affairs. Schools Stepney has been the home of several schools. Only the Agnes Goode Kindergarten remains, acting as a memorial to past schools and a justice of the peace and former political and social activist. Early records mention schools provided for the German settlers in Stepney, though little is known of them. In 1855 a school in Stepney, run by M A Moody with 34 students was gazetted in the South Australian Government Gazette. In the late 1890s, the King's Grammar School and Somersal House School existed in Stepney. Both no longer exist as schools. St Joseph's Catholic School was located for a time after the Second World War, next to the church, and overlooking Second Creek. Agnes Goode kindergarten is located in Cornish Street. Notable residents Thomas Boutflower Bennett (1808–1894) was a master at Adelaide Educational Institution and St. Peter's College Edgar Rowland Dawes (1902–1973) trade unionist, vice chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and parliamentary member for Sturt in the South Australian Legislative Assembly was born in Stepney. Basil Hadley (1975–2006) artist, was born in the UK and lived most of his life in Stepney. Lawrence Stanley Jackson (1884–1974), taxation commissioner, was born on 2 April 1884 in Stepney. Carl Laubman (1878–1958), optician, inventor, and co-founder of Laubman & Pank, was born 11 May 1878 at Stepney, spending his childhood and youth there, Agnes Robertson Robertson (1882–1968), schoolteacher and politician, was born on 31 July 1882 in Stepney. Adolf John Schulz (1883–1956), educationalist, was born on 6 August 1883 at Stepney. James Simri Sellar (1830–1906), tea merchant and politician lived and traded in Stepney at Vauxhall House which he built. Wally Shiers (Sergeant) of Stepney, South Australia was a mechanic on Ross and Keith Smith's prize winning flight from London on 12 November 1919 in the twin-engined Vickers Vimy bomber G-EAOU. Norman Theodore Stoate (1895–1979), forester, was born on 13 January 1895 at Stepney, Adelaide. References Suburbs of Adelaide