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Anything to do with Dover Castle - St James - or St Mary - Guston or Charlton

Let me know as i am focusing on that area at the moment & will be in the archive on Saturday - so i can do some digging for you

Was begining to feel redundant on this thread
My father-in-law worked at Dover Castle

You never know - i may turn up something there for you

At last i can be useful again - big sigh
:-D :-D :-D

some info from site
Records of
Springfield Hospital, Bexley
Hospital (opened by the London
County Council in 1898), Horton
Hospital (opened by the London
County Council in 1902), Napsbury
Hospital (opened by Middlesex
County Council in 1905) and
Shenley Hospital (opened by
Middlesex County Council in 1934)
have also been deposited in LMA.
The records
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
which are held by LMA are mainly
administrative, but they include
registers of staff employed at some
of their hospitals and asylums

also note closure dates for LMA

Annual stocktake closure

London Metropolitan Archives will be closed to the public from 4.45pm on Friday 28 October and will re-open at 9.30am on Monday 14 November 2011.

I think it's worth a go Jan. I will put a thread up now. Thanks. Every little helps.


Tabitha, we all feel pretty redundant on here at times I can you!


I am also going to contact my contact from Stornoway re the Nicolson Institute records - he was very helpful re looking for Diane under that name. I will ask if it's possible to have a list of girls born between 1904-1908. Hope there aren't hundreds of them :-S

Have just googled the LMA but the site is running slow at the mo. Just wondered if they could be contacted by phone to save anyone the trip. Will keep you posted.

Hardly like to mention this as I´m sure someone will have found it before, but haven´t time to check right through the thread.

1871 6 Francis St Stornoway.
John Macleod 47
Ann Macleod 43
Robert Macleod 13
Allan Macleod 10
Catherine Macleod 8
Alex Murdo Macleod 6

Was Catherine Aunt Kate???
Her married name was Mackinnon & in 1881 she was without a husband, but had 4 children & her mother Annie Macleod living with her, still at 6 Francis St
Also, presumably Diane went to the same school as her cousins.
has anybody checked the schools for likely Donals & ishbels?

Cynthia Just managed to email LMA asking if they have staff records and if so what we might find in them

automatic response from LMA so fingers crossed for a few days!!
We aim to answer 90% of enquiries within 10 working days, and 100% within 20
working days.

Jan......great minds and all that! I was just going to do that when I decided to google the Springfield Hopsital for it's correct address and came upon the following......


SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL, WANDSWORTH: CASE BOOKS AND INDEXES, 1849-c.1938; NETHERNE HOSPITAL, COULSDON: NEWSLETTER, 1975
Reference Number: 6367

Provenance
Deposited under the 1958 Public Records Act by the General Services Manager of Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust, Springfield University Hospital, in March 1997.
-
Introduction
In 1889 responsibility for Springfield Hospital was transferred from Surrey County Council to Middlesex County Council and, almost immediately, to the newly created London County Council.
-
The records
The LMA did not wish to retain the case books and it was decided that Surrey Record Office should keep those relating to the period when Springfield was a Surrey institution.


This is the link to the site.......gotta go for a while......back later....



http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_6367

FBG

Thanks for checking out 1911 census .Pity the local Register Offices don't have access as I am there every other week .

Just a thought .

When I have been searching school admission records ( Grampian area not Highlands ) there is normally a column which asks for parent /guardian responsible or the person who enrolled the child .We have assummed the surname to be mcleod but any female child enrolled by a guardian /aunt /uncle
with a different surname might be worth checking out .


Kathy

I found Robert Lockhart Ross McLeod on Saturday in Harts Army List at Kew. He was stationed in Madras in 1901 and in Dublin in 1904. Also saw the records for him that people on here have found but couldn't tie him in!

I also had a look at an officers file from WW1 for a Robert McLeod, Seaforth Highlanders. He seemed too young, though - born 24/10/ 1890, occupation Schoolmaster. There's a possible death for him in 1973. Very little in his file, but in 1915 his address was View Cottage, Edderton, Ross-shire. In 1926 he was a candidate for position of Clerical Officer in the Civil Service.

I've just had a reply from my Stornoway contact.....


The local council recently set up an archive service for the Western Isles and they are currently looking through a lot of records at the moment. I will ask them if they have the relevant records.

I'm not sure if the school still might have them but I can ask -we have been given a list of artefacts that the school wish to preserve after the new build is completed next year. Whilst they do have some registers, the ones we have descriptions of don't have dates.

I did not look at the registers as I doubted I would be allowed access to
them and also the new Rector (Head Teacher) had not been appointed at the time. I did look at the Nicolson annuals which didn't mention Diane but that's chiefly because there were no issues for the years she might have been there.


Doesn't look that hopeful really....... :-(

Surrey History Centre only appear to have Nursing records as follows

Nursing


1848 - 1889

LMA has


Staff


1935 - 1951

and Springfield Hospital has

Staff


1882 - 1963,

so perhaps the information via the Hospital is all we're going to get!

Isn't that just typical? :-(



Thank you for that Annie. :-)


Back later.

Family History
From 1 October 2011, these services will be provided by High Life Highland an arms length company set up to deliver community learning and leisure services for The Highland Council.

The Highland Council Genealogy Service
Highland Archive Centre
Bught Road
Inverness
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Telephone UK: 01463 256444
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anyone in Inverness able to look at school records here?
info
http://www.highlandarchives.org.uk/family-history-resources.asp

Hi I can get to Surrey records office if you need me to

Just let me know

Thanks Jan.....wonder what an 'arms length' company is ? :-S


I have been in touch with Highland Archives recently and a very nice lady searched Tarbat and Tain records - schools, parish relief and valuation roll for me. The problem is, we only have the name Diane L.M. to go on.
Any thoughts on something I may have missed....... ?

High Life Highland is a sore subject up here. The decision is one of many taken by postulating councillors who with a bit of luck will be voted out at the next election!

I'm in inverness but I know that they don't have the Stornoway records. They are here - http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/archives/collections.asp
The school registers have a 75 year closure so they can be searched, providing they survived of course.
The school registers that I have seen give name, dob, age at enrollment, name and address of person enrolling the child, last school attended, date of leaving and next school if applicable.
Highland do have the Tain/Tarbat records but, I'm sorry, that is totally the wrong area. It's on the mainland, not on Lewis, and also as far East as Stornoway is to the West.

Just off to Gros in Edinburgh so will have another look at MacLeods in Stornoway in 1911.

Thanks for the info Woody. If only we knew the area/school she was in!!!

If only we knew what her real name was!!! :-D



Thanks Woody. You can be our official 'on the spot' reporter as you live so close :-D


We just need a list of names of every female child who was enrolled in any school and was born between 1904-1908 :-D :-D :-D



Just remembered.....must check back about that Female poor school!!! It may have to be tomorrow - busy today.


Thanks all. <3