Cudgebegong (known as Mebul from 1917) had a public school located beside the road from Mebul to Upper Mebul.
Cudgebegong School, circa 1901
John Callaghan (teacher) and Annie (nee Pearce) at Cudgebegong School in about 1901. Annie is holding Cora, born 1901, and another daughter, Violet, is the small girl hunched in the centre. Their son Sidney is at the front with the hat.
John Callaghan was born in Rylstone in 1867 and died in 1923, buried at Cobbora. Annie was born in Grenfell in 1881 and died in 1962 at Port Macquarie.
Other relatives include:
- Ida Callaghan, born in Cudgebegong in 1905 and passed away in 2005.
- Bertha Callaghan, born in 1920, died in 2011.
NEWS ITEMS
1907 - The Cudgebegong School.Sometime ago the Education Department gave the people of Cudgebegong to understand that the Cudgebegong Public School was to be closed owing to insufficient attendance of scholars. Now news comes to hand that that school is not be closed. We would advise the parents in that locality to send their children regularly to school, otherwise they may cause the Education Department to revert to their former decision.
Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 24 Oct 1907 Page 161915 - TRANSFERRED.
Mr. Hawkins, teacher of Cudgebegong School, has been transferred, and has been succeeded by Mr. McInervey, of Jerry's Plains.
1916 - SCHOOL MATTERS.
The subsidised school at Cudgebegong is in full swing under the teacher Miss Lett. The attendance of children has greatly increased.
