Forum: Schools

Hi My 5xgreat grandmother was Hannah Woodcock, nee Robins c1780-1846. She wed Thomas Woodcock in St Mary Magdalen Oxford City in November 1800. They then moved to Bletchingdon where Thomas originated. In 1841 Hannah says that she was not born in Oxfordshire, but she died before 1851 and...

my great grandfather was a scholar on the 1901 census aged 10, he lived in Cowley, Oxford with his family. Is there anywhere to check what schools were around Catherine Street, Oxford back in 1901, all his siblings that were of school age were scholars too.

I have ancesters who lived in Fore St Cripplegate between 1820 and 1840. What schools would have been in the area at that time and where would i find information about students attending these schools. The family name is Smetzer, James Smetzer the father was a Shoe/boot maker.

I have a school book from the year 1900 at home,and inside it's inscribed "June 1st,1900,combination ",what would be the meaning of that?some sort of combined school,maybe,i think the school may have been in the Surrey district.

Where would be a good place to enquire after Lancashire school record's,the Hulme area in particular. My grandfather was born in 1878 in Baxter street,suppose i'm looking at around the late 1880's.

I have an ancestor called Annie Alice Newton, who trained as an elementary school teacher in Burton upon Trent in the 1890s. According to the 1901 census, she continued her career after her marriage to William Henry Marson, in Aston, Birmingham. Is there any way I could find out which school(s) she...

I don't know if anyone can help me? On the 1901 census one of my ancestors W. BALE age 10 has an address as a school. It says 'under detention in ......? school. Would anyone know what the missing word could be? Thanks.

I have a Reverend William Parker who was at St. James Piccadilly and is listed as having attended Oxford and died about 1803. His brother or nephew was Captain William Parker who was in the Royal Engineers and was the Governor of the Isle of Man for awhile before he died in 1793. In my...

Hi Everybody I live in Openshaw Manchester I was born in brigham st and lived in timperley st & Greer st I when to Elysian st School (1953/ 59 and Wheeler st schoo1959/1963. Iam doing a local history project and would like to make coontact with anybody who attended any of the schools or even...

i understand that my grand father Herbert(Bert) James FOYSTER attended this school possibilby as a charity boy - how can i find this information out? debbie

Though I have made tremendous progess with my Nan's parents (or lack of them), I still am unable to find out where or who my Nan was living with from 1924-1929. I need to find out this so hopefully it will lead me to her missing mother. I wondered if it was at all possible to access school...

Hello all, Please can someone point me in the right direction! I'd like to find out more about a family member (Alfred W J Freeman, b 1873), who came from Norwich. I don't really know where to start with schools. Would it be right to assume that he would have gone to the nearest school to his...

|banghead|Any information on Mr.James Bradley a Dungannon schoolmaster around 1895 or his uncle Fr Bradley would be wonderful.|hug|

Still trying to find my grandfather William Charles Lovett b. 5th April 1873 whose birth does not appear to have been registered. His sister Alice Illett Lovett born in 1870 was registered in Kennington Lambeth. They were the children of Lucy Lovett and no father of her children identified. Am...

Please can anyone tell me anything about a Red Coat School in or near Stepney, in 1851. I can find information about a Blue coat School, A Greycoat hospital and a Green coat hospital. And they all seem to serve the same area.