Endnotes
1. 'John Ramsden Wollaston (1791-1856)', Australian dictionary of biography online; DH Wollaston, From now to Domesday with the Wollastons, McAlister & Co, South Australia, 1975, p. 93.
2. ibid., p. 109; The honorary magistrate (the official organ of the Justices Association), no. 24, July 1910, pp. 307-8; Victorian Index to Births, Deaths & Marriages (BDM), Registration no. 9080.
3. PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 13718/P4 Teacher Record Books (microfilm copy), Unit 3, Record 5537.
4. Testimonial, in PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 892/P0 Special Case Files, Unit 84, Special Case 894. The correspondence in Wollaston's Case File has been drawn on extensively in this article (cited hereafter as Special Case File 894).
5. Wollaston to Department, PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 640/P0 Central Inward Primary Schools Correspondence, Unit 523, Alexandra State School 912, 18 November 1878.
6. Mary's date of birth is noted as 1841 in her Teacher Record, 1844 on her Death Certificate and 1843 on the birth certificate of her daughter Mary Beatrice: BDM Registration no. 187.
7. PROV, VPRS 13718/P4, Unit 1, Record 35.
8. ibid.
9. Wollaston to Department, PROV, VPRS 640/P0, Unit 523, Alexandra State School 912, 2 and 21 December 1877, 12 October 1878.
10. PROV, VPRS 13718/P4, Records 35 and 5537.
11. Copy in Special Case File 894.
12. JT McGowan to Minister, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 33, Alexandra State School 912, 9 December 1878.
13. ibid., 11 July 1879.
14. ibid., 2 September 1879.
15. Wollaston, 'A Case for the Minister', PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 57, Ballarat State School 2022, undated.
16. Wollaston, 'Case for the Minister', op. cit.
17. BDM Registration nos. 9080 and 38603; GG Wollaston, 'Diaries of George Gledstanes Wollaston' (handwritten), State Library of South Australia, Archival Database, PRG 1131/1/2, 8 March 1897.
18. Wollaston to Department, PROV, VPRS 640/P0, Unit 694, Campbelltown State School 1129, 14 March, 25 March, 8 April and 18 April 1884.
19. CR Long, 'History of Alexandra', Part 1, The Victorian historical magazine, vol. XVII, 1939, p. 176.
20. Special Case File 894.
21. GG Wollaston, 'My trip to Melbourne Exhibition 1880', in 'Diaries', op. cit., PRG 1131/1/1, 6 December 1880.
22. Wollaston to JN Pritchard, Correspondent, Board of Advice, 30 April 1884, and Department to Wollaston and to Pritchard, 3 May 1884: PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 796/P0 Outwards Letter Books, Primary Schools, Unit 177, Campbelltown State School 1129.
23. ibid., Wollaston to Department, 7 May 1884.
24. ibid., Department to Wollaston, 16 May 1884. See also the Departmental précis of the Wollaston Case in ibid.
25. Wollaston, 'Bible reading in state schools', Ballarat Courier, 14 May 1890, clipping in Special Case File 894.
26. Wollaston to Minister, 12 March 1892 in Special Case File 894.
27. G Wilson Brown, Departmental Secretary to J Campbell, VPRS 796/P0, Unit 177, Campbelltown State School 1129, 20 May 1884.
28. Letter from Wollaston to CN Pearson, Minister of Public Instruction, ibid., in a letter written five years later, 28 September 1889.
29. Secretary's Minutes, ibid., 13 September 1884.
30. Department to Wollaston, ibid., 16 September 1884.
31. Wollaston to Department, ibid., 18 September 1884 (author's italics).
32. Petition to the Minister, Special Case File 894, 18 September 1884.
33. Department to Petitioners, PROV, VPRS 796/P0, Unit 177, Campbelltown State School 1129, 26 September 1884.
34. Correspondence between SJ King and Minister Gillies, ibid., October 1884.
35. Quoted in Wollaston to the Minister of Public Instruction, Special Case File 894, 12 March 1892.
36. D Gaunson to Wollaston, ibid., 24 August 1901.
37. Quoted in Wollaston to the Minister of Public Instruction, ibid., 12 March 1892.
38. Gillies to Cabinet, quoted in Wollaston to A Peacock, ibid., 11 June 1926.
39. See note 34 above.
40. Wollaston to CH Pearson, PROV, VPRS 796/P0, Unit 177, Campbelltown State School 1129, 28 September 1889.
41. Pearson to Wollaston, ibid., 5 October 1889.
42. Correspondence between Wollaston and the various ministers discussed in this paragraph can be found in Special Case File 894.
43. A Peacock ('Special Correspondent'), 'Religious liberty', Daily telegraph, October 1884.
44. BDM Registration no. 187.
45. Wollaston to Department, PROV, VPRS 892/P0, Unit 84, Special Case 1097, 22 August 1905.
46. Jackson's Report, ibid., 13 July 1905.
47. EG Wollaston, Ulipa: a South Australian story, EE Campbell, Ballarat, 1896. See also Vincent Bostock: a Victorian tale, Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne, 1890; On the down grade: a tale of Victorian life in the '90's, EE Campbell, Ballarat, 1901; Thomas Carlyle: his life and works: no. 1 of a series of short biographical sketches, G Robertson, Melbourne, 1891.
48. GG Wollaston, 'Diaries', op. cit., PRG 1131/1/4 1916.
49. Long, 'History of Alexandra', p. 176.
50. ibid.