Forum: Teachers

Hi all:seeya: I have accessed the 1911 census to see where my grandfather (Rowland Ernest Fielding) and one of his brothers (Hubert Henry Fielding) aged 18 and 20 years respectively and have found them living at home and note them both as Assistant teachers (Elementary school). They were living at...

I am interested to know what type of qualifications were needed to teach in the 1870's. I have Andrew William Hume born Ireland who is a teacher in Massachusetts(US) 1870, then Master at Dulwich College, London 1871(dismissed in 1876 before his case came to Court), Tutor in 1881 census Camberwell....

The husband of an ancestor of mine was a man called Edward Webb, born 1870 in Essex. He (and his wife) trained as school teachers, but by 1911 Edward was decribed as being a 'Science Lecturer,' and the couple's lodger as a 'Lecturer, Hygiene and Physical Exercises.' Would Edward and his colleague...

I am trying to find records of service for teachers around the Battle area of Sussex.Thankyou.

Hello folks, I'm doing a bit of history on some local girls' schools down my way (Melbourne, Australia) which were fairly ephemeral and left little in the way of records behind. I have to rely on newspaper advertisements and prize night reports to find out what they taught, who they taught and...

Are teachers included in district directories?

I would value any help and advice in tracing the life of my grandmother's brother, James Horsfall, born 1883 in Whitworth, near Rochdale. In the 1901 census James, still living in Whitworth, was recorded as a pupil teacher. The 1911 census found him living in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - recorded as...

I have the Record of Service for a relation who taught all over the UK between 1926 and 1962; however, I don't really understand the abbreviations used in the log book - it says that these are listed on Form 2 C.R. which I don't have - I wonder whether this document may have explained how to fill...

From ‘University News’ in the Times, I see that someone was awarded (July 19, 1926) the Diploma in the Theory, History and Practice of Education. Was this the present-day PGCE? Then (June 10, 1929) he was awarded an MA. In the latter case, Keble College is noted. Am I right that Oxford...

This is a two-fold question. On a marriage certificate the groom is: Charles Benjamin Beardsworth age 25, bachelor, profession is Art Teacher with residence at marriage 11 Ravensbourne Park, Catford as at November 1925. I tried googling for a school but couldn't find one, just a map of...

Am trying to locate information of second (or third) wife of my great grandfather. Sarah A. Woodward, daughter of Charles and Sarah of Manchester. Charles was a hairdresser his entire life. Sarah Alice had 8 siblings - John, Mary Ann (died young), William, Charles, Thomas, Edmund, Mary E. and...

My G grandfather (naturalised Australian) was listed as the son of a Schoolmaster when born in ~1848 in Chester Cheshire. Can anyone tell me if there should be records of him in the UK system?

Hi I was wondering if there was anyone who can steer me in the right direction. When Sarah Langdon (nee Dale) came to Australia in the 1860's her occupation was listed as Infants school mistress. She was living in Dulverton in the 1861 census. Is it possible to find where she might have taught?...

Can anyone help in advising where to look for my gr gr gr grandmother who was a schoolmistress in Berkeley in 1957, HANNAH MERRETT (63 yo) and her daughter ELIZABETH MERRETT (18yo) was also a school assistant...many thanks karen

Hello, I'm trying to trace some more information about my Great Uncle, Richard Williams. He was headmaster at what was Tirphil Boys School in the Rhymney Valley. He was born in 1896, fought in WW1 and attended Goldsmiths College in London. I've approached the college but they say that their...

Definition: Woman who is principal of a school, female teacher.

Hello folks, I am tracing the career of a teacher, James Russell, born 1846, who probably came up through the ranks as a pupil teacher, his parents also being teachers. By 1874 he was the schoolmaster of a gentleman's college in Bridgwater, Somerset. In 1881 he was the head of a large...

My ancestor John Atkinson Tillotson was from the Bradfield/Ecclesfield area north of Sheffield. By 1820 he was living in Beighton, formerly in north east Derbyshire but taken into the city when Sheffield extended its boundaries in the early 1960's. In 1841, John gives his occupation as...