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    Hi,
    I was looking thru a census of Newbury from 1815. Some of the boys in the census were labelled "Blue Boy" and a few were labelled "Green Boy" -
    anyone know what was meant?

  • #2
    Was there a blue coat school there? They were charitable schools such as Christs Hospital which was originally in London but now moved to Horsham.

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    • #3
      No Christ's Hospital mentioned in Wikipedia, tho that's an interesting idea: The ancestor born in Newbury married a Blue Boy from Christ's Hospital. Sometimes these things are not just coincidence.

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      • #4
        There were blue coat schools in many places, Christ Hospital is just one of them, (though they now wear black cassocks rather than blue, knee breeches & yellow stockings). Oliver Whitby school in Chichester was another, an orphaned relative went there.

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        • #5
          Thanks

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