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Education in Aveley

Reports and returns on schools and education in Aveley. These allow a glimpse into the education your ancestors may have received if they were from this parish.

1818

"Population 598. No school. A great many of the poor are desirous of the means of education."

Source: Digest of Parochial Returns. Select Committee on Education of the Poor, 1818

1833

"Population 758. Four Daily Schools: one of which contains 3 males and 12 females; and is partly supported by voluntary contributions, but chiefly by payments from the children; in another are 7 males and 10 females; of these children 6 are paid for by a lady, and the remainder by their parents; in another (commenced 1832) are 9, and in the other (commenced 1833) 20 males. One Day and Boarding School (commenced 1828) wherein are 3 males and 19 females. In the above Schools, with the exception of the two first mentioned, the instruction is wholly at the expense of the parents. Two Sunday Schools: in one whereof are 20 males and 27 females; and in the other (commenced 1833) 23 children of each sex; these Schools are supported by voluntary contributions."

Source: House of Commons papers, Volume 41. Abstract of Education Returns 1833

1848

"Boys: A handsome well arranged school building, with apartments for teachers, and one acre of ground, partly a play ground, and partly cultivated by the master, with the assistance of the boys. The manners of the children are unusually pleasing; the discipline good. The infants make progress in the usual elementarv subjects, sing, read, write, spell, and answer simple questions. The third class consist of children between six and eight; they read Second and Third Books with ease, are intelligent and altogether equal to any class of the same age which I examined."

Source: Report of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wales Volume 1, 1848

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