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| ELLEN HAINGE Aged 9 GIRLS SCHOOL EPSOM |
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An interesting group of School work samplers by Ellen Hainge Aged - 9 at Epsom Girls School 1880.
Ellen was born in 1871 in Molesey, Surrey one of 10 children of Hannah & Thomas Hainge a Police Constable of Epsom. She married Henry Burton on 4.July 1899 himself a Police Constable who later became a Detective Sergeant in Hampstead, They had two children.
C J Swete in a Handbook of Epsom, 1860, remarks : – “The next house [to the Vicarage], called the Cedars because two handsome cedars stand in front; it is a large brick structure, half covered with ivy. It is now in the occupation of Miss Eisdell, who is head of a select establishment for young ladies.”
1861 Census – Rebecca Eisdell Head 62 Governess General Literature (unmarried) born at Andover, Hampshire.
The death of Rebecca Eisdell was registered in Epsom 6/1875, to be interred on 17 April 1875.
After Rebecca’s Eisdell’s death, her assistant Bertha Lee took over running the school to advertise: –
‘THE CEDARS, EPSOM – MISS LEE receives a few YOUNG LADIES to BOARD and EDUCATE, in whose comfort and welfare she takes a personal interest. Terms on application’.
During 1888, however, the entire contents of The Cedars were put up for auction by Miss Lee, ending its time as a school |
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