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From: "Jonathan Frayne" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] To err is .....
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:05:20 +0100
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Hi Jerry,

Not quite so precicious as Frank's ancestor, I fear. The system of
education up until quite recently in rural areas was for all the children in
the junior school (often the only school as the older children just never
went to secondary school) to be in one large class taught by one teacher.
There was a system of monitors-older children (i.e. of 10 or 11 years of
age) who would help and teach the younger ones as the teacher imparted
knowledge to the older group. The teacher taught the older kids and they
taught the younger ones, basically.

I think your ancestor might have been one of these monitors, perhaps?

Jon

Barnstaple On-Line Parish Clerk
Web site at www.barnstapleopc.co.uk


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Grover" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [DEV] To err is .....


>
>
>
> > The 1901 UK census has revealed that a grandparent, then eleven months
> old, was occupied as a Railway Porter. Could he be considered a gifted
child
> or what ?
>
> Dear Frank,
>
> I have a similar conundrum. My g grandfather was a school master, but his
> occupation is not given in the 1901 census. But the youngest child of the
> previously enumerated family is a boy of 12, occupation certificated
school
> teacher. It looks as though there was a transcription error of one line.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry
>
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