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and patronised as well by yourself as by every succeeding commandant and you are to give it every possible support and encouragement, it being highly approved of by the
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requested a charity school be established for the 12 school-age children in the settlement. Reverend Cowper recommended
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Menzies, five expedition personnel, 11 military guards, and 34 convicts, a total of 51 people, arrived on three small ships on 30 March 1804.
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Braggett, E. J. From convict era to modern times: Newcastle East School 1816-1966. (Newcastle: Newcastle East Public School
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By the early 1830s, overcrowding in the vestry led Christ Church School to relocate. The Crown granted the land on the corner of Church and Bolton
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