OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Miss Egan a Bittern school teacher 1920 - 1930

DATE1920s

MEDIAimage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P634

HISTORY

Augustus and Annie Haebich migrated from Germany and settled at Stanton Farm, Bittern, early in the 20th century. Augustus was a butcher who travelled the district with horse and cart, selling his meat. Annie ran a boarding house in the large dwelling and Augustus ran the farm, building stables, a blacksmith shop, dairy, meat cooling house, a bacon smoking and curing shed and even a cobbling shed to be self sufficient. Egan was a Hastings family. On the back of the image is handwritten “ Miss Egan a Bittern school teacher 1920s boarded with Haebich” “at “Stanton” Bittern Farm belonging to August & Annie Haebich” “Donated by Merle Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

Image shows the verandah and facade of a house in the middle ground, with tall trees behind. In the foreground is flowering shrubbery with a young lady standing in front, dressed in a summer frock.

SUBJECTS

Farmhouses, Genealogy

KEYWORDS

Egan, Miss, Haebich, Annie, Haebich, Augustus, Haebich, Merle, Stanton Farm, Bittern