Sydney Dodds (1855 - 1936)

Born 17 May 1855 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Euphemia (Dawes) Dodds — married 26 Jan 1882 in Wickham New South Wales Australia

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1936 at age 81 in Morisset, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Sydney was born in 1855 at Corio Street Geelong Victoria. Sydney passed away in 1936 at the Morisset hospital NSW and was buried at Morisset cemetery although no grave or headstone has been located he was the son of John Dodds and Mary Hughes. He married twice, the first to Anne Euphemia DAWES and after her death he married Marie Boechenstein who had been his house keeper. Sydney had been a school teacher his first school at Martins Creek he set up himself and students paid to attend, after his failed attempt at farming. After the government opened a public school he was offered a teaching position at Dora Creek. He was the first teacher at Whittingham near Singleton before the school was built, he had a room at David Faulkiner's and probably lived there as well, the Dawes family lived on a nearby farm.

Sources

• http://bdm.vic.familyhistory.gov.au/search/result

1. BIRTH: DODDS Sydney, Birth, Mary HUGHES, Jno, GEELONG, 1855, 4785/1855

• https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result

1. DEATH: DODDS SYDNEY 24252/1936 JOHN MARY WYONG
2. MARRIAGE: 5866/1882 DODDS SYDNEY DAWES ANN U NEWCASTLE
3. MARRIAGE: 5428/1897 DODDS SYDNEY BOCKENSTEIN MARIE GOULBURN

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• http://records.nsw.gov.au/

1. TEACHING RECORD OF SYDNEY DODDS AGED 23 YEARS MARRIED

Appointed teacher Deep Creek Provisional School 1 Dec 1878 Appointed teacher Deep Creek Public School 1 Oct 1879 Awarded Certificate IIIB 1 Feb 1880 Promoted from IIIB to IIIA [exam] 1 Apr 1881 Removed from Deep Creek to Stewartfield Public 6 Apr 1881 Removed from Stewartfield to Whittingham Public 8 Aug 1881 Promoted from IIIA to Class IIB [exam] 1 Apr 1888 Removed from Whittingham to Sugarloaf Public 2 Nov 1882 Name Sugarloaf changed to Mulbring Public Promoted from Class IIB to IIA [exam] 1 Apr 1888 Urged to raise the efficiency of the school 28 Jan 1889 Severely reprimanded for unsatisfactory condition of 1 May 1889 school and objectionable tone of his letter. Warned school will again be inspected before the end of the current year and if not found in a satisfactory condition his classification will be reduced, and he will removed to a smaller school. Instructed to act as Teacher of Catherine Hill Bay 22 Dec 1893 Instructed to act as teacher at Crookwell public 1 Jan 1897 Retired account of deafness recommended 12 Mar 1898 Retired 30 Apr 1898 approved by Governing council 20 years of teaching aged 43 years

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