When the school opened in 1878 there were over 100 pupils attending the school. Before road widening the school was situated on the corner of Mount Duneed and Torquay Roads (south-west corner). The first school in this location was destroyed by fire in 1944. Former head teachers AT Abercrombie (1878-1882) T Job (1882-1889) HP Bechervaise (1889-1891) W Errey (1891-1896) VP Nolan (1897-1900) WG Catron (1900-05) OE Farrer (1905-09) AV Deeble (1910-11) CW Bradhurst (1913-16) TJ Macartney (1916-20) JE Marshall (1920-24) AL Debney (1924-26) F Hope (1926-28) EME Clinton (1927) JT D'Helin (1928) H McGregor (1928-29) As there were so few pupils at Mount Duneed and Freshwater Creek schools Mr McGregor held 2 days at one school and three at the other alternating each week (1929-34) GA Law (1934) GR Mead (1935) MR Kent (1937) HM Collins (1939) The school closed for four years. About this time a local resident remembered frequently borrowing children (transfers and all) from her sister in Melbourne to keep the school opened. MT Simms 1943-44) JE Colleshaw (1944) O Tryhorn and J Eltham (1944-48) JW France (1948-54) H Thornley and GF Bailey (1954) D Darby and GS Stuart (1954-57) AP Anderson (1958-59) DB McKinnon (1959-63) GF Rafferty (1963-66) JH Scarlett (1955-67) MC Thompson (1967-68) L Sealey (1968) JF Edward (968-69) MC Thompson (1l969-72) PF Gaylard (1972-77) JL Wilson (1977-78) An arbour day held once a year, enabled each pupil to plant a pine tree in the school plantation next to the school. In one year in the 1930s only one pupil planted a tree so the plantation was taken over by Grovedale State School. Mount Duneed again controlled the plantation when the number of pupils increased. The school shifted to Williams road in 1992 when Torquay Road was widened. | |
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Charles Wilcox came from England, arriving in Geelong in 1854. He established a business as a monumental mason in the same year. He married Elizabeth Ride in 1856. Their children were: Louisa Caroline — married Henry Williamson 11 April 1878 at her parents home Elizabeth Ann — born 1857 Charles Robert — born 1859 Edward John — born 1860 William Henry — born 1862, died 1937, married Lizzie Armstead Edward Davies — born 1865, died 1943 Charles died on 28 June 1893, aged 65, and was buried at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery. Elizabeth, who died in December 1907 at the age of 83 was buried with him.
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