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The following death notice appeared in both The Advertiser and The Register on 17th May 1921:
PAYNE - On the 16th May, at his son's residence, Opie avenue, Hyde Park, Randolph G. S. Payne, of Glen Osmond road, Frewville, late head master (50 years) of Public Schools, in his eightieth year.
The following obituary, handwritten by my mother, appears to be have been copied from a newspaper article (possibly The Register, 20 May 1921):
Mr Randolph George Stewart Payne
The death of Mr R.G.S. Payne in his 80th year occurred at his son's residence, Opie Avenue, Hyde Park, on Monday morning.
For more than 50 years he taught young people in schools in South Australia and he was well known, particularly in the country districts.
Born near Leicester on January 21st 1842, Mr Payne was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Pontefract Commercial College with the idea of becoming a chemist. His father was a manufacturing chemist. However in 1857 he came to South Australia. He had letters of introduction from his parent to commercial acquaintances who included leading chemists in Adelaide. On the night of his arrival he met Mr John Howard Angas who had come from Angaston to look for a bookkeeper for his father (the late Mr George Fife Angas [1789 - 1879, merchant, banker, landowner, philanthropist]). Mr Payne accepted the position and remained for several years.
In Adelaide, later, he met Mr John L Young, "a pioneer educationalist" and joined his Adelaide Academy. After 5 years Mr Payne's health broke down and he then went as a private tutor in the mid north. There he opened a school but ill health again compelled him to relinquish his duties. He moved back to Angaston where he opened a private school.
Then at the request of Mr [John Anderson] Hartley (Education Department [1844 - 1896, educationalist, first Inspector-General of Schools]) Mr Payne joined that Department and was appointed to Golden Grove (about 1874). In 1878 he opened a new school at Crystal Brook - his next transfer was to North Adelaide under Mr Gill - then he was sent to Clarendon and in 1880 he opened a new school at Snowtown. Nine years followed at Campbelltown then at Kangarilla and later he spent 13 years at Wilmington. From there he retired in 1912 [70 years] to live at Glen Osmond Road, Frewville.
Mr Payne took a keen interest in sport. At Snowtown he was secretary of the Agriculture Association while at Wilmington he was President of the Institute, Hon Secretary of the Agriculture and Horticulture Societies, Chairman of the Agriculture Bureau, a trustee of the Oddfellows Lodge, a member of the Vigilance Committee, Secretary and Captain of the Rifle Club and President of the Frome Teachers Association. He was a lay reader in the Church of England and was a member of the Flinders Lodge of Freemasons and member of the Parkside Bowling Club.
Wherever he went Mr Payne was well liked and he was highly esteemed among a wide circle of friends. He has left a widow and four sons and two daughters Mr O.P.L. Payne (Frewville), H.E.H. Payne (Hyde Park), R.C. Payne (Torrensville), A.R. Payne (Evandale), Mrs A. Dabovich (Pt Lincoln) and Miss E.C. Payne (Frewville).
RGS Payne's Teaching Record - from Brian Condon's Database (qv)
Teacher ID - 8014
1867 - 30 Jun 1870 - Salter's Springs
1872 - 1876 - Golden Grove (Head Teacher)
1877 - Crystal Brook (HT)
1878 - North Adelaide
1878 - Training College (Feb to Mar)
1878 - 1881 - Clarendon (HT)
Aug 1881 - 1885 - Snowtown (HT)
1887 - 1893 - Campbelltown (HT)
1894 - 1898 - Kangarilla (HT)
1899 - 1911 - Wilmington (HT)
Leave Without Pay 16 May - 14 Oct 1911
October 1911 - Burnside
November 1911 - Kangarilla
1912 - Wilmington
Date of Retirement - 29 Jun 1912
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At the age of 63 (7 October 1903), Lucy LEATHART, nee PAYNE, married widower James FRY (71 years, father Abraham Fry) at the residence of Mrs E Priest at Mintaro, near Clare, South Australia. It appears that he was a schoolmaster at the Mintaro school from 1872 to 1902. James FRY (b 17 March 1832 according to his teaching record) died at Mintaro on 10 August 1909 (77 years). Lucy FRY (formerly LEATHART nee PAYNE) died on 13th February 1929, aged 88, and is buried at Walkerville Cemetery.
