This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farrell, Conner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/737 Message Board Post: Can anyone provide information about what schools existed in Southampton in the 1870s, and whether any records now exist? From what I find on the web, the law requiring compulsory education for children 6 to 16 was passed in NY in 1874.