Kilby Place
Illawong
Kilmarnock
Road
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sweet water’
Named after athlete Pamela Kilborn (born
1939) (listed in Australia’s sporting
greats) Competed in 1968 Olympics, won
4 Commonwealth Games Gold medals
Name of town in Ayrshire Scotland.
Several nearby streets (Dumbarton,
Felton) named after Scottish locations.
Kimbar Place Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘bark hut’
h
Kimberley
Gymea
Place
Bay
Kincumber
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ belonging to
Place
an old man’
Kindilan
Miranda /
Aboriginal word meaning ‘joyful’ ‘happy’
Place
Caringbah
King Street
Heathcote In line with theme of naming streets in
area after NSW politicians of time area
subdivided is probably named after Philip
Gidley King (1817-1904) MLC 18801904
King Street
Maianbar
Leslie Victor King was owner who
subdivided area in May 1926. He was
Shire Councilor 1922-28.
Kingfisher
Grays
Crescent
Point
streets named after birds known
colloquially as “The Aviary”
Kingsbury
Jannali
Named after Private Bruce Steel
Place
Kingsbury (1918- 42) of 2nd /14 Battalion
who was awarded Australian Victoria
Cross posthumously after a battle on
Kokoda Trail in Papua August 1942.
Kingsway
Cronulla – Till 1916 eastern part was called
Miranda
Kurranulla Beach Road. Part through
Miranda was Malvern Road.
Originally On early maps spelt Kings Way. Name
also
gazetted GG 175 of 20/10/1916.
Kirrawee/
Sutherland / Kirrawee sections renamed
Sutherland Old Princes Highway/ Princes Highway
Named to honour King of England
Aust Museum, CL
& MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
BDCA
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/81 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
Wikipedia
Tyrrell
Tyrrell
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
Maianbar
(Maianbar Progress
Assoc publication)
The Leader
Approx Feb 1967
(LW) & www.
Anzacday.org.au
Kingswood
Road
Engadine
Originally called Fairview Street – as
Botany Bay could be seen from there.
Kinnane’s
Road (DISC)
Gray’s
Point
Early, unofficial name, for Mansion Point
Road circa 1930s. Named after Bert
Kinnane who was early resident in area.
Possibly named after John Kinross (18331908) Presbyterian minister, theologian.
Head of Presbyterian Church and
Principal St Andrews College.
Unproven but may have originally been
spelt Kinsela after Henry Kinsela however
all gazettals and plans refer to Kinsella St.
Henry’s name spelt Kinsella in M Hutton
Neve book. He built house “The Terraces”
in Dolan’s Bay c 1889.
Mr E P Kinsella was MLA for part of
Shire 1930-32
1947 to 2005 parts of road known as
Kiora Road North / South
Means ‘love’
Began as an unnamed east west lane in
1920. Later extended north south to
railway lane. Most of extension closed in
1990’s due to Miranda Fair expansion.
Word means ‘love’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place where
initiatio n ceremonies were held for boys
being admitted to full manhood’
Or meaning ’urine’
Or ‘ceremony ground’
Named after Australian cricketer Alan
Falconer Kippax (1897-1972), batsman.
Test player 1924-34. In subdivision where
Kinross Place Engadine
Kinsella St
Kiora Rd
Illawong
Miranda
Kiora Lane
Miranda
Kiparra St
Engadine
Kippax Place
Menai
Kirk
Crescent
Kirkby Place
Kirrawee
Kirkwood
Road
Miranda
Cronulla
Named after David R Kirkby (1899-1970)
MBE Shire Clerk 1929 to 1963. He also
wrote shire history “From Sails to
Atoms”. Street is in subdivision carried
out by Council’s then property
development arm.
In Golf Links estate 1921. Named after
Joseph Henry Kirkwood (1897-1970),
Pg 98 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
Grays Point Story
ADB online
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
From Sails to
Atoms
CL
DP
Internet
CL
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Macq Abo. words
Endacott
Internet
Faces of the Shire
A History
ADB Online
Kiwong St
professional golfer who won Australian
Open in 1920.
Kirrawee
Kirrawee is aboriginal word meaning
‘lengthy’ (suburb originally called
Bladesville)
Or from “ Girrawee or garrawi ‘ meaning
‘place of white cockatoos’ or ‘sulphur
crested cockatoos’
Caringbah Possibly named after Field Marshall
Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)
noted for his army career in Egypt and in
WWI.
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a big mountain
covered with scrub’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘bathing place’
Koala Road
Lilli Pilli
Koba Road
(DISC)
Kobada Place
Kodola Way
Koel Place
Menai
Kirrawee
Ave
Kitchener St
Kittani Street
Konda Place
Engadine
Bangor
Woronora
Heights
Bangor
Konrads
Place
Menai
Koobidya
Street
Waterfall
Kookaburra
Place
Grays
Point
Koongulla
Road (DISC)
Barden
Ridge
Or ‘moon’
Road created 1912 , named 1929,
Named after native bear
Name discontinued
Aboriginal word meaning ‘coal’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a hill’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt
Aboriginal word for ‘cabbage tree’
Named after Ilsa and Jon (John) Konrads
Australian brother and sister champion
swimmers,. They were Latvians who
immigrated to Australia in 1949. In
Australian swimming champions.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Road does not physically exist. Was part
of original route of Illawarra Road.
Sweeping bend in road cut off when
railway built became Koobidya Street
Aborigina l word for ‘laughing jackass
bird’
In group of streets named after birds.
Group colloquially known as “ The
Aviary”
Name discontinued
Alternate spelling Boongulla Road. Ran
Sutherland Shire
Community Profile
on internet.
Dharawal
Place Names of
Australia,
Randwick Council
website
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aust Museum
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
CL
Macq abo words
Tyrrell
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD1/11/P1
BDCA
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Endacott
CL
Bangor
from Old Illawarra Road opposite Barden
Road to Little Forest Road. Part closed
1955. Section through The Ridge Sports
complex closed 2000. Rest bushland track
in old Crown Rd reserve
‘Koonya’ was small steamer shipwrecked
off Boat Harbour , Cronulla January 1898.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘seagull’
Previously known as Bridge Street.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
According to Waterfall Progress Assoc in
letter 9/6/2003 is aboriginal word meaning
‘spring constantly running’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Gymea
Named 1954
CL
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘pine tree’
Sylvania
Name discontinued. Meaning ‘kangaroo’
File MD 1/11/P1
Endacott
CL
Sylvania
Meaning ‘kangaroo’
Koonya
Circuit
Caringbah
Kooraban St
Waterfall
Koorabar
Road
Koorabel
Ave
Koorong
Place
Koorooma
Lane (DISC)
Koorooma
Place
Korokan
Road
Kotara Place
Lilli Pilli
Kudilla St
Engadine
Kula Place
Bangor
Kulinia St
Engadine
Kulli Place
Engadine
Miranda
Kumbardang Miranda
Avenue
Kummera
Waterfall
Street (DISC)
Kumulla Rd
Miranda /
Originally Koorooma Lane renamed GG
112 of 25/9/1964
Possibly ‘korokon’ aboriginal word
meaning ‘to roar, as the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a club or
waddy’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘winter’ (South
Australia)
Aboriginal word for ‘bloodwood tree’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fire stick’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘of his own
power’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘night’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Road does not physically exist. Was
Crown boundary road between 2 lots,
created c 1900 but not named till 1930.
Named 1911 with a number of other
File 98/1997
CL
Council min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
CL
CL of Aboriginal
names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD1/11/P1
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon & Cooper
www.newcastle.ed
u.au
www.archive.org
wikisource-Moore
CL
DP
Caringbah
Kundul Place
Engadine
Kungar Road
Caringbah
Kurlan Street
(DISC)
Waterfall
Kurnell Road
Cronulla /
Wooloowa
re
Kurrajong
Street
Sutherland
Kurramatta
Place / Lane
Cronulla
Kurranulla
Beach Road
(DISC)
Cronulla –
Sutherland
Kurranulla
Cronulla
Street (DISC)
Kurrewa
Place
Kareela
Kurri Street
Loftus
streets with names of Aboriginal origin
(Kareena, Cawarra etc).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the wild carrot’ Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Originally proposed to be named Golding CL
Avenue after name of owner at time of
streets subdivision (1966).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘perspiration’
www.archives.org
Wikisource-Moore
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
CL
Street is just a dirt track. Is now in
Heathcote National park. Was original
created to provide access to Crown leases
for surface coal mining.
Various opinions re name eg corruption of
original settler Connell’s name.
Was original road from Cronulla to
Kurnell until was interrupted by
extensions to Cronulla Golf Course
Aboriginal word for tree species
Aboriginal Words
‘Sterlucia’
and Place Names
Aboriginal word for ‘shade tree’
CL Aborig names
Originally (GG 1930) Kurramatta Lane ,
CL
renamed Place GG 63 of 7/6/1957 as
Council file
adjoining residents wanted ‘classier’ name R/39/11
Original name till 1916 of Kingsway.
CL & 1909-1913
Cronulla/ Woolooware section renamed
subdivision plans
Kingsway, Caringbah section Banksia
Road GG 175 of 20/10 /1916
Caringbah section as “Kurranulla Road”
DP
in 1893 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small pink sea CL of Aboriginal
shell’
names
Renamed as Cronulla Street GG 124 of
CL
18/6/1952
Aboriginal word for ‘small pink sea
CL of Aboriginal
shells’
names
Named after Sydney Hobart race winning www.alldownunde
yacht Kurrewa IV (line honours 1954, 56, r.com
57 and 1960) as are other streets in this
subdivision. Previously named Mo rna.
Originally (1930) spelt Kuri and in GG 65 DP
of 30/5/1930 as “Kuri” but on all later
plans , DPs as “Kurri”
Kurri has several meanings –corroborree, Macquarie
cousin, mussel, play. Kuri means circle or Dictionary of
Kurwin St
Engadine
Kyogle Place
Grays
Point
La Boheme
Avenue
Caringbah
Lachlan Ave
Sylvania
Waters
Lady
Carrington
Drive
Royal
National
Park
Lady Rawson
Avenue
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Lady
Wakehurst
Drive
Royal
National
Park
Laguna St
Caringbah
Lalor
Crescent
Engadine
compass.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dance’
(Victoria)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a plain turkey’
or ‘a native companion’
Or ‘wild turkey’
La Boheme was the name of the Alfred
Wunderlich family home in this location
(he was youngest brother of the family
which made pressed metal ceilings, tiles
at Redfer n). Was singer in Philharmonic
Society and house named after song.
Australian river. River runs through
Forbes and Cowra in south western NSW.
The European discoverer of the Lachlan
River in 1815 was Acting-Surveyor
George William Evans, who named the
river after Lachlan Macquarie, the
Governor of the colony of NSW.
Named in honour of wife of State
Governor, Baron Carrington, 1885-90.
Used to go all the way to Otford. Now
walking/cycling track.
Was road along what is now Rawson
Avenue into RNP and then south easterly
towards Audley.
Named in 1903, Lady Florence Alice
Rawson was the wife of the State
Governor, Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson
(1902 till her death 1905).
For some years was a track from Princes
Highway to Royal National Park Station,
just to north east of railway/ now tramway
line.
Named after wife of NSW~Governor in
1930’s Lord Wakehurst. Lord Wakehurst
opened Sutherland – Cronulla Railway in
1939
Whilst there is an Italian word meaning
‘lagoon’ it was in same subdivision as
Kanoona St so likely instead to be of
Aboriginal origin.
As adjoins Tinakill St which is named
after Tinakill in Ireland which is Peter
Lalor’s birthplace, Crescent named after
Aboriginal words
Ab Word BK – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Endacott
Echoes From the
Bay
www/wapedia.mob
i
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Pre 1946 map on
microfiche – Local
History collection
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents pg
49
L Burgess Council
officer
From Sails to
Atoms
Internet
Peter Lalor who led miner’s at Eureka
Stockade and later was Victorian
politician & Speaker of Legislative
Assembly
Lambeth
Place
Lancashire
Place
Illawong
Landor Road
Barden
Ridge
Landy Close
Menai
Lang Road
(DISC)
Engadine
Langer Ave
Lantana Rd
Caringbah
Engadine
Lara Close
Illawong
Gymea
Larkspur
Place
Larool Place
La Trobe
Close
Heathcote
Laurel Grove
Menai
Engadine
Barden
Ridge
As adjoins Manchester Road and
Manchester City is in Lancashire UK
probably named after that English County.
Named after Edward Wilson Landor –
solicitor, writer and pioneer from Western
Australia (area has Australian Pioneers
theme)
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography
1788-1850 (LW)
Council 7/12/1987
(file MD 2/22/3-6)
(LW)
BDCA
Named after John Landy athlete (born
1930) was 1 mile record holder. From
2001 to 2006 was Governor of Victoria.
Former name of Cooriengah Heights Road Engadine 18252001
Town Clerk David Kirkby letter 6/6/1958 Council File
to Engadine ALP said “as far as the writer R/39/11
is aware the road may have been known
as Lang Road as one of the roads in the
Would have been named after Labor
politican / NSW Premier Jack (John) Lang
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Name of vine.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hut on stony
ground’
Or ‘the Milky Way’
Type of flowering annual plant. In area
where most streets named after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kookaburra’
Charles La Trobe (1801-1875) was
superintendent (1839-1851) and
Lieutenant Governor (1851-54) of
Victoria. Area has Australian pioneers
theme.
CL
Endacott
Cooper
Endacott
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
Laurence
Avenue
Laurina Ave
Lavender
Place
Laver Ave
Lawrence
Crescent
Lawson
Place
Laycock Ave
Layden Ave
League Street
(DISC)
Bundeena
Engadine / Named GG 79 of 17/7/1959. Part renamed
Yarrawarra Porter Road.
h
Council advised resident in 1959 that
street named after Hakea Laurina =
pincushion flower
Alfords
Name of type of scented plant. In
Point
trees & shrubs
Menai
Named after Rod (Rodney George) Laver
(born 1938) left handed tennis player
known as ‘Rockhampton Rocket’. Only
tennis player to win Grand Slam twice
(1962 as amateur, 1969 as professional).
In Davis Cup team 1958-62, 1973. One of
group of streets named after Australian
tennis players.
Lucas
Heights
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958)
inventor of cyclotron. Won 1939 Nobel
Prize for Physics.
Barden
Named after William Lawson (1774Ridge
1850) explorer and pastoralist who
participated in first successful crossing of
Blue Mountains in 1813. Area has
Australian pioneer’s theme.
Cronulla
Previously called Post Office Avenue
renamed GG 83 of 24/6/1927.
Elias Pearson Laycock and John Connell
Laycock inherited a large area of land
from their grandfather John Connell Snr
who bought land off Birnie Estate. Elias
was well known as a champion sculler.
Street named after Elias Laycock.
Engadine
Named after Layden family. Mr S Layden
arrived with his parents in 1917. He and
his wife lived on corner Engadine Avenue
and highway. Mrs Layden Snr was
unceasing worker in Engadine’s First
Congregational Church
Miranda
Renamed Willock Avenue. Name would
have been derived from Returned Services
League -renamed to honour then head of
Miranda RSL who was driving force in
obtaining the land for housing for returned
CL
Council file
R/39/11
Internet – BDCA
Wikipedia.
www.ansto.gov.au
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography ?CR
CL
Echoes from the
Bay
The Cronulla Story
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
Engadine – an
Outline History
CL
L Burgess Council
officer
Leavesden
Place
Leawarra St
Sylvania
soldiers.
Name of village in Hertfordshire UK
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘arising’
Lee Place
Illawong
Lehane Plaza
Caringbah
/ Dolan’s
Bay
Named after Johanna Lehane – owner of
land prior to subdivision.
The Lehane family owned the land now
Sutherland Hospital. Thomas Lehane was
one of the original 1906 Councilors & was
Councilor till 1925. He was born 1867
Miranda – son of Johanna. Family owned
land at Sutherland, Cronulla, Miranda.
Thomas moved to area in 1868.
Renamed Warabin Street
Leicester
Waterfa ll
Street (DISC)
Leichhardt
Sylvania
Crescent
Lemongum
Place
Lenna Place
Lennox Place
Alfords
Point
Jannali
Barden
Ridge
Leonay St
Sutherland
/Woronora
Leopold
Lane
Jannali
Letter Box
Illawong
Probably named after Friedrich Wilhelm
Ludwig Leichhardt (1813 -48) explorer ,
scientist and geologist
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a dwelling’
Named after David Lennox (1788-1873) –
bridge builder. Area has Australian
pioneers street naming theme.
Originally part of Waratah St became
Waratah Street West when split by
railway 1882. Renamed 1986.
Named after NSW suburb on eastern edge
of Blue Mountains which was named in
1973 after a vineyard which had been on
the site from 1917 to c 1960 which had
been established by Leo Buring. ROC
25/11/1985 that street names for renaming
parts of streets split by railway etc be “of
towns and places using the post code
directory as a reference’
Named 2004
Lane named after one of Queen Victoria’s
children in line with theme in area.
Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany
was her 8 th child.
Private ROW. Name relates to row of
Internet
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon &
Endacott & Cooper
CL
Echoes from the
Bay
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
SSHSB May 1989
CL
Wikipedia &
Wajnryb
Tyrrell
Australian Dict of
Biography / CR
On 1882/ 1936
maps.
www.penrithcity.n
sw.gov.au
File RD 000/5 Pts
2&3
CL
Council file
95/3210
Lane
Leumah St
Cronulla
Lewis Street
Cronulla
Liffey Place
Woronora
Lilac Street
Loftus
Lilli Pilli
Point Road
Lilli Pilli
Lincoln
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay /
Como
Linden Street
Sutherland
Lindsay St
Lindsay
Gordon Place
Caringbah
Heathcote
Lindum Road
Lindwall
Close
Kurnell
Menai
letterboxes at start of lane.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘here I rest’
In 1930 Sands spelt ‘ Leumeah’
Named in 3 1904 DP’s. Like the other 2
roads in subdivision it was named after
owner of part of the land being
subdivided. E Lewis was landowner of
southern end of street and adjoining land.
Named after Liffey River in Ireland –
which is the main river through Dublin. In
group of streets near Woronora River
named after rivers in British Isles (Tay,
Severn, Thames, Mersey)
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Type of flowering plant. In group of
streets named after plants.
Named after the point the name of which
is from the aboriginal word meaning
‘myrtle , a tree with small edible berries’
Originally spelt Lilli Pilly Point Road.
Named after 16 th US President Abraham
Lincoln (1861 -1865). That Bonnet Bay
Development and Council. First road in
subdivision.
Genus of deciduous northern hemisphere
trees also called Tilia or Lime Trees
Section south of Grand Parade was called
The Trust Road on 1886 map – as was
then boundary of Royal National Park.
Later was The Boulevarde
famous Australian poets. Adam Lindsay
Gordon (1833-1870) – poet and horseman
– most famous works ‘Bush Ballads and
Galloping Rhymes’
Roman name for town of Lincoln in UK
Named after Raymond (Ray) Russell
Lindwall (1921- 1996) cricketer who
played in 61 tests from 1946-1960. In
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
C Info
Wikipedia
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
by F Midgley in
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
ADB online
Internet
Link Circuit
Menai
Links Ave
Cronulla
Lisbon Street
Sylvania
Little Forest
Road
Lucas
Heights
Little Turriell
Bay Road
Lilli Pilli
Liverpool St
Bundeena
Llanberis
Drive
Menai
Lobelia Place
Lochiel Road
Gymea
Engadine
Loch
Lomond
Crescent
Lochness
Place
Burraneer
Engadine
group of streets named after cricketers.
Letter to landcom confirming name – said
was to be Ling Circuit. M Ling was early
pioneer. His land West Menai North of
Popplewell land and west of Mayman
land.
Previously named Junction Street and
Soutar Street. Probably so named due to
proximity to Cronulla Golf Links.
First named in 1882 DP by James Murphy
of Holt Sutherland Estate Co. North south
streets in subdivision have names of
‘exotic’ foreign locations – so named after
Lisbon in Portugal.
(off Illawarra Road south of tip)
Name of area of 700 ac granted to David
Duncombe in 1827.
Also called ‘Five Mile Forest Road”. Area
was source of timber for Cronulla
Tramway and other early Shire projects.
According to M Hutton Neve is
corruption of ‘Tyreal’ name of House on
opposite side of river which became
Simpson’s Hotel. Name changed to
‘Tyrell’ then ‘Turriel’. Harry Simpson
who built house/ hotel had a boat hire
business at point in 1918 (Tyrell’s Pt)
Part of Yarmouth Estate – streets in this
estate in most cases were named after
English beaches.
Named first in 1886 DP.
Village in Wales – Area has Welsh links
(Bangor & Menai Welsh locations,
original settler Owen Jones Welsh)
It is village in Snowdonia National Park
group of streets / subdivision (with Gort,
Braeside etc) also named after Scottish
locations.
Named after historic house at No.3.
Loch in Scottish Highlands. Number of
streets in area named after Scottish
locations.
File MD 1/11 Pt 2
CL
DP
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1978
The Bundeena
Book
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 11 No
2 May 2008
Internet
LEP 2006 –
Heritage list
Wikipedia
Locksley
Street
Wooloowa
re
Loftus Ave /
Lane
Loftus /
Sutherland
/ Yarra
warrah
Loftus Street
Bundeena
Logan Street
Loftus
Lola Place
Miranda
Lomandra
Place
Alfords
Point
Long Close
Menai
Loraine Ave
Lord Place
Caringbah
Barden
Ridge
Loretta Ave
Como
In subdivision (DP 7331) where streets
named after castles. Locksley is castle in
England near Nottingham. Made famous
in Adventures of Robin Hood.
Lane named 2004. Avenue discontinued
in Yarrawarrah.
Named after Lord Augustus William
Frederick Spencer Loftus, Baron Loftus –
Governor of NSW 1879-1885.
After 1885 also known as “Main Road”
Replaced part of Illawarra or National
Park Road circa 1879 which ran through
what now Woronora Cemetery and
crossed railway north of Loftus Junction
railway station then ran where now
Princes Highway.
Frederick Spencer Loftus, Baron Loftus.
He was NSW Governor 1879-1885. Name
first registered in 1886 DP
Possible source of name - in 1909-1913 a
Mr Logan was Postmaster at Sutherland
family.
Name of type of tufted grass / mat rush –
in subdivision where streets named after
trees & shrubs
Named after Australian tennis player
Thelma Long. Subdivision where streets
named after Australian tennis champions.
Named after Simeon Lord – entrepreneur ,
owned land in St George area (Area has
Australian pioneers theme)
In 1930 Sands spelt Lorretto Avenue (but
spelt Loretta on 1888 subdivision plan)
Named after Loretta in Italy by James
Murphy manager, director, shareholder of
Holt Sutherland Estate who named suburb
and 8 original streets after places in Italy.
DP
CL
Suth Shire His t Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988/
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 374 (LW) / A
Pictorial History of
Sutherland Shire
DP
Internet
Internet
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography ?CR
Sands directory
Como Public
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Lorikeet
Close
Woronora
Heights
Louden Ave
Illawong
Louise Street
Loves Ave
Named after the native bird.
Alexander Louden was Hurstville Council
Alderman 1896-99. Illawong was part of
Hurstville Council until 1922. Bush land
not a made road. Was dirt track in past.
Jannali
In Queens Jubilee Estate subdivision
where streets names are names of
members of Queen Victoria ’s family.
Named after her daughter Louise Caroline
Alberta.
Oyster Bay Named after Mr Robert and Mrs Rose
Love local identities / early local residents
Lowan Place
Woronora
Heights
Lowana Ave
Kirrawee
Lower
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Lowry Place
Woronora
Heights
Lucas Street
Cronulla
Lugano Ave
Burraneer
Lunar Ave
Heathcote
Lynch Ave
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mallee hen’
(Victoria).
Or ‘mallee fowl’
birds.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a girl’.
Named after George Washington 1 st US
president (1789-1797). That Bonnet Bay
Possibly named after Sir Somerset
Richard Lowry – Corry , Earl of Belmore,
NSW Governor 1868-1872
Named after original settler – Lucas
Probably named after Lake Lugano in
Italy
Adjoins ‘Surveyor St’ so probably named
after ‘Lunar Surveyor’ – 7 unmanned
space ships to moon in 1960’s. First to
make ‘soft’ landing on Moon
Possibly named after owner at time of
Email Julie Baker
Council employee
10/2/2000 (LW)
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)&
Oyster Bay Public
School 50 th
Anniversary
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Endacott, Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names.
Endacott. Develm’t
Com Min 591
7/7/1958 (LW)
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Macquarie Book of
Events
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Internet
DP
Lyne Lane
Heathcote
Mabel Street
(DISC)
McAlister
Ave
Caringbah
McAlister
Avenue
Engadine
Macarthur St
Sylvania
Cronulla
Macartney St Miranda
McAuley
Heathcote
Close
McCabe
Place
Menai
McCubbens
Lane
Sutherland
McDonald St Cronulla
subdivision as owner’s signature on 1922
subdivision DP appears to be Lynch
Possibly - A Mr Frederick William Lynch
of Tareel Bay Port Hacking died May
1927 aged 53
Named 2004
Named after Sir William John Lyne
(1844-1913) MLA 1880-1901, Secretary
Public Works 1185, 1886-87, 1891-94,
Premier 1899-1901, in line with theme of
Name discontinued
Propeller
27/5/1927
CL
Council file
95/2960
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
CL
Named in 1922 after Charles & Christina
McAlister the first settlers in Engadine.
Charles also original (1906-14) Councilor
and later lived at Cronulla. They owned
and subdivided land where street is.
Named in 1922 after Charles and
Christina McAlister the first settlers in
Engadine .
Charles Mc Alister was Shire Councilor
1906-14. They owned land where street is.
Adjoins Camden, Onslow and Merino
Streets – thus relates to Macarthur Onslow historic merino Sheep property
near Camden.
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
As in group of streets named after poets
probably named after poet and academic
James Phillip McAuley (1917-1976).
Named after Stanley Joseph ‘Napper’
McCabe (1910-1968) cricketer. In group
of streets named after Austn cricketers.
A Mr J McCubben had “Mac’s store” on
Prince’s Highway Sutherland.
His grocery store was on corner of lane
and Prince’s Highway.
When subdivided (1913) one of owners
was Herbert Leslie McDonald but was
originally purchased From Holt Estate in
1908 by William Arthur McDonald who
was possibly the William (Billy Mac)
McDonald (1896-1958) – local butcher
WWI till 1952 and Foundation member
ADB online
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Internet
1930 Sands
directory
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
L Burgess –
Council
McDonald St Illawong
MacFarlane
Parade
Sylvania
MacFarlane
Road (DISC)
Gymea
Bay
McGill Place
Menai
McGovett
Place
Macintyre
Crescent
Menai
Mackay St
Caringbah
McKell
Avenue
Sylvania
Royal
National
Miranda RSL and Cronulla Rotary/
Existed pre 1906. Named pre 1934.
Probably named after Angus Alexander
McDonald Hurstville Council alderman
1897-98. Illawong was part of Hurstville
Council till 1921. Alternatively could
have been named after Ronald McDonald
a champion axe man and sleeper cutter
who cut sleepers at Menai to build
Cronulla tram line c 1911.
First Sutherland Shire Clerk was John W
MacFarlane (1906 till 1928). He was toll
master Tom Ugly’s Bridge 1928-1936 and
had a poultry farm at Miranda.
Previously Edward Pde – renamed 1953.
Renamed Barraran Street GG 65 of
30/5/1930
Named after Linda McGill (born 1945) 1st
woman to swim English Channel. Won
Gold medals at Commonwealth Games
and at 1964 Olympics. In group of streets
Australian river. The Macintyre river is in
central northern NSW and forms central
part of the NSW – Queensland border.
Named after Donald Mackay shire
resident and noted explorer.
Cl, 1934 Gregory’s
Directory,
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
Pg 22 From Sails
to Atoms
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents
CL
Pg 22 From Sails
to Atoms
Suth Shire Some
Early residents
Internet
File MD 1/11/P1
Wikipedia
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 1980
He donated land to Caringbah RSL for
RSL club and RSL asked Council to name
Section of Street after him. He lived 1870
-1958. Explored Sturts Stony Desert 1898,
parts Papua 1908, 4 expeditions WA/ Cent
Aust + 3 aerial surveys in 1930’s.
Was Cawarra Road South till 1970 (GG
CL
86 of 10/7/1970)
Originally called Waterfall Road.
CL
On some maps as “The McKell Road”
Park
McKenzie
Place
Menai
Mackin
Close
Barden
Ridge
McKinley
Avenue
Bonnet
Bay
Macleay
Place
Sylvania
Waters
MacMahon
Place
Menai
McPherson
Place
Illawong
Macquarie St Gymea
Madeira St
Sylvania
William J McKell was NSW Minister for
Justice 1931
Named after Graham McKenzie (born
Perth 1941) fast bowler. In Australian
team 1961-71. In group of streets named
after Australian cricketers.
A Mr William J Mackin lived at Menai
and was involved in Progress Association
1920. In 1921 he proposed running buses
to Peakhurst. On pioneer settlers list 1992
Named after 25 th US president William
McKinley (1897-1901). That Bonnet Bay
Named after Macleay River northern
NSW. Rises near Armidale, flows to sea
near Kempsey. One of 30 streets in area
named after Australian rivers.
Major Archibald Clunes Innes, sent the
first government gang of Australian red
cedar cutters to work here in 1827. Later
was named Macleay River in honour of
Innes’s father-in- law, Alexander McLeay,
scientist and colonial secretary of NSW.
Fred and Dennis MacMahon were early
settlers in area
McMahon family purchased land on
Alford’s Point Rd in 1920’s. On 1992
Pioneer settlers list.
Named after Mc Pherson family which
owned 14 ½ ac land from cnr Fowler Rd /
Thompson Ave to near fire station and
then to Georges River
Named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie
(1762-1824), Governor 1810-1822.
In group of streets named after persons of
colonial historical significance.
Part renamed Port Hacking Road.
Alternative spelling Maidoro
First registered in 1882 DP by James
From Sails to
Atoms
Internet
Propellor
11/6/1920 & 21
File MD 1/11/P1
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
www/wapedia.mob
i
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Illawong: A Place
in History & File
MD 1/11/P1
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin July 1976
CL
DP
Madison
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Magnolia St
Kirrawee
Mahogany
Close
Mahonga
Street (DISC)
Maianbar
Road
Alfords
Point
Grays
Point
Royal
National
Park
Cronulla
Maidora
/Maidoro
Road (DISC)
Main
Illawarra
Road
Maitland
Place
Kirrawee
Makora St
(DISC)
Miranda
Malibu Street
Bundeena
Sutherland Estate. North /south roads in
subdivision have theme of ‘exotic’ foreign
locations. Named after city in Spain
Named after James Madison 4th US
President (1809-17). That Bonnet Bay
Name of species of flowering tree
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Name discontinued
(town in Zimbabwe)
Road to Maianbar
CL
Named Maidoro 1911, changed to
Maidora 1912. Part of Maidora Estate
subdivision. On 1938 plan says correct
spelling is Maidoro. Renamed Windsor
Road GG 106 of 24/7/1942. Possibly a
concocted name as owner was Dorothy M
Board.
Name 1865 to 1921 of what now Princes
Highway. Renamed Princes Highway
after visit to Australia in 1920 by Prince
of Wales (later King Edward VIII).
GG 155 of 21/10/1921. Was also known
as Main Sydney and Wollongong Road
( private road) In same Dept of Housing
subdivision as Singleton Place so would
be named after Hunter Valley town of
Maitland which is named after either
James Maitland 8th Earl of Lauderdale or
after General Frederick Maitland who
accepted Napoleon’s surrender
In DP 8523 - area between President Av,
Miranda Road, Anzac Ave and Karimbla
Road – was road linking Miranda and
Karimbla Road which no longer exists.
Meaning ‘fish’
Named by subdividers of “Pacific Waters
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
CL
CL
Newcastle Council
library website
DP Plan & 1934
Gregory’s Street
Directory
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
The Bundeena
Mallard
Street
Woronora
Heights
Malvern Rd
Miranda
Manchester
Road
Gymea
Mandur
Place
Mangrove
Lane
Caringbah
Mangrove
Road (DISC)
Manilla Place
Kurnell
Mannikin
Drive
Woronora
Heights
Manning
Street
Taren
Point
Woronora
Estate” - names in subdivision are of
famous overseas beaches
Named after type of bird- a migratory
wild duck. In subdivision where most
streets are types of birds.
Part became part of Kingsway GG 175 of
20/10 /1916. In GG 20 of 15/2/1929 part
previously known as Deviation road
between Kareena Road and Miranda Road
became part of Malvern Street.
In 1904 it was the only through road
between Sutherland and Cronulla
Part still exists parallel to Kingsway
which was land originally acquired for
Sutherland Cronulla Tramway.
James Murphy of Holt Sutherland Estate
1947 to 2005 parts known as Manchester
Road North / South.
Name first registered 1882 by Holt
Sutherland Estate Co. Said to be named
by James Murphy manager of Co ‘as a
concession to Jack Want’
Probably named after town in England as
other streets N-S streets in subdivision
also named after English towns (Bath etc).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘quiet or
undisturbed; not meddled with’
Area had been mangroves in past.
Development Committee 21/12/1970 that
‘a name with some significance to the area
be allocated, Mangrove Lane being
suggested”
Name discontinued. Possibly name relates
to mangroves in area
Aboriginal word meaning ‘winding river’
Named after type of small bird from finch
family. In subdivision where most streets
are types of birds.
Oyster Bay Named after Mrs Manning a local
identity.
She lived in Oyster Bay Road and had a
Book
Wikipedia
CL
Echoes From the
Bay – The Yowie
Bay Story
DP
CL
A History of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
RD 000/5 Pt 1
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Wikipedia
Short History of
Oyster Bay(LW)
Mementos of
Manooka
Place
Manor Hill
Road
Kareela /
Kirrawee
Miranda
Mansfield
Lane / Ave
Caringbah
Mansion
Point Road
Grays
Point
Maple Street
Caringbah
Marga Road
Gymea
Bay
Margaret
Lane
Sylvania
Margaret
Kirrawee
Street (DISC)
Marina
Gymea
Crescent
Marine
Esplanade
Mariner Rd
Cronulla
Marion Street
Gymea /
Miranda
Illawong
dress making business in Redfern
In subdivision with Huntingdale Street
and The Knoll – all three are names of
major golf courses. Manor Hill Golf
Course is in Florida.
Named after SE (Steve) Mansfield who
built Highfields Store on corner Port
Hacking Road and The Kingsway.
He was first postmaster for area
Oyster Bay
Endacott, Cooper
Internet
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Pg31 From Sails to
Atoms
CL
CL
Lane named 2005
Part was previously Peninsular Road,
renamed GG 142 of 5/12/1969.
Named on Mansion Point Estate DP in
DP
1923. Was road to Mansion Point. Reason
for that name unclear as was never a
mansion on point. Early (c 1930’s)
unofficial name was Kinnane’s Road
Named after type of tree. In group of 3
streets (with Heathe r, Daphne) named
after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a native shield’ www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Or ‘lower arm’ or ‘bough of tree’
Wikisource-Moore
Lane named 2004
CL
Named after Margaret Connell daughter
Council File
of John Connell 2nd man to be granted
95/3210
land in Shire. She married Thomas
Laycock and was mother of Elias and
John Connell Laycock.
Name discontinued
CL
1962 western part of Ellesmere Rd
renamed Marina Rd and linked to new
road in new subdivision. There was a
proposal at that time to build marina near
Swallow Rock Reserve.
Name describes streets location adjoining
ocean.
Convict transport ship 1816, 1825, 1827.
Mr Frank Marien editor of Truth news
paper owned large house where now
Rd 000/5 pt 1
Website ‘convicts
to Australia’
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
Marlee Road
Engadine
Marley Street
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Cronulla
Marlo Road
Marlock
Place
Marooba
Place
Maroopna
Road
Marra Place
Trade Union Club. His father Robert
Marien had large orchard on north side of
Kingsway between Manchester and
Sylvania Rds. Street named after Robert
but misspelt.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an elder tree’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Was Crown reserved road at Marley beach
– no longer physically exists.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kangaroo’. In
Beach Park Estate (1916) with 4 other
streets with Aboriginal origin names.
Alfords
Name of small leafy native tree /shrub. In
Point
subdivision where names are those of
trees/ plants.
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘thunder’. Also
Engadine District news 12/2/1970.
Yowie Bay Possibly named after town in Victoria
near Shepparton.
Sylvania
Aboriginal word for finger, hand
Or ‘to do , to make’
Marsden
Road
Barden
Ridge
Marsh
Avenue
Marshall
Road
Wooloowa
re
Kirrawee
Martin Street
Heathcote
Mary Lane/
Bundeena
Also ‘ant, cloud ,new, now, sky, wind’ in
various aboriginal languages.
Originally part of Belgrave St/ Esplanade
renamed Darbal Ave 1958, Marra Pl 1971
Previously Barden Lane
Named after Samuel Marsden, chaplain,
missionary and farmer.(area has Aust’n
Pioneers theme)
Previously named Bay View Street,
renamed Govt Gaz 94 of 13/8/1948.
A Mr Marshall ran a diary in the area and
was a local milk supplier.
Area subdivided / name registered 1893
Theme of subdivision names of senior
public servants/ politicians c mid 1880’s.
Named after Sir James Martin (18201886) politician and chief justice.
Attorney General 1856, 1857-58, 186668. Premier 1870-72. Martin Place
Sydney named after him.
Street was part of 1939 subdivision with
& Nov 1988
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
CL
Internet
Internet
Tyrrell
File RD 000/5 Pt 1
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Macq abo words
CL
CL
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography/ CR
CL
A Short History of
Gray’s Point
DP
Street
Mary Street
Jannali
Mary
Gilmore
Place
Heathcote
Masefield
Place
Mason Place
Wooloowa
re
Barden
Ridge
Mathers
Place
Mathews
Place
Menai
Menai
Matong Place
Gymea
Bay
Matson
Crescent
Miranda
Matthew
Flinders Pl
Mawarra Ave
Burraneer
Miranda
Graham St in “Graham’s Estate” – as
Graham Street named after one of owners
Leslie William Graham , Mary Street was
probably named after one of his family or
that of other owner Herbert William Hall
In ‘Queens Jubilee ‘Estate where street
names are names of members of Queen
Victoria’s family. Three of her children
have Mary as second or third name.
famous poets. Dame Mary Jean Gilmore
(1865-1962) poet & journalist – her image
is on the $10 note
ADB online
Street naming theme for area is Australian
pioneers. In ADB online 3 Masons listed
– (1) Martin Melville surgeon, magistrate,
commander (2) Francis Conway Melville
(1843-1915) politician (3) Thomas
Melville (1800-1888) police magistrate.
ADB Online
Named after Leigh Matthews a footballer
(listed in Australia’s sporting greats)
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
Internet
More likely named after Marlene
Matthews athlete – as in subdivision
Aboriginal word for great, strong
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
The Matson Family ran Matson’s Pleasure Echoes from the
Grounds from 1904 till c 1913 in the area Bay
Crescent are. They had boat shed at end of
Wonga Road 1894 till c 1914.
Family ran Audley boatshed and had boat Faces of the Shire
building business in Kareena Rd till 1964.
Named after Fred Matson who owned a
Suth Shire Hist Soc
large boatshed on Yowie Bay in 1880’s
Bulletin Nov 1988
p 408(LW)
Named after Matthew Finders who with
George Bass explored Port Hacking.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a pleasant
Tyrrell
Maxwell
Close
May Place
Mayman
Row
Illawong
place’
A Supply ship. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Illawong
Menai
Dorrio Mayman was an early settler in
Menai area.
In 1930 3 Maymans (W, J, Mrs E) were
poultry farmers at Menai.
In 1899 Mathew and Elizabeth Mayman
took up land at Bangor.
Their land was on old Illawarra Road
In 1981 William (born 1902), Frank (b
1906), Harry (b 1904) still living in Shire
Meadow
Place
Meckiff
Close
File MD1/11/P1
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District9
1930 Sands
directory
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents &
MD1/11/P1
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1989
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1981
Miranda
Menai
Named after Ian Meckiff cricketer
(bowler), later commentator. In group of
streets named after Australian cricketer.
Medika Place Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blossom’
(South Australia)
Or , blossom, flower’
Meehan
Kirrawee
Named after early surveyor. Near Bligh
Place
Street so probably James Meehan who
was surveyor and settler at Governor
Bligh’s time.
Meekatharra Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town.
Place
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Town named after nearby spring , means
‘place of little water’. In group of streets
named after Western Australian locations
Meitner
Lucas
Place
Heights
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) first person to
realize that nucleus of an atom could be
split into smaller parts.
Melaleuca
Alfords
Name of genus of Australian trees –
Place
Point
common names Paperbark, Honey Myrtle
Melaleuca
Heathcote Name of genus of Australian trees –
Lane
Meldrum
Miranda
Internet
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Cooper
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
File 95/2721
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
www.ansto.gov.au
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Ave
Melrose Ave
Sylvania
Melville
Place
Barden
Ridge
Memmang
Place
Menai Road
Kirrawee
Mendeleef
Avenue
Lucas
Heights
Mendos
Place
Engadine
Mentone
Avenue
Cronulla
Mercedes
Place
Kareela
Merino Place
Sylvania
Menai/
Bangor /
Woronora
Murphy of Holt Sutherland Estate Co.
Likely named after town of Melrose in
Scotland. Other EW streets in subdivision
also UK towns (Pembroke, Snowden)
Pioneers. There are 5 Melville’s on ADB
Online – (1) 1st Viscount Melville Henry
Dundas (1742-1811) British politician /
secretary for Colonies 1794-1801. (2)
Francis Melville (1822-1857) bushranger,
(3) Gertrude Mary Melville (1884-1959)
NSW Labor politician, (4) Henry Melville
(1799-1873) journalist , publisher, author
(5) Ninian Melville ( 1843-1897)
politician
Aboriginal word meaning ‘very short, a
short fe llow’
Part or all was previously known as
Bridge Road. Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Named after Menai Strait in Wales as
original settler Owen Jones was Welsh –
he named area Bangor (city on north side
Strait). PMG changed name c 1910 but
preserved Welsh connection.
Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleef (also spelt
Mendeleev) (1834-1907), Rus sian chemist
who developed periodic table.
With adjoining streets Dural, Gamut and
Gamenya is named after varieties of
Australian wheat
Name of mediterean resort. Named in
1913 subdivision by Charles Mc Alister.
As he named Engadine after Swiss
location may have been named after
resort.
Named after Mercedes III yacht in
Australia’s winning Admiral’s Cup team
1967. Most streets in subdivision named
after Sydney- Hobart Race winning yachts
Name of type of fine wool sheep. Adjoins
Camden, Macarthur and Onslow Streets
so relates to historic Macarthur-Onslow
sheep property near Camden where
DP
Internet
File MD2/23/4 Pt 1
ADB Online
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
CL
Chronicle of the
20th Century &
Wikipedia
www.publish.csiro.
au
www.findarticles.c
om
Merredin
Close
Merriwa
Place
Mersey St
Merton Street
Meta Street
Merinos breed.
Yarrawarra From Aboriginal word meaning ‘timber’.
h
Named after town of Merredin in Western
Australia. Merredin is an Aboriginal name
which means "the place of merritt's", a
locally abundant tree, the trunks of which
were used for making spears. In group of
locations.
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘fertile place
h
producing much grass seed”
Or ‘plenty of grass seed and flour made
from it’ or ‘gammon’ or ‘pretence’
Woronora Named after Liffey River in UK. In group
of streets near Woronora River named
after UK rivers (Tay, Severn, Thames,
Mersey). Originally ran from Linden
street to river. Small section still Mersey
Street the rest renamed River Rd & Prince
Edward Park Rd in 1948.
Sutherland 1947 to 2005 parts were known as Merton
Street North / South.
Possibly named after Merton College at
Oxford University as near Oxford Street.
Caringbah Aboriginal word for ‘land’
Or ‘house’
Name first appears in 1928 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a fly’
Mianga Ave
Engadine
Michael
Boland
Bridge
Mikarie
Place
Milba Road
Heathcote
Named after construction worker killed
during construction of bridge.
Kirrawee
Milburn Rd
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘depth’ (Central
Australia)
Aboriginal word - name of a woman
Name of a Port Jackson area woman
Part south of Kingsway renamed Gymea
Bay Rd 1916, another part renamed 1934.
As in same subdivision as Manchester and
Hotham Roads (both English towns)
Caringbah
Place Names of
Aust. A W Reed
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Place Names of
Aust.
Aust Museum
CL
CL
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Macq abo words
DP
CL Aborig words,
Aust Museum
www.unionsafe.lab
or.net.au
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
CL aborig names
Aust Museum
CL
DP
Wikipedia
Milford Road
Miranda
Miller Place
Menai
Milner Ave
Kirrawee
Mimosa St
Heathcote
Mimulus
Place
Mina Road
Caringbah
Menai
Mindar Street
Como
Minerva St
Kirrawee /
Sutherland
Minnamurra
Avenue
Miranda
probably named after town of Milburn in
Cumbria UK.
First named in “Five Ways Estate”
subdivision DP 1913 (Council approval
1912). Area bounded by Boulevarde,
Kareena Rd & Port Hacking Road was
known as “Milford’
Named after Keith Ross ‘Nugget’ Miller
(1919 -2004) cricketer (and WWII fighter
pilot). In group of streets named after
Possibly name relates to Milner’s Nursery
which was in area.
Lily Milner’s father an ironworker could
not find work and decided to become a
poultry farmer on 3 ac at Suth. Also sold
passion fruit.
Mr Fred Milner was first assistant to Shire
Clerk Mr McFarlane
Milner family (3 Bros – Fred, Harry,
Robert) lived in area from pre WW1.
Lily Milner & family moved to Shire
1896
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place of
wattle trees’
Type of flowering plant commonly known
as ‘creeping monkey flower’
Aboriginal word for ‘eye, see’
Or for ‘gum’ or ‘spinifex’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘grass tree
leaves’
Western end renamed Aldgate Street and
Morley Street 9/5/1986. Sutherland
Section name discontinued.
Minerva is the Roman name for the Greek
Goddess Athena – goddess of warriors,
poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce,
crafts and inventor of music.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘plenty of fish’
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1969
Internet
Suth Shire Some
early residents
Illustrated History
of the Suth Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1981
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Macq abo words
CL
www.archives.org
CL
DP
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Endacott, Aust
Miranda
Road
Miranda
Mirang Place
Engadine
Mirang Road
Waterfall
Mirbelia
Place
Caringbah
Mirrabook
Place
Mirral Road
Heathcote
Mistletoe St
Caringbah/
Lilli Pilli
Loftus
Mitchell Ave
Jannali
Mitchell Rd
Miyal Place
Cronulla
Engadine
1947 to 2005 sections were known as
Miranda Road North/ South
From suburb name which was named by
James Murphy of Holt Sutherland Co
after character in Shakespeare play “The
Tempest”.
Name first registered in 1893 DP
Or ‘to cry’ or ‘to grieve’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘camp’.
Or “to cry’ ‘to grieve’
Road is a dirt track /fire trail. Now mostly
within Heathcote National park. Part still
exists to give access to property excluded
from park. Was built for Water Board
pipe line construction and maintenance.
Type of Australian native flowering plant
– “ mirbelia speciosa’ type of native pea.
Plant named after Charles Francois de
Mirbel a French botanist.
That named after plant mentioned in
31/5/1973 minute
Aboriginal word meaning the
‘constellation of the Southern Cross’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘crested pigeon’
plant which grows on trees – in group of
In 1888 subdivision plan of Queen’s
Jubilee Estate Jannali it was part of
Georges River Road.
Named after WA Mitchell (headmaster of
Haberfield Public School) who bought 12
blocks in area when first subdivided.
Part re named Elouera Road
therefore probably named after Thomas
Livingston Mitchell (1792-1855) NSW
Surveyor General (1828-1855), led
expeditions 1831-33 and 1845-6.
On Parkside estate subdivision ad c 1915
it is shown as Mitchell Street.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stranger’
Museum
CL
Council pamphlet
re place names
DP
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
File RD 000/5 Pt 1
Internet
RD000/5 pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.terranullis.do
c
CL
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
& Oct 1976
CL
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 2007
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
Moani Ave
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kangaroo’
Moira Street
Sutherland
/ Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a ring tail
possum’
Originally (in 1882 subdivision plan by
Holt Sutherland Estate Co) extended to
Oakwood Street.
Part became Moira St West in 1937 & that
part became Galga St & Glenelg St 1986,
another section became Gailes Street 1986
Previously part of Peebles Avenue –
renamed GG 143 of 10/12/1971
Aboriginal word meaning ‘water’
(Victoria)
Mokera Ave
Molong Road
Kirrawee
Gymea
Bay
Mona Road
Menai
Mona Road
(DISC)
Wooloowa
re
Monash
Road
Menai
Monomeeth
Place
Monro Ave
Miranda
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘all rocks’
Previously part of Grays Road renamed
GG 72 of 3/8/1962 to avoid confusion
with Grays Point Road.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Possibly named after Mona island in
Wales. Menai & Bangor Welsh locations.
Many streets in area named after Welsh
locations.
Was at eastern end of what was then The
Boulevarde (which now part of Captain
Cook Drive). Mona St would now be on
Toyota site. Could be named after Mona
Island in Wales or after Gaelic word
which means ‘high born’
Probably named after Lieutnant General
Sir John Monash (1865-1931) Australian
military commander during WWI. Theme
for area is names of great Australians.
Aboriginal word for agreement,
benevolence, enjoyment
2 possible origins (1) Mr Cecil Owen
James (Joe) Monro (1883-1966) an estate
agent and publican was Councillor 19141941, 1943-53, Shire President 1917-18,
1922-27, 1939 and 1949-51. Member of
Legislative Assembly (1932-41, 1950-53).
(2) A Mr Monro had large house on
Kingsway midway between Acacia Road
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
1882 DP
CL
CL
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon, File R D
000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
CL
Rd 000/5 Pt 1
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 11 No
2 May 2008
1934 Gregory’s
Street directory
Internet
ADB online
CR
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Faces of the Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
& Oak Road. He was manager Arthur
Yates Seeds.
Montague St
Illawong
Montgomery
St
Mookara
Place
Mooki Street
Miranda
Moombara
Crescent
Port
Hacking
Moona Road
Kirrawee
Moonah
Road
Moonbi
Place
Moon Point
Road
Port
Hacking
Miranda
Alfords
Point
Kareela
Illawong
Moore Street
Sutherland
Moores Road
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blind’
Named after weekender (sometimes spelt
Moombarra) built 1881 by Richard
Cornelius Critchett Walker a trustee of
national park and Principal Under
Secretary in NSW Govt. Bought 1903 by
solicitor Arthur Wigram Allen (sold 1912,
bought back 1918, family sold 1949).
Name means ‘camping ground’
Aboriginal word for ‘plenty’.
Was originally to be called Alban Street
Aboriginal word meaning ‘gum tree’ or
‘eucalyptus tree’
yacht (overall winner 1955). Other streets
in this subdivision also named after
Sydney Hobart winning yachts.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ashes’
Near Moon Point headland between Great
Moon Bay & Little Moon Bay on Georges
River. Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Bays named due to their crescent shape
Named after Charles Moore (1820 -1905),
one of 10 original trustees of the Royal
National Park. He was a botanist and
director of Sydney Botanical Gardens.
Previously was William Street
Name discontinued.
Probably named after Charles Moore
(1820-1905) – an original trustee of Royal
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 10 No
1 February 2007
Aboriginal Words
& Place Name s,
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Endacott, Aust
Museum
CL
Endacott
Cooper
www.alldownunde
r.com
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Aust Museum
CL
Suths Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
& Feb 1986, ADB
Ran from Grafton Street (between Eton St
and Merton St) parallel to Rawson Ave
through to Lady Rawson Avenue.
Moray Place
Morella Lane
(DISC)
Moreton Rd
Sylvania
Waterfall
Illawong
Morley Street Sutherland
Name discontinued. Aboriginal word
meaning ‘hill’
Named after HMAS Moreton which was
stationed at Brisbane – therefore ship
probably named after Moreton Bay which
in turn was named after Earl of Morton by
Captain Cook in 1770. Street naming
theme in area is names of historical
nautical significance.
Was part of Minerva Street. Renamed
1986 when Council renamed parts of
streets split by railway or highway.
Named after suburb of Perth, Western
Australian . The Perth suburb believed to be
Cooper
CR/ Australian
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defense
1882 subdivision
plan
www.landgate.wa.
named after Charles William Morley, who
gov.au
farmed in the area during the 1860's & 1870’s.
ROC 25/11/1985 that names for parts of
File Rd 000/5 Pt 3
streets split by railway etc be “of towns and
Morna Place
Kareela
Morris Close
Menai
Morrison
Avenue
Engadine
Mort Close
Barden
Ridge
Moruya
Avenue
Sylvania
Waters /
Taren
Point
reference”
yacht (line honours 1947-48). Streets in
this subdivision named after Sydney
Hobart winning yachts. Renamed
Kurrewa IV.
Named after Arthur Morris (born 1922)
Australian cricketer. In group of streets
One of owner’s signatures on original DP
appears to be PL Morrison – this is likely
source of name
As streets in area named after early
Australian pioneers probably named after
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816-1878) wool
broker, businessman. He financed
development of refrigeration for storing /
transporting meat.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place down
south, a water crossing’, or ‘a water ford’.
Australian river.
www.alldownunde
r.com
Chronicle of the
20th Century
DP
ADB Online
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Mosman
Place
Barden
Ridge
Moseley
Street
(DISC)
Mountain St
Kirrawee
Mt Carmel
Place
Mowbray St
Engadine
Moyran
Parade
Grays
Point
Mulberry St
Loftus
Mulga Place
Kirrawee
Mullins Lane
DISC)
Sutherland
Mulyan
Street
Como
Mundakal
Avenue
Muneela
Place
Mungga
Kirrawee
Engadine
Sylvania
River is on NSW south coast. Moruya is
from an aboriginal word, mherroyah,
meaning "home of the black swan".
Theme for street naming in area is early
Australian pioneers. Probably named after
either Archibald Mosman (1799-1863)
merchant & pastoralist (who suburb of
Mosman named after) or his son Hugh
(1843 -1909) mine owner, member
Queensland Legislative Council.
Name discontinued
www.wapedia.mob
i
ADB Online
CL
relating to mountains (peak, sierra, alpine)
Mt Carmel is a coastal mountain range in Wikipedia
northern Israel near Haifa
First named in 1882 DP by Holt
DP
Aboriginal word meaning ’ancestor’.
Development Comt
19/8/1957 Council
file R/39/11
Previously Hacking River Crescent.
Name of type of tree. In group of streets
named after plants.
Aboriginal word for ‘acacia’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shield’
CL aborig names
Aust Museum
Or ‘boomerang tree’
Aust Museum
Renamed Robertson Lane GG 172 of
CL
31/10/1986
A Fred Mullins owned a corner grocery at Sutherland Shire –
Sutherland in 1930’s
a History to 1939
Frederick Adrean Mullins was councilor
Council website
1937-41
list of councilors
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place where
Aboriginal Words
the eagle hawks congregate’
and Place Names
Or ‘wedge tail eagle’
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Aboriginal word meaning ‘ in the bush’
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Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘winding river’
Ingamells
Waterfall
CL
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Street (DISC)
Munni Street
Murchison St
Murdock St
Wooloowa
re
Sylvania
Cronulla
Road does not physically exist. Now in
Heathcote National Park. Was originally
established to give access to Crown leases
Muronga
Place
Murralin
Lane
Kirrawee
Named after Thomas Murdoch (sic) an
original owner
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bullroarer’
Sylvania
Aboriginal word meaning ‘climbing’
Murrami
Avenue
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a crayfish’
Murray
Island
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Murray River is mostly
on NSW – Victorian border. In 1830
Captain Charles Sturt reached the river ,
named it Murray River in honour of the
then British Secretary of State for War
and the Colonies Sir George Murray.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big water,
plenty of water ’.
Or ‘track goes down here’, ‘very good
place’, ‘big water’.
Australian river – the Murrumbidgee river
in southern NSW.
Murrumbidgee means "big water" in the
Wiradjuri Aboriginal language.
Named GG 61 of 13/4/1951
A and L Muston were early settlers in
Sutherland area.
Murrumbidg
e Avenue
Muston Lane
Muttama
Sylvania
Waters
Sutherland
Kirrawee
Had a bakery on Princes Highway south
of Flora Street.
Albert & Les Muston ran bakery from
1914
Aboriginal word meaning ‘take it’
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CL Aborig names
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RD 000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Abor. Names,
Aust Museum
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i
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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i
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Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Suth Shire - Some
Early Residents
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1987
Aboriginal Words
Avenue
Committee minute – gives no meaning
Aboriginal word meaning ‘like it’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cliff lookout’
Mypolonga
Avenue
Myrtle Street
Gymea
Bay
Loftus
Myuna Place
Port
Hacking
Nabiac
Avenue
Gymea
Bay
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a wild fig tree’
Nagle Close
Menai
Nallada Road
Alfords
Point
Namara
Place
Nambour Rd
Engadine
Nambucca
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Named after Kelvin “Kel” Nagle golfer
known as “Pymble Crusher”. He won 6
Australian PGA titles, 7 NZ Opens, 7 NZ
PGA’s + 1960 British Open.
Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964
Aboriginal word meaning ’grass’ (eastern
NSW)
Queensland aboriginal word for ‘grass’.
Possibly ‘namarra’ aboriginal word for
‘mother’
Aboriginal word meaning’ tea tree, flame
tree, tea tree bark, red flowering tea tree’
Renamed Amitaf Avenue
Aborigina l word meaning ’crooked river’
Or ‘entrance to the sea’
Namoi Place
Sylvania
Waters
Nanardine
Lane
Engadine
Waterfall
Was previously part of National Avenue.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
named after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ’clear water’
From Aboriginal word meaning either
‘acacia tree’ or ‘breast’.
Named after Namoi River in northern
after an Australian river.
Meanings of name include: the Kamilaroi
'ngamu' for 'breast'; Aboriginal for ‘forked
stick’ ‘meeting of the waters’ or Nammoy
native name for a species of acacia.
(off Warabin St) Aboriginal word
meaning ‘a swallow’.
and Place Names
Development Com
Min 591 7/7/1958
(LW)
CL Aborig names
Endacott, Cooper
CL
CL Aborig names,
Endacott, Cooper,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
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Aust Museum
Internet
CL
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
www.nswrail.net
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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i
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
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Napier Street
Engadine
Naranga
Avenue
Engadine
Naranganah
Avenue
Narooma
Place
Gymea
Bay
Gymea
Bay
Narraga
Place
Narran Place
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Caringbah
Nathan Place
Engadine
National
Avenue
Loftus
National Park
Road (DISC)
Sylvania/
Kirrawee
Nattai Street
Loftus
Lane named 2003. Name suggested by
Progress Assoc to fit in with aboriginal
word theme
As near Auckland St likely named after
City of Napier in NZ. City named c 1854
after Sir Charles Napier hero of battle of
Meeanee in India
Possibly ‘narang’ aboriginal word for
‘little’, ‘a small creek’
Or ‘open ‘ (Northern Australia)
Counc il file
98/1997
Aboriginal word meaning ’a zania palm
growing in water’ or ‘a magic stone’.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Likely named after town on NSW south
coast. In groups of 6 streets named after
South Coast towns ( Nowra etc)
Aboriginal word meaning’ dry, ripe’
Name discontinued GG 72 of 25/7/1958
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hungry place’
Was in area now southern section of
Caringbah High School.
In 1972 subdivision with part of Dunlea St
so possibly named after George Nathan a
Jewish bookmaker who ran fund raising
carnivals at Sydney Sports Ground to
raise funds to help Father Dunlea run
Boys Town in early 1940’s.
Part renamed Myrtle Street. Likely so
named as was part of ‘ The Great National
Park Estate’ Subdivision 1933
Part renamed Princes Highway GG 155 of
21/10/1941 In past also known as The
Sydney Road. Was built in 1879 from
Thomas Holt’s property Boundary (Park
Lane) to Audley to access National Park.
Part renamed Farnell Avenue. Shown on
1882 DP as ‘Illawarra or National Park
Road”. Subdivision was by Holt
(See also Illawarra Road)
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
www.archives.org
CL
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
DP
ADB Online
CL
CL
DP
Aboriginal Words
Needlebrush
Close
Neil Street
Alfords
Point
Bundeena
Nelson Street
Engadine
Nemesia Ave
Caringbah
Nepean Place
Sylvania
Waters
Nerang Road
/ Lane
Nerida Road
Cronulla
Nevin Close
Menai
Newcombe
Street
Maianbar
New
Illawarra
Road
Menai /
Barden
Ridge
Newland
Place
Engadine
Kareela
Named GG 136 of 16/10/1970
Named after type of tree. In subdivision
where streets named after trees/ plants.
Named after Neil Mobbs of the family
that owned the estate. Previously
Parkwood Street renamed GG 135 of
16/9/1938
As adjoins Trafalgar and Victory Streets
would be named after Lord Horatio
Nelson, 1 st Viscount Nelson, who
commandeered British naval fleet at
Battle of Trafalgar against Frenc h/
Spanish fleet October 1805
Genus of annuals, perennials and shrubs
native to Africa. Several other streets in
area named after plants.
Australian river. Nepean River is to west
of Sydney. Named to honour Evan
Nepean Under Secretary of State for the
Home Department c 1789 who had been
involved in organizing First Fleet.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘little’
yacht - overall winner 1950. Streets in this
subdivision named after Sydney Hobart
Yacht Race winning yachts
area after Welsh locations probably
named after Nevin a shipping port / town
in Caernarvonshire in North Wales
In 1840 a George William Newcombe
purchased 30 ac land on the southern
shore of Port Hacking at Fisherman’s Bay.
Part in Barden Ridge was part of Old
Illawarra Road
So called as new route of road to South
Coast (Illawarra)
Captain James Ernest Newland (18811949) won VC for action France April
and Place Names ,
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CL
Internet
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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r.com
Echoes From the
Bay & Maianbar
By Carrick,Christie
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.au
Nicholi Place
Alfords
Point
Nicholson
Parade
Cronulla
Nicolson
Circuit
Menai
1917
A type of eucalyptus tree known as
peppermint gum. In subdivision where
names are those of trees/ plants.
Two possible origins for name.
Captain T Nicholson was Captain of
steamer Koonya which was shipwrecked
off Cronulla (Boat Harbour) in 1898.
John Barnes (Jack) Nicholson was local
MLA circa 1894 – 1907.
He was MLA for Illawarra 1891-94,
Wollongong 1907-1917.
As adjoins Ewos Pde also named after a
politician it is more likely that is named
after JB Nicholson.
Probably named after Wilfred Nicolson –
preacher , secretary & treasurer at Menai
Congregational Church & / or his family
Dulcie, Ethel, Joyce. The family were
early market gardeners in area.
Nimoola Rd
Wilfred Nicolson moved to area 1903
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘pointed rock,
h
small rocky peak’
Or “pointed rock’, ‘ a big stone’
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a steep slope’
Ninth
Avenue
Jannali /
Loftus
Nioka Place
Caringbah
Nirimba
Crescent
Heathcote
Nixon Place
Bonnet
Bay
Noble Close
Menai
Nimbin Place
1964 till 2006 parts were known as Ninth
Avenue North/ South. Ninth street in
respective subdivisions.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a green hill’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘nesting place
of the pelican’
Or ‘pelican’
Named after Richard Milhous Nixon 37 th
US President (1969 -1974). That Bonnet
Named after Montague Alfred “Monty”
Noble (1873-1940), cricketer and dentist.
Played in test 1898 to 1909. In
Internet
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
a History to 1939
NSW parliament
website
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Aboriginal Words
Place Names , CL,
Aust Museum
www.defence.gov.
au
Endacott
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Internet
Nolan Ave
Norfolk
Place
Norseman
Place
North Lane /
Street
Northbrook
Place
Northcote
Avenue
North East
Crescent
Northumberl
and Drive
North West
Arm Road
Engadine
Named after Sergeant Nolan an early
resident of Engadine.
He was a retired police sergeant and the
family moved into the area pre 1912.
Miranda
Unnamed lane in 1955 subdivision of
area. Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964
Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town. In
h
locations. Named by a gold prospector of
Nordic descent Lawrence (La urie) Sinclair
after his horse Norseman.
Gymea
Lane named 2004. Street named GG 1 of
24/1/1941. Created as a result of
construction of railway . Street so named
as is on north side of railway line.
Illawong
Possibly named after ship Northbrook
which bought immigrants to NSW 1878,
79. In line with theme of areanames of
Caringbah Named after 3rd Governor General of
Australia 1904-1908. Rt Hon Henry
Stafford Northcote, 1 st Baron Northcote of
Exeter (1846-1911). Street subdivided
1907. Nearby is Dudley St named after 4th
Governor General.
Lilli Pilli
Caringbah
Gymea /
Grays
Point
Name of Ship which Captain Cook was
master of c 1760 charting Canadian
coastline.
Previously was part of Resolution Drive
renamed GG 93 of 30/5/2003
Section from President Avenue to Forest
Road was part of Hotham Road till 1947.
Section from Forest Rd to Serpentine Rd
originally a right of way (1919 to 1954).
Middle part unnamed 1919-1930, named
Serpentine Road 1930-1947 then part of
NW Arm Rd. From Angle rd to creek was
ROW 1919-1947 the n became part of NW
Arm Rd. Creek to Grays Point Rd was
Coombs (or Coombes) Road 1930- 47
became part of North West Arm Rd GG
137 28/11/1947.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW)
Pgs 24-7 Engadine
1825 – 2001
DP
CL
Sheppard
CL
Internet ‘
Passenger ships
arriving in
Australia 1837-99’
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
www.nla.gov.au
CL
CL
Norval Place
Nottingham
Place
Novara
Crescent
So named as it parallels North West Arm
of Port Hacking
Illawong
Passenger ship UK to Ta smania 1832 .In
1835 took sheep and cattle to help
establish settlement in Victoria. In line
with theme of areanames of historical
nautical significance
Yowie Bay As adjoins Sherwood Avenue would be
named after town of Nottingham in
England.
Jannali/
Named after location in Italy by James
Como
Murphy manager, director, shareholder in
First named on 1888 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a black
cockatoo’ or ‘two’ or ‘you and me’.
Coast locations (Huskisson, Conjola etc)
so would be named after town of Nowra.
Previously Dunumbral Street.
Nowra Place
Gymea
Bay
Noyana
Avenue
Nulgarra
Avenue
Nullabor
Place
Grays
Point
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bright’
Bay
Yarrawarra From latin – nulla = no, arbor = tree.
h
Named after Nullabor Plain in Western
Australia - in subdivision where all
streets named after WA locations.
Caringbah 1947- 2005 parts known as Nullaburra
Road North /South. Named 1909.
Word as whole not in dictionaries but
nulla = no/not, burra =busy so “Not busy”
Engadine / Section in Heathcote name discontinued.
Heathcote Name of ancient roman hill fortress in
northern Spain.
Woronora Aboriginal word meaning ‘wood’ or ‘a
river with good water’.
Formerly part of Prices Avenue/ Circuit.
Menai
Name discontinued. Part became part of
Coachwood Crescent, rest closed in 1983.
Was crown Rd from early 1920’s, named
by Council 1930.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘long nosed
shark’
Jannali
Aboriginal word meaning ‘left arm’
Nullaburra
Road
Numantia
Road
Nundah
Place
Nurrung
Road (DISC)
Nyardo Place
Wikipedia
Como Public
School 1884-85,
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools.
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
www.publish.csiro.
au, Aust Museum
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
Nyinya Ave
Gymea
Nymboida
Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Nyngan
Place
Miranda
Nyrang Place
Kirrawee
Oak Road
Kirrawee
Oakham
Street
Sylvania
Oaks Street
Cronulla
Oakwood St
Oakwood
Way
O’Brien
Place
Sutherland
Menai
Ocean Place
Illawong
Ocean Street
Ocean
Esplanade
(DISC)
Ocean Road
(DISC)
Ocean Grove
Avenue
Ocean View
Street
Barden
Ridge
Cronulla
Cronulla
Cronulla
Aboriginal word meaning ‘this’
Or “here’ or “in this place’
Australian river. Nymboida River is in
northern NSW.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a cray fish’, ‘a
mussel’ ‘a place of many streams’ ‘a
purple beetle’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small’ or
‘little’
1947 to 2005 parts called Oak Road North
/ South.
In line with subdivision theme (eg Acacia,
Waratah Sts) named after species of tree.
First named in DP registered 1882.
Chester, Durham) named after towns
Counties. Is chief town Rutland County.
Probably named after “The Oaks” cottage
of Mr Edward Thorne at South Cronulla
(He was Secretary of Cronulla Progress
Association). In 1930 Sands spelt Oak.
Macq abo words
Wikisource-Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
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Aust Museum
DP
DP
Wikipedia
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Private Road
Various persons on ADB online with this
surname.
MD 2/23/4 Pt 1
Name reflects street’s proximity to ocean
Became The Esplanade
CL
Name reflected street’s proximity to ocean
Became Ewos Parade
CL
Cronulla
Wooloowa
re
Name may reflect that street had/ has
views to ocean. Alternatively could relate
to Patrick Dolan (early landowner in area)
whose house was called ‘Oceanview’
Pg 8 of A Pictorial
History of Cronulla
Odeon Place
Old Bush
Road
Old Coast
Road
Heathcote/
Engadine
Named after stone theatre structure in
Athens built 161 AD. In group of streets
with names linked to Classic Roman /
Greek places/ myths
Engadine / Named GG 22 of 18/2/1949. Now only in
Yarrawarra Yarrawarrah
h
Taren Pt to A walking track and later bridle path used
south end
by Aborigines and early settlers. Not a
RNP
road. Ran from Taren Point to Illawarra.
Old Ferry
Road
Illawong
Oldfield
Place
Menai
Old Illawarra
Road
Menai/
Barden
Ridge/
Illawong
Old Princes
Highway
Sutherland
/ Engadine
Old Taren
Point Road
Taren
Point
Old
Engadine
So named as is road to where old ferry /
punt across George’s River from Lugarno
landed.
Named after cricket wicket keeper
William Albert ‘Bert’ Oldfield (18941976). In Subdivision where streets
Follows route of 1843-1860 road to South
Coast that crossed Georges River at
Lugarno/Alfords Point then thru Menai
Met line of current highway at Engadine.
Surveyed 1843 by Thomas Mitchell built
1843-45 by Surveyor Darke.
Part in Barden Ridge became part of New
Illawarra Road, part Thomas Mitchell
Drive (GG 33-14/3/2008) and part Banks
Place (GG 161 of 3/10/2003). Part in
Engadine became Woronora Road, Part in
Illawong became Old Ferry Road, Fowler
Road (2003), Barker Close (1999).
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Also known on old maps as “ Sir Thomas
Mitchell’s Line of Road to the Illawarra”
Also known as the Wollongong Road
Highway relocated from middle of
Engadine to beside railway (former
Railway Parade) in 1967 and old highway
renamed Old Princes Highway
Road that went to location where ferry /
punt across river from Sans Souci to
Taren Point landed.
1971 parts of Smith St and Taren Point
Road renamed Old Taren Point Rd
Became Woronora Road GG 135 of
Internet
CL
1993 heritage
Study quoting
Cridland and 1893
Guide to National
Park
Internet
CL
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
CL
Wollongong
Road (DISC)
Oleander
Parade
Oliphant
Drive
Caringbah
Oliver Lane/
Street
Heathcote
Olivers Road
(DISC)
Lucas
Heights
Omar Close
Royal
National
Park
Illawong
Omaru Ave
Ondine Place
Miranda
Kareela
O’Neill Road
Menai
Onslow Place Sylvania
Ontario
Avenue
(DISC)
Wooloowa
re
Ontario
Close
Illawong
Opal Place
Gymea
1/11/1918. Also known as Old Illawarra
Road. So named as was part of road to
Wollongong
Named after flowering tree as are several
other streets in subdivision (Jacaranda etc)
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
(1901 -2000) - was involved in Manhattan
Project and development of atomic bomb.
Oliver Road became Oliver Street GG 146
of 16/12/1960. Lane named 2004. Named
in line with theme of naming streets in
area after government ministers / senior
public servants. Charles Nicholson Jewel
Oliver (1848-1920) was inspector of lands
1877, under Secretary of Lands 1880 on,
Railway Commissioner 1888-1907.
Became Wattamolla Road
Was name of Steam ship built 1896.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beautiful view’
yacht (line honours 1961, 68, Ondine II
1974). Streets in this subdivision named
after Sydney Hobart race winning yachts.
Named after Norman Clifford O’Neill
(1937-2008) cricket batsman (Tests 1958 65), later commentator. In group of streets
Adjoins Macarthur, Camden and Merino
Streets so relates to Macarthur Onslow
history sheep property near Camden.
Proposed name for western part
Castlewood St. Was in ‘Ontario Estate‘
subdivision. As rest of Castlewood St
already existed name changed so whole
street had same name
Named after a first fleet ship. Also a ship
with this name bought immigrants to
NSW in 1852. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Near but much later subdivision than
Ruby Rd. Likely follows gemstone theme.
www.ansto.gov.au
CL
Council file
95/2960
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online.
CL
Australian National
maritime Museum
website
Sugden
www.alldownunde
r.com
Internet
DP
Website ’Passenger
ships arriving in
Australian Ports
1837-1899’
DP
Ophir Place
Illawong
Orana Ave
Kirrawee
Orchid Street
Loftus
Ord Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Ordak
Avenue
O’Reilly
Close
Gymea
Bay
Menai
Orford Place
Illawong
Oriana Drive
Illawong
Orient Ave
Cronulla
Oriole Street
Orion Street
Woronora
Heights
Engadine
Orton Street
Barden
Probably named after Orient Line
merchant ship built 1891, scrapped 1920
which acted as Royal yacht bringing Duke
and Duchess of York to Australia for
Federation celebrations 1901. Was armed
merchantman in WWI. Ophir is the name
for the land of gold in the Old Testament
Aboriginal word meaning ‘welcome’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Named after type of plant, in group of
Australian (in this case WA) river. River
named after Harry Ord Governor of
Western Australia 1877-1880.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ to intend”
Named after William (Bill) Joseph
O’Reilly (1905 -1992) - Australian
cricketer and later sports journalist –
nickname “Tiger”. In subdivision where
Name of 4 Royal navy ships – sailing
ships 1695-98, 1698-1745, 1749-1783.
Destroyer 1916-21. Theme of areanames
Originally Jervis Drive renamed 10/1986
Probably Royal navy ship HMS Oriana –
there was also 2 cruise ships with name.
On early map (1920) shown as Oriental
Avenue and was near where Springall’s
Oriental Hotel was so possibly named
after hotel. From 1923 on maps/plans as
“Orient”. Alternatively name based on it
being at easterly “oriental” side of
peninsula.
Near streets with ‘star’ names ( Orion,
Andromeda) so would be named after the
constellation ‘ Orion” aka “the Hunter’
Named after Joseph Rennard Orton a
State Library of
NSW website
CL Aborig names,
Cooper, Aust
Museum
CL
Wikipedia
Wikisource-Moore
Internet
Wikipedia
CL
Wikipedia
DP
Wikipedia
Council Min 361
Ridge
Ortona
Parade
Osprey Drive
Otago Parade
Como
Wesleyan Methodist missionary (area has
In 1930 Sands misspelt as Oronoto Parade
but Ortona on original (1888) subdivision.
Murphy manager, dir ector, shareholder of
and 8 streets after locations in Italy.
Was previously part of Sproule Road
Possibly named after one of 5 Royal Navy
ships bearing this name. Theme of area –
Yowie Bay Probably named after City in New
Zealand. City name is from Maori word ‘
Otakou’ and means “place of red ochre’
Illawong
Otway Place
Illawong
Outlook
Circuit
Ovid Lane
(DISC)
Menai
Owen Place
Illawong
Owen Jones
Row
Menai
Sylvania
of 8/5/1989. File
MD 2/24/4
DP/ Sands
Como Public
School 1884-1885
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
CL
Wikipedia – List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
Possibly named after either (1)Admiral Sir Wikipedia
Robert Waller Otway a Royal Navy
officer in Napoleonic War (2) submarines
named after him (1st 1927-37, 2nd 196894 or (3) Warrnambool Steam Navigation State Library of
Co steamship c 1873 Theme of area –
NSW website
historical nautical significance.
Name discontinued. Was pathway running
between Albert Ave, MacFarlane Parade
and Henry Avenue at Sylvania. At the
time this pathway was the southerly
termination of the subdivision until the
three roads were extended to Box Road.
Ovid is English name for Roman poet
Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC – 17AD)
Probably named after Owen Stanley (1811
-50) Royal Navy officer surveyed north
east Australian and PNG coast – 1838, 41,
46-49. In line with theme of areanames
Owen Jones was an early local landholder
(1895), trustee of Menai School of Arts.
Also lamplighter at Menai
Owen and Julia Jones were early settlers
in area.
CL
Kirkby manuscript
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
Oxford Street
Sutherland
Oxley Ave
Jannali
Oxley Road
(DISC)
Cronulla
Oyster Bay
Lane / Road
Oyster Bay
/ Como
Ozone
Avenue
(DISC)
Cronulla
Ozone Street
Cronulla
Pacific
Crescent
Pacific
Parade
Pacific Street
Maianbar
Taren
Point
Caringbah
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
He named Bangor after Bangor in his
Suth Shire – Some
home country – Wales
Early Residents
Possibly linked to house + 6ac land
Sutherland Shire known as “Oxford Retreat’ built in 1881
A History to 1939
in nearby Linden St Sutherland by Charles pg 21
Wigzell who ran Turkish baths at Oxford
Suth Shire – Some
St in City. He was involved in building of Early Residents
church corner Oxford and Robertson
Streets in 1887.
DP
On 1886 map reproduced in SSHS
Street Names in
Bulletin it was shown as Robertson St and Early Sutherland
what now Robertson St shown as C lovelly Suth Shire Hist Soc
St.
Bulletin Feb 1986
As adjoins Mitchell Rd possibly named
after explorer, surveyor, naval officer
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley
(1785-1828) who explored inland NSW
Name discontinued. Possibly named after CL
explorer, surveyor, naval officer John
Internet
Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (17851828) who explored inland NSW. A
number of other streets in North Cronulla
area named after explorers.
Named after bay and bay named c 1840 – Council pamphlet
related to abundance of oysters in bay.
re place names. CL
Ozone Ave created 1928 to give access to
CL / DP
the front door of the Cecil Hotel including
having part of Cronulla Park Crown
reserve revoked – Owner of hotel was
COJ Monro (councilor/ shire president).
Possibly relates to ozone in sea air which
was considered to be good for the health.
DP
Name reflects that location has views to
Pacific Ocean
Retirement Village.
Possibly due to distant view to Pacific
Ocean.
Paddison Av
Gymea
1947-2005 parts were called Paddison
Named after Charles Victor Paddison
who was the owner of the land prior to
subdivision of “Gloria View Estate” 1924
Street naming theme in area is names of
Became part of Cecil Street GG 81 of
5/7/1974. Ran from south end of Cecil
Street to Langer St on 1934 street map
CL
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
CL Aborig names,
www.publish.csiro.
au, Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Page Avenue
Illawong
Palm Street
(DISC)
Dolans
Bay
Palm Lane
Dolans
Bay
Illawong
Palona
Crescent
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hawk’
Pambula
Road
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘two waters’
Panama
Close
Illawong
Pandala
Place
Paneth Street
Wooloowa
re
Lucas
Heights
Panorama
Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Palmer Close
Paperbark
Place
Paraka Close
Alfords
Point
Bangor
Pare Avenue
Paringa Place
Loftus
Bangor
Paris Place
Miranda
Park Avenue
Sutherland
DP
CL
Endacott, Cooper
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887-1958) who
studied chemicals with radioactive
isotopes.
First created in 1942 subdivision of
Panorama Estate – state first created 1916.
Woolo oware House was known as
“Panorama” likely source of estate name
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flower’
www,ansto.gov.au
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘place at the
river’
Named after capital of France . Seine Pl
(river in Paris) in same 1967 subdivision.
Name discontinued. Was boundary
Cooper & Council
file MD 1/11/P1
DP
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1992
Endacott, Cooper,
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
(DISC)
Park Lane/
Place
Park Road
Caringbah
Park Street
Sutherland
Park Road
(DISC)
Heathcote
Parkes Street
Heathcote
Maianbar
Parkinson’s
Road (DISC)
Parklands
Avenue
Heathcote
Parkside Ave
Miranda
Park Station
Road (DISC)
Grays
Point
Parkview St
Miranda
Parkwood
Menai
Drive
Parkwood
Bundeena
Street (DISC)
Parland
Illawong
between Riyal National Park and Thomas
Holt’s land
When area subdivided circa 1912 was
called Park Road. Lane named 2005.
Street goes to what was when it was
created the boundary of the Royal
National Park.
First named in 1886 subdivision. Name
probably relates to proximity to National
Park.
Former name for Jacana Grove Heathcote.
Renamed GG 68 of 15/7/1955 due to
confusion of having 2 streets near each
other with similar names (Parkes St on
west side of railway). Near edge RNP
Due to time of naming (on 1886 plan) and
proximity to what was then Robertson
Road very likely it was named after the
Sir Henry Parkes Premier of NSW 187283 and 1887-91 in Parkes- Robertson
government of NSW.
An informal early name for Princes
Highway from Tom Ugly’s Bridge to
Sutherland – so called as was surveyed by
Surveyor Parkinson in 1864.
Area subdivided and road created 1955
had been “Whiteman’s block’. Near edge
of Royal National Park.
Named for its location - it adjoins
Seymour Shaw Park.
Became Warren Avenue. With Florence
Parade it was route from Gray’s Point to
National Park Railway Station – thus so
named.
Previo usly named Bay View Street (name
changed Govt Gaz 80 of 16/7/1948).
So named as has view of Kareena Park/
Camellia Gardens which were formerly
Matson’s Pleasure Grounds.
So named 1930 to 1938 the n renamed
Neil Street GG135 of 16/9/1938
Named after supply ship
CL
Pgs 89-90 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote Sutherland Shires
1st settlement , CL
DP
Pgs 25, 33 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote.
first settlement
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin April 1973
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote
Sutherland Shires
first settlement
CL
CL
CL
MD 1/11/P1
Close
Paroo
Avenue
(1984)
Sylvania
Waters
Parr Road
(DISC)
Heathcote
Parramatta St
Cronulla
Parramore
Place
(DISC)???
Parraweena
Road
Lucas
Heights
Parsons Place
Barden
Ridge
Parthenia
Street
Partridge Av
Caringbah/
Dolan’s
Bay
Miranda
Parys Close
Menai
Caringbah
/ Miranda
One of 30 streets in area named after a
Australian river. Paroo River is in
southern Queensland and western NSW.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fish’
Or ‘flatfish’
An early name (c WW2) for Jacana Grove
Heathcote.
(possibly a typo of Park as it was
originally Park Road)
Aboriginal word meaning either ’head of
the river’, ‘the place where the eels lie
down‘ or ’a dark jungle’.
Cronulla was - “quite a Parramatta Town:
in fact they call their streets Parramatta
Street and other names connected with
Parramatta” and people from western
suburbs built weekenders / holiday homes
in area.
William Thomas Parramore – public
servant (Australian pioneer theme)
Cooper
Aust Museum
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
first settlement
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Cooper & Aust
Museum
Sutherland Shire to
1939. Quoting
from 1908
Tramways Report
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘parrots
camping place’. Was original name for
Taren Point area.
Name first on 1894 DP.
Parraweena Road was original name for
Taren Point, was adopted for first building
in area Atkinson’s dairy and then for road.
Theme in area is early Australian pioneers
so could be named after one of Charles
Octavius Parsons (1799-1863) pastoralist,
Sir Herbert Angus Parsons (1872-19450
judge and politician or John Langdon
Parsons (1837-1903) politician.
Title of first printed collection of music
for the keyboard in England from c 1611.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1977
WEG (Walter) Partridge was the manager
of the Miranda Co-operative Society for
many years and also had a market garden
from c 1920 near Gwawley Creek.
area after Welsh locations named after
Parys Mountain near Bangor on the Isle of
Echoes From the
Bay & Gateway to
the South - First
Stop Sylvania
Internet
ADB online
Wikipedia
File MD 1/11/Pt 1
Pascha Place
Kareela
Patonga
Place
Engadine
Patterson Rd
Heathcote
Pavia Road
Como /
Jannali
Peach Tree
Lane
Kirrawee
Peachtree
Way
Peak Street
Menai
Peebles Ave
Kirrawee
Engadine
Peel Place
Sylvania
Waters
Pelican Place
Woronora
Heights
Sylvania
Pembroke St
Anglesey in North Wales.
yacht (overall winner 1970) – possibly
spelt Pacha. Streets in subdivision named
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a small
wallaby’
One of group 12 streets named after poets
(mostly Australian). Named after Andrew
Barton ‘Banjo’ Patterson (1864-1941)
poet, journalist, solicitor .
Development Control Unit resolution
23/8/1978 roads in area to be named after
poets.
Named after town in northern Italy. In
group of streets in original subdivision
(1888) all named after places in Italy.
Named GG 162 of 27/12/1968.
Council resolved to rename July 1955
following request from Mrs D Cucksley
(nee Gilmore) daughter of late G Gilmore
who had orchard there since 1910
Private Road.
Named after type of fruit tree.
Adjoins Sierra and Alpine Sts so name
relates to mountain ‘peak’
Part was renamed Mokera Avenue GG
143 of 10/12/1971. As adjoins streets
named after Scottish towns (Stirling St,
Argyle St) would be named after town of
Peebles in Scotland south of Edinburgh.
Australian river – Peel River in northern
NSW runs through Tamworth.
Likely named after former name of HMS
Endeavour –it was ‘Earl of Pembroke’.
This is supported by extension of
Pembroke St being in same subdivision as
creation of Endeavour St.
Was first named in 1882 DP by Holt
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig. Names
& Cooper & Aust
Museum
ADB
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
DP
DP
CL
Council File
R/39/11
CL
www.visitbritain.c
om.au
CR
DP
Penguin
Place
Peninsular
Road
Woronora
Heights
Grays
Point
Penmon
Close
Menai
Penprase
Lane
Miranda
Penrose
Place
Peppercorn
Place
Peppermint
Grove
Percival Rd
Perina Close
Menai
Perry
Crescent
Perth Street
Engadine
Peru Place
Illawong
Google maps
CL
Internet
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
p 408 (LW)
CL
Kirrawee
Engadine
Caringbah
Bangor
Kirrawee
Peryman
Square
Cronulla
Peter Place
Gymea
Bay
Woronora
Heights
Petrel Place
Sutherland Estate Co/ James Murphy.
Alternatively could be named after town
of Pembroke on west coast of UK, west of
London. Other E-W streets in subdivision
UK towns (Melrose, Snowden)
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part renamed
Mansion Point Road GG 142 of
5/12/1969, Part renamed Grays Point
Road GG 109 of 28/8/1970. Name reflects
that it is road along the peninsular.
named after Penmon a town in Wales near
Menai Strait.
Named after Penprase family who
operated a large general / hardware store
on north west cnr Kiora Rd & Kingsway
Named GG 6 of 19/1/1962
Named after Beryl Penrose local early
resident.
Named after type of tree also known as
wollybutt tree or Eucalyptus longiflolia
Internet
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kingfisher ‘
Endacott, File MD
1/11/P1
In same subdivision as Argyle Place,
Stirling Ave and Inverness Place so area
has Scottish theme. Perth is Scottish city
north of Edinburgh.
- not a street only a locality / urban place
Jim Peryman a member of North Cronulla
Surf Life Saving Club from 1940 to 1950.
He drowned in 1950 during a surf rescue.
Faces of the Shire
Petticoat
Lane (DISC)
Heathcote
Phillip Street
Oyster Bay Named after Governor Arthur Phillip
Phillip’s
Lane (DISC)
Sutherland
Philip Street
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Phoenix
Place
Illawong
Pickworth
Place
Menai
Pierce Place
Bonnet
Bay
Pilbara Place
Grays
Point
Pilliga Place
Bangor
Pinaroo Place
Gymea
Bay /
Miranda
Loftus
Pindari Ave
Pindrie Street
Pine Lane
Former name of Heath Lane
Was off Prince’s Highway
Now Boyle Lane. Early unofficial names
were Blacksmith’s Lane and Leather
Lane. Named after 2 brothers Charlie and
Bill Phillips who had business on corner
of lane.
In 1930 Sands spelt Phillip but Philip on
DP. Possibly named after surveyor who
did original 1912 subdivision – Philip
William Rugale.
Named after Horace Henry Alfred ‘Ossie”
Pickworth (1918-1969) golfer. Won 4
Australian Opens, 1 Irish Opens. In group
Named after 14 th US President Franklin
Pierce (1853-1857). That Bonnet Bay
As adjoins Hammersley Road likely that
name relates to Pilbara region in Western
Australia.
swamp oaks’ or ‘head of scrub oak’
Or ‘swamp oak’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘old man’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘high ground’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘grasshopper’
(Central Australia)
Engadine
Pg 97 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement
Short History of
Oyster Bay ( LW)
1930 Sands
directory
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 1974,
Nov 1981
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aborigina l Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum, MD
1/11/P1, Cooper
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon, Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon, Cooper
Pine Street
(DISC)
Pines Parade
Gymea
Pinnacle St
Pin Oak
Grove
Pioneer
Drive
Pioneer Road
Miranda
Menai
Pippita Place
Bangor
Piriwal Close
Bangor
Gymea
Menai
Cronulla
Piron Place
Woronora
Heights
Pitt Street
Loftus /
Sutherland
Pituri Place
Alfords
Point
Plover Street
Grays
Point
Poinciana
Row
Polk Place
Menai
Pollard Place
Sutherland
Polo Street
Kurnell
Bonnet
Bay
Renamed Dwyer Street GG 123 of
3/7/1953
Named due to pine trees in area (including
along Sylvania Road)
Named after type of tree – in subdivision
where all streets named after trees.
local pioneers
In 1930 Sands as Pioneer Street. Possibly
named after “Pioneer“ the ferry that ran
from Cronulla to Audley c 1909 – owned
by W A Hodgkinson. Alternatively named
because pre subdivision owners / persons
adjoining streets named after (Windsor &
Wilshire Sts) were pioneer settlers in area.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small hawk’
Was Pyree Street renamed GG 79 of
29/4/1988
Aboriginal word meaning ’leader’
Possibly named after bird painter Antoine
Piron. In subdivisio n where most streets
are types of birds.
Probably named after English politician
William Pitt (as is Pitt St Sydney, Pitt
Town)
Tree with narcotic properties – Duboisia
Hopwoodii
streets named after birds – group known
Flowering tree. In subdivision where
streets named after trees
Named after James Knox Polk 11th US
Possibly named after Francis Claude
Calvin Pollard, Councilor 1948-53.
Part became part of Captain Cook Drive
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Jan 1977
Illustrated History
of the Sutherland
Shire
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
CL Aborig names,
Aust museum
Wajnryb
Internet
Aust Museum
Grays Point Story
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Councillors list on
website
Poplar Place
Kirrawee
Popperwell
Drive
Menai
Porter Road
Port Hacking
Road
Engadine
Sylvania –
MirandaCaringbah
Portland
Close
Illawong
Portmadoc
Drive
Menai
Portside
Drive (DISC)
Grays
Point
GG 134 of 27/8/1954
Possibly named after Marco Polo in line
with theme of explorers who saw Pacific
Ocean. Name first registered in 1882 DP.
Off Waratah Street, near Oak St so likely
follows theme of tree names.
Will Popplewell was early settler in area.
Name may be misspelling of their name.
Popperwell family lived in area 1890’s
but moved back to city later.
John and Will Popplewell of Bangor
served in WW1 in Gallipoli and France.
John died at Gallipoli. Settled Menai 1899
Named GG 22 of 18/2/1949
Named after Port which named after
Henry Hacking explorer and first pilot
(ship) at Port Jackson. Matthew Flinders
named Port after him.
Section through Caringbah Shops
renamed Kingsway GG 175 of 20/10/1916
Part south of Kingsway called Port
Hacking Road South 1949 to 2005.
Replaced a former informal road from
Horse Rock Point to Little Turriel Point at
Port Hacking was formalized as parish
Road in Gaz 678 of 30/10/1888/ name
“Port Hacking Road” in 1892 where it
replaced part of Madeira Street.
Probably named after either convict ship
‘Duke of Portland‘ 1809 or immigrant
ship ‘Portland’ 1832, 33, 38, 40, 41.
In line with theme of naming stree ts in
named after Portmadoc (also spelt
Porthmadog) in North Wales.
Swallow Rock Drive’s original proposed
name in 1969 subdivision. Was proposal
to build marina on river thus source of
name.
DP
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
A History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1989
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Place Names of
Australia A W
Reed
CL
Internet– ‘Convicts
to Australia’ &
‘Passengers ships
arriving in Aust’n
ports 1837-99’
Grays Point Story
Portsmouth
Street
Cronulla
Portview
Place
Post Office
Avenue
(DISC)
Burraneer
Poulter Ave
Power Place
Engadine
Menai
Pozieres
Street
Wooloowa
re
Prahran Road
Engadine
Premier
Street
President
Avenue
Gymea
President
Lane
Caringbah
Preston Ave/
Lane
Engadine
Prices
Woronora
Cronulla
Caringbah
–
Sutherland
Named by John Atkinson (early councilor,
quarry owner) who owned land before
subdivision. Named after birth place –
town of Portsmouth UK – of his second
wife Lydia Moore. Adjoining Richmount
Street which named after his birthplace
Has view of bay (port)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1995.
- essay by his
grandson.
Renamed Laycock Avenue GG 83 of
24/6/1927. So named as it ran from
Curranulla St (now Cronulla Plaza) to the
then location of Post Office (at corner
Gerrale St and Nicholson Pde)
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin July 2005
Named after Australian athlete.
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
Named after David (Dave) Power, long
www.kemblajogge
distance runner. Won 1958 Empire Games rs.org.au
marathon, 3rd 10,000m 1960 Olympics.
Named by Charles McAlister local
Place Names of
resident and shire President after WW1
Australia
French battle (25 July 1915) in which
Australian troops took major part.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘almost
Place Names of
surrounded by water’
Aust
1947 to 2005 parts called Premier Street
North/ South
Named to honour 1st shire president
Suth S Hist Soc
William G Judd.
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
Was originally called Woronora Road till 1882 and 1909
after 1909
subdivision plans
Part was Sutherland Road renamed GG
CL
175 of 20/10/1916
Named 2005
CL
So named as it adjoins President Road
which was named to honour first shire
president
Preston family early residents of Engadine Suth S Hist Soc
from early 1920’s. Lane named 2003.
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375 (LW)
Mr J Preston (died 1946) owned large
Engadine NSW: an
areas of land in Engadine.
outline history
1930 M Preston ran store and Post Office 1930 Sands dir.
So named when Price family land
CL
Avenue
(DISC)
Prices Circuit
Priest Place
Primrose
Place
Prince Street
Prince
Charles
Parade
Prince
Edward Park
Road
Woronora
Barden
Ridge
Loftus
Cronulla
Kurnell
Woronora
Princes
Highway
SylvaniaEngadine
Princes
Parade
(DISC)
Kurnell
subdivided 1922.
Former name of Prices Circuit renamed
GG 127 of 2/10/1970. Part became
Nundah Place.
Named after Thomas Price and family
who settled in area 1899 and who
operated first ferry across river. So named
when Price family land subdivided 1922.
Thomas Price and family 1 st settlers of
Woronora in 1899. Price family operated
ferry across Woronora River before first
bridge built 1912.
Previously Prices Avenue renamed GG
127 of 2/10/1970.
On pioneer local settlers list 1992
Name of plant genus. In group of streets
named after plants.
Was in Beach Park Estate – first stage
submitted to Council in 1920. Street first
registered in 1924. As Prince Edward
(later King Edward VIII) visited Australia
in 1920 likely named after him.
Originally Princes Parade renamed GG
185 of 23/9/1949. Named after Prince
Charles who was born in 1948.
Named after HRH Prince Edward who
visited Australia in 1920
Previously Bridge Road, Derwent Street
and part of Thorp Road. Renamed GG 24
& 80 of 1948)
Name given after the 1920 visit of Edward
,Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)
Was called South Coast Road. Part
became Rawson Avenue. Sections
through Sutherland and Engadine
Named in 1882 DP.
Renamed Prince Charles Parade GG 185
of 23/9/1949.
Likely named after Princes Albert ( Duke
of Clarence) and George ( Prince of Wales
– later King George) who visited Kurnell
August 1881 during tour of Australia
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW) & pg
19 From Sails to
Atoms
CL
File MD 1/11/P1
DP
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 374 (LW)
CL
Place Names of
Australia
CL
DP
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2001
Prior Close
Production
Road
Prospect
Place
Purley Place
Putland
Close
Pyree Street
Quail Place
Quallee P lace
Quarrion
Place
Illawong
Taren
Point
Como
Cronulla
Kirrawee
Bangor
Woronora
Heights
Engadine
Woronora
Heights
Queanbeyan
Avenue
Miranda
Quessy Lane
Jannali
Quest
Avenue
Quiberee St
Quist Place
Raglan Road
Railway
Crescent
So named as in Industrial area
Previously Searl Street renamed GG 124
of 24/11/1972.
Possibly named after London suburb of
Purley the name of which is from Anglo
Saxon word ‘ pirlea’ meaning ‘pear tree
lea/ field’.
Named after Mrs Putland daughter of
Governor Bligh.
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘place of box
trees’
Part became Piriwal Close GG 79 of
29/4/1988
Old name for an iron pot
Scientific name for type of Australian
native bird – the cockatiel. In subdivision
where streets are types of birds.
Named after NSW town which was
named after aboriginal word meaning
‘clear water’
Article in Leader 9/12/2004 (pg 12) said
“Mrs Shepherd ….. had the nearby lane
named Quessy Lane in memory of her
parents”. Mr Quessy had built 1st 2 shops
in Box Rd and owned 3 shops in Railway
Crescent (letter from daughter 2003)
Miranda /
Yowie Bay
Miranda
Aboriginal name for Lavender Bay on
Sydney Harbour
Menai
Named after Adrian Quist (b1913) winner
17 Grand Slam titles, played Davis Cup
1933-39, 1946, 1948. In group of streets
Miranda
Jannali
Named as located adjacent to railway line.
Named in 1900 DP. Road curves with
CL
Wikipedia
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Wikipedia
www.centralpets.c
om
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Leader 9/12/2004
File 95/3210
www.livingharbour
.net
www.tennis.com.a
u
DP
Railway
Parade
Railway
Parade
(DISC)
Railway
Parade
(DISC)
Railway Rd
Engadine
Heathcote
Sutherland
Como
Railway
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Rainbow
Place
Kareela
Raine Place
Barden
Ridge
Raleigh Ave
Caringbah
Ramu Court
Sylvania
Waters
Randell Ave
Range Place
Lilli Pilli
Engadine
curve of railway line so crescent shaped.
Had extended into Heathcote in 1886 –
that section renamed Willandra Road (GG
6/7/1962).
Named officially GG 135 of 1/11/1918
So named as adjoins railway line
Name discontinued
So named as adjoined railway line
Renamed Princes Highway (now Old
Princes Highway) GG 155 of 21/10/1921
Named “The Railway Parade” in DP
registered 1886.
So named as adjoins railway line. Name
first registered 1888 DP.
So named as ran to railway line. Ran E-W
to railway on 1886 map. Became
Illawarra Street and then part of Flora
Street
yacht (overall winner 1967). Streets in
race winning yachts.
In line with theme in area of naming
streets after early Australian pioneers
Named after either Thomas Raine –
mariner and merchant who established
first mainland whaling station at Twofold
Bay in 1818 or his brother John,
speculator & merchant.
Thomas Raine explored parts of the Great
Barrier Reef
Adjoins streets (Drake, Frobisher) named
after English sailors/explorers so probably
named after Sir Walter Raleigh - English
writer, soldier, explorer (1522-1618)
Ramu is a major river in Papua New
Guinea. As other streets in area named
after Australian rivers this street probably
named after this river.
related to mountains (eg mountain, peak,
sierra, crest)
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
first settlement p25
CL
CL
DP
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography
1788-1850 (LW)
Council 18/4/1988
(File MD 2/22/7)
Place Names of
Aust. AW Reed
Wikipedia
Rani Place
Kareela
Rata Place
Sutherland
Rathane
Road
Royal
National
Park
Loftus /
Sutherland
Rawson
Avenue
Rawson
Parade
Caringbah
Raymond
Place
Recreation
Drive
Redbush
Grove
Redfern
Place
Engadine
Redgum Ave
Redman Ave
Cronulla
Illawong
Redwood Rd
Reef Street
Engadine
Bundeena
Reeve Place
Barden
Ridge
Barden
Ridge
Menai
Gymea
yacht (overall & line honour winner
1945). Streets in subdivision named after
Sydney Hobart race winning yachts.
Aboriginal word for ’plant, vegetable’
Aka Rathane Telford Road
Access to Anglican Youth Camp. Named
after historic houses on site.
Northe rn part still exists, southern part
now part walking track , part Lady
Rawson Avenue on north eastern side of
tramway line. Section from Sutherland to
Highway was formerly part of Princes
Highway. Was constructed along route of
Lady Rawson Avenue and connected with
Illawarra or National Park Road.
Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson
State Governor when Shire formed 1906.
He was Governor 1902 – 1909. He lived
1843-1910 and prior to being Governor
was admiral in British navy from 1892
Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson was State
Governor when Shire formed in 1906.
Street subdivided / named 1907
Private Road. Name reflects that accesses
recreation facilities.
Named after type of tree in line with
theme of subdivision – tree names.
Named after Dr William Redfern (1774 1833) – convict surgeon, transported due
to involvement in mutiny at Nore. Was
government Assistant Surgeon 1808-19.
early colonial historical significance.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
In line with ‘beach’ theme of subdivision
(Malib u, Beachcomber, Bombora)
Possibly named after B Reeve an early
resident of the Menai area
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Pre 1946 map on
microfiche Local
History collection
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
ADB online
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
CL
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Regatta Ave
Regent Place
Church
File MD 1/11/P1
Caringbah
Illawong
Reid Place
Illawong
Reliance
Place
Illawong
Renard Close
Illawong
Renford
Close
Menai
Renmark
Place/ Street
Renown Ave
Engadine
Reserve Rd
Kurnell
Resolution
Drive
Caringbah
Miranda
Restormel
Street
Wooloowa
re
Rialto Place
Heathcote
Named after HMAS Reliance which
CR/ Australian
entered Port Jackson on 25th Septe mber
Encyclopedia –
1895 with George Bass and Matthew
Exploration by Sea
Flinders as officers. Theme of areanames
Named after Des Renford (1927-1999),
long distance swimmer and swimming
coach. Swam English Channel 19 times,
first time 1970. In subdivision where
streets named after Australian swimmers.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘red mud’
after HMS Renown ship on which Prince
Edward (later King Edward) visited
Australia on in 1920. Adjoins in same
subdivision as Edward St.
Named GG 83 of 31/7/1959. Adjoins
Botany Bay National Park. So named as
adjoins reserve
Part renamed Northumberland Road GG
93 of 30/5/2003
Named after Ship Resolution which
Captain Cook had been a Commander of.
Council minutes says ‘in keeping with
adjoining road names’ (adjoins Captain
Cook Drive).
Resolution was the ship he commandeered
on Second Pacific voyage ( 1772)
Restormel is a castle in Cornwall UK. In
subdivision (DP 7331) where streets
named after castles (Glandore, Locksley)
Name of bridge in Venice built in the 16th
century. In group of streets with names
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
National Library o
Australia website
CL
CL
Development
Control Unit Min
58 of 4/2/1981
www.nla.gov.au
Internet
DP
Internet
Ribbon Gum
Close
Rice Lane
Richards
Avenue
(DISC)
Richmond
Avenue
Richmount St
Rickard Road
Ridge Road
Ripple Street
linked to Classic Roman / Greek places/
myths.
Alfords
Point
Sylvania
Named 2004. Named after Captain
William and Honoria Rice who built
house at Sylvania and operated one of first
stores in area and opened first post office
in Shire. Honoria ran Post Office 1883 –
1909. Daughter Clara opened 1st school in
Shire. Name suggested by 2 residents and
a local historian.
Illawong
Name discontinued. Part now Redman
Avenue. A George Thomas Richards was
a Hurstville Council alderman 1898-1900
when Illawong area was in Hurstville
Council. On 1934 Gregory’s map shown
as Benson Avenue.
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Named after Richmond
River is in northern NSW. River named in
1828 by Captain Henry John Rous after
Charles Gordon – Lennox the 5th Duke of
Richmond.
Cronulla
Named by Mr Manor
Was originally Richmount Road
John Atkinson (1 of the 1906 councilors)
built a house on a 2 ac lot he bought 1895
and called it ‘Richmount’ – named after
Manor of Richmount, Armagh, Northern
Ireland where he was born in 1843.
Oyster Bay Named after Arthur Rickard local
developer and estate agent.
The company subdivided the ‘By the
Water’ Estate at Oyster Bay as well as
subdivisions at Caringbah and Cronulla.
Engadine
Travice de Witt took up a 5 and ¾ acre lot
in 1931. He cleared a track to his land
from Woronora Road and was invited to
name the ‘road’ As the road ran along a
ridge and he had lived in Ridge Road in
London he chose the name “Ridge Road’
Kareela
CL
Council file
95/3210
Hurstville Council
website. A History
of Hurstville
Council elections
ADB online &
Wikipedia
Leader 9/3/1989 p
22 , CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 9 No
4 , Nov 2006
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
a History to 1939
Engadine 18252001
www.alldownunde
r.com
Rival Street
River Road
River Road
Riverglen
Place
Riverhaven
Place
Riverside
Road
Riverview
Avenue
Riverview
Road
Roberts St
Robertson
Lane/ Street
Robertson
Lane
Robertson
Road (DISC)
Kareela
Sutherland Originally called Mersey Road. Name
reflects location – it leads to river.
Woronora Name reflects location – it leads to river.
Named 1909.
Engadine
So named as near Woronora River, ‘glen’
means valley
Oyster Bay Private road
Royal
National
Park
Wooloowa
re
Oyster Bay
Jannali
Sutherland
Sutherland
Heathcote
www.alldownunde
r.com
DP
Name reflects location beside Port
Hacking River below Audley weir
Name reflects that river can be viewed
from area.
from area.
Named by Intercolonial Investment, Land
& Building Co Ltd in 1900 DP. Named
after Lord Roberts who was involved in
Boer War. Adjoining streets ( Buller &
White also named after prominent Boer
War figures)
Named after Sir John Robertson – 5 times
Premier of NSW , he conceived idea of
bequeathing a national park for the people
Lane previously Mullins Lane renamed
1986.
Street named in 1887 DP.
Street on 1886 plan reproduced in 1986
SSHS Bulletin ran E- W (where now
Oxford Street) and what now Robertson
Street was shown as Clovelly Street.
Previously Mullins Lane renamed 1986
Early names were Una Lane and “What –
a-Lane’
Section of Rosebery Street north of Veno
Street shown as Robertson Road on 1886
subdivision plan. Named after Sir John
Robertson (1816-1891) MLA 1856-86,
DP
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
CL
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
Works Comt
31/8/1959 Council
File R/39/11
Pg 25 and 33 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote
Robin Place
Robinia
Place
Robinson
Street
Robvic
Avenue
Rocklea
Crescent
Roebourne
Street
Roebuck
Place
Roentgen
Street
Roker Street
Roma Place
MLC 1861,1879-81 – 5 times NSW
Premier, who conceived idea for RNP.
Nearby was / is Parkes Street named after
Sir Henry Parkes NSW Premier (1879) –
the then NSW Government was the
Parkes – Robertson government.
Renamed as part of Rosebery Street GG
15 of 4/2/1949
Named as Robertson Street in 1900 DP.
Caringbah Site had been part of Atkinson’s clay
quarry.
Alfords
Named after genus of North American
Point
flowering trees. In subdivision where
streets named after trees/plants.
Wooloowa As adjoins Alfred St and Alfred Saunders
re
and James Robinson owned land in estate
immediately before its subdivision
probably named after James Robinson.
Kangaroo
Named after ROByn and VICki Richards
Point /
daughters of Mr and Mrs Richards of
Sylvania
Kangaroo Pt landholders in area
Sylvania
Was George St, renamed GG 161 –
1/10/1954
h
which was named to honour John
Septimus Roe, first Surveyor General of
Western Australia. In group of streets
named after WA locations
Illawong
‘Roebuck’ was explorer William
Dampier‘s ship in 1699. In line with
theme of areanames of historical nautical
significance
Lucas
Heights
Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923) discovered
X-rays in 1885. Won 1921 Nobel Prize
for Physics.
Cronulla
Named after waterfront house ‘Roker’
Built pre 1908 (as extended by builder
Allen Blood in 1908)
Sylvania
Possibly named after Queensland town
which was named after Lady Diamantina
Roma Bowen, daughter of Count Roma, a
Venetian nobleman. In 1966 subdivision
with Gilbert and Leichhardt Streets which
named after 2 explorers whose 1944-45
expedition past through Roma area.
CL
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
DP
Oral history (LW)
CL
Wikipedia
www.ansto.gov.au
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939
Wajnryb
DP / ADB online
Romley Road
Rona Street
(DISC)
Roosevelt
Place
Kurnell
Lilli Pilli
Roper
Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Rose Street
Rosebery St
Cronulla
Heathcote
Bonnet
Bay
Rosegum
Place
Alfords
Point
Rosemary
Row
Rosemont
Place
Roseneath
Place
Rosewall
Drive
Menai
Rosewood
Row
Menai
Gymea
Bay
Engadine
Menai
Name discontinued
Named after either one or both of
Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President
1901-1909), and/or Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (32nd US President 1933-45).
Australian river. Roper River is in
Northern Territory and runs into Gulf of
Carpentaria. Named after John Roper one
of Ludwig Leichhardt’s team explored
area in 1845.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Named after Archibald Philip Primrose
5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929) who
spent 2 years in Australia 1883 -84. Was
British Prime Minister in 1894-95. On
1886 DP section north of Veno Street was
shown as Robertson Road. That section
renamed Rosebery St GG 15 of 4/2/1949.
Spelt Rosebery on original subdivision but
sometimes Roseberry Street on later maps
Originally proposed to be ‘Bloodwood
Place” but early residents objected to
name so changed.(1984)
Named after type of plant. In subdivision
where streets named after trees and plants.
Plan pg 25 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote –
Sutherland Shires
first settlement
Name of towns in Victoria and
Queensland.
Named after Ken Rosewall (born 1934)
Australian tennis player. Winner 18 grand
slam titles, played Davis Cup 1953-56,
1973-75. One of group of streets named
after Aus tralian tennis players.
Named after species of tree. In
trees.
Wikipedia
CL & DP’s
Internet, BDCA
Rossford
Avenue
Jannali
Rostrevor St
Cronulla
Rouse Place
Illawong
On 1951 subdivision DP owner’s
signature is CR Ross – so likely street was
named after owner.
In 1930 Sands directory as Rosstrevor.
Named after house “Rostrevor”
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bull
Royal Row
Royal Oak
Drive
Ruby Road
Menai
Alfords
Point
Gymea
Rufus Ave
(Or St / Rd)
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Rulwalla
Place
Ruse Place
Gymea
Rutherford
Avenue
Rutherford
Avenue
Burraneer
Ryan Place
Illawong
Illawong
Lucas
Heights
Near and in same subdivision as Garnet
and Crystal Sts – likely gemstones theme.
First named in 1882 DP registered by Holt
Sutherland Estate Co / James Murphy
Name discontinued / In 1931 Wilson’s
Street Directory in approximate location
of Horns Avenue.
Rufus means ‘red’ in Latin
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a very large
stone’
Rutherford family had a property
Willamurra in Woolooware Road.
sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) who
won 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He
discovered radon and predicted existence
of neutron.
Sage Avenue
Bundeena
Possibly named after Australian polar
explorer John Riddoch Rymill (1905-68)
Engadine
Named after nearby ford across the
Woronora River which was named Pass of
Sabugal by Surveyor Mitchell circa 1843.
Sabugal is a town on the coast of southern
Portugal.
Oyster Bay Named after Fred Sage pioneer of area.
Sail Place
Illawong
Rymill Place
Sabugal
Road
Named GG 115 of 1/12/1944
DP
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Echoes from The
Bay
www.ans to.gov.au
Chronicle of the
20th Century
Engadine 18252001
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
CL
St Andrews
Place
Cronulla
St George
Crescent
St Lukes
Way
Salisbury
Place
Sandy
Point
Kangaroo
Point
Gymea
Bay
Salix Place
Engadine
Samuels
Avenue
Jannali
Sand Place
Illawong
Named after St Andrews Church of
England Church
Formerly part of Burrane er Bay Road
renamed after railway line cut this section
off - GG 8 of 19/1/1940
CL
(private road)
Thomas and Victoria Salisbury settled at
Gymea Bay in 1917 and lived there till
their deaths (1952/1962). Original house
still stands
Name of genus of trees including
Weeping Willows and other Willows
Was originally shown as “The Short Cut”
on subdivision plan. Renamed 1954
Sutherland Shire
Some Early
Residents
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
DP, 1934
Gregory’s Street
Directory
Sandbar
Place
Sanderson
Street
Sandpiper
Place
Sandra Place
Lilli Pilli
Sandy Road
San Remo
Avenue
Satinwood
Close
Saunders
Place
Burraneer
Gymea
Saunders Bay
Road
Cronulla
Woronora
Heights
Miranda
Alfords
Point
Menai
Caringbah
Named after Thomas Alfred Sanderson an
original owner
family.
CL
Name of City in northern Italy.
Wikipedia
Possibly named after Don Saunders an
early resident of the Menai area
J E and JJ Saunders owned large acreages
east and west of Billa Rd in early 1900’s
Previously part of Burraneer Bay Road
(renamed GG 135 of 1/11/1918).
Probably named after Thomas Saunders
Reflections- Menai
Congregatio nal
Church
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1986
CL
Folder in Library
Saville Road
(DISC)
Scarborough
Street
Schofield
Place
Scott Place
Scribbly
Gum Place
Scylla Road
Seaborg
Street
Sea Breeze
Lane
Seabrook
Avenue
Seaforth
Avenue
Searl Road
Searl Street
(DISC)
Seaview St
an oyster shell gatherer who burnt shells
for lime in area. He lived in Georges
River area from c 1846-62.
Kareela
Name discontinued. Ran north from Box
Road where approximately Freya Street is
now. Road named c 1923, closed c 1964
and included in Kareela subdivision,
Bundeena
English beaches.
First named in 1886 registered DP.
Menai
Name on pioneer settlers list 1992
There was a Scholfield's boat shed at
Woronora during WW2.
Kirrawee
As adjoins Eyre Pl and Wylie St would be
named after E B Scott who was Edward
John Eyre’s assistant and acco mpanied
him and aboriginal guide Wylie on
explorations in South Australia 1840/41
Alfords
Point
Oyster Bay Named after the sea monster in Greek
mythology
Lucas
Heights
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912- 1991)
who discovered plutonium and other
radioactive elements and isotopes
Bundeena
Unnamed till 2005
Assoc
Grays
Area subdivided by Scarff family. Gordon
Point
Scarff’s mother in law’s maiden name
was Winifred May Seabrook. She was
wife of Shire Councilor Reg Harris. One
of owners when subdivided (1974) was
Harry Reginald Seabrook.
Wooloowa 1911
re /
Cronulla
Cronulla
Cronulla
Renamed Purley Place GG124 of
24/11/1972
Cronulla
On Parkside Estate Subdivision Ad c 1915
it is shown as Sea View Street.
Name reflects that street has /would have
had sea views.
Local History
collection.
1934 Gregory’s
Street Directory
The Bundeena
Book
DP
File MD 1/11/P1
Kirkby Index
ADB
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
www.ansto.gov.au
CL
File 03/00764
Grays Point Story
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 2007
Sebastopol
Waterfall
Street (DISC)
Second
Avenue
Second
Avenue
(DISC)
Sedgeman
Avenue
Jannali ,
Loftus
Gymea
Bay
Seine Place
Miranda
Selwa Place
Kareela
Sequoia
Grove
Menai
Serpentine
Road
Kirrawee /
Gymea
Menai
Sevenoaks
Place
Jannali
Seventh
Avenue
Severn Road
Jannali,
Loftus
Woronora
Shackel Road Bangor
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Was built as
road to Sebastopol Trig station. Now part
a dirt track, rest part of Heathcote
National Park. Sebastopol is Russian town
which French & British besieged in 185455 during Crimean War. Is in area that
was used for artillery training in early
1900’s when NSW still had its own army.
This and other locations in area also
named after battles.
Second street in respective subdivisions.
CL
Renamed Horns Avenue GG 113 of
6/8/1937.
Named after Frank Sedgeman Australian
tennis player – born 1927, winner 22
Grand Slam titles, played Davis Cup
1949-52. In subdivision where streets
As adjoins and in same subdivision as
Paris Place, Place named after Seine River
in France. Name in DP registered 1967.
Tibetan word meaning ’luminous, clear,
awake’
Named after genus of very large Northern
Californian coniferous tree known as
Californian Redwood
Road GG 137 of 28/11/1947. Named GG
65 of 30/5/1930.
Name probably relates to snake like shape
of road. Nearby rock outcrop is known as
Snake Rock
Adjoins Tunbridge Place. Sevenoaks is
town in Kent UK near town of Tunbrid ge
Wells.
Seventh street in respective subdivisions
BDCA
www.abc.net.au
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
CL
Grays Point Story
Wikipedia
Named after Severn River in UK – longest
river in Britain. In group of streets near
Woronora River named after UK rivers
(Tay, Liffey, Thames, Mersey)
Shackel family was early landowner in
Menai Congrega
area.
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
Shand Close
Illawong
Sharn Street
Kurnell
Sharon Place
Shaw Close
Engadine
Barden
Ridge
Shearwater
Avenue
Shell Road
Sheoak Place
Shepherd St
Sherwood
Avenue
Shiprock
Road
so possibly named after either Thomas
Shaw jnr (1827-1907) Victorian
pastoralist or William Henry Shaw ( 1830
-1896) engineer / ironmonger st Ballarat.
Woronora Named after type of bird. In subdivision
Heights
Burraneer
Name first appears on subdivision plan for
auction of Dolan’s Estate 1889.
Alfords
Common name for Casuarina glauca trees.
Point
trees / plants. Named 1983.
Kurnell
Street does not physically exist. Legally
gazetted.
Yowie Bay As adjoins Nottingham Place would be
named after Sherwood Forest in England
Port
Named after a nearby rock in water which
Hacking
resembled shape of a ship
Shipwright
Place
Shire Lane
(DISC)
Oyster Bay
Shirley Road
Miranda /
Taren
Point
Illawong
Shoal Place
Road runs through land the 3 Shackel
brothers David, Walter Frederick and
Alfred owned from c 1897 till c 1916
Possibly name relates to Major J B Shand
who was one of MLA’s for area 1923-27
local resident. Letter from resident saying
Sharns were only weekend residents. File
says street known locally as ‘Sharn Street’
Caringbah
Name discontinued.
Old Street plan c 1955 indicates ‘pathway
15 feet wide’ adjacent to Lots 30 & 31 in
DP 16933 as ‘Shire Lane’ – was between
end of Meta Street & Captain Cook Drive.
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin No 57
Aug 1986
From Sails to
Atoms
CL
Council file
R/39/11
Council 7/12/1987
(file MD 2/22/3-6)
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
– F Cridland
Shoalhaven
Road
Sylvania
Waters
Shore Close
Illawong
Australian river. River , which is on NSW
South Coast, was originally named
“Shoal’s Haven”
Shorland Ave
Short Avenue
Jannali
Bundeena
Short Street
Short Street
Short Street
Heathcote
Oyster Bay
Wooloowa Named after Norman Short as it was
re
access to his abattoir (which was on
eastern side of ‘resting paddocks’ land
which is now golf course). He had butcher
shop Gerrale St Cronulla.
Lucas
Heights
Dr Clifford G Shull (1915-2001) Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1994 for development
of neutron scattering techniques.
Kareela
yacht (overall winner 1958, 60, 66).
Streets in subdivision named after Sydney
Hobart race winning yachts.
Engadine
Adjoins Peak St and Alpine St so name is
in line with theme relating to mountains.
Means in Spanish ‘a range of mountains
with jagged peaks’.
Kurnell
When area subdivided in 1926 it was
described as being “on a delightful stretch
of silvery beach”.
Heights
Menai
where streets named after trees.
Miranda
Shull Drive
Siandra
Drive
Sierra Road
Silver Beach
Road
Silvereye
Court
Silverleaf
Row
Silverwater
Crescent
Simon Close
Simpson
Road
Named after land owner at time of
subdivision Linda I Short
Title information
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 8 No
3
www.ansto.gov.au
www.alldownunde
r.com
www.thefreedictio
nary.com
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
File PR 4684 letter
21/10/1999(LW)
Illawong
Bundeena
Named after either George Simpson
original grantee or his son William
George Simpson who built a house on
property which later became hotel. Was
part of ‘Port Hacking Hotel Estate’
The Bundeena
Book
DP
Sindone
Place
Singleton
Place
Caringbah
Sir Bertram
Stevens
Drive
Sirius Place
Royal
National
Park
Engadine
Sir Joseph
Banks Drive
Kurnell
Kirrawee
Sir Thomas
Mitchell’s
Line of Road
to the
Illawarra
(DISC)
Sixth Avenue Jannali ,
Loftus
Skillcorn
Jannali
Avenue
Skye Place
Engadine
Sladden
Road
Engadine
Slessor Place
Heathcote
Small Road
Illawong
Smarts
Crescent
Burraneer
subdivision.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part became
part of Bundeena Drive GG 86 -13/9/1963
Greek word – root is sindon meaning
“winding sheet’ or ‘shroud’
Private road. In same Dept of Housing
Subdivision as Maitland Place so would
Singleton which is named after Benjamin
Singleton one of the party who discovered
area in 1820.
Named after Sir Bertram Sydney
Barnsdale Stevens (1889-1973) MLA
1928-40, NSW Premier 1932-39
In group of streets with star names (Orion,
Andromeda) so would be named after
brightest star in night star “Sirius’ aka
“The Dog Star’
Named GG 63 of 30/5/1969
Named after Sir Joseph Banks – naturalist
on Endeavour.
Name on early maps for the Old Illawarra
Road. Also known as the Wollongong
Road. Was route surveyed by Sir Thomas
Mitchell Colonial surveyor.
CL
Newcastle Council
Library website
ADB Online
Internet
CL
Sixth avenue in respective subdivisions
John Skillcorn was councilor 1944-50,
1953-56 and Shire President 1947
Named after Isle of Skye in Scotland. In
group of streets (with Lochiel, Braeside,
Gort etc) named after Scottish locations.
Named in 1966. Probably named after
Reg Sladden a local resident who fought
in WWII and was killed in Greece in 1941
famous poets. Named after Kenneth Adolf
Slessor (1901-1971) Australian journalist
and poet - most known poem ‘Five Bells’
Named after original settler Mr Smart
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online,
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Smith Street
Taren
Point
Smith Street
(DISC)
Engadine
Snowden Av
Sylvania
Snow Gum
Place
Snowy Place
Alfords
Point
Sylvania
Waters
Solander
Street
Kurnell
Soldiers
Road
Solo Street
Jannali/
Como
Kareela
Solvieg
Crescent
Kareela
Sorell Place
Barden
Ridge
EM Smart was one of owners of land in
1939 when subdivided.
The family lived in area from c 1912 (had
boarding house/dining rooms at Cronulla)
Part became part of Old Taren Point Road
GG 31 of 19/3/1971.
A Smith family lived in vicinity in early
years.
A Smith family bought nearby Gwawley
Bay oyster leases off Thomas Holt c 1918.
Probably named after Erskine Samuel
Land Co owner when area subdivided in
1914
Part closed 1968 /70. Rest became Hakea
Street in 1973. Possibly named after Mrs
Marjorie Lyle Smith who had first house
along street on land leased from Lands
dept since c 1946.
Sutherland Estate Co and James Murphy.
Probably named after Mount Snowden the
highest mountain in Wales.
Australian river. The Snowy River starts
at Mt Kosciusko in Southern NSW and
flows into Victoria.
Named after Dr Daniel Carl Solander ,
Danish naturalist and assistant to Sir
Joseph Banks on Endeavour.
Named in 1882 DP
First named during WWI so probably so
named to honour soldiers serving in war.
yacht (overall winner 1956, line honours
1958, 59). Streets in subdivision named
1953) – possibly spelt Solvig. Streets in
Streets in area named after early
Australian pioneers. So probably named
DP
Sands directories
CL
Map in Sylvania
Back Then
Council info
CL
DP
Wikipedia
DP
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
Sorrento
Place
Burraneer
Soutar
Avenue
(DISC)
Cronulla
South Lane/
Street
Gymea
South Coast
Road (DISC)
Southern
Freeway
Spencer
Place
Various
Spoonbill
Avenue
Woronora
Heights
Spring Lane
Heathcote
Sproule Road
Illawong
after William Sorrell (1775-1848) soldier
and lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman's
Land (Tasmania) 1817-1824.
Probably named after Italian seaside town
of Sorrento which is located south of
Naples opposite the Isle of Capri.
Renamed as Links Avenue 1957/61
As in Golf Links Estate (1921) and
adjoins Kirkwood Ave which named after
J H Kirkwood professional golfer likely it
was named after D G Soutar, a Scot, who
was the Manly Golf Club professional and
J H Kirkwood’s coach.
24/1/1941. Created as result of
construction of railway. Street so named
as runs along south side of railway line
Old name for Princes Highway
ADB Online
Possibly named after 2nd Earl Spencer,
George John Spencer, 1st Lord Admiralty
(1794-1801). In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Named after type of waterbird. In
subdivision where all streets are types of
birds.
Named 2004
Named after Gerald Spring (1830-1888)
Secretary for Lands 1885-86 in line with
apparent theme of naming streets in area
after government ministers when area
originally subdivided.
Parts became Austin Street, Stanley Place
and Osprey Drive.
Named after John Sproule Hurstville
Mayor 1890-1, 1897-98, Hurstville
Alderman 1888-94, 1895-1900. Illawong
was part of Hurstville Council till 1921.
were streets named after trees / plants
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Name
reflects that street runs along spur (ridge).
Lane unnamed till 2005.
Street named after an original land holder
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
CL
DP
ADB Online
CL
Waterfall
Illawong
Spruce Grove
Menai
Spur
Crescent
Stacey Street/
Lane
Loftus
Cronulla
CL
Council File
95/2960
CL
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
CL
CL
A Short Authentic
Stanley Place
Illawong
Stansell Ave
Jannali
Stapleton
Ave
Sutherland
Station Street
Engadine
Station Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Steele Way
Bangor
Stephen Rd
Stevens Ave
Engadine
Miranda
Stirling Ave
Kirrawee
Stolle Close
Menai
Stonebridge
Place
Stow Place
Gymea
Bay
Illawong
Strassman
Crescent
Lucas
Heights
(1895 on)– Mr Edward Stacey.
Possibly named after James Henry
Stansell, councilor 1950-56
Stapleton family early residents of
Sutherland (house where Council library
is now corner Stapleton St & Belmont St)
They had an abattoir at Heathcote circa
late 1880’s
Charles Harvey Stapleton first butcher in
Sutherland District 1896. Family also had
bakery at Cronulla and orchard at
Sutherland.
Family also had orchard at Miranda
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918
So named as adjoins railway station
Became Boyle Street GG 26 of 20/2/1947
Was so named as adjoined railway station.
Pathway not road. Named after Mr Edwin
Steele who did survey work for Council
for many years and died c 1980.
History of Cronulla
CL
Possibly named after Stevens family –
Henry D and son Perce who lived in
Miranda c 1880 to 1894 involved in 1st
Miranda Progress Association
Inverness Place and Perth Street so has
Scottish theme. Stirling is Scottish town
north east of Glasgow.
Named after Fred Stolle tennis player
(born 1938). Won 18 Grand slam titles,
played Davis Cup 1961, 62, 64-66. In
tennis players.
Named after nearby natural stone bridge
Echoes from the
Bay – The Yowie
Bay story.
Fritz Strassman (1902-1980) – work
included radioactive dating of rocks.
Council website
list of councilors
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Pg 36 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
Faces of the Shire
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
CL
CL
DP
File MD1/11/P1
www.tennis.com.a
u
www.ansto.gov.au
Stretton Lane
Illawong
Strickland
Street
Heathcote
Stringybark
Place
Strome Street
(DISC)
Alfords
Point
Kirrawee
Struen Marie
Street
Kareela
Struthers St
Stuart Close
Cronulla
Illawong
Sturt Road
Wooloowa
re
Sulus Lane
(DISC)
Sutherland
Sumner
Avenue
(DISC)
Kareela
Sumner St
Sutherland
Sunbury St
Sutherland
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Original
purchasers of land in 1898 were Louisa
Townson Stretton Swayne and Lydia
Philby Stretton Swayne so likely named
after their 3rd names.
First named on 1900 DP. So would NOT
be named after Sir George Strickland
NSW Governor 1913-17. Possibly named
after Sir Edward (1821-1889) British
Army officer and senior public servant
who settled in Sydney in 1882 and was
involved in Geographical Society and was
friend of NSW politicians,
Name discontinued. Name of a ruined
castle in Scottish Highlands and a village
in Alberta Canada
yacht (overall winner 1951). Most streets
in subdivision named after Sydney Hobart
Created / named 1911
Named after Stuarts House owned by
Alexander Stuart.
therefore named after Charles Sturt (17951869) who explored Murrumbidgee /
Murray 1829, Central Australia 1844-46.
Name discontinued.
In distinct name in Wilson’s Street
Directory 1931 in location of Grays Lane.
Ran off west side of Saville Road (which
was equivalent to modern Freya St).
Possibly Named after south western
suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.
1986 – section of The Boulevarde West
from Jannali Ave to unmade system
renamed Sumner Street.
Named after south western suburb of
Brisbane, Queensland. ROC 25/11/1985
that street names for renaming parts of
streets split by railway etc be “of towns
and places using the post code directory as
a reference
1986- section of The Boulevarde West
CL
DP
CL
Wikipedia
www.alldownunde
r.com
C records
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
Library card index
File RD 000/5 pt 1
www.ourbrisbane.c
om
Library card index
Sunnyside
Avenue
Caringbah
Sunset Ave
Superba Ave
Surf Lane/
Road
Cronulla
Cronulla
Cronulla
Surrey Place
Surveyor
Avenue
Kareela
Heathcote
Susan Place
Gymea
Bay
Bundeena
Sussex Street
(DISC)
Sutcliffe
Place
Barden
Ridge
Sutherland
Lane/ Street
Sutherland
from River Road to unmade section
renamed Sunbury Street
Named after suburb of Melbourne,
Victoria which was named after Sunburyon- Thames in Surrey England which was
named after Saxon chief Sunna. ROC
25/11/1985 tha t street names for renaming
directory as a reference “
Named after Frank Cridland’s architect
designed house ‘Sunnyside’ which was in
street (F Cridland wrote books re shire
history) and his Sunnyside wine bar N E
corner Kingsway & Willarong Rd.
RD000/5 part 3
Wikipedia
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
Surf Lane was Gilders Lane – renamed
GG 61 of 23/5/1969. Road was Yowie
Street renamed GG 175 of 20/10/1916
Possibly named because it was the road to
“Surf Park’ the former name of the
reserve now called “Cronulla Park”
CL
Adjoins ‘Lunar Ave’ so probably named
Internet
Name discontinued. Now in RNP.
First named in 1886 DP. Named after
English Beach theme
As streets in area named after Australian
pioneers possibly named after either
transporting meat. Or George Gribben
Sutcliffe (1895-1964) Commonwealth
public servant.
Part became President Avenue GG 175 of
GG 20/10/1916
Would relate to name of suburb which
came from railway station which was
named after Hon John Sutherland, at 1
DP
ADB Online
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire M
Hutton Neve
Sutherland
Road
Jannali /
Como/
Sutherland
Swallow
Rock Drive
Grays
Point
Swan Street
Lilli Pilli
Swan Street
Wooloowa
re
Sycamore
Grove
Sydney Road
(DISC)
Sylva Ave
Menai
Sylva Street
North/ South
(DISC)
Sylvan Lane
/ Street
Sylvania
Road
Miranda
Miranda
Sylvania
Sylvania,
Miranda ,
Gymea
stage NSW Minister for Works, who had
fought for extension to railway.
Eastern part named on 1886 DP. Section
west of railway named in 1887 DP.
No meaning given in Council minutes
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire M
Hutton Neve
Fin Com Min 405
10/8/1970 (LW)
CL
Northern part was previously part of
Grays Point Road, renamed GG 109 of
28/8/1970. Swallow Rock was an island in
Port Hacking shaped like a swallow (bird)
- due to silting it became part of large dry
area that eventually joined to the mainland
and forms part of Crown Reserve.
Originally proposed to be called Portside
Grays Point Story
Drive as original subdivision (1969) was
to include marina.
Area owned by Arthur Donovan Swan
prior to subdivision.
1947 to 2005 parts were called Swan
CL
Road was first named in ‘Panorama
Estate’ DP in 1917.
Named after species of large tree. In group
of streets named after trees/ plants
Alternative name for National Park Road,
Princes Highway. Road ‘to Sydney’
Created/ Named 1923. 1947 to 2005 parts CL
divided by railway line were called Sylva
Street North / South. In 2005 Sylva Street
North renamed Sylva Avenue . Sylva
Road South name discontinued and road
closed 1965. La nd included in residential
subdivision.
Now Sylva Avenue
Lane named 2003.
Sylvan means ‘rural like’
1947 to 2005 called Sylvania Road North/
South. In 2005 Sylvania Road North and
part of Sylvania Road South became
CL
Bay
Sylvan Ridge
Drive
Illawong
Sylvia Street
(DISC)
Tabard Place
Cronulla
Taft Place
Bonnet
Bay
Tagudi Place
Bangor
Taiwan Place
Sylvania
Talara Lane /
Road
Gymea
Illawong
Sylvania Road. Rest of Sylvania Road
South became Casuarina Road, Greygum
Place, Matong Place.
First shown as street name in 1886 DP
registered by James Murphy / Holt
Sutherland Estate Co. Named because of
sylvan like nature of area ( = rural like)
Renamed Coronation Avenue GG 99 of
19/7/1940
Name of short men’s coat (sleeveless or
short sleeved) from Middle Ages
Named after William Howard Taft 27th
US president (1909-1913).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘paddle’
It is off Formosa Street – island country of
Taiwan adjoins Formosa Strait
Aboriginal word meaning ‘frost or snow’
Or ‘rain’
1947 to 2005 parts called Talara Road
North/ South. Lane named 2004.
James Murphy/ Holt Sutherland Estate Co
Named after swimming coach Don
Talbot. Coached Australian team 1964-72
and 1988 +. In Subdivision where streets
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ear’
Or ‘ wild fuschia’ (Western NSW)
Talbot Close
Menai
Talinga Place
Lilli Pilli
Tallarook
Place
Tallong Place
Bangor
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a tongue of
land’ (peninsula) or a ‘spring of water’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘tongue’
Tallowwood
Alfords
A species of eucalypt. In subdivision
Or ‘sandhill’
Aboriginal word for ‘wattle bird’
DP
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
CL
Wikipedia
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Cooper, Endacott
Internet
Macq ab words
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Cooper, Endacott
MD1/11/P1, Aust
Museum, Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL of Aboriginal
names
What Tree is That
Close
Taloombi St
Tamar Street
Point
Cronulla
Sutherland
Tamarind
Place
Tamba Place
Alfords
Point
Port
Hacking
Engadine
Tamworth
Place
where streets named after trees/plants.
Possibly linked to River Tamar in south
west England – several streets to west of
Tamar St (Liffey, Thames etc) are named
after English rivers
Aboriginal word for ‘ibis’
Taplan Street
Como
Near Armidale St so would be named
after northern NSW town of Tamworth
which is named after town of Tamworth,
Staffordshire, UK.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘grass trees’
Tara Street
Kangaroo
Point,
Sylvania
Engadine
Name first registered in 1882 DP – by
James Murphy / Holt Sutherland Estate
Co
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a river bend’
Tarcoola
Place
Taren Road
Caringbah
Taren Point
Road
Taren
Point,
Caringbah
Taronga
Parade
Caringbah
Taronga St
Como
Probably named after town in South
Australia which named after goldfield
which in turn was named after horse that
won 1893 Melbourne Cup
Taren Road became Taren Road North
South in 1947. Taren Road North became
Taren Point Road in 1948. Taren Road
South became Taren Road in 2005.
Part previously Woodside Road.
Shown as ‘Tareen Rd“ on some surveys.
In early years also known as Commons
Point Road. Part became Old Taren Point
Road GG 31 of 19/3/1971. Part of Taren
Road became Taren Road North in 1947
and then Taren Point Road 1948.
view’
Or ‘ sea view’
place’
Or meaning ’sea view’
by S Macoboy
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
Wajnryb
CL
DP
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Adbonline.anu.edu.
au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
ADB online
Tasman St
Kurnell
Tathra Place
Gymea
Bay
Tatler Place
Tay Place
Woronora
Heights
Woronora
Taylor Close
Miranda
Taywood
Street
Wooloowa
re
Tea Gardens
Avenue
Teak Place
Teal Place
Tea Tree
Place
Tecoma St
Kirrawee
Miranda
Woronora
Heights
Kirrawee
Heathcote
Tedman
Parade
Telopea Ave
Sylvania
Tennant
Illawong
Caringbah
Named after Abel Tasman, explorer.
Aboriginal word meaning either ‘beautiful
country’ or ‘a place of native (wild) cats’
Named after south coast town of Tathra,
east of Bega. Is one of 6 streets in area
bearing name of a south coast town
Named after Tay River in UK- it runs
through central Scotland. In group of
streets near Woronora River named after
UK rivers (Liffey, Severn, Thames,
Mersey)
Named after Taylor Woodrow (Australia)
Pty Ltd the building and development
company which owned the land when the
land was subdivided.
Taylor Woodrow a UK building and
development company which sold their
houses as “Taywood Homes”. Their
Australian subsidiary was the owner of
land when this street was subdivided.
Street created in Tea Gardens Estate 1928
Adjoins Mulga Place so named after
species of Australian native tree.
Named after Central American plant
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
DP
Wikipedia
DP
Genus includes Yellow Bells, Yellow
Elder, Trumpet Bush
Pg 72 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Council selected name 1909. Type of
indigenous flora.
Botanical name for waratah
On some plans spelt Telopia Avenue
St George Call 10
April 1909 pg 1
Internet
Library microfiche
Menai Dpt Unit
Place
Tennyson
Place
Sylvania
Tenth
Avenue
Tergur
Crescent
Tern Place
Loftus,
Oyster Bay
Caringbah
Terrace Ave
Terranora
Place
Terrigal
Place
Woronora
Heights
Sylvania
Bangor
Engadine
Named after English poet Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809-92). Adjoins and in same
subdivision as Wordsworth Place also
named after English poet.
Tenth avenues in respective subdivisions.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to enclose’
Gymea
Thacker
Miranda
Street (DISC)
www.archives.org
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a small river,
estuary’
Or ‘small river’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place of little
birds’
Or just ‘little birds’
Thacker
Close / Street
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Who Did What
Edward Thacker was a Miranda pioneer
who moved to area from Kogarah in 1887
and established orchard on what had been
Blaxland’s “Old Farm”. He helped
finance and build Miranda School of Arts.
Was on Provisional Council 1906 and was
known as the “Father of Miranda”. Was
first president of Miranda Co-Op Society.
He had land bounded by Sylvania Rd, The
Boulevarde , Manchester Ave and almost
to Bondell Ave and another block where
now Talara Road.
Name discontinued.
Blaxland’s “Old Farm” (where now
Miranda Fair). He helped finance and
build Miranda Scho ol of Arts. Was on
Provisional Council 1906 and was known
as the “Father of Miranda”. Was first
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Cooper, Aust
Museum, Endacott
The Leader Feb
1967 (LW) /
RD000/5 pt 4
CL
Faces of the Shire
Echoes From the
Bay pg 185
Sutherland Shire
Some Early
Residents pg 108
Faces of the Shire
Echoes from the
Bay
Thames St
Woronora
Tharawal
Lane
Waterfall
The Avenue
The Avenue
The
Boulevarde
Heathcote
Bundeena
Caringbah,
Gymea,
Miranda,
Sutherland
, Kirrawee
The Circle
Jannali
The Circus
(DISC)
The Crescent
Jannali
The
Esplanade
(DISC)
The
Esplanade
The Grand
Parade
Cronulla
The Knoll
The Lambeth
Walk
The
Meadows
Fire Trail
Woronora
Sylvania
Sutherland
Miranda
Bundeena
Royal
National
Park
president of Miranda Co-Op Society.
Named after Thames River in UK. In
group of streets named a fter UK rivers
(Tay, Severn, Liffey, Mersey)
Name of traditional local aboriginal
people in southern Sydney. Named 2003
in consultation with Progress Association.
Named “Avenue” on 1888 DP.
Originally The Boulevard. Parts in
Sutherland became Linden Street and The
Boulvarde West (GG 145 of 1/10/1937).
The Boulevarde West section became
Sumner Street /Sunbury Street 9/5/1986.
Part in North Caringbah became part of
Captain Cook Drive GG 97 of 7/8/1970.
Previously The Circus renamed GG 137
of 28/11/1947.
Name discontinued. Renamed The Circle
GG 137 of 28/11/1947
Northern section became part of Prince
Edward Park Road 1948. Name reflects
shape of road.
Originally Ocean Esplanade. Originally a
Crown reserve for Access it is now a
Crown Reserve for public recreation
Previously part of The Promenade
renamed GG 135 of 15/12/1961.
20/10/1916. Part became The Grand
Parade East GG 12 of 28/1/1938. The
Grand Parade East section became Acton
Street GG 78 of 9/5/1986.
Name first registered 1882 DP by James
Murphy/ Holt Sutherland Estate Co.
In same subdivision with Manor Hill
Road and Huntingdale street. All three are
names of major golf courses. The Knoll
Golf Course is in New Jersey, USA
Name of dance
Fire trail not road
Council file
98/1997
DP
CL
See also Fin Com
262 18/5/1970, 361
of 20/7/70, Council
27/7/70
DP
CL
CL
CL
CL
CL
DP
Internet
The
Promenade
The Short
Cut (DISC)
Sylvania
The Trust
Road (DISC)
Sutherland
The Woods
Circuit
Third
Avenue
Menai
Thomas
Street
Thomas
Mitchell
Drive
Thompson
Avenue
Jannali
Jannali,
Loftus ,
Gymea
Bay
Wooloowa
re
Barden
Ridge
Illawong
Thompson
Avenue
Thomson
Avenue
Bundeena
Thornton
Place
Thorp Road
Kangaroo
Point
Woronora
Lucas
Heights
Part renamed The Esplanade GG 135 of
15/12/1961. Name means ‘the walk’
Renamed Samuels Avenue GG 134 of
27/8/1954. Was short cut from Oyster Bay
Road to Georges River Road.
Former name circa 1886 of the section of
Linden Street south of The Grand Parade.
So named as was then the boundary of the
Royal National Park which was run by a
trust. Became The Boulevarde then
Linden Street
In Subdivision where streets named after
trees.
Third streets in respective subdivisions
Named after NSW Surveyor General
Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
(1792-1855) surveyor and explorer.
Probably named after either John
Thompson, Hurstville alderman 18941900, 1900 -11 & Mayor 1896-97, 190002, 1910-11 or Frederick Gamaliel
Thompson Hurstville alderman 18921906, 1911-13, mayor 1899-1900. Area
Sproule and Griffin Streets nearby also
named after Hurstville mayors. First DP
with street name was 1913.
CL
CL
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
by F Midgley in
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
DP
Joseph John Thomson (b 1856) who in
1897 discovered the electron. He won
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906. His son
also won 1937 Nobel Prize for Physics.
www.ansto.gov.au
Named after Joshua Thorp, land
speculator in 1800’s. Owned 67 acres at
Woronora.
Part became part of Prince Edward Park
Road GG 80 of 16/7/1948
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 88
p374 (LW)
CL
Throsby
Close
Barden
Ridge
Thurlgonia
Road
Tiber Place
Engadine
Tibooburra
Street
Engadine
Tilba Place
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘water’
h
RNP
Aka Rathane Telford Road – see Rathane
Kirrawee
Originally Timaru Street renamed 2004.
Possibly named after town in New
Zealand which has 3 possible maori
meanings – “the peak of maru’, ‘place of
shelter’ or ‘shady cabbage tree’
Kirrawee
Renamed Timaru Place 2004
Zealand which has 3 possible Maori
Sutherland Aboriginal word meaning ‘a grass tree or
tree fern’
Or ‘grass tree’
Telford Road
Timaru Place
Timaru Street
(DISC)
Timbarra
Place
Heathcote
Timbrey
Circuit
Barden
Ridge
Timor Close
Kirrawee
Tinakill
Engadine
Named after Charles Throsby – surgeon ,
settler, explorer – one of first settlers in
Illawarra area (area has Aust'n pioneers
theme)
Allocated by
correspondence
24/8/2000 ( File
95/3170) (LW)
/ADB
Named after river which runs through
Rome / 3rd longest river in Italy. In group
From NSW town name which is an
aboriginal word meaning ‘a heap of
granite rocks’
Internet
Named after C Timbrey who played
Rugby for the South Sydney Rugby
League club (in 1963 according to club
website). Theme in 2003 subdivision (by
Gandangara Aborig, Land Corp.) was
aboriginal sports person
Off Gore Avenue in group of streets with
name linked to Gov/ Captain Bligh. After
mutiny near Tahiti Captain Bligh and his
loyal followers sailed in an open boat to
Timor.
Named after Tinakill in Queen’s County
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Cooper, Endacott
Also Feb 1967
Leader (LW) /
RD000/5 pt 4
Aust Museum
CL
Wikipedia- List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
CL
Wikipedia- List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper, Aust
Museum, Endacott
South Sydney
Rugby League club
website
File 95/3170
Wikipedia
Internet
Avenue
Tingha Street
Engadine
Ireland. Adjoins Lalor Cres – Peter Lalor
was born at Tinakill. He was leader of
miners at Eureka Stockade , Victorian
politician, Speaker Legislative Assembly
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flat, level’
or ‘beef’
Tiranna Place
Oyster Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘running water’
Tirrabeena
Place
Tirto Street
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ tooth like
point of land’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Tivoli
Esplanade
Barden
Ridge
Como /
Jannali
Tobruk Ave
Engadine
Todd Place
Illawong
and original 8 streets after locations in
Italy.
Named after battle at Tobruk in line with
War battlefield theme of area.
Tolol Avenue
Miranda/
Kangaroo
Point
Sylvania
Kangaroo Point section discontinued.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘straight
forward ,direct’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fern tree’
Bundeena
Named GG 70 of 8/4/2004.
Tom Jones was shopkeeper of Bundeena
Park store from c 1947 till 1960’s and
post master till 1994 when he retired aged
85. His house at 19 Neil Street is known
as “Uncle Toms Cabin”.
Association
Named 2003.
Lane had been known unofficially as
Toms Lane for along period of time.
Edgar Toms had a bakers shop in Miranda
from c 1916, H Toms had a baker's shop
in Sutherland in 1912.
Tomah Place
Tom Jones
Way
Toms Lane
Engadine
Tongarra
Bangor
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum ,
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Como Public
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
www.archives.org
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
Council File
03/00764
CL
Council file
96/2161
Sands directories
190 Aboriginal Words
Close
Tonkies
Place
Tonkin Street
Toorak
Avenue
Menai
Cronulla
Taren
Point
cabbage trees’
Or ‘home of the cabbage trees’
Named after Mr Richard Tonkies. He was
(c 1934 on) a farmer from Old Illawarra
Rd who had married into Midgley family.
Ethel, Lola, Colin & Harold Tonkies were
early settlers in area.
Named after Henry Tonkin 1st head
master of Cronulla Public School (1910),
& Secretary of Cronulla School of Arts
for 36 years. Secretary Cronulla theatre,
captain Cronulla Rifle Club, life member
Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club, founder
Cronulla Masonic Lodge .
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a swamp
where tea trees grow’
Or ‘swamp, springs’
Toronto
Parade
Torres Street
Torumba
Close
Jannali /
Sutherland
Kurnell
Bangor
GG 134 of 27/8/1954.
Named after Luis Vaez de Torres, Spanish
explorer. Streets in area named after
explorers who saw /explored Pacific
Ocean. He passed north of Australia in
1606.
Aboriginal name for Eucalyptus resinifera
common name red or forest mahogany or
red stringybark
Aboriginal word meaning ‘red mahogany’
Towradgi
Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘keeper of the
sacred stones’
Towra Beach
Road (DISC)
Kurnell
Towra Point
Road
Kurnell
Name discontinued. Name gazetted 1930
Beach named after Point which was
named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
1954
Point named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
Tradewinds
Kareela
and Place Names
MD 1/11/P1
File MD 95/1714
Reflections –
Menai Congret
ional Church
File MD 1/11/P1
a history to 1939
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Endacott
Cooper
CL
Gutenberg.net.au
Biolinfo.org
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
CL
200 years in
retrospect
CL
200 years in
retrospect
www.alldownunde
Place
Trafalgar St
Engadine
Travis Place
Menai
Treborth
Place
Menai
Treloar Place
Menai
Trevalsa
Place
Trevellyan
Street
Trial Place
Burraneer
As adjoins Nelson St would be named
after naval Battle of Trafalgar (1805) at
which Lord Nelson was commander of
British fleet against combined Spanish /
French fleet. Battle was off Cape
Trafalgar near Cadiz, Spain
Named after Walter J Travis (1862-1927)
Australian golfer (born Victoria) who
moved to US. Won British amateur and 3
US amateur titles. Also golf course
designer. In subdivision where streets
named after Australian golfers.
named after Treborth a location near
Bangor in Wales adjoining Menai Strait.
Named after John Treloar (born 1928) one
of world’s fastest sprinters 1947-52. Won
3 Gold medals at 1950 Empire Games. In
a group of streets named after Australian
athletes.
r.com
Internet
Internet
Internet
www.geocities.co
m/geetee/profiles
Cronulla
Illawong
Trickett Road
Wooloowa
re
Tristania
Grove
Menai
Triton Ave
(?) (DISC)
Miranda
Troy Road
Heathcote
Named after Edward Trickett – 1st
Australian to be recognized world
champion sculler in 1876.
Name of genus of tree. It is a small tree
native to NSW and commonly known as
water gum. In line with the me in
subdivision of streets named after tree
types
Name discontinued.
Indistinct name of lane on eastern side of
Seymour Shaw Park
Named after former city in Turkey
attacked by Greece in Ancient times –
now an archaeological site. In group of
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents pg
79
DP
Wikipedia
1934 Wilson’s
Street Directory
Internet
Truman
Avenue /
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Trumper
Place
Menai
Tudar Road
Bonnet
Bay /
Jannali
Alfords
Point
Cronulla
Tulip Close
Tullimbar
Road
Tulong Place
Tulukera
Place
Tumut Place
Kirrawee
Bangor
Tunbridge
Place
Jannali
Tunks Place
Barden
Ridge
Tupelo
Grove
Turi Close
Menai
Turners Lane
Gymea
Tuross
Sylvania
Sylvania
Waters
Bangor
Named after Harry S Truman 33rd US
Named after Victor Thomas Trumper
(1877 – 1915) Australian Test Cricketer
(1899 -1914). One of group of streets
where streets named after trees & pla nts
Tullimbar was the name of an aboriginal
warrior chief near Lake Illawarra in early
1800’s
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mounta in’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ fighting
boomerang’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a camping
place beside the river’.
Or ‘a plain’
NSW river.
Tunbridge Place is off Sevenoaks Place.
Tunbridge (full name Royal Tunbridge
Wells) is town in Kent UK near town of
Sevenoaks.
Probably name d after William Tunks
(1816-1883) Member of Legislative
Assembly 1864-1874. Street naming
theme in area is Australian Pioneer s.
Species of tree – in subdivision where
boomerang’
Unnamed till 2005
Named after Alan Turner who lived in
Gymea from 1972 to 2000 and was SSC
Deputy Shire Clerk for 20 years. Also on
Board of Calvary Hospital
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Internet
www.tullimbarvilla
ge.com.au
Endacott
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/1/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Endacott
Wikipedia
ADB online
File MD2/23/4 Pt 1
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
CL
File 97/0271
Avenue
Turpentine
Close
Turrella
Road
Waters
Australian river. Tuross River is on NSW
south coast.
Alfords
Common name of Syncarpia tree. In
Point
trees/shrubs.
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘water weeds’,
h
‘weeds growing in water’
Turriell Bay
Road
Dolans
Bay / Lilli
Pilli
Turriell Point
Road
Lilli Pilli /
Port
Hacking
Turtle Road
Caringbah
Turuga Place
Bangor
Tweed Place
Sylvania
Waters
Tyaran Place
Bangor
Tycannah
Place
Bangor
So named as is road to Turriel Bay.
corruption of ‘Tyreal’ the name of house
on opposite side of river which became
business at point in 1918 (then Tyrell’s Pt)
So named as is road to Turriell point.
Was supposed, according to fisheries
department, to be so named because many
turtles thrived and were caught in area.
Alternatively may have been named after
EA Turtle & Co real estate agency who
auctioned land in area in 1930’s.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘falling star’
Australian river. Tweed River located in
Northern NSW near Queensland border.
Named by Lt John Oxley after River
Tweed which forms border between
England and Scotland.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘frog’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to bring
something’
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum &
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
by M Hutton Neve
DP
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
by M Hutton Neve
DP
Echoes from the
Bay pg 133 & A
Sutherland Shire
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
www.tropicaln sw.c
om.au
Aust Museum ,
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Or just ‘bring it’
Tyler Place
Bonnet
Bay
Ulinga Place
Engadine
Named after John Tyler 10th US President
(1841-1845). That Bonnet Bay street
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to fly’
Or ‘to lie down, go to sleep’
Ulladulla
Place
Kareela
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a safe harbour’
Uloola Place
Gymea
Bay
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sun’
Ultimo Street
Una Lane
(DISC)
Sutherland
Underwood
Place
Barden
Ridge
University
Road
Miranda
Means previous , last month
Bulwarra St. Bulwarra St is and Bulwarra
suburb – both names given by Surgeon
John Harris. Named ‘Ultimo’ because he
won a court case as a result of somebody
wrongly using the word ‘ultimo’ in
charge.
Early unofficial name for Robertson Lane
also known as “What –a- lane “
Australian pioneers. Therefore probably
named after either James Underwood
(1771-1844) shipbuilder, distiller,
merchant in NSW or his brother Joseph
(1779-1833) merchant and sealing master
1947 to 2005 parts of University Rd was
University Road North/ South. In 2005
North renamed. University Road South
name discontinued as road closed 1968
and included in residential subdivision.
Was named after an old house with
castellated turrets called “Tareena” which
was nicknamed “The University” and was
owned by John Paton
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum,
Cooper
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
CL aborig names,
Aust Museum
ADB Online
Works Comt 31/8/
1959 Council File
R/39/11
ADB Online
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 9 No
1 Feb 2006
Upper
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Uralba Ave
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place with
plenty of quartz stones ‘ or ‘a home
between the hills’ or ‘a hollow’
Aboriginal word for ‘hollow or basin’
Or ‘plenty of white quartz stones’ or ‘a
hollow or basin’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sleep’
Urambi Place
Engadine
Urana Road
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘the noise made
h
by quails as they rise from the ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘noise of flying
quail’
Or’ yellow box tree’
Sutherland
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a long beach’
Urdala Place
Urunga
Parade / Lane
Valley Way
Valley View
Crescent
Van Buren
Circuit /
Lane
Van Dieman
Place
Gymea
Bay
Engadine
Bonnet
Bay
Caringbah
Lane named 2005
Road first named in 1915 DP
So named as adjoins Coonong Creek
valley.
Name reflects streets view into Loftus
Creek valley.
Named after Martin Van Buren 8th US
President (1837-1841).That Bonnet Bay
street names be names of US presidents
Jim Hall and agreed to by Council and
Parkes Development. Lane named 2005
Originally proposed as Van Diemen Place
to celebrate Bicentenary in 1970 however
subdivider made spelling mistake which
was ratified by Council. Named after
Anthony van Diemen (1593-1645) who
was Governor General of Dutch East
Indies (1636-45) who sent Abel Tasman
on his voyage to Australia in 1642.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL aborig names +
Works Comt 2 nd
Oct 1956, File
R/39/11
Aust Museum
CL of Aboriginal
names, Cooper,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
CL
Wikipedia
Venetia
Street
Kangaro Pt
Sylvania
Veno Street
Heathcote
Ventura Ave
Miranda
Verbena
Place
Caringbah
Verdun Place
Engadine
Vermont St
Vernon
Avenue
Verona
Range
Sutherland
Gymea
Bay
Como
Veronica
Place
Vesta Street
Loftus
Via Mare
Cronulla
Viburnum
Road
Vic Leuliette
Walkway
Sutherland
Loftus
Bundeena
First named in 1882 DP registered by
James Murphy/ Holt Sutherland Estate.
North South roads in that subdivision
named after ‘exotic’ foreign locations.
Venetia alternative spelling Venice.
Named after racehorse Veno which won
Australian Plate, AJC Plate, Homebush
Stakes in 1857. Veno was owned by John
Higgerson a local who was a leading
jockey and later a national park ranger
Named after Ventura poultry farm owned
by Elijah Phillips a founding member of
Miranda Co-Operative Society. Was 1 of
1st poultry farms in area established 1891
Genus of annual and perennial flowering
plants mostly native to North and South
America. Most streets in area named after
plants.
Named by W Ainsworth (local resident
and Shire President 1919-21) after WW1
battlefield in France
Pg 66 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
SSHS Bulletin Feb
1999
Wikipedia
Engadine – a
Italy.
Como Public
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Probably named after goddess in Roman
Mythology. She was virgin goddess of
hearth home and family.
In 1930 Sands as Via Mare Parade
Wikipedia
Meaning “ by the sea”
Named after flowering plant. In group of
streets named after plants/ trees.
Walkway named 2005 after local resident
and conservationist. Vic Leuliette was
member of Progress Association from
1966, held various roles in Bushfire
Brigade, established Port Hacking
Protection Society in 1986
1930 Sands
directory
CL
Faces of the Shire
Victor Place
Illawong
Victor
Crescent
(DISC)
Victoria St
Kurnell
Victory St
Engadine
View Street
Villers Brett
Gymea /
Miranda
Engadine
Viola Place
Violet Street
Heathcote
Miranda
Vista Street
Caringbah
Vista Heights
Road
Von Nida
Place
Miranda
Wade Close
Wales Close
Walker Ave
Jannali
Menai
Named after flagship of Royal Yatch Club
of Victoria in 1925. Theme of areanames
Proposed road in 1886 subdivision at
Kurnell by Thomas Holt which did not
proceed.
Part of “Queen’s Jubilee Township”
where names (Alice, Alberta, Victoria,
has as first name and two have as third
name.
Was part of Cambrai Avenue. As adjoins
Trafalgar and Nelson Streets (which
named much earlier)–likely source of
name is because Victory was name of
Lord Nelson’s flagship at naval Battle of
Trafalgar in 1805. Appears street took it’s
name from Victory Reserve which named
in line with adjoining streets theme.
Likely to reflect that street had views.
Named 1919.
Named after WWI battlefield of Villers
Brettoneaux in line with war battlefields
theme of area.
CR
CR
1936 parish map
CL
Internet
family.
Street part of Hilltop Estate (1914) – name
reflects that street high up and had views /
vistas.
Internet
Illawong
Named after Norman Guy Von Nida
(1914-2007), golfer. Won 3 Australian
Opens, 4 PGA Championships. Later a
coach. In group streets named after
Australian golfers
Australian nautical historical significance
Illawong
Gymea
Adjoins what was Aaron Walker’s
Echoes from the
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
slaughter yard c 1910
Walker Road
Port
Hacking
Wallami
Street
Caringbah
Wallawa Ave Engadine
Wallendbeen
Ave
Dolans
Bay/ Lilli
Pilli
Wallis Street
Maianbar
Wallumatta
Road
Caringbah
Wallumatta
Caringbah
Street North/
South (DISC)
Walsh Close Illawong
Wandella
Road
Miranda
Wandobah
Street
Wanga or
Wangi Road
(DISC)
Engadine
Caringbah
Mr Richard Cornelius Critchett Walker
(1841-1903) who owned land prior to its
subdivision. He was Principal Under
Secretary in NSW Government 18791903. He was National Park Trustee 1889.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘snapper fish’
Name suggested by subdivider, agreed to
by Council Development Comt 7/1/1957
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stop here’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a stony place’
or a ‘stony hill’. Historic house
“Wallendbeen Lodge “ is at No 10. House
was built 1902 for explorer and aviator
Donald George Mackay and his wife.
Original land holder George Newcombe
sold portion 9 to William Wallis on 19
November 1881, transferred to Nathaniel
and William Moncur Wallis 1886.
Road named 1909. From 1947 to 2005
parts were called Wallumatta Street
North/ South. Sometimes spelt Walumatta
Renamed Wallumatta Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bark stripped
from trees’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an initiated
youth’
1947 to 2005 parts were called Wandella
Road North/ South.
Bay pg 65 & A
Sutherland Shire
File 95/2960 and
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1977
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Aust Museum
Council File
R/39/11
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and Place Names ,
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A History.
Maianbar
(Maianbar Progress
Assoc Publication)
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DP
E-W road approx in location Pacific Street On 1912
subdivision plan
Wangi – aboriginal word meaning ‘a night www.newcastle.ed
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Wanganui
Road
Kirrawee
Wangi Ave
Cronulla
Wannyl Road
Want Street
Kirrawee
Caringbah
Want Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Warabin St
Waterfall
Waratah
Street / Lane
Waratah
Road
Sutherland
/ Kirrawee
Engadine
Timaru Street, also name of a NZ town.
Named after City of Wanganui (aka
Whanganui) on North Island of New
Zealand. Name means ‘big bay’ or ‘big
harbour’ in Maori.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a night owl’
Most famous former residents – Gough
(PM 1972-75) and his wife Margaret
Whitlam lived there 1947-1955.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘roots of trees’
John Henry Want barrister, politician,
National Park trustee and NSW attorney
general owned land in vicinity (pre 1905),
was also partner in Holt –Sutherland
Estate Land Co. Named 1909.
Was renamed Sutherland Street. Was west
of railway line to what became cemetery
but was then edge of National Park.
Shown on reproduction of 1886 map.
Named after John Henry Want barrister,
politician, original National Park Trustee.
May 1988 SSHSB says named after
George Frederick Want.
Before 1930 was Chritchet Street ,
renamed GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part was
also Leicester Street and Church Street.
Waterfall Progress Assoc (letter 9/6/2003
says Aboriginal word meaning ‘lump’
Aboriginal name for red flowering tree.
West of railway was Waratah Street West
rena med Leonay St (GG 78 of 9/5/1986).
Lane named GG172 of 31/10/1986. Street
at one time called Waratah Road.
Named in line with other streets in DP
801 (Oak, Acacia, Box) after tree species.
Name first registered in 1882 by James
Murphy / Holt Sutherland Estate Co..
Aboriginal word for tree with red flowers
Named by Mr Charles McAlister (Shire
President) because it wound through a
grove of waratahs
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Echoes From the
Bay pgs 130-1
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Street Names in
Early Sutherland –
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
& May 1988
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File 98/1997
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
1882 / 1936 maps
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DP
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Engadine – An
Outline History &
Engadine 18252001
Waratah St
Cronulla
Part named in 1899 original Village of
Gunnamatta (Cronulla) subdivision
Aboriginal and now common name for
red flowering tree.
Part (section that was unnamed foreshore
road along Bay) named GG 65 -30/5/1930
Lane named 2004
Named after Mr James Warburton who
was Sutherland railway station station
master c 1916 and who owned land in
area of street.
Warburton
Street/ Lane
Gymea
Warcoo
Avenue
Ward
Crescent
Gymea
Bay
Oyster Bay Named after Harry Ward original land
owner.
He was one of original oyster farmers in
area.
Kurnell
Named after early landowner in Kurnell .
Barden
In line with Australian pioneers theme
Ridge
probably named after either (1) Robert
Wardell (1793-1884) barrister and
newspaper editor or (2) William
Wilkinson Wardell (1823-1899) architect
and Victorian public servant (clerk of
works and architect for Dept Works &
Buildings)
Lilli Pilli
Aboriginal word meaning “where fresh
water meets salt water”
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘baby’
Caringbah On the 1940 subdivision plan for the street
two of the three owners signatures are E
& W Waring – therefore named after
owners at time of subdivision.
Como
Aboriginal word for ‘turtle, tortoise’
Ward Street
Wardell
Drive
Wareemba
Place
Warilda Ave
Waring Ave
Warraba
Street
Warrah Road
Yowie Bay (1)Aboriginal word for ‘honeysuckle’
(2)Aboriginal word meaning ‘rain’ or
‘left’
(1) Aboriginal word meaning ‘rain
falling’
(4) Or ‘start’, ‘go’
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names,
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Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 1988
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
Mementos of
Oyster Bay.
File RD000/75
letter 7/8/1968 and
Leader 18/9/1968
pg 33
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
ADB online
www.canadabay.ns
w.gov.au
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Place Names of
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Warrangarree
Drive
Woronora
Heights
Warrego
Avenue
Sylvania
Waters
Warren
Avenue
Grays
Point
Unsubstantiated theory that name was
based on the 2 developers of area –
Warren and Garry. However as created in
a Landcom subdivision in 1984 this
theory not likely.
Aust’n river (Warrego River in South
west Qld and NW NSW). Warrego is an
Aboriginal word meaning "river of sand"..
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a large root’
Or ‘giving’
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Aboriginal word meaning ‘watercourse’
or ‘watercourse with trees along banks’
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In group of streets (with Oakham,
Durham) named after chief towns of
English Counties. Is chief town of County
of Warwickshire.
President (1789-1797).
So named as street goes to waters edge
So named as leads to small waterfall.
Wikipedia
Warrigal
Street
Jannali
Previously called Park Station Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dog, dingo’
Warrina
Road
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘give’
Warrington
Avenue
Warsop St
Warumbui
Avenue
Warrumbul
Road
R Burns – Council
Health officer
Caringbah
Kurnell
Miranda
Warwick St
Royal
National
Park
Sylvania
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Water Street
Waterfall
Road
Waterfall
Road (DISC)
Caringbah
Heathcote
Waterford
Parade
Sutherland
Jannali
RNP/
Waterfall
Now called McKell Avenue. So named
due to waterfalls near road. Also known
as “Waterfalls Road”
On 1882 subdivision map Jannali Ave
called Waterford Parade.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
(DISC)
Renamed GG 99 of 25/7/1930
Possibly named after City /County of
Waterford on south coast of Ireland where
Waterford Crystal is manufactured.
Watergum
Alfords
Place
Point
Waterview
Caringbah Street has waterviews so likely source of
Ave
name. Part of 1922 “Yowie Panorama
Estate”
Waterview St Oyster Bay So named as location has water views
Wattamolla
Royal
Formerly Olivers Road
Road
National
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place near
Park
running water’
Wattle Road Jannali/
Named G 65 of 30/5/1930
Sutherland On 1901 DP was shown as “Government
Road”
Named after type of tree in line with other
roads in area ( oak, Waratah etc)
Waverly
Illawong
Place
Weaver Place Woronora Named after type of bird also known as
Heights
Grenadier. In subdivision where most
Webb Close
Illawong
Webber St
Sylvania
Weemala
Ave
Kirrawee
In same subdivision as Alexander Street
so possibly named after somebody called
Alexander Webber.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘distant view’
Weerona
Place
Caringbah
Aboriginal word for ’resting place’
Or ‘ rest, quiet, sleep’
Yowie Bay area was originally called
‘Village of Weerona’
Wentworth
Street
West Close
Caringbah/
Dolans
Bay
Illawong
Westringa
Gymea
Botanical name for coastal or native
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Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Oct 1976
Internet
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
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Endacott
A history to 1939
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
www.anbg.gov.au
Place
Westward St
Bay
Kareela
Whalan Place
Gymea
‘What – a Sutherland
Lane’ (DISC)
Wheatley
Road
Whimbrel
Place
White Street
Whites Ave
Whitewood
Place
Whitton Lane
(DISC)
Whitton St
rosemary
yacht (overall winner 1947 & 48). Streets
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mouth’
Or more likely named after Charles
Whalan Senior (1772-1839) close friend
of Governor Macquarie and Commander
of his and Governor King’s bodyguard. In
group of streets named after important
figures in early years of NSW (eg Cox,
Macquarie, Greenway)
Early ‘unofficial’ name for Robertson
Lane behind School of Arts aka Una Lane
Yarrawarra Named after Kevin Wheatley who was
h/ Loftus
awarded Victoria’s Cross for action in
1965 during Vietnam War.
Woronora A whimbrel is a medium sized curlew. It
Heights
is a migratory seabird that spends summer
in Australia. In group of streets named
after birds.
Jannali
after Lieutenant General Sir George White
a Boer War soldier. Adjoining streets also
named after Boer War figures (Buller and
Roberts Streets)
Caringbah On 1923 subdivision plan shown as
‘White’s Ave’ so likely named after a
person but owners signature on DP
appears to be Hensforth so must have
been an earlier owner or resident of site
not owner at time of subdivision.
Caringbah Much later (1978) subdivision than
surrounding streets but follows tree name
theme (eg Oleander, Jacaranda)
Heathcote Name discontinued. Named after NSW
government minister at time area
naming streets in area after ministers /
public servants. John Whitton (18201898) was NSW Railways Engineer in
chief 1856 -1890
Heathcote Named in 2004 after NSW government
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Works Comt
31/8/1959 Council
File R/39/11
Internet
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ards.net
DP
DP
ADB online
Council File
Wiak Road
Wigens Ave
Jannali
Como
Wilbar Ave/
Lane
Cronulla
Wilbung
Road
Wilga Road
Illawong
Caringbah
minister at time area subdivided (1896) in
line with apparent theme of naming streets
in area after ministers / public servants.
John Whitton (1820-1898) was NSW
Railways Engineer in chief 1856 -1890.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘enough’
Previously Bonnet Road , renamed GG 6 19/1/1962
Lane named 2005
Street name may be a concoction of
names of Edward George WILson and
Alfred BARry who owned most of the
land in the Wilbar Estate at the time of its
subdivision in 1913
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
95/2960
ADB online
Aboriginal word for ‘dogwood, willow’
also means ‘hot’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘willow tree’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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Endacott
Aboriginal word for ‘tame dog’
Or ‘tree – like willow’
Willaburra
Road
Willandra
Parade
Wooloowa
re
Heathcote
Willarong
Road
Caringbah
Willaroo Ave Woronora
Heights
William
Caringbah
Pathway
William
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Willock Ave
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘little waters’ ‘a
creek’
On 1886 subdivision plan this street was
shown as part of Railway Parade
Named by James Murphy of Holt
Sutherland Co – Aboriginal origin but
meaning unknown.
Another name for bush stone curlew. In
of birds.
Aboriginal word for ‘curlew’
Shown on 1923 subdivision of Beauty
Point Estate (adj site to east)
Became Moore Street (1887). O n 1886
map reproduced in SSHS Bulletin 1986.
Possibly named after Samuel William
Gray major landowner as is near Gray
Street which is named after SW Gray.
Previously known as League Street.
In 1950’s an ex-soldier George Willock
obtained 24 house sites in street for ex-
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Pg 25 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
DP
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Endacott
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
serviceman – street named after him.
Willow Place
Willowbrook
Place
Wills Road
Kirrawee
Sylvania
Wooloowa
re
Wilshire Ave
Cronulla
Wilson
Parade
Heathcote
Wilson Place
Bonnet
Bay
Windermere
Avenue
Miranda
Windle Place
Menai
Windsor Rd
Cronulla
Name first registered in 1984 DP (council
approval 1982)
1947 to 2005 parts called Wills Road
North / South.
7 streets in area named after explorers so
probably named after William John Wills
(1834-1861) (as in Burke and Wills)
explorer of Central Australia. He reached
Gulf of Carpentaria but died on return trip
Wilshire family was early land holders (
from circa 1916)
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Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375(LW) & 1916
on Sands
William J Wilshire, Cronulla property
Suth Shire Hist Soc
owner.
Bulletin May 2007
Harley St John Wilshire was 1 of founders From Sails to
of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club 1907.
Atoms
Originally Wilson’s Parade. Named after
Pgs 54-5. From
Reverend John Wilson, minister at Christ Bottle forest to
Church Anglican Church (1896 till 1903). Heathcote
He continued to live in area till he died in Sutherland Shire’s
1922. His house known as Flavian Court
first settlement
was on site of Heathcote High School. It
burnt down in 1939 bushfire
Named after Woodrow Wilson 28th US
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Jim Hall and agreed to b y Parkes
Owner at time of subdivision Mr Haynes
Council file
came from English Windermere Lakes
R/39/11
area and his Miranda poultry farm known
as Windermere.
Named after Robert (Bob) George Windle Internet
(born 1944) Australian Swimmer. Gold
medal 1500 m freestyle 1964 Olympics.
Named after Mrs Ada Windsor who
Suth S Hist Soc
displayed seashells by the seashore.
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375 (LW)
Ada Windsor owned land pre subdivision
Otho H Windsor was Secretary of
Suth Shire His Soc
Wingello Rd
Miranda
Winifred Ave
Winifred
Falls Fire
Trail
Winkin
Avenue /
Lane
Winnunga
Road
Caringbah
Royal
National
Park
Gymea
Bay
Winston
Place
Winyu Street
(DISC)
Sylvania
Lilli Pilli
Cronulla Progress Assoc 1908
Part was previously Maidora Road –
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to burn,
burning’
Bulletin May 2007
CL
Lane named 2004
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small’
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Aborig. Names,
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Cooper
Or ‘little’
Wistaria
Street
Withybrook
Place
Wittenoom
Place
Wokari St
Wolger St
Sutherland
Name discontinued
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a waterhole
without water’
Was road at rear of Lots 1 to 17 section 5
DP 1688 which placed it within the then
National Park. Ran from Eton St to
Highway about where now railway line.
Possibly ceased to exist due to
subdivisions for Cronulla railway line
Dolans
Also spelt Wisteria - Genus of woody
Bay/
climbing vines. Named after Dr. Caspar
Caringbah Wistar (1761 - 1818)
Sylvania
Name of town in Warwickshire in
England
Yarrawarra In group of streets named after Western
h
Australian locations. Named after town
and gorge in WA which were named after
either Sir Edward Horne Wittenoom a
pastoralist and politician or after Frank
Wittenoom partner of George Hancock in
nearby Mulga Downs Station ,it was
George Hancock’s son Lang Hancock
who developed the asbestos mine / town
Engadine
Possibly Aboriginal word ‘wokarri ‘
meaning ‘fish’
Como
Created / named 1912. Name of
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Wollondilly
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Wollongong
Road (DISC)
Wollun St
Wollybutt Rd
Wolstenholm
e Avenue
Wonga Road
Wood Lane
Woodfield
Ave
Woodfield
Boulevarde
Woodford
Crescent
Woodlands
Road
Woodside
Road (DISC)
Como
Aboriginal origin like others in
subdivision but meaning not found.
Named after Wollondilly River south west
of Sydney. It is one of 30 streets in area
named after an Australian river.
Wollondilly has 3 possible meanings, "A
place where spirits dwell" or "Water
trickling over rocks" or burning black coal
carried inside the skull of a bunyip in a
basket woven of waratah stems (from
"worron" means black coal & "dilly"
means carry basket).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘water trickling
over the rocks’
Early name for Old Illawarra Road. Also
known as ‘Sir Thomas Mitchell’s Line of
Road to the Illawarra’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hard ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hard
substance’
Engadine
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Named after type of tree known as
peppermint tree or Eucalyptus longiflolia
Gymea
Named after owner at time of 1951
subdivision which created street who was
F Wolstenholme.
Unnamed till 2005
Miranda /
Aboriginal word for ‘bulrush, native
Yowie Bay pigeon’
Or ‘west, night’
Cronulla
A Mr Arthur W Wood owned land in area
when subdivided.
Bundeena
Named after one of owners of estate at
time of subdivision - Isabella Elizabeth
Woodfield
Caringbah Named after one of two owners at time of
original 1920 subdivision was Isabel
Elizabeth Woodfield.
Heathcote
Taren
Point
Caringbah
First named on 1894 DP. Changed to part
of Taren Road in 1915 DP. Ran from
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Title information
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Woodward
Ave
Caringbah
Woolooware
Road
Wooloowa
re/
Burraneer
President Ave to Port Hacking Road
As near 3 streets named after NSW
Governor’s probably named after Sir Eric
Winslow Woodward (1899-1967) army
officer and 31st NSW Governor (1957-65)
1947 to 2005 parts called Woolooware
Road North/ South
Aboriginal word meaning ‘muddy flat’
Named after Bay which was named by
His original spelling was ‘Wooloowear’
Woonah St
Miranda
Woorak
Crescent
Miranda
Several books indicate this as the road in
the shire which has longest continuous
use. Originated as road used by John
Connell to transport logs to Woolooware
Bay
place’
Aboriginal word for ‘honeysuckle, plain’
‘plain level country’
Wordsworth
Place
Sylvania
Woronora
Crescent
Como
Named after English poet William
Wordsworth (1770-1850). It adjoins and
in same submission as Tennyson Street
also named after poet.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a black rock’
Woronora Rd
Engadine
Part of 1845-1860 Old Illawarra road
followed the route of Woronora Road
Old Wollongong Road part became
Woronora Road and part became
Engadine Avenue GG 135 of 1/11/1918.
Also said to mean ‘ place of no sharks’
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From Sails to
Atoms
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
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Bottle Forest to
Heathcote –
first settlement.
CL
Woronora St
/ Road
(DISC)
Wren Court
Wren Place
Sutherland
to Cronulla
Aboriginal name meaning ‘black rock’.
First shown on January 1882 subdivision
plan by James Murphy/ Holt Sutherland
Estate Co as Woronora Road and
February 1882 DP as Woronora Street.
Also on early 20th century subdivision
plans as such.
Originally stopped at Eton Street and
block to railway was named Sutherland
Street – later extended to railway line.
Woronora
Heights
Wooloowa
re
Wright Close
Heathcote
Wyanbah Rd
Cronulla
Wyang Place
Engadine
Wyanga
Kirrawee
Street (DISC)
Wyangala
Place
Miranda
Wybalena
Place
Wye Close
Jannali
Woronora
Renamed President Avenue GG 175 of
20/10/1916
Adjoins Christopher Place – therefore
likely named after Christopher Wren,
English architect / astronomer (1632 1723). Most famous work St Paul’s
Cathedral, London.
famous Australian Poets. Judith Arundell
Wright (1915-2000) –conservationist,
Aboriginal rights campaigner, poet,
writer.
In 1930 Sands as Wyambah Road. Likely
name of aboriginal origin as in 1916
Beach Park Estate subdivision with 4
streets with names of Aboriginal origin.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mother’
Name discontinued
Street created 1929, closed 1941 to allow
for development of major steel products
factory – now site of new Bunning’s store.
As joins Burrinjuck Place (name of dam
near Goulburn) likely that it is named
after Wyangala Dam which is on Lachlan
River near Cowra.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘man sit down
here
Private road.
Aboriginal word for a species of snake
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Bulletin Feb 1986
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1930 Sands
directory
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Wylah Place
Woronora
Heights
Wylie Street
Kirrawee
Wylmar Ave
Burraneer
Wyndham
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Another name for yellow tailed black
cockatoo. In subdivision where all streets
are types of birds.
As adjoins Eyre Pl and Scott Pl would be
named after Wylie an aboriginal from
King George Sound who accompanied
Edward John Eyre on his explorations in
South and Western Australia in 1840/41.
Scott was Eyre’s assistant.
Possibly a concocted name. At time of
1914 subdivision half of estate owned by
WILliam James MARr.
Name discontinued. Was south of railway
line approx location Binalong Ave. Was
proposed in 1929 DP but marked ‘
excluded from plan’ so never built.
May be named after town in Western
Australia which named after Major Walter
Wikisource-Moore
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DP
CL. Location from
microfiche map –
local history
collect’n c 1939-46
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
George Wyndham (b 1857), the younger son
by her first marriage of Mary Anne Broome,
wife of the Governor of Western Australia
1883-1890
Wynward
Place
Wyralla
Road
Barden
Ridge
Miranda/
Yowie Bay
Yagoona
Close
Bangor
Yala Road
Bangor
Theme for naming streets in area is early
Aboriginal word for black and red
cockatoo
Aboriginal word meaning ‘today’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word for ‘that way’
Yalgar Road
Kirrawee
Or ‘open’
Name of Western Australian river
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hard, dried up’
Yamba Road
Como
Aboriginal word for ‘bark shelter or hut’
Waterfall
Or ‘camp’
Or ‘ headland’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word (Wiradyuri language)
meaning ‘wattle’
Yanagang
Street
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD2/22/3-6)
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and Place Names
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and Place Names,
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The Wiradyuri &
Other languages of
Yanchep
Place
Yanda Road
(DISC)
Or “green trees growing” – according to
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘bullrushes’
h
Word derived from “yanget”, a native flax or
bullrush. Named after Western Australian
town. In group of streets named after
Western Australian locations
Miranda
Name discontinued.
Was one of original North - South Holt
estate roads named by James Murphy.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘coming’
Yanderra
Avenue
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘turpentine tree’
Yangoora
Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘stringybark tree’
Yanina Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘north’
Yanko Clo se
Woronora
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sound of
running water’
Yara Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘seagull’
Yaralla Place
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘camping area’
Bangor
Or ‘camp’
Or ‘dwelling’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘platypus’
Yarenbool
Way
Yarrabee
Ave
Yarra Burra
Street
Yarraga
Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ’many gum
trees’
Or’ gum forest’
Gymea
Yarra is Aboriginal word meaning ‘to
Bay
speak’ or ‘tree’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word for ’south east wind,
gentle spirit of spring’ or ‘spring’
NSW by R H
Matthews(internet)
File 98/1997
www.drivewa.com
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
www.nswrail.net ,
Aust Museum &
File MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Endacott & File
MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names ,
Aust Museum, File
MD1/11/P1
Place Names of
Aust & Develpm’t
Com Min 866 of
1/12/1969
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD 1/11/P1
www.aussiethings.
com.au
Cooper
Endacott
File MD1/11/P1
www.ceramicname
paltes.com.au
MD 1/11/P1
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Yarra Vista
Circuit
Yates Road
Yathong
Road
Yellambie
Street
Yenabilli
Point Fire
Trail
Yeo Place
Yeramba
Avenue
Yarrawarra
h
Bangor
Caringbah
Originally named Greendale Road in
1894, Renamed Yathong Road in 1908.
Yowie Bay Meaning “stay with us”
Royal
National
Park
Menai
Yeran Street
Caringbah
/ Dolans
Bay
Sylvania
Yirak Lane
Como
York Close
Yorrel Close
Young Street
Yowan Close
Yowie Ave
Yarra is aboriginal word for ‘to speak’ or
‘tree’.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘large sand
hills’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big sand hills’
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
Fire trail not public road.
Named after James Yeo a local pioneer
who was former owner of land – adjoins
James Place also named after him.
He was a poultry farmer.
Moved to area 1923
Aboriginal word for ‘sugar ant’
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a girl’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
www.archives.org
Named GG 66 of 4/7/1958
Aboriginal word meaning ‘elevated /high
up/up’
Works Committee 6/1/1958 report said
means ‘elevated”
Yowie Bay As adjoins Nottingham Pl and Sherwood
Ave likely it is named after City of York
in England
Alfords
Name of type of tree also known as
Point
narrow leaped lupin – in subdivision
Sylvania
Located near where a Mr E Young Deputy
Postmaster General had a house pre 1918
Bangor
Caringbah
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beechwood’
So named as street is near / has views of
Yowie Bay. Part of 1922 ‘Yowie
Panorama Estate“ subdivision.
Yowie- aboriginal word meaning ‘place of
echoes’
Or ‘ a call that echoed’
Or aboriginal word meaning ‘heat’
1930 Sands dir.
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Council file
R/39/11
Sylvania Back
Then –Aspects of
Local History
File MD 1/11/P1
DP
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire
Dharawal
Endacott
Yowie Street
(DISC)
Yowie Bay
Road (DISC)
Yuluma
Close
Yungana
Place
Yurreel
Close
Yuruga Ave
Bangor
Alternative theory that is from ‘ Ewey” –
Scottish /N England name for ewes/ lambs
Renamed Surf Road GG 175 –20/10/1916
Possibly relates to stories told by John
Gogerly c 1856 and by aborigines about a
giant hairy man in area.
Yowie aboriginal word meaning ‘place of
echoes’
Or ‘heat’
Alternative theory that is from ‘Ewey” –
Scottish / N England name for ewes/lambs
Attunga Rd shown as Yowie Bay Road in
St George Call newspaper in 1904 (Judd’s
Rd on 1902 map) not an official name.
Yowie - aboriginal word meaning “place
of echoes”
Or ’a call that echoed’
Or ‘heat’
Scottish / North England name for ewes /
lambs – as was field ewes put in for
lambing when T Holt tried sheep farming
Aboriginal word meaning ‘black
kangaroo’
Aboriginal word for ‘cockatoo’
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cloud’
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ’extensive
view’
Cronulla
Miranda
Bangor
Yuyu Street
(DISC)
Jannali
Zinna Street
Cronulla
CL
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire
Dharawal
Endacott
Echoes from the
Bay
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire.
Dharawal
Endacott
Endacott & File
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
Dharawal
CL
Or ‘heat’
Originally named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Name discontinued.
Name of a Victorian Aboriginal language www.aiatsis.gov.au
Exact location of street unknown. Gazettal
description is ‘Road – Holt Sutherland
(Soldiers Road) Estate”. Probably was off Council info
Soldiers Rd Jannali through to Bindea St
in line with end of Mulyan St as street in
that location on 1943 aerial photos.
Renamed Croydon St GG 62 of 29/4/1921 CL
(DISC)l
Means ‘rayed flower’ – Latin origin
Internet
Sources:
LW = library website Street name listings
CL = Council list of streets whose names have changed prepared by L Burgess from
Government Gazettes and other sources
Council D List = a list prepared by Council of suitable aboriginal words starting with D
for use for naming future streets in Menai
CL Aborig names = a list of aboriginal names prepared approximately 50 years ago by
Council to assist in street naming.
ADB online = Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
BDCA = Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Australians (internet)
BB = The Bundeena Book by Bundeena Book Committee
GG = Government gazettes
Yorkeys Knob = Weird and Wonderful Australian Place Names – Yorkeys Knob by
Pamela Robson (2007)
Aust Museum = NSW Aboriginal Place Names and Euphonious Words, with their
meanings by Frederick D McCarthy of The Australian Museum (1952)
Dharawal = Dharawal – the story of the Dharawal speaking people of Southern Sydney (
2001) by Merv Ryan, Les Bursill, Mary Jacobs, Deborah Lennis, Beryl Timbrey - Bellar
Darug = The Darug and their neighbours – the traditional aboriginal owners of the
Sydney Region ( 1993) by James Kohen
A Short Authentic History of Cronulla by M Hutton Neve & F Midgley
Aboriginal Words and Place Names by AW Reed
Place Names of Australia by AW Reed
Australian Place Names by Brian & Barbara Kennedy (2006)
Sands = Sands Directories (1930) and earlier years
Natures Doorstep - The Bonnet Bay Story by Colin Burgess
DPs = Various Subdivision plans eg 1882 plan DP 802 for Sutherland township.
SH of OB = A Short History of Oyster Bay by Mark Florence
From Sails to Atoms - Fifty Years of Sutherland Shire 1906 - 1956 by David Kirkby
The Story of Port Hacking, Cronulla and Sutherland Shire by Frank Cridland (1950 Ed)
Kurnell Birthplace of Modern Australia – A Pictorial History by Daphne Salt
Facts and Fun about The Presidents by George Sullivan
Sandy Point Secrets – A History of Sandy Point by L Singleman
From Bottle Forest to Heathcote – Sutherland Shire’s first settlement by Patrick Kennedy
Engadine 1825-2001 by Ron Seville
Faces of the Shire
Bygone Days of Sutherland Shire by M Hutton Neve (1970)
200 years in Retrospect - Kurnell –Sutherland 1770-1970 by John Walker (1970)
Sylvania Back Then – Aspects of Local History by Sylvania High School 1984
Sutherland Shire Some Early Residents – celebrating the Sutherland Shire Centenary by
Botany Bay Family History Society Inc
Gateway to the South – First Stop Sylvania by DF Salt
Sutherland Shire Historical Society Bulletins 1964 – 2008
Illustrated History of Sutherland Shire – Birthplace of a Nation by Fred Midgley
Sutherland Shire – A History by Paul Ashton, Jennifer Cornwall & Annette Salt (2006)
Sutherland Shire: A History to 1939 by Maryanne Larkin
Sutherland Estate Report 14/4/1868 by R Walker
Sutherland Shire Heritage Study – historical context report for Sutherland Shire Council
September 1993
A Pictorial History of Cronulla by Pauline Curby (1998)
A Pictorial History of Sutherland Shire by Joan Lawrence (1998)
Gray’s Point Story – manuscript
A Brief History of Sutherland Shire by M Hutton Neve – Sutherland Shire Studies No 1
(1985 edition)
Illawong: A Place in History – a summary of research carried out by Year Six pupils in
1982
Mementos of Oyster Bay by Phyllis Alder (1978)
Who Did What – Illustrated Biographical Dictionary by Mitchell Beazley
Ab Word Bk = Aboriginal Word Book by Justine Kenyon (1982)
Cooper = Australian Aboriginal words and their meanings by HM Cooper / South
Australian Museum (1952)
Endacott = Australian Aboriginal Words and Place Names and Their Meanings by
Sydney J Endacott (1973)
Ingamells = Australian Aboriginal Words by Rex Ingamells (1955)
Tyrrell = Australian Aboriginal Place Names and their meanings by James R Tyrrell
(1953)
Sheppard = The origin of Australia’s Place names – States Cities & Towns by Barrie
Sheppard
Sugden = Aboriginal Words and Their Meaning by Joah H Sugden
Wajnryb = Australian Place Name Stories by Ruth Wajnryb (2006)
“Reminiscences of Coonabaraban NSW & district” by Mark Jane Cain 1844 – 1926 –
from State Library website
Australian Aboriginal Words in English: their origin & meaning by Dixon, Moore,
Ramson & Thomas (2nd Edition)
The History of Hurstville Council Elections 1887-1995 by Bernard Sargeant
A History of New South Wales by Beverley Kingston (2006)
Australian Navigators by Robert Tiley (2002)
www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au- Hurstville Council website – street name and past alderman
sections.
www.newcastle.edu.au – a scanned copy of book by missionary who lived with
aborigines in Central NSW. “The aboriginal names of rivers in Australia philologically
examined’ by P McPherson”
www.archives.org – scan of book ‘The Emigrants Guide or Ten Years Practical
Experience in Australia’ by Rev David Mackenzie (1845)
www.grandpapencil.net/austral/abword - website for aboriginal words
www.wapedia.mobi/en/ then either Rivers_ of_ New_South_Wales or Rivers_ of_
Australia
www.randwick.nsw.gov.au – Randwick Council website Suburb and Street name
sections
wikisource – Moore = “Diary of 10 years eventful life of an early settler in Western
Australia also a descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the
Aborigines of Western Australia” – by George Fletcher Moore (1884)
Wikipedia
Chronicles of the 20 th Century
Macquarie Book of Events
The Great War by James Mowbray at www.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/mowbray/gwpeople.htm#c
Kirkby Index cards and David Kirkby’s Manuscript for ‘From Sails to Atoms” –
Sutherland Library
Council Road naming and Menai Development Unit files
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
Hacking
River
Crescent
(DISC)
Grays
Point
Renamed Moyran Parade
Named after river which named after
Henry Hacking who arrived as a
Quartermaster on Sirius in 1st fleet and
was an explorer and harbour pilot. Said to
have been first to sight inlet c 1796 whe n
hunting kangaroos.
CL
Echoes of the Bay.
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire M
Hutton-Neve
Hahn Street
Lucas
Heights
Hakea Street
Engadine
Hale Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Hall Drive
Menai
Hamelin
Place
Illawong
Hammersley
Road
Grays
Point
Hampshire
Street
Hampton
Road
Cronulla
Harbour St
Cronulla
Harding
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Harlech
Close
Menai
Harley Street
Harnleigh
Avenue
Sylvania
Wooloowa
re
Sylvania
Waters
Otto Hahn (1879-1968) who won Nobel
Prize for Chemistry in 1944 for discovery
of fission of heavy nuclei
Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964.
Named after genus of Australian
flowering shrubs/ small trees.
Name discontinued. Appears in Wilson’s
Street Directory 1931 approximately
between Sutherland Oval No 1 and The
Grand Parade Tennis Courts.
Whilst street is in a subdivision where the
other streets are named after Australian
cricketers this street is named after Jim
Hall a long serving Council Committee
clerk at the time the area was subdivided.
Probably named after Jacques Felix
Emmanuel Hamelin (1768-1839), French
explorer sailed 1800-03 on scientific
exploration of South Seas and charting
WA coast. Second in command to
Nicholas Baudin. In line with theme of
significance
As adjoins Pilbara Place likely it was
named after Hammersley Range in
Western Australia
Named after location in England as are
several nearby streets.
Not named after river as are other streets
in area. Likely named after location in UK
near Belgrave .
Probably so named as has view to
Harbour / bay
Named after 29 th US president Warren
Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923) That
Name of castle (built 1283) and village in
Wales – in line with theme of naming
streets in area after locations in Wales.
www.ansto.gov.au
1947-2005 parts known as Harnleigh
CL
CL
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Dennis Daly – long
time Council
officer
Wikipedia,
Australian
Navigators
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Encyclopedia
Britannica
Australia online
Harper Way
Harrier Place
Menai
Harrison
Avenue
Woronora
Heights
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Bonnet
Bay
Harrow St
Sylvania
Harte Street
(DISC)
Hartog Place
Miranda
Harvard Lane
Sutherland
Harvey Place
Menai
Hassett Close
Menai
Hastings
Sylvania
Harris Street
Illawong
The area near Woolooware Golf course in
which avenue situated was in early years
owned by Sydney solicitor Mr Harnleigh
Off Forest Glen Way
On Pioneer settlers list 1992.
Probably named after AG Harper Shire
Councilor 1949-56, Shire President 1954,
Member Royal National Park Trust
As created in 1912 is probably too early to
be named after Reginald Harris –
councilor 1922 and 1925-1928.
Named after either /both William Henry
Harrison (9th US President–1841) and/ or
Benjamin Harrison (23rd US President
1889-1893). That Bonnet Bay street
Hall & agreed to by Parkes Development
and Council
Sutherland Estate Co. Would be named
after town of Harrow in England as
number of other streets in subdivision
named after UK towns.
Ran from Wyralla Road to Forest Road
Named after Dirk Hartog (1582-1631),
Dutch sailor and explorer commander of
2nd European expedition to land on
Australian soil. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Oxford St and Cambridge Lane would be
named after Harvard University in USA.
Named after Robert Neil Harvey (born
1928) cricketer (batsman). Test player (79
tests) 1947 to 1963. In group of streets
Named after Arthur Lindsay Hassett
(1913-1993) Victorian / Australian
cricketer (batsman) 1930-54 .In group of
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin
File MD1/11/P1
Kirkby Index
.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
1934 Gregory’s
Directory
Wikipedia
CL
www.premier.crick
etvictoria.com.au
www.premier.crick
etvictoria.com.au
www.wapedia.mob
Place
Waters
Hatton Place
Barden
Ridge
Illawong
Havannah
Place
Havelock
Ave
Havelock
Ave (DISC)
Hawkesbury
Esplanade
Engadine
Sylvania
Sylvania
Waters
Hawthorne
Road (DISC)
Kirrawee
Hawthorn St
Loftus
Hay Avenue/
Lane
Caringbah
Hayden Place Engadine
Australian river. Hastings River is on
NSW North Coast near Port Macquarie .
The river was first charted in 1818, after
its discovery by John Oxley who named
the river for the then Governor-General of
India, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st
Marquess of Hastings.
i
Probably named after HMS Havannah
(1811-1860’s) Royal Navy frigate & later
training ship. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Tasmania 1901-1904. Or Sir Henry
Havelock (1795-1857) British soldier and
hero of Indian mutiny
On 1934 street map ran from eastern side
of Port Hacking Road to edge Gwawley
Bay just north Box Rd.
Tasmania 1901-1904 or Sir Henry
Havelock (1795 -1857) British soldier and
hero of Indian mutiny.
Australian river. The river flows to the
west and north of Sydney.
The Hawkesbury River was named by
Governor Phillip in June 1789, after
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool,
who at that time was Baron Hawkesbury.
Renamed Flora Street GG 105 of 7/7/1922
James Murphy , manager / director of
Holt Sutherland estate Co.
Name of pla nt type. In area where streets
named after plants.
Street and lane first shown as ‘ unnamed
road on 1925 DP. Road named before
1937 when part within railway line
corridor closed by railway resumption.
Date of lane naming after 1964 when lane
widened as “unnamed lane”
File MD2/23/4 Pt 1
Wikipedia
ADB online
Internet
1934 Gregory’s
street directory
ADB online
Internet
www.wapedia.mob
i/en/Rivers_of_Ne
w_South_Wales
CL
DP
CL
Who did What.
Hayes Place
Bonnet
Bay
Haymet St
Kirrawee
Hazel Place /
Lane
Burraneer
Heath Lane/
Place
Heathcote
Heathcote
Road
Engadine/
Heathcote
/ Sandy
Point /
Menai
Heathcote
Heathcote
Street (DISC)
Heather St
Caringbah
Heather St
Loftus
Hector Street
Illawong
classic composers. (and 1 of 2 misspelt ).
Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) Austrian
composer known as ‘the father of the
symphony’.
Named after 19 th US President Rutherford
Birchard Hayes 1877 -1881. That Bonnet
A Mr F I Haymet had a market garden at
the corner of President Ave and Oak Road
Created as unnamed lane in 1924. Hazel
Lane from 1930, renamed Hazel Place GG
18 of 7/2/1941
Was originally called Petticoat Lane.
Lane named Environment & Planning
Committee 389-3/12/79
Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell
named Parish Heathcote after one of 2
officers he served with in the Peninsular
War (1808-14) against napoleon either
Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General
Ralph Heathcote or Assistant Surgeon
Godfrey Heathcote. Name later adopted
for suburb/ road.
On 1886 subdivision map what now
Princes Highway through Heathcote was
shown as Heathcote Street.
During WW2 it was called Military Road
as it accessed Holsworthy Army camp.
Means cottage or sheep fold on a heath.
Renamed Princes Highway GG 155 of
21/10/1921.
Name – refer Heathcote Road above.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Type of low
growing plant. In group of 3 streets (with
Daphne, Maple) named after plants.
Name of type of plant. In area where
streets named after plants
Name of 10 Royal Navy ships from 1656
to WWII. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance.
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
1930 Sands
directory
CL
Pg 97 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement.
Library card index
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
first settlement – P
Kennedy (pg 16)
“” “” pg 25
“ “ “ pg 86
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
CL
CL
Wikipedia
Helena Street
Kirrawee
Henry Ave
Sylvania
Henry
Kendall
Close
Heritage
Drive
Heathcote
Heron Place
Grays
Point
Illawong
Hibiscus
Close
Hickory
Close
Higgerson
Ave
Alfords
Point
Alfords
Point
Engadine /
Heathcote
High Street
Caringbah
High Street
High Street
Gymea
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Miranda
Higherdale
Avenue
Highpoint
Place
Highview
Crescent
Hill Street
Hilloak Way
Como
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Was part of
old Crown road that predated Holt
subdivision.
In 1923 Royal View Estate subdivision
with Albert and Edward Streets so likely
named after one of the King Henrys
Named after Australian poet Henry
Kendall. One of a group of streets named
after Australian poets.
streets named after birds colloquially
known as “The Aviary”
Named of genus of warm climate
flowering plants (mostly shrubs)
Named after John Higgerson early (18851905) resident of Heathcote and later
Engadine . He was also a National Park
ranger.
He had been a jockey. One of the horses
he won on was Veno (see Veno St)
Named GG 170 of 2/9/1949
Part of Hilltop Estate (1914). Name
reflects that street is elevated.
DP
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
CL
DP
Name reflects that is a high point
Oyster Bay Name reflects location – is high with
views
Wooloowa Named after John Hill councilor on
re /
temporary Council 1906 and 1906 -1922.
Cronulla
Shire president 1918. Street named 1909.
He was a boat builder at Cronulla.
Menai
CL
Family lived in large house on corner Hill
St & Woolooware Road from 1893.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW)
a History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1987
Hinkler Ave
Caringbah
Hoad Place
Menai
Hobart Place
Illawong
Holland St
Hollings
Crescent
Cronulla
Heathcote
Holly Street
Caringbah
Holmlea
Place
Engadine
Holt Road
Sylvania
Holt Road
Taren
Point
Holts Point
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Homer Place
Caringbah
Honeyeater
Woronora
Subdivisions theme of naming streets after
trees/ plants.
Used to have section south of railway line. Microfiche map (
1939-46) Local
History co llection
Due to time of subdivision c 1928
DP
possibly named after aviator Bert Hinkler Internet
(1892-1933) who in 1928 was first person
to fly solo from Britain to Australia.
Whilst shown in UBD directory street
does not exist.
Named after RAN ships – Hobart I a
CR/ Australian
cruiser / Hobart II a destroyer. Ships
Encyclopedia –
named after Hobart in Tasmania which
Naval Defense
named after Robert Hobart Secretary of
Wajnryb
State for War and the Colonies when
Hobart settled. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Created 1911 but named later
Named in 1966 subdivision. Possibly
DP
follows theme for area of naming streets
after politicians / senior public servants c
1886 when area originally subdivided.
In line with adjoining streets ( jacaranda,
oleander etc ) named after species of trees
Name relates to Charles McAlister early
Engadine
settler’s property Homlea (originally
Sunbeam Cottage, later renamed
“Engadine Estate”)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
landholder
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Called Holt Street pre 1927
CL
landholder or more likely after his son
Frederick Holt as is near Frederick Street
landholder.
1978 council resolved to name street
Rd000/5/ Pt 1
‘because the point was known as Holt’s
Point at turn of century and so shown on
maps’
Named GG 18 of 18/2/1977
CL
Greek legendary author of the Iliad and
the Odyssey.
Place
Honeysuckle
Street
Hood Street
Heights
Jannali
Common name for a type of banksias
Miranda
CL
Hoover Place
Bonnet
Bay
Hopkins
Lane (DISC)
Hopman Ave
Waterfall
Previously Gibb Street, renamed GG 129
of 3/10/1941- probably to avoid confusion
with nearby Gibbs Street
Named after 31 st US President Herbert
Clark Hoover (1929 -1933). That Bonnet
Name discontinued
www.tennis.com.a
u
Horderns
Lane
Hornby Ave
Bundeena
Horning St
Kurnell
Horns
Avenue
Gymea
Bay
Hotham
Road
Gymea /
Kirrawee
Named after tennis coach Harry Hopman
(1906-1985). Non playing Da vis Cup
captain 1938-1969 guiding Australia to 15
wins. Won 7 Grand Slams. Played Davis
Cup 1928, 30, 32, 38-39. Subdivision
where streets named after tennis players.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Is laneway to Hordern’s beach.
Named after the person who subdivided
the land – Mr Hornby
Named after early landowner in Kurnell.
Council to cha nge name. Council refused
Previously Second Avenue renamed GG
113 of 6/8/1937. Hornes family lived
nearby in 1930’s
Road GG 137 of 28/11/1947
Road first named in 1886 DP (by James
Sutherland Estate Co). Said to be so
named as ‘concession to Jack Want‘
(solicitor who owned land near Yowie
Bay) so not named after Hotham Poultry
Farm which started 1912. Farm named
after street.
Probably named after town of Hotham
Yorkshire UK as in same subdivision as
Milburn & Manchester Rds (UK towns)
Probably named after Ralph Liddle
Houston who in 1919 owned part of
Houston St
Menai
Sutherland
Gymea
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
CL
File RD000/75
letter 7/8/1968 and
Leader 18/9/1968
pg 33
CL
Grays Point Story
CL
DP
A History of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
Sutherland Shire- a
history to 1939
Wikipedia
DPs
Hovea Place
Kirrawee
Howie
Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Hughes
Street
Wooloowa
re
Humberstone
Avenue
Gymea /
Miranda
Hume Road
Cronulla
Hunter Street
Heathcote
Hunter Street
Kirrawee
Huntingdale
Avenue
Miranda /
Sylvania
Huon Place
Illawong
Huskisson
Street
Gymea
Bay
DP1660 which was subdivided into
DP9458 at that time.
Name of Australian shrub sized
wildflower
William Howie was a builder and
involved in the Cronulla Methodist and
Presbytrian churches 1916 till late 1920’s.
He was owner at time of 1946 subdivision
1947-2005 parts known as Hughes Street
North / South. Part became part of
Denman Avenue
Named after maiden name of Lucy
Thacker (nee Humberstone) wife of
Edward Thacker who was a Shire
Councilor and involved in Miranda
School of Arts and Co–Operative Society.
Street on what was part of Thacker farm.
so probably named after Hamilton Hume
(1797-1873) who with W Hovell explored
Sydney – Melbourne 1824-5.
Name first registered on 1900 DP (survey
1899). As same subdivision as Blacket St
(Colonial architect) may be named after
Henry Hunter (1832-1892) architect –
however he mostly worked in Tasmania/
Queensland.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Named after Governor John Hunter (1737
-1821) 2nd NSW Governor (1795–1800)
(adjoins Bligh St).
In subdivision with The Knoll and Manor
Hill - all three names of major golf
courses. Huntingdale Golf Course is in
Melbourne.
Named HMAS Huon a Destroyer which
was stationed at Hobart. Probably named
after Huon River in Tasmania which was
named after Huon de Kermadec ships
captain on Bruni D’Entrecasteaux voyage
of exploration. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Coast locations (Conjola, Nowra etc) so
would be named after Huskisson near
Nowra
www.florabase.cal
m.wa.gov.au
a History to 1939
DP
CL
Some Early
Residents – Botany
Bay Family
History Society
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
DP
DP 95/2525 &
ADB Online
CL
Internet
CR/ Australian
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defense
Wajnryb
Hyde Close
Illawong
Hyndman
Parade
Wooloowa
re
Ibis Place
Grays
Point
Ilkinia Place
Engadine
Illaroo Street
Bangor
Illawarra
Road ( aka
Illawarra or
National Park
Road and
The Sydney
Road (DISC)
Sylvania to
Sutherland
Illawarra
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Probably named after Sir George Francis
Hyde (1872-1937) Royal navy officer
who also served in Australian navy. Head
of RAN 1931-37. In line with theme of
significance
Named after Edward Walter Hyndman
(1871- 1937), who was councilor 19061920, shire president 1911-15. He had a
poultry farm at Miranda from c 1904.
Involved in Miranda School of Arts and
Progress Assoc.
Name of waterbird. In group of streets
named after birds, colloquially known as
“The Aviary”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sacred totemic
design” (Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘track near the
sea’
Original road from Horse Rock Point
Sylvania to intersection with Old Illawarra
Road (Woronora Road). Mostly became
Princes Highway. Originally went through
where now Cemetery. On 1882
Subdivision map Old Princes Highway
from Eton St to Grand Parade was shown
as Illawarra Road.
Illawarra – aboriginal word meaning
white clay hill (internet) or mountain
(internet) or high place near the sea (CL,
Aust Museum)
Part renamed Kingsway GG 175 20/10/1916, Part renamed Princes
Highway GG 155 o f 21/10/1921, Part
renamed Adelong Street after no longer
forming part of the original ‘ main road’
Shown on DP800 12/01/1882 as
“Illawarra or National Park Road” and on
DP 802 (13/12/1882) as “Illawarra Road”
- both DP’s registered by James Murphy
of Holt Sutherland Estate Co. 3rd section
named under DP 1989 in 1887 – this part
became Adelong Street..
Previously (c 1886) was Railway Street.
After being Illawarra Street became part
of Flora Street.
ADB online
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW) & Suth
Shire Some Early
Resident pg 73-4
Tyrrell
CL Aborig names
& File MD 1/11/P1
Internet, CL , Aust
Museum
CL
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Illawong Ave Caringbah
Illuta Place
Engadine
Ilma Avenue
Iluka Place
Kangaroo
Point
Cronulla
Ilumba Place
Bangor
Imlay Place
Immarna Ave
Inderi Place
Barden
Ridge
Inelgah Road
Ingalara Ave
Lilli Pilli
Grays
Point
Como
Cronulla
Ingara Ave
Miranda
Inglebar
Close
Inglewood
Road
Bangor
Ingrid Road
Kareela
Inverness
Place
Kareela
Ironbark
Close
Ironbark
Lane
Alfords
Point
Heathcote
Grays
Point
Illawarra means ‘ high place near the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘view of water’
Or ‘between two waters”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small wallaby’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘corrobooree’
(Barbi tribe WA)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘near the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘white barked
‘ghost’ gum’
Or ‘ghost gum’
Named after 3 Imlay brothers who were
pioneers of the Bega District and in
Tasmania. Peter Naval surgeon, George –
pastoralist and holder of a Naval Post,
Alexander – army medical officer. Area
has Australian Pioneers theme
Aboriginal word meaning ‘rustling’
Western part was previously Burns Street.
Eastern part created/named 1913.
Previously Jolly Avenue Aboriginal word
meaning crayfish
Aboriginal word meaning ‘long way’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘crayfish holes’
Possibly named after Inglewood in
Victoria near Bendigo which was named
after Inglewood Forest in England.
yacht (overall winner 1952) as are most
other streets in subdivision.
In same subdivision as Argyle St, Perth St
and Stirling Ave so would be named after
town of Inverness in Scotland.
Named 2004
In line with theme in East Heathcote of
Bulletin Feb 1986
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
Council pamphlet
re place names
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
www.theatreguide.
com.au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Endacott, Cooper
Cooper
File MD 1/11/P1
Place Names of
Aust, CR /
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
MD 2/22/8 Pt 1
Cooper
Cooper
CL
CL / www.aussie
things.com.au
Cooper
Aust Museum &
File MD1/11/P1
Wajnryb
www.alldownunde
r.com
CL
Council file
naming after trees /plants lane named after 95/2960
significant stands of ironbark trees in area.
Irrubel Road
Irwine Road
Ischia Street
Caringbah
Caringbah
Cronulla
Island Way
Taren
Point
Woronora
Heights
Jabiru Place
Jabiru Street
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Jacana Grove
Heathcote
Jacaranda
Road
Caringbah
Jack Lane
Heathcote
Jackson Ave
Miranda
Jackson
Close
Menai
Probably named after “Ischia” Mr A T
Fleay’s cottage at South Cronulla
Retirement Village.
Aboriginal word for ‘stork’
Name of sea bird. Original proposed name
for Darryl Place. Was in line with theme
for area – adjoined Brolga Place.
Originally named Park Road – renamed
1955 or 56 due to having 2 streets with
similar names (nearby was Parkes St). At
one time was Parr Avenue (possibly a mis
spelling). Named after a bird which
scampers over water lilies. Name was
suggested by Heathcote Heights
Protection Committee.
In 1969 spelling changed from Jackaranda
to Jacaranda
Named after genus South American trees
- in line with ’tree’ theme in subdivision
(Oleander, Coral (tree) etc)
Named after Jack Lane who had the
general store on the Princes Highway at
Heathcote 1952 to 1966.
Lane named GG 32 of 11/3/2005.
Originally proposed to be Whitton Av but
residents suggested Jack Lane. He had
owned Heathcote’s only store for many
years on land adjoining lane. He died
2003 aged 92 & lived in area for over 50
years. He was WWII veteran and POW on
Burma Railway. Assisted many
community groups and families in need.
F Jackson was a poultry farmer in
Miranda in 1930 - ? earlier. Road first
named 1915.
Named after Marjorie Jackson – Nelson
(born 1931) sprinter. In a group of streets
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Pgs 89-90 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote
first settlement
GG 123 17/10/
1969 p 4266 (LW)
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote Suth
Shire’s First
Settlement p96-7.
CL
File 95/2960
1930 Sands
directory
BDCA
Jacobs Close
Jaeger Place
Jamberoo
Place
Menai
Woronora
Heights
Bangor
James Close
Menai
James Cook
Island
Jamison
Place
Sylvania
Waters
Barden
Ridge
Jane Place
Jannali
Avenue /
Crescent
Heathcote
Jannali/
Sutherland
Possibly named after F Jacobs an early
resident of the Menai area.
F Jacobs was a dairyman
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a track’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt’
As it adjoins Yeo Pl which is named after
James Yeo it is also probably named after
him. He was local pioneer and poultry
farmer who was former owner of land.
Named after Captain James Cook
Loftus
Jasmine
Place
Jason Street
Sylvania
Jean Avenue
Miranda
Alfords
Point
Miranda
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
MD1/11/P1
Named after Australian pioneer Sir John
Jamison – physician, explorer, land owner
and constitutional reformer. Also founder
of Bank of NSW. Had farms at Georges
River and South Creek. Street name theme
in area is Australian pioneers.
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography 1788
-1850 / CR/
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
From aboriginal word meaning ‘moon’
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig words,
Aust Museum
200 years in
retrospect
CL
Or “ place of beautiful moon rises”
Japonica
Place
Jarrah Close
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
1930 Sands dir.
File MD 1/11/P1
Name changed from Waterford Parade/
Road GG 99 of 25/7/1930
On 1888 subdivision plan of Queen’s
Jubilee Estate Jannali it is shown as Como
Crescent
Name of type of tree. In area where streets
named after plants.
Tree and timber native to Western
Australia – also known as blue gum
mahogany gum or swamp mahogany.
As adjoins Argo Place probable origin
from Jason of Greek Mythology
bearing first names (Doris etc) all with
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939 pg
48
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Jeenga Place
Sylvania
Jefferson
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay
Jeffrey Street
Kurnell
Jellicoe
Street
Caringbah
Jellingal Rd
Engadine
Jennings Rd
Heathcote
Jenola Lane
Wooloowa
re
Jensen Place
Engadine
Jerrara Street
Engadine
Jervis Drive
Illawong
same owner when subdivided so possibly
named after members of his family.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sweet’
(Eastern NSW)
Named after Thomas Jefferson 3rd US
President -1801-1809. That Bonnet Bay
local resident. Letter in 1959 from local
resident says Jeffrey family were only
weekend residents. Council file indicates
name was what street known locally as.
Named after Admiral John Rushworth, 1 st
Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) Admiral and 1st
Sea Lord in WWI, Governor General of
New Zealand 1920-24.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘creek’ (eastern
NSW)
In line with theme in area named after
NSW politician around time area
subdivided (1887) named after Sir Patrick
Alfred Jennings (1831-1897) MLC 186770, 1890-97, MLA 1870-72, 1880-1887.
Colonial Secretary 1885, Premier 1886-87
In early 1950’s Mr Reginald Norman
Dallimore (Councillor 1941-50) named
his house Jenola. When land subdivided
and lane named it adopted house name.
Source is 2 letters from each of his
daughters first names (Joy, Elva, Norma)
Private Joergen Christian Jensen (18911922) - VC for action France April 1917
Aboriginal word meaning ’a place where
eels sleep or lie down’
Or ‘haunt of eels
Part between Old Illawarra Road and
Gerald St renamed Oriana Drive 1986
Possibly named after Royal Navy Admiral
Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
(1735-1823) after whom Jervis Bay
named. Or HMS Jervis Royal Navy
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
Council file
R/39/11
The Great War – J
Mowbray
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyo n
ADB online
Council website of
Councillor names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin No 21 Oct
1971
www.anzacday.org
.au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
CL
www.ag.gov.au
Wikipedia
Jibbon Ln /
St
Cronulla
Jibbon Road
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Jinatong St
Miranda
Jingara Place
Sylvania
Jiri Place
Joffre Street
Engadine
Gymea
Bay
John Street
(DISC)
John Street
Burraneer
John Davey
Avenue
John Forrest
Avenue
Cronulla
Cronulla
Sutherland
destroyer 1937-1954. In line with theme
of areanames of historical nautical
significance
Street has view towards Jibbon Beach at
Bundeena.
Now named Bundeena Drive
Aboriginal word meaning ‘young grass’
Aboriginal word for ‘a large mountain
believed to be inhabitated by a fabulous
creature with a cavernous mouth which
preyed on unsuspecting tribesmen/
women’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘spotted finch’
As named in 1919 DP from 1916 survey
was probably named after Joseph Jacques
Cesaire Joffre (1852-1931), French field
marshal who commanded Allied Troops
in France in WW1.
Renamed Bulls Avenue West GG 33 of
21/3/1930
First named 1910.
Leader 21/7/2009 claimed was named
after John Stroud believed to be one of
longest serving lifesavers in world who
was brother of Phyllis Stroud (Miss
Cronulla 1927). However Leader says
Stroud family moved to area in 1913
which makes claim unlikely - but Kirkby
index says Frank Stroud present in 1907 at
formation of Cronulla Life Saving Club .
John Stroud not born till September 1912.
CL
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Dharawal
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
www.archives.org
wikisource- Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Wikisource- Moore
Dp, Internet
CL
CL
Leader 21/7/2009
pg 1 article re 104th
birthday of Phyllis
Stroud
Kirkby Index
Wentworth Courier
22/07/09
Named after John Greig Davey an original CL
owner in area.
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918) surveyor,
ADB online
explorer, politician in Western Australia.
Johnson
Avenue
(DISC)
Johnson
Close
Caringbah
Bonnet
Bay
Johnston Ave Kirrawee
Jolly Avenue
(DISC)
Jonathan
Place
Jones Street
Jonquil
Place
Jowyn Place
Judd’s Road
(DISC)
Judd Street
Jukes Close
Junction Rd
Miranda
Name discontinued
Named after either /both Andrew Johnson
(17th US President 1865-1869) or Lyndon
Baines Johnson (36 th US President 19631969). That Bonnet Bay street names be
those of US presidents was recommended
by Deputy Shire Clerk Jim Hall , agreed
to by Parkes Development and Council
Named after George Bain Johnston a first
fleet lieutenant and early settler. He was in
charge of NSW regiment and was the
officer who arrested Gov. Bligh. In same
1962 subdivision as Bligh Street, Putland
Place, and Kemp St all of which relate to
early years of NSW Colony and Governor
Bligh / Rum Rebellion. Was previously
Grove Avenue.
Renamed Ingara Avenue
CL
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
File 95/2721
CL
Miranda
Engadine
Owners name on 1961 subdivision plan is
R Jones so probably named after owner.
Alfords
Name of type of plant – in subdivision
Point
Kirrawee
Name of an Aboriginal nation in
Queensland
Miranda /
On 1902 map Attunga Road shown as
Yowie Bay Judd’s Road (in 1904 St George Call
called Yowie Bay Road).
Named after William George Judd –
Councilor / 1st Shire President (1906) who
had a holiday house at Yowie Bay
Cronulla
Named after William George Judd (1847 1929), first Shire President (1906-1910),
Councillor 1906-14. President Avenue
named in his honour. Street named 1910.
Barden
Named after Joseph Jukes – geologist.
Ridge
Circa 1840 he made several geological
excursions in Sydney / Wollongong area.
Area has Australian Pioneers theme.
Heathcote
DP
www.iceaustralia.c
om
Echoes From The
Bay
Cronulla Public
School Golden
Jubilee 1925-1975
Council Min 361
of 8/5/1989 ( File
MD 2/24/4) &
Aust’n Dict of Bio
Junction St
Miranda
Junction
Cronulla
Street (DISC)
June Place
Gymea
Bay
Juniper Place Sylvania
Part of ‘Junction Estate” i.e at junction of
Kingsway and Port Hack ing Road.
Renamed Links Road
Juvenis Ave
Name of type of North American
coniferous trees
Oyster Bay Latin for ‘young’
Kalang Lane
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word for ‘beautiful’
Kalgoorlie
Place
Sutherland
Kalkada
Avenue
Kalmia Place
Gymea
Bay
Miranda
Kaloona
Place
Kalvin Street
(DISC)
Kirrawee
Kambalda
Place
Kamira Road
Kanandah
Road
Named GG 51 of 16/5/1958
Also name of river in northern NSW
between Bellingen and Nambucca
Aboriginal word for a shrub which grows
in Kalgoorlie area of Western Australia.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mullet’
(Western Australia)
Name of species of evergreen shrubs in
heath family
Kirrawee
Discontinued. Ran south off Forest Road
approximately where now eastern end of
Mundakal Ave.
h
near Kalgoorlie. Name of aboriginal
origin but meaning unknown. In group of
streets named after WA locations
Lilli Pilli
In Greek mythology, Kamira was a
daughter of Danaus who was worshipped
on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the land where
the sun sets’
Kanangur
Ave
Gymea
Or ‘ in the west’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘adorned’
Kangaroo
Kangaroo
First appears on DP 3643 (registered
CL
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
www.ancestry.com
.au
CL aborig. Names,
also Endacott, Aust
Museum, Council
File R/39/11
CL
www.wapedia.mob
i
Place Names Of
Aust. A W Reed
Tyrrell
Wkisource- Moore
www.britannica.co
m.au
1934 Gregorys
Street Directory
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Endacott
Development Comt
19/8/1957 Council
file R/39/11
DP
Point Road
Point
Kannan Place Kirrawee
Kanning Ave
Gymea
Bay
Kanoona St
KaraKarook
Street
Caringbah
Maianbar
Karamarra
Road
Karangi
Place
Engadine
Karda Place
Gymea
Kareena
Road
Miranda
Karimbla
Road
Miranda
Karnu Place
Kareela
Karoola
Crescent
Caringbah
Karree Place
Karri Place
Heathcote
Alfords
Point
Karuah Place
Engadine
Illawong
28/3/1900, surveyed 1891) as “Road 1
chain wide to Kangaroo Point’ First listed
as “Kangaroo Point Road 2/11/1900. On
1934 Street directory as ”Kangaroo Rd”
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shallow, not
deep
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cave’
1934 Gregorys
Street directory
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Or ‘the south’
Wikisource-Moore
1949 subdivision with Laguna St
DP
Meaning ‘sand’
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
In Endacott Karkarook = sand
Endacott
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a duck’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Named after RAN Boom Defense Vessel CR/ Australian
Encyclopedia
Naval Defense
Aboriginal word meaning ‘part or portion’ Works Com
6/1/1958 Council
file R/39/11
1947 to 2005 parts known as Kareena
Road North / South
First named on 1893 DP
DP
Means ‘pure’ (Greek) or ‘dear/ beloved
Internet
one’ (Swedish)
Most of street created in 1893 DP, new
CL & DP
part east of Kareena Road named GG 11
of 24/1/1941 due to railway corridor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘rock or stone’
Macq abo. Words
or meaning ‘ mountain’
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
www.mn.catholic.o
rg.au
DP
Aboriginal word meaning ‘by and by’
Endacott
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt’. In
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
trees/ plants.
1958 Council list said was aboriginal
Works Com
word for ‘a crab’
6/1/1958 Council
file R/39/11
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a native plum
Aboriginal Words
tree’. In subdivision where streets named
and Place Names
Meaning ‘native plum’
Kathryn
Place
Kawana
Place
Gymea
Bay
Bangor
Keats Place
Heathcote
Keele Street
Como
Kelly Street
Sylvania
Kelsall Place
Barden
Ridge
Kelso Street
Engadine
Kelton Place
Engadine
Kemp Ave
Kirrawee
Kendall
Place
Kareela
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flowers’
Or ‘ wild flower’
John Keats (1795- 1821), English
Romantic poet. One of 12 streets in area
named after famous .
Development Control Unit resolved 1978
roads in area to be named after poets.
Possibly named after village in
Staffordshire UK the name of which is
Anglo Saxon word meaning ‘cow hill’
Possibly named after John Kelly who was
caretaker for Holt Sutherland Co for 10
years. He also worked on Intercolonial
Investment Land and Building Co
subdivision in 1886, managed Railway
Hotel at Sutherland and was a coach
propertier in 1890’s.
Named after Roger Kelsall (1793-1861) –
Soldier and Engineer. Was in charge
mapping branch of Ordinance Dept. in
Tasmania also construction of buildings
including church & barracks at Port
Arthur. Area has Australian Pioneers
theme
As several nearby streets named after
Scottish towns (Dumbarton, Kilmarnock)
likely it is named after town of Kelso in
The Borders area of Scotland.
As several streets in vicinity (Dumbarton,
Kilmarnock) named after Scottish
locations is probably named after parish
of Kelton in Galloway , Scotland
Named after Anthony Fenn Kemp (17731868), who was captain in charge of
government stores and a merchant. He
was involved in arrest of Gov Bligh. In
same 1962 subdivision as Bligh Street,
Putland Place, and Johnston Street all of
which relate to time of Governor Bligh.
Possibly named after Henry Kendall
Australian poet
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
File MD 1/11/P1
Internet
MD 000/5 Pt 1
Wikipedia
a history to 1939
CR
ADB Online
A Book of Sydney
Suburbs & ADB
Online
Kenna Place
Gymea
Kennedy
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay
Kenneth Ave
Kent Place
Kirrawee
Heathcote
Kentia Place
Alfords
Point
Kerr Avenue
Kerslake
Grove
Bundeena
Menai
Kestrel Place
Kiah Place
Woronora
Heights
Port
Hacking
Miranda
Kiama Street
Miranda
Kiara Close
Bangor
Kiewa Place
Kirrawee
Kewol Place
Kilborn Place Miranda
Probably named after Private Edward
Kenna (1919-) who won Victoria’s Cross
for action at Wewak PNG in WWII.
Named after 35 th US President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961 -1963). That
www.anzacday.org
.au
Named after English County (adjoins
Dorset St which has similar origin and
was subdivided same year)
Name of species of palm tree. In
trees/ plants.
Named after Estate owner Laura Kerr
Jean , George and Marion Kerslake were
early settlers in area
DP
Kerslake family in 1925 purchased land
on Old Illawarra Road, ran market garden
Type of bird , a falcon. In subdivision
where streets named after birds.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘deep water’
place’
Aboriginal word meaning either ‘famous
father spirit’ or ‘good fishing ground’
Or ‘plenty food’, ‘good fishing ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a white
cockatoo’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sweet water’
Named after athlete Pamela Kilborn (born
1939) (listed in Australia’s sporting
greats) Competed in 1968 Olympics, won
4 Commonwealth Games Gold medals
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Title records
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Illawong : A Place
in History
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum, CL
& MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
BDCA
Kilby Place
Illawong
Kilmarnock
Road
Engadine
Name of town in Ayrshire Scotland.
Several nearby streets (Dumbarton,
Felton) named after Scottish locations.
Kimbar Place Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘bark hut’
h
Kimberley
Gymea
Place
Bay
Kincumber
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ belonging to
Place
an old man’
Kindilan
Miranda /
Aboriginal word meaning ‘joyful’ ‘happy’
Place
Caringbah
King Street
Heathcote In line with theme of naming streets in
area after NSW politicians of time area
subdivided is probably named after Philip
Gidley King (1817-1904) MLC 18801904
King Street
Maianbar
Leslie Victor King was owner who
subdivided area in May 1926. He was
Shire Councilor 1922-28.
Kingfisher
Grays
Crescent
Point
streets named after birds known
Kingsbury
Jannali
Named after Private Bruce Steel
Place
Kingsbury (1918- 42) of 2nd /14 Battalion
who was awarded Australian Victoria
Cross posthumously after a battle on
Kokoda Trail in Papua August 1942.
Kingsway
Cronulla – Till 1916 eastern part was called
Miranda
Kurranulla Beach Road. Part through
Miranda was Malvern Road.
Originally On early maps spelt Kings Way. Name
also
gazetted GG 175 of 20/10/1916.
Kirrawee/
Sutherland / Kirrawee sections renamed
Sutherland Old Princes Highway/ Princes Highway
Named to honour King of England
Kingswood
Engadine
Originally called Fairview Street – as
Road
Botany Bay could be seen from there.
Kinnane’s
Road (DISC)
Gray’s
Point
Kinross Place Engadine
Early, unofficial name, for Mansion Point
Road circa 1930s. Named after Bert
Kinnane who was early resident in area.
Possibly named after John Kinross (18331908) Presbyterian minister, theologian.
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/81 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
Wikipedia
Tyrrell
Tyrrell
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
Maianbar
(Maianbar Progress
Assoc publication)
The Leader
Approx Feb 1967
(LW) & www.
Anzacday.org.au
Pg 98 Engadine
1825-2001 by R
Seville
Grays Point Story
ADB online
Kinsella St
Kiora Rd
Illawong
Miranda
Kiora Lane
Miranda
Kiparra St
Engadine
Kippax Place
Menai
Kirk
Crescent
Kirkby Place
Kirrawee
Miranda
Kirkwood
Road
Cronulla
Kirrawee
Ave
Kirrawee
Head of Presbyterian Church and
Principal St Andrews College.
Unproven but may have originally been
spelt Kinsela after Henry Kinsela however
all gazettals and plans refer to Kinsella St.
Henry’s name spelt Kinsella in M Hutton
Neve book. He built house “The Terraces”
in Dolan’s Bay c 1889.
Mr E P Kinsella was MLA for part of
Shire 1930-32
1947 to 2005 parts of road known as
Kiora Road North / South
Means ‘love’
Began as an unnamed east west lane in
1920. Later extended north south to
railway lane. Most of extension closed in
1990’s due to Miranda Fair expansion.
Word means ‘love’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place where
initiation ceremonies were held for boys
being admitted to full manhood’
Or meaning ’urine’
Or ‘ceremony ground’
Named after Australian cricketer Alan
Falconer Kippax (1897-1972), batsman.
Test player 1924-34. In subdivision where
Named after David R Kirkby (1899-1970)
MBE Shire Clerk 1929 to 1963. He also
wrote shire history “From Sails to
Atoms”. Street is in subdivision carried
out by Council’s then property
development arm.
In Golf Links estate 1921. Named after
Joseph Henry Kirkwood (1897-1970),
professional golfer who won Australian
Open in 1920.
Kirrawee is aboriginal word meaning
‘lengthy’ (suburb originally called
Bladesville)
Or from “ Girrawee or garrawi ‘ meaning
‘place of white cockatoos’ or ‘sulphur
crested cockatoos’
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
From Sails to
Atoms
CL
DP
Internet
CL
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
AW Reed
Macq Abo. words
Endacott
Internet
Faces of the Shire
A History
ADB Online
Sutherland Shire
Community Profile
on internet.
Dharawal
Kitchener St
Kiwong St
Possibly named after Field Marshall
Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)
noted for his army career in Egypt and in
WWI.
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a big mountain
covered with scrub’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘bathing place’
Koala Road
Lilli Pilli
Koba Road
(DISC)
Kobada Place
Kodola Way
Koel Place
Menai
Kittani Street
Konda Place
Caringbah
Engadine
Bangor
Woronora
Heights
Bangor
Konrads
Place
Menai
Koobidya
Street
Waterfall
Kookaburra
Place
Grays
Point
Koongulla
Road (DISC)
Barden
Ridge
Koonya
Circuit
Caringbah
Or ‘moon’
Road created 1912 , named 1929,
Named after native bear
Name discontinued
Aboriginal word meaning ‘coal’
Aborigina l word meaning ‘a hill’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘eucalypt
Aboriginal word for ‘cabbage tree’
Named after Ilsa and Jon (John) Konrads
Australian brother and sister champion
swimmers,. They were Latvians who
immigrated to Australia in 1949. In
Australian swimming champions.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Road does not physically exist. Was part
of original route of Illawarra Road.
Sweeping bend in road cut off when
railway built became Koobidya Street
Aboriginal word for ‘laughing jackass
bird’
Group colloquially known as “ The
Aviary”
Name discontinued
Alternate spelling Boongulla Road. Ran
from Old Illawarra Road opposite Barden
Road to Little Forest Road. Part closed
1955. Section through The Ridge Sports
complex closed 2000. Rest bushland track
in old Crown Rd reserve
‘Koonya’ was small steamer shipwrecked
off Boat Harbour , Cronulla January 1898.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘seagull’
Place Names of
Australia,
Randwick Council
website
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aust Museum
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
CL
Macq abo words
Tyrrell
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD1/11/P1
BDCA
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Endacott
Kooraban St
Koorabar
Road
Koorabel
Ave
Koorong
Place
Koorooma
Lane (DISC)
Koorooma
Place
Waterfall
CL
Bangor
Previously known as Bridge Street.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
According to Waterfall Progress Assoc in
letter 9/6/2003 is aboriginal word meaning
‘spring constantly running’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Gymea
Named 1954
CL
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘pine tree’
Sylvania
Name discontinued. Meaning ‘kangaroo’
File MD 1/11/P1
Endacott
CL
Sylvania
Meaning ‘kangaroo’
Korokan
Road
Kotara Place
Lilli Pilli
Kudilla St
Engadine
Kula Place
Bangor
Kulinia St
Engadine
Kulli Place
Engadine
Miranda
Kumbardang Miranda
Avenue
Kummera
Waterfall
Street (DISC)
Kumulla Rd
Miranda /
Caringbah
Kundul Place
Engadine
Kungar Road
Caringbah
Originally Koorooma Lane renamed GG
112 of 25/9/1964
Possibly ‘korokon’ aboriginal word
meaning ‘to roar, as the sea’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a club or
waddy’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘winter’ (South
Australia)
Aboriginal word for ‘bloodwood tree’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fire stick’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘of his own
power’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘night’
File 98/1997
CL
Council min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
CL
CL of Aboriginal
names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD1/11/P1
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon & Cooper
www.newcastle.ed
u.au
www.archive.org
wikisource-Moore
CL
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Road does not physically exist. Was
Crown boundary road between 2 lots,
created c 1900 but not named till 1930.
Named 1911 with a number of other
DP
streets with names of Aboriginal origin
(Kareena, Cawarra etc).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘the wild carrot’ Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Originally proposed to be named Golding CL
Avenue after name of owner at time of
streets subdivision (1966).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘perspiration’
www.archives.org
Kurlan Street
(DISC)
Waterfall
Kurnell Road
Cronulla /
Wooloowa
re
Kurrajong
Street
Sutherland
Kurramatta
Place / Lane
Cronulla
Kurranulla
Beach Road
(DISC)
Cronulla –
Sutherland
Kurranulla
Cronulla
Street (DISC)
Kurrewa
Place
Kareela
Kurri Street
Loftus
Kurwin St
Engadine
Kyogle Place
Grays
Point
La Boheme
Avenue
Caringbah
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Street is just a dirt track. Is now in
Heathcote National park. Was original
created to provide access to Crown leases
Various opinions re name eg corruption of
original settler Connell’s name.
Was original road from Cronulla to
Kurnell until was interrupted by
extensions to Cronulla Golf Course
Aboriginal word for tree species
‘Sterlucia’
Aboriginal word for ‘shade tree’
Originally (GG 1930) Kurramatta Lane ,
renamed Place GG 63 of 7/6/1957 as
adjoining residents wanted ‘classier’ name
Original name till 1916 of Kingsway.
Cronulla/ Woolooware section renamed
Kingsway, Caringbah section Banksia
Road GG 175 of 20/10 /1916
Caringbah section as “Kurranulla Road”
in 1893 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small pink sea
shell’
Renamed as Cronulla Street GG 124 of
18/6/1952
Aboriginal word for ‘small pink sea
shells’
yacht Kurrewa IV (line honours 1954, 56,
57 and 1960) as are other streets in this
subdivision. Previously named Morna.
Originally (1930) spelt Kuri and in GG 65
of 30/5/1930 as “Kuri” but on all later
plans , DPs as “Kurri”
Kurri has several meanings –corroborree,
cousin, mussel, play. Kuri means circle or
compass.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dance’
(Victoria)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a plain turkey’
or ‘a native companion’
Or ‘wild turkey’
La Boheme was the name of the Alfred
Wunderlich family home in this location
Wikisource-Moore
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names
CL
Council file
R/39/11
CL & 1909-1913
subdivision plans
DP
CL of Aboriginal
names
CL
CL of Aboriginal
names
www.alldownunde
r.com
DP
Macquarie
Dictionary of
Aboriginal words
Ab Word BK – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Endacott
Echoes From the
Bay
Lachlan Ave
Sylvania
Waters
Lady
Carrington
Drive
Royal
National
Park
Lady Rawson
Avenue
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Lady
Wakehurst
Drive
Royal
National
Park
Laguna St
Caringbah
Lalor
Crescent
Engadine
Lambeth
Place
Lancashire
Place
Illawong
Gymea
(he was youngest brother of the family
which made pressed metal ceilings, tiles
at Redfern). Was singer in Philharmonic
Society and house named after song.
Australian river. River runs through
Forbes and Cowra in south western NSW.
The European discoverer of the Lachlan
River in 1815 was Acting-Surveyor
George William Evans, who named the
river after Lachlan Macquarie, the
Governor of the colony of NSW.
Named in honour of wife of State
Governor, Baron Carrington, 1885-90.
Used to go all the way to Otford. Now
walking/cycling track.
Was road along what is now Rawson
Avenue into RNP and then south easterly
towards Audley.
Named in 1903, Lady Florence Alice
Rawson was the wife of the State
Governor, Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson
(1902 till her death 1905).
For some years was a track from Princes
Highway to Royal National Park Station,
just to north east of railway/ now tramway
line.
Named after wife of NSW~Governor in
1930’s Lord Wakehurst. Lord Wakehurst
opened Sutherland – Cronulla Railway in
1939
Whilst there is an Italian word meaning
‘lagoon’ it was in same subdivision as
Kanoona St so likely instead to be of
Aboriginal origin.
As adjoins Tinakill St which is named
after Tinakill in Ireland which is Peter
Lalor’s birthplace, Crescent named after
Peter Lalor who led miner’s at Eureka
Stockade and later was Victorian
politician & Speaker of Legislative
Assembly
As adjoins Manchester Road and
Manchester City is in Lancashire UK
www/wapedia.mob
i
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Pre 1946 map on
microfiche – Local
History collection
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents pg
49
L Burgess Council
officer
From Sails to
Atoms
Internet
Landor Road
Barden
Ridge
Landy Close
Menai
Lang Road
(DISC)
Engadine
Langer Ave
Lantana Rd
Caringbah
Engadine
Lara Close
Illawong
Larkspur
Place
Larool Place
La Trobe
Close
Heathcote
Laurel Grove
Menai
Laurence
Avenue
Laurina Ave
Bundeena
Lavender
Engadine
Barden
Ridge
probably named after that English County.
Named after Edward Wilson Landor –
solicitor, writer and pioneer from Western
Australia (area has Australian Pioneers
theme)
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography
1788-1850 (LW)
Council 7/12/1987
(file MD 2/22/3-6)
(LW)
BDCA
Named after John Landy athlete (born
1930) was 1 mile record holder. From
2001 to 2006 was Governor of Victoria.
Former name of Cooriengah Heights Road Engadine 18252001
Town Clerk David Kirkby letter 6/6/1958 Council File
to Engadine ALP said “as far as the writer R/39/11
is aware the road may have been known
as Lang Road as one of the roads in the
Would have been named after Labor
politican / NSW Premier Jack (John) Lang
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Name of vine.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hut on stony
ground’
Or ‘the Milky Way’
Type of flowering annual plant. In area
where most streets named after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kookaburra’
Charles La Trobe (1801-1875) was
superintendent (1839-1851) and
Lieutenant Governor (1851-54) of
Victoria. Area has Australian pioneers
theme.
In line with the me of subdivision named
CL
Endacott
Cooper
Endacott
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
Engadine / Named GG 79 of 17/7/1959. Part renamed CL
Yarrawarra Porter Road.
h
Council advised resident in 1959 that
Council file
street named after Hakea Laurina =
R/39/11
pincushion flower
Alfords
Name of type of scented plant. In
Place
Point
Layden Ave
Engadine
League Street
(DISC)
Miranda
Leavesden
Place
Leawarra St
Sylvania
trees & shrubs
Named after Rod (Rodney George) Laver
(born 1938) left handed tennis player
known as ‘Rockhampton Rocket’. Only
tennis player to win Grand Slam twice
(1962 as amateur, 1969 as professional).
In Davis Cup team 1958-62, 1973. One of
tennis players.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958)
inventor of cyclotron. Won 1939 Nobel
Prize for Physics.
Named after William Lawson (17741850) explorer and pastoralist who
participated in first successful crossing of
Blue Mountains in 1813. Area has
Australian pioneer’s theme.
Previously called Post Office Avenue
renamed GG 83 of 24/6/1927.
Elias Pearson Laycock and John Connell
Laycock inherited a large area of land
from their grandfather John Connell Snr
who bought land off Birnie Estate. Elias
was well known as a champion sculler.
Street named after Elias Laycock.
Named after Layden family. Mr S Layden
arrived with his parents in 1917. He and
his wife lived on corner Engadine Avenue
and highway. Mrs Layden Snr was
unceasing worker in Engadine’s First
Congregational Church
Renamed Willock Avenue. Name would
have been derived from Returned Services
League -renamed to honour then head of
Miranda RSL who was driving force in
obtaining the land for housing for returned
soldiers.
Name of village in Hertfordshire UK
Laver Ave
Menai
Lawrence
Crescent
Lucas
Heights
Lawson
Place
Barden
Ridge
Laycock Ave
Cronulla
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘arising’
Lee Place
Illawong
Internet – BDCA
Wikipedia.
www.ansto.gov.au
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography ?CR
CL
Echoes from the
Bay
The Cronulla Story
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
Engadine – an
Outline History
CL
L Burgess Council
officer
Internet
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon &
Endacott & Cooper
Lehane Plaza
Caringbah
/ Dolan’s
Bay
Leicester
Waterfall
Street (DISC)
Leichhardt
Sylvania
Crescent
Lemongum
Place
Lenna Place
Lennox Place
Alfords
Point
Jannali
Barden
Ridge
Leonay St
Sutherland
/Woronora
Leopold
Lane
Jannali
Letter Box
Lane
Leumah St
Illawong
Lewis Street
Cronulla
Cronulla
Named after Johanna Lehane – owner of
land prior to subdivision.
The Lehane family owned the land now
Sutherland Hospital. Thomas Lehane was
one of the original 1906 Councilors & was
Councilor till 1925. He was born 1867
Miranda – son of Johanna. Family owned
land at Sutherland, Cronulla, Miranda.
Thomas moved to area in 1868.
Renamed Warabin Street
CL
Probably named after Friedrich Wilhelm
Ludwig Leichhardt (1813 -48) explorer ,
scientist and geologist
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a dwelling’
Named after David Lennox (1788-1873) –
bridge builder. Area has Australian
pioneers street naming theme.
Originally part of Waratah St became
Waratah Street West when split by
railway 1882. Renamed 1986.
Named after NSW suburb on eastern edge
of Blue Mountains which was named in
1973 after a vineyard which had been on
the site from 1917 to c 1960 which had
been established by Leo Buring. ROC
directory as a reference’
Named 2004
Lane named after one of Queen Victoria’s
children in line with theme in area.
Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany
was her 8 th child.
Private ROW. Name relates to row of
letterboxes at start of lane.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘here I rest’
Wikipedia &
Wajnryb
In 1930 Sands spelt ‘ Leumeah’
Named in 3 1904 DP’s. Like the other 2
roads in subdivision it was named after
owner of part of the land being
subdivided. E Lewis was landowner of
Echoes from the
Bay
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
SSHSB May 1989
CL
Tyrrell
Australian Dict of
Biography / CR
On 1882/ 1936
maps.
www.penrithcity.n
sw.gov.au
File RD 000/5 Pts
2&3
CL
Council file
95/3210
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
C Info
Liffey Place
Woronora
Lilac Street
Loftus
Lilli Pilli
Point Road
Lilli Pilli
Lincoln
Crescent
Bonnet
Bay /
Como
Linden Street
Sutherland
Lindsay St
Lindsay
Gordon Place
Caringbah
Heathcote
Lindum Road
Lindwall
Close
Kurnell
Menai
Link Circuit
Menai
Links Ave
Cronulla
southern end of street and adjoining land.
Named after Liffey River in Ireland –
which is the main river through Dublin. In
group of streets near Woronora River
named after rivers in British Isles (Tay,
Severn, Thames, Mersey)
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Type of flowering plant. In group of
Named after the point the name of which
is from the aboriginal word meaning
‘myrtle , a tree with small edible berries’
Originally spelt Lilli Pilly Point Road.
Named after 16 th US President Abraham
Lincoln (1861 -1865). That Bonnet Bay
Development and Council. First road in
subdivision.
Genus of deciduous northern hemisphere
trees also called Tilia or Lime Trees
Section south of Grand Parade was called
The Trust Road on 1886 map – as was
then boundary of Royal National Park.
Later was The Boulevarde
famous Australian poets. Adam Lindsay
Gordon (1833-1870) – poet and horseman
– most famous works ‘Bush Ballads and
Galloping Rhymes’
Roman name for town of Lincoln in UK
Named after Raymond (Ray) Russell
Lindwall (1921- 1996) cricketer who
played in 61 tests from 1946-1960. In
group of streets named after cricketers.
Letter to landcom confirming name – said
was to be Ling Circuit. M Ling was early
pioneer. His land West Menai North of
Popplewell land and west of Mayman
land.
Previously named Junction Street and
Soutar Street. Probably so named due to
Wikipedia
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
by F Midgley in
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
ADB online
Internet
File MD 1/11 Pt 2
CL
Lisbon Street
Sylvania
Little Forest
Road
Lucas
Heights
Little Turriell
Bay Road
Lilli Pilli
Liverpool St
Bundeena
Llanberis
Drive
Menai
Lobelia Place
Lochiel Road
Gymea
Engadine
Loch
Lomond
Crescent
Lochness
Place
Burraneer
Locksley
Street
Wooloowa
re
Loftus Ave /
Lane
Loftus /
Sutherland
/ Yarra
warrah
Engadine
proximity to Cronulla Golf Links.
First named in 1882 DP by James Murphy
of Holt Sutherland Estate Co. North south
streets in subdivision have names of
‘exotic’ foreign locations – so named after
Lisbon in Portugal.
(off Illawarra Road south of tip)
Name of area of 700 ac granted to David
Duncombe in 1827.
Also called ‘Five Mile Forest Road”. Area
was source of timber for Cronulla
Tramway and other early Shire projects.
corruption of ‘Tyreal’ name of House on
opposite side of river which became
business at point in 1918 (Tyrell’s Pt)
Part of Yarmouth Estate – streets in this
estate in most cases were named after
English beaches.
Named first in 1886 DP.
Village in Wales – Area has Welsh links
(Bangor & Menai Welsh locations,
original settler Owen Jones Welsh)
It is village in Snowdonia National Park
group of streets / subdivision (with Gort,
Braeside etc) also named after Scottish
locations.
Named after historic house at No.3.
Loch in Scottish Highlands. Number of
streets in area named after Scottish
locations.
In subdivision (DP 7331) where streets
named after castles. Locksley is castle in
England near Nottingham. Made famous
in Adventures of Robin Hood.
Lane named 2004. Avenue discontinued
in Yarrawarrah.
Frederick Spencer Loftus, Baron Loftus –
DP
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1978
The Bundeena
Book
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 11 No
2 May 2008
Internet
LEP 2006 –
Heritage list
Wikipedia
DP
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988/
Loftus Street
Bundeena
Logan Street
Loftus
Lola Place
Miranda
Lomandra
Place
Alfords
Point
Long Close
Menai
Loraine Ave
Lord Place
Caringbah
Barden
Ridge
Loretta Ave
Como
Lorikeet
Close
Woronora
Heights
Louden Ave
Illawong
Louise Street
Jannali
Governor of NSW 1879-1885.
After 1885 also known as “Main Road”
Replaced part of Illawarra or National
Park Road circa 1879 which ran through
what now Woronora Cemetery and
crossed railway north of Loftus Junction
railway station then ran where now
Princes Highway.
Frederick Spencer Loftus, Baron Loftus.
He was NSW Governor 1879-1885. Name
first registered in 1886 DP
Possible source of name - in 1909-1913 a
Mr Logan was Postmaster at Sutherland
family.
Name of type of tufted grass / mat rush –
in subdivision where streets named after
trees & shrubs
Named after Australian tennis player
Thelma Long. Subdivision where streets
named after Australian tennis champions.
Named after Simeon Lord – entrepreneur ,
owned land in St George area (Area has
Australian pioneers theme)
In 1930 Sands spelt Lorretto Avenue (but
spelt Loretta on 1888 subdivision plan)
Named after Loretta in Italy by James
Named after the native bird.
Alexander Louden was Hurstville Council
Alderman 1896-99. Illawong was part of
Hurstville Council until 1922. Bush land
not a made road. Was dirt track in past.
In Queens Jubilee Estate subdivision
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 374 (LW) / A
Sutherland Shire
DP
Internet
Internet
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography ?CR
Sands directory
Como Public
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Email Julie Baker
Council employee
10/2/2000 (LW)
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
Loves Ave
where streets names are names of
members of Queen Victoria ’s family.
Named after her daughter Louise Caroline
Alberta.
Oyster Bay Named after Mr Robert and Mrs Rose
Love local identities / early local residents
Lowan Place
Woronora
Heights
Lowana Ave
Kirrawee
Lower
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Lowry Place
Woronora
Heights
Lucas Street
Cronulla
Lugano Ave
Burraneer
Lunar Ave
Heathcote
Lynch Ave
Caringbah
Lyne Lane
Heathcote
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mallee hen’
(Victoria).
Or ‘mallee fowl’
birds.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a girl’.
president (1789-1797). That Bonnet Bay
Possibly named after Sir Somerset
Richard Lowry – Corry , Earl of Belmore,
NSW Governor 1868-1872
Named after origina l settler – Lucas
Probably named after Lake Lugano in
Italy
Adjoins ‘Surveyor St’ so probably named
Possibly named after owner at time of
subdivision as owner’s signature on 1922
subdivision DP appears to be Lynch
Possibly - A Mr Frederick William Lynch
of Tareel Bay Port Hacking died May
1927 aged 53
Named 2004
Named after Sir William John Lyne
(1844-1913) MLA 1880-1901, Secretary
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)&
Oyster Bay Public
School 50 th
Anniversary
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Endacott, Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names.
Endacott. Develm’t
Com Min 591
7/7/1958 (LW)
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Macquarie Book of
Events
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Internet
DP
Propeller
27/5/1927
CL
Council file
95/2960
Mabel Street
(DISC)
McAlister
Ave
Caringbah
McAlister
Avenue
Engadine
Macarthur St
Sylvania
Cronulla
Macartney St Miranda
McAuley
Heathcote
Close
McCabe
Place
Menai
McCubbens
Lane
Sutherland
McDonald St Cronulla
McDonald St Illawong
Public Works 1185, 1886-87, 1891-94,
Premier 1899-1901, in line with theme of
Name discontinued
www.parliament.ns
w.gov.au
Named in 1922 after Charles & Christina
McAlister the first settlers in Engadine.
Charles also original (1906-14) Councilor
and later lived at Cronulla. They owned
and subdivided land where street is.
Named in 1922 after Charles and
Christina McAlister the first settlers in
Engadine .
Charles Mc Alister was Shire Councilor
1906-14. They owned land where street is.
Adjoins Camden, Onslow and Merino
Streets – thus relates to Macarthur Onslow historic merino Sheep property
near Camden.
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
As in group of streets named after poets
probably named after poet and academic
James Phillip McAuley (1917-1976).
Named after Stanley Joseph ‘Napper’
McCabe (1910-1968) cricketer. In group
of streets named after Austn cricketers.
A Mr J McCubben had “Mac’s store” on
Prince’s Highway Sutherland.
His grocery store was on corner of lane
and Prince’s Highway.
When subdivided (1913) one of owners
was Herbert Leslie McDonald but was
originally purchased From Holt Estate in
1908 by William Arthur McDonald who
was possibly the William (Billy Mac)
McDonald (1896-1958) – local butcher
WWI till 1952 and Foundation member
Miranda RSL and Cronulla Rotary/
Existed pre 1906. Named pre 1934.
ADB online
Probably named after Angus Alexander
McDonald Hurstville Council alderman
1897-98. Illawong was part of Hurstville
Council till 1921. Alternatively could
have been named after Ronald McDonald
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW)
Internet
1930 Sands
directory
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
L Burgess –
Council
Cl, 1934 Gregory’s
Directory,
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
MacFarlane
Parade
Sylvania
MacFarlane
Road (DISC)
Gymea
Bay
McGill Place
Menai
McGovett
Place
Macintyre
Crescent
Menai
Mackay St
Caringbah
McKell
Avenue
Sylvania
Royal
National
Park
McKenzie
Place
Menai
Mackin
Close
Barden
Ridge
a champion axe man and sleeper cutter
who cut sleepers at Menai to build
Cronulla tram line c 1911.
Previously Edward Pde – renamed 1953.
Renamed Barraran Street GG 65 of
30/5/1930
Named after Linda McGill (born 1945) 1st
woman to swim English Channel. Won
Gold medals at Commonwealth Games
and at 1964 Olympics. In group of streets
Australian river. The Macintyre river is in
central northern NSW and forms central
part of the NSW – Queensland border.
Named after Donald Mackay shire
resident and noted explorer.
He donated land to Caringbah RSL for
RSL club and RSL asked Council to name
Section of Street after him. He lived 1870
-1958. Explored Sturts Stony Desert 1898,
parts Papua 1908, 4 expeditions WA/ Cent
Aust + 3 aerial surveys in 1930’s.
Was Cawarra Road South till 1970 (GG
86 of 10/7/1970)
Originally called Waterfall Road.
On some maps as “The McKell Road”
William J McKell was NSW Minister for
Justice 1931
Named after Graham McKenzie (born
Perth 1941) fast bowler. In Australian
team 1961-71. In group of streets named
after Australian cricketers.
A Mr William J Mackin lived at Menai
and was involved in Progress Association
Pg 22 From Sails
to Atoms
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents
CL
Pg 22 From Sails
to Atoms
Suth Shire Some
Early residents
Internet
File MD 1/11/P1
Wikipedia
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 1980
CL
CL
From Sails to
Atoms
Internet
Propellor
11/6/1920 & 21
McKinley
Avenue
Bonnet
Bay
Macleay
Place
Sylvania
Waters
MacMahon
Place
Menai
McPherson
Place
Illawong
Macquarie St Gymea
Madeira St
Madison
Place
Sylvania
Bonnet
Bay
1920. In 1921 he proposed running buses
to Peakhurst. On pioneer settlers list 1992
Named after 25 th US president William
McKinley (1897-1901). That Bonnet Bay
Named after Macleay River northern
NSW. Rises near Armidale, flows to sea
near Kempsey. One of 30 streets in area
named after Australian rivers.
Major Archibald Clunes Innes, sent the
first government gang of Australian red
cedar cutters to work here in 1827. Later
was named Macleay River in honour of
Innes’s father-in- law, Alexander McLeay,
scientist and colonial secretary of NSW.
Fred and Dennis MacMahon were early
settlers in area
McMahon family purchased land on
Alford’s Point Rd in 1920’s. On 1992
Pioneer settlers list.
Named after Mc Pherson family which
owned 14 ½ ac land from cnr Fowler Rd /
Thompson Ave to near fire station and
then to Georges River
Named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie
(1762-1824), Governor 1810-1822.
colonial historical significance.
Part renamed Port Hacking Road.
Alternative spelling Maidoro
First registered in 1882 DP by James
Sutherland Estate. North /south roads in
subdivision have theme of ‘exotic’ foreign
locations. Named after city in Spain
Named after James Madison 4th US
President (1809-17). Tha t Bonnet Bay
File MD 1/11/P1
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
www/wapedia.mob
i
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Illawong: A Place
in History & File
MD 1/11/P1
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin July 1976
CL
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Magnolia St
Kirrawee
Mahogany
Close
Mahonga
Street (DISC)
Maianbar
Road
Alfords
Point
Grays
Point
Royal
National
Park
Cronulla
Maidora
/Maidoro
Road (DISC)
Main
Illawarra
Road
Maitland
Place
Kirrawee
Makora St
(DISC)
Miranda
Malibu Street
Bundeena
Mallard
Street
Woronora
Heights
Malvern Rd
Miranda
Name of species of flowering tree
Name discontinued
(town in Zimbabwe)
Road to Maianbar
Named Maidoro 1911, changed to
Maidora 1912. Part of Maidora Estate
subdivision. On 1938 plan says correct
spelling is Maidoro. Renamed Windsor
Road GG 106 of 24/7/1942. Possibly a
concocted name as owner was Dorothy M
Board.
Name 1865 to 1921 of what now Princes
Highway. Renamed Princes Highway
after visit to Australia in 1920 by Prince
of Wales (later King Edward VIII).
GG 155 of 21/10/1921. Was also known
as Main Sydney and Wollongong Road
( private road) In same Dept of Housing
subdivision as Singleton Place so would
Maitland which is named after either
James Maitland 8th Earl of Lauderdale or
after General Frederick Maitland who
accepted Napoleon’s surrender
In DP 8523 - area between President Av,
Miranda Road, Anzac Ave and Karimbla
Road – was road linking Miranda and
Karimbla Road which no longer exists.
Meaning ‘fish’
Named by subdividers of “Pacific Waters
Estate” - names in subdivision are of
famous overseas beaches
Named after type of bird- a migratory
wild duck. In subdivision where most
20/10 /1916. In GG 20 of 15/2/1929 part
previously known as Deviation road
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
CL
CL
CL
Newcastle Council
library website
DP Plan & 1934
Gregory’s Street
Directory
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
The Bundeena
Book
Wikipedia
CL
between Kareena Road and Miranda Road
became part of Malvern Street.
In 1904 it was the only through road
between Sutherland and Cronulla
Manchester
Road
Gymea
Mandur
Place
Mangrove
Lane
Caringbah
Mangrove
Road (DISC)
Manilla Place
Kurnell
Mannikin
Drive
Woronora
Heights
Manning
Street
Taren
Point
Woronora
Part still exists parallel to Kingsway
which was land originally acquired for
Sutherland Cronulla Tramway.
1947 to 2005 parts known as Manchester
Road North / South.
Name first registered 1882 by Holt
Sutherland Estate Co. Said to be named
by James Murphy manager of Co ‘as a
concession to Jack Want’
Probably named after town in England as
other streets N-S streets in subdivision
also named after English towns (Bath etc).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘quiet or
undisturbed; not meddled with’
Area had been mangroves in past.
Development Committee 21/12/1970 that
‘a name with some significance to the area
be allocated, Mangrove Lane being
suggested”
Name discontinued. Possibly name relates
to mangroves in area
Aboriginal word meaning ‘winding river’
Named after type of small bird from finch
family. In subdivision where most streets
are types of birds.
Oyster Bay Named after Mrs Manning a local
identity.
Manooka
Place
Manor Hill
Road
Kareela /
Kirrawee
Miranda
Mansfield
Caringbah
She lived in Oyster Bay Road and had a
dress making business in Redfern
In subdivision with Huntingdale Street
and The Knoll – all three are names of
major golf courses. Manor Hill Golf
Course is in Florida.
Named after SE (Steve) Mansfield who
Echoes From the
Bay – The Yowie
Bay Story
DP
CL
A History of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
RD 000/5 Pt 1
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Wikipedia
Short History of
Oyster Bay(LW)
Mementos of
Oyster Bay
Endacott, Cooper
Internet
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Lane / Ave
built Highfields Store on corner Port
Hacking Road and The Kingsway.
He was first postmaster for area
Mansion
Point Road
Grays
Point
Maple Street
Caringbah
Marga Road
Gymea
Bay
Margaret
Lane
Sylvania
Margaret
Kirrawee
Street (DISC)
Marina
Gymea
Crescent
Marine
Esplanade
Mariner Rd
Cronulla
Marion Street
Gymea /
Miranda
Marlee Road
Engadine
Illawong
Bulletin Nov 1988
p408 (LW)
Pg31 From Sails to
Atoms
CL
CL
Lane named 2005
Part was previously Peninsular Road,
rena med GG 142 of 5/12/1969.
Named on Mansion Point Estate DP in
DP
1923. Was road to Mansion Point. Reason
for that name unclear as was never a
mansion on point. Early (c 1930’s)
unofficial name was Kinnane’s Road
Named after type of tree. In group of 3
streets (with Heather, Daphne) named
after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a native shield’ www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Or ‘lower arm’ or ‘bough of tree’
Wikisource-Moore
Lane named 2004
CL
Named after Margaret Connell daughter
Council File
nd
of John Connell 2 man to be granted
95/3210
land in Shire. She married Thomas
Laycock and was mother of Elias and
John Connell Laycock.
Name discontinued
CL
1962 western part of Ellesmere Rd
renamed Marina Rd and linked to new
road in new subdivision. There was a
proposal at that time to build marina near
Swallow Rock Reserve.
Name describes streets location adjoining
ocean.
Convict transport ship 1816, 1825, 1827.
Mr Frank Marien editor of Truth news
paper owned large house where now
Trade Union Club. His father Robert
Marien had large orchard on north side of
Kingsway between Manchester and
Sylvania Rds. Street named after Robert
but misspelt.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an elder tree’
Rd 000/5 pt 1
Gray’s Po int Story
Website ‘convicts
to Australia’
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
& Nov 1988
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Marley Street
(DISC)
Marlo Road
Marlock
Place
Marooba
Place
Maroopna
Road
Marra Place
Royal
National
Park
Cronulla
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Was Crown reserved road at Marley beach
– no longer physically exists.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kangaroo’. In
Beach Park Estate (1916) with 4 other
streets with Aboriginal origin names.
Alfords
Name of small leafy native tree /shrub. In
Point
subdivision where names are those of
trees/ plants.
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘thunder’. Also
Engadine District news 12/2/1970.
Yowie Bay Possibly named after town in Victoria
near Shepparton.
Sylvania
Aboriginal word for finger, hand
Or ‘to do , to make’
Marsden
Road
Barden
Ridge
Marsh
Avenue
Marshall
Road
Wooloowa
re
Kirrawee
Martin Street
Heathcote
Mary Lane/
Street
Bundeena
Mary Street
Jannali
Also ‘ant, cloud ,new, now, sky, wind’ in
various aboriginal languages.
Originally part of Belgrave St/ Esplanade
renamed Darbal Ave 1958, Marra Pl 1971
Previously Barden Lane
Named after Samuel Marsden, chaplain,
missionary and farmer.(area has Aust’n
Pioneers theme)
Previously named Bay View Street,
renamed Govt Gaz 94 of 13/8/1948.
A Mr Marshall ran a diary in the area and
was a local milk supplier.
Area subdivided / name registered 1893
Theme of subdivision names of senior
public servants/ politicians c mid 1880’s.
Named after Sir James Martin (18201886) politician and chief justice.
Attorney General 1856, 1857-58, 186668. Premier 1870-72. Martin Place
Sydney named after him.
Street was part of 1939 subdivision with
Graham St in “Graham’s Estate” – as
Graham Street named after one of owners
Leslie William Graham , Mary Street was
probably named after one of his family or
that of other owner Herbert William Hall
In ‘Queens Jubilee ‘Estate where street
names are names of members of Queen
Victoria’s family. Three of her children
CL
Internet
Internet
Tyrrell
File RD 000/5 Pt 1
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Macq abo words
CL
CL
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography/ CR
CL
A Short History of
Gray’s Point
DP
Mary
Gilmore
Place
Heathcote
Masefield
Place
Mason Place
Wooloowa
re
Barden
Ridge
Mathers
Place
Mathews
Place
Menai
Menai
Matong Place
Gymea
Bay
Matson
Crescent
Miranda
Matthew
Flinders Pl
Mawarra Ave
Burraneer
Maxwell
Close
May Place
Illawong
Mayman
Row
Miranda
have Mary as second or third name.
famous poets. Dame Mary Jean Gilmore
(1865-1962) poet & journalist – her image
is on the $10 note
ADB online
Street naming theme for area is Australian
pioneers. In ADB online 3 Masons listed
– (1) Martin Melville surgeon, magistrate,
commander (2) Francis Conway Melville
(1843-1915) politician (3) Thomas
Melville (1800-1888) police magistrate.
ADB Online
Named after Leigh Matthews a footballer
(listed in Australia’s sporting greats)
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
Internet
More likely named after Marlene
Matthews athlete – as in subdivision
Aboriginal word for great, strong
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
The Matson Family ran Matson’s Pleasure Echoes from the
Grounds from 1904 till c 1913 in the area Bay
Crescent are. They had boat shed at end of
Wonga Road 1894 till c 1914.
Family ran Audley boatshed and had boat Faces of the Shire
building business in Kareena Rd till 1964.
Named after Fred Matson who owned a
Suth Shire Hist Soc
large boatshed on Yowie Bay in 1880’s
Bulletin Nov 1988
p 408(LW)
Named after Matthew Finders who with
George Bass explored Port Hacking.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a pleasant
Tyrrell
place’
A Supply ship. In line with theme of area- File MD1/11/P1
names of historical nautical significance
Illawong
Menai
Dorrio Mayman was an early settler in
Menai area.
Menai Congrega
tional Church
In 1930 3 Maymans (W, J, Mrs E) were
poultry farmers at Menai.
In 1899 Mathew and Elizabeth Mayman
took up land at Bangor.
Their land was on old Illawarra Road
In 1981 William (born 1902), Frank (b
1906), Harry (b 1904) still living in Shire
Meadow
Place
Meckiff
Close
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District9
1930 Sands
directory
Suth Shire Some
Early Residents &
MD1/11/P1
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin N ov 1989
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1981
Miranda
Menai
Named after Ian Meckiff cricketer
(bowler), later commentator. In group of
streets named after Australian cricketer.
Medika Place Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blossom’
(South Australia)
Or , blossom, flower’
Meehan
Kirrawee
Named after early surveyor. Near Bligh
Place
Street so probably James Meehan who
was surveyor and settler at Governor
Bligh’s time.
Meekatharra Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town.
Place
h
Town named after nearby spring , means
‘place of little water’. In group of streets
named after Western Australian locations
Meitner
Lucas
Place
Heights
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) first person to
realize that nucleus of an atom could be
split into smaller parts.
Melaleuca
Alfords
Name of genus of Australian trees –
Place
Point
Melaleuca
Heathcote Name of genus of Australian trees –
Lane
Meldrum
Miranda
Ave
Melrose Ave Sylvania
Murphy of Holt Sutherland Estate Co.
Likely named after town of Melrose in
Scotland. Other EW streets in subdivision
also UK towns (Pembroke, Snowden)
Melville
Barden
Place
Ridge
Pioneers. There are 5 Melville’s on ADB
Internet
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Cooper
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
File 95/2721
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
www.ansto.gov.au
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
DP
Internet
File MD2/23/4 Pt 1
ADB Online
Memmang
Place
Menai Road
Mendeleef
Avenue
Mendos
Place
Mentone
Avenue
Mercedes
Place
Merino Place
Merredin
Close
Online – (1) 1st Viscount Melville Henry
Dundas (1742-1811) British politician /
secretary for Colonies 1794-1801. (2)
Francis Melville (1822-1857) bushranger,
(3) Gertrude Mary Melville (1884-1959)
NSW Labor politician, (4) Henry Melville
(1799-1873) journalist , publisher, author
(5) Ninian Melville ( 1843-1897)
politician
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘very short, a
short fellow’
Menai/
Part or all was previously known as
Bangor /
Bridge Road. Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Woronora Named after Menai Strait in Wales as
original settler Owen Jones was Welsh –
he named area Bangor (city on north side
Strait). PMG changed name c 1910 but
preserved Welsh connection.
Lucas
Heights
Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleef (also spelt
Mendeleev) (1834-1907), Russian chemist
who developed periodic table.
Engadine
With adjoining streets Dural, Gamut and
Gamenya is named after varieties of
Australian wheat
Cronulla
Name of mediterean resort. Named in
1913 subdivision by Charles Mc Alister.
As he named Engadine after Swiss
location may have been named after
resort.
Kareela
Named after Mercedes III yacht in
Australia’s winning Admiral’s Cup team
1967. Most streets in subdivision named
after Sydney- Hobart Race winning yachts
Sylvania
Name of type of fine wool sheep. Adjoins
Camden, Macarthur and Onslow Streets
so relates to historic Macarthur-Onslow
sheep property near Camden where
Merinos breed.
Yarrawarra From Aboriginal word meaning ‘timber’.
h
Named after town of Merredin in Western
Australia. Merredin is an Aboriginal name
which means "the place of merritt's", a
locally abundant tree, the trunks of which
were used for making spears. In group of
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u.au *
CL
Chronicle of the
20th Century &
Wikipedia
www.publish.csiro.
au
www.findarticles.c
om
Place Names of
Aust. A W Reed
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Merriwa
Place
Mersey St
Merton Street
Meta Street
locations.
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘fertile place
h
producing much grass seed”
Or ‘plenty of grass seed and flour made
from it’ or ‘gammon’ or ‘pretence’
Woronora Named after Liffey River in UK. In group
of streets near Woronora River named
after UK rivers (Tay, Severn, Thames,
Mersey). Originally ran from Linden
street to river. Small section still Mersey
Street the rest renamed River Rd & Prince
Edward Park Rd in 1948.
Sutherland 1947 to 2005 parts were known as Merton
Possibly named after Merton College at
Oxford University as near Oxford Street.
Caringbah Aboriginal word for ‘land’
Or ‘house’
Name first appears in 1928 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a fly’
Mianga Ave
Engadine
Michael
Boland
Bridge
Mikarie
Place
Milba Road
Heathcote
Named after construction worker killed
during construction of bridge.
Kirrawee
Milburn Rd
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘depth’ (Central
Australia)
Aboriginal word - name of a woman
Name of a Port Jackson area woman
Part south of Kingsway renamed Gymea
Bay Rd 1916, another part renamed 1934.
As in same subdivision as Manchester and
Hotham Roads (both English towns)
probably named after town of Milburn in
Cumbria UK.
First named in “Five Ways Estate”
subdivision DP 1913 (Council approval
1912). Area bounded by Boulevarde,
Kareena Rd & Port Hacking Road was
known as “Milford’
Named after Keith Ross ‘Nugget’ Miller
Milford Road
Miller Place
Caringbah
Miranda
Menai
Place Names of
Aust.
Aust Museum
CL
CL
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Macq abo words
DP
CL Aborig words,
Aust Museum
www.unionsafe.lab
or.net.au
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon
CL aborig names
Aust Museum
CL
DP
Wikipedia
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1969
Internet
Milner Ave
Kirrawee
Mimosa St
Heathcote
Mimulus
Place
Mina Road
Caringbah
Menai
Mindar Street
Como
Minerva St
Kirrawee /
Sutherland
Minnamurra
Avenue
Miranda
Miranda
Road
Miranda
(1919 -2004) cricketer (and WWII fighter
pilot). In group of streets named after
Possibly name relates to Milner’s Nursery
which was in area.
Lily Milner’s father an ironworker could
not find work and decided to become a
poultry farmer on 3 ac at Suth. Also sold
passion fruit.
Mr Fred Milner was first assistant to Shire
Clerk Mr McFarlane
Milner family (3 Bros – Fred, Harry,
Robert) lived in area from pre WW1.
Lily Milner & family moved to Shire
1896
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place of
wattle trees’
Type of flowering plant commonly known
as ‘creeping monkey flower’
Aboriginal word for ‘eye, see’
Or for ‘gum’ or ‘spinifex’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘grass tree
leaves’
Western end renamed Aldgate Street and
Morley Street 9/5/1986. Sutherland
Section name discontinued.
Minerva is the Roman name for the Greek
Goddess Athena – goddess of warriors,
poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce,
crafts and inventor of music.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘plenty of fish’
1947 to 2005 sections were known as
Miranda Road North/ South
From suburb name which was named by
James Murphy of Holt Suther land Co
after character in Shakespeare play “The
Tempest”.
Suth Shire Some
early residents
Illustrated History
of the Suth Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1989
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1981
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Macq abo words
CL
www.archives.org
CL
DP
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Endacott, Aust
Museum
CL
Council pamphlet
re place names
DP
Mirang Place
Engadine
Miyal Place
Engadine
Or ‘to cry’ or ‘to grieve’.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘camp’.
Or “to cry’ ‘to grieve’
Road is a dirt track /fire trail. Now mostly
within Heathcote National park. Part still
exists to give access to property excluded
from park. Was built for Water Board
pipe line construction and maintenance.
Type of Australian native flowering plant
– “ mirbelia speciosa’ type of native pea.
Plant named after Charles Francois de
Mirbel a French botanist.
That named after plant mentioned in
31/5/1973 minute
Aboriginal word meaning the
‘constellation of the Southern Cross’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘crested pigeon’
plant which grows on trees – in group of
In 1888 subdivision plan of Queen’s
Jubilee Estate Jannali it was part of
Georges River Road.
Named after WA Mitchell (headmaster of
Haberfield Public School) who bought 12
blocks in area when first subdivided.
Part re named Elouera Road
therefore probably named after Thomas
Livingston Mitchell (1792-1855) NSW
Surveyor General (1828-1855), led
expeditions 1831-33 and 1845-6.
On Parkside estate subdivision ad c 1915
it is shown as Mitchell Street.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stranger’
Mirang Road
Waterfall
Mirbelia
Place
Caringbah
Moani Ave
Gymea
Moira Street
Sutherland
/ Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a ring tail
possum’
Originally (in 1882 subdivision plan by
Holt Sutherland Estate Co) extended to
Oakwood Street.
Part became Moira St West in 1937 & that CL
Mirrabook
Place
Mirral Road
Heathcote
Mistletoe St
Caringbah/
Lilli Pilli
Loftus
Mitchell Ave
Jannali
Mitchell Rd
Cronulla
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
File RD 000/5 Pt 1
Internet
RD000/5 pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.terranullis.do
c
CL
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
& Oct 1976
CL
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 2007
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
1882 DP
Mokera Ave
Molong Road
Kirrawee
Gymea
Bay
Mona Road
Menai
Mona Road
(DISC)
Wooloowa
re
Monash
Road
Menai
Monomeeth
Place
Monro Ave
Montague St
Miranda
Kirrawee
part became Galga St & Glenelg St 1986,
another section became Gailes Street 1986
Previously part of Peebles Avenue –
renamed GG 143 of 10/12/1971
(Victoria)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘all rocks’
Previously part of Grays Road renamed
GG 72 of 3/8/1962 to avoid confusion
with Grays Point Road.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Possibly named after Mona island in
Wales. Menai & Bangor Welsh locations.
Many streets in area named after W elsh
locations.
Was at eastern end of what was then The
Boulevarde (which now part of Captain
Cook Drive). Mona St would now be on
Toyota site. Could be named after Mona
Island in Wales or after Gaelic word
which means ‘high born’
Probably named after Lieutnant General
Sir John Monash (1865-1931) Australian
military commander during WWI. Theme
for area is names of great Australians.
Aboriginal word for agreement,
benevolence, enjoyment
2 possible origins (1) Mr Cecil Owen
James (Joe) Monro (1883-1966) an estate
agent and publican was Councillor 19141941, 1943-53, Shire President 1917-18,
1922-27, 1939 and 1949-51. Member of
Legislative Assembly (1932-41, 1950-53).
(2) A Mr Monro had large house on
Kingsway midway between Acacia Road
& Oak Road. He was manager Arthur
Yates Seeds.
Illawong
Montgomery
St
Mookara
Miranda
Port
CL
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon, File R D
000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
CL
Rd 000/5 Pt 1
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 11 No
2 May 2008
1934 Gregory’s
Street directory
Internet
ADB online
CR
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Faces of the Shire
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
Place
Mooki Street
Hacking
Miranda
Moombara
Crescent
Port
Hacking
Moona Road
Kirrawee
Moonah
Road
Moonbi
Place
Moon Point
Road
Alfords
Point
Kareela
Illawong
Moore Street
Sutherland
Moores Road
(DISC)
Royal
National
Park
Moray Place
Morella Lane
(DISC)
Moreton Rd
Sylvania
Waterfall
Illawong
Aboriginal word meaning ‘blind’
Named after weekender (sometimes spelt
Moombarra) built 1881 by Richard
Cornelius Critchett Walker a trustee of
national park and Principal Under
Secretary in NSW Govt. Bought 1903 by
solicitor Arthur Wigram Allen (sold 1912,
bought back 1918, family sold 1949).
Name means ‘camping ground’
Aboriginal word for ‘plenty’.
Was originally to be called Alban Street
Aboriginal word meaning ‘gum tree’ or
‘eucalyptus tree’
yacht (overall winner 1955). Other streets
in this subdivision also named after
Sydney Hobart winning yachts.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ashes’
Near Moon Point headland between Great
Moon Bay & Little Moon Bay on Georges
River. Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Bays named due to their crescent shape
Named after Charles Moore (1820 -1905),
one of 10 original trustees of the Royal
Previously was William Street
Name discontinued.
Probably named after Charles Moore
(1820-1905) – an original trustee of Royal
Ran from Grafton Street (between Eton St
and Merton St) parallel to Rawson Ave
through to Lady Rawson Avenue.
Name discontinued. Aboriginal word
meaning ‘hill’
Named after HMAS Moreton which was
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 10 No
1 February 2007
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Endacott, Aust
Museum
CL
Endacott
Cooper
www.alldownunde
r.com
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
Suths Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
& Feb 1986, ADB
Cooper
CR/ Australian
Morley Street Sutherland
stationed at Brisbane – therefore ship
probably named after Moreton Bay which
in turn was named after Earl of Morton by
Captain Cook in 1770. Street naming
theme in area is names of historical
nautical significance.
Was part of Minerva Street. Renamed
1986 when Council renamed parts of
streets split by railway or highway.
Named after suburb of Perth, Western
Australian . The Perth suburb believed to be
Encyclopedia –
Naval Defense
1882 subdivision
plan
www.landgate.wa.
named after Charles William Morley, who
gov.au
farmed in the area during the 1860's & 1870’s.
ROC 25/11/198 5 that names for parts of
File Rd 000/5 Pt 3
streets split by railway etc be “of towns and
Morna Place
Kareela
Morris Close
Menai
Morrison
Avenue
Engadine
Mort Close
Barden
Ridge
Moruya
Avenue
Sylvania
Waters /
Taren
Point
Mosman
Place
Barden
Ridge
reference”
yacht (line honours 1947-48). Streets in
this subdivision named after Sydney
Hobart winning yachts. Renamed
Kurrewa IV.
Named after Arthur Morris (born 1922)
Australian cricketer. In group of streets
One of owner’s signatures on original DP
appears to be PL Morrison – this is likely
source of name
As streets in area named after early
Australian pioneers probably named after
transporting meat.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place down
south, a water crossing’, or ‘a water ford’.
Australian river.
River is on NSW south coast. Moruya is
from an aboriginal word, mherroyah,
meaning "home of the black swan".
Australian pioneers. Probably named after
either Archibald Mosman (1799-1863)
merchant & pastoralist (who suburb of
Mosman named after) or his son Hugh
www.alldownunde
r.com
Chronicle of the
20th Century
DP
ADB Online
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
www.wapedia.mob
i
ADB Online
Moseley
Street
(DISC)
Mountain St
Kirrawee
Mt Carmel
Place
Mowbray St
Engadine
Moyran
Parade
Grays
Point
Mulberry St
Loftus
Mulga Place
Kirrawee
Mullins Lane
DISC)
Sutherland
Mulyan
Street
Como
Engadine
Sylvania
(1843 -1909) mine owner, member
Queensland Legislative Council.
Name discontinued
CL
relating to mountains (peak, sierra, alpine)
Mt Carmel is a coastal mountain range in Wikipedia
northern Israel near Haifa
First named in 1882 DP by Holt
DP
Aboriginal word meaning ’ancestor’.
Development Comt
19/8/1957 Council
file R/39/11
Previously Hacking River Crescent.
named after plants.
Aboriginal word for ‘acacia’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘shield’
CL aborig names
Aust Museum
Or ‘boomerang tree’
Aust Museum
Renamed Robertson Lane GG 172 of
CL
31/10/1986
A Fred Mullins owned a corner grocery at Sutherland Shire –
Sutherland in 1930’s
a History to 1939
Frederick Adrean Mullins was councilor
Council website
1937-41
list of councilors
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place where
Aboriginal Words
the eagle hawks congregate’
and Place Names
Or ‘wedge tail eagle’
www.pccnetforce.com.au
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ in the bush’
www.archives.org
Mundakal
Kirrawee
Avenue
Muneela
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘winding river’
Place
Mungga
Waterfall
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Street (DISC)
Road does not physically exist. Now in
Heathcote National Park. Was originally
established to give access to Crown leases
Munni Street Wooloowa Aboriginal word meaning ‘kangaroo’
re
Murchison St Sylvania
Murdock St
Cronulla
Named after Thomas Murdoch (sic) an
Ingamells
CL
www.aiatsis.gov.au
Muronga
Place
Murralin
Lane
Kirrawee
original owner
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bullroarer’
Sylvania
Aboriginal word meaning ‘climbing’
Murrami
Avenue
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a crayfish’
Murray
Island
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Murray River is mostly
on NSW – Victorian border. In 1830
Captain Charle s Sturt reached the river ,
named it Murray River in honour of the
then British Secretary of State for War
and the Colonies Sir George Murray.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big water,
plenty of water ’.
Or ‘track goes down here’, ‘very good
place’, ‘big water’.
Australian river – the Murrumbidgee river
in southern NSW.
Murrumbidgee means "big water" in the
Wiradjuri Aboriginal language.
Named GG 61 of 13/4/1951
A and L Muston were early settlers in
Sutherland area.
Murrumbidg
e Avenue
Muston Lane
Muttama
Avenue
Sylvania
Waters
Sutherland
Kirrawee
Gymea
Bay
Loftus
www.wapedia.mob
i
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum
Aboriginal word meaning ‘like it’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cliff lookout’
www.wapedia.mob
i
CL
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Suth Shire - Some
Early Residents
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1987
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Development Com
Min 591 7/7/1958
(LW)
CL Aborig names
Endacott, Cooper
Was previously part of National Avenue.
CL
Had a bakery on Princes Highway south
of Flora Street.
Albert & Les Muston ran bakery from
1914
Aboriginal word meaning ‘take it’
Committee minute – gives no meaning
Mypolonga
Avenue
Myrtle Street
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum File
RD 000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Abor. Names,
Aust Museum
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
named after plants.
Aboriginal word meaning ’clear water’
Myuna Place
Port
Hacking
Nabiac
Avenue
Gymea
Bay
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a wild fig tree’
Nagle Close
Menai
Nallada Road
Alfords
Point
Namara
Place
Nambour Rd
Engadine
Nambucca
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
Named after Kelvin “Kel” Nagle golfer
known as “Pymble Crusher”. He won 6
Australian PGA titles, 7 NZ Opens, 7 NZ
PGA’s + 1960 British Open.
Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964
Aboriginal word meaning ’grass’ (eastern
NSW)
Queensland aboriginal word for ‘grass’.
Possibly ‘namarra’ aboriginal word for
‘mother’
Aboriginal word meaning’ tea tree, flame
tree, tea tree bark, red flowering tea tree’
Renamed Amitaf Avenue
Aboriginal word meaning ’crooked river’
Or ‘entrance to the sea’
Namoi Place
Sylvania
Waters
Nanardine
Lane
Engadine
Waterfall
Napier Street
Engadine
Naranga
Engadine
From Aboriginal word meaning either
‘acacia tree’ or ‘breast’.
Named after Namoi River in northern
after an Australian river.
Meanings of name include: the Kamilaroi
'ngamu' for 'breast'; Aboriginal for ‘forked
stick’ ‘meeting of the waters’ or Nammoy
native name fo r a species of acacia.
(off Warabin St) Aboriginal word
meaning ‘a swallow’.
Lane named 2003. Name suggested by
Progress Assoc to fit in with aboriginal
word theme
As near Auckland St likely named after
City of Napier in NZ. City named c 1854
after Sir Charles Napier hero of battle of
Meeanee in India
Possibly ‘narang’ aboriginal word for
CL Aborig names,
Endacott, Cooper,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Internet
CL
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
www.nswrail.net
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.wapedia.mob
i
Aborigina l Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Council file
98/1997
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
Avenue
Naranganah
Avenue
Narooma
Place
Narraga
Place
Narran Place
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Gymea
Bay
Gymea
Bay
Caringbah
Nathan Place
Engadine
National
Avenue
Loftus
National Park
Road (DISC)
Sylvania/
Kirrawee
Nattai Street
Loftus
Needlebrush
Close
Neil Street
Alfords
Point
Bundeena
‘little’, ‘a small creek’
Or ‘open ‘ (Northern Australia)
and Place Names
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Aboriginal word meaning ’a zania palm
growing in water’ or ‘a magic stone’.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Likely named after town on NSW south
coast. In groups of 6 streets named after
South Coast towns ( Nowra etc)
Aboriginal word meaning’ dry, ripe’
Name discontinued GG 72 of 25/7/1958
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hungry place’
Was in area now southern section of
Caringbah High School.
In 1972 subdivision with part of Dunlea St
so possibly named after George Nathan a
Jewish bookmaker who ran fund raising
carnivals at Sydney Sports Ground to
raise funds to help Father Dunlea run
Boys Town in early 1940’s.
Part renamed Myrtle Street. Likely so
named as was part of ‘ The Great National
Park Estate’ Subdivision 1933
Part renamed Princes Highway GG 155 of
21/10/1941 In past also known as The
Sydney Road. Was built in 1879 from
Thomas Holt’s property Boundary (Park
Lane) to Audley to access National Park.
Part renamed Farnell Avenue. Shown on
1882 DP as ‘Illawarra or National Park
Road”. Subdivision was by Holt
(See also Illawarra Road)
Named GG 136 of 16/10/1970
where streets named after trees/ plants.
Named after Neil Mobbs of the family
that owned the estate. Previously
www.archives.org
CL
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
DP
ADB Online
CL
CL
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
CL
Nelson Street
Engadine
Nemesia Ave
Caringbah
Nepean Place
Sylvania
Waters
Nerang Road
/ Lane
Nerida Road
Cronulla
Nevin Close
Menai
Newcombe
Street
Maianbar
New
Illawarra
Road
Menai /
Barden
Ridge
Newland
Place
Engadine
Nicholi Place
Alfords
Point
Nicholson
Parade
Cronulla
Kareela
Parkwood Street renamed GG 135 of
16/9/1938
As adjoins Trafalgar and Victory Streets
would be named after Lord Horatio
Nelson, 1 st Viscount Nelson, who
commandeered British naval fleet at
Battle of Trafalgar against Frenc h/
Spanish fleet October 1805
Genus of annuals, perennials and shrubs
native to Africa. Several other streets in
area named after plants.
Australian river. Nepean River is to west
of Sydney. Named to honour Evan
Nepean Under Secretary of State for the
Home Departme nt c 1789 who had been
involved in organizing First Fleet.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘little’
yacht - overall winner 1950. Streets in this
Yacht Race winning yachts
named after Nevin a shipping port / town
in Caernarvonshire in North Wales
In 1840 a George William Newcombe
purchased 30 ac land on the southern
shore of Port Hacking at Fisherman’s Bay.
Part in Barden Ridge was part of Old
Illawarra Road
So called as new route of road to South
Coast (Illawarra)
Captain James Ernest Newland (18811949) won VC for action France April
1917
A type of eucalyptus tree known as
peppermint gum. In subdivision where
names are those of trees/ plants.
Two possible origins for name.
Captain T Nicholson was Captain of
steamer Koonya which was shipwrecked
off Cronulla (Boat Harbour) in 1898.
Internet
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.alldownunde
r.com
Echoes From the
Bay & Maianbar
By Carrick,Christie
CL
www.anzacday.org
.au
Internet
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Nicolson
Circuit
Menai
John Barnes (Jack) Nicholson was local
MLA circa 1894 – 1907.
He was MLA for Illawarra 1891-94,
Wollongong 1907-1917.
As adjoins Ewos Pde also named after a
politician it is more likely that is named
after JB Nicholson.
Probably named after Wilfred Nicolson –
preacher , secretary & treasurer at Menai
Congregational Church & / or his family
Dulcie, Ethel, Joyce. The family were
early market gardeners in area.
Nimoola Rd
Wilfred Nicolson moved to area 1903
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘pointed rock,
h
small rocky peak’
Or “pointed rock’, ‘ a big stone’
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a steep slope’
Ninth
Avenue
Jannali /
Loftus
Nioka Place
Caringbah
Nirimba
Crescent
Heathcote
Nixon Place
Bonnet
Bay
Noble Close
Menai
Nolan Ave
Engadine
Nimbin Place
Norfolk
Place
Miranda
1964 till 2006 parts were known as Ninth
Avenue North/ South. Ninth street in
respective subdivisions.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a green hill’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘nesting place
of the pelican’
Or ‘pelican’
Named after Richard Milhous Nixon 37 th
US President (1969 -1974). That Bonnet
Named after Montague Alfred “Monty”
Noble (1873-1940), cricketer and dentist.
Played in test 1898 to 1909. In
Named after Sergeant Nolan an early
resident of Engadine.
He was a retired police sergeant and the
family moved into the area pre 1912.
Unnamed lane in 1955 subdivision of
area. Named GG 128 of 13/11/1964
a History to 1939
NSW parliament
website
Menai Congrega
tiona l Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Aboriginal Words
Place Names , CL,
Aust Museum
www.defence.gov.
au
Endacott
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Internet
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p375 (LW)
Pgs 24-7 Engadine
1825 – 2001
DP
CL
Norseman
Place
North Lane /
Street
Northbrook
Place
Northcote
Avenue
North East
Crescent
Northumberl
and Drive
North West
Arm Road
Norval Place
Nottingham
Yarrawarra Named after Western Australian town. In
h
locations. Named by a gold prospector of
Nordic descent Lawrence (La urie) Sinclair
after his horse Norseman.
Gymea
24/1/1941. Created as a result of
construction of railway . Street so named
as is on north side of railway line.
Illawong
Possibly named after ship Northbrook
which bought immigrants to NSW 1878,
79. In line with theme of areanames of
Caringbah Named after 3rd Governor General of
Australia 1904-1908. Rt Hon Henry
Stafford Northcote, 1 st Baron Northcote of
Exeter (1846-1911). Street subdivided
1907. Nearby is Dudley St named after 4th
Governor General.
Lilli Pilli
Caringbah
Name of Ship which Captain Cook was
master of c 1760 charting Canadian
coastline.
Previously was part of Resolution Drive
Gymea /
Section from President Avenue to Forest
Grays
Road was part of Hotham Road till 1947.
Point
Section from Forest Rd to Serpentine Rd
originally a right of way (1919 to 1954).
Middle part unnamed 1919-1930, named
Serpentine Road 1930-1947 then part of
NW Arm Rd. From Angle rd to creek was
ROW 1919-1947 then became part of NW
Arm Rd. Creek to Grays Point Rd was
Coombs (or Coombes) Road 1930- 47
became part of North West Arm Rd GG
137 28/11/1947.
So named as it parallels North West Arm
of Port Hacking
Illawong
Passenger ship UK to Tasmania 1832 .In
1835 took sheep and cattle to help
establish settlement in Victoria. In line
with theme of areanames of historical
nautical significance
Yowie Bay As adjoins Sherwood Avenue would be
Sheppard
CL
Internet ‘
Passenger ships
arriving in
Australia 1837-99’
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
www.nla.gov.au
CL
CL
Wikipedia
Place
Novara
Crescent
Jannali/
Como
named after town of Nottingham in
England.
Murphy manager, director, shareholder in
First named on 1888 DP.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a black
cockatoo’ or ‘two’ or ‘you and me’.
Coast locations (Huskisson, Conjola etc)
so would be named after town of Nowra.
Previously Dunumbral Street.
Nowra Place
Gymea
Bay
Noyana
Avenue
Nulgarra
Avenue
Nullabor
Place
Grays
Point
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bright’
Bay
Yarrawarra From latin – nulla = no, arbor = tree.
h
Named after Nullabor Plain in Western
Australia - in subdivision where all
streets named after WA locations.
Caringbah 1947- 2005 parts known as Nullaburra
Road North /South. Named 1909.
Word as whole not in dictionaries but
nulla = no/not, burra =busy so “Not busy”
Engadine / Section in Heathcote name discontinued.
Heathcote Name of ancient roman hill fortress in
northern Spain.
Woronora Aboriginal word meaning ‘wood’ or ‘a
river with good water’.
Formerly part of Prices Avenue/ Circuit.
Menai
Name discontinued. Part became part of
Coachwood Crescent, rest closed in 1983.
Was crown Rd from early 1920’s, named
by Council 1930.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘long nosed
shark’
Jannali
Aboriginal word meaning ‘left arm’
Gymea
Aboriginal word meaning ‘this’
Or “here’ or “in this place’
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Nymboida River is in
northern NSW.
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a cray fish’, ‘a
mussel’ ‘a place of many streams’ ‘a
purple beetle’.
Nullaburra
Road
Numantia
Road
Nundah
Place
Nurrung
Road (DISC)
Nyardo Place
Nyinya Ave
Nymboida
Crescent
Nyngan
Place
Como Public
School 1884-85,
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools.
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
www.publish.csiro.
au, Aust Museum
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Endacott
Wikisource-Moore
Macq abo words
Wikisource-Moore
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Nyrang Place
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small’ or
‘little’
Oak Road
Kirrawee
1947 to 2005 parts called Oak Road North
/ South.
In line with subdivision theme (eg Acacia,
Waratah Sts) named after species of tree.
Chester, Durham) named after towns
Counties. Is chief town Rutland County.
Probably named after “The Oaks” cottage
of Mr Edward Thorne at South Cronulla
(He was Secretary of Cronulla Progress
Association). In 1930 Sands spelt Oak.
Oakham
Street
Sylvania
Oaks Street
Cronulla
Oakwood St
Oakwood
Way
O’Brien
Place
Sutherland
Menai
Ocean Place
Illawong
Ocean Street
Ocean
Esplanade
(DISC)
Ocean Road
(DISC)
Ocean Grove
Avenue
Ocean View
Street
Odeon Place
Old Bush
Road
Old Coast
Barden
Ridge
Cronulla
Cronulla
Cronulla
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
DP
DP
Wikipedia
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Private Road
Various persons on ADB online with this
surname.
MD 2/23/4 Pt 1
Name reflects street’s proximity to ocean
Became The Esplanade
CL
Became Ewos Parade
CL
Cronulla
Wooloowa
re
Name may reflect that street had/ has
views to ocean. Alternatively could relate
to Patrick Dolan (early landowner in area)
whose house was called ‘Oceanview’
Heathcote/ Named after stone theatre structure in
Engadine
Athens built 161 AD. In group of streets
with names linked to Classic Roman /
Greek places/ myths
Engadine / Named GG 22 of 18/2/1949. Now only in
Yarrawarra Yarrawarrah
h
Taren Pt to A walking track and later bridle path used
Pg 8 of A Pictorial
History of Cronulla
Internet
CL
1993 heritage
Road
south end
RNP
by Aborigines and early settlers. Not a
road. Ran from Taren Point to Illawarra.
Old Ferry
Road
Illawong
Oldfield
Place
Menai
Old Illawarra
Road
Menai/
Barden
Ridge/
Illawong
So named as is road to where old ferry /
punt across George’s River from Lugarno
landed.
Named after cricket wicket keeper
William Albert ‘Bert’ Oldfield (18941976). In Subdivision where streets
Follows route of 1843-1860 road to South
Coast that crossed Georges River at
Lugarno/Alfords Point then thru Menai
Met line of current highway at Engadine.
Surveyed 1843 by Thomas Mitchell built
1843-45 by Surveyor Darke.
Part in Barden Ridge became part of New
Illawarra Road, part Thomas Mitchell
Drive (GG 33-14/3/2008) and part Bank s
Place (GG 161 of 3/10/2003). Part in
Engadine became Woronora Road, Part in
Illawong became Old Ferry Road, Fowler
Road (2003), Barker Close (1999).
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Also known on old maps as “ Sir Thomas
Mitchell’s Line of Road to the Illawarra ”
Also known as the Wollongong Road
Highway relocated from middle of
Engadine to beside railway (former
Railway Parade) in 1967 and old highway
Road that went to location where ferry /
punt across river from Sans Souci to
Taren Point landed.
1971 parts of Smith St and Taren Point
Road renamed Old Taren Point Rd
Became Woronora Road GG 135 of
1/11/1918. Also known as Old Illawarra
Road. So named as was part of road to
Wollongong
Named after flowering tree as are several
other streets in subdivision (Jacaranda etc)
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
(1901 -2000) - was involved in Manhattan
Old Princes
Highway
Sutherland
/ Engadine
Old Taren
Point Road
Taren
Point
Old
Wollongong
Road (DISC)
Engadine
Oleander
Parade
Oliphant
Drive
Caringbah
Lucas
Heights
Study quoting
Cridland and 1893
Guide to National
Park
Internet
CL
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
CL
www.ansto.gov.au
Oliver Lane/
Street
Olivers Road
(DISC)
Heathcote
Omar Close
Royal
National
Park
Illawong
Omaru Ave
Ondine Place
Miranda
Kareela
O’Neill Road
Menai
Onslow Place Sylvania
Ontario
Avenue
(DISC)
Wooloowa
re
Ontario
Close
Illawong
Opal Place
Gymea
Ophir Place
Illawong
Orana Ave
Kirrawee
Project and development of atomic bomb.
Oliver Road became Oliver Street GG 146
of 16/12/1960. Lane named 2004. Named
in line with theme of naming streets in
area after government ministers / senior
public servants. Charles Nicholson Jewel
Oliver (1848-1920) was inspector of lands
1877, under Secretary of Lands 1880 on,
Railway Commissioner 1888-1907.
Became Wattamolla Road
Was name of Steam ship built 1896.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beautiful view’
yacht (line honours 1961, 68, Ondine II
1974). Streets in this subdivision named
Named after Norman Clifford O’Neill
(1937-2008) cricket batsman (Tests 1958 65), later commentator. In group of streets
Adjoins Macarthur, Camden and Merino
Streets so relates to Macarthur Onslow
history sheep property near Camden.
Proposed name for western part
Castlewood St. Was in ‘Ontario Estate‘
subdivision. As rest of Castlewood St
already existed name changed so whole
street had same name
Named after a first fleet ship. Also a ship
with this name bought immigrants to
NSW in 1852. In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Near but much later subdivision than
Ruby Rd. Likely follows gemstone theme.
Probably named after Orient Line
merchant ship built 1891, scrapped 1920
which acted as Royal yacht bringing Duke
and Duchess of York to Australia for
Federation celebrations 1901. Was armed
merchantman in WWI. Ophir is the name
for the land of gold in the Old Testament
Aboriginal word meaning ‘welcome’
CL
Council file
95/2960
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online.
CL
Australian National
maritime Museum
website
Sugden
www.alldownunde
r.com
Internet
DP
Website ’Passenger
ships arriving in
Australian Ports
1837-1899’
DP
State Library of
NSW website
CL Aborig names,
Orchid Street
Loftus
Ord Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Ordak
Avenue
O’Reilly
Close
Gymea
Bay
Menai
Orford Place
Illawong
Oriana Drive
Illawong
Orient Ave
Cronulla
Oriole Street
Woronora
Heights
Engadine
Orion Street
Orton Street
Barden
Ridge
Ortona
Parade
Como
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Named after type of plant, in group of
Australian (in this case WA) river. River
named after Harry Ord Governor of
Western Australia 1877-1880.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ to intend”
Named after William (Bill) Joseph
O’Reilly (1905 -1992) - Australian
cricketer and later sports journalist –
nickname “Tiger”. In subdivision where
Name of 4 Royal navy ships – sailing
ships 1695-98, 1698-1745, 1749-1783.
Destroyer 1916-21. Theme of areanames
Originally Jervis Drive renamed 10/1986
Probably Royal navy ship HMS Oriana –
there was also 2 cruise ships with name.
On early map (1920) shown as Oriental
Avenue and was near where Springall’s
Oriental Hotel was so possibly named
after hotel. From 1923 on maps/plans as
“Orient”. Alternatively name based on it
being at easterly “oriental” side of
peninsula.
Near streets with ‘star’ names ( Orion,
Andromeda) so would be named after the
constellation ‘ Orion” aka “the Hunter’
Named after Joseph Rennard Orton a
Wesleyan Methodist missionary (area has
In 1930 Sands misspelt as Oronoto Parade
but Ortona on original (1888) subdivision.
and 8 streets after locations in Italy.
Cooper, Aust
Museum
CL
Wikipedia
Wikisource-Moore
Internet
Wikipedia
CL
Wikipedia
DP
Wikipedia
Council Min 361
of 8/5/1989. File
MD 2/24/4
DP/ Sands
Como Public
School 1884-1885
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Osprey Drive
Otago Parade
Illawong
Possibly named after one of 5 Royal Navy
ships bearing this name. Theme of area –
Yowie Bay Probably named after City in New
Zealand. City name is from Maori word ‘
Otakou’ and means “place of red ochre’
Otway Place
Illawong
Outlook
Circuit
Ovid Lane
(DISC)
Menai
Owen Place
Illawong
Owen Jones
Row
Menai
Oxford Street
Sylvania
Sutherland
Schools
DP
CL
Wikipedia – List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
Possibly named after either (1)Admiral Sir Wikipedia
Robert Waller Otway a Royal Navy
officer in Napoleonic War (2) submarines
named after him (1st 1927-37, 2nd 196894 or (3) Warrnambool Steam Navigation State Library of
Co steamship c 1873 Theme of area –
NSW website
Name discontinued. Was pathway running
between Albert Ave, MacFarlane Parade
and Henry Avenue at Sylvania. At the
time this pathway was the southerly
termination of the subdivision until the
three roads were extended to Box Road.
Ovid is English name for Roman poet
Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC – 17AD)
Probably named after Owen Stanley (1811
-50) Royal Navy officer surveyed north
east Australian and PNG coast – 1838, 41,
46-49. In line with theme of areanames
Owen Jones was an early local landholder
(1895), trustee of Menai School of Arts.
Also lamplighter at Menai
Owen and Julia Jones were early settlers
in area.
CL
Kirkby ma nuscript
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
He named Bangor after Bangor in his
Suth Shire – Some
home country – Wales
Early Residents
Possibly linked to house + 6ac land
Sutherland Shire known as “Oxford Retreat’ built in 1881
A History to 1939
in nearby Linden St Sutherland by Charles pg 21
Oxley Ave
Jannali
Oxley Road
(DISC)
Cronulla
Oyster Bay
Lane / Road
Oyster Bay
/ Como
Ozone
Avenue
(DISC)
Cronulla
Ozone Street
Cronulla
Pacific
Crescent
Pacific
Parade
Pacific Street
Maianbar
Paddison Av
Gymea
Taren
Point
Caringbah
Page Avenue
Illawong
Palm Street
Dolans
Wigzell who ran Turkish baths at Oxford
St in City. He was involved in building of
church corner Oxford and Robertson
Streets in 1887.
On 1886 map reproduced in SSHS
Bulletin it was shown as Robertson St and
what now Robertson St shown as Clovelly
St.
As adjoins Mitchell Rd possibly named
after explorer, surveyor, naval officer
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley
(1785-1828) who explored inland NSW
Name discontinued. Possibly named after
explorer, surveyor, naval officer John
Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (17851828) who explored inland NSW. A
number of other streets in North Cronulla
area named after explorers.
Named after bay and bay named c 1840 –
related to abundance of oysters in bay.
Ozone Ave created 1928 to give access to
the front door of the Cecil Hotel including
having part of Cronulla Park Crown
reserve revoked – Owner of hotel was
COJ Monro (councilor/ shire president).
Name reflects that location has views to
Pacific Ocean
Retirement Village.
Possibly due to distant view to Pacific
Ocean.
1947-2005 parts were called Paddison
Named after Charles Victor Paddison
who was the owner of the land prior to
subdivision of “Gloria View Estate” 1924
Street naming theme in area is names of
Became part of Cecil Street GG 81 of
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
Internet
Council pamphlet
re place names. CL
CL / DP
DP
CL
DP
CL
(DISC)
Bay
Palm Lane
Dolans
Bay
Illawong
Palona
Crescent
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hawk’
Pambula
Road
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘two waters’
Panama
Close
Illawong
Pandala
Place
Paneth Street
Wooloowa
re
Lucas
Heights
Panorama
Avenue
Wooloowa
re
Palmer Close
Paperbark
Place
Paraka Close
Alfords
Point
Bangor
Pare Avenue
Paringa Place
Loftus
Bangor
Paris Place
Miranda
Park Avenue
(DISC)
Sutherland
Park Lane/
Place
Park Road
Caringbah
Park Street
Sutherland
Maianbar
5/7/1974. Ran from south end of Cecil
Street to Langer St on 1934 street map
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File MD
2/10/10 (LW)
CL Aborig names,
www.publish.csiro.
au, Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Cooper, Aust
Museum
Endacott, Cooper
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887-1958) who
studied chemicals with radioactive
isotopes.
First created in 1942 subdivision of
Panorama Estate – state first created 1916.
Woolooware House was known as
“Panorama” likely source of estate name
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flower’
www,ansto.gov.au
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘place at the
river’
Named after capital of France . Seine Pl
(river in Paris) in same 1967 subdivision.
Name discontinued. Was boundary
between Riyal National Park and Thomas
Holt’s land
When area subdivided circa 1912 was
called Park Road. Lane named 2005.
Street goes to what was when it was
created the boundary of the Royal
National Park.
First named in 1886 subdivision. Name
Cooper & Council
file MD 1/11/P1
DP
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1992
Endacott, Cooper,
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
CL
Park Road
(DISC)
Heathcote
Parkes Street
Heathcote
Parkinson’s
Road (DISC)
Parklands
Avenue
Heathcote
Parkside Ave
Miranda
Park Station
Road (DISC)
Grays
Point
Parkview St
Miranda
Parkwood
Drive
Parkwood
Street (DISC)
Parland
Close
Paroo
Avenue
Menai
Parr Road
(DISC)
Bundeena
Illawong
Sylvania
Waters
Heathcote
probably relates to proximity to National
Park.
Former name for Jacana Grove Heathcote.
Renamed GG 68 of 15/7/1955 due to
confusion of having 2 streets near each
other with similar names (Parkes St on
west side of railway). Near edge RNP
Due to time of naming (on 1886 plan) and
proximity to what was then Robertson
Road very likely it was named after the
Sir Henry Parkes Premier of NSW 187283 and 1887-91 in Parkes- Robertson
government of NSW.
An informal early name for Princes
Highway from Tom Ugly’s Bridge to
Sutherland – so called as was surveyed by
Surveyor Parkinson in 1864.
Area subdivided and road created 1955
had been “Whiteman’s block’. Near edge
of Royal National Park.
Named for its location - it adjoins
Seymour Shaw Park.
Became Warren Avenue. With Florence
Parade it was route from Gray’s Point to
National Park Railway Station – thus so
named.
Previously named Bay View Street (name
changed Govt Gaz 80 of 16/7/1948).
So named as has view of Kareena Park/
Camellia Gardens which were formerly
Matson’s Pleasure Grounds.
So named 1930 to 1938 then renamed
Neil Street GG135 of 16/9/1938
Named after supply ship
Australian river. Paroo River is in
southern Queensland and western NSW.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fish’
Or ‘flatfish’
An early name (c WW2) for Jacana Grove
Heathcote.
Pgs 89-90 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote Sutherland Shires
1st settlement , CL
DP
Pgs 25, 33 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote.
first settlement
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin April 1973
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote
Sutherland Shires
first settlement
CL
CL
CL
MD 1/11/P1
(1984)
Cooper
Aust Museum
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
Parramatta St
Cronulla
Parramore
Place
(DISC)???
Parraweena
Road
Lucas
Heights
Parsons Place
Barden
Ridge
Parthenia
Street
Partridge Av
Caringbah/
Dolan’s
Bay
Miranda
Parys Close
Menai
Caringbah
/ Miranda
Pascha Place
Kareela
Patonga
Place
Engadine
(possibly a typo of Park as it was
originally Park Road)
Aboriginal word meaning either ’head of
the river’, ‘the place where the eels lie
down‘ or ’a dark jungle’.
Cronulla was - “quite a Parramatta Town:
in fact they call their streets Parramatta
Street and other names connected with
Parramatta” and people from western
suburbs built weekenders / holiday homes
in area.
William Thomas Parramore – public
servant (Australian pioneer theme)
first settlement
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& Cooper & Aust
Museum
Sutherland Shire to
1939. Quoting
from 1908
Tramways Report
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘parrots
camping place’. Was original name for
Taren Point area.
Name first on 1894 DP.
Parraweena Road was original name for
Taren Point, was adopted for first building
in area Atkinson’s dairy and then for road.
so could be named after one of Charles
Octavius Parsons (1799-1863) pastoralist,
Sir Herbert Angus Parsons (1872-19450
judge and politician or John Langdon
Parsons (1837-1903) politician.
Title of first printed collection of music
for the keyboard in England from c 1611.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1977
WEG (Walter) Partridge was the manager
of the Miranda Co-operative Society for
many years and also had a market garden
from c 1920 near Gwawley Creek.
area after Welsh locations named after
Parys Mountain near Bangor on the Isle of
Anglesey in North Wales.
yacht (overall winner 1970) – possibly
spelt Pacha. Streets in subdivision named
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a small
wallaby’
Echoes From the
Bay & Gateway to
the South - First
Stop Sylvania
Internet
ADB online
Wikipedia
File MD 1/11/Pt 1
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig. Names
& Cooper & Aust
Museum
Patterson Rd
Heathcote
Pavia Road
Como /
Jannali
Peach Tree
Lane
Kirrawee
Peachtree
Way
Peak Street
Menai
Peebles Ave
Kirrawee
Engadine
Peel Place
Sylvania
Waters
Pelican Place
Woronora
Heights
Sylvania
Pembroke St
Penguin
Place
Peninsular
Woronora
Heights
Grays
One of group 12 streets named after poets
(mostly Australian). Named after Andrew
Barton ‘Banjo’ Patterson (1864-1941)
poet, journalist, solicitor .
Development Control Unit resolution
23/8/1978 roads in area to be named after
poets.
Named after town in northern Italy. In
group of streets in original subdivision
(1888) all named after places in Italy.
Named GG 162 of 27/12/1968.
Council resolved to rename July 1955
following request from Mrs D Cucksley
(nee Gilmore) daughter of late G Gilmore
who had orchard there since 1910
Private Road.
Named after type of fruit tree.
Adjoins Sierra and Alpine Sts so name
relates to mountain ‘peak’
Part was renamed Mokera Avenue GG
143 of 10/12/1971. As adjoins streets
named after Scottish towns (Stirling St,
Argyle St) would be named after town of
Peebles in Scotland south of Edinburgh.
Australian river – Peel River in northern
NSW runs through Tamworth.
Likely named after former name of HMS
Endeavour –it was ‘Earl of Pembroke’.
This is supported by extension of
Pembroke St being in same subdivision as
creation of Endeavour St.
Was first named in 1882 DP by Holt
Sutherland Estate Co/ James Murphy.
Alternatively could be named after town
of Pembroke on west coast of UK, west of
London. Other E-W streets in subdivision
UK towns (Melrose, Snowden)
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part renamed
ADB
File Rd 000/5 Pt 1
DP
DP
CL
Council File
R/39/11
CL
www.visitbritain.c
om.au
CR
DP
Google maps
CL
Road
Point
Penmon
Close
Menai
Penprase
Lane
Miranda
Penrose
Place
Peppercorn
Place
Peppermint
Grove
Percival Rd
Perina Close
Menai
Perry
Crescent
Perth Street
Engadine
Peru Place
Illawong
Engadine
Caringbah
Bangor
Kirrawee
Cronulla
Peter Place
Gymea
Bay
Woronora
Heights
Heathcote
Petticoat
Lane (DISC)
Internet
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1988
p 408 (LW)
CL
Kirrawee
Peryman
Square
Petrel Place
Mansion Point Road GG 142 of
5/12/1969, Part renamed Grays Point
Road GG 109 of 28 /8/1970. Name reflects
that it is road along the peninsular.
named after Penmon a town in Wales near
Menai Strait.
Named after Penprase family who
operated a large general / hardware store
on north west cnr Kiora Rd & Kingsway
Named GG 6 of 19/1/1962
Named after Beryl Penrose local early
resident.
Named after type of tree also known as
wollybutt tree or Eucalyptus longiflolia
Internet
Aboriginal word meaning ‘kingfisher ‘
Endacott, File MD
1/11/P1
Stirling Ave and Inverness Place so area
has Scottish theme. Perth is Scottish city
north of Edinburgh.
- not a street only a locality / urban place
Jim Peryman a member of North Cronulla
Surf Life Saving Club from 1940 to 1950.
He drowned in 1950 during a surf rescue.
Former name of Heath Lane
Phillip Street
Oyster Bay Named after Governor Arthur Phillip
Phillip’s
Lane (DISC)
Sutherland
Was off Prince’s Highway
Faces of the Shire
Pg 97 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement
Short History of
Oyster Bay ( LW)
1930 Sands
directory
Philip Street
Wooloowa
re /
Cronulla
Phoenix
Place
Illawong
Pickworth
Place
Menai
Pierce Place
Bonnet
Bay
Pilbara Place
Grays
Point
Pilliga Place
Bangor
Pinaroo Place
Gymea
Bay /
Miranda
Loftus
Pindari Ave
Pindrie Street
Pine Lane
Pine Street
(DISC)
Pines Parade
Pinnacle St
Pin Oak
Grove
Pioneer
Now Boyle Lane. Early unofficial names
were Blacksmith’s Lane and Leather
Lane. Named after 2 brothers Charlie and
Bill Phillips who had business on corner
of lane.
In 1930 Sands spelt Phillip but Philip on
DP. Possibly named after surveyor who
did original 1912 subdivision – Philip
William Rugale.
Named after Horace Henry Alfred ‘Ossie”
Pickworth (1918-1969) golfer. Won 4
Australian Opens, 1 Irish Opens. In group
Named after 14 th US President Franklin
Pierce (1853-1857). That Bonnet Bay
As adjoins Hammersley Road likely that
name relates to Pilbara region in Western
Australia.
swamp oaks’ or ‘head of scrub oak’
Or ‘swamp oak’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘old man’
(Central Australia)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘high ground’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘grasshopper’
(Central Australia)
Engadine
Gymea
Renamed Dwyer Street GG 123 of
3/7/1953
Gymea
Named due to pine trees in area (including
along Sylvania Road)
Miranda
Menai
where all streets named after trees.
Menai
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin 1974,
Nov 1981
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aborigina l Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum, MD
1/11/P1, Cooper
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon, Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Ab Word Bk – J
Kenyon, Cooper
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Jan 1977
Drive
Pioneer Road
Cronulla
Pippita Place
Bangor
Piriwal Close
Bangor
Piron Place
Woronora
Heights
Pitt Street
Loftus /
Sutherland
Pituri Place
Alfords
Point
Plover Street
Grays
Point
Poinciana
Row
Polk Place
Menai
Pollard Place
Sutherland
Polo Street
Kurnell
Poplar Place
Kirrawee
Popperwell
Drive
Menai
Bonnet
Bay
local pioneers
In 1930 Sands as Pioneer Street. Possibly
named after “Pioneer“ the ferry that ran
from Cronulla to Audley c 1909 – owned
by W A Hodgkinson. Alternatively named
because pre subdivision owners / persons
adjoining streets named after (Windsor &
Wilshire Sts) were pioneer settlers in area.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small hawk’
Was Pyree Street renamed GG 79 of
29/4/1988
Aboriginal word meaning ’leader’
Possibly named after bird painter Antoine
Piron. In subdivision where most streets
are types of birds.
Probably named after English politician
William Pitt (as is Pitt St Sydney, Pitt
Town)
Tree with narcotic properties – Duboisia
Hopwoodii
streets named after birds – group known
Flowering tree. In subdivision where
Named after James Knox Polk 11th US
street names be those of US presid ents
Possibly named after Francis Claude
Calvin Pollard, Councilor 1948-53.
GG 134 of 27/8/1954
Possibly named after Marco Polo in line
with theme of explorers who saw Pacific
Ocean. Name first registered in 1882 DP.
Off Waratah Street, near Oak St so likely
follows theme of tree names.
Will Popplewell was early settler in area.
Name may be misspelling of their name.
Illustrated History
of the Sutherland
Shire
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
CL Aborig names,
Aust museum
Wajnryb
Internet
Aust Museum
Grays Point Story
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Councillors list on
website
DP
Menai Congrega
tional Church
Porter Road
Port Hacking
Road
Engadine
Sylvania –
MirandaCaringbah
Portland
Close
Illawong
Portmadoc
Drive
Menai
Portside
Drive (DISC)
Grays
Point
Portsmouth
Street
Cronulla
Portview
Place
Burraneer
Popperwell family lived in area 1890’s
but moved back to city later.
John and Will Popplewell of Bangor
served in WW1 in Gallipoli and France.
John died at Gallipoli. Settled Menai 1899
Named GG 22 of 18/2/1949
Named after Port which named after
Henry Hacking explorer and first pilot
(ship) at Port Jackson. Matthew Flinders
named Port after him.
Section through Caringbah Shops
renamed Kingsway GG 175 of 20/10/1916
Part south of Kingsway called Port
Hacking Road South 1949 to 2005.
Replaced a former informal road from
Horse Rock Point to Little Turriel Point at
Port Hacking was formalized as parish
Road in Gaz 678 of 30/10/1888/ name
“Port Hacking Road” in 1892 where it
replaced part of Madeira Street.
Probably named after either convict ship
‘Duke of Portland‘ 1809 or immigrant
ship ‘Portland’ 1832, 33, 38, 40, 41.
named after Portmadoc (also spelt
Porthmadog) in North Wales.
Swallow Rock Drive’s original proposed
name in 1969 subdivision. Was proposal
to build marina on river thus source of
name.
Named by John Atkinson (early councilor,
quarry owner) who owned land before
subdivision. Named after birth place –
town of Portsmouth UK – of his second
wife Lydia Moore. Adjoining Richmount
Street which named after his birthplace
Has view of bay (port)
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
A History to 1939
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Nov 1989
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Place Names of
Australia A W
Reed
CL
Internet– ‘Convicts
to Australia’ &
‘Passengers ships
arriving in Aust’n
ports 1837-99’
Grays Point Story
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1995.
- essay by his
grandson.
Post Office
Avenue
(DISC)
Cronulla
Poulter Ave
Power Place
Engadine
Menai
Pozieres
Street
Wooloowa
re
Prahran Road
Engadine
Premier
Street
President
Avenue
Gymea
President
Lane
Caringbah
Preston Ave/
Lane
Engadine
Prices
Avenue
(DISC)
Woronora
Caringbah
–
Sutherland
Renamed Laycock Avenue GG 83 of
24/6/1927. So named as it ran from
Curranulla St (now Cronulla Plaza) to the
then location of Post Office (at corner
Gerrale St and Nicholson Pde)
Named after Australian athlete.
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin July 2005
Menai Dpt Unit
30/5/1979 File MD
2/20/3/2 (LW)
Named after David (Dave) Power, long
www.kemblajogge
distance runner. Won 1958 Empire Games rs.org.au
marathon, 3rd 10,000m 1960 Olympics.
Named by Charles McAlister local
Place Names of
resident and shire President after WW1
Australia
French battle (25 July 1915) in which
Australian troops took major part.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘almost
Place Names of
surrounded by water’
Aust
1947 to 2005 parts called Premier Street
North/ South
Named to honour 1st shire president
Suth S Hist Soc
William G Judd.
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
Was originally called Woronora Road till 1882 and 1909
after 1909
subdivision plans
Part was Sutherland Road renamed GG
CL
175 of 20/10/1916
Named 2005
CL
So named as it adjoins President Road
which was named to honour first shire
president
Preston family early residents of Engadine Suth S Hist Soc
from early 1920’s. Lane named 2003.
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375 (LW)
Mr J Preston (died 1946) owned large
Engadine NSW: an
areas of land in Engadine.
outline history
1930 M Preston ran store and Post Office 1930 Sands dir.
So named when Price family land
CL
subdivided 1922.
Former name of Prices Circuit renamed
GG 127 of 2/10/1970. Part became
Nundah Place.
Named after Thomas Price and family
Suth S Hist Soc
who settled in area 1899 and who
Bulletin Aug 1988
operated first ferry across river. So named p374 (LW)
when Price family land subdivided 1922.
Prices Circuit
Priest Place
Primrose
Place
Prince Street
Prince
Charles
Parade
Prince
Edward Park
Road
Woronora
Barden
Ridge
Loftus
Cronulla
Kurnell
Woronora
Princes
Highway
SylvaniaEngadine
Princes
Parade
(DISC)
Kurnell
Prior Close
Production
Road
Prospect
Place
Purley Place
Thomas Price and family 1 st settlers of
Woronora in 1899. Price family operated
ferry across Woronora River before first
bridge built 1912.
Previously Prices Avenue renamed GG
127 of 2/10/1970.
On pioneer local settlers list 1992
Name of plant genus. In group of streets
named after plants.
Was in Beach Park Estate – first stage
submitted to Council in 1920. Street first
registered in 1924. As Prince Edward
(later King Edward VIII) visited Australia
in 1920 likely named after him.
Originally Princes Parade renamed GG
185 of 23/9/1949. Named after Prince
Charles who was born in 1948.
Named after HRH Prince Edward who
visited Australia in 1920
Previously Bridge Road, Derwent Street
and part of Thorp Road. Renamed GG 24
& 80 of 1948)
Name given after the 1920 visit of Edward
,Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)
Was called South Coast Road. Part
became Rawson Avenue. Sections
through Sutherland and Engadine
Named in 1882 DP.
Renamed Prince Charles Parade GG 185
of 23/9/1949.
Likely named after Princes Albert ( Duke
of Clarence) and George ( Prince of Wales
– later King George) who visited Kurnell
August 1881 during tour of Australia
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p374 (LW) & pg
19 From Sails to
Atoms
CL
File MD 1/11/P1
DP
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 374 (LW)
CL
Place Names of
Australia
CL
DP
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2001
Illawong
Taren
Point
Como
Cronulla
So named as in Industrial area
Previously Searl Street renamed GG 124
CL
Putland
Close
Pyree Street
Quail Place
Quallee Place
Quarrion
Place
Kirrawee
Bangor
Woronora
Heights
Engadine
Woronora
Heights
Queanbeyan
Avenue
Miranda
Quessy Lane
Jannali
Quest
Avenue
Quiberee St
Quist Place
Raglan Road
Railway
Crescent
Railway
Parade
Railway
of 24/11/1972.
Possibly named after London suburb of
Purley the name of which is from Anglo
Saxon word ‘ pirlea’ meaning ‘pear tree
lea/ field’.
Named after Mrs Putland daughter of
Governor Bligh.
Aboriginal word meaning a ‘place of box
trees’
Part became Piriwal Close GG 79 of
29/4/1988
Old name for an iron pot
Scientific name for type of Australian
native bird – the cockatiel. In subdivision
where streets are types of birds.
Named after NSW town which was
named after aboriginal word meaning
‘clear water’
Article in Leader 9/12/2004 (pg 12) said
“Mrs Shepherd ….. had the nearby lane
named Quessy Lane in memory of her
parents”. Mr Quessy had built 1st 2 shops
in Box Rd and owned 3 shops in Railway
Crescent (letter from daughter 2003)
Miranda /
Yowie Bay
Miranda
Aboriginal name for Lavender Bay on
Sydney Harbour
Menai
Named after Adrian Quist (b1913) winner
17 Grand Slam titles, played Davis Cup
1933-39, 1946, 1948. In group of streets
Miranda
Jannali
Named as located adjacent to railway line.
Named in 1900 DP. Road curves with
curve of railway line so crescent shaped.
Engadine
Had extended into Heathcote in 1886 –
that section renamed Willandra Road (GG
6/7/1962).
Heathcote
Named officially GG 135 of 1/11/1918
So named as adjoins railway line
Name discontinued
Wikipedia
The Book of
Sydney Suburbs
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Wikipedia
www.centralpets.c
om
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Leader 9/12/2004
File 95/3210
www.livingharbour
.net
www.tennis.com.a
u
DP
From Bottle Forest
to Heathcote –
first settlement p25
CL
Parade
(DISC)
Railway
Parade
(DISC)
Railway Rd
Sutherland
Como
Railway
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Renamed Princes Highway (now Old
Princes Highway) GG 155 of 21/10/1921
Named “The Railway Parade” in DP
registered 1886.
So named as adjoins railway line. Name
first registered 1888 DP.
So named as ran to railway line. Ran E-W
to railway on 1886 map. Became
Illawarra Street and then part of Flora
Street
In line with theme in area of naming
streets after early Australian pioneers
Named after either Thomas Raine –
mariner and merchant who established
first mainland whaling station at Twofold
Bay in 1818 or his brother John,
speculator & merchant.
Thomas Raine explored parts of the Great
Barrier Reef
Adjoins streets (Drake, Frobisher) named
after English sailors/explorers so probably
named after Sir Walter Raleigh - English
writer, soldier, explorer (1522-1618)
Ramu is a major river in Papua New
Guinea. As other streets in area named
after Australian rivers this street probably
named after this river.
Rainbow
Place
Kareela
Raine Place
Barden
Ridge
Raleigh Ave
Caringbah
Ramu Court
Sylvania
Waters
Randell Ave
Range Place
Lilli Pilli
Engadine
Rani Place
Kareela
Rata Place
Sutherland
related to mountains (eg mountain, peak,
sierra, crest)
yacht (overall & line honour winner
1945). Streets in subdivision named after
Sydney Hobart race winning yachts.
Aboriginal word for ’plant, vegetable’
Rathane
Road
Royal
National
Aka Rathane Telford Road
Access to Anglican Youth Camp. Named
CL
DP
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aust’n Dictionary
of Biography
1788-1850 (LW)
Council 18/4/1988
(File MD 2/22/7)
Place Names of
Aust. AW Reed
Wikipedia
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Rawson
Avenue
Park
Loftus /
Sutherland
Rawson
Parade
Caringbah
Raymond
Place
Recreation
Drive
Redbush
Grove
Redfern
Place
Engadine
Redgum Ave
Redman Ave
Cronulla
Illawong
Redwood Rd
Reef Street
Engadine
Bundeena
Reeve Place
Barden
Ridge
Barden
Ridge
Menai
Gymea
after historic houses on site.
Northern part still exists, southern part
now part walking track , part Lady
Rawson Avenue on north eastern side of
tramway line. Section from Sutherland to
Highway was formerly part of Princes
Highway. Was constructed along route of
Lady Rawson Avenue and connected with
Illawarra or National Park Road.
Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson
State Governor when Shire formed 1906.
He was Governor 1902 – 1909. He lived
1843-1910 and prior to being Governor
was admiral in Brit ish navy from 1892
Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson was State
Governor when Shire formed in 1906.
Street subdivided / named 1907
Private Road. Name reflects that accesses
recreation facilities.
Named after type of tree in line with
theme of subdivision – tree names.
Named after Dr William Redfern (1774 1833) – convict surgeon, transported due
to involvement in mutiny at Nore. Was
government Assistant Surgeon 1808-19.
early colonial historical significance.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
In line with ‘beach’ theme of subdivision
(Malibu, Beachcomber, Bombora)
Possibly named after B Reeve an early
resident of the Menai area
Regatta Ave
Regent Place
Caringbah
Illawong
Reid Place
Illawong
Pre 1946 map on
microfiche Local
History collection
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
ADB online
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
CL
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
File MD 1/11/P1
Reliance
Place
Illawong
Renard Close
Illawong
Renford
Close
Menai
Renmark
Place/ Street
Renown Ave
Engadine
Reserve Rd
Kurnell
Resolution
Drive
Caringbah
Miranda
Restormel
Street
Wooloowa
re
Rialto Place
Heathcote
Ribbon Gum
Close
Rice Lane
Alfords
Point
Sylvania
Named after HMAS Reliance which
CR/ Australian
entered Port Jackson on 25th September
Encyclopedia –
1895 with George Bass and Matthew
Exploration by Sea
Flinders as officers. Theme of areanames
Named after Des Renford (1927-1999),
long distance swimmer and swimming
coach. Swam English Channel 19 times,
first time 1970. In subdivision where
streets named after Australian swimmers.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘red mud’
after HMS Renown ship on which Prince
Edward (later King Edward) visited
Australia on in 1920. Adjoins in same
subdivision as Edward St.
Named GG 83 of 31/7/1959. Adjoins
Botany Bay National Park. So named as
adjoins reserve
Part renamed Northumberland Road GG
93 of 30/5/2003
Named after Ship Resolution which
Captain Cook had been a Commander of.
Council minutes says ‘in keeping with
adjoining road names’ (adjoins Captain
Cook Drive).
Resolution was the ship he commandeered
on Second Pacific voyage ( 1772)
Restormel is a castle in Cornwall UK. In
subdivision (DP 7331) where streets
named after castles (Glandore, Locksley)
Name of bridge in Venice built in the 16th
century. In group of streets with names
linked to Classic Roman / Greek places/
myths.
Named 2004. Named after Captain
William and Honoria Rice who built
house at Sylvania and operated one of first
stores in area and opened first post office
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
National Library o
Australia website
CL
CL
Development
Control Unit Min
58 of 4/2/1981
www.nla.gov.au
Internet
DP
Internet
CL
Council file
95/3210
Richards
Avenue
(DISC)
Richmond
Avenue
Richmount St
Rickard Road
Ridge Road
Ripple Street
Rival Street
River Road
River Road
in Shire. Honoria ran Post Office 1883 –
1909. Daughter Clara opened 1st school in
Shire. Name suggested by 2 residents and
a local historian.
Illawong
Name discontinued. Part now Redman
Avenue. A George Thomas Richards was
a Hurstville Council alde rman 1898-1900
when Illawong area was in Hurstville
Council. On 1934 Gregory’s map shown
as Benson Avenue.
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Named after Richmond
River is in northern NSW. River named in
1828 by Captain Henry John Rous after
Charles Gordon – Lennox the 5th Duke of
Richmond.
Cronulla
Named by Mr Manor
Was originally Richmount Road
John Atkinson (1 of the 1906 councilors)
built a house on a 2 ac lot he bought 1895
and called it ‘Richmount’ – named after
Manor of Richmount, Armagh, Northern
Ireland where he was born in 1843.
Oyster Bay Named after Arthur Rickard local
developer and estate agent.
The company subdivided the ‘By the
Water’ Estate at Oyster Bay as well as
subdivisions at Caringbah and Cronulla.
Engadine
Travice de Witt took up a 5 and ¾ acre lot
in 1931. He cleared a track to his land
from Woronora Road and was invited to
name the ‘road’ As the road ran along a
ridge and he had lived in Ridge Ro ad in
London he chose the name “Ridge Road’
Kareela
Kareela
Sutherland Originally called Mersey Road. Name
reflects location – it leads to river.
Woronora Name reflects location – it leads to river.
Named 1909.
Hurstville Council
website. A History
of Hurstville
Council elections
ADB online &
Wikipedia
Leader 9/3/1989 p
22 , CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 9 No
4 , Nov 2006
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW )
a History to 1939
Engadine 18252001
www.alldownunde
r.com
www.alldownunde
r.com
DP
Riverglen
Place
Riverhaven
Place
Riverside
Road
Riverview
Avenue
Riverview
Road
Roberts St
Robertson
Lane/ Street
Robertson
Lane
Robertson
Road (DISC)
Engadine
So named as near Woronora River, ‘glen’
means valley
Oyster Bay Private road
Royal
National
Park
Wooloowa
re
Oyster Bay
Jannali
Sutherland
Sutherland
Heathcote
Name reflects location beside Port
Hacking River below Audley weir
from area.
from area.
after Lord Roberts who was involved in
Boer War. Adjoining streets ( Buller &
White also named a fter prominent Boer
War figures)
Lane previously Mullins Lane renamed
1986.
Street named in 1887 DP.
Street on 1886 plan reproduced in 1986
SSHS Bulletin ran E- W (where now
Oxford Street) and what now Robertson
Street was shown as Clovelly Street.
Previously Mullins Lane renamed 1986
Early names were Una Lane and “What –
a-Lane’
Section of Rosebery Street north of Veno
Street shown as Robertson Road on 1886
subdivision plan. Named after Sir John
Robertson (1816-1891) MLA 1856-86,
MLC 1861,1879-81 – 5 times NSW
Premier, who conceived idea for RNP.
Nearby was / is Parkes Street named after
Sir Henry Parkes NSW Premier (1879) –
the then NSW Government was the
Parkes – Robertson government.
Renamed as part of Rosebery Stree t GG
15 of 4/2/1949
DP
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
p367 (LW)
CL
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 1988
Works Comt
31/8/1959 Council
File R/39/11
Pg 25 and 33 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote
CL
Robin Place
Robinia
Place
Robinson
Street
Robvic
Avenue
Rocklea
Crescent
Roebourne
Street
Roebuck
Place
Roentgen
Street
Roker Street
Roma Place
Romley Road
Rona Street
(DISC)
Roosevelt
Place
Named as Robertson Street in 1900 DP.
Site had been part of Atkinson’s clay
quarry.
Alfords
Named after genus of North American
Point
flowering trees. In subdivision where
streets named after trees/plants.
Wooloowa As adjoins Alfred St and Alfred Saunders
re
and James Robinson owned land in estate
immediately before its subdivision
probably na med after James Robinson.
Kangaroo
Named after ROByn and VICki Richards
Point /
daughters of Mr and Mrs Richards of
Sylvania
Kangaroo Pt landholders in area
Sylvania
Was George St, renamed GG 161 –
1/10/1954
h
which was named to honour John
Septimus Roe, first Surveyor General of
Western Australia. In group of streets
named after WA locations
Illawong
‘Roebuck’ was explorer William
Dampier‘s ship in 1699. In line with
theme of areanames of historical nautical
significance
Lucas
Heights
Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923) discovered
X-rays in 1885. Won 1921 Nobel Prize
for Physics.
Cronulla
Named after waterfront house ‘Roker’
Built pre 1908 (as extended by builder
Allen Blood in 1908)
Sylvania
Possibly named after Queensland town
which was named after Lady Diamantina
Roma Bowen, daughter of Count Roma, a
Venetian nobleman. In 1966 subdivision
with Gilbert and Leichhardt Streets which
named after 2 explorers whose 1944-45
expedition past through Roma area.
Kurnell
Lilli Pilli
Name discontinued
DP
Bonnet
Bay
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Caringbah
Named after either one or both of
Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President
1901-1909), and/or Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (32nd US President 1933-45).
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
DP
Oral history (LW)
CL
Wikipedia
www.ansto.gov.au
Sutherland Shire A
History to 1939
Wajnryb
DP / ADB online
Roper
Crescent
Sylvania
Waters
Rose Street
Rosebery St
Cronulla
Heathcote
Rosegum
Place
Alfords
Point
Rosemary
Row
Rosemont
Place
Roseneath
Place
Rosewall
Drive
Menai
Rosewood
Row
Menai
Rossford
Avenue
Jannali
Rostrevor St
Cronulla
Rouse Place
Illawong
Gymea
Bay
Engadine
Menai
Australian river. Roper River is in
Wikipedia
Northern Territory and runs into Gulf of
Carpentaria. Named after John Roper one
of Ludwig Leichhardt’s team explored
area in 1845.
Named after Archibald Philip Primrose
5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929) who
spent 2 years in Australia 1883 -84. Was
British Prime Minister in 1894-95. On
1886 DP section north of Veno Street was
shown as Robertson Road. That section
renamed Rosebery St GG 15 of 4/2/1949.
Spelt Rosebery on original subdivision but
sometimes Roseberry Street on later maps
Originally proposed to be ‘Bloodwood
Place” but early residents objected to
name so changed.(1984)
Named after type of plant. In subdivision
where streets named after trees and plants.
Name of towns in Victoria and
Queensland.
Named after Ken Rosewall (born 1934)
Australian tennis player. Winner 18 grand
slam titles, played Davis Cup 1953-56,
1973-75. One of group of streets named
after Australian tennis players.
Named after species of tree. In
trees.
On 1951 subdivision DP owner’s
signature is CR Ross – so likely street was
named after owner.
In 1930 Sands directory as Rosstrevor.
Named after house “Rostrevor”
Plan pg 25 From
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote –
Sutherland Shires
first settlement
CL & DP’s
Internet, BDCA
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bull
Royal Row
Royal Oak
Drive
Ruby Road
Menai
Alfords
Point
Gymea
Rufus Ave
(Or St / Rd)
(DISC)
Gymea
Bay
Rulwalla
Place
Ruse Place
Gymea
Rutherford
Avenue
Rutherford
Avenue
Burraneer
Ryan Place
Illawong
Illawong
Lucas
Heights
Near and in same subdivision as Garnet
and Crystal Sts – likely gemstones theme.
Sutherland Estate Co/ James Murphy
Name discontinued / In 1931 Wilson’s
Street Directory in approximate location
of Horns Avenue.
Rufus means ‘red’ in Latin
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a very large
stone’
Rutherford family had a property
Willamurra in Woolooware Road.
sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) who
won 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He
discovered radon and predicted existence
of neutron.
Sage Avenue
Bundeena
Possibly named after Australian polar
explorer John Riddoch Rymill (1905-68)
Engadine
Named after nearby ford across the
Woronora River which was named Pass of
Sabugal by Surveyor Mitchell circa 1843.
Sabugal is a town on the coast of southern
Portugal.
Oyster Bay Named after Fred Sage pioneer of area.
Sail Place
Illawong
Rymill Place
Sabugal
Road
Named GG 115 of 1/12/1944
St Andrews
Place
St George
Crescent
Cronulla
Sandy
Point
Named after St Andrews Church of
England Church
Formerly part of Burraneer Bay Road
renamed after railway line cut this section
off - GG 8 of 19/1/1940
DP
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Echoes from The
Bay
www.ansto.gov.au
Chronicle of the
20th Century
Engadine 18252001
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
CL
CL
St Lukes
Way
Salisbury
Place
Kangaroo
Point
Gymea
Bay
Salix Place
Engadine
Samuels
Avenue
Jannali
Sand Place
Illawong
(private road)
Thomas and Victoria Salisbury settled at
Gymea Bay in 1917 and lived there till
their deaths (1952/1962). Original house
still stands
Name of genus of trees including
Weeping Willows and other Willows
Was originally shown as “The Short Cut”
on subdivision plan. Renamed 1954
Sutherland Shire
Some Early
Residents
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
DP, 1934
Gregory’s Street
Directory
Sandbar
Place
Sanderson
Street
Sandpiper
Place
Sandra Place
Lilli Pilli
Sandy Road
San Remo
Avenue
Satinwood
Close
Saunders
Place
Burraneer
Gymea
Saunders Bay
Road
Cronulla
Woronora
Heights
Miranda
Alfords
Point
Menai
Caringbah
Saville Road
(DISC)
Kareela
Scarborough
Bundeena
Named after Thomas Alfred Sanderson an
original owner
family.
CL
Name of City in northern Italy.
Wikipedia
Possibly named after Don Saunders an
early resident of the Menai area
J E and JJ Saunders owned large acreages
east and west of Billa Rd in early 1900’s
Previously part of Burraneer Bay Road
(renamed GG 135 of 1/11/1918).
Probably named after Thomas Saunders
an oyster shell gatherer who burnt shells
for lime in area. He lived in Georges
River area from c 1846-62.
Name discontinued. Ran north from Box
Road where approximately Freya Street is
now. Road named c 1923, closed c 1964
and included in Kareela subdivision,
Reflections- Menai
Congregational
Church
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1986
CL
Folder in Library
Local History
collection.
1934 Gregory’s
Street Directory
The Bundeena
Street
English beaches.
First named in 1886 registered DP.
Schofield
Menai
Name on pioneer settlers list 1992
Place
There was a Scholfield's boat shed at
Woronora during WW2.
Scott Place
Kirrawee
As adjoins Eyre Pl and Wylie St would be
named after E B Scott who was Edward
John Eyre’s assistant and accompanied
him and aboriginal guide Wylie on
explorations in South Australia 1840/41
Scribbly
Alfords
Gum Place
Point
Scylla Road
Oyster Bay Named after the sea monster in Greek
mythology
Seaborg
Lucas
Street
Heights
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912- 1991)
who discovered plutonium and other
radioactive elements and isotopes
Sea Breeze
Bundeena
Unnamed till 2005
Lane
Assoc
Seabrook
Grays
Area subdivided by Scarff family. Gordon
Avenue
Point
Scarff’s mother in law’s maiden name
was Winifred May Seabrook. She was
wife of Shire Councilor Reg Harris. One
of owners when subdivided (1974) was
Harry Reginald Seabrook.
Seaforth
Wooloowa 1911
Avenue
re /
Cronulla
Searl Road
Cronulla
First na med in DP registered 1904.
Searl Street
Cronulla
Renamed Purley Place GG124 of
(DISC)
24/11/1972
Seaview St
Cronulla
On Parkside Estate Subdivision Ad c 1915
it is shown as Sea View Street.
Name reflects that street has /would have
had sea views.
Sebastopol
Waterfall
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Was built as
Street (DISC)
road to Sebastopol Trig station. Now part
a dirt track, rest part of Heathcote
National Park. Sebastopol is Russian town
which French & British besieged in 185455 during Crimean War. Is in area that
was used for artillery training in early
1900’s when NSW still had its own army.
Book
DP
File MD 1/11/P1
Kirkby Index
ADB
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
www.ansto.gov.au
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File 03/00764
Grays Point Story
DP
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin May 2007
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Second
Avenue
Second
Avenue
(DISC)
Sedgeman
Avenue
Jannali ,
Loftus
Gymea
Bay
Seine Place
Miranda
Selwa Place
Kareela
Sequoia
Grove
Menai
Serpentine
Road
Kirrawee /
Gymea
Menai
Sevenoaks
Place
Jannali
Seventh
Avenue
Severn Road
Jannali,
Loftus
Woronora
Shackel Road Bangor
Shand Close
Illawong
This and other locations in area also
named after battles.
Second street in respective subdivisions.
Renamed Horns Avenue GG 113 of
6/8/1937.
Named after Frank Sedgeman Australian
tennis player – born 1927, winner 22
Grand Slam titles, played Davis Cup
1949-52. In subdivision where streets
As adjoins and in same subdivision as
Paris Place, Place named after Seine River
in France. Name in DP registered 1967.
Tibetan word meaning ’luminous, clear,
awake’
Named after genus of very large Northern
Californian coniferous tree known as
Californian Redwood
Road GG 137 of 28/11/1947. Named GG
65 of 30/5/1930.
Name probably relates to snake like shape
of road. Nearby rock outcrop is known as
Snake Rock
Adjoins Tunbridge Place. Sevenoaks is
town in Kent UK near town of Tunbridge
Wells.
Seventh street in respective subdivisions
BDCA
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What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
CL
Grays Point Story
Wikipedia
Named after Severn River in UK – longest
river in Britain. In group of streets near
Woronora River named after UK rivers
(Tay, Liffey, Thames, Mersey)
Shackel family was early landowner in
Menai Congrega
area.
tiona l Church
Diamond Jubilee
1904-1964- A
History of Menai
Church & District
Road runs through land the 3 Shackel
Suth Shire Hist Soc
brothers David, Walter Frederick and
Bulletin No 57
Alfred owned from c 1897 till c 1916
Aug 1986
Possibly name relates to Major J B Shand From Sails to
who was one of MLA’s for area 1923-27
Atoms
Sharn Street
Kurnell
Sharon Place
Shaw Close
Engadine
Barden
Ridge
Shearwater
Avenue
Shell Road
Sheoak Place
Shepherd St
Sherwood
Avenue
Shiprock
Road
so possibly named after either Thomas
Shaw jnr (1827-1907) Victorian
pastoralist or William Henry Shaw ( 1830
-1896) engineer / ironmonger st Ballarat.
Heights
Burraneer
Name first appears on subdivision plan for
auction of Dolan’s Estate 1889.
Alfords
Common name for Casuarina glauca trees.
Point
trees / plants. Named 1983.
Kurnell
Street does not physically exist. Legally
gazetted.
Yowie Bay As adjoins Nottingham Place would be
named after Sherwood Forest in England
Port
Named after a nearby rock in water which
Hacking
resembled shape of a ship
Shipwright
Place
Shire Lane
(DISC)
Oyster Bay
Shirley Road
Miranda /
Taren
Point
Illawong
Shoal Place
local resident. Letter from resident saying
Sharns were only weekend residents. File
says street known locally as ‘Sharn Street’
Caringbah
Shoalhaven
Road
Sylvania
Waters
Shore Close
Illawong
Name discontinued.
Old Street plan c 1955 indicates ‘pathway
15 feet wide’ adjacent to Lots 30 & 31 in
DP 16933 as ‘Shire Lane’ – was between
end of Meta Street & Captain Cook Drive.
Australian river. River , which is on NSW
South Coast, was originally named
“Shoal’s Haven”
Shorland Ave
Jannali
CL
Council file
R/39/11
Council 7/12/1987
(file MD 2/22/3-6)
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography
DP
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
– F Cridland
Short Avenue
Bundeena
Short Street
Short Street
Short Street
Heathcote
Oyster Bay
Wooloowa Named after Norman Short as it was
re
access to his abattoir (which was on
eastern side of ‘resting paddocks’ land
which is now golf course). He had butcher
shop Gerrale St Cronulla.
Lucas
Heights
Dr Clifford G Shull (1915-2001) Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1994 for development
of neutron scattering techniques.
Kareela
yacht (overall winner 1958, 60, 66).
Streets in subdivision named after Sydney
Hobart race winning yachts.
Engadine
Adjo ins Peak St and Alpine St so name is
in line with theme relating to mountains.
Means in Spanish ‘a range of mountains
with jagged peaks’.
Kurnell
When area subdivided in 1926 it was
described as being “on a delightful stretch
of silvery beach”.
Heights
Menai
where streets named after trees.
Miranda
Shull Drive
Siandra
Drive
Sierra Road
Silver Beach
Road
Silvereye
Court
Silverleaf
Row
Silverwater
Crescent
Simon Close
Simpson
Road
Sindone
Place
Singleton
Place
Named after land owner at time of
subdivision Linda I Short
Title information
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 8 No
3
www.ansto.gov.au
www.alldownunde
r.com
www.thefreedictio
nary.com
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
File PR 4684 letter
21/10/1999(LW)
Illawong
Bundeena
Caringbah
Kirrawee
Named after either George Simpson
original grantee or his son William
George Simpson who built a house on
property which later became hotel. Was
part of ‘Port Hacking Hotel Estate’
subdivision.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part became
part of Bundeena Drive GG 86 -13/9/1963
Greek word – root is sindon meaning
“winding sheet’ or ‘shroud’
Private road. In same Dept of Housing
Subdivision as Maitland Place so would
be na med after Hunter Valley town of
The Bundeena
Book
DP
CL
Newcastle Council
Library website
Sir Bertram
Stevens
Drive
Sirius Place
Royal
National
Park
Engadine
Sir Joseph
Banks Drive
Kurnell
Sir Thomas
Mitchell’s
Line of Road
to the
Illawarra
(DISC)
Sixth Avenue Jannali ,
Loftus
Skillcorn
Jannali
Avenue
Skye Place
Engadine
Sladden
Road
Engadine
Slessor Place
Heathcote
Small Road
Illawong
Smarts
Crescent
Smith Street
Burraneer
Taren
Point
Singleton which is named after Benjamin
Singleton one of the party who discovered
area in 1820.
Named after Sir Bertram Sydney
Barnsdale Stevens (1889-1973) MLA
1928-40, NSW Premier 1932-39
In group of streets with star names (Orion,
Andromeda) so would be named after
brightest star in night star “Sirius’ aka
“The Dog Star’
Named GG 63 of 30/5/1969
Named after Sir Joseph Banks – naturalist
on Endeavour.
Name on early maps for the Old Illawarra
Road. Also known as the Wollongong
Road. Was route surveyed by Sir Thomas
Mitchell Colonial surveyor.
ADB Online
Internet
CL
Sixth avenue in respective subdivisions
John Skillcorn was councilor 1944-50,
1953-56 and Shire President 1947
Named after Isle of Skye in Scotland. In
group of streets (with Lochiel, Braeside,
Gort etc) named after Scottish locations.
Named in 1966. Probably named after
Reg Sladden a local resident who fought
in WWII and was killed in Greece in 1941
famous poets. Named after Kenneth Adolf
Slessor (1901-1971) Australian journalist
and poet - most known poem ‘Five Bells’
Named after original settler Mr Smart
EM Smart was one of owners of land in
1939 when subdivided.
The family lived in area from c 1912 (had
boarding house/dining rooms at Cronulla)
Part became part of Old Taren Point Road
GG 31 of 19/3/1971.
A Smith family lived in vicinity in early
years.
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Australian
Dictionary of
Biography online,
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
DP
Sands directories
CL
Map in Sylvania
Back Then
Smith Street
(DISC)
Engadine
Snowden Av
Sylvania
Snow Gum
Place
Snowy Place
Alfords
Point
Sylvania
Waters
Solander
Street
Kurnell
Soldiers
Road
Solo Street
Jannali/
Como
Kareela
Solvieg
Crescent
Kareela
Sorell Place
Barden
Ridge
Sorrento
Place
Burraneer
Soutar
Avenue
Cronulla
A Smith family bought nearby Gwawley
Bay oyster leases off Thomas Holt c 1918.
Probably named after Erskine Samuel
Land Co owner when area subdivided in
1914
Part closed 1968 /70. Rest became Hakea
Street in 1973. Possibly named after Mrs
Marjorie Lyle Smith who had first house
along street on land leased from Lands
dept since c 1946.
Sutherland Estate Co and James Murphy.
Probably named after Mount Snowden the
highest mountain in Wales.
Australian river. The Snowy River starts
at Mt Kosciusko in Southern NSW and
flows into Victoria.
Named after Dr Daniel Carl Solander ,
Danish naturalist and assistant to Sir
Joseph Banks on Endeavour.
Named in 1882 DP
First named during WWI so probably so
named to honour soldiers serving in war.
1958, 59). Streets in subdivision named
1953) – possibly spelt Solvig. Streets in
Streets in area named after early
Australian pioneers. So probably named
after William Sorrell (1775-1848) soldier
and lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman's
Land (Tasmania) 1817-1824.
Probably named after Italian seaside town
of Sorrento which is located south of
Naples opposite the Isle of Capri.
Renamed as Links Avenue 1957/61
As in Golf Links Estate (1921) and
Council info
CL
DP
Wikipedia
DP
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
ADB Online
Wikipedia
CL
DP
(DISC)
South Lane/
Street
Gymea
South Coast
Road (DISC)
Southern
Freeway
Spencer
Place
Various
Spoonbill
Avenue
Woronora
Heights
Spring Lane
Heathcote
Sproule Road
Illawong
adjoins Kirkwood Ave which named after
J H Kirkwood professional golfer likely it
was named after D G Soutar, a Scot, who
was the Manly Golf Club professional and
J H Kirkwood’s coach.
24/1/1941. Created as result of
construction of railway. Street so named
as runs along south side of railway line
Old name for Princes Highway
ADB Online
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Waterfall
Illawong
Spruce Grove
Menai
Spur
Crescent
Stacey Street/
Lane
Loftus
Stanley Place
Illawong
Stansell Ave
Jannali
Stapleton
Ave
Sutherland
Cronulla
Possibly named after 2nd Earl Spencer,
George John Spencer, 1st Lord Admiralty
(1794-1801). In line with theme of areanames of historical nautical significance
Named after type of waterbird. In
subdivision where all streets are types of
birds.
Named 2004
Named after Gerald Spring (1830-1888)
Secretary for Lands 1885-86 in line with
apparent theme of naming streets in area
after government ministers when area
originally subdivided.
Parts became Austin Street, Stanley Place
and Osprey Drive.
Named after John Sproule Hurstville
Mayor 1890-1, 1897-98, Hurstville
Alderman 1888-94, 1895-1900. Illawong
were streets named after trees / plants
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Name
reflects that street runs along spur (ridge).
Lane unnamed till 2005.
Street named after an original land holder
(1895 on)– Mr Edward Stacey.
Possibly named after James Henry
Stansell, councilor 1950-56
Stapleton family early residents of
Sutherland (house where Council library
Wikipedia
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Council File
95/2960
CL
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
CL
CL
A Short Authentic
History of Cronulla
CL
Council website
list of councilors
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
Station Street
Engadine
Station Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Steele Way
Bangor
Stephen Rd
Stevens Ave
Engadine
Miranda
Stirling Ave
Kirrawee
Stolle Close
Menai
Stonebridge
Place
Stow Place
Gymea
Bay
Illawong
Strassman
Crescent
Lucas
Heights
Stretton Lane
Illawong
Strickland
Street
Heathcote
is now corner Stapleton St & Belmont St)
They had an abattoir at Heathcote circa
late 1880’s
Charles Harvey Stapleton first butcher in
Sutherland District 1896. Family also had
bakery at Cronulla and orchard at
Sutherland.
Family also had orchard at Miranda
Named GG 135 of 1/11/1918
So named as adjoins railway station
Became Boyle Street GG 26 of 20/2/1947
Was so named as adjoined railway station.
Pathway not road. Named after Mr Edwin
Steele who did survey work for Council
for many years and died c 1980.
p374 (LW)
Pg 36 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
Faces of the Shire
Possibly named after Stevens fa mily –
Henry D and son Perce who lived in
Miranda c 1880 to 1894 involved in 1st
Miranda Progress Association
Inverness Place and Perth Street so has
Scottish theme. Stirling is Scottish town
north east of Glasgow.
Named after Fred Stolle tennis player
(born 1938). Won 18 Grand slam titles,
played Davis Cup 1961, 62, 64-66. In
tennis players.
Named after nearby natural stone bridge
Echoes from the
Bay – The Yowie
Bay story.
Fritz Strassman (1902-1980) – work
included radioactive dating of rocks.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Original
purchasers of land in 1898 were Louisa
Townson Stretton Swayne and Lydia
Philby Stretton Swayne so likely named
after their 3rd names.
First named on 1900 DP. So would NOT
be named after Sir George Strickland
NSW Governor 1913-17. Possibly named
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
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DP
File MD1/11/P1
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u
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DP
Stringybark
Place
Strome Street
(DISC)
Alfords
Point
Kirrawee
Struen Marie
Street
Kareela
Struthers St
Stuart Close
Cronulla
Illawong
Sturt Road
Wooloowa
re
Sulus Lane
(DISC)
Sutherland
Sumner
Avenue
(DISC)
Kareela
Sumner St
Sutherland
Sunbury St
Sutherland
after Sir Edward (1821-1889) British
Army officer and senior public servant
who settled in Sydney in 1882 and was
involved in Geographical Society and was
friend of NSW politicians,
Name discontinued. Name of a ruined
castle in Scottish Highlands and a village
in Alberta Canada
yacht (overall winner 1951). Most streets
Created / named 1911
Named after Stuarts House owned by
Alexander Stuart.
therefore named after Charles Sturt (17951869) who explored Murrumbidgee /
Murray 1829, Central Australia 1844-46.
Name discontinued.
In distinct name in Wilson’s Street
Directory 1931 in location of Grays Lane.
Ran off west side of Saville Road (which
was equivalent to modern Freya St).
Possibly Named after south western
suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.
1986 – section of The Boulevarde West
from Jannali Ave to unmade system
renamed Sumner Street.
Named after south western suburb of
Brisbane, Queensland. ROC 25/11/1985
that street names for renaming parts of
streets split by railway etc be “of towns
and places using the post code directory as
a reference
1986- section of The Boulevarde West
from River Road to unmade section
renamed Sunbury Street
Named after suburb of Melbourne,
Victoria which was named after Sunburyon- Thames in Surrey England which was
named after Saxon chief Sunna. ROC
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Wikipedia
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C records
www.asap.unimelb
.edu.au
Library card index
File RD 000/5 pt 1
www.ourbrisbane.c
om
Library card index
RD000/5 part 3
Wikipedia
Sunnyside
Avenue
Caringbah
Sunset Ave
Superba Ave
Surf Lane/
Road
Cronulla
Cronulla
Cronulla
Surrey Place
Surveyor
Avenue
Kareela
Heathcote
Susan Place
Gymea
Bay
Bundeena
Sussex Street
(DISC)
Sutcliffe
Place
Barden
Ridge
Sutherland
Lane/ Street
Sutherland
Sutherland
Road
Jannali /
Como/
Sutherland
directory as a reference “
Named after Frank Cridland’s architect
designed house ‘Sunnyside’ which was in
street (F Cridland wrote books re shire
history) and his Sunnyside wine bar N E
corner Kingsway & Willarong Rd.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
Surf Lane was Gilders Lane – renamed
GG 61 of 23/5/1969. Road was Yowie
Street renamed GG 175 of 20/10/1916
Possibly named because it was the road to
“Surf Park’ the former name of the
reserve now called “Cronulla Park”
CL
Adjoins ‘Lunar Ave’ so probably named
Internet
Name discontinued. Now in RNP.
First named in 1886 DP. Named after
English Beach theme
As streets in area named after Australian
pioneers possibly named after either
transporting meat. Or George Gribben
Sutcliffe (1895-1964) Commonwealth
public servant.
Part became President Avenue GG 175 of
GG 20/10/1916
Eastern part named on 1886 DP. Section
DP
ADB Online
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Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire M
Hutton Neve
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire M
Hutton Neve
Swallow
Rock Drive
Grays
Point
Swan Street
Lilli Pilli
Swan Street
Wooloowa
re
Sycamore
Grove
Sydney Road
(DISC)
Sylva Ave
Menai
Sylva Street
North/ South
(DISC)
Sylvan Lane
/ Street
Sylvania
Road
Miranda
Sylvan Ridge
Miranda
Sylvania
Sylvania,
Miranda ,
Gymea
Bay
Illawong
west of railway named in 1887 DP.
No meaning given in Council minutes
Fin Com Min 405
10/8/1970 (LW)
CL
Northern part was previously part of
Grays Point Road, renamed GG 109 of
28/8/1970. Swallow Rock was an island in
Port Hacking shaped like a swallow (bird)
- due to silting it became part of large dry
area that eventually joined to the mainland
and forms part of Crown Reserve.
Originally proposed to be called Portside
Grays Point Story
Drive as original subdivision (1969) was
to include marina.
Area owned by Arthur Donovan Swan
prior to subdivision.
1947 to 2005 parts were called Swan
CL
Road was first named in ‘Panorama
Estate’ DP in 1917.
Named after species of large tree. In group
of streets named after trees/ plants
Alternative name for National Park Road,
Princes Highway. Road ‘to Sydney’
Created/ Named 1923. 1947 to 2005 parts CL
divided by railway line were called Sylva
Street North / South. In 2005 Sylva Street
North renamed Sylva Avenue . Sylva
Road South name discontinued and road
closed 1965. La nd included in residential
subdivision.
Now Sylva Avenue
Lane named 2003.
Sylvan means ‘rural like’
1947 to 2005 called Sylvania Road North/
South. In 2005 Sylvania Road North and
part of Sylvania Road South became
Sylvania Road. Rest of Sylvania Road
South became Casuarina Road, Greygum
Place, Matong Place.
First shown as street name in 1886 DP
registered by James Murphy / Holt
Sutherland Estate Co. Named because of
sylvan like nature of area ( = rural like)
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DP
Menai Dpt Unit
Drive
Sylvia Street
(DISC)
Tabard Place
Cronulla
Taft Place
Bonnet
Bay
Tagudi Place
Bangor
Taiwan Place
Sylvania
Talara Lane /
Road
Gymea
Illawong
Talbot Close
Menai
Talinga Place
Lilli Pilli
Tallarook
Bangor
Place
Tallong Place Caringbah
Tallowwood
Close
Taloombi St
Tamar Street
Alfords
Point
Cronulla
Sutherland
Tamarind
Place
Alfords
Point
Renamed Coronation Avenue GG 99 of
19/7/1940
Name of short men’s coat (sleeveless or
short sleeved) from Middle Ages
Named after William Howard Taft 27th
US president (1909-1913).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘paddle’
It is off Formosa Street – island country of
Taiwan adjoins Formosa Strait
Aboriginal word meaning ‘frost or snow’
Or ‘rain’
1947 to 2005 parts called Talara Road
North/ South. Lane named 2004.
Named after swimming coach Don
Talbot. Coached Australian team 1964-72
and 1988 +. In Subdivision where streets
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ear’
Or ‘ wild fuschia’ (Western NSW)
Or ‘sandhill’
Aboriginal word for ‘wattle bird’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a tongue of
land’ (peninsula) or a ‘spring of water’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘tongue’
A species of eucalypt. In subdivision
where streets named after trees/plants.
Possibly linked to River Tamar in south
west England – several streets to west of
Tamar St (Liffey, Thames etc) are named
after English rivers
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
CL
Wikipedia
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Cooper, Endacott
Internet
Macq ab words
AB Word Bk – J
Kenyon
Cooper, Endacott
MD1/11/P1, Aust
Museum, Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL of Aboriginal
names
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Tamba Place
Tamworth
Place
Port
Hacking
Engadine
Aboriginal word for ‘ibis’
Taplan Street
Como
Near Armidale St so would be named
after northern NSW town of Tamworth
which is named after town of Tamworth,
Staffordshire, UK.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘grass trees’
Tara Street
Kangaroo
Point,
Sylvania
Engadine
Name first registered in 1882 DP – by
James Murphy / Holt Sutherland Estate
Co
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a river bend’
Tarcoola
Place
Taren Road
Caringbah
Taren Point
Road
Taren
Point,
Caringbah
Taronga
Parade
Caringbah
Taronga St
Como
Tasman St
Kurnell
Tathra Place
Gymea
Bay
Probably named after town in South
Australia which named after goldfield
which in turn was named after horse that
won 1893 Melbourne Cup
Taren Road became Taren Road North
South in 1947. Taren Road North became
Taren Point Road in 1948. Taren Road
South became Taren Road in 2005.
Part previously Woodside Road.
Shown as ‘Tareen Rd“ on some surveys.
In early years also known as Commons
Point Road. Part became Old Taren Point
Road GG 31 of 19/3/1971. Part of Taren
Road became Taren Road North in 1947
and then Taren Point Road 1948.
view’
Or ‘ sea view’
place’
Or meaning ’sea view’
Named after Abel Tasman, explorer.
Aboriginal word meaning either ‘beautiful
country’ or ‘a place of native (wild) cats’
Named after south coast town of Tathra,
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Wikipedia
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
Wajnryb
CL
DP
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Adbonline.anu.edu.
au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
ADB online
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
Tatler Place
Tay Place
Woronora
Heights
Woronora
Taylor Close
Miranda
Taywood
Street
Wooloowa
re
Tea Gardens
Avenue
Teak Place
Teal Place
Tea Tree
Place
Tecoma St
Kirrawee
Miranda
Woronora
Heights
Kirrawee
Heathcote
east of Bega. Is one of 6 streets in area
bearing name of a south coast town
Named after Tay River in UK- it runs
through central Scotland. In group of
streets near Woronora River named after
UK rivers (Liffey, Severn, Thames,
Mersey)
Named after Taylor Woodrow (Australia)
Pty Ltd the building and development
company which owned the land when the
land was subdivided.
Taylor Woodrow a UK building and
development company which sold their
houses as “Taywood Homes”. Their
Australian subsidiary was the owner of
land when this street was subdivided.
Street created in Tea Gardens Estate 1928
Adjoins Mulga Place so named after
species of Australian native tree.
Named after Central American plant
Genus includes Yellow Bells, Yellow
Elder, Trumpet Bush
Tedman
Parade
Telopea Ave
Sylvania
Tennant
Place
Illawong
Tennyson
Place
Sylvania
Tenth
Avenue
Loftus,
Oyster Bay
Caringbah
Council selected name 1909. Type of
indigenous flora.
Botanical name for waratah
On some plans spelt Telopia Avenue
Named after English poet Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809-92). Adjoins and in same
subdivision as Wordsworth Place also
named after English poet.
Tenth avenues in respective subdivisions.
DP
Wikipedia
DP
Pg 72 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
first settlement
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
St George Call 10
April 1909 pg 1
Internet
Library microfiche
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Who Did What
Tergur
Crescent
Tern Place
Terrace Ave
Terranora
Place
Terrigal
Place
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to enclose’
Woronora
Heights
Sylvania
Bangor
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a small river,
estuary’
Or ‘small river’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place of little
birds’
Or just ‘little birds’
Thacker
Close / Street
Gymea
Thacker
Miranda
Street (DISC)
Thames St
Woronora
Tharawal
Lane
Waterfall
The Avenue
Heathcote
Blaxland’s “Old Farm”. He helped
finance and build Miranda School of Arts.
Was on Provisional Council 1906 and was
known as the “Father of Miranda”. Was
first president of Miranda Co-Op Society.
He had land bounded by Sylvania Rd, The
Boulevarde , Manchester Ave and almost
to Bondell Ave and another block where
now Talara Road.
Name discontinued.
Blaxland’s “Old Farm” (where now
Miranda Fair). He helped finance and
build Miranda School of Arts. Was on
Provisional Council 1906 and was known
as the “Father of Miranda”. Was first
president of Miranda Co-Op Society.
Named after Thames River in UK. In
group of streets named after UK rivers
(Tay, Severn, Liffey, Mersey)
Name of traditional local aboriginal
people in southern Sydney. Named 2003
in consultation with Progress Association.
Named “Avenue” on 1888 DP.
www.archives.org
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Cooper, Aust
Museum, Endacott
The Leader Feb
1967 (LW) /
RD000/5 pt 4
CL
Faces of the Shire
Echoes From the
Bay pg 185
Sutherland Shire
Some Early
Residents pg 108
Faces of the Shire
Echoes from the
Bay
Council file
98/1997
DP
The Avenue
The
Boulevarde
Bundeena
Caringbah,
Gymea,
Miranda,
Sutherland
, Kirrawee
The Circle
Jannali
The Circus
(DISC)
The Crescent
Jannali
The
Esplanade
(DISC)
The
Esplanade
The Grand
Parade
Cronulla
The Knoll
Woronora
Sylvania
Sutherland
Miranda
The Lambeth
Walk
The
Meadows
Fire Trail
The
Promenade
The Short
Cut (DISC)
Bundeena
The Trust
Road (DISC)
Sutherland
Royal
National
Park
Sylvania
Jannali
Originally The Boulevard. Parts in
Sutherland became Linden Street and The
Boulvarde West (GG 145 of 1/10/1937).
The Boulevarde West section became
Sumner Street /Sunbury Street 9/5/1986.
Part in North Caringbah became part of
Captain Cook Drive GG 97 of 7/8/1970.
Previously The Circus renamed GG 137
of 28/11/1947.
Name discontinued. Renamed The Circle
GG 137 of 28/11/1947
Northern section became part of Prince
Edward Park Road 1948. Name reflects
shape of road.
Originally Ocean Esplanade. Originally a
Crown reserve for Access it is now a
Crown Reserve for public recreation
Previously part of The Promenade
renamed GG 135 of 15/12/1961.
20/10/1916. Part became The Grand
Parade East GG 12 of 28/1/1938. The
Grand Parade East section became Acton
Street GG 78 of 9/5/1986.
Name first registered 1882 DP by James
Murphy/ Holt Sutherland Estate Co.
In same subdivision with Manor Hill
Road and Huntingdale street. All three are
names of major golf courses. The Knoll
Golf Course is in New Jersey, USA
Name of dance
CL
See also Fin Com
262 18/5/1970, 361
of 20/7/70, Council
27/7/70
DP
CL
CL
CL
CL
CL
DP
Internet
Fire trail not road
Part renamed The Esplanade GG 135 of
15/12/1961. Name means ‘the walk’
Renamed Samuels Avenue GG 134 of
27/8/1954. Was short cut from Oyster Bay
Road to Georges River Road.
Former name circa 1886 of the section of
Linden Street south of The Grand Parade.
So named as was then the boundary of the
CL
CL
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
by F Midgley in
The Woods
Circuit
Third
Avenue
Thomas
Street
Thomas
Mitchell
Drive
Thompson
Ave nue
Menai
Jannali,
Loftus ,
Gymea
Bay
Wooloowa
re
Barden
Ridge
Illawong
Thompson
Avenue
Thomson
Avenue
Bundeena
Thornton
Place
Thorp Road
Kangaroo
Point
Woronora
Throsby
Close
Barden
Ridge
Thurlgonia
Road
Tiber Place
Engadine
Lucas
Heights
Heathcote
Royal National Park which was run by a
trust. Became The Boulevarde then
Linden Street
In Subdivision where streets named after
trees.
Third streets in respective subdivisions
Named after NSW Surveyor General
Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
(1792-1855) surveyor and explorer.
Probably named after either John
Thompson, Hurstville alderman 18941900, 1900 -11 & Mayor 1896-97, 190002, 1910-11 or Frederick Gamaliel
Thompson Hurstville alderman 18921906, 1911-13, mayor 1899-1900. Area
Sproule and Griffin Streets nearby also
named after Hurstville mayors. First DP
with street name was 1913.
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
The History of
Hurstville Council
Elections
DP
Joseph John Thomson (b 1856) who in
1897 discovered the electron. He won
Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906. His son
also won 1937 Nobel Prize for Physics.
www.ansto.gov.au
Named after Joshua Thorp, land
speculator in 1800’s. Owned 67 acres at
Woronora.
Part became part of Prince Edward Park
Road GG 80 of 16/7/1948
Named after Charles Throsby – surgeon ,
settler, explorer – one of first settlers in
Illawarra area (area has Aust'n pioneers
theme)
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 88
p374 (LW)
CL
Named after river w hich runs through
Internet
Allocated by
correspondence
24/8/2000 ( File
95/3170) (LW)
/ADB
Rome / 3rd longest river in Italy. In group
From NSW town name which is an
aboriginal word meaning ‘a heap of
granite rocks’
Tibooburra
Street
Engadine
Tilba Place
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘water’
h
RNP
Aka Rathane Telford Road – see Rathane
Kirrawee
Originally Timaru Street renamed 2004.
Zealand which has 3 possible maori
Kirrawe e
Renamed Timaru Place 2004
Zealand which has 3 possible Maori
Sutherland Aboriginal word meaning ‘a grass tree or
tree fern’
Or ‘grass tree’
Telford Road
Timaru Place
Timaru Street
(DISC)
Timbarra
Place
Timbrey
Circuit
Barden
Ridge
Timor Close
Kirrawee
Tinakill
Avenue
Engadine
Tingha Street
Engadine
Named after C Timbrey who played
Rugby for the South Sydney Rugby
League club (in 1963 according to club
website). Theme in 2003 subdivision (by
Gandangara Aborig, Land Corp.) was
aboriginal sports person
Off Gore Avenue in group of streets with
name linked to Gov/ Captain Bligh. After
mutiny near Tahiti Captain Bligh and his
loyal followers sailed in an open boat to
Timor.
Named after Tinakill in Queen’s County
Ireland. Adjoins Lalor Cres – Peter Lalor
was born at Tinakill. He was leader of
miners at Eureka Stockade , Victorian
politician, Speaker Legislative Assembly
Aboriginal word meaning ‘flat, level’
or ‘beef’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Cooper, Endacott
Also Feb 1967
Leader (LW) /
RD000/5 pt 4
Aust Museum
CL
Wikipedia- List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
CL
Wikipedia- List of
New Zealand place
names and their
meanings
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper, Aust
Museum, Endacott
South Sydney
Rugby League club
website
File 95/3170
Wikipedia
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
Tiranna Place
Oyster Bay Aboriginal word meaning ‘running water’
Tirrabeena
Place
Tirto Street
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ tooth like
point of land’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Tivoli
Esplanade
Barden
Ridge
Como /
Jannali
Tobruk Ave
Engadine
Todd Place
Illawong
Italy.
Named after battle at Tobruk in line with
War battlefield theme of area.
Tolol Avenue
Miranda/
Kangaroo
Point
Sylvania
Kangaroo Point section discontinued.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘straight
forward ,direct’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘fern tree’
Bundeena
Named GG 70 of 8/4/2004.
Tom Jones was shopkeeper of Bundeena
Park store from c 1947 till 1960’s and
post master till 1994 when he retired aged
85. His house at 19 Neil Street is known
as “Uncle Toms Cabin”.
Association
Named 2003.
Lane had been known unofficially as
Toms Lane for along period of time.
Edgar Toms had a bakers shop in Miranda
from c 1916, H Toms had a baker's shop
in Sutherland in 1912.
cabbage trees’
Or ‘home of the cabbage trees’
Named after Mr Richard Tonkies. He was
(c 1934 on) a farmer from Old Illawarra
Rd who had married into Midgley family.
Ethel, Lola, Colin & Harold Tonkies were
early settlers in area.
Tomah Place
Tom Jones
Way
Toms Lane
Engadine
Tongarra
Close
Bangor
Tonkies
Place
Menai
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum ,
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
Como Pub lic
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
www.archives.org
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
Council File
03/00764
CL
Council file
96/2161
Sands directories
190 Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
MD 1/11/P1
File MD 95/1714
Reflections –
Menai Congret
ional Church
Tonkin Street
Toorak
Avenue
Cronulla
Taren
Point
Named after Henry Tonkin 1st head
master of Cronulla Public School (1910),
& Secretary of Cronulla School of Arts
for 36 years. Secretary Cronulla theatre,
captain Cronulla Rifle Club, life member
Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club, founder
Cronulla Masonic Lodge .
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a swamp
where tea trees grow’
Or ‘swamp, springs’
Toronto
Parade
Torres Street
Torumba
Close
Jannali /
Sutherland
Kurnell
Bangor
GG 134 of 27/8/1954.
Named after Luis Vaez de Torres, Spanish
explorer. Streets in area named after
explorers who saw /explored Pacific
Ocean. He passed north of Australia in
1606.
Aboriginal name for Eucalyptus resinifera
common name red or forest mahogany or
red stringybark
Aboriginal word meaning ‘red mahogany’
Towradgi
Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘keeper of the
sacred stones’
Towra Beach
Road (DISC)
Kurnell
Towra Point
Road
Kurnell
Name discontinued. Name gazetted 1930
Beach named after Point which was
named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
1954
Point named by Surveyor Dixon 1827
Tradewinds
Place
Kareela
Trafalgar St
Engadine
As adjoins Nelson St would be named
after naval Battle of Trafalgar (1805) at
which Lord Nelson was commander of
British fleet against combined Spanish /
French fleet. Battle was off Cape
File MD 1/11/P1
a history to 1939
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Endacott
Cooper
CL
Gutenberg.net.au
Biolinfo.org
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
CL
200 years in
retrospect
CL
200 years in
retrospect
www.alldownunde
r.com
Internet
Travis Place
Menai
Treborth
Place
Menai
Treloar Place
Menai
Trevalsa
Place
Trevellyan
Street
Trial Place
Burraneer
Trafalgar near Cadiz, Spain
Named after Walter J Travis (1862-1927)
Australian golfer (born Victoria) who
moved to US. Won British amateur and 3
US amateur titles. Also golf course
designer. In subdivision where streets
named after Australian golfers.
named after Treborth a location near
Bangor in Wales adjoining Menai Strait.
Named after John Treloar (born 1928) one
of world’s fastest sprinters 1947-52. Won
3 Gold medals at 1950 Empire Games. In
a group of streets named after Australian
athletes.
Internet
Internet
www.geocities.co
m/geetee/profiles
Cronulla
Illawong
Trickett Road
Wooloowa
re
Tristania
Grove
Menai
Triton Ave
(?) (DISC)
Miranda
Troy Road
Heathcote
Truman
Avenue /
Place
Bonnet
Bay
Named after Edward Trickett – 1st
Australian to be recognized world
champion sculler in 1876.
Name of genus of tree. It is a small tree
native to NSW and commonly known as
water gum. In line with theme in
subdivision of streets named after tree
types
Name discontinued.
Indistinct name of lane on eastern side of
Seymour Shaw Park
Named after former city in Turkey
attacked by Greece in Ancient times –
now an archaeological site. In group of
Named after Harry S Truman 33rd US
Suth Shire – Some
Early Residents pg
79
DP
Wikipedia
1934 Wilson’s
Street Directory
Internet
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Trumper
Place
Menai
Tudar Road
Bonnet
Bay /
Jannali
Alfords
Point
Cronulla
Tulip Close
Tullimbar
Road
Tulong Place
Tulukera
Place
Tumut Place
Tunbridge
Place
Tunks Place
Tupelo
Grove
Turi Close
Turners Lane
Tuross
Avenue
Turpentine
Close
Turrella
Road
Named after Victor Thomas Trumper
(1877 – 1915) Australian Test Cricketer
(1899 -1914). One of group of streets
Tullimbar was the name of an aboriginal
warrior chief near Lake Illawarra in early
1800’s
Kirrawee
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mountain’
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘ fighting
boomerang’
Sylvania
Waters
place beside the river’.
Or ‘a plain’
NSW river.
Jannali
Tunbridge Place is off Sevenoaks Place.
Tunbridge (full name Royal Tunbridge
Wells) is town in Kent UK near town of
Sevenoaks.
Barden
Probably named after William Tunks
Ridge
(1816-1883) Member of Legislative
Assembly 1864-1874. Street naming
theme in area is Australian Pioneer s.
Menai
Species of tree – in subdivision where
Bangor
boomerang’
Gymea
Unnamed till 2005
Named after Alan Turner who lived in
Gymea from 1972 to 2000 and was SSC
Deputy Shire Clerk for 20 years. Also on
Board of Calvary Hospital
Sylvania
Waters
Australian river. Tuross River is on NSW
south coast.
Alfords
Common name of Syncarpia tree. In
Point
trees/shrubs.
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘water weeds’,
h
‘weeds growing in water’
Internet
www.tullimbarvilla
ge.com.au
Endacott
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/1/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Endacott
Wikipedia
ADB online
File MD2/23/4 Pt 1
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
CL
File 97/0271
What Tree is That
by S Macoboy
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum &
CL
Turriell Bay
Road
Dolans
Bay / Lilli
Pilli
Turriell Point
Road
Lilli Pilli /
Port
Hacking
Turtle Road
Caringbah
Turuga Place
Bangor
Tweed Place
Sylvania
Waters
So named as is road to Turriel Bay.
So named as is road to Turriell point.
Was supposed, according to fisheries
department, to be so named because many
turtles thrived and were caught in area.
Alternatively may have been named after
EA Turtle & Co real estate agency who
auctioned land in area in 1930’s.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘falling star’
Australian river. Tweed River located in
Northern NSW near Queensland border.
Named by Lt John Oxley after River
Tweed which forms border between
England and Scotland.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘frog’
Tyaran Place
Bangor
Tycannah
Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to bring
something’
Or just ‘bring it’
Tyler Place
Bonnet
Bay
Named after John Tyler 10th US President
(1841-1845). That Bonnet Bay street
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
by M Hutton Neve
DP
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
by M Hutton Neve
DP
Echoes from the
Bay pg 133 & A
Sutherland Shire
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
www.tropicalnsw.c
om.au
Aust Museum ,
File MD 1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum, File
MD 1/11/P1
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Ulinga Place
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to fly’
Or ‘to lie down, go to sleep’
Ulladulla
Place
Kareela
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a safe harbour’
Uloola Place
Gymea
Bay
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sun’
Ultimo Street
Una Lane
(DISC)
Sutherland
Underwood
Place
Barden
Ridge
University
Road
Miranda
Upper
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Uralba Ave
Caringbah
Means previous , last month
Bulwarra St. Bulwarra St is and Bulwarra
suburb – both names given by Surgeon
John Harris. Named ‘Ultimo’ because he
won a court case as a result of somebody
wrongly using the word ‘ultimo’ in
charge.
Early unofficial name for Robertson Lane
also known as “What –a- lane “
Australian pioneers. Therefore probably
named after either James Underwood
(1771-1844) shipbuilder, distiller,
merchant in NSW or his brother Joseph
(1779-1833) merchant and sealing master
1947 to 2005 parts of University Rd was
University Road North/ South. In 2005
North renamed. University Road South
name discontinued as road closed 1968
and included in residential subdivision.
Was named after an old house with
castellated turrets called “Tareena” which
was nicknamed “The University” and was
owned by John Paton
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a place with
plenty of quartz stones ‘ or ‘a home
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Aust Museum,
Cooper
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
CL aborig names,
Aust Museum
ADB Online
Works Comt 31/8/
1959 Council File
R/39/11
ADB Online
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Vol 9 No
1 Feb 2006
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
between the hills’ or ‘a hollow’
Aboriginal word for ‘hollow or basin’
Or ‘plenty of white quartz stones’ or ‘a
hollow or basin’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sleep’
Urambi Place
Engadine
Urana Road
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘the noise made
h
by quails as they rise from the ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘noise of flying
quail’
Or’ yellow box tree’
Sutherland
Miranda
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a long beach’
Urdala Place
Urunga
Parade / Lane
Valley Way
Valley View
Crescent
Van Buren
Circuit /
Lane
Van Dieman
Place
Gymea
Bay
Engadine
Bonnet
Bay
Caringbah
Venetia
Street
Kangaro Pt
Sylvania
Veno Street
Heathcote
Lane named 2005
Road first named in 1915 DP
So named as adjoins Coonong Creek
valley.
Name reflects streets view into Loftus
Creek valley.
Named after Martin Van Buren 8th US
President (1837-1841).That Bonnet Bay
street names be names of US presidents
Jim Hall and agreed to by Council and
Parkes Development. Lane named 2005
Originally proposed as Van Diemen Place
to celebrate Bicentenary in 1970 however
subdivider made spelling mistake which
was ratified by Council. Named after
Anthony van Diemen (1593-1645) who
was Governor General of Dutch East
Indies (1636-45) who sent Abel Tasman
on his voyage to Australia in 1642.
First named in 1882 DP registered by
James Murphy/ Holt Sutherland Estate.
North South roads in that subdivision
named after ‘exotic’ foreign locations.
Venetia alternative spelling Venice.
Named after racehorse Veno which won
Australian Plate, AJC Plate, Homebush
Stakes in 1857. Veno was owned by John
CL aborig names +
Works Comt 2 nd
Oct 1956, File
R/39/11
Aust Museum
CL of Aboriginal
names, Cooper,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Endacott
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
DP
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
CL
Wikipedia
Pg 66 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
Ventura Ave
Miranda
Verbena
Place
Caringbah
Verdun Place
Engadine
Vermont St
Vernon
Avenue
Verona
Range
Sutherland
Gymea
Bay
Como
Veronica
Place
Vesta Street
Loftus
Via Mare
Cronulla
Viburnum
Road
Vic Leuliette
Walkway
Loftus
Victor Place
Illawong
Victor
Crescent
(DISC)
Victoria St
Kurnell
Sutherland
Bundeena
Jannali
Higgerson a local who was a leading
jockey and later a national park ranger
Named after Ventura poultry farm owned
by Elijah Phillips a founding member of
Miranda Co-Operative Society. Was 1 of
1st poultry farms in area established 1891
Genus of annual and perennial flowering
plants mostly native to North and South
America. Most streets in area named after
plants.
Named by W Ainsworth (local resident
and Shire President 1919-21) after WW1
battlefield in France
first settlement
Italy.
Como Public
School 1884-85
1921-1988 A
History of Two
Schools
DP
Probably named after goddess in Roman
Mythology. She was virgin goddess of
hearth home and family.
In 1930 Sands as Via Mare Parade
Wikipedia
Meaning “ by the sea”
Named after flowering plant. In group of
streets named after plants/ trees.
Walkway named 2005 after local resident
and conservationist. Vic Leuliette was
member of Progress Association from
1966, held various roles in Bushfire
Brigade, established Port Hacking
Protection Society in 1986
Named after flagship of Royal Yatch Club
of Victoria in 1925. Theme of areanames
Proposed road in 1886 subdivision at
Kurnell by Thomas Holt which did not
proceed.
Part of “Queen’s Jubilee Township”
where names (Alice, Alberta, Victoria,
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
SSHS Bulletin Feb
1999
Wikipedia
Engadine – a
1930 Sands
directory
CL
Faces of the Shire
CR
CR
1936 parish map
Victory St
Engadine
View Street
Villers Brett
Gymea /
Miranda
Engadine
Viola Place
Violet Street
Heathcote
Miranda
Vista Street
Caringbah
Vista Heights
Road
Von Nida
Place
Miranda
Wade Close
Illawong
Wales Close
Walker Ave
Illawong
Gymea
Walker Road
Port
Hacking
Menai
has as first name and two have as third
name.
Was part of Cambrai Avenue. As adjoins
Trafalgar and Nelson Streets (which
named much earlier)–likely source of
name is because Victory was name of
Lord Nelson’s flagship at naval Battle of
Trafalgar in 1805. Appears street took it’s
name from Victory Reserve which named
in line with adjoining streets theme.
Likely to reflect that street had views.
Named 1919.
Named after WWI battlefield of Villers
Brettoneaux in line with war battlefields
theme of area.
CL
Internet
family.
Street part of Hilltop Estate (1914) – name
reflects that street high up and had views /
vistas.
Named after Norman Guy Von Nida
(1914-2007), golfer. Won 3 Australian
Opens, 4 PGA Championships. Later a
coach. In group streets named after
Australian golfers
Australian nautical historical significance
Internet
Adjoins what was Aaron Walker’s
slaughter yard c 1910
Echoes from the
Bay pg 65 & A
Sutherland Shire
File 95/2960 and
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1977
Mr Richard Cornelius Critchett Walker
(1841-1903) who owned land prior to its
subdivision. He was Principal Under
Secretary in NSW Government 18791903. He was National Park Trustee 1889.
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
Wallami
Street
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘snapper fish’
Wallawa Ave
Engadine
Name suggested by subdivider, agreed to
by Council Development Comt 7/1/1957
Aboriginal word meaning ‘stop here’
Wallendbeen
Ave
Dolans
Bay/ Lilli
Pilli
Wallis Street
Maianbar
Wallumatta
Road
Caringbah
Wallumatta
Caringbah
Street North/
South (DISC)
Walsh Close Illawong
Wandella
Road
Miranda
Wandobah
Street
Wanga or
Wangi Road
(DISC)
Engadine
Wanganui
Road
Kirrawee
Wangi Ave
Cronulla
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a stony place’
or a ‘stony hill’. Historic house
“Wallendbeen Lodge “ is at No 10. House
was built 1902 for explorer and aviator
Donald George Mackay and his wife.
Original land holder George Newcombe
sold portion 9 to William Wallis on 19
November 1881, transferred to Nathaniel
and William Moncur Wallis 1886.
Road named 1909. From 1947 to 2005
parts were called Wallumatta Street
North/ South. Sometimes spelt Walumatta
Renamed Wallumatta Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘bark stripped
from trees’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘an initiated
youth’
1947 to 2005 parts were called Wandella
Road North/ South.
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Aust Museum
Council File
R/39/11
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Aust Museum,
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Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Aust Museum
A History.
Maianbar
(Maianbar Progress
Assoc Publication)
CL, DP
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
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Aust Museum
CL
DP
E-W road approx in location Pacific Street On 1912
subdivision plan
Wangi – aboriginal word meaning ‘a night www.newcastle.ed
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DP
Timaru Street, also name of a NZ town.
Wikipedia
Named after City of Wanganui (aka
Whanganui) on North Island of New
Zealand. Name means ‘big bay’ or ‘big
harbour’ in Maori.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a night owl’
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Wannyl Road
Want Street
Kirrawee
Caringbah
Want Street
(DISC)
Sutherland
Warabin St
Waterfall
Waratah
Street / Lane
Waratah
Road
Sutherland
/ Kirrawee
Engadine
Most famous former residents – Gough
(PM 1972-75) and his wife Margaret
Whitlam lived there 1947-1955.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘roots of trees’
John Henry Want barrister, politician,
National Park trustee and NSW attorney
general owned land in vicinity (pre 1905),
was also partner in Holt –Sutherland
Estate Land Co. Named 1909.
Was renamed Sutherland Street. Was west
of railway line to what became cemetery
but was then edge of National Park.
Shown on reproduction of 1886 map.
Named after John Henry Want barrister,
politician, original National Park Trustee.
May 1988 SSHSB says named after
George Frederick Want.
Before 1930 was Chritchet Street ,
renamed GG 65 of 30/5/1930. Part was
also Leicester Street and Church Street.
Waterfall Progress Assoc (letter 9/6/2003
says Aboriginal word meaning ‘lump’
Aboriginal name for red flowering tree.
West of railway was Waratah Street West
renamed Leonay St (GG 78 of 9/5/1986).
Lane named GG172 of 31/10/1986. Street
at one time called Waratah Road.
Named in line with other streets in DP
801 (Oak, Acacia, Box) after tree species.
Name first registered in 1882 by James
Murphy / Holt Sutherland Estate Co..
Aboriginal word for tree with red flowers
Named by Mr Charles McAlister (Shire
President) because it wound through a
grove of waratahs
Waratah St
Warburton
Street/ Lane
Cronulla
Gymea
Part named in 1899 original Village of
Gunnamatta (Cronulla) subdivision
Aboriginal and now common name for
red flowering tree.
Part (section that was unnamed foreshore
road along Bay) named GG 65 -30/5/1930
Lane named 2004
Named after Mr James Warburton who
Internet
Wikisource- Moore
Echoes From the
Bay pgs 130-1
Bygone Days of
Sutherland Shire
Street Names in
Early Sutherland –
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
& May 1988
CL
File 98/1997
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
1882 / 1936 maps
CL
DP
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Engadine – An
Outline History &
Engadine 18252001
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names,
CL
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
was Sutherland railway station station
master c 1916 and who owned land in
area of street.
Warcoo
Avenue
Ward
Crescent
Ward Street
Wardell
Drive
Wareemba
Place
Warilda Ave
Waring Ave
Warraba
Street
Warrah Road
Gymea
Bay
Oyster Bay Named after Harry Ward original land
owner.
He was one of original oyster farmers in
area.
Kurnell
Named after early landowner in Kurnell .
Barden
In line with Australian pioneers theme
Ridge
probably named after either (1) Robert
Wardell (1793-1884) barrister and
newspaper editor or (2) William
Wilkinson Wardell (1823-1899) architect
and Victorian public servant (clerk of
works and architect for Dept Works &
Buildings)
Lilli Pilli
Aboriginal word meaning “where fresh
water meets salt water”
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘baby’
Caringbah On the 1940 subdivision plan for the street
two of the three owners signatures are E
& W Waring – therefore named after
owners at time of subdivision.
Como
Aboriginal word for ‘turtle, tortoise’
Yowie Bay (1)Aboriginal word for ‘honeysuckle’
Warrangarree
Drive
Woronora
Heights
Warrego
Avenue
Sylvania
Waters
(2)Aboriginal word meaning ‘rain’ or
‘left’
(2) Aboriginal word meaning ‘rain
falling’
(4) Or ‘start’, ‘go’
Unsubstantiated theory that name was
based on the 2 developers of area –
Warren and Garry. However as created in
a Landcom subdivision in 1984 this
theory not likely.
Aust’n river (Warrego River in South
west Qld and NW NSW). Warrego is an
Bulletin 1988
Short History of
Oyster Bay (LW)
Mementos of
Oyster Bay.
File RD000/75
letter 7/8/1968 and
Leader 18/9/1968
pg 33
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD 2/22/3-6)
ADB online
www.canadabay.ns
w.gov.au
Cooper, Endacott
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Place Names of
Aust. AW Reed
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aust Museum
DP
R Burns – Council
Health officer
Place Names of
Aust AW Reed
www.wapedia.mob
Aboriginal word meaning "river of sand"..
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a large root’
Or ‘giving’
i
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Cooper, Endacott
Aboriginal word meaning ‘watercourse’
or ‘watercourse with trees along banks’
CL Aborig names
Aust Museum
In group of streets (with Oakham,
Durham) named after chief towns of
English Counties. Is chief town of County
of Warwickshire.
President (1789-1797).
So named as street goes to waters edge
So named as leads to small waterfall.
Wikipedia
Warren
Avenue
Grays
Point
Warrigal
Street
Jannali
Previously called Park Station Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘dog, dingo’
Warrina
Road
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ‘give’
Warrington
Avenue
Warsop St
Warumbui
Avenue
Warrumbul
Road
Caringbah
Kurnell
Miranda
Warwick St
Roya l
National
Park
Sylvania
Washington
Drive
Bonnet
Bay
Water Street
Waterfall
Road
Waterfall
Road (DISC)
Caringbah
Heathcote
Waterford
Parade
(DISC)
Sutherland
Jannali
Watergum
Place
Waterview
Ave
Alfords
Point
Caringbah
RNP/
Waterfall
Now called McKell Avenue. So named
due to waterfalls near road. Also known
as “Waterfalls Road”
On 1882 subdivision map Jannali Ave
called Waterford Parade.
Renamed GG 99 of 25/7/1930
Possibly named after City /County of
Waterford on south coast of Ireland where
Waterford Crystal is manufactured.
Street has waterviews so likely source of
name. Part of 1922 “Yowie Panorama
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
CL
Wikipedia
DP
Waterview St Oyster Bay
Wattamolla
Royal
Road
National
Park
Wattle Road Jannali/
Sutherland
Estate”
So named as location has water views
Formerly Olivers Road
Aboriginal word meaning ‘place near
running water’
Named G 65 of 30/5/1930
On 1901 DP was shown as “Government
Road”
Named after type of tree in line with other
roads in area ( oak, Waratah etc)
Waverly
Place
Weaver Place
Illawong
Webb Close
Illawong
Webber St
Sylvania
Weemala
Ave
Kirrawee
In same subdivision as Alexander Street
so possibly named after somebody called
Alexander Webber.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘distant view’
Weerona
Place
Caringbah
Aboriginal word for ’resting place’
Woronora
Heights
Named after type of bird also known as
Grenadier. In subdivision where most
Or ‘ rest, quiet, sleep’
Yowie Bay area was originally called
‘Village of Weerona’
Wentworth
Street
West Close
Caringbah/
Dolans
Bay
Illawong
Westringa
Place
Westward St
Gymea
Bay
Kareela
Whalan Place
Gymea
Botanical name for coastal or native
rosemary
yacht (overall winner 1947 & 48). Streets
Aboriginal word meaning ‘mouth’
Or more likely named after Charles
Whalan Senior (1772-1839) close friend
CL
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Oct 1976
Internet
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum,
Cooper
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum,
Cooper
Endacott
A history to 1939
Menai Dpt Unit
23/3/1981 File
MD2/10/10(LW)
www.anbg.gov.au
www.alldownunde
r.com
Aust Museum
‘What – a Sutherland
Lane’ (DISC)
Wheatley
Road
Whimbrel
Place
White Street
Whites Ave
Whitewood
Place
Whitton Lane
(DISC)
Whitton St
Wiak Road
Wigens Ave
of Governor Macquarie and Commander
of his and Governor King’s bodyguard. In
group of streets named after important
figures in early years of NSW (eg Cox,
Macquarie, Greenway)
Early ‘unofficial’ name for Robertson
Lane behind School of Arts aka Una Lane
Yarrawarra Named after Kevin Wheatley who was
h/ Loftus
awarded Victoria’s Cross for action in
1965 during Vietnam War.
Woronora A whimbrel is a medium sized curlew. It
Heights
is a migratory seabird that spends summer
in Australia. In group of streets named
after birds.
Jannali
after Lieutenant General Sir George White
a Boer War soldier. Adjoining streets also
named after Boer War figures (Buller and
Roberts Streets)
Caringbah On 1923 subdivision plan shown as
‘White’s Ave’ so likely named after a
person but owners signature on DP
appears to be Hensforth so must have
been an earlier owner or resident of site
not owner at time of subdivision.
Caringbah Much later (1978) subdivision than
surrounding streets but follows tree name
theme (eg Oleander, Jacaranda)
Heathcote Name discontinued. Named after NSW
government minister at time area
naming streets in area after ministers /
public servants. John Whitton (18201898) was NSW Railways Engineer in
chief 1856 -1890
Heathcote Named in 2004 after NSW government
minister at time area subdivided (1896) in
line with apparent theme of naming streets
in area after ministers / public servants.
John Whitton (1820-1898) was NSW
Railways Engineer in chief 1856 -1890.
Jannali
Aboriginal word meaning ‘enough’
Como
Previously Bonnet Road , renamed GG 6 19/1/1962
Works Comt
31/8/1959 Council
File R/39/11
Internet
www.birdsinbacky
ards.net
DP
DP
ADB online
Council File
95/2960
ADB online
www.archives.org
Wilbar Ave/
Lane
Cronulla
Wilbung
Road
Wilga Road
Illawong
Caringbah
Lane named 2005
Street name may be a concoction of
names of Edward George WILson and
Alfred BARry who owned most of the
land in the Wilbar Estate at the time of its
subdivision in 1913
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
CL
DP
Aboriginal word for ‘dogwood, willow’
also means ‘hot’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘willow tree’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig name s,
Aust Museum,
Cooper
Endacott
Aboriginal word for ‘tame dog’
Or ‘tree – like willow’
Willaburra
Road
Willandra
Parade
Wooloowa
re
Heathcote
Willarong
Road
Caringbah
Willaroo Ave Woronora
Heights
William
Caringbah
Pathway
William
Sutherland
Street (DISC)
Willock Ave
Miranda
Willow Place
Willowbrook
Place
Wills Road
Kirrawee
Sylvania
Wooloowa
re
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘little waters’ ‘a
creek’
On 1886 subdivision plan this street was
shown as part of Railway Parade
Named by James Murphy of Holt
Sutherland Co – Aboriginal origin but
meaning unknown.
Another name for bush stone curlew. In
of birds.
Aboriginal word for ‘curlew’
Shown on 1923 subdivision of Beauty
Point Estate (adj site to east)
Became Moore Street (1887). O n 1886
map reproduced in SSHS Bulletin 1986.
Possibly named after Samuel William
Gray major landowner as is near Gray
Street which is named after SW Gray.
Previously known as League Street.
In 1950’s an ex-soldier George Willock
obtained 24 house sites in street for exserviceman – street named after him.
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Pg 25 From Bottle
Forest to Heathcote
DP
Name first registered in 1984 DP (council
approval 1982)
1947 to 2005 parts called Wills Road
North / South.
7 streets in area named after explorers so
probably named after William John Wills
DP
www.albury.net.au
Endacott
DP
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
CL
www.asap.unimelb
Wilshire Ave
Cronulla
Wilson
Parade
Heathcote
Wilson Place
Bonnet
Bay
Windermere
Avenue
Miranda
Windle Place
Menai
Windsor Rd
Cronulla
Wingello Rd
Miranda
Winifred Ave
Winifred
Caringbah
Royal
(1834-1861) (as in Burke and Wills)
explorer of Central Australia. He reached
Gulf of Carpentaria but died on return trip
Wilshire family was early land holders (
from circa 1916)
.edu.au
Suth S Hist Soc
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375(LW) & 1916
on Sands
William J Wilshire, Cronulla property
Suth Shire Hist Soc
owner.
Bulletin May 2007
Harley St John Wilshire was 1 of founders From Sails to
of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club 1907.
Atoms
Originally Wilson’s Parade. Named after
Pgs 54-5. From
Reverend John Wilson, minister at Christ Bottle forest to
Church Anglican Church (1896 till 1903). Heathcote
He continued to live in area till he died in Sutherland Shire’s
1922. His house known as Flavian Court
first settlement
was on site of Heathcote High School. It
burnt down in 1939 bushfire
Named after Woodrow Wilson 28th US
Natures Doorstep
The Bonnet Bay
Story by C Burgess
Owner at time of subdivision Mr Haynes
Council file
came from English Windermere Lakes
R/39/11
area and his Miranda poultry farm known
as Windermere.
Named after Robert (Bob) George Windle Internet
(born 1944) Australian Swimmer. Gold
medal 1500 m freestyle 1964 Olympics.
Named after Mrs Ada Windsor who
Suth S Hist Soc
displayed seashells by the seashore.
Bulletin Aug 1988
p 375 (LW)
Ada Windsor owned land pre subdivision
Otho H Windsor was Secretary of
Suth Shire His Soc
Cronulla Progress Assoc 1908
Bulletin May 2007
Part was previously Maidora Road –
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘to burn,
Aboriginal Words
burning’
and Place Names
Falls Fire
Trail
Winkin
Avenue /
Lane
Winnunga
Road
National
Park
Gymea
Bay
Winston
Place
Winyu Street
(DISC)
Sylvania
Lilli Pilli
Lane named 2004
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘small’
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names,CL
Aborig. Names,
Aust Museum
Cooper
Or ‘little’
Wistaria
Street
Withybrook
Place
Wittenoom
Place
Wokari St
Wolger St
Wollondilly
Place
Sutherland
Name discontinued
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a waterhole
without water’
Was road at rear of Lots 1 to 17 section 5
DP 1688 which placed it within the then
National Park. Ran from Eton St to
Highway about where now railway line.
Possibly ceased to exist due to
subdivisions for Cronulla railway line
Dolans
Also spelt Wisteria - Genus of woody
Bay/
climbing vines. Named after Dr. Caspar
Caringbah Wistar (1761 - 1818)
Sylvania
Name of town in Warwickshire in
England
Yarrawarra In group of streets named after Western
h
Australian locations. Named after town
and gorge in WA which were named after
either Sir Edward Horne Wittenoom a
pastoralist and politician or after Frank
Wittenoom partner of George Hancock in
nearby Mulga Downs Station ,it was
George Hancock’s son Lang Hancock
who developed the asbestos mine / town
Engadine
Possibly Aboriginal word ‘wokarri ‘
meaning ‘fish’
Como
Created / named 1912. Name of
Aboriginal origin like others in
subdivision but meaning not found.
Sylvania
Named after Wollondilly River south west
Waters
of Sydney. It is one of 30 streets in area
named after an Australian river.
Wollondilly has 3 possible meanings, "A
place where spirits dwell" or "Water
trickling over rocks" or burning black coal
CL
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Wikipedia
Internet
Internet
Endacott
DP
www.wollondilly.n
sw.gov.au
Wollongong
Road (DISC)
Wollun St
Wollybutt Rd
Wolstenholm
e Avenue
Wonga Road
Wood Lane
Woodfield
Ave
Woodfield
Boulevarde
Woodford
Crescent
Woodlands
Road
Woodside
Road (DISC)
Como
carried inside the skull of a bunyip in a
basket woven of waratah stems (from
"worron" means black coal & "dilly"
means carry basket).
Aboriginal word meaning ‘water trickling
over the rocks’
Early name for Old Illawarra Road. Also
known as ‘Sir Thomas Mitchell’s Line of
Road to the Illawarra’
Aborigina l word meaning ‘hard ground’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hard
substance’
Engadine
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Named after type of tree known as
peppermint tree or Eucalyptus longiflolia
Gymea
Named after owner at time of 1951
subdivision which created street who was
F Wolstenholme.
Unnamed till 2005
Miranda /
Aboriginal word for ‘bulrush, native
Yowie Bay pigeon’
Or ‘west, night’
Cronulla
A Mr Arthur W Wood owned land in area
when subdivided.
Bundeena
Named after one of owners of estate at
time of subdivision - Isabella Elizabeth
Woodfield
Caringbah Named after one of two owners at time of
original 1920 subdivision was Isabel
Elizabeth Woodfield.
Heathcote
Taren
Point
Caringbah
Woodward
Ave
Caringbah
Woolooware
Road
Wooloowa
re/
Burraneer
First named on 1894 DP. Changed to part
of Taren Road in 1915 DP. Ran from
President Ave to Port Hacking Road
As near 3 streets named after NSW
Governor’s probably named after Sir Eric
Winslow Woodward (1899-1967) army
officer and 31st NSW Governor (1957-65)
1947 to 2005 parts called Woolooware
Road North/ South
Aboriginal word meaning ‘muddy flat’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
A Pictorial History
of Sutherland Shire
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
www.planning.nsw
.gov.au
DP
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper
DP
Title information
DP
CL /DP
ADB online
CL
CL Aborig names,
Named after Ba y which was named by
His original spelling was ‘Wooloowear’
Woonah St
Miranda
Woorak
Crescent
Miranda
Several books indicate this as the road in
the shire which has longest continuous
use. Originated as road used by John
Connell to transport logs to Woolooware
Bay
place’
Aboriginal word for ‘honeysuckle, plain’
‘plain level country’
Wordsworth
Place
Sylvania
Woronora
Crescent
Como
Named after English poet William
Wordsworth (1770-1850). It adjoins and
in same submission as Tennyson Street
also named after poet.
Woronora Rd
Engadine
Part of 1845-1860 Old Illawarra road
followed the route of Woronora Road
Woronora St
/ Road
(DISC)
Sutherland
to Cronulla
Old Wollongong Road part became
Woronora Road and part became
Engadine Avenue GG 135 of 1/11/1918.
Also said to mean ‘ place of no sharks’
Aboriginal name meaning ‘black rock’.
First shown on January 1882 subdivision
plan by James Murphy/ Holt Sutherland
Estate Co as Woronora Road and
February 1882 DP as Woronora Street.
Also on early 20th century subdivision
plans as such.
Aust Museum
From Sails to
Atoms
The Story of Port
Hacking, Cronulla
& Sutherland Shire
www.ndpbeta.nla.g
ov.au
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
their Meanings by
S Endacott (LW)
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Aboriginal Words
& Place Names &
CL Aborig Names,
Aust Museum
Bottle Forest to
Heathcote –
first settlement.
CL
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
1882 DP plans
Originally stopped at Eton Street and
block to railway was named Sutherland
Street – later extended to railway line.
Wren Court
Wren Place
Woronora
Heights
Wooloowa
re
Wright Close
Heathcote
Wyanbah Rd
Cronulla
Wyang Place
Engadine
Wyanga
Kirrawee
Street (DISC)
Wyangala
Place
Miranda
Wybalena
Place
Wye Close
Jannali
Woronora
Wylah Place
Woronora
Heights
Wylie Street
Kirrawee
Renamed President Avenue GG 175 of
20/10/1916
Adjoins Christopher Place – therefore
likely named after Christopher Wren,
English architect / astronomer (1632 1723). Most famous work St Paul’s
Cathedral, London.
famous Australian Poets. Judith Arundell
Wright (1915-2000) –conservationist,
Aboriginal rights campaigner, poet,
writer.
In 1930 Sands as Wyambah Road. Likely
name of aboriginal origin as in 1916
Beach Park Estate subdivision with 4
streets with names of Aboriginal origin.
Name discontinued
Street created 1929, closed 1941 to allow
for development of major steel products
factory – now site of new Bunning’s store.
As joins Burrinjuck Place (name of dam
near Goulburn) likely that it is named
after Wyangala Dam which is on Lachlan
River near Cowra.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘man sit down
here
Private road.
Aboriginal word for a species of snake
Another name for yellow tailed black
cockatoo. In subdivision where all streets
are types of birds.
As adjoins Eyre Pl and Scott Pl would be
named after Wylie an aboriginal from
King George Sound who accompanied
Edward John Eyre on his explorations in
Street Names in
Early Sutherland
Suth Shire Hist
Bulletin Feb 1986
CL
Wikipedia
ADB Online
1930 Sands
directory
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
CL
Cooper, Aust
Museum, Endacott
Council info
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.archives.org
Wikisource-Moore
www.lamington.nr
sm.uq.edu.au
ADB Online
Wylmar Ave
Burraneer
Wyndham
Avenue
(DISC)
Caringbah
South and Western Australia in 1840/41.
Scott was Eyre’s assistant.
Possibly a concocted name. At time of
1914 subdivision half of estate owned by
WILliam James MARr.
Name discontinued. Was south of railway
line approx location Binalong Ave. Was
proposed in 1929 DP but marked ‘
excluded from plan’ so never built.
May be named after town in Western
Australia which named after Major Walter
DP
CL. Location from
microfiche map –
local history
collect’n c 1939-46
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
George Wyndham (b 1857), the younger son
by her first marriage of Mary Anne Broome,
wife of the Governor of Western Australia
1883-1890
Wynward
Place
Wyralla
Road
Barden
Ridge
Miranda/
Yowie Bay
Yagoona
Close
Bangor
Yala Road
Bangor
Theme for naming streets in area is early
Aboriginal word for black and red
cockatoo
Aboriginal word meaning ‘today’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word for ‘that way’
Yalgar Road
Kirrawee
Or ‘open’
Name of Western Australian river
Aboriginal word meaning ‘hard, dried up’
Yamba Road
Como
Aboriginal word for ‘bark shelter or hut’
Waterfall
Or ‘camp’
Or ‘ headland’
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word (Wiradyuri language)
meaning ‘wattle’
Yanagang
Street
Yanchep
Place
Or “green trees growing” – according to
Yarrawarra Aboriginal word meaning ‘bullrushes’
h
Word derived from “yanget”, a native flax or
bullrush. Named after Western Australian
town. In group of streets named aft er
Council 7/12/1987
(File MD2/22/3-6)
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
DP
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names,
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL
www.newcastle.ed
u.au
Cooper
Internet
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Cooper
Aust Museum
CL
The Wiradyuri &
Other languages of
NSW by R H
Matthews(internet)
File 98/1997
www.drivewa.com
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
Western Australian locations
Name discontinued.
Was one of original North - South Holt
estate roads named by James Murphy.
Aboriginal word meaning ‘coming’
Yanda Road
(DISC)
Miranda
Yanderra
Avenue
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘turpentine tree’
Yangoora
Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘stringybark tree’
Yanina Place
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘north’
Yanko Close
Woronora
Aboriginal word meaning ‘sound of
running water’
Yara Close
Bangor
Aboriginal word for ‘seagull’
Yaralla Place
Engadine
Aboriginal word meaning ‘camping area’
Bangor
Or ‘camp’
Or ‘dwelling’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘platypus’
Yarenbool
Way
Yarrabee
Ave
Yarra Burra
Street
Yarraga
Place
Yarra Vista
Circuit
Yates Road
Yathong
Road
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ’many gum
trees’
Or’ gum forest’
Gymea
Yarra is Aboriginal word meaning ‘to
Bay
speak’ or ‘tree’
Yowie Bay Aboriginal word for ’south east wind,
gentle spirit of spring’ or ‘spring’
Yarrawarra
h
Bangor
Caringbah
Yarra is aboriginal word for ‘to speak’ or
‘tree’.
Named GG 65 of 30/5/1930
Aboriginal word meaning ‘large sand
hills’
Aboriginal word meaning ‘big sand hills’
Originally named Greendale Road in
CL
Suth Shire Hist Soc
Bulletin Feb 2006
www.landgate.wa.
gov.au
www.nswrail.net ,
Aust Museum &
File MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names ,
Endacott & File
MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names ,
Aust Museum, File
MD1/11/P1
Place Names of
Aust & Develpm’t
Com Min 866 of
1/12/1969
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
& File MD 1/11/P1
www.aussiethings.
com.au
Cooper
Endacott
File MD1/11/P1
www.ceramicname
paltes.com.au
MD 1/11/P1
Internet
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
www.newcastle.ed
u.au *
CL
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum
Yellambie
Street
Yenabilli
Point Fire
Trail
Yeo Place
Yeramba
Avenue
1894, Renamed Yathong Road in 1908.
Yowie Bay Meaning “stay with us”
Royal
National
Park
Menai
Yeran Street
Caringbah
/ Dolans
Bay
Sylvania
Yirak Lane
Como
York Close
Yorrel Close
Young Street
Yowan Close
Yowie Ave
Yowie Street
(DISC)
Fire trail not public road.
Named after James Yeo a local pioneer
who was former owner of land – adjoins
James Place also named after him.
He was a poultry farmer.
Moved to area 1923
Aboriginal word for ‘sugar ant’
CL
Aboriginal word meaning ‘a girl’
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
CL
www.archives.org
Named GG 66 of 4/7/1958
Aboriginal word meaning ‘elevated /high
up/up’
Works Committee 6/1/1958 report said
means ‘elevated”
Yowie Bay As adjoins Nottingham Pl and Sherwood
Ave likely it is named after Cit y of York
in England
Alfords
Name of type of tree also known as
Point
narrow leaped lupin – in subdivision
Sylvania
Located near where a Mr E Young Deputy
Postmaster General had a house pre 1918
Bangor
Caringbah
Cronulla
Council Min 1169
17/7/1929 (LW)
Aboriginal word meaning ‘beechwood’
So named as street is near / has views of
Yowie Bay. Part of 1922 ‘Yowie
Panorama Estate“ subdivision.
Yowie- aboriginal word meaning ‘place of
echoes’
Or aboriginal word meaning ‘heat’
Alternative theory that is from ‘ Ewey” –
Scottish /N England name for ewes/ lambs
Renamed Surf Road GG 175 –20/10/1916
Yowie aboriginal word meaning ‘place of
echoes’
1930 Sands dir.
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Council file
R/39/11
Sylvania Back
Then –Aspects of
Local History
File MD 1/11/P1
DP
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire
Dharawal
Endacott
CL
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire
Yowie Bay
Road (DISC)
Yuluma
Close
Yungana
Place
Yurreel
Close
Yuruga Ave
Yuyu Street
(DISC)
Zinna Street
(DISC)l
Bangor
Or ‘heat’
Scottish / N England name for ewes/lambs
Attunga Rd shown as Yowie Bay Road in
St George Call newspaper in 1904 (Judd’s
Rd on 1902 map) not an official name.
Yowie - aboriginal word meaning “place
of echoes”
Or ’a call that echoed’
Or ‘heat’
Scottish / North England name for ewes /
lambs – as was field ewes put in for
lambing when T Holt tried sheep farming
Aboriginal word meaning ‘black
kangaroo’
Aboriginal word for ‘cockatoo’
Bangor
Aboriginal word meaning ‘cloud’
Caringbah
Aboriginal word meaning ’extensive
view’
Miranda
Bangor
Jannali
Cronulla
Or ‘heat’
Originally named GG 65 of 30/5/1930.
Name discontinued.
Name of a Victorian Aboriginal language
Exact location of street unknown. Gazettal
description is ‘Road – Holt Sutherland
(Soldiers Road) Estate”. Probably was off
Soldiers Rd Jannali through to Bindea St
in line with end of Mulyan St as street in
that location on 1943 aerial photos.
Renamed Croydon St GG 62 of 29/4/1921
Means ‘rayed flower’ – Latin origin
Dharawal
Endacott
Echoes from the
Bay
www.rmyc-port
hacking.com.au
Illustrated History
of Suth Shire.
Dharawal
Endacott
Endacott & File
MD1/11/P1
Aboriginal Words
and Place Names
Aust Museum &
File MD 1/11/P1
CL Aborig names,
Aust Museum,
Endacott
Dharawal
CL
www.aiatsis.gov.au
Council info
CL
Internet
Sources:
LW = library website Street name listings
CL = Council list of streets whose names have changed prepared by L Burgess from
Government Gazettes and other sources
Council D List = a list prepared by Council of suitable aboriginal words starting with D
for use for naming future streets in Menai
CL Aborig names = a list of aboriginal names prepared approximately 50 years ago by
Council to assist in street naming.
ADB online = Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
BDCA = Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Australians (internet)
BB = The Bundeena Book by Bundeena Book Committee
GG = Government gazettes
Yorkeys Knob = Weird and Wonderful Australian Place Names – Yorkeys Knob by
Pamela Robson (2007)
Aust Museum = NSW Aboriginal Place Names and Euphonious Words, with their
meanings by Frederick D McCarthy of The Australian Museum (1952)
Dharawal = Dharawal – the story of the Dharawal speaking people of Southern Sydney (
2001) by Merv Ryan, Les Bursill, Mary Jacobs, Deborah Lennis, Beryl Timbrey - Bellar
Darug = The Darug and their neighbours – the traditional aboriginal owners of the
Sydney Region ( 1993) by James Kohen
A Short Authentic History of Cronulla by M Hutton Neve & F Midgley
Aboriginal Words and Place Names by AW Reed
Place Names of Australia by AW Reed
Australian Place Names by Brian & Barbara Kennedy (2006)
Sands = Sands Directories (1930) and earlier years
Natures Doorstep - The Bonnet Bay Story by Colin Burgess
DPs = Various Subdivision plans eg 1882 plan DP 802 for Sutherland township.
SH of OB = A Short History of Oyster Bay by Mark Florence
From Sails to Atoms - Fifty Years of Sutherland Shire 1906 - 1956 by David Kirkby
The Story of Port Hacking, Cronulla and Sutherland Shire by Frank Cridland (1950 Ed)
Kurnell Birthplace of Modern Australia – A Pictorial History by Daphne Salt
Facts and Fun about The Presidents by George Sullivan
Sandy Point Secrets – A History of Sandy Point by L Singleman
From Bottle Forest to Heathcote – Sutherland Shire’s first settlement by Patrick Kennedy
Engadine 1825-2001 by Ron Seville
Faces of the Shire
Bygone Days of Sutherland Shire by M Hutton Neve (1970)
200 years in Retrospect - Kurnell –Sutherland 1770-1970 by John Walker (1970)
Sylvania Back Then – Aspects of Local History by Sylvania High School 1984
Sutherland Shire Some Early Residents – celebrating the Sutherland Shire Centenary by
Botany Bay Family History Society Inc
Gateway to the South – First Stop Sylvania by DF Salt
Sutherland Shire Historical Society Bulletins 1964 – 2008
Illustrated History of Sutherland Shire – Birthplace of a Nation by Fred Midgley
Sutherland Shire – A History by Paul Ashton, Jennifer Cornwall & Annette Salt (2006)
Sutherland Shire: A History to 1939 by Maryanne Larkin
Sutherland Estate Report 14/4/1868 by R Walker
Sutherland Shire Heritage Study – historical context report for Sutherland Shire Council
September 1993
A Pictorial History of Cronulla by Pauline Curby (1998)
A Picto rial History of Sutherland Shire by Joan Lawrence (1998)
Gray’s Point Story – manuscript
A Brief History of Sutherland Shire by M Hutton Neve – Sutherland Shire Studies No 1
(1985 edition)
Illawong: A Place in History – a summary of research carried out by Year Six pupils in
1982
Mementos of Oyster Bay by Phyllis Alder (1978)
Who Did What – Illustrated Biographical Dictionary by Mitchell Beazley
Ab Word Bk = Aboriginal Word Book by Justine Kenyon (1982)
Cooper = Australian Aboriginal words and their meanings by HM Cooper / South
Australian Museum (1952)
Endacott = Australian Aboriginal Words and Place Names and Their Meanings by
Sydney J Endacott (1973)
Ingamells = Australian Aboriginal Words by Rex Ingamells (1955)
Tyrrell = Australian Aboriginal Place Names and their meanings by James R Tyrrell
(1953)
Sheppard = The origin of Australia’s Place names – States Cities & Towns by Barrie
Sheppard
Sugden = Aboriginal Words and Their Meaning by Joah H Sugden
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“Reminiscences of Coonabaraban NSW & district” by Mark Jane Cain 1844 – 1926 –
from State Library website
Australian Aboriginal Words in English: their origin & meaning by Dixon, Moore,
Ramson & Thomas (2nd Edition)
The History of Hurstville Council Elections 1887-1995 by Bernard Sargeant
A History of New South Wales by Beverley Kingston (2006)
Australian Navigators by Robert Tiley (2002)
www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au- Hurstville Council website – street name and past alderman
sections.
www.newcastle.edu.au – a scanned copy of book by missionary who lived with
aborigines in Central NSW. “The aboriginal names of rivers in Australia philologically
examined’ by P McPherson”
www.archives.org – scan of book ‘The Emigrants Guide or Ten Years Practical
Experience in Australia’ by Rev David Mackenzie (1845)
www.grandpapencil.net/austral/abword - website for aboriginal words
www.wapedia.mobi/en/ then either Rivers_ of_ New_South_Wales or Rivers_ of_
Australia
www.randwick.nsw.gov.au – Randwick Council website Suburb and Street name
sections
wikisource – Moore = “Diary of 10 years eventful life of an early settler in Western
Australia also a descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the
Aborigines of Western Australia” – by George Fletcher Moore (1884)
Wikipedia
Chronicles of the 20 th Century
Macquarie Book of Events
The Great War by James Mowbray at www.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/mowbray/gwpeople.htm#c
Kirkby Index cards and David Kirkby’s Manuscript for ‘From Sails to Atoms” –
Sutherland Library
Council Road naming and Menai Development Unit files
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader

Sutherland Shire Street Names

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