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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] CHRISTIE - 1861 Boarding school, Harlow
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:44:03 +0100
References: <000601c57dbb$56aecda0$13700650@Vaio> <003c01c57e23$bcdd1dd0$8201a8c0@Mumsie>


Another thought, Caroline, do you know if either Hillsborough or Little
Hillsborough were ever used as schools? They're in the right part of the
street too.

Colleen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Caroline" <>
> I might be wrong !! - but I don't think that St. Nicholas' has been around
> that long - certainly not in it's current location. It isn't a boarding
> school, just a private day school.
>
> Caroline
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colleen" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:33 PM
> Subject: [Ess] CHRISTIE - 1861 Boarding school, Harlow
>
>
>>I think you're In luck, Janice. All of my Harlow censuses are out on loan
>>at present, so I tried a search on Ancestry 's 1861 census for Harlow and
>>up popped your Edward TH Christie, born in Woolwich, still at school in
>>Harlow aged 17. What a coincidence too, since this school is in Churchgate
>>Street (the original, very old part of Harlow) and I live less than a
>>minute's walk from there. There are two old schools on Churchgate Street
>>of the period you're looking for - which I negelcted to mention in my
>>previous posting - can you believe I forgot to tell you about schools so
>>close to my cottage!
>>
>> These are: Churchgate School - St Mary's now I remember where it was! -
>> and St Nicholas's. Here a bit of confusion sets in because I don't
>> believe that St Mary's was ever a boarding school yet St Nicholas's was -
>> and still is one. However, the location of the school where your Edward
>> Christie is a pupil in in 1861 appears to have been the location of St
>> Mary's, not St Nicholas's. I could really do with my printed censuses for
>> this as looking at the census for village as a whole on Ancestry is
>> awkward.
>>
>> Anyway, it appears that the enumerator walks along Churchgate Street
>> (past the church on his left - lovely St Mary and St Hugh's, where your
>> ancestors would have worshipped) to the vicarage and Vicarage Villas
>> (still there) then on to St Mary's school which is next door - a
>> beautiful stone building with a great, high vaulted ceiling and stunning
>> arched windows carved from stone, just like those in the church. If the
>> enumerator went to St Nich's after Vicarage Villas, he would have had
>> gone in the opposite direction, I'm sure, and after the villas would have
>> enumerated several cottages and St Nicholas's Lodge before reaching St
>> Nich's school. Unless, that is, he walked past the cottages in between
>> to focus on St Nich's school. St Nicholas's was and is a large school
>> which includes a lot of accomodation, so its possible the enumerator
>> would have needed quite a bit of time there.
>>
>> I imagine you'd like photos of both schools to be on the safe side? I
>> have some old ones of St Mary's and will take some current ones. Its dark
>> now and I have to sort out my things for a wedding I'm going to tomorrow,
>> so will contact you with photos after that.
>>
>> Colleen
>>
>>
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