Genealogy Chat

My Great grandfather and his siblings were put in the Shoreditch Industrial School after they were orphaned, I found them there on the 1861 census and he re-appeared in the 1891 census, married. Where he went in those in between years I have no idea. The records at LMA cannot be viewed - one of lifes mysteries in the world of family history!!
Jill

hi george, hi willsy,

thanks for your replies.
i have just googled industrial schools, and it is pretty much as i thought schools for the destitute. as i said i have found my ancestors in such an instution . i knew they had been in what i thought a children home from what elderly relatives had told me.
my grannie and her sisters were abandodned in hyde park london and the girls were obviously picked up as destitute children (mother an alcoholic father long gone) they were taken to the west country and i was always told put into service. they obviously learnt this trade from the industrial school
as sad a situation as it was my grannie told her daughters (my aunts) that it was the best thing their mother had ever done for them they had food and two sets of clothes their daily clothes and sunday best !
through my research i have found other decendents from the mother of thses poor children (the mother being my gt grannie ) she went onto have other children with another chap and the gt grandaughter from this marriage knew only of a secret she held that was until i got in contact ,bet our ancestors never thought that would ever happen !!
sadly two years after leaving the school the youngest child died by now back in london in hospital alone aged 16yrs
my heart aches
elaine

You might find this useful

http://www.missing-ancestors.com/

Elaine

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

The Industrial School Act 1857 was to make better provision for the care and education of vagrant, destitute and disorderly children who, it was thought, were in danger of becoming criminals. It was the courts who decided what Industrial School the child was sent to, in many cases it was far away from the child's hometown - the Act also made provision for the children's religious persuasion. Usually once sentenced the child had to stay until they reached 16 years of age, however, the Government did allow suitable children, mainly boys, at the age of 14 to join the army or work in the mines.

George

HI ALL,
Can someone tell me what an industrial school was?
i have just found two ancestors on the 1911 census and they were in an industrial school both as inmates, one working as a domestic worker the other school part time training.
what would of been the criteria for these school would they of been for the poor .
regards
elaine