Name: c3585 -- My Family Tree

Updated: 09-05-2019 03:09:74. Owner: charles whiteford


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Thomas Arnold BURNETT: Birth: 10 DEC 1894 in Adelaide SA. Death: 27 FEB 1917 in France Europe

  2. Lily Jane BURNETT: Birth: 4 FEB 1898 in Broken Hill NSW. Death: 28 DEC 1906 in Perth WA

  3. Vera Martha BURNETT: Birth: 2 APR 1901 in Broken Hill NSW. Death: 8 APR 1995 in Adelaide SA

  4. Harry Walton BURNETT: Birth: 8 MAY 1905 in Woodlupine WA. Death: 2 SEP 1975 in Perth WA

  5. Evelyn Lillian BURNETT: Birth: 6 NOV 1907 in Leederville WA. Death: 10 AUG 1987 in Perth WA

  6. Ellen Rose BURNETT: Birth: 7 JAN 1913 in Leederville WA. Death: 7 AUG 1991 in Perth WA


Sources
1. Source:   Redruth, Registered Oct 21st 1874, in information transcribed by Maureen Liddy
2. Source:   Methodist Manse Morphett St Adelaide

Notes
a. Note:   Notes of Charles Whiteford:- In 1878 the Burra Model School was opened. The school was built to accommodate 800 children but, in reality it never saw more than 400 in attendance. School was compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 13 but, they were requir- ed to attend school for only 35 days per quarter, this being the equivalent of three days per week. The fees ranged from 4d. to 9d. per week per child - no small amount when the average wage was less than two pounds per week and there were many children in each family. It was common for the poorer families to have their children take turns to attend school. Fees were aboished in 1879.
  There are records which show that some of our family attended this school. [of particular interest to our immediate family, Ellen Emma Walton attented only until about 8 or 9 years of age when she was forced to stay at home to take care of her younger siblings while her mother went out to work. So hence her schooling was very elementary. Although she ould read reasonably well her, writing & word usage was very poor). Emma Ellen put her age up to 21 years as, at her true age of 19 she would have had to obtain her fathers permission to marry and as he was missing, that wasn't forthcoming.

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