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School Records UK
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Hayley | Report | 18 Dec 2008 22:22 |
Does anyone have any experience tracking down school records circa 1905 - 1920 and if so any tips as to how to go about it or websites you can recommend please. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 18 Dec 2008 22:42 |
Can't help I'm afraid. I do know that if a young child was without a parent they were often taken in to a reform school as there was considered to be a chance that they may turn to criminality, especially if the remaining family were poor. |
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Sam | Report | 18 Dec 2008 22:43 |
I would think that your first job will be to find the possible schools that he could have gone to. Then the records (if any exist) will probably be at the Records Office for the area. |
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Hayley | Report | 18 Dec 2008 22:50 |
Thanks for your help both. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 18 Dec 2008 22:55 |
It could very well be that he was illegitimate. In a small religious community that would have been seen as a crime and his Mother would have been seen as an unfit person to give a child moral standards. |
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Hayley | Report | 18 Dec 2008 23:12 |
Thanks Netty I'll go & look there now. Every little helps! |
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Maisy | Report | 19 Dec 2008 08:01 |
Hayley |
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Hayley | Report | 19 Dec 2008 16:25 |
Thanks, Maisy. I am going to the Records Office early next year so I have put this n my list of things to look into. |
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Caz | Report | 21 Dec 2008 00:16 |
Hi Hayley, |
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Hayley | Report | 21 Dec 2008 12:16 |
Thanks Caz. |