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Post by allison on Feb 11, 2010 20:00:18 GMT 1
Was there any Roman Catholic schools in Dowlais? ??
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Post by bricol on Feb 12, 2010 9:55:03 GMT 1
Click Dowlais on the Map page, go to page 4, half way down the page "The Bont this way", from this Bont page you can go to St Illtyd's Catholic School. Which I believe is the only one in Dowlais.
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Post by allison on Feb 12, 2010 16:36:31 GMT 1
Thank You.
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Post by jonathan on Feb 12, 2010 19:11:25 GMT 1
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Post by allison on Feb 13, 2010 14:50:00 GMT 1
Thank you for the link.My grandmother was born in 1907 in Dowlais .I am trying to find info on her and her family that maybe lived in Lower High Street.Is there any lists of pupils attending RC schools in this area at this time.
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Post by grahamsimons on Sept 8, 2013 22:38:01 GMT 1
I've just found a flood of newspaper articles about a bitter dispute at the Dowlais Catholic School circa 1914. I have yet to get it all sorted out, but it involved the Headmistress Miss Kiernan, who was dismissed; Canon Lucan, the Corresponding Manager (it's clear these two were at loggerheads), a strike by the parents which brought attendance down from about 800 to under 200, and generated fines and imprisonment for some parents; and some interesting court cases, including one where Canon Lucan was fined for assaulting a girl - he dragged her out the classroom and into the street. My current source is the Merthyr Pioneer on the Welsh Newspapers website.
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Post by mikemerthyr on Sept 9, 2013 17:18:08 GMT 1
Looking at this page again ,if ALLISON had not been informed there are lists of school children who went to ST ILLTYDS SCHOOL GIRLS DEPT from 1st MARCH 1904 to 28th AUGUST 1924 .These lists were compiled by GLAMORGAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY. They were available to buy and see but might not be now as there have been cases of identity theft etc GLAMORGAN RECORDS OFFICE/ARCHIVE will not let people see the school records until 100years have past. IF you contact GLAMORGAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY they could tell you more.
MIKE
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