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| | Ardglass | The Erasmus Smith Trust Archives
Schools attended by girls for which there are masters' reports 1852-1877:
Ardglass, County Down, female school, 1852-1877 Banbridge, County Down, male and female school, 1867-1872 Downpatrick, County Down, male and female school, 1862-1877 Hill Hall, near Lisburn, County Down, female school, 1867 Kilmore, County Down, female, 1857-1877 Mount Stewart, Grey Abbey, County Down, male and female school, http://www.highschooldublin.com/erasmus.htm | Aughlisnafin Primary School - 1927 |  Many thanks to Mourne Observer reader Rita Brennan, from Castlewellan, for contributing this picture of pupils who attended Aughlisnafin Primary School back in 1927 to the newspaper.
With the omission of Teresa Hazzard (should be second row, extreme left) and Mona Lennon (third row, extreme left) from this particular print, the names are as follows (back row, from left): Owen McGeown, Pat Green, May Blue, Joan McCann, Hugh McClean, Nora McCann, Sadie Hamilton, Kathleen Burns, Peter O’Hare, Willie Blue, Nickie Duggan and teacher Miss McKibbin.
Second row: Annie Green, Maggie Johnson, Sadie Catherwood, Lizzie McCann, Maggie Lennon, Dick Green, John Rooney, Pat Small, ? McCann, ? McCann, Annie Savage, Annie M. McClean, Susan McGeown, Peggie Duggan.
Third row: Tony Lennon, Kitty Lennon, Molly Turner, Cissie Savage, Bridie Mulholland, Mary Ann McGeown, Lena McGuinness, Vera Hazzard, Rose Kerr, Issie Johnston, Kate Duggan, Bridie McGeown, Maggie Small, Sarah Small, Kathleen Green, Mary McClement, Henry McClement, Jim Savage.
Front row: ? Smith, Herbie Hazzard, Charlie Smyth, Davy Fairly, Stephen Duggan, Pat McClean, Gerry McCann, ? Smyth, Willie Johnson, Henry Flynn, Johnny Lennon, Brendan Nolan, Jerry Nolan, Sean Maginness, Pat Nolan, Miss Gallagher. Published in the Mourne Observer, September 200
| | Annalong - 1910 | Crothers, Nathaniel, National School teacher
| | Ballyvea Primary School | 
This picture shows pupils of Ballyvea Primary School in the early 1950s. In addition to Master Tom Porter and teacher Miss M. McCulla, the others are (back row, from left): Stanley Matthews, George McConnell, Stanley Haugh, George McConnell, Freddie Chambers, Bobbie Annett, Stanley Chambers, Sammy Heaney, Johnnie Annett, Houston Annett, Robert Crutchley.
Second row: Dot McConnell, Evelyn Annett, Vera Annett, Betty Annett, Margaret Bennett, Dorothy McConnell, May Annett, Iris McConnell, Betty Mulvenny, Amy Barbour, Stella Mooney.
Third row: Victor McConnell, Sammy Bennett, Jim Martin, Edna Annett, Barbara McConnell, Adelaide Matthews, Ethel McBurney, Eleanor McBurney, Lilian Chambers, Iris Mooney, Mina Barbour, Ann Rutherford, Helen Rutherford, Tom Shields, Johnny Shields, Harold McConnell. Front row: Sidney McConnell, W. J. McConnell and Winston Bennett. Published in the Mourne Observer, July 2008 | | Carginagh - 1930 | "................my older brother and sister went to school at Carginagh school, which was on the Kilkeel Silent Valley road stretching about five miles. It was at the junction of a road that was about two miles from Brackney Hall where we were. I measured this at a later date with a car and found it was more like one mile. The teacher I had when I eventually went to school was a Miss Couples who wore long leggin’ boots that were laced all the way from the ankle to the knee and we used to speculate how long it would take to put these on in the morning before she mounted her bicycle and rode from Kilkeel to Carginagh School. The headmistress was Mrs. Wilkinson." Read more at - http://home.iprimus.com.au/graceandblue/chapter_1.htm Photograph - http://home.iprimus.com.au/graceandblue/photos/Class%20of%201930.JPG Names - http://home.iprimus.com.au/graceandblue/photos/Class%20of%201930%20names.JPG
| Dundrum School - 1922 |  Donated by: Cissie Cunningham (standing in the front row) FRONT ROW L TO R
Tommy Graham, ?, ?, McClafferty, Bridget McClement, ?, Lilly Magee, Bridget Bannon, Bella Grant, Hugh Cunningham, Annie Cunningham, Cissie Cunningham, John Grant.
SECOND ROW L TO R
Willy Graham, Kathleen McClement, ? Rooney, Mary Quinn, John Quinn, ? Hagan, Mary ?, Dan Rooney, James Rooney, ?, ?, ?, Joan Crawley, John Campbell, Pat Heeran, ?.
THIRD ROW L TO R
Mrs. Savage (Teacher), ? Hagan, ? McClement, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Mona Burns, William Cunningham, Fred Crawley, Jim Doran, ?, ? MCClafferty, Pater Grant.
FOURTH ROW L TO R
?, ?, ?, Annie Gilmore, Patsy Cunningham, ?, Joe McGrahan, Cissie Kennedy, Dan McNeal,?, ?, ?. | Dunavan School - 1923 * |  
| Ballymartin School - 1927 * | 
 | Ballymartin School - 1945 |  Published in the Mourne Observer, May 2007
| Kilkeel School | 1st. school held 50 males and 4 females. It was rebuilt in 1816 at a cost of £50 and the children paid 16 shillings,
3 pence per quarter to attend. All Catholics in 1836.
2nd. school. This schoolhouse was formerly a church and was converted into a schoolhouse in 1836; was under the Kildare Society but now Lord Kilmorey supports with £31 to the master & Rev. Mr. Close gives £9 to the master per year in 1836; soiree 8 Aug 1863 DR;
Free School for males & females ; master was John Moore & mistress was Isabella McConnell in 1856
An Infant's School; mistress was Isabella Hanna in 1856
Kilkeel National School; master was John Brady in 1856
| Moneydarragh School (1898 - 1998) | Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 1898 - 1920s
Part 3 1950s to 1960s
Part 4 1970s to 1980s | | Newtownards | The Erasmus Smith Trust Archives 1852-1877 Newtownards, County Down, male and female school, 1852-1877 Seaforde, Clough, Loughinisland, County Down, male and female school, 1852-1857; 1877 http://www.highschooldublin.com/erasmus.htm |
Repository: PRONI, Belfast
Collection: School Records Main reference: SCH Date: 1850-1970 Century: 19th, 20th
Description: School records, including many girls' schools, 19th-20th Century. A guide to the educational records held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is available in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. The following is a selection of some of the material which is available:
| Records of Lancaster Street Ladies' Industrial School, Belfast:
SCH/361 1850-1954.
Downpatrick Nursery School, County Down:
SCH/703 Minute book of the Management Committee, 1951-1955 (this book is closed for 75 years).
Victoria Nursery School, Lurgan, County Armagh:
SCH/446 Record of inspector's visits and daily report books, 1950-1970.
Ballymena Female National School, County Antrim:
SCH/1238 Register, 1861-1949.
Ballymena Girls' National/Public Elementary School, County Antrim, later known as Kintullagh Convent/ Public Elementary/ Primary School:
SCH/1271 Sample daily report book, 1932-1941; registers, 1884-1957.
Comber Spinning Mill National School, County Down:
SCH/746/5/1 Inspector's observation book, 1878-1879.
SCH/746/5/2 Envelope of loose leaf handwritten and typescript extracts from the Inspector's Annual Reports, 1882-1935.
Saint Comgall's Convent/Public Elementary/Primary School, Bangor, County Down:
SCH/1221 Registers, 1904-1960.
Crumlin Road Convent/National/Public Elementary/Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/1239 Registers, 1914-1951; inspectors' observation book, 1918-1954.
Drumanness Mills Day School, County Down:
SCH/613/1/1 Register for female pupils, 1873-1904.
Drummanness Mills Evening School, County Down:
SCH/1048/1/2-3 2 registers for female pupils, 1872-1898, 1899-1949.
SCH/1048/1/5 Register for female pupils, 1940-1951.
SCH/1048/5/1 Inspector's suggestion book, 1936-1955.
SCH/1048/6/1 Daily report book, 1936-1941.
SCH/1048/8/1 Domestic science roll book for cookery, 1927-1928.
SCH/1048/8/2 Domestic science roll book for laundry, 1930.
Crumlin Road Evening School, Belfast:
SCH/1241 Register, 1902-1904.
Belfast Girls' Model Public Elementary School, Belfast:
SCH/719 Register of pupils, 1908-1944.
Victoria College, Belfast:
SCH/653/3/1-4 Minute book of meetings of the Governors of Victoria College, 1922-1969.
Victoria Homes Public Elementary School, Belfast:
SCH/178/1/1 Register of female pupils, 1926-1933.
Holy Cross Girls' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/1257 Registers, 1933-1946; roll book, 1919-1927.
Lurgan Industrial School, County Armagh:
SCH/1297/1/1 Register of female pupils, 1888-1927 (this book is closed for 100 years).
Saint Anthonys' Convent/ National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/1159 Registers, 1913-1954; inspectors' observation book, 1913-1953.
Saint Catherine's Convent/ National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/195 Registers, 1900-1942; inspectors' observation and suggestion books, 1871-1954.
Saint Joseph's Convent/ National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Crumlin Road, Belfast:
SCH/1240 Inspector's observation book, 1892-1920.
Saint Kevin's Girls' Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/1188 Registers 1933-1959; inspector's observation book, 1933-1954.
Saint Mary's National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/57 Roll books, 1931-1944; inspectors' observation books,1854-1954; roll books for cookery, laundry work and domestic economy, 1909-1940; sample daily report books, 1918-1942.
Saint Vincent de Paul Girls' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Ligoneil Road, Belfast:
SCH/688 Registers, 1902-1951; roll book, 1925-1929.
Star of the Sea Convent/ National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Belfast:
SCH/163 Registers, 1902-1942; inspectors' observation books, 1890-1954.
Minorca Place Female National School, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, from 1911 known as Saint Nicholas' Girls' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School:
SCH/1246 Inspectors' observation books, 1912-1954; sample daily report book, 1912-1954; registers, 1927-1958.
Glassdrummond National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, County Down:
SCH/1185 Registers, 1868-1951; inspectors' observation and suggestion books, 1858-1954; organisers' observation book, 1910-1927; roll books for cookery and laundry work, 1909-1926; roll books for domestic economy, 1913, 1926-1928, 1931-1932; roll book for Irish as an extra subject, 1918-1919; sample daily report book, 1933-1938.
Harryville Bridge Girls' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Ballymena, County Antrim:
SCH/1218 Registers, 1891-1925.
Dunavan National School, Kilkeel, County Down, later known as Saint Colman's Girls' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School:
SCH/1206 Registers, 1888-1957; Inspectors' observation books, 1888-1954; organisers' observation book, 1911-1926; examination rolls, 1872-1899; sample daily report book, 1931-1934.
Saint Marys' Convent/ National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, Larne, County Antrim:
SCH/1191 Registers, 1903-1950; inspectors' suggestion book, 1932-1956.
Castle Street Female National School, Lisburn, after 1915 known as Lisburn Convent/National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School:
SCH/1255 Registers, 1892-1921.
Londonderry National School, Newtownards, County Down:
SCH/669 Examination rolls, 1899-1900.
Whiteabbey Number 2 National School, after 1905 known as Saint James' National/ Public Elementary/ Primary School, County Antrim:
SCH/1229 Registers, 1876-1959; religious instruction rolls, 1885-1942; inspectors' observation books, 1899-1953; organiser's observation book, 1909-1926; sample daily report book, 1920-1921. | | |
* Thanks to Raymond Kelly for providing these photographs.
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