27 July 2017

Ancestry adds London School Registers

London, England, Poor Law School District Registers, 1852-1918, 268,776 records, is lists of children admitted to and discharged from schools. Included (where available) are: admission date, discharge date, name, gender, school, address, birth date, and age. The school districts are: Brentwood,  Central London, Forest Gate, Kensington and Chelsea, South Metropolitan, and West London. 

Be sure to check the original document image which may have further information such as where the child went following discharge such as an apprenticeship. It's worth checking for home children from London.

London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1912-1918, 178,308 records, include (where available): admission date, name, parents’ names, parents’ occupation, address, birth date, age. It includes schools in the boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, and Westminster. 

For both collections you can also browse the original registers.


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