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Education in Toppesfield

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

1818

"Population 712. A school, in which 20 children are educated by a teacher, who has £10 per annum left by the will of Mr Robert Edwards, bearing date 28th February 1730, as a rent charge upon a farm in the parish of Stainbourn; in addition to which the parish have given this year, an house and garden, rent free, and the teacher likewise has about 50 other children whose parents pay for their education. A Sunday school, in which about 100 poor children receive instruction. The poor avail themselves of the means of education in their power."

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

1833

"Population 1,088. One Daily School, containing 31 males and 16 females, is partly supported by an endowment of £10 per annum, and partly by payments from a small number of the children; the master is allowed a house and two school-rooms rent-free by the parish. A lending Library is attached to this School.

Two Sunday Schools, in one whereof 67 males and 95 females (who attend the Established Church) are taught by the master of the above Daily School, in consideration of the use of the house and school rooms; the other consists of 25 males and 15 females, and is connected with Protestant Dissenters; this School (commenced 1832) and is supported by voluntary contributions. About 24 children in the Daily School attend the Church Sunday school also."

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

1867

The state of education in Toppesfield in 1867 appears in this report on employment in agriculture

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