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From: "Susie Zada" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Geelong place name
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:56:28 +1000
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Hi Caroline,

There's no way that you find anything on Tuckfield in the normal school
files - there was no such thing as an education department in 1845!

There is a possibility that you might find something in the denominational
school files - this is how many of the schools were formed - a church school
applied and came under the banner of the Education Department in the 1870s.
It's also more common for a lot of schools to not begin their traditional
registers until the early 1900s although some had them functioning in the
late 1800s. You won't find too many school registers at the PRO - either
still at the school (if it exists) or at the school where the students were
transferred to after the closure of their own school, or with the Education
Department.

There may be some letters from denominational schools at the BEGINNING of
the State School correspondence file that replaced it, or in the
Denominational Schools files.

There are a couple of letters / petitions on behalf of the residents of
Tuckfield for a school in the area - this was before the town became known
as Bellarine and then Drysdale.

It was quite normal for their to be private schools or church run schools in
the early years - you'll often find more in local newspapers!

Have you checked the Bellarine Name Indexes and the Geelong & District Book
Index?

Links to both at ...

http://www.zades.com.au/

The Bellarine Historical Society would be most interested in getting copies
of any letters / family documents that mention Tuckfield.

Regards .......... Susie Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nunya" <>
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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Geelong place name


> not a lot, the date may have been later, Frederick Allen married Majory
> Luke in 1845 Geelong, their son Frederick went to that school. This is
from
> pictures and letters my G grandmother had which may or may not be right.
> Her father (Frederick) died when she was one week old, her mother died a
> year later. She was then raised by the Seeley's of Geelong. And was
given
> information regarding her parents when she was older. I was beginning to
> think Tuckfield did not exist. Did check school records at Laverton
nothing
> on tuckfield, may not have been a registered school, and run out of a
> church?


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