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From: "Bruce Watt" <>
Subject: Re: [AVG] School records CD lookup
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:40:42 +1000
References: <20051001234041.40729.qmail@web33313.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Hi

Can anyone advise if either fiche or cd includes both Newnmerella or Orbost
schools in the period say 1910 thru 1925.

Thanks

Regards

Bruce Watt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vee" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [AVG] School records CD lookup


> Hi Linda
> I checked the microfiche for the East Gippsland Schools and the only Eva
> Smith I could find was:
> Eva.F.Smith b.17 Apr 1926 - attended Briagalong School 12 Oct 1931.
> There are listings of students at Stratford but as the microfiche states,
> not all records are complete
> Hope this helps
> Vee
>
> Linda Barraclough <> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am wondering if there is anyone out there with the school records CD
> issued by the East Gippsland Family History group who can do a quick
> lookup
> for me???
>
> I am looking for Eva Mavis SMITH, who thinks she went to school at
> Stratford in the 1920s while her father was working for the State Rivers
> and Water Supply Commission while making "irrigation drains". She
> remembers
> living in a tent town.
>
> I rather suspect she was more likely to have been at Heyfield or
> Glenmaggie
> (the weir was started in 1919, high water in 1926). I'm not totally sure
> where the workers who made the channels lived, but I would have thought
> Heyfield area, where the later camp was - when they raised the level of
> the
> weir wall in 1956, and extra channels were made.
>
> So, in summary:
>
> Is Eva Mavis SMITH on the CD?
>
> Does the CD include the Stratford Primary School???? I think from memory
> it
> doesn't include Heyfield (and definitely not the Glenmaggie Dam school),
> but I would appreciate confirmation, so I know where to suggest the
> enquirer goes next.
>
> (And anyone who can throw further light on this would be appreciated - her
> father was Thomas Victor SMITH)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Linda
>
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