hello Joan, Looking at the 1851 census entry for the school, I'm wondering if your Emily CUSSONS could actually be related to Sarah GRINDROD, whose mother was also a CUSSONS. There is also another CUSSONS as a pupil. 1851 census ref: piece 2339 folios 567B & 568F Bellefield House [this spelling] (Sheffield; Ecclesiastical District: Netherthorpe) [567B] Sarah GRINDROD Head Wid 51 school mistress YKS Halifax Julia GRINDROD Dau 13 Middlesex London Jane H GRINDROD Dau 9 Surrey lambeth [568F] Samuel Manwaring GRINDROD Son Unm 27 mercantile clerk LAN Burnley Mary GRINDROD G.Dau 8 scholar LAN Liverpool Elizabeth CUSSONS Mother Wid 70 gentlewoman Yks Halifax Eliza M LOWE -- Unm 27 governess for music Wilts Corsham [?] Mary BLACK -- Unm 34 governess for French Middlesex London Ellen M HAIGH -- Unm 17 governess for English YKS Selby Mary E SLACK -- Unm 17 pupil YKS York Harriett SHILLETO -- Unm 15 pupil YKS Selby Lucy A CARTER -- Unm 16 pupil YKS Barnsley Emma CARTER -- Unm 13 pupil YKS Barnsley Harriett MARRIOTT -- Unm 17 pupil Sheffield Emily JOHNSON -- 11 pupil Sheffield Martha J[?] LAYCOCK -- 9 pupil YKS Hull Elizabeth M CUSSONS -- 14 pupil Middlesex London Elizabeth WILSON servant Unm 22 domestic servant Sheffield (I may have missed a description [scholar?] for Sarah's two daughters ?!) The school in Belfield House was previously run by the Misses Fawcett (Marianne and Martha). The address, confusingly, seems to be in Fawcett St rather then Bellefield St. There is an engraving of the house on http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/database_search.php - search for Fawcett St, or type Bellefield in the bottom seach box. In that view, Bellefield St runs behind the house. I think, but I am not sure, that Fawcett St runs along the side of the garden to the left (out of the picture). The other side of Fawcett St is where St Stephen's Church was built at the end of the 1850's. The version of Picture Sheffield available in the Local Studies Library has three versions of the engraving. One is used as a heading for the following manuscript certificate: "Presented by the Misses Fawcett to Miss Heppenstall as a token of approbation for answering Geographical Questions with credit and satisfaction. belfield House Decr 17th 1835" Hugh in Sheffield ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Marsden" <joan@marsden001.wanadoo.co.uk> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: [SHEFF] Where is Belfield House? > My husbands great-grandmother Emily CUSSONS - born 1835 in Horncastle, Lincs - went to school near Sheffield. > > The address of the school was BELFIELD HOUSE, Nr Sheffield. It was run by Mrs Sarah Grindrod and the Misses Mainwaring. > > Does anybody know where the school was located? I've been searching on and off for a few years but haven't been able to find it. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Joan > (in Bucks)