Thornton in Lonsdale Girls & Westhouse Endowed Boys National School Logbook Extracts Jan 1889 to Jan 1892

Held at North Yorkshire Record Office

Catalogue Reference S/TNL1/1

1889

4^th January Admitted Alice Capstick aged 6 years and eight months, who has not attended any school and does not know the letters of the alphabet.  Also admitted Charlotte Kineen.

28^th January Admitted William Lamb Clarkson

4^th March Charlotte Kineen and Ada and Violet Gornall have left the school today because their parents are leaving the neighbourhood.

12^th March Admitted George Everard Poole.

18^th March Mary E Ewan came today after an absence of three weeks caused by illness.  Alice Capstick has been ill for three weeks and is still too unwell to attend school.

3^rd May E Wrathall has been absent all the week owing to a severe cold and sickness.

6^th May Admitted Ernest Edgar Brown, an infant aged three.

13^th May Admitted Annie Phizacherley.

20^th May Edward Ayrton returned today after an absence of five weeks caused by illness.

3^rd June Admitted John Henry Hawke.

21^st June Gave holiday in the afternoon so that Mrs Hodgson may begin to clean the schoolhouse.

5^th August Nine children have left the school, four to work at home, 2 too delicate to attend and 3 are to attend Burton Boys School.

6^th August Admitted Lucy Thomas and Horace Johnson.

12^TH August Admitted Grace Scott.

13^th August Admitted Olive Hodgson.

21^st August Admitted William Martin

29^th August Lucy Thomas and Horace Johnson have left this school.  They have been staying at Westhouse with their grandfather for a short time and so attended this school.  They have now left the neighbourhood.

 6^th September Eliz. Ellen Brown has been poorly all week.  Eliz.  A Shuttleworth has been kept at home all week to work and Tom Brown has not attended the school for three weeks.  Annie Phizacherley has left the school, she has been living with her grandparents and has now gone to Bradford to live with her aunt.

29^th October Admitted Julia Helen Woodard, an infant aged four.  She is the daughter of a lady staying in the neighbourhood and will probably attend until Christmas.

1^st November Julia Woodard attended the school three times and was only once present when the registers were marked.  I asked Mrs Woodard to see that her little girl came to school in time to be marked present but she was offended that her child was expected to conform to the rules and she has taken her child from the school.

4^th November Admitted Herbert Edward and Stephen Capstick.

11^th November Readmitted Alice Capstick.  She has been absent since 22^nd February suffering from an abscess.

1890

 17^th January Elizabeth Wrathall has been absent all the week because her mother was ill.

17^th February Admitted George Henry Levitt.

3^rd March Admitted James Capstick.

7^th March Grace Scott left the school because her parents are leaving the neighbourhood.

28^th April Admitted William Herbert Armitstead.

29^th April Readmitted Alice Capstick.

2^nd May Florence Levitt left the school.

3^rd June Mrs Warwick, Miss Whittingdale and Miss Chapman visited the school in the afternoon and inspected the needlework and decided to whom the prizes for the best needlework should be given.

18^th June M Ayrton left the school.

4^th August Readmitted George Poole and admitted Jane Richardson.  Alexina Atkinson commenced duties as monitress at this school.

5^th August Admitted Isabel Ayrton and readmitted Margaret Ayrton.

11^th August Readmitted Jane and Frederick Bartle who are staying in the neighbourhood.  Admitted Ernest Bartle.

2^nd September Edward, Dora and Isabel Ayrton are absent today and I have heard that a younger child has the Scarlet Fever so that the abovementioned children will not be able to attend the school for some time.  Frank Bainbridge attended the school after a month’s absence.  He has been at home to help make the hay.

24^th September Lambert, William and Bertie Brown are staying at home by Dr Griffiths orders because their father is very ill with typhoid fever.

7^th October Admitted George Nelson on the 6^th.  Alexina Atkinson ill yesterday and obliged to go home in the morning.

24^TH October Jane, Fred and Ernest Bartle have left the school because their father has removed from the parish.

3^rd November Admitted Walter Bowlerwell.

10^th November Admitted Alice, Mary Elizabeth and Robert Dawson.

17^th November Admitted Catherine Charlotte Agatha Windle who has come to live with her grandmother at Westhouse for a few weeks.

8^th December Alice Capstick and George Poole have been ill all week and absent from school and Jane Whitfield was ill three days.

1891

12^th January Admitted Mary Alice Lee, Tom Whaley and John William Dawson.

16^th January Bertie, Stephen and Alice Capstick leave school on Friday afternoon before receiving two hours secular instruction and in consequence their attendances for the afternoon are cancelled.  These children live a great distance from the school and board and lodge in the village during the week and return home on Friday afternoons and are obliged to leave early in order to reach home before dark. 

6^th April Admitted Harry Fawcett and Towers Atkinson.

11^th May Lizzie Carr has been kept at home all the week to help her mother.  Walter Bowlerworth is away from home and William Brown has been ill all the week.

25^th May Admitted Daisy Shuttleworth aged eight years.

26^th May Admitted Annie Drinhall aged six years, who does not know her alphabet.

29^th May William Brown continues to be very ill.  Edward & Phyllis Ayrton are suffering from influenza.  Arthur Whaley, Agnes Brown and John Hawke are ill and supposed to be suffering from the influenza.

3^rd June Edward Ayrton and Arthur Whaley returned to school, they both seem weak.  Phyllis Ayrton and John Hawke are both too ill to attend.   Annie Drinhall and George Levitt are also ill.

8^TH June Eliabeth Carr left the school.  She has passed the 7^th standard and has left the school to help her mother with the work of the household.

15^th June Walter Bowlerwell has left the school.  He has been staying for some months with an aunt at Ingleton and has now returned to his parents at Kendall.

17^TH August John H Hawke has left the school because his parents have left the neighbourhood.  Herbert Capstick has left the school and is now attending Ingleton National School.  Admitted John Richardson, an infant aged 5 years.

24^th August Admittted Roger Parker, Martha and Agnes Mc Cumshay, Edmund Capstick and Martha Annie Parker.

31^st August Admitted Thomas and John Fawcett.

4^th September John Farrer has not attended the school since the midsummer vacation.  He is kept at home to help make hay.  Bertie Brown has been very ill and has not attended the school since the 17^th August.  Edmund Capstick has been absent all this week through sickness.

7^th September Martha and Agnes McCumshay have left the school because their parents have removed to Ingleton.

11^th September John & Mary Ellen Farrer have been absent all this week.  Bertie Brown is not yet strong enough to attend the school.  Ernest E Brown has been absent all the week, he has gone to Bradford to visit a brother.

16^th September John Farrer returned to school after a month’s absence.

9^th October Alice Capstick has been absent all this week suffering with a severe cold.  Jenny Mitton has been absent two weeks because she has a ringworm on her head.

23^rd October Readmitted Walter Bowlerwell on Tuesday.

6^th November Stephen Capstick and Harry Fawcett have been absent all week because they have severe colds.

4^th December Alice Capstick has been ill all week and absent from school.

11^th December Alice, Stephen and Edward Capstick have been absent all week because they have severe colds.

18^th December Arthur Whaley and Martha Annie Parker have been absent all week because they have severe colds.

1892

11^th January Alice, Stephen and Edward Capstick have left the school because their parents have removed to a farm near Skipton.