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Letter to Gibbard from Challis Paroission? giving the return for Everton schools. 40 girls receiving daily and Sunday instruction 21 boys receiving daily and Sunday instruction 6 girls receiving Sunday instruction only 7 boys receiving Sunday instruction only Explains that the number was formerly greater 'when I consented to receive some children from one or two of the adjoining parishes but they brought among us some corrupt examples and I have been obliged to dismiss them in order to preserve our own children'. 'Nearly all the children of Everton ...are in the Daily school, with the exception of a very few whose parents unhappily still think the straw work of greater importance than their education. These chiefly attend on the Sunday'. The school is maintained entirely at his own expense 'I pay the amount of the Mistress's salary, books, paper, slates and all that is required for the girls' needlework. The children do not pay even the usual weekly penny....' He is about to be transferred to other duty but will leave the school in good order.

28 Jan 1839

From: 1839 To: 1839

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Gibbard, John,
Bedfordshire Institution

schools, Bedfordshire Institution, EVERTON