These days I receive more off-list mail, concerning family history, than list mail. Often the messages are from people who have been looking in the rootsweb archives and have found something of interest to them, which I have mentioned in a list message years ago. I have recently been in contact with a lady in Australia who found the 2004 Bristol_and_Somerset messages, which Edna and I wrote about Barleyfields School in Bristol. A relative of my new correspondent received a prize from this school in 1909. Back in 2004, I wrote, Barleyfields was a council school in Upper Cheese Lane, St. Philips, Bristol. In 1911 the master was W. E. Braund and the infants' mistress was Miss Hurford. I believe it was called Barleyfields Mixed County School. It was just a little snippet, but has been one that has led to further correspondence about Bristol families of the 19th century. More on these later, if I have time. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Yes my Mum (Agnes Blake 1909-1992) was a student at Barleyfields School. I still have her report card somewhere here. It stated one thing that Mum was always proud of -- she was never late. And that is true. W. E. Braund was the master there at that time. Good memory, Josephine. Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:29 AM Subject: [B&S] Barleyfields Mixed County School, a snippet from the B & S archives leading to further research These days I receive more off-list mail, concerning family history, than list mail. Often the messages are from people who have been looking in the rootsweb archives and have found something of interest to them, which I have mentioned in a list message years ago. I have recently been in contact with a lady in Australia who found the 2004 Bristol_and_Somerset messages, which Edna and I wrote about Barleyfields School in Bristol. A relative of my new correspondent received a prize from this school in 1909. Back in 2004, I wrote, Barleyfields was a council school in Upper Cheese Lane, St. Philips, Bristol. In 1911 the master was W. E. Braund and the infants' mistress was Miss Hurford. I believe it was called Barleyfields Mixed County School. It was just a little snippet, but has been one that has led to further correspondence about Bristol families of the 19th century. More on these later, if I have time. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:42:52 +0100, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > Yes my Mum (Agnes Blake 1909-1992) was a student at Barleyfields School. > I still have her report card somewhere here. It stated one thing that > Mum> was always proud of -- > she was never late. And that is true. W. E. Braund was the master > there at that time. > > Good memory, Josephine. Hi Edna, I'm going to need that good memory, more and more, as my other half hasn't retrieved everything in my Acorn's archive, yet. The good thing is that much of our correspondence is in the B & S archives. I'll just have to remember key words to find what I've written over the last decade. Our B & S Barleyfields correspondence, which led the Australian researcher to me, and Marion's census information about the SMITH and KANE family has led me to 14-year-old William KANE in Dauntsey in the 1851 Wiltshire census and 10-year-old Eliza ASHFORD in Ditcheat in the 1851 Somerset census. The Barleyfields link was because my Australian correspondent has a school prize given to one of her relatives, Edgar SMITH, in 1909. Sadly, within a decade, he and his twin brother, Thomas, lost their lives in the Great War. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com