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Boys Record book. One page per pupil. Level of detail varies but can include: date of entry to school, where received from, payment, clothing, date of birth, when and where baptised, first communion, state of health, whether vaccinated, mental defects, bodily defects, subject to fits, details of parents, standard of education on entry and on leaving, date of leaving, reports after leaving. Page 129:

1903 -1904

From: 1903 To: 1904

Page 129 Name: Henry William Farrow Number: 575 Entered the Home: 3 February 1903 Sent by: Sister Mary Phillippine, Revd Mother, The Convent, Loughborough Payment: £10 half yearly in advance Address of nearest relative, or person responsible: Sister Mary Philippine; mother Mrs Farrow, Nottingham Road, Loughborough Date of Birth: 8 October 1892 Date of Baptism: 31 October 1892 at St Mary’s, Loughborough Date of Confirmation: Date of First Communion: State of Health at Entry: good State of Health whilst in Home: Has lost his: father School attainments at entry: in 4th standard, 3rd catechism School attainments at leaving: Left the School: 11 January 1904 Note: The boy is sent by the Reverend Mother (Sister Mary Philippine), The Convent, Loughborough, who will pay £10 per annum until he is 13. The boy has been 3 years at West Grinstead. The mother is not a good woman, and the boy is not to have communication with her privately. The nuns at Loughborough have taken the case in had as the family will do nothing. The boy has been staying with an uncle (Protestant) at Bristol who however has no objection to the boy being brought up a Catholic as long as he is kept from the mother’s influence. Sister Mary Philippine will provide clothes if needed. Uncle’s address – 32 Pennywell Road, Bristol, but he will not pay anything.

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Farrow, Henry William,
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SHEFFORD, Loughborough, West Grinstead, Bristol, Shefford St.Francis Boys Home, CHILDREN, schools, homes & institutions, children's homes, EDUCATION, clergy, religion