Forum: Schools

Hi All Can anybody help me please,my wife looks after a 95 year old lady whos very frail but remembers her School she went to it was once called Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum during the 1st world War,but then after was called the Royal Patriotic School for Girls.She has a great memory of her...

Boston House School for Girls existed in Eastbourne from about 1890 to 1939. It transferred from London, where it claimed to have been the model for Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Vanity Fair. The school building is now part of Moira House School in Eastbourne. Does anyone have information about...

Does anyone know if or where there is any information available about this school. I believe it was in Lambeth by the docks somewhere, but the site has since been re-developed. Many Thanks, Aland.

Dear British Genealogy Catherine Poetl was the matron at a boarding school found at 2 Market Mews, Chelsea. Please could you tell me the name of the school and the type of school it was, the types of lessons that were focused on. Thank you. Our ancestor Louisa Thrasher attended the school in...

Essex Record Office has announced that they have decided to withdraw post 1911 Schools Records from public access as a result of a decision by the Information Commissioner because it was found that some of the records contained sensitive information. All I have ever found in Admission records was...

Hi I am back again looking for William Henry Edwards he was born in Feb 1871 and is not on that years census as far as I can tell. The 1881 census shows a William Edwards aged 11 at the Brighton Industrial School which is in the area his mother and stepfather lived, they are on the 1881 census but...

I am looking for any information or records relating to a Private Boarding School in Milton Village (Milton Combe) Buckland Monachorum Parish, Devon. The shcool appears in the 1871, 1881, 1891 census, the principal listed is Susan Arnold. I am trying to establish if my great grandfather...

Does anyone know if there are records for the Greenwich Royal Hospital School on the web. I have found WH Lassetter in the 1880 census. I would like to know his full name and who enrolled him in this institution. As I live in S Africa I cant go to the National Archives where I believe they are...

One of my less afluent forebears had the misfortune to be an Inmate at this place in 1891 census. He was 13 years old at the time. He was one of 10 children. His mother had died in 1889, leaving her husband with Henry age 11 and his sister age 15. Another child working as a domestic servant had...

The full title of the above school is "St Monica's Home Industrial School for Girls, 28 & 29 The Waldrons, Croydon" but there are not enough characters in the header to let me quote it in full. I am assisting an elderly family friend to trace her 5 siblings all of whom were adopted, some within...

I would like to get in touch with any one who was at the Swanley, or descendents of any one who was there as a boy or staff member between 1883 and 1955. It was known as a Naval Orphanage and many boys joined the Merchant Navy or the Royal Navy.

http://www.kellington.net/page%2052.htm This is a link to the log books from Beal School, West Yorkshire. It gives a fascinating insight into the goings-on in school in those days. My grandfather is also mentioned, he was disciplined for playing truant:eek6: Hope someone will find it...

3 of 4 children were enrolled in this school between 1901 and 1906. I have their admission records and would like to know more about the school Googling it doesn't link me to that particular school. Suggestions, please

My GGrandfather was Horace Colonel Bradford. He had 5 sons and 1 daughter, Have plenty on him and family. His first son was Horace Arthur, born July 1873, his second son was Albert William, born 1875, 3rd son was Ernest Alfred, my Grandad, born 1877. Have just found these: Name: Albert...

My father Stanley George Goodey attended this school located in the Kentish Town Tufnell Park area of London between 1922 and 1931. I am researching the life of my father who was born in Fulham in 1916 and died in Hampstead in 2007. My father was an air gunner during WW2 with bomber command. He...

I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this query, but I'll start here. My husband's Mother (Ruth A Stenhouse, sometimes known as Ruby) was at Art College in London, given her date of birth probably during the 1930s.She would have been at college in her maiden name. From some of the...

looking for list of old boys to contact from watts naval school 1945 to 1949

In 1861 my maternal g-grandfather Samuel Edmund Law was shown on the England Census (Class RG9; Piece 3437;Folio 29; Page 14) as attending a Boarding School in East Hardwick, Pontefract, Yorkshire. I am trying to identify the School which appears to be a small one - and is not listed...

Hello. Is there any way in which you can find out which school your ancestors went to ? Susan

Just thought i would make a suggestion to all those in the School section. Many years a go i was on holiday in St Agnes in cornwall. It was the centenary of the village school. Someone had put together a booklet recording a few years of the schools life. I don't come from or have any relatives from...