Has anyone had any luck finding where a child grew up?

[tedscout]

I am trying to find out where 3 children grew up.

People are helping me on other theads - so this is just a general quetion.

The state I'm interested in is Victoria, but what I am looking for is tips and resources people have used to find children in Australia.

I have used the UK census extensively for my UK families but as we don't have this wonderful resource in Australia - what else is there that I can use to find these children?

Cheers Ted

[majm]

OK, so they needed to learn to read and write....  In NSW in around 1870, compulsory secular education was coming to the fore.   Mind you in rural areas, it took a little longer (School rooms needed to be built, on land that needed to be found, and teachers needed to be appointed to remote locations, so a building for them and family needed to be built too).


Ted,  I am NSW centric, so I have no idea how to research VIC records to see if there's info available about schooling in the 19th C, but hopefully there's RChatters who will know.

Perhaps Trove can give some background info as to when a school commenced in a particular district.   None of my lot would have been in Vic long enough to have attended school .... Only one family in Vic and then only for such a short time before going up overland into the Darling Back Blocks ....   I can show where two of my Darling BB families managed to have .... (this long before TV of course, as it is from 1860s-1880s) 31 students out of the 36 students at the one teacher school....   And, at different times, the boys were withdrawn and sent off droving with their Dads... so the teacher had to reduce the school hours to HALF days .... and got paid half pay .... for his effort.

Cheers,  JM

[tedscout]

mj thank you - I still have a connection with the school in the area where their father lived. I will email them and ask about records.

[gazania]

I have very informative school records in both the NSW and Q Archives.  Gazania

[majm]

Agh, and Gazania, that made me pull me thinking cap down harder....

Ted, 

Of course, I should have suggested you have another ramble through RChat's Vic Resources Board 

http://helendoxfordharris.com.au/historical-indexes   there's each of these indexes separately linked on RChat's Vic resources board  ....

Cheers,  JM     

[sparrett]

Ted,
Am I right in saying someone has to raise a child, either parents' or other adults.
Surely if you know who these adults were, their whereabouts can be located and thus the children.

Perhaps you do not know who raised the children.  Is that it?

Sue

[Seaton Smithy]

Schools or school districts sometimes publish histories on particular anniversaries.  There might be something held at SLV.