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.

• St Leonards Primary School No. 866 - Registers 1906-1965
• Bellarine Historical Society, Drysdale: St Leonards School Register
  OR
• Geelong Heritage Centre, Geelong
• GRS 776 Item 1

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

• 443 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

First proposed by Robert Smiley in 1865, St Leonards officially opened on 12th of October 1874 as a single-room, weatherboard building, 30 ft x 18 ft, situated on a ½ acre site of Allotment 1 of Block XII situated on the Queenscliff Road, township of St Leonards, Parish of Paywit in the County of Grant, donated by the Hon. George W Cole, MP.  Head Teacher George Stephenson first enrolled 19 children representing Grades 1-8 on 9th of October 1865 in temporary accommodation on private property.  This school was struck off the rolls of the Board of Education on 27th of September 1867 through the inability of the local Committee to raise sufficient money to erect a suitable building, but it carried on as a private school.  In 1874 Head Teacher William R Sheppard opened the new State School with an average attendance of 23 pupils.