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Title: Searching for WILLIAM HORWOOD Margate Infant School 1855
Post by: margaretmarion on Sunday 05 July 20 16:24 BST (UK)

PLEASE    :-X :-X
WILLIAM HORWOOD was born in 1850, Marylebone, Middlesex (now London).  He was the 5th of six children of Edward and Sophia (Gra(i)nger) Horwood.   (Sophia died 1854). 
In 1855 the family entered St Marylebone Workhouse.  In the same year father Edward entered Middlesex Lunatic Asylum (Hanwell).
The children were dispersed and WILLIAM HORWOOD was sent to MARGATE Infant School on 10th August, 1855.
I enquired at the London Metropolitan Archives and also wrote to the Kent Archives (Maidstone) but they have no records of an infant school.
I have since discovered that there was a Metropolitan Infirmary for Children in Margate and also an  Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor.
Would be VERY grateful, please for a kind soul to help me, PLEASE.   Or for advice.

Many thanks - margaretmarion    :P :P :P

Title: Re: Searching for WILLIAM HORWOOD Margate Infant School 1855
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 05 July 20 16:53 BST (UK)

The  London School Board Industrial School was set up in 1874 in Brentwood, Essex.
In 1898 the school was relocated to Margate and referred to as The Sanitorium, Wilderness Hill
By 1899 the site was referred to as the Metropolitan Infirmary for Children.

Records will be at The London Metropolitan Archives, which holds records from 1874.

See: http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/BrentwoodIS/


The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb was also known as the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb Children.
It was a Certified School - and is still there as The Royal School for Deaf Children.

See: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/119030
And: https://historyof.place/location/the-royal-school-for-deaf-children/

Title: Re: Searching for WILLIAM HORWOOD Margate Infant School 1855
Post by: grandarog on Sunday 05 July 20 18:01 BST (UK)

Looks like he had been transfered  as an Inmate Scholar to The Institution,
Precinct of Norwood, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England by 1861

Title: Re: Searching for WILLIAM HORWOOD Margate Infant School 1855
Post by: margaretmarion on Thursday 09 July 20 19:08 BST (UK)

 :D :D :D
Thank you so much for the prompt replies, KGarrard and Grandarog.
Yes, William Horwood was in the School that you say, in 1861, Grandarog, but I need to find out where he was in Margate between 1855 and 1861.

I do appreciate your interest, both of you.

Margaretmarion