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Re: What Are The Names?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 09 December 13 21:08 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: John Mathews on Monday 09 December 13 20:57 GMT (UK)
It Was From 1876. Was School Around Then?

Schools had been around from the end of the 18th Century. There was an education census in 1851.
There were the National Schools (National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church) from 1811, and the British Schools (British and Foreign School Society) from 1814.
Education became compulsory in 1870 with Forster's Education Act,although the payment of school fees was preserved. By the Act of 1891 free education became possible for all. Literacy levels had risen to about 92 per cent by 1870 and Forster's Education Act

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Re: What Are The Names?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 09 December 13 21:13 GMT (UK) »
Thank You Stan

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Re: What Are The Names?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 10 December 13 00:38 GMT (UK) »
 I have several documents from Scotland which contain the words his/ her mark after the name. The reason (in my  relatives case) was that they were gaelic speakers and had come to Scotland from Ireland.  They just weren't literate in English and someone signed on their behalf.

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