Tracing Old Scottish School Records

Looking for old school records from Scotland

I am looking for old school records (1840s-1860s) so as to discover which school my precursors joined in. I comprehend that it was not mandatory for guardians to send their youngsters to class until 1872 however clearly there must be records some place in Scotland which references to the students.

My extraordinary fantastic guardians are Robert Stewart who was conceived at Old Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire in 1842 and Margaret Cochran(e) who was conceived at Helensburgh in 1834. Robert's folks were William Stewart and Ann Livingston(e). William was a cooper in terms of professional career and showed the exchange to Robert.

This is the thing that I think about investigating school records;

School Records

Discovering which school your precursors went to will take a touch of examination. This will require some guide perusing to discover which school was nearest to where your precursors lived.

The Education Act of 1872 required all youngsters to go to class and it tends to be hard to track down school records before this date. Anyway you may discover log books, affirmation registers, or photos which do exist some place. There are additionally instructor's journals which might be useful, in any event give intriguing perusing.

Glasgow kept awesome records as they were dynamic educational committees.

Scotland Street Museum has a decent assortment of data on various schools.

A register of senior arrangements and staff are accessible, and worth a look.

The instructor preparing school at Jordonhill has records which might merit looking at if your precursor was an educator.

Following the name of a school ace in the records would be relatively simpler than finding the names of the youngsters. Area school aces were designated by the landowners and the clergyman of the ward. It was then dependent upon the presbytery to settle on a ultimate conclusion to guarantee that the named individual was equipped for the activity. The Heritors Records is probably going to contain the record of the arrangement. This data can be found in the HR repertory,

Discovering records of school understudies is troublesome, anyway some might be noted in school log books and they must be at any rate 13 years of age. Such data would be held by the Scottish Record Office. Numerous records vanished or were annihilated after schools shut. Some enduring registers are as yet kept by the schools themselves while others are held by power chronicles. You can look at the Scottish Archive Network index for your precursor's school.

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