Tag: Ancestors’ school and college records

 

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TheGenealogist releases more College and University registers into its expanding Educational Records adding a quarter of a million additional individuals. This release includes records from England, Scotland, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand and even a college from Portugal.

The records can be used to discover a student’s achievements and are fantastic for identifying where next to apply your research for an ancestor. Educational records will confirm birth dates and sometimes the place of birth. Usually they give a father’s name and address, which is useful when the parent is missing from the census, and they can give details of the student’s occupation and a great deal more useful information.

Researchers can use this new data to find ancestors who attended or taught at a variety of Educational establishments in a wide range of years up to the mid 1930s. The earliest record in this release is dated 1566 in the Christ’s Hospital Exhibitioners to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1566-1923. In contrast the latest record is 1936, taken from the List of Occupants of Rooms in St John’s College 1895-1936.

These records can also be used to identify those who held high office in the institutions, so that University patrons, deans, visitors, professors and masters and the principals and governors of schools are usually included.

Also in this release we have some fascinating Irish Examination Board records from 1889, 1891 and 1892. These reveal the candidates’ names, addresses and grades in all their subjects, including some rather unusual ones. If you can find an ancestor, within these records, it will certainly be an eyeopener as they disclose what subjects your forebear had been a good or a bad student of.

The registers released on TheGenealogist today are:

Aberdeenshire	Aberdeen Education Authority Members’ Directory, 1920-1921 Aberdeen University Roll of Graduates, 1860-1900
Cambridgeshire	Christ’s Hospital Exhibitioners to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1566-1923
	List of Occupants of Rooms in St John’s College, 1895-1936
	Gonville and Caius College Vol. II, 1713-1897
	Register of Admissions to King’s College, 1850-1900
	Admissions to Peterhouse or S. Peter’s College in the University of Cambridge, 1615-1911
	Girton College Register, 1869-1946
Devon	Kelly College Register, 1877-1927
Dublin	Alumni Dublineneses, 1593-1846
Edinburgh	University of Edinburgh Graduates, 1859-88
	The Fettes College Register, 1870-1932
Dublin	Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Exhibition and Prize Lists, 1889
	Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Exhibition and Prize Lists, 1890
	Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Examinations Held in 1889 Pass Lists, Boys
	Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Examinations Held in 1892 Pass Lists, Boys
	Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Examinations Held in 1891 Pass Lists, Boys
London	Dulwich College War Record, 1939-1945
Netherlands	University of Leyden, List of English speaking Students of Medicine, 1932
New Zealand	The Early History of Wellington College, N.Z, 1867-1883
	New Zealand University Calendar, 1925
Oxfordshire	Alumni Oxonienses (Members of the University of Oxford) 1715-1886 Vol I
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol II
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol III
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol IV
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol V
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol VI
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol VII
	Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 Vol VIII
	Oxford Men and their Colleges, 1880-1892
	War Record of the University Press, Oxford, 1914-1919
Portugal	Historical Account of Lisbon College
Surrey	County of Surrey Endowed Institutions Volume IV
Yorkshire	Teachers and Officers of Ackworth School, 1779-1894

 

Read TheGenealogist’s article on researching more about an ancestor from the leads revealed in the pages of Educational Records.  A man of words, a Cricketer and Sniper?

 

 

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