Hi Hugh, Thank you again for all your help with my Belfield House query. You and Jeremy have told me more about the school, and its occupants, than I'd managed to find in the last five years or so. I'm now looking forward to trying to find the connection between Sarah Grindrod and 'our' Emily. Regards, Joan (in Bucks) 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