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Tranby College
A College of the Uniting Church in Australia, 90 Arpenteur Drive, Baldivis WA
From the college website:
In the early 1990s the Rockingham Congregation of the Uniting Church started to think about possibility of establishing a low fee Uniting Church school in the southern suburbs along the lines of St Stephens in Duncraig.
Mr Doug Burtenshaw was the Foundation Principal and Mrs Lillian Hadley was the first Chair of Council.
Building began in July 1996 with stage one being completed on 29th January 1997, one day before classes started on 30th January. The school opened with 221 students, from Kindergarten to Year 8, and 24 staff and in September the Childcare Centre started to operate.
The College was named after the brig Tranby which arrived in the Swan River Colony 3 February 1830, bringing a group of Methodist settlers to the fledgling community.
The Tranby left Hull in England 9th September 1829 with 37 passengers, fourteen crew and a farmyard of stock. She had been chartered by a group of farmers from Yorkshire, foremost amongst them Barnard Clarkson and the three Hardey brothers, John, Joseph and William. After an eventful voyage of five months they arrived at the mouth of the Swan River and the first Methodist Church service in the state was held on the sand soon afterwards.
Some months later the Hardeys were granted "Peninsula Farm" in Maylands, and the Clarksons moved to the Avon River in the area that became known as York because it reminded them so much of their home in England.
Both families went on to play significant roles in the establishment of the Methodist Church in the colony and the eventual construction of Wesley Methodist Church in the centre of the city. Accordingly, when the foundation Council of the College was establishing this new Uniting Church school set in what was then rural Baldivis, they did not hesitate to select Tranby as an appropriate name.
Doug Burtenshaw was probably the son of the Rev. Burtenshaw who the minister of the Maylands Presbyterian Church c. 1950-60, when I attended the Sunday School.
References and Links
See also: page for the brig Tranby.
Hardey family page.
Wikipedia page for Tranby House.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 17 December, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/tranby.html (it was last updated on 7 December, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.