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Cheltenham Ladies Schools
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:16:20 GMT
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E-Traveller...
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I have discovered a family story that three great aunts and their daughters
went to a ladies college in Cheltenham. Guessing that the g-aunts would have
Graeme Wall...
been their between 1895 and 1915 and their daughters between 1915 and 1935.
Helen, Isabel and Elizabeth were born in Kingston, Jamaica.
Helen "Nell" Saunders; Isabel "Minna" Saunders and daughter Daphne Walford;
Elizabeth "Elsie" Saunders and daughters Cynthia, Jennifer and Katherine
Stenhouse.
The story is that they went to Cheltenham Ladies College, but I have been in
touch with the college and they were not students there. Their father was
quite wealthy, so fees would not have been a problem. My problem is where to
find any other schools around Cheltenham which would have been operating in
the same time period.
Graeme Wall...
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There was also the Glyngarth School in Cheltenham, maybe they went there. If
they did, the great-aunts' maths teacher would have been my wife's
great-grandfather.
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C Rihan...
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Have you tried the 1901 census to see if any of them are on that?
That has an Isabel Saunders born Jamaica, Kingston age 14 but she was in
Bournemouth.
andrew...
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There was certainly at least one school (the name of which now escapes
me) in Bournemouth at around that time that took such young ladies from
the then far flung empire, and in addition arranged accommodation during
school holidays when needed. Bournemouth at that time was expanding from
a little fishing village to a staid and up market Victorian resort and
retirement location. (It was just about as respectable as Cheltenham).
Yours Aye Andrew Sellon
The limit which divided the possessions of the English settler from
those of the native Irish was called the pale; and the expressions of
inhabitants within the pale, and without the pale, were the terms by
which the two nations were distinguished. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854,
Canon of St. Paul's.
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Best wishes
C.Rihan
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Can SKS point me in the right direction?
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