Leicester School Age Registers 1878-1923..CD 74

Description

Copyright

The registers are the records of children leaving the Leicester schools that were part of the Leicester School Board and later the Leicester Education Committee. They are stored in the Records Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland (ROLLR) and the information on them is the Copyright of the ROLLR. The information in the indices on this CD is the copyright of the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society (LRFHS).

School Age Registers

This CD is for the Age Registers which run from 1878-1923 with D.O.B.s from 1863-1909, and cover 4 volumes. This index gives the pupils name and date of birth. Not included in the index but given in the register are the parents’ names and their residence. Also in volume one the mothers’ maiden name may be given. There are just over 93,000 names in this index.

School Exemption Registers

The companion CD is for the Exemption Registers which run from 1892-1954 and cover 7 volumes. The first four volumes give the pupils name, leaving date and age, which are included in the index, not included in the index but given in the registers are the name of the school and the standard that the pupil achieved, the last three volumes give the child’s birth date instead of the age. Up until December 1941 parent’s names are included in the registers but again they are not included in the Index. There are over 142,000 names on this CD, but we have a further 55,500 names in the printed index in the LRFHS Research Centre in Leicester.

Notes

Some children’s names can be found in both indices, but many are only found in one or other of the Registers. The later Exemption Registers give the same information that the Age Registers had, so there was no need to run both sets of records.

The Index number comprises of 3 parts, the first part is the ROLLR reference for the registers (30D73), second is the volume number (/01) and third the fiche number (- 1) giving 30D73/01-1. This number should be quoted when making enquiries to the Records Office along with the page number.

Where forenames have been abbreviated in the register the name has been entered in full wherever possible. On some entries where there are two forenames one name has been written over the other on the same line, the ‘top’ name has been entered first but in some instances this may be incorrect so it would be advisable to consider the names in the reversed order. Normally when there are multiple forenames only the first two have been entered with any further names the initial has been entered, although if there is a name that might have been originally a surname it has been entered fully. Aliases or ‘otherwise known as’ have been entered in brackets in the forename column.

Legal School Leaving Age

• In 1880 it was started at 10
• In 1893 it was put up to 11
• In 1899 it was put up to 12
• In 1918 it was put up to 14
• In 1944 it was put up to 15

Acknowledgements

My thanks go to the many people who have helped in compiling this index. And in particular Zoe Bowyer, Shirley Sanders and Margaret Finch, who have transcribed numerous pages onto paper, to Margaret Howkins, and Graham Banbury who transcribed and put on to computer many of the fiche. Also to Mick Rawle, the Project Coordinator for his help and advice. And to the staff of the Records Office, who carried these huge volumes to and from their strong room during the time the work was being checked.

John Savage

Once again the thanks of the whole Society to John Savage for his continued enthusiasm and expertise in organising and doing much of the work on yet another project. Well done.

And not forgetting Peter Cousins, without whose CD Production knowledge we wouldn’t have all the CDs that we now sell, and with that money buy all the assets we now have in the Research Centre.

Mick Rawle
November 2007