Hi Deidre, Just expanding on Grahame's helpful reply and another local suggestion ..... To find out the schools operating in the area at the time, and then work out if they're still operating, you should consult ...... "Vision & Realisation" - 3 volumes published by the Education Department in 1973. You should find copies in most good reference libraries and certainly in your nearest school. Copies were issued to all schools. School Registers should be available at the school - if it still exists, otherwise from the above reference books you should be able to work out what school the children then moved to if the school close - in theory the registers were then taken over by the school that took over responsibility for closed school. Alternatively they went to the school where the local / regional head was, or to the Education Department, and some ended up at the PRO (you can check their on-line catalogue for the school). Some others ended up in all sorts of places - sometimes originals, sometimes photocopies. For example the Bellarine Historical Society had a special project to obtain copies of all school registers they could lay their hands on and also to index them. We actually ended up recoving some original registers from the bonfire when the school was closed! Another very useful place to search would be in the Geelong Heritage Centre which has copies of many school registers. I've now removed the Geelong Record Series list from my web site as it is hoped that the Centre will keep their own on-line list up-to-date. You can download the Geelong Record Series and search for school registers on that - it's a .pdf (Acrobat) file and can be found and there's a link from my web site for the Geelong Heritage Centre at ........ http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/ghrc.html Also the Geelong Heritage Centre and the Geelong Family History Group have lots of School Histories that have been published in the region - you may find the relevant school there, but you need to be able to work out what school your ancestor might have attended based on where they lived etc. Hope that helps ............ Susie Z > > Hi Listers > > I'm trying to find my Grandfather's & Grandmothers schools does anyone out > > there have a list of schools and names from 1885 to 1905 are there also > > student names for these schools / they lived in john place & later in little > > mallop street if there is any school info available would sks pleeeese > > contact me/ I would be very grateful for any reply to my query > > Cheers > > Deirdre