Hello, I am writing to ask if you have any information about a Victorian school in Eythorne.
I have been researching a Thomas PARRY, and I found him as a 15 year old in the 1851 census at HO107; Piece: 1631; Folio: 493; Page: 23; in the household of a Theophilus HEWLETT. Although there is no address shown on the census entry, it is clearly a school – the occupation for Theophilus is “Head master & classical tutor,” and his wife is recorded as a “Preceptress.” As well as their own children, and domestic staff, the household contains two other teachers, as well as twenty five, ‘non-family,’ scholars, whose ages range from seven to fifteen.
A newspaper advert in 1842 also refers to the “Eythorne Classical and Commercial School, conducted by Mr Theophilus Hewlett.”
I therefore wondered whether you might have any information about the school, and whether any records for it survive anywhere?
Thanking you in anticipation,
Barbara