School Records

[buxtonwall]

Just wondering if anybody knows whether old (C1900) school registers and records would be kept somewhere and if so where's a good place to start?


Mike

[nashua]

Hi

School records are often kept at the local record office - I know Bristol has some on microfiche showing entry dates, guardian/parent name, sometimes qualifications etc. I was lucky at the Wiltshire record office to find a register for my grandfathers village school where it gave a daily record of who was absent & why, who had the cane etc. Very interesting reading.

Good luck
Nashua

[rbangorreg]

Hi mike.
 If you "google " (1900 school records) you will come up with quite a collection.

[colinjohn]

Hello Mike

If it's London you're interested in then I suggest that you get a copy of An Index of London Schools and their Records by Cliff Webb (SoG), £8.95.

Well worth the money.

Good luck

Colin

[buxtonwall]

thanks guys.

That gives me somewhere to start at least.


Mike

[Cathymjp]

Hi Mike,

I did some research on the local primary school and they still had their registers on the premises so it might be worth contacting the school about it. (Registers went back to 1885).

Cathy 

[Oxfordshire FHS]

Hi Mike,

I did some research on the local primary school and they still had their registers on the premises so it might be worth contacting the school about it. (Registers went back to 1885).

Cathy

Hi Mike/Cathy

There are examples of school log books having been transcribed and published.

One such publication is "Village Education in 19th Century Oxfordshire incorporating a transcription of the Whitchurch School Logbook 1868-93". This was published in 1979 by the Oxfordshire Record Society, and is not out of print. Further details from :-

http://www.ofhs.org.uk/books.html

Best wishes.

Paul Gaskell
Oxfordshire Family History Society
Website : www.ofhs.org.uk