BLOWERING WEST 112 prov 5.1890-10.95.

2.1901-12.03;ps 1.1904-5.25; prov 1.1928-5.28,

4.1930-10.32

Ref:- NSW Department of Education 1848 to 1993.

A committee was formed on the 17/1/1898 to remove the West Blowering School to a new site. Signatures included Edward H Lindbeck. Edward was one of the parents who helped move the school to the new site and undertook to pay a rental of 1/- per half year for the school room. The school was re-opened on the 30/1/1901. Enrollments included the Lindbeck children Maud 10, Arthur 12, Frederick 9, and Sara 7. They lived 3 miles up stream from the school.

Ref - Descendants of "Selina Maria Quarmby" book. Written by Mr & Mrs ?

Does anybody know the exact date of this large function? Maybe the Johnson send off?

Where did these students go ?

Bertha Hartshorn = Married Charles F Saalfield in 1920 in Hamilton. NSW.

Ivy Bowden died in 1914 in Tumut, NSW

Florence Kate Brannock,= Never married, she died young in Sydney on the 28.11.1912 and is buried in Waveley Cemetery with her sister Mary Kathleen.Note- see both sisters in the back row. Funny thing some 50 years later her daughter Jean brought the property that the school had been on.

Sarah Lindbeck = Married Mr William T Avery in Adelong, NSW in 1920.

Kate McKey

Mary Kathleen Brannock = Married Sidney John Liddell on the 6.8.1915 in Sydney. She died 14.4.1948 in Sydney and is buried with Florence in Waveley Cemetery.

Edna Lindbeck = Married Mr Charles H Buckley in 1928 in Adelong. NSW

Veronica McInnes

Charlotte C Hartshorn - married 11749/1912 Mr Robert D S USHER in WAVERLEY

Ada Bridle married Mr Alfred S LEWIS in 1910 in Tumut, NSW.

Ruby Guy - In 1914 she married Mr Leslie C H BALL in TUMUT - (Ref- NSW BDM 11172/1914).

Phoebe Morris

Maude Lindbeck

Gladys Guy = Married Mr Percy G Plant in 1913 in Tumut. NSW.

May Bowden - married Mr George Tozer in 1912 in Tumut, NSW.

George Hartshorn

Francis "Frank" McKey , = Drowned in 1909 at West Blowering Tumut, NSW.

Donald McInnes

Jimmy Hartshorn

Fred Lindbeck

Edward (Ted) Higgins, married Miss Amelia Lawson of Adelong and lived on his parents farm on the south side of the school property.

Jim Higgins

Walter Bowden

Jack Ryan = Called up in WW1 and was awarded a VC. - Private Edward John Francis Ryan VC - Place of birth: Tumut, NSW - Date of death: 3 June 1941 - Place of death: Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC - John Ryan, born at Tumut, New South Wales, was a labourer on enlistment in December 1915. He embarked the following April, joining the 55th Battalion in France in September.

During the battalion's attack on the Hindenburg defences near Bellicourt, on 30 September 1918, Ryan went forward under heavy fire and was one of the first to reach an enemy trench. A German counter-attack drove the Australians back, placing them in a critical position. Ryan organised and led an attack on the Germans with bombs and bayonets. His small party killed three Germans, then he single-handedly rushed the remainder and drove them back. He was badly wounded in the shoulder, but his action enabled the trench to be retaken.

After the war Ryan struggled to find employment, particularly during the Depression years. From 1935 he worked for some time with an insurance company, but his health deteriorated and he died of pneumonia in 1941.

Jack Lincoln

William Morris , "Billy"

Teacher Mr Billy Peak