Historical information

Braybrook Junction State School was the original name for what later became Sunshine State School and then Sunshine Primary School (School No. 3113), one of the earliest formal educational institutions in the district.

The school opened in 1891 on the corner of Hampshire Road and Morris Street, but enrolments grew so quickly that the building became inadequate within months. The first head teacher was Mr Thomas Flynn.

Later in 1891, the school was relocated to the Braybrook Public Hall, at the north‑east corner of Hampshire Road & Benjamin Street.

In 1892, the Education Department selected a rented site in Derby Road and the school moved there on 30th September 1892. The buildings consisted of two portable classrooms joined by a porch—a common solution for fast‑growing industrial suburbs.

Significance

This list details the names of children of many of the early settlers of Braybrook Junction.

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Adam, Mary 
Adam, Thomas 
Allen, Hugh 
Batchelor, Jessie 
Batchelor, John 
Batchelor, Margaret 
Beck, John 
Beck, Leonard 
Bostock, Kate 
Brown, Elise 
Byrne, Elizabeth 
Byrne, Margaret 
Byrne, Mary 
Catherall, Alice 
Catherall, Lily 
Chivers, Amy 
Chivers, Emily 
Davey, Albert 
Davey, John 
Davey, Mary 
Davey, William 
Dickson, Herbert 
Dickson, Matilda 
Ellis, ? 
Ellis, ? 
Ellis, ? 
Ellis, ? 
Flynn, John 
Flynn, Rosetta
Flynn, Thomas Eugene (Head Teacher)
Gamble, Ethel 
Gamble, Herbert 
Gamble, Lily 
Girling, George 
Graf, Ruby 
Grant, Grace 
Grant, William 
Hamilton, Ronald 
Hamilton, Thomas 
Hardwick, Gerald 
Hardwick, Guy 
Heinrichs, Albert 
Heinrichs, Archie 
Ingle, Mary 
Jones, David 
Jones, Louisa 
Jones, Victor 
Laing, Alice 
Laing, William 
Lancashire, Edith 
Lancashire, John 
Lancashire, Lavinia 
Lohse, Ellen 
Lovelock, Ellen 
McKeirney, Bella 
Montell, Ernest 
O'Shannassy, Mary 
Patterson, Edward 
Patterson, William 
Paul, Bella 
Porter, Frederick 
Porter, Leonard 
Price, Kate 
Price, William 
Reade, Alfred 
Reade, Florence 
Readle, Wesley 
Richardson, Alex 
Richardson, George 
Richardson, Lily 
Richardson, Violet 
Rose, James 
Scott, Aiston 
Scott, Walter 
Shorten, Elizabeth 
Shorten, James 
Shorten, Jeremiah 
Shorten, Mary 
Standish, Margaret 
Torr, William 
Ungle, Frederick 
Weinsberg, Samuel 
Weinsberg, William