Caroline Barker had a long career in teaching and educational leadership at All Saints’ Church of England School in Bendigo on the Victorian goldfields. Her legacy lives on through her many descendants and hundreds of families whose forebears were educated by her. Born Caroline Weeks one hundred and ninety years ago, in Chew Magna, Somerset, England, she was baptised in the neighbouring Stanton Drew on 22 August 1830, where her father William Weeks had also been baptised. Tragically, she and her half-sister, Maria, were orphaned in 1844. After teacher training and practice in England, Caroline emigrated to Australia in 1854 with her husband William Barker, their two children, her mother-in-law, and a niece on the Red Jacket.
Walkers through time 