William Henry Teale (1859-1933)

Obituaties
The death occurred early yesterday morning of Mr. W. H. Teale, a retired teacher who for many years was headmaster of the Burwood Superior Public school. Mr. Teale began his service as a pupil teacher at Windsor, in 1875. Among important schools of which he had charge are those at Young, Wagga, Birchgrove, and Burwood. He is survived by Mrs. Teale, five [four] sons (two of whom are High school teachers), and two daughters.

Mr. W. H. Teale, whose remains were cremated at Rookwood, was a great-grandson of John and Susannah Kable, who arrived as free settlers [convicts] with Governor Phillip in 1788, and were married in the open air at Sydney Cove soon after landing. Their daughter, Diana (one of the first children born in the new colony, and to whom the Governor made a grant of land on that account), married John Teale, who was entrusted with the milling of flour near Windsor. The old convict-built stone mill, remains of which still stand, was worked by 48 horses in shifts of 16, and with the aid of 50 convicts. Mr. Teale's father, Henry (son of John Teale), took the first mob of cattle from New England to Adelaide, and was present at the Eureka Stockade.

On his mother's side, Mr. Teale's great grandmother was one of the earliest Hawkesbury settlers. Her old home in Wilberforce, in which Mr. Teale was bom in 1859, was built about 1800 on "refuge" land granted by the Government as a safety retreat to settlers during flood time. Mr. Teale was the first child baptised in the Wilberforce church.

Mr. Teale is survived by Mrs. Teale, four sons, and two daughters, and three grand-children, the latter being the fifth Australian born generation.

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