Brit. parliamentary account book naming Clare teachers 1862

[smcarberry]

An online Google version of the House of Commons Account and Papers, Vol. 47, provides complete lists for Irish counties as to school employees (both teacher and monitors) for schools in operation as of 31 Dec 1862 (the accounts publication was later in time). This provides the final proof I need that my family's Peter Carberry taught school in Kilkishen just prior to his 1864 emigration to the U.S. This joins the diary excerpt (provided by descendant Patrick McCarthy of Illinois) of a Kilkishen schoolboy complaining about his teacher Carberry and a ship list showing Peter's 1864 arrival in NYC with his remaining child Catherine, in which he is listed as a schoolmaster. The teacher payment records consulted at the National Archives in Dublin did not reach back far enough to cover 1862 and thus did not show Peter Carberry.

The pages for Clare extend from page 4 through 30. You will see that there were separate staffs of males and females, and that there is also an instruction schedule listed for religious instruction. Saturday catechism class was the norm, in addition to time taken each school day.

Here is my best attempt to provide a link:
http://books.google.com/books?id=nSVcAA ... q=&f=false

Sharon Carberry

[Paddy Casey]

Thanks very much indeed for digging up this very meaty report for us, Sharon. I've just been reviewing the Tubber school records and found some new information.

Another way to work with it is to download the PDF file (assuming the downloader has fast broadband - it's a 60mb file and comprises 793 pages) and go straight to p.283 for the Clare records. This has the advantage that one can print out individual pages without having to capture screens. Also, if it is a document that one is likely to referring to in the future one can save it as a PDF on one's own computer - disc storage is dirt cheap nowadays and, more important, reference documents like this can suddenly disappear from the online domain (cf. the disappearance of those valuable EPPI sources from the http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/bo ... jects.html website).

Paddy

[smcarberry]

I happened across some additional Parliamentary reports which do not include individuals' names but provide statistics on school development in Clare. See links below, with the title page for 1853 data in the attached file/screenshot.

Sharon Carberry


REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONERS
p. 129 Clare stats (e.g. attendance per school) as of 31 Dec 1853, sorted by locality not in alphabetical order
http://books.google.com/books?id=i6ZbAA ... gh&f=false

Similar report for 1851
http://books.google.com/books?id=3KRbAA ... gh&f=false

School building grants 1846, 12 in Clare
http://books.google.com/books?id=7hRcAA ... gh&f=false

School building grants 1844, 11 in Clare
http://books.google.com/books?id=HRRcAA ... gh&f=false

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[smcarberry]

Below is the Clare page from a partial listing of teachers in Ireland in 1851. These include teachers called probationers, so I suppose these all are in the beginning stages of their careers. The letters in various columns appear to be their grades according to criteria provided in column headings not shown in this screenshot.

The entire report is available as a Google book at:
Annual report of the commissioners ..., Volume 18, Part 2
by Ireland. National Education Board

http://tinyurl.com/47cstbl

Sharon Carberry