Dean Schooling (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, September 27, 2013, 21:56 (4077 days ago) @ downunder

Re our ancestor's schooldays in the Dean, this prior post (by a very "weird" poster indeed !) contains links to two truly excellent websites which give highly detailed histories and personal accounts of life at my old Primary School in Cinderford, many years before I attended. I'm sure their daily life was much the same for all the Forest Schools including Bream of course, I hope it's of interest to you.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=40025

ps re the three Rs, and "weird", I've just noticed that word disobeys the spelling Rule "I before E, except after C"..... that word is truly weird ;-)

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Re your 1930s ancestors in Kensington, West London, and Devon then Hendon, also London; such moves wern't at all unusual as I'm sure you know from reading this forum - the GWR main line into Paddington West London encouraged many Foresters to move to London to find work. My mother thought her mother-in-law(in Lydbrook West Dean) was "originally from London", purely because her only surviving sibling Maud was living there. We now know that Maud was the only one of nine siblings who left their Lydbrook homeland, she moved to Ealing to work in service by the 1911 Census. (They were all much older than my Gran so we only knew of Maud.) Maud's moving seemed odd to me until I found another young lady working in Kensington who'd been a near neighbour & probably school pal to Maud in their younger days, I assume they moved together. Ealing is a major West London station enroute into Paddington, Kensington is just down the road from Ealing, both were and still are affluent areas so plenty of scope for employment. Since then I've seen several similar cases.

Re Devon and Hendon during WW2, could there be an RAF link ?
Hendon was a very important centre indeed for British aviation before and during WW2, and now houses the main RAF Museum. Perhaps the first marriage was at a Devon posting ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Hendon