Wow, another day not wasted as Mother would have said. Very interesting! Lindi -----Original Message----- From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Heppell Sent: 16 October 2007 12:07 To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WRY] Fw: Jewish school in Yorkshire in the 1800's I agree Annabelle, I have printed it and will refer to that info as I need to. Mary > Chris said, > > >> If you're asking "Was there a Jewish secondary school in Yorkshire in the >> 1870's", then the answer is almost certainly "no", but there may be >> another >> answer depending on the question that you're really asking, and any other >> information that you have but haven't posted. >> >> The 1870 Elementary Education Act set out a framework for the provision of >> education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13 in England and >> Wales. Naturally, this wasn't taken up or enforced overnight, and it >> wasn't >> for another 10 years that children aged 5 to 10 were actually compelled to >> go to school. Age 5 to 13 was primary education. >> >> Secondary education commenced at 13, an age when the vast majority of >> people >> were well capable of, and expected to be, earning a living for themselves. >> If you went into secondary education, instead of a job, someone had the >> money to spare to pay for it. >> >> Yorkshire had an influx of Jews in the mid to late nineteenth century. >> They >> were fleeing the persecution in what is now Poland, and usually intending >> to >> go to the USA. The usual route was into England via Hull, and out via >> Liverpool. Some ran out of money and ended up settling in cities along the >> route such as Leeds and Manchester. What became the Leeds ghetto was an >> area >> called the Leylands, to the north of the city centre. >> >> Following the 1870 Elementary Education Act the area benefited from the >> same >> education provision as the rest of the country. The first Board school >> (board, as in School Board, not boarding) in the Leylands was set up in >> Gower street in 1875 (the building is still there, but it's no longer a >> school). In time, the Board schools in the Leylands had an almost 100% >> Jewish attendance, but they were neither Jewish, nor Secondary schools. >> > Chris, that was excellent.!! > > I have no jewish ancestors (that I am aware of ) but found it most > interesting. Had Mary found something on Google, we as a list would have > missed this very educational piece of information. > > regards from, > Annabelle. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message