Culham College (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 08:23 (5090 days ago) @ rookancestrybest

My mother always said that there were people called Morgan in the family, one of whom she said had an M.A. from Oxford. She said it was Henry. She also used to speak of Fanny Morgan. Slowhands once found some info. on the latter but I could find no links with my own family apart from them living close by. However, I have found a scrap of paper in the last three and a half years with Thomas Morgan's name written on it, in copperplate handwriting with the date Sept. 8th [or 6th?]1854 and Culham College, Oxon. after it (there is some geometry on the back of it in the same handwriting). Culham College was a teacher training college then and seems to be an institute for religious studies now.

Looks like your Morgan was possibly one of the first students.

Culham college, built in 1852/3, at a cost of nearly £20,000, was a training school for schoolmasters of the dioceses of Oxford and Gloucester, and contained accommodation for 130 students

You may find more info in its records.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O39207

Held at the Bodleian and Oxfordshire Archives

Because of changing "boundaries" this is a corner of Oxfordshire / Berkshire despite being only 6 or so miles from Oxford ! In 1861 both Culham and Abingdon are recorded in Berkshire.

The College Vice Principal at the time is William Pickard of Yarmouth, and the "student" School masters are aged 19 - 21. Perhaps your Thomas Morgan was born around 1830/35 (?)

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