Skip to main content

Trove Tuesday: Finger Post School Picnic

Running a bit late this week so my Trove Tuesday is more like Trove Thursday!
Today's article involves the Finger Post School picnic held in 1907.  My great grandfather John Joseph Donnelly was the school teacher at Finger Post at the time and is mentioned in the article, along with his wife, my great grandmother Bridget Anastasia Donnelly (nee Lambert).


Source:FINGER POST SCHOOL PICNIC (1907, August 19). Wellington Times (NSW : 1899 - 1954), , p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141594172


Transcript:


FINGER POST SCHOOL PICNIC

(From a Correspondent).

On Saturday last, 17th instant, the School Picnic passed off very successfully.  Games were indulged in throughout the day, besides various races for old and young, no charge being made to enter any race.  Mr. Johnson was the winner of the Old Buffers' race, the prize being 50lb of flour.
The Turk's Head contest was a very interesting game to all present.  A tin was placed on top of a stick, which stood upright in the ground.  The contestants were blindfolded, and the boy hitting closest to the tin won the game.
The Maypole dance was prettily performed by the children, who were nicely dressed.  Mr. Nicholas was on the ground, very busy taking photographs of the different performances by the children.
Great amusement was created by the introduction of the scrambling man, he having a shawl with pockets made in it, full of lollies.  The children chased this man about for the sake of getting the lollies.
Rev. F.J. Dunkley gave out the prizes to the school children, and to the winners of the various races.
It is a great shame the Education Department does not build a school-teacher's residence.  The Farmers and Settlers' Association, or some other organisation, ought to take the matter up and place it before the Department.
There may be a further account of the picnic sent in, because I could not get the entire results of the races, etc. without putting Mr. amd Mrs. Donnelly to a lot of inconvenience.  Mr. Donnelly and his good wife deserve a great deal of praise for the way the children were trained, also for the success of the picnic.  Thanks are due to the parents and friends of the children in adding to the success of the picnic.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Kendall Children.

I started this post a while ago and was going to finally finish and post it yesterday however our four grandchildren came over and I got sidetracked.  Our grandchildren range in age now from six down to one;  they are so full of life (each of them lights up a room when they enter it) and we feel extremely blessed to have them in our lives.  After spending the afternoon researching this post, their arrival made this tragedy even more poignant for me and so I appreciated their company even more than usual and hugged them a bit tighter too!  This morning I woke up to a cold, wet and windy Wagga day and the thought of three little girls out in August weather like this, in light weight dresses with no shoes or jumpers impacted on me even more. Those poor babies! One of the girls was found still clasping her doll that she had carried with her over the whole tragic journey. When my husband and I were looking around the Wagga Wagga Monumental Cemetery some time ago we came a...
9 comments
Read more

My First Fleet Connection - Mary Turner (aka Mary Wilkes/Wilks)

My 5th Great Grandmother Mary Turner (also known as Mary Wilks/Wilkes) is my earliest known and documented Australian relative.  She was tried at Worcester on  5th March 1785 and sentenced to seven years. Mary arrived on the ship Lady Penrhyn   in 1788.   It seems the 5th of March was not an auspicious trial date for Mary in 1785 or later in 1789!   On the 5th  March 1789 she was tried for stealing six cabbages from the garden of William Parr, she was found guilty and sentenced to 50 lashes.  Later in March 1789 she also was in trouble for her testimony in the trial of  Royal Marines accused of stealing from the government stores  (six of them were found guilty and executed) in which it was believed by some that she had perjured herself.  Mary was sent to Norfolk Island in 1790 on board the ship Sirius .  Apparently she stayed on Norfolk Island until 1793 when she returned to Port Jackson on board the ship Kitty .   Her de fact...
6 comments
Read more

Time for a happy dance! Well kind of .....poor Catherine!

Brickwall knocked down at last!  Catherine Rhall was murdered by her partner James Baker Worldon on the 14th February 1855 at Beechworth.  The Trove articles do involve my 4th Great Grandparents James Baker Worldon and Catherine Rhall!  I guess the family tree book will need updating now ;) I looked up the following record from the Public Record of Victoria and bingo the details match my ancestors records.  Catherine Rhall's fate is now known at last, she was murdered by her partner and he was only sentenced to two years imprisonment for it and by the look of it was released early in 1856!  I also found out he used the alias Milbank, which will give me new avenues for future research. Public Record Office of Victoria Series title: Central Register of Male Prisoners Sub-Item title: Worldon, James; (Milbank); (Jas Baker Worldon): No. 2265 Sub-Item number: Page 199 Date range: 1854 Public access: Open Format: Digital Source: Public Record ...
15 comments
Read more