Genealogy Chat

Does anyone know where I can find any information on the National, Parochial or Board schools please? - Where the schools were in each county or records of them etc. A large number of my family were teachers/headmasters in various different counties, but i just cannot find any info on them. Thanks Carolyn

Hi Carolyn In Scotland, all School records are held in -Glasgow City Archives archives*cls*glasgow*gov*uk [replace* with usual ref.] Mitchell Library,North Street,Glasgow G3 7DN Tel.0141 287 2910 Maybe you could try your nearest Archive Centre School Archives Archives and Special Collections at The Mitchell have a collection of school archives which is unrivalled in Scotland. We have an excellent set of school records for Glasgow and less complete sets for the former Strathclyde areas of Bute, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. If you are interested in records from these areas, please contact us to check if we have the records for the schools in which you are interested. We hold archives of schools under the jurisdiction of local authorities, including non-denominational and Roman Catholic schools. We have few archives for fee-paying schools. If you are interested in the archives of a fee-paying school, please contact us for advice. School archives mainly consist of Admission Registers and Log Books: Admission Registers - these are the main source of pupil information and can contain the following information about each pupil: name, date of birth, address, date of admission and date of leaving Log Books - these are journals kept by the head teacher and can include information such as staff and pupil absence figures, fire drills and visitors to the school. You very rarely find information about individual pupils here You are welcome to view your own records but otherwise, archives are closed for 30 years. Some registers contain sensitive information about pupils, for example the results of IQ tests. These archives are closed for 75 years. Log Books may also contain sensitive information and therefore these are closed for 50 years. Examination results can be obtained from the Scottish Qualifications Authority, Hanover House, 24 Douglas Street, Glasgow. Class and pupil photographs may also be found at Scotland Street Museum Glasgow. Jim Leitch

The teachers registrations lists are also at British origins if you want to look yourself. It is also worth looking for the village name on the Access to archives site to see what the local record office holds or googling the village school and see what turns up. You might find the addmissions register, school log and punishment book. A village site called high littleton history (google) will give you a flavour of what education was like. You might also find some old class photos. I have one for my grandmother with her class in about 1895 and a staff photo from about 1905. Anne

Thank you so much James, Judith & Annie Sorry about the 2nd posting - I haven't used this board before & didn't realise mine had gone to the second page so quickly! Just thought it had got lost somewhere! Shame my relatives don't come from Scotland! My g.g.grandfather, Reuben Moss was first a teacher at St Matthews, Bethnal Green (I tried the Tower Hamlets & London Metropolitan Archives to no avail). Then he moved to Walmer, Kent, then a Headmaster at Kikby Malham, Yorks (I do have a litle handed down info on that one) and finally to Whiston in Staffordshire. His wife & their parents & siblings were all teachers. They then had 15 children & not one of them became a teacher! It ididn't do him any harm moving around the country either, he died in 1938 aged 97! Once again, many thanks for your help, I shall see what I can find. Carolyn