I have a school mistress who in 1881 is at North Wootton (Kings Lynn), then by 1891 she is in Poole Keynes, Wiltshire. Is there any index of school masters/mistresses which may be able to explain why she moved so far? I presume it would be a matter of her applying for the job rather than a posting?
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You might find her listed on British Origins
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Did you try to see if she'd been registered as GOODMAN?
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Originally posted by Mark Dudley View PostHi Christine,
Yes, I've checked Goodman - it is a very common alternative earlier in the family, but it seemed to have settled down by the end of the 19th century.
She married a Frederick Newman, so I've looked under that too ...
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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They married in 1891 when she was at Poole Keynes, but in 1901 they are in the School House in Ashley, near Box - he is described as an 'Ordinary Agricultural Labourer' and she is still school mistress ....
It just intrigues me how teachers may have moved about the country - I hadn't realised it was a profession then - thought it was more a local spinster sort of thing ....Let's re-arrange the deck-chairs
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At a conference last weekend, I asked the lecturer about people who moved long distances round the country in search of jobs (in that instance to work in department stores) because I was curious why people didn't just find places in the next big town. She said that there would be a combination of people sending written testimonials, asking for work, and the organisations advertising in the trade press.
I don't know when the Times Educational Supplement started, or if there was a well-known predecessor, but I assume from various memoirs set in the early 1900s that there was something like that around. Possibly the National and British Schools had their own individual publications?Phoenix - with charred feathers
Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
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You might find Guinevere's article, amongst others, in the September magazine interesting ...Caroline
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