Sydney TRAUTWEIN 1886 - 1963  Sydney was born in on 26 Nov 1886 at Marsden Street, Parramatta. His parents were Theodore TRAUTWEIN, an orchardist, born in Germany and Annie McCARTER, born Londonderry, Ireland. Theodore and Annie met and married in 1864 at Camperdown in Victoria. Five children were born there the family left Victoria about 1877 and travelled overland by horse/bullock and dray to Sydney. Augusta was born in Hay NSW in 1878 and baby John was born and died in Cobar NSW 16 Aug 1881. Theodore's occupation at that time was sawyer. Hilda was born in 1883 in St Leonards and when Sydney was born at Marsden Street, Parramatta on 26 November 1885, Theodore was 48 years old and Annie was 38. Sydney was the last of nine children.   The family lived on an orchard named Persimmon Grove Grange Farm at Riverstone and when Sydney's father died in 1902 and he then moved to Great Buckingham St, Redfern with his mother. On the 1903 Electoral Roll Sydney's brother, William lived at 16 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern, with his mother, Annie. William's occupation was railway porter. Annie, William and Sydney are listed at the same address in the 1904 NSW Post Office Directory. Syd trained as a primary school teacher in Sydney and met 16 year old Ethel Ramage while teaching at a small country school at Conifer, Tingha, near Inverell. They married on 16 Apr 1914 at Redfern, Sydney. Their son Theo was born in 1915 in Sydney and daughter Hilda in 1921 in Tingha. Syd always dressed well and in a photo of Conifer School, taken in 1925 he is wearing a dark jacket, white trousers and shoes and a bow tie.   His Teacher Record Card from State Records lists Syd’s teaching record: 1908    Watermark                  Salary 138 pounds 1909    Carara and Wandoba  Salary 138 pounds 1911    Conifer                        Salary 192 pounds 1929    Kanwal                         Salary 358 pounds 1933    Jilliby                          Last day of Service 31st Dec 1949 Sydney taught at Kanwal School, Central Coast from 17 Jan 1929 until the end of 1932. During this time he wrote lots of letters to the Department of Education requesting repairs to the toilet block and trees to be planted for shade.  He was teacher in charge at Jilliby School from 1933 until he retired in 1949. Ethel taught the girls sewing and the boys handicrafts. While he was at the school the buildings and grounds were well looked after. Garden beds of petunias, with ivy, bouganvilleas and geraniums covering the walls made a magnificent show. Sydney was presented with a gold watch inscribed "Presented to S. Trautwein as a mark of esteem from the residents of Jilliby 14.12.49." Syd and Ethel’s son Theo was tragically killed in motor vehicle accident at Emu Plains, west of Sydney, on 24 May 1947. Theo’s wife and daughter were also involved but survived. After his retirement Syd often worked for his brother, TC at Bellfields Hotel in Sydney and tutored local children in maths and English. After Ethel died he lived with his daughter, Hilda and her husband, Werner HEILBRUNN at MacPhersons Road, Mardi, near Wyong. Syd loved chocolate and his grandson Dennis remembers getting very ill from chocolate eggs brought home one Easter. He drove a Morris Minor and Dennis would have to find the car after a night out with his friends at the bottom pub, The Royal.   While visiting family in Sydney Syd fell ill on the 21 Nov 1963 in Awatea Private Hotel in Sydney, the and died from myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease. An inquest was dispensed with and Syd was buried on the 25 Nov 1963 at Botany Cemetery, in Lot 686, Section 5, with his wife, Ethel, and son Theodore Charles Livingstone. The informant was Lee VAUX, his former daughter in law of 5/120 O'Donnell Street, North Bondi. Sydney’s usual residence was McPhersons Road, Wyong.  Newspaper cutting found in daughter Hilda's diary:  In Memoriam TRAUTWEIN, Sydney. Treasured memories of a wonderful person, our father and grandfather, called away 21.11.63. His memory is a keepsake, From which we will never part; God has him in his keeping, We have him in our hearts.Hilda, Werner, Dennis and Neil