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The records that are likely to be of most use are:

  • Attendance registers: Name the child and give the date of admission, father's name and address (and sometimes the mother), date of birth, the name of previous schools and date of leaving. Some registers also record when a child left school and the destination. Registers start from the 1870s.
  • School logbooks: Completed by the school head teacher on a daily basis. Individual pupils are likely to be mentioned if they were either disciplined or away sick. They start in the 1840s.
The National Archives holds records of school inspections that can be very interesting. Individual pupils are rarely mentioned, although their teachers often are.

Family records may include school photographs, school leaving certificates and school reports. The schools themselves may have some records such as school magazines and old boy and girl association magazines.

Many public schools have retained their own documents. Many public and some other schools, as well as universities, have published lists of former students. The largest collections of these are at the Society of Genealogists (see *www.sog.org.uk).


Creators: Simon Fowler

 
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