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C E S S N 0 C K S C H0 0 L

William Knight
Thomas Moore
Michael Carroll

The Local Board have agreed to supply:-

4 cedar desks nine (9) feet long -.
6 forms

blackboard
book press
plus slate, pencils and chalk.

School fees of sixpence per week per child have been set.

The name of the proposed teacher is George Carroll.

I recommend that the same aid support be given to
Cessnock as that given to Ellalong".

The National Board of Education on 15th February 1859, wrote
to Stephenson Moore, Local Cessnock School Board, advising that George
Carroll would be the recognised teacher, provided he fulfilled a training
period at the model school in Sydney. On 11th April 1859, George
Carroll advised the National Board of Education, Sydney, that he declined
the appointment as school teacher at Cessnock. The National Board
then appointed Lawrence Kenny to be the teac~er. At that time Kenny
was attending the model school in Sydney. He was an Iris~man, born
in County Clark, and had a family of nine children.

Lawrence Kenny returned to Cessnock on 24th June 1859.
He obtained different premises from that originally proposed by the
Local Cessnock School Board, in that he leased a building owned by
David Wilson, the Toll-Keeper. He went to Morpeth and transported
desks and forms by cart. Cessnock Scho ol commenced on 1st July 1859.
The 1859 Annual Report of the Departmen~ of ?ublic Instruction lists