Hi Anne A very useful book to have ­ if you can afford it, or better still, persuade someone to buy it for you <g> - is The Workhouse Encyclopaedia, by Peter Higginbotham. For Hull Poor Law there is only one archive; Hull City Archives, Hull History Centre, Worship Street, Hull HU2 8BG (sorry, no telephone numbers!) One word of warning on the depository status ­ apparently the records are kept in volumes, and you can't gain access until 100 years after the last entry in the volume, so if your girl is on page 1, you might have a long wait before you can see what was said about her! Regards, Tony Upper Poppleton York On 15/08/2012 12:28, "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Industrial Schools were part of the Workhouse set up. Some of them provided > education for children whose parents were in the workhouse, but they were also > used like early approved schools for children who were beyond parental > control, which seems to be the case here. She would have been discharged from > the school before the time of the next census. The school would probably have > tried to find her employment in service or in a factory somewhere. > > There was an industrial school for girls in Hull > Hull Industrial School for Girls, Park Avenue, Hull. The East Yorkshire Family > History Society had a talk on it from a Kath Stephenson. I can't find anywhere > any indication about whether records survive or where they might be kept. You > could enquire from the EYFHS. > > I understand that employers sometimes changed the forenames of their servants, > so have you tried looking for a Silverwood girl who is a servant in 1871? > > HTH > Anne > On 15 Aug 2012, at 11:56, Denise Light wrote: > >> I have an extract from a newspaper, The Hull Packet & East Riding Times, >> dated 9 Feb 1866 which gives me the following info: >> >> Hannah Mary SILVERWOOD, age abt 11, was brought up on remand charged with >> stealing sixpence, the property of her mother. She was to be sent to the >> Hull Industrial School until she attained the age of 15, & the mother to pay >> towards her maintenance. >> >> I seem to remember that this was one way of getting your child an education. >> Whether this was the case here I don't know. >> >> My problem is that apart from this article, and her birth in Hull in 1854, I >> know nothing about this child. I have been unable to find an 1871 or later >> census entry, a marriage or a death. >> >> She had two sisters and I have a birth certificate for one of the sisters >> Elizabeth, which gives her mother as Jane SILVERWOOD formerly NORMANDALE but >> again there is no marriage entry. The father on that birth certificate is >> Robert SILVERWOOD. In the 1861 census he was in gaol and in the 1871 census >> he is describing himself as single (he died a few months later) and I can >> find nothing about Jane and her three daughters although there is the >> possibility that Elizabeth died. >> >> Are there any records for the Industrial School. I have tried googling but >> they all seem to be for boys and/or much later. >> >> And if anyone can suggest anything I would be most grateful >> >> Regards >> Denise >> . > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >