Databases and Indexes

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

Make sure you look at the two Research Options on their website and most importantly follow the link to the GFHG Research Files Catalogue List to check for these or many more indexes and documents.

• Lovely Banks Primary School No. 1497 - Registers 1913-1953
• Geelong Heritage Centre, Geelong
• GRS 1063 Item 1

• NAME: Name of Student
• COMMENT: School registration number
• REFERENCE: GRS number and ITEM number

• 296 entries

• Date of Birth
• Date of admission to this school
• Parent or Guardian
• Residence
• Distance from school
• Occupation of Parent or Guardian
• School previously attended
• Date of last attendance
• Destination / School next attended

Head Teacher George Clayton opened SS1497 Lovely Banks on 1st of April 1875 in a leased building.  Two years later the Department erected a wooden school to accommodate 60, with four-room living quarters attached, at a cost of £450, on Lower Anakie Road, 6 miles north-west of Geelong.  The longest serving Head Teacher at the school, John Elston, taught from 1941 to 1962.  The original Departmental building was demolished, and a new building opened on the same site in October 1963.