How we used to live

[BeeE586]

I have been turning out a wodge of old letters, e-mails etc. and came across this dated 1836 for the village of Sturton le Steeple in Notts. .........

Rules for the Sturton National School

1. Farmers and other persons possessing property are to pay for their children
When the write on paper Sixpence per week
When they write on slates only Fourpence per week

2. Cottagers and mechanics are yo pay for thei children
When they write on paper Fourpence per week
When they write on slates only Threepence per week

3. Day-labourers sending one child to school to pay Threepence per week; if more than one child he is to pay for each child whether he writes on paper or slate Twopence per week

4. The children are always to bring their pay for the ensuing week on Monday morning.

5. One Shilling per annum is to be paid for every child when he first comes to school after the Harvest Holidays for fire

6. One penny is to be paid on the first Monday in each quarter for slate pencils and Threepence per quarter additional for every child that writes on paper for pens and ink.

7. All books allowed to be used in the school with copy and cyphering books slates etc are to be paid for when supplied to the children.

8. When it is intended to take a child from school One Week's notice of such intention commencing from Monday morning must be given to the Master and the pay continued until the expiration of the notice.

9. No child resident in the parishes of Sturton and Littleborough will be allowed to attend the weekday school who does not also attend the Sunday school; but all children of the parishes of Sturton and Littleborough shall be eligible to the Sunday school although they may not attend the weekday school.

10. Children must attend regularly every day and punctually at the hours appointed which are

On Weekdays
will be from nine to twelve in the morning and from two to five in the afternoon between Lady Day and Michaelmas; and from nine to twelve in the morning and from one to four in the evening between Michaelmas and Lady Day

On Sundays
from Half past nine to Church time in the morning and from two to four in the afternoon. In the case of a child's sickness notice must be given to the Master, and no other excuse for absence without the Master's leave will be listened to.

11. Saturday is a whole holiday.

12. The children must be sent to school with their hair neatly cut and combed, their hands and face clean and their clothes mended. The girls in particular (of whatever degree) must be neat without any finery. If boys wear frocks on Sunday they must be clean.

13. Every offence discovered against good order or good morals (as disobedience of whatever kind, playing at games on the Sabbath, bad words, lying, cheating, stealing or wilful trespass and mischief) will be strictly punished, and if that be found to fail by dismissal from school.

This is of particular interest to me as my paternal line hails from this area and it explains SCHOLAR and SUNDAY SCHOLAR found on Census.

Eileen

[UncleBaldie]

Hi Eileen,

Boy, have times changed !!
Eeh, kids today, don't know they're born.....

I'm a little confused about one of the rules:
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If boys wear frocks on Sunday they must be clean.
>>

Surely not in those days !

Phil

[BeeE586]

I think it was what we would call a smock, not a frock as we know them. My grandmother used to refer to men wearing 'smock frocks' when working in the fields.

Eileen

[susan-y]

Eileen...

That was very interesting. Thankyou. That would be around the time of my 3x gr.grandparents........

If you had alot of children it stands to reason that few would be educated. No wonder so many used the X for their mark.

Sue

[mykin]

Strict by today's rules. We could use some of number 13 in the schools though today.