roughy101
03-01-2005, 19:39
i have been researching my family tree for sometime now, and have just subscribed to the ancestory .co.uk site.
i have found my grt/grt/ grandfather aged 13 as an inmate in a certified industrial school, in macclesfield.does anyone know what these places were ,were they like approved schools, or did you have to win a scholarship to go there.i also found a relative for someone else, who went to a commercial travelers school, in hendon,does anyone know where i can fid out information on both these places.
cgksheff
03-01-2005, 20:10
Looks like a Special Scholarship!
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT
Dated 1st January, 1888 – An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to Industrial Schools in Great Britain
States the following
Commitment of Children to Certified Industrial Schools.
(1) Any person may being before a court of summary jurisdiction any child apparently less than fourteen years of age who is found under any of the following circumstances, that is to say,-
(a) habitually begging or receiving alms (whether actually or under the pretext of selling anything or offering anything for sale), or being habitually in any street or public place for the purpose of so begging or receiving alms: or
(b) not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence: or
(c) frequenting the company of reputed thieves or of common or reputed prostitutes: or
(d) lodging or residing in a house frequented by prostitutes for the purpose of prostitution.
They could be put in there until they were 18
http://www.missing-ancestors.com/industrial_schools_act%201888.htm
roughy101
03-01-2005, 20:31
well i best keep this one to myself,lol, allthough i wonder if i could find out exactley why he was thereat the age of 13, after that he fought in the war in africa and received medals,and died very young at 43 with a brain heomorage
cgksheff
03-01-2005, 20:55
There was a Royal Commercial Travellers' School at Pinner which is about 7 miles from Hendon. (South of Watford)
It originated as a school for the orphans of Commercial Travellers ('Reps') and became a Grammar School which closed in 1967.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22477
There is no mention of a school of that name actually inside the Hendon Parish at:http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26891
Now there is also a Hendon near Sunderland.... and a cursery search has not shown any school of that name.