You might like to look here <http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_6239> found using Google pasting the heading of your message. J On 24 July 2011 16:06, Jon's FH <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi listers, > > Is there anyone out there with a knowledge of this institution please? > > I have a 9 year old child in my family who is there in 1851, recorded as a Scholar. > I would have guessed by being in there that he had some sort of mental problem, or as I know was the case back then, maybe a physical problem like blindness. but in the next census, 1861, he is in Devon, and is a gunner in the Royal Artillery. I have been unable to find him in the 1871 census, but in the Scottish 1881 census he is in Argyll, recorded as a Sergeant in the Royal Artillery. He dies in the Holborn area of London in 1884. > > If anyone could shed any light as to how this channel of events could have taken place in his life, I’d really appreciate knowing, as it seems a bit weird to me? > > Thanks in advance, Jon > > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at:  [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear J and Anne, Thanks very much for your replies. the links made very interesting reading. I still can't quite grasp why the child would have been sent there. He was not from an upper class family who had found themselves in financial difficulty, also, he had a younger brother and sister (8 and 6) who were at home with a couple of older sibblings and their parents at Marylebone, and an elder sister who was a teacher in Leicestershire. The web links did make very interesting reading as I said, but I still can't seem to fit that family in to the requirements for sending a child there in the first place. Then again I suppose I don't know the entire situation with regards the family. Many thanks once again, best wishes, Jon