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Can anyone helop with further information on the above please. I discovered from the 1911 Census that my mother was placed to the above school (in Frederick Street) at the age of 10 - after her mother died. Can't find any info on the Internet.:uncomfortableness:
 
This is all very strange. The Census shows a large establishment of a superintendent, two assistants and 42 young girls from 9 to 15 years of age in residence on the date the Census was taken. The property number in Frederick Street is difficult to ascertain, could be 61.
 
Hi the actual address was The Protestant Dissenting School, Graham St, B'ham.
Probably on the corner with Legge Lane and Frederick Street.
 
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Very tentative suggestion - St James chapel Aston, in Frederick Road - not Street - was a mission hall originally and took in poor of the parish to educate them - probably coincidental, but may be worth looking into.
Sue
 
Thanks for the suggestion, have had a quick look but no joy. The Census 1911 is very precise about the title of the school. Definately NOT the Dissenting Protestants as suggested in a previous answer. Having read through their aims etc, my Grandfather was too much a C of E man to consider anything else, no matter what their situation was. He was an employed carpenter therefore not one of the poor of the parish and remarried fairly quickly after my grandmother died to an ex governess. So the mystery deepens.
 
I'm sorry to disagree with you, but if you look at the address cover of the original census document,
it is filled in there.
There are 45 pupils ranging in age from 9 to 15,and 2 assistant matrons, (Annie Davies aged 34, and Amy *** aged 26)
and a Superintendant,Ellen Mc**** aged 50.(*can't make out the names)It is next on the enumerators list to 61 Frederick Street and before 2 Legge Lane.
Maybe it was the name of the building and the school leased rooms or something?
 
Hi, I have to agree with ladylinda - can I ask whether you are searching for your ancestor on Ancestry or Find My Past? I ask because if you are using FMP and click on address in the square box above the previous box you will see the front of the census form. In this case it was completed by Ellen McElroy at the Protestant Dissenting School, Graham St, B’ham. You don’t give your mother’s name, ? due to confidentiality, but I have transcribed the names of the 10 year old girls on the FMP census -Edna Davies, Ethel Beale, Harriet Roberts, Edith Smith, Katie Curley, Blanche Benley, Annie Bowles, which in every other way except the address appears to match that on Ancestry. Bewdley
 
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